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Your presentation may be an extension of a paper written for a course in Slavic or East/Central European studies or a project related to your personal interests. You may work alone or jointly with another student. Instructors from your campus Slavic, Russian or East/Central European Studies program will serve as project advisors. Any undergraduate enrolled in a Slavic or East/Central European language, literature, linguistics, history, political science, music, folklore, or other relevant course may participate. Graduate students are invited to serve as panel moderators.
Requirements
The paper must incorporate some materials in a Slavic or other East/Central European language. Your level of proficiency will determine the extent to which foreign language materials should be used. For example, beginning students might incorporate titles of books or articles or place names in the original Slavic language; intermediate students might read some passages in the original from relevant sources; advanced students might base their paper on sources in the given language. Individual presentations should be 10-15 minutes in length; joint presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length.
Proposals
If you would like to participate in the conference, please submit a proposal (a title and a description of 3-4 sentences) to your faculty sponsor on your campus and at the proposal submission link by Monday, March 2, 2026.
Abstracts
After you’ve submitted your proposal, you must submit the following information via the abstract submission portal by April 10, 2026.
1) your name as you would like it to appear in the conference program
2) your email address; unless you request otherwise, this will be included in the conference program
3) your school and major(s)/minor(s)
4) the exact title of your presentation
5) an abstract (250 words); this is a paragraph describing the topic of your paper. It will be included in the conference program.
Deadlines
Proposal. If you would like to participate in the conference, please submit a proposal (a title and a description of 3-4 sentences) to your faculty sponsor on your campus and at the proposal submission link by Monday, March 2, 2026.
Abstract. You must submit the following information at the abstract submission link by April 10, 2026.
1) your name as you would like it to appear in the conference program
2) your email address; unless you request otherwise, this will be included in the conference program
3) your school and major(s)/minor(s)
4) the exact title of your presentation
5) an abstract (250 words); this is a paragraph describing the topic of your paper. It will be included in the conference program.
Final Presentation. Slideshow presentations are due by Friday, April 17. We are only accepting Google Slides due to the Zoom hybrid nature of the conference. We regret that we are unable to accept presentations in other formats (Prezi, PowerPoint, Canva, etc). Please share your Google Slides link with lissetcadena@g.ucla.edu
Include your first and last name in the Google Slides file title. Ex: “Joe Bruin-2026 Slavic Conference Presentation”.
You only need to share your Google Slides link once and you can continue to make edits to your slideshow, so please ensure that you share your Google Slides link with Lisset by April 17.
RSVP for Non-Participants
If you are not presenting but plan to attend the conference:
Please RSVP here by Monday, April 20, 2026. The form lets you indicate if you plan to attend in person or via Zoom.
If you plan to attend virtually via Zoom: You MUST register by April 20. You will receive the Zoom link on April 21.