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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? 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Learn Russian in the EU (Latvia)

Deadline: November 25, 2025 (Spring); July 31, 2026 (Fall)

Learn Russian in the European Union (Daugavpils, Latvia) is accepting applications for the following 2026 Russian study abroad programs:

–          Spring Semester and Fall Semester Programs

–          Summer Russian Language and Area Studies Program, 5 weeks

–          Summer Intensive Russian Language Program, 6 weeks

–          Two-Week Intensive Russian Language Program (January and August)

We will appreciate your sharing this information with your students and colleagues who may be interested in these opportunities.

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Grad. Program: MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (Georgetown University)

Deadlines: November 1, 2025 (for Spring Admission); January 15, 2026 (for Fall Admission)

The Master’s Degree Program at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) brings together scholars, practitioners and students working on contemporary and historical issues affecting Eurasia and beyond. Through multidisciplinary coursework on the politics, history, language(s) and culture(s) of the region, the CERES MA program educates professionals prepared to engage with global challenges and supports innovative research on current issues facing the region.

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Wayne Vucinich Fellowship 2026

Deadline:  November 15, 2025 

The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) at Stanford University invites applications for the Wayne Vucinich Fellowship. 

This is a three-month residential fellowship to be offered in the period between April-June, 2026. The fellowship is open to scholars in any discipline whose research focuses on historical or contemporary topics in Russia, East Europe, the Caucasus, or Central Asia.  Scholars who have received the PhD within the past five years are eligible to apply. (A PhD in hand is required at the time the residency begins.) Preference will be given to scholars who are residents of countries that fall under the direct purview of the Center: Russia, East Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. 

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Study Abroad: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Bard College)

Deadlines: November 5, 2025: March 15, 2026

Bard College is currently accepting applications for the following programs in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan:

1) Spring 2026 Bard-AUCA Study Abroad Program 

Program Dates: January 5 – May 23, 2026.
Application Deadline: November 1, 2025.

For more information and to apply visit the website.

2) Russian in Central Asia Summer Program 2026Program Dates: June 5 – August 1, 2026.
Application Deadline: March 15, 2026.

For more information and to apply visit the website.

Both programs are hosted by the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), a Bard College dual-degree partner since 2009.

Program descriptions are included below. If you or your students have any questions, feel free to contact me at torlova@bard.edu.  

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WGCTV Graduate Student Travel Grant for ASEEES 2025

Deadline: October 10, 2025

In 2025, the Working Group on Cinema and Television (WGCTV) is committed to subsidizing graduate students working in film and media studies who are attending the ASEEES convention for the first time or who have no local institutional resources for travel support. We anticipate that we will be able to fund, on a competitive basis, 3 awards of $300 each.

Eligibility

  • MA and PhD students from all backgrounds working in film and media studies at any college or university
  • Applicants must be session participants (panel, roundtable, or lightning round) in the convention program to apply.
  • Recipients of a Graduate Student Travel Grant cannot receive the WGCTV grant for the same convention.
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