Undergraduate Research Competition

Deadline: April 3, 2023

Every year, the Russian Studies department at Macalester College organizes a student research competition. This year, the competition will be in a virtual format and is open to undergrads at all U.S. colleges and universities. Cash prizes awarded!

(1) Submit the title of your project and an abstract by Monday, April 3 by following the link at the competition website. Your project should be based on a term paper, digital project, or part of a senior thesis on any topic relevant to Eastern/Central Europe, Russia, or Central Asia written in Spring 2022, Fall 2022, or work-in-progress from Spring 2023. Your abstract should provide an overview of your project, including its thesis and conclusions, and be no more than 300 words.

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Acad. Job: Russian Language Instructor and Language Program Coordinator (Davidson College)

Deadline: April 7, 2023

The Russian Studies Department at Davidson College seeks a colleague to teach Russian language and coordinate our Russian language program. Three-year renewable lectureship. Competitive pay. Eligible for Davidson’s sabbatical policy, as well as funds for conferences, and professional development. Visa support if needed. Small classes. Smart and hardworking students! Review of applications begins April 7. 

https://employment.davidson.edu/en-us/job/494411/lecturer-russian-studies

The Department of Russian Studies at Davidson College invites applications for a three-year, renewable lectureship in Russian language, beginning July 1, 2023. Lecturers receive up to $2,000 per year for travel to academic conferences and workshops, can apply for additional professional development and research funds, and are eligible for sabbatical under Davidson’s policies. Davidson College will also provide visa support if needed. We seek a long-term colleague dedicated to advancing our language curriculum, mentoring students, and collaborating across campus to expand interest in Russian among a diverse group of students.

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Job: Assistant Director, Center for Austrian Studies (University of Minnesota)

Deadline: April 21, 2023

The Center for Austrian Studies (CAS) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities invites applications for the position of Administrative Associate 3 (Job Code 8208A3). This position has the working title Assistant Director, and functions as Publications, Research, and Program Coordinator for the Center. This is a 100%-time, 12-month, continuous position subject to the University’s Civil Service Rules, with an anticipated start date in summer 2023.

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CFP: Integrating Histories of Development: the Good, the Bad, and the Joined (Shanghai University)

Deadline: April 8, 2023 

Center for the History of Global Development – Shanghai University  

There are two principal master narratives about modern global development. One is a positive story  of significantly improved quality of life for people around the world. This perspective is especially taken  by scholars studying health. Over the last 200 years, people around the world have grown taller and  lived longer, the result mainly of better nutrition, better housing, better clothing, higher incomes, more  tax revenues and better healthcare policies. Despite an eight-fold increase of the global population  since 1800, the percentage of malnourished has steadily decreased, and the rate of people dying of  famine has dropped to a tiny fraction of those at any time during the last two centuries. Angus  Maddison has documented the spectacular (albeit unequal) growth in global wealth, while Robert  Fogel and Dora Costa have demonstrated the intertwined character of the changes in human bodies  and inventions: better nutrition and living standards have enabled people to work with more strength  and better cognitive abilities for longer hours, resulting in further improvements in nutrition and living  conditions in a “techno-physio evolution” of continuous improvements. Nobel Prize laureate Angus  Deaton has framed such improvements in health and living standards as “escapes” from earlier fates  of hunger and premature death. Steven Pinker has argued that modern societies have kept becoming  more peaceful, with violence increasingly exceptional and considered outside of accepted social norms,  and the late public health specialist Hans Rosling, insisted on the overall positive tendencies of world  development in a book aptly entitled Factfulness: Ten Reasons we’re wrong about the world – and why  things are better than you think (2018).  

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Learn Russian in the EU

Deadline: May 1, 2023

This is a reminder that a few seats are still available in the 2023 Summer Russian Language and Area Studies Program provided by Learn Russian in the European Union in Daugavpils, Latvia.

This program is based upon our experience in providing highly successful summer programs for universities, federal service academies, Project GO, and other institutional customers from the USA and Europe. The program will be hosted at Daugavpils University.

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International Summer School (University of Dresden)

Deadline: May 1, 2023

Call for Participation for the International Summer School “The Struggle for Attention in Public Sphere. A Perspective of Critical Phenomenology”,  July 23 – 29, 2023, University of Dresden (Germany), organized by Professor Klavdia Smola, Dr. Tatiana Vaizer, and Dr. Annelie Bachmaier.

About the Summer School

In our summer school we understand the public sphere as a public space (or spaces) where socially, culturally and politically meaningful events and processes take place. But what makes them „meaningful“? And what makes them „public“? In order to produce a meaningful event or an action, do we need attract the attention of the public to this event or action? Why do we consider some events as meaningful and leave others aside as insignificant? How is attention distributed and redistributed in the public sphere and what instances are responsible for that? In what cases do we become hostages of the economics of attention and how does paying attention to some things and not paying it to others form our identity?

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The 24th International Conference on the History of Concepts (Warsaw, Poland)

Deadline: March 30, 2023

Agency of Concepts in Interface Regions: Asymmetries, Asynchronities, and Discontinuations

The full conference call available here.

The 24rd International Conference on the History of Concepts, organized by Bartłomiej Błesznowski, Piotr Kuligowski and Wiktor Marzec on behalf of the History of Concepts Group (HCG), brings together scholars from all disciplines interested in conceptual history. It offers a platform for interdisciplinary exchange on the problems and practice of the history of concepts and fosters the international network of conceptual historians.

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CFP: International Security in the Post-Pandemic Era: Threats and Opportunities

Deadline: April 10, 2023

Conference:

25-26 May 2023

Hybrid (online and in person)

Babes-Bolyai University Cluj (Romania)

The interdependence between the economic, environmental, military, political or societal sectors of security represents a core debate in social sciences. Beyond its theoretical approaches, policy-makers strive to implement optimal strategies for assuring national security. In spite of the interest for national security, the experts, sometimes, fail to foresee the ‘black swans’ that generate serious dangers to the national security. The COVID-19 pandemics was one of the ‘black swans’ that made the world to the face one of the biggest security challenges since the beginning of the 21st century. This crisis made clear how and why the security sectors are interdependent and challenged the policy-makers and experts to identify solutions for maintaining the optimal functioning of societies.

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Acad. Job: Summer Russian Instructor (Lewis University)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

FLD at Lewis University seeks Russian instructors for two short term positions of Russian Instructor and Afternoon Cultural Leader to administer the Project GO summer language program (June 19th – August 13th 2023)

To find out more about Lewis University please follow the link below:

https://www.lewisu.edu/index.htm

To apply please send your CVs and cover letters to Dr. Serafima Gettys (gettysse@lewisu.edu)

Student Paper Competition: Virtual Edition

Deadline: April 3, 2023

Every year, the Russian Studies department at Macalester College organizes a student research competition. This year, the competition will be in a virtual format and is open to undergrads at all U.S. colleges and universities. Cash prizes awarded!

(1) Submit the title of your project and an abstract by Monday, April 3 by following the link at the competition website (https://sites.google.com/macalester.edu/macalester-russian-studies/home?authuser=0). Your project should be based on a term paper, digital project, or part of a senior thesis on any topic relevant to Eastern/Central Europe, Russia, or Central Asia written in Spring 2022, Fall 2022, or work-in-progress from Spring 2023. Your abstract should provide an overview of your project, including its thesis and conclusions, and be no more than 300 words.

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