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This page lists CFP for thematic conferences of direct relevance to Ukrainian studies. The conferences and deadline abstracts are enumerated here in ascending chronological order. To view conference taking place later in the calendar, please scroll down the page. 
 
For information about CFP for the annual gatherings of the various scholarly associations of Slavists, please study the web sites listed under Scholarly Associations & their Journals in the "Resources" section.
 
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◊  Engaging the Law in Eurasia and Eastern Europe (application deadline: May 7, 2012)
 
◊ 23 March 2012 (proposal deadline: 2 March)
MLCS Undergraduate Student Conference —  
One World: Cultural Identity in a Global Space. 
Topics: Media and Popular Culture; Cultural Identity; Language and Communication.  For details, click here.
 
◊ 3 March 2012  (proposal deadline: 6 February 2012)

[DIS]COMFORT: (Re)examining Limits of Agency
The Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Council invites proposals for an interdisciplinary conference to take place on March 32012, at the University of Alberta. The purpose of this conference is to deal with the concept of (dis)comfort in a broader sense and to look at the meaning and interaction of human and non-human agency in the changing circumstances of everyday life.   Possible topics include but are not limited to:  
Agency of the body
Embodiment and disembodiment of power
Agent-object relationship
Comfort and the question of ownership
Construct of "home" and its experience
Motherland and Motherlands
Dwelling in places and things
 (Dis)abilities of (dis)comfort
Limits of agency in second language acquisition
Dealing with discomfort in the classroom
Expressing discomfort in media
 
We invite graduate students and recent alumni from all disciplines studying
languages, literature, culture, society and translation to submit abstracts of individual papers and proposals for panel discussions and round tables. We welcome research in progress. Selected papers might be published in the MLCS Graduate Student Journal Multilingual Discourses.
 
Presentations will be 15 minutes in length and will be followed by a short
discussion period. Panel discussions and round tables will run for 60 minutes.
 
Please send a 250-word abstract or a two-page proposal and all relevant contact  
information (including name, program, department and research interests) to
<mlcs.grad.council@gmail.com>
by Monday, February 6th, 2012.
 
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by February 14th, 2012