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Job: Assistant Director of REEE Program (UNC Chapel Hill)

Deadline: June 16, 2020

The Language Flagship is a federally-funded, national initiative to change the way Americans learn languages through a groundbreaking approach to language education for students from kindergarten through college. Through a network of Flagship programs at institutions of higher education across the U.S., the Language Flagship graduates students who will take their place among the next generation of global professionals, commanding a superior level of proficiency in languages critical to U.S. national security and economic competitiveness. Flagship students participate in intensive language courses which are supplemented by tutoring sessions and various co-curricular activities. The program culminates in an Overseas Capstone Year featuring rigorous language study, extensive cultural immersion, and a professional internship.

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Internships with US Department of State

Deadline: June 12, 2020

U.S. Department of State Student Internship Program (Unpaid)
Now Accepting Applications

The U.S. Department of State is currently accepting applications for the U.S. Department of State Spring 2021 Student Internship Program (Unpaid).

Please visit the Intern section of our careers website for more information about the U.S. Department of State Spring 2021 Student Internship Program (Unpaid), and to learn about the selection process and which office may be right for you.

Visit USAJOBS.gov to view and apply to the announcement. Please note that the deadline to submit completed applications is June 12, 2020.

We suggest that you submit your application as early as possible to ensure that all documents have been uploaded properly and to account for any technical glitches that may occur.

U.S. citizenship is required. If you have any questions or would like to search for topics of interest, please visit our forums or FAQs at careers.state.gov.

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Job: Global Security Analyst (Austin, Texas)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Global Security Analyst

Careers

As a member of Stratfor’s core team of analysts, you will be responsible for developing high-quality and forward-looking analysis related to corporate security, business continuity, cyber security, organized crime, and global terrorism. Analysts are responsible for ensuring that a broad range of clients are well served by proactively identifying critical crime, terrorism and business continuity issues while conducting deeper research on key topics to include terror and criminal attack cycles, and cyber-attack tactics. Stratfor Threat Lens helps corporate security leaders identify, anticipate, measure and mitigate risks that emerging threats pose to their people, assets and interests around the world. Clients rely on Threat Lens to pinpoint which evolving global events are truly significant so they can save time and make decisions with confidence.

Analysts also play a critical role in the Stratfor forecasting process and production of the Geopolitical Risk Index and Geopolitical Risk Monitor.  Analysts have direct engagement with clients supporting inbound geopolitical inquiries while providing briefings.

Global Security Analysts will have the opportunity to partner with colleagues across the broader RANE organization and gain exposure to a range of industries and risk topics, including geopolitical; cyber and information; physical safety and security; and legal, regulatory, and compliance.

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CFP: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference

Deadline: June 15, 2020


The organizing committee of SCLC-2020 still hopes to have the conference as scheduled in December 4-6, 2020, as planned. The confirmed invited speaker of the conference is Martin Haspelmath.

In case it will not be possible to hold SCLC-2020 in December, the event will be moved to June. We have now the exact dates for this plan B: June 4-6, 2021. The confirmed invited speakers of the conference in June 2021 are Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) and Sergey Say (Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Typology).

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Virtual Summer Student Project in Russia (Crossroads Eurasia)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Crossroads Eurasia is launching a FREE summer project for students and recent graduates.  
We are looking for individuals who are interested in exploring an aspect of daily life in a Russian city alongside a Russian student from the local university. It will take place (virtually) in Voronezh, a medium-sized city south of Moscow with a young and cosmopolitan feel. The project is part-time, and can augment other summer work and study.  

What the project will entail
The project will take place in July and last four weeks, requiring a commitment of 12 to 17 hours per week.  
Participants will work in small groups with students from the Voronezh State University. They will research a theme that is linked to the interests of the group members and is both social and local — think something out of the lifestyle or culture sections of a newspaper (e.g. craft beer, local businesses, life under quarantine, etc). The beginning of the project will be devoted to defining the theme and creating a research plan around it.      

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Summer Study Abroad Webinar (American Councils)

Event Date: June 1, 2020


Please join American Councils Study Abroad on Monday, June 1st at 1pm Eastern (10am Pacific) for an overview and Q&A about our upcoming Summer Online Programs.

AC staff will provide an overview of the Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) and Politics and Public Diplomacy program (PPD), including course content, instruction methods, application procedures, and more. There will be plenty of time to ask questions of the panelists. For those who cannot attend live, a recording will be sent out to registrants afterwards.

This webinar is open to students, faculty, advisors, and anyone interested in learning more about American Councils Study Abroad Online Programs.

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Funding: NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure/NEH Documenting Endangered Languages

Deadline: September 15, 2020

 Submission Deadline for Senior Research Proposals, Conferences, and Fellowships Only

SYNOPSIS

This funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning dynamic language infrastructure in the context of endangered human languages—languages that are both understudied and at risk of falling out of use. Made urgent by the imminent loss of roughly half of the approximately 7000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers.

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CFP: American Society for Theater Research

Deadline: June 1, 2020

American Society for Theatre Research, November 5-8, 2020 (*note this is the same weekend as ASEEES)

Working Session – Disrupted Nationhoods and the Repetition of Change: Theatre and Performance in Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia

Continuing from last year, we invite proposals to our Central and Eastern European focused group that advance our conversation toward dismantling artificial binaries (east/west, national/state, tradition/progress, minority/majority, etc.) based on static notions of repetition and reperformance. We want to further explore performance and theatre as means to disrupt core conceptions of seemingly clear-cut “new nationalisms” and cultural boundaries and identities. With our shared focus on countries reshaped and reconstituted numerous times, we ask: what does reperformance mean in a context where identities have been reformed amidst repeated geographic upheaval and political turbulence? What meanings does repetition create where the most frequent form of repetition is change? What can reperformance mobilize for audiences who have often witnessed it merely perform rearranged, narrativized pasts to serve agenda-laden purposes? How does performance conceptualize “national” and ethnic identities of the region–themselves often transnational–as borders are redrawn around/through them? How does performance offer useful disruptions of localized identities that embrace, integrate, or reject the global and transnational beyond recycling the familiar? Within such a context, does repetition or reperformance inevitably fail? If so, what modes allow us to analyze theatre and performance from this part of the world?

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CFP: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Arctic University of Norway)

Deadline: June 15, 2020

The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) will hold its 17th conference on December 4-6, 2020 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway. The conference will be locally organized and hosted by the CLEAR research group led by Tore Nesset and Laura A. Janda at UiT.

They invite abstracts for 20+10 min presentations on any topic of relevance to Slavic Cognitive Linguistics. Abstracts should be based on work that has not yet been published. They especially encourage submissions from young researchers. Abstracts can be written in English or in any Slavic language. For more details see the abstract submission section.

Invited speakers

  • The confirmed invited speaker is Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)

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