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Language Learning: Online Intermediate Russian Conversation (Queens College)

Queens College, CUNY

RUSSIAN 2143:  Intermediate Russian Conversation

ONLINE (via Zoom)

https://globalsearch.cuny.edu/CFGlobalSearchTool/search.jsp

FALL 2025

8/26/2025 – 12/22/2025

Mondays and  Thursdays (2 times a week) 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Instructor:

Pisetskaya Aksana, email: Aksana.Pisetskaya@qc.cuny.edu

Enhance your Russian speaking skills in a dynamic, interactive environment. This intermediate-level course is designed for students with prior Russian knowledge who want to improve fluency, expand vocabulary, and gain confidence.

P.S. Potential students will have to register at Hunter College as non-matriculating students, and they should do so quickly since the CUNY registration process takes time.

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Call for Abstracts: The Life and Death of Cold War Funding

Deadline: July 1, 2025

Special Issue of The Russian Review

From Fulbright and IREX scholarships facilitating in-country immersion, to the Wilson Center’s efforts to connect academics and policymakers, to Title VI and Title VIII support for less commonly taught “critical” languages, funding programs that began in the Cold War shaped the field of Russian and Eastern European studies in enduring ways. These programs not only helped the US government “know its enemy” but also consolidated and institutionalized new fields of knowledge (“area studies”), trained experts in the United States, and developed a network of content-creators in the region. Despite its ideological partiality, this system of knowledge production helped soften hearts and minds on both sides of the so-called Iron Curtain. Though the original political impetus behind these programs ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, many initiatives survived. Even after the Cold War they funded the continued creation of cross-cultural knowledge and expertise, training the next generation of American scholars, and bringing academics, writers, and other practitioners from the region to the West.

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Acad. Job: Postdoc Position in Political History/Historical Sociology of Interwar Poland (Warsaw University)

Deadline: June 1, 2025

We invite applications for a post-doctoral research position in the project Patchwork Parliaments. Post-Imperial Field of Power in The New Republic Of Poland, Greater Romania and The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War funded by the Polish National Science Center.

The project Patchwork Parliaments studies the historical and social conditions of politics in a state made up of post-imperial tributary regions. We focus on constituent assemblies to understand the dynamic interrelationships between personal, regional and state factors in Poland, Greater Romania and The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, three countries made from scraps of former empires. We will seek answers to questions about how different types of elites and regional groupings compete for power with the help of different resources, or capitals. Methodologically, the study builds on (1) parliamentary debates, (2) the political divisions and social contexts of politics, and (3) the biographies of MPs from different regions. The project leader is Wiktor Marzec, PhD. You can read more about the project here.

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Summer Online Research Internships (SRAS)

Deadline: May 26, 2025

SRAS is accepting applications for our Summer Online Research Internships.

Internships are open to anyone with strong writing skills and an interest in the Baltics, Eastern/Central Europe, the Caucasus, or Central Asia. Persons with heritage from these areas or with recent travel experience to these areas are especially welcome to apply for these positions. Eligible applicants include high school students, university students, young professionals, and anyone else who would like build their resume with published material.

Interns will research and write about popular culture, folk culture, art, contemporary literature, or food. Internships are flexible and SRAS editors will work with interns to assign tasks that are both of interest to the intern and fill the needs of the SRAS Family of Sites.

Those that complete the internship will receive a scholarship towards study abroad or study online with SRAS.

More information and the application can be found here: https://sras.org/internship

Applications should be submitted by May 26th.

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CFP: Children, World War II and the Holocaust: Historical Discourses and Memory in Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Deadline: November 1, 2025

CONCEPT

Children are caught up in wars and conflicts initiated and fought by adults. This is the inherent global practice of politico-social power asymmetries. The pages of human history show how strongly the Holocaust and the Second World War, as well as the wars and conflicts of long duration still being waged, have left their mark on children. This volume focuses on Eastern and Southeastern European discourses and memory policies about the extermination of Jewish (and to some extent non-Jewish) children and connects these phenomena with diverse cultures of remembrance before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The main research questions we ask are:

  • How were forms of memory of child victims of the Holocaust, child courage and resistance shaped in the post-war period in the context of Eastern and Southeastern European discourses and cultures of memory?
  • How are these themes preserved, cultivated and transmitted in education, art and culture in material and virtual spaces?
  • What kind of memorial places and spaces relating to children in the Holocaust, wars and conflicts have been created, commemorated, and what does memory (as sensitive category in research) look like nowadays at the intersection of Eastern, Southeastern and Western discourses in the European context?
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Summer 2025 Online Courses: Russian, Ukrainian Language, Cinema, & Literature (Stony Brook University)

Stony Brook University is offering courses in Summer & Fall 2025. Most courses are offered fully online synchronously (see details below for some exceptions). Please spread the word and inform your students.

Summer I (5/27 – 7/5)

Intensive Russian RUS 101 (6 credits) – covers two semesters of Beginner Russian.

Intensive Ukrainian UKR 101 (6 credits) – covers two semesters of Beginner Ukrainian.

Contemporary/Professional Russian RUS 332 (3 credits) – Intermediate to Advanced Russian reading and writing, asynchronous directed readings.

Russian Cinema HUR 241 (3 credits) – Post-Soviet Russian Cinema, in English.

Summer II (7/7-8/16)

Russian Literature and the West HUR 341 (3 credits) – Competing Conceptions of Self and State, in English.

Fall

Elementary Russian I RUS 111, an online section and an in-person section

Intermediate Russian I RUS 211, online

Russian for Heritage Speakers RUS 213 (3 credits), online

For more information on enrollment, please visit the Stony Brook Summer website. Contact me directly with questions on the program at anna.geisherik@stonybrook.edu

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2025 Caucasus Research Forum: Caucasus and the World

Event Date (via Zoom): April 23- 24, 2025

Slavic Reference Service invites you to attend the 2025 Caucasus Research Forum: Caucasus and the World via Zoom by registering at the following link: https://forms.gle/jSa7ZSMRWJDo6mq38

For centuries, the Caucasus region has been the center of rich cultural diversity and exchange. These cultural interactions have influenced the peoples of the Caucasus, and in turn, inspired generations of writers, artists, musicians, and travelers. Concurrently, the diaspora communities from this region have taken with them the many representations, oral histories, and memory of the Caucasus to the broader global culture. The theme for the 2025 Caucasus Research Forum is Caucasus and the World. 

Sub-themes of the forum include: 

  • Travel Writing
  • Caucasus Region in World Literature
  • Diaspora Communities
  • Displacement and Migration
  • Archives and Special Collections

These forums are intended to provide a supportive and informal environment for researchers, information professionals, and students to discuss future, ongoing, or completed scholarly projects.  This event will take place on April 23–24, 2025 on Zoom. Participation is open to all.

Zoom details will be shared the week of the event. 

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Job: Research and Data Analyst (UK)

Deadline: May 2, 2025

More in Common is seeking a full-time Research and Data Analyst to advance their mission of building a more united and inclusive UK, where all people feel respected, better understood, and share a sense of belonging. The Analyst will serve as a key member of the UK team, supporting our core areas of research, communications, partnership, and client work. 

ABOUT MORE IN COMMON

More in Common is a research agency working across the US, UK, Germany, France, Poland and Brazil to tackle polarisation and division. More in Common leads and supports initiatives to build more united, inclusive, and resilient societies. Our mission is to understand the forces driving us apart, help societies find common ground and bring people together to tackle shared challenges.  In the UK, our work is best described as being part consultancy, part think tank. We provide a full suite of research services including polling and focus group research; evidence reviews and secondary data analysis; audience mapping and audience strategy; strategic communications strategy and campaign development. More in Common is a member of the British Polling Council. 

https://more-in-common.jobs.personio.com/job/2056224?utm_source=Democracy+Jobs+job+board&utm_medium=getro.com&gh_src=Democracy+Jobs+job+board&display=en

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CFP: Imperial Experiences in Family Violence: Crimes & Criminology in 19th-20th Centuries (National Library of Lithuania)

Deadline: June 15, 2025

Date: December 15–16, 2025
Location: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania

The University of Helsinki and the Lithuanian Institute of History are pleased to announce the international conference “Imperial Experiences in Family Violence: Crimes and Criminology in 19th–20th centuries.” The event will take place at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library’s which serves as a partner in hosting the conference. This gathering aims to examine the historical dimensions of family violence within imperial contexts.

By exploring legal practices, social perceptions, and criminological approaches across different empires, the conference seeks to analyze how state policies, legal transformations, and cultural norms shaped responses to violence in the family. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the event fosters a comparative discussion on the intersection of law, crime, history, and family dynamics in imperial settings.

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Acad. Job: Visiting BCS Instructor (Indiana University)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington announces a one-semester visiting lectureship in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language for the fall semester of 2025. The teaching load will comprise three courses (first-, second-, and third-year) in a primarily face-to-face learning environment. Applicants should hold at least an M.A. in a relevant field. Familiarity with the U.S. educational system is preferred. The successful candidate should have native or near-native BCS, fluent English, as well as BCS language teaching experience.

Applicants should apply online at https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/27945, including a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a sample syllabus, and the names and contact information for three potential references. Letters will be requested from finalists only. Queries can be sent to Russell Scott Valentino at russellv@iu.edu.

Roundtrip transportation will be provided by the Department of Slavic and East European Languages at Indiana University.

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