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CALL FOR PAPERS: Spring Issue 2024

Posted by Slovo Journal on 2024-03-06

CALL FOR PAPERSSlovo Journal is seeking original research papers and reviews at the postgraduate level with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Balkans, Russia, and Ukraine. Research Articles: 6000-8000 wordsAll research articles which focus on the journal’s region of expertise are welcome. However, we strongly encourage research articles connected to the following [...]

Slovo 2023 Autumn Issue Out Now!

Posted by Slovo Journal on 2024-02-26

The Slovo Autumn Issue is out now! Completing our 36th volume, the Slovo Editorial Team are pleased to announce the launch of the Autumn 2023 issue of Slovo!We are proud to once again showcase exemplary interdisciplinary postgraduate and early career research on Eastern and Central European, Russian and Central Asian culture and affairs. In this issue;Expressive Interrogative Sentences [...]

Slovo Spotlight: Interview with Editor-in-Chief Ekaterina Dudakova

Posted by Slovo on 2023-11-15

In the lead up to handing over to the next Slovo Editorial Team, we are running a series of interviews with the current team about the ins and outs of their role and their experience working at Slovo. Applications are open now until 23:59 on the 16th November. Apply through this link. We can't wait to read your applications!In this final Slovo Spotlight, we end with a discussion with [...]

Slovo Spotlight: Interview with Online Editor Phoebe Hardingham

Posted by Slovo on 2023-11-14

In the lead up to handing over to the next Slovo Editorial Team, we are running a series of interviews with the current team about the ins and outs of their role and their experience working at Slovo. Applications are open now until 23:59 on the 16th November. Apply through this link. We can't wait to read your applications!In this blog post, Slovo’s Online Editor interviews herself about [...]

Slovo Spotlight: Interview with EDI Manager Tereza Michalkova

Posted by Slovo on 2023-11-13

In the lead up to handing over to the next Slovo Editorial Team, we are running a series of interviews with the current team about the ins and outs of their role and their experience working at Slovo. Applications are open now until 23:59 on the 16th November. Apply through this link. We can't wait to read your applications!Following our interview with Typesetter Kexin Cui, in which we [...]

Slovo Spotlight: Interview with Typesetter Kexin Cui

Posted by Slovo on 2023-11-12

In the lead up to handing over to the next Slovo Editorial Team, we are running a series of interviews with the current team about the ins and outs of their role and their experience working at Slovo. Applications are open now until 23:59 on the 16th November. Apply through this link. We can't wait to read your applications!Following our interview with Copyeditor Callie Andress, in which we [...]

Slovo Spotlight: Interview with Copyeditor Callie Andress

Posted by Slovo on 2023-10-29

In the lead up to handing over to the next Slovo Editorial Team, we are running a series of interviews with the current team about the ins and outs of their role and their experience working at Slovo. Applications are open now until 23:59 on the 16th November. Apply through this link. We can't wait to read your applications!Following our interview with Film Editor Haoyang Chen, in which we [...]

Slovo Spotlight: Interview with Film Editor Haoyang Chen

Posted by Slovo on 2023-10-24

In the lead up to handing over to the next Slovo Editorial Team, we are running a series of interviews with the current team about the ins and outs of their role and their experience working at Slovo. Applications are open now until 23:59 on the 16th November. Apply through this link. We can't wait to read your applications!Following our interview with Book Editor Giada Malugani, we delved [...]

Slovo Spotlight: Interview with Book Editor Giada Malugani

Posted by Slovo on 2023-10-18

In the lead up to handing over to the next Slovo Editorial Team, we are running a series of interviews with the current team about the ins and outs of their role and their experience working at Slovo. Applications are open now until 23:59 on the 16th November. Apply through this link. We can't wait to read your applications!Following our interview with General Editors Nathan Alan-Lee, [...]

Slovo Spotlight: Interview with our General Editors

Posted by Slovo on 2023-10-16

In the lead up to applications opening for the next Slovo Editorial Team, we are running a series of interviews with the current team about the ins and outs of their role and their experience working at Slovo. Following our interview with Managing Editor, Maria Obrębska, we spoke to the General Editors Nathan Alan-Lee, Lindsay Robinot-Jones, and Joshua Robinson about the peer-review process [...]

Slovo Spotlight: Interview with Managing Editor Maria Obrebska

Posted by Slovo on 2023-10-11

In the lead up to applications opening for the next Slovo Editorial Team, we are running a series of interviews with the current team about the ins and outs of their role and their experience working at Slovo. Firstly, we have an interview with our managing Editor, Maria Obrębska.Why did you decide to apply for the role of managing editor at Slovo? What about the role appealed to you?I [...]

Account for the origins of "Balkan" stereotypes

Posted by Jan Romanowski on 2023-09-11

As part of our mission of encouraging research on Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, we are pleased to offer undergraduate students the chance to publish excellent work on our blog.This article was written by Jan Romanowski, a first year History, Politics, and Economics Student at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.Account for the origins of [...]

What Russia’s 2022 anti-LGBT “propaganda” legislation means: haphazard censorship as erasure

Posted by Joshua Robinson on 2023-07-13

Slovo General Editor Joshua Robinson reports on the impact of the 2022 anti-LGBT "propaganda" legislation in Russia.Photo by Daniel James via Unsplash On 24th November 2022, a bundle of bills packaged as ‘anti-gay propaganda’ measures passed their third reading in the state Duma, initiating a significant expansion – and hardening – of the notorious legislation that drew international [...]

Call for Papers Autumn 2023 Issue

Posted by Slovo on 2023-07-07

Slovo is accepting submissions for the 2023 Autumn Issue!We are looking for original research papers written by postgraduate students and researchers on any topic relating to Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Russia, as well as book and film reviews relating to the region. Translations of works previously unpublished in English and original poetry are also [...]

An interview with Slovo Editor-in-Chief Ekaterina Dudakova

Posted by Slovo on 2023-06-16

Now that our Spring Issue launch is just around the corner, Online Editor Phoebe Hardingham sat down with Editor-in-Chief Ekaterina Dudakova to ask her about the process so far, and her vision for the journal going forward. We hope you enjoy!PH: Why did you apply to be editor-in-chief of Slovo?ED: I applied to be an Editor-in-Chief of Slovo because I am generally interested in the publishing [...]