Publications of ISS PAS

We invite submissions for issue 58 of the journal “Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa” (“Nationalities Affairs. New Series”), titled “Nation or Society? Strategies of Community Formation in Poland and Beyond”.

The 58th issue of our journal aims to explore the diverse strategies for building national and social community in Poland: from the period of Romanticism in early 19th century, through nationalist thought at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, to contemporary efforts to redefine social and national bonds.

We welcome both theoretical reflections and analyses of case studies – from the 19th century to the present. We especially encourage submissions that explore nationand community-building strategies beyond the Polish context. Articles meeting the publication criteria will appear in the “Constellations” section.

Here is the full invitation along with the schedule of activities: https://journals.ispan.edu.pl/index.php/sn/en/announcement

Topic: Signs of the Times, Changes in Space, Transformations of Identity

Editors of the volume: dr hab. Maksim Duszkin, prof. IS PAN and dr Kinga Geben

Call for Submissions

We invite submissions of scholarly papers to volume 50 of Acta Baltico-Slavica. The anniversary volume of our journal, entitled “Signs of the Times, Changes in Space, Transformations of Identity”, will be devoted to the processes of identity transformation, changes in space, and traces of time in the culture and languages of the countries of the Balto-Slavic region. We invite reflection on the interplay of time, space, identity and language, on how memories of the past influence the present, and how the heritage of the borderland is reinterpreted under the circumstances of globalisation, migration, and political tensions. We are interested in both historical aspects and contemporary phenomena related to collective memory and ethnic and linguistic identification. The volume is also open to submissions analysing linguistic minority narratives, cultural and linguistic landscape, and individual and collective identity in the linguistic space of the region.

The issues in focus include:

• cultural heritage of the Borderlands (Kresy) and its reinterpretations in the twenty-first century (in literary texts, the press, political debates);
• historical memory, local and national narratives in the Balto-Slavic area;
• borderlands as spaces of contact, tension and intercultural cooperation;
• analysis of changes occurring in the cultural and linguistic space of multi-ethnic towns and cities;
• cultural landscape and cultural spaces lost and recovered through narratives, memory and art;
• transformations in linguistic topography (the linguistic landscape of cities, towns and villages, the presence of minority languages and their visibility in public space);
• ethnic, linguistic and regional identity in the context of modernisation, globalisation and European integration;
• relationship between language and identity (language contact, bilingualism, interference, translanguaging in borderland communities);
• changes in the self-identification of ethnic minorities; their self-narratives.

Apart from articles devoted to the issues in focus of this volume, we also invite submissions to our regular sections: “Sources and Materials”, “Discussions, Polemics, Review Articles”, “Reviews”, “Chronicle” and “New Publications”.

The deadline for submissions to volume 50 (to be made on the journal’s electronic platform) is 15 December 2025.

Please consider the following:

• language of submissions (articles and commentaries on sources): English, Polish, Russian; source texts and materials: the original language;
• planned date of publication of the volume: December 2026;
• submissions should not exceed 40,000 characters (including spaces); this limit includes bibliography;
• detailed information and guidelines for authors (general requirements, text formatting, bibliography guidelines, etc.) are available at the journal’s website in the section Submissions.

Please address any queries to: abs@ispan.edu.pl.

We are pleased to announce that the ISS PAS Journals Platform is now available again after an upgrade.

The Platform is now available at: https://journals.ispan.edu.pl/. The possibility to log in has been restored – for those registered in the previous system, the logins remain valid – as well as the possibility to submit texts via the Platform. A new feature is the bilingual interface: the Platform is now available to users in both Polish and English.

We warmly invite you to visit!