The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) has launched an invitation for its upcoming monthly lecture: on January 25, 2011, at 6 p.m. Daniel Treisman, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles and currently IWM Visiting Fellow will talk about Russian Politics in a Time of Economic Turmoil.

The Center for Jewish History offers fellowships to senior scholars through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The awards support original research at CJH in the humanities, including but not limited to Jewish studies, Russian and East European studies, American studies and Germanic studies, as well as musicology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and history. Deadline for applications: December 15, 2010.

The Faculty of History at University of Sofia Sv. Kliment Ohridski welcomes the audience to its conference on Power and Influence in South-Eastern Europe in the 16-19th Centuries beginning on October 8, 2010.

The International St. Petersburg colloquium in Russian history, organized by historians from Russia, the United States, and Western Europe, is held every three years. The goal of the 2010 conference is to engage with historical processes through the analytical lens of the self. It will examine presuppositions about human behavior and ideals of “personality” and humanity on the part of state and cultural authorities from the late Imperial period to the breakup of the Soviet Union; it will follow how these notions were set into motion over the course of a long century of war and revolution; and it will study their effects on the lives, personal horizons, and self-understandings of individuals. Program for download [.pdf].

The Russian Institute for Cultural Research (Moscow) seeks articles for a collected volume on Russian Utopianism in the International Context to be published by the publishing house 'Progress-Traditsiia' in 2011.

We hereby invite papers on any aspect of Russian utopianism, but pieces with a focus on the interrelationship of Russian and Western utopias are especially welcome.