Deadline: February 18th

ceecon24 will welcome all students and scholars who oppose Russia’s war on Ukraine. Anyone supporting Russia’s war, or justifying it in any way, will not be welcome. The organizers of ceecon do not collaborate with Russian state institutions.

On 7 and 8 October 2024, the German Association for East European Studies (DGO) and the Freie Universität Berlin will jointly host the second Congress of Central and East European Studies (ceecon24) in Berlin. The congress is organized in cooperation with the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). ceecon is the largest multidisciplinary congress on Central and Eastern Europe in the German-speaking world. It was established in 2022 as a cooperative project of the DGO and the Freie Universität’s Institute for East European Studies (Osteuropa-Institut).

ceecon provides the international research community with an important venue for exchanging and discussing the latest research findings on the region. The congress spotlights scholarly work on the Baltic States, Central and Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia.

Academic exchange on topics relevant to all scholars in the field will take place in plenary sessions. Seven parallel sections will address research questions concerning a broad variety of topics and methodological approaches. A special session has been created for the presentation of research projects by junior scholars.

We welcome proposals for:
- individual papers for the sections listed below
- panels for the sections listed below

Proposals for panels should consist of three thematically relevant papers from different institutions and, preferably, from different disciplines. Please note that the organizers reserve the right to accept only individual papers.

- presentations by PhD students for the special session New Research Peer-spectives. (PhD students may also submit proposals for individual papers and for panels.)

For submissions, please use the respective application forms on the ceecon-Website (https://ceecon.de/en/call-for-papers/)

Junior researchers whose papers are accepted will be invited to compete in the Young ceecon Award for best submission. More information will be provided upon official acceptance of a proposal for the congress. Eligibility for participation in the competition is limited to junior researchers and post docs up to three years after submission of their dissertation as of the date of receipt of a ceecon proposal.

We look forward to receiving submissions for the following sections:

- Quantitative Insights on Developments in Eastern Europe
- The Establishment of Security? (False) Expectations of Peacetime Orders
- Law as a Bulwark against the Abuse of Power
- Believing and/or Belonging: Religious identity in social and political conflict
- Contemporary Self-positionings
- Migration in Times of Polycrisis
- The Impact of War on Food Systems and the Environment
- New Research Pe(e)rspectives (Special session for the presentation of PhD research projects)

For detailed information see: https://ceecon.de/en/call-for-papers/

There are no conference fees. Participants are expected to pay for travel and accommodation themselves. Junior researchers and other researchers may apply for subsidies to cover travel.