CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

October 30, 2025

Grad Program: Slavic & Eurasian Studies (Duke University)

Deadline: January 15, 2026

I’m pleased to share that applications are now open for the M.A. in Slavic & Eurasian Studiesat Duke University. We would be grateful if you could share this opportunity with your students!

The program provides rigorous training in the languages, literatures, and cultures of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, equipping students with interdisciplinary perspectives from history, art, political science, and economics. It combines strong language preparation with the development of critical research and analytical skills applicable across a range of disciplines and career paths.

Students engage deeply with canonical and contemporary literary and cultural works, exploring themes such as memory and identity, world systems and empire, exile and belonging. Department faculty bring expertise in Russian literature and culture, intellectual history, autobiographical writing and life narratives, Islam and modernity, trauma and memory studies, peasant studies, gender and feminist studies, second language acquisition and multilingualism, semiotics, and cognition.

October 21, 2025October 21, 2025

Call for Proposals: AATSEEL Translation Workshop

The AATSEEL translation workshop team wants to hear your ideas for translation initiatives for the 2026 conference!

Please write to Ainsley Morse (aemorse@ucsd.edu) or Jen Kindick (aatseelconference@colorado.edu) with a one-paragraph proposal for workshop material from any time period and any AATSEEL-covered [Slavic/East European/Eurasian/Caucasian/Baltic] language. The genre is also open, but please consider a length of text that can be productively dealt with in a brief (1h15m) workshop.

Examples from recent years: poems by Odesa-based poet Maria Galina; poems by early modernist classic Lesia Ukrainka; poems by Lviv-based poet Ostap Slyvynsky; poems by Austin-based poet Oksana Lutsyshyna; poems by Siberian poet Ekaterina Simonova; several passages from the autobiography of Avvakum; two brief prose passages from the novel Appendix by Rome-based Alexandra Petrova.

October 17, 2025

Acad. Job: Lecturer/Assistant Instructional Professor, Russian Language (University of Florida)

Deadline: November 30, 2025

Lecturer/Assistant Instructional Professor, Russian Language and Culture, University of Florida

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Florida (www.languages.ufl.edu), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites applications for the position of Lecturer/Assistant Instructional Professor in Russian Language and Culture, to begin August 15, 2026. This is a full-time, renewable, nine-month, non-tenure accruing position.

The salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience, and the compensation includes a full benefits package.

October 17, 2025October 17, 2025

ACTR Event on Navigating Job Interviews for Graduate Students

Event Date: October 21, 2025

ACTR Graduate Outreach and Support Committee are happy to invite you to our upcoming event “Academic Job Interviews Explained: Strategies and Insights for Graduate Students” on October 21 at 6 p.m. ET. Registration for the event is free and can be accessed here.

Our guest speaker is Dr. Amy S. Thompson, the Mack and Effie Campbell Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Teacher Education in the Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at Florida State University. A renowned applied linguistics scholar and language education advocate, Dr. Thompson is the recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Service to the Profession Award from the Association of Language Departments (ALD), a part of the Modern Language Association (MLA).

October 17, 2025October 17, 2025

CFP: KFLC 2026: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference (University of Kentucky)

Deadline: November 15, 2026

https://meetinghand.com/e/kentucky-foreign-language-conference

The Russian, Eurasian and Slavic Studies section of KFLC is a small but enthusiastic track of this large, dynamic conference. We encourage you to join us to share new research work in progress or a finished project in need of feedback toward publication. This is also a terrific venue for graduate students to get conference presentation experience in a supportive scholarly setting. In addition, we are hosting an undergraduate research session this year; undergrads can submit directly to Russian/Slavic—I recommend this—or choose to present in the broader conference undergrad sessions.

October 16, 2025October 16, 2025

Writing Across Boundaries Program – Call for Applications

Deadline: November 21, 2025

To integrate new research and perspectives from underrepresented regions and groups in English-language publishing outlets in Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, the Writing Across Boundaries Program invites applications for the next cycle of the program. The application is due no later than Friday, November 21, 2025.

Doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and other early career scholars from all disciplines and academic training in the arts and humanities and the social sciences are encouraged to apply. The overall goal of this program is to familiarize authors with different stages of developing a manuscript. These include:

Identifying journals for publication;
Interpreting submission guidelines and requirements;
Working with drafts;
Structuring effective arguments;
Understanding the peer review process;
Conducting revisions and incorporating feedback from reviewers;
Communicating with editors and editorial staff;
Interpreting article acceptance and rejection notices.

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025

Workshop at SLE 2026: Constructions with multiple wh-words across languages

Deadline: November 5, 2025

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of constructions with multiple wh-words across languages, which are understood as constructions structured with two or more wh-elements that can fulfil different functions.

We propose the following questions for discussion:

● What semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic factors underlie the restrictions on wh-variables and their possible pairings in multiple wh-constructions, especially in their distributive readings?

● Under what semantic and pragmatic conditions are such constructions licensed in discourse, and what communicative functions do they perform across languages?

● What syntactic positions can these constructions occupy within the clause, and how do they interact with the valency requirements of the predicate (if present)?

● How do frequency, idiomatization and formulaicity influence the grammatical status of these constructions across different languages?

● What are the historical sources of such constructions (e.g. indirect questions > quasi-relatives > distributives), and what grammaticalization paths can be identified cross-linguistically?

● Can we detect areal or genealogical patterns in the distribution and structure of these constructions, and what do such patterns reveal about contact-induced change versus independent development?

● How do multiple wh-word distributives compare with other distributive strategies (lexical, morphological, or clausal) cross-linguistically?

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025

CFP: Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, & Care under Socialism

Deadline: November 15, 2025

Health, social welfare, and the organization of family and social life have been central concerns for historians of socialist states. This conference invites a fresh perspective, examining how intimacy—as both concept and practice—offers new insights into how socialist institutions fostered, reimagined, or contained bonds between parents and children, patients and practitioners, and citizens and the state itself.

How might foregrounding intimacy reshape our understanding of health, medicine, and welfare in Europe under state socialism? We particularly welcome work that explores the role of expertise and caregiving practices within diverse institutional spaces. We are interested in a breadth of state socialist institutions, spanning hospitals and clinics, nurseries and retirement homes, asylums and sanitoria, maternity wards and childcare centers, among many others. By centering intimacy in institutional settings, this conference seeks to generate new histories of medicine, society, and the everyday that reveal socialism’s distinctive social worlds.

September 30, 2025September 30, 2025

MA/PhD Program: Slavic & EE Languages and Cultures (The Ohio State University)

Deadline: December 31, 2025

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio welcomes applicants to our MA/Ph.D. program for autumn semester 2026.

The department offers graduate students a stimulating intellectual environment and generous financial support. Our graduate course offerings appeal to a broad range of intellectual interests, with three major areas of concentration: Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies; Slavic Linguistics; and Second Language Acquisition (SLA).

We are also admitting students for our terminal MA program, the Russian for the Professions specialization. This program strives to bring students to the advanced level on the ACTFL scale and features curriculum focused on advanced Russian language, developing applied language skills, and application in different professional fields, such as research, translation, business, data analytics, media, and the problems of global human trafficking.

September 30, 2025

Acad. Job: Assistant Professor (TT) Central, EE Language and Culture

Deadline: October 27, 2025

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Central and/or Eastern European Literature and Culture with an expected start date of July 1, 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. We seek a scholar specializing in any Slavic language and culture of the region, whose work has the potential to transcend the regional and disciplinary boundaries of Slavic Studies and to speak to issues that intersect with humanistic inquiry in other areas of the world and other linguistic and cultural traditions. The selected candidate will pursue their own research agenda, collaborate with faculty in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and other areas of the Division of the Arts & Humanities and University, and teach in both the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. The teaching load for tenure-track positions is typically four courses per year on the quarter system. Additional responsibilities include advising at all levels of the program, and service on departmental and university committees.