The Kowalsky Eastern Ukrainian Institute (Kharkiv, Ukraine) has launched a call for papers for its publishing project Neo-Anti-Colonialism vs. Neo-Imperialism: Relevance of Postcolonialism in Post-Soviet Space, devoted to the discussion of anti-colonial, postcolonial, colonial, and imperial discourses in Eastern and Central Europe, and Eurasia.

The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) has announced two events for november. | Das Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) lädt zu zwei Veranstaltungen im November ein.

The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) invites papers for the panel After the Fall, Behind the Wall - East European Representations of the German-speaking West organized in the framework of the 2012 convention on March 15-18, 2012 in Rochester, New York. Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2011.

The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London welcomes papers for the 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe which will take place 15-17 February 2012. Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2011.

For a better and deeper understanding of the interdependent recent history of (the center of) Europe, the International Visegrad Fund offers ten research fellowship grants annually in the Open Society Archives at Central European University, Budapest on a competitive basis to support scholars who wish to conduct research in the holdings of OSA, and whose current research projects are relevant to the holdings and the given research priorities of the Fund and OSA. Deadline for application: October 14, 2010.

Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies launches its call for papers for its issues in 2011. The third special issue is on "Religious Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe at the Beginning of the Third Millenium". Deadline: February 1, 2011.

Conflict of interest (COI) is usually understood quite broadly as a social phenomenon related to corruption, lobbying, nepotism, patronage, clientelism or the activity of informal networks of power. What are the current expressions of conflicts of interest in various spheres of social life in Central and Eastern Europe - politics, economy, science? What approaches to COI social sciences should apply? Why does COI often remain an unexplored issue? In what ways are scientists, including social scientists themselves, involved in various conflicts of interest, such as ‘rent-seeking’ activities?

Conference date: 25-27 August, 2010, Torun (Poland). Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2010.

Summer School of Ethnicity and Migration Studies is a two-week educational program for those who are intrigued by pressing issues of ethnicity, nationalism and recent international migration. Through debates, lectures and workshops, it presents a unique informal learning space and creates opportunity for the participants to meet outstanding experts, to get familiar with each other’s ideas and initiate international cooperation. Deadline for applications: May 24, 2010.

A retrospective chamber exhibition of bags and sacks from the history of commerce in Hungary (CARRIER BAGS AND SACKS, the 20th century of wrapping and carrying). A unique collection of 80 important pieces including tinfoil, silk paper, cardboard, wrapping paper, disposable PVC and nylon carrier bags on show for the first time. Unforgettable brands, long-gone manufacturers and shops: shopping bags with the logos of large department stores Szivárvány, Corvin and Lottó as well as of small shop-owners Ignácz Frisch, Victor Kovács and György Fleischer.

Contributions are invited from scholars in various areas of humanities and social sciences whose work utilizes the oral historical method and directly speaks to the main focus of the proposed collection - Reclaiming the Personal: Oral History in Post-Socialist Scholarship. The editors are seeking submissions that reflect on, deal with, and respond to this changing paradigm of scholarship from a variety of perspectives and standpoints.Deadline for submissions of abstracts: February 15, 2010.

The Centre for Film Studies at the University of Essex, UK, is pleased to announce the international conference Beyond the Cold War: New Directions in Soviet, Central and Eastern European Cinema Studies. This conference, featuring a range of distinguished speakers, aims to offer both a survey and a critical, reflective assessment of the broad range of new and emerging approaches to the study of cinema under the conditions of State Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2010.

The Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Vienna welcomes applications  for its  2nd Young Scientists Forum (YSF) on Central and South East Europe on  Cultural Changes in Central- and South East Europe after 1989. The forum will take place October 28-30, 2010. Deadline for application: February 22, 2010.

The Institute of History at the Jagiellonian University will host a conference "Writing Central Eastern Europe" devoted to travel writing on Central, Central Eastern and Eastern Europe. The conference will be held at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków on 11-12 June 2010. Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2010.

The Institute of Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna) has launched two invitations - one for a lecture by Marci Shore (Assistant Professor of History, Yale University; IWM Visiting Fellow) The Self Laid Bare: Phenomenological Encounters in Central Europe on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 18 pm in the Library of the IWM, and another for a discussion within the series "Umweltpolitik und Solidarität" with Peter Rauschenberger (co-founder of the Green Party Lehet Más a Politika, Hungary) entitled Mobilizing for Green Politics in Hungary. Comments will be delivered by Gerhard Jordan, member of the Stearing Group of Green East-West Dialogue (GEWD) on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 18 pm in the Library of the IWM.

The project “Ottoman Orient and East Central Europe" (Croatia/Germany) will hold a conference entitled The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries: A Comparative Perspective on May 21-23, 2009.