Disability Studies in Eastern Europe: Reconfigurations

03/08/2026

Thank you for your generous response to our call for papers, which has exceeded our expectations! The Program Committee will have a busy August reviewing your paper, panel, and roundtable proposals. All applicants will be notified of the outcome by 1 September.

30/07/2026

Don't forget! 📢

This Friday is the deadline for submitting proposals to our conference, "Central and Eastern Europe as Method(ology) in Disability Studies," to be held at Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

We warmly encourage scholars, researchers, practitioners, and artists working on disability in, with, or through Central and Eastern Europe to submit their proposals.

We look forward to reading your submissions and hope to welcome you to Kraków this November!

You may submit your paper, panel or roundtable here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/LaT4Axm5a0

The cull call for papers: https://disability-in-easteurope.project.uj.edu.pl/conference-2026

Photo of a discussion opening the previous Conference Disability Studies in Eastern Europe: Reconfigurations : Natalia Pamuła, Agnieszka Król, Kamila Albin, Magda Szarota, Katerina Kolárová Darja Zaviršek (by Grzegorz Mart)

20/07/2026

The deadline for submitting proposals to East and Central Europe as Method(ology) in Disability Studies has been extended!

📅 New deadline: 31 July 2026

There is still time to submit your paper, panel, or roundtable proposal. We warmly invite you to join us in Kraków this autumn to explore the entanglements of critical disability studies and the specificities of East and Central Europe.

We look forward to reading your proposals and seeing you in Kraków!

16/07/2026

To allow all of you the submission of proposals in a middle of Summer we have exteneded the submission deadline till 31 July!

We warmly invite submissions for:
🔹 individual papers
🔹 panels
🔹 roundtables

Submission form: https://forms.office.com/e/LaT4Axm5a0

The call for papers: https://disability-in-easteurope.project.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/conference-2026

13/07/2026

📢 Only one week left!

There is just one week remaining to submit your proposals for the "Central and Eastern Europe as Method(ology) in Disability Studies"

We warmly invite submissions for:
🔹 individual papers
🔹 panels
🔹 roundtables

📅 Deadline: 20 July 2026
Submission form: https://forms.office.com/e/LaT4Axm5a0
The call for papers: https://disability-in-easteurope.project.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/conference-2026

We look forward to receiving your proposals and to welcoming you to Kraków for inspiring discussions.
Please share this call with colleagues and anyone who might be interested!

16/06/2026

While we are waiting for your submissions, we are happy and proud to share the announcement of the forthcoming book "Understanding Disability in Central and East Europe. Performing Inbetweenness" edited by Magdalena Zdrodowska, Ina Dimitrova and Monika Kwaśniewska. It will be published by Routledge in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies book series in late 2026.

This volume builds on the conference Conference Disability Studies in Eastern Europe: Reconfigurations we have organised in 2024 and brings together an amazing group of scholars and activists: Natalia Pamuła, Agnieszka Król, Kamila Albin, Kateřina Kolářová, Gabor Petri, Magda Szarota, Darja Zaviršek, Jelena Seferović, Magdalena Dunaj, Erika Hruskó, Hana Drštičková, Eva Kašparová, Gergana Mircheva, Galina Nikolaevna Goncharova, Jose Alaniz, Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, Agnese Lūcija Zviedre, Wojciech Figiel and Monika Baar. Thanks to Karen Soldatic, series editor, for her support and to Sarah Phillips, Teodor Mladenov and Gunta Anča for their generous endorsements of the volume, and the anonymous reader, whose feedback helped us greatly to improve the manuscript.

This collection brings together activism-informed disability research conducted both IN and FROM the region by scholars and activists representing local communities and languages. Disability in Central and Eastern Europe is situated between ethnic and national identities and languages, socialist/com...

11/06/2026

We are back and kicking! We are very happy to invite you to Kraków to a conference "Central and Eastern Europe as Method(ology) in Disability Studies".
Save the date: 27-28 November 2026. The call for papers by Monika Kwaśniewska, Magda Szarota and Hana Drštičková can be found here: https://disability-in-easteurope.project.uj.edu.pl/conference-2026
The deadline for submissions is 20 July 2026. To submit your proposal visit: https://forms.office.com/e/LaT4Axm5a0

The conference is possible thanks to support from Wydział Zarządzania i Komunikacji Społecznej UJ

02/01/2026

Gili Hammer, one of our network's members, invites you all to submit an abstract to the panel at the EASA 2026 Conference (21–24 July, Poznań): Performing Possibilities in a Polarized World: Anthropological Perspectives on Artistic Practices.
Deadline for submissions: 26 January 2026.

Link to the panel and to propose a paper: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2026/p/17662

The panel explores how artistic and performative practices, including dance, theatre, disability arts, and ethnographic performance, navigate polarization and cultivate entangled ways of being, creating, and imagining futures across diverse regions.
It offers a valuable opportunity to bring together theoretical and methodological questions about artistic practices and to share the strengths and possibilities that performance holds in times of crisis.

Be sure to contact Gili Hammer in case you have any questions.

This panel explores how artistic and performative practices—dance, theatre, disability arts, and ethnographic performance—negotiate polarization and

18/12/2025

📢 CFP Alert!

We are happy to share an invitation to submit proposals for ➡️ "Underprivileged Bodies: Marginality and Minority in Europe, 1850–1939" conference, organized by the Department of Jewish Studies, Wrocław University. 🎓

🔎 This conference seeks to explore how marginalized and minority bodies were imagined, categorized, and governed in Europe between 1850 and 1939, as well as how individuals and communities experienced, performed, and contested these regimes of representation and control.

🗓 The conference will take place on July 6–8, 2026.

✅ Submission deadline: January 15, 2026.

For more information about the conference, please visit 🔗
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133736/cfp-underprivileged-bodies-marginality-and-minority-europe-1850-1939

📊 Graphic credits: Freepik