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CFP: “The Long Perestroika from Below”

Deadline: July 31, 2026

edited by Juliane Fürst, Bradley Gorski, Veronika Pehe, Kathleen Smith

We invite submissions of abstracts for a collective volume to be published by CEU Press under the title “The Long Perestroika from Below.” The volume will be open access and aims for publication in the summer of 2027. It wants to be a comprehensive overview over the historical research on Perestroika ‘from below’, meaning the experience of and activism in perestroika actions, which took place across Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and outside the centres of political power usually associated with the reforms and campaigns of the time. We encourage scholars at all stages of their career to participate in this volume, which aims to turn perestroika research on its head by switching the perspective of investigation from Gorbachev and political elites to society.

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Job: Language Officer, Russian (CIA)

Deadline: September 30, 2026

As a Directorate of Operations Language Officer at CIA, you will perform a critical and dynamic function within the Directorate of Operations by using your advanced foreign Language skills combined with cultural experience and expertise to produce high-quality, accurate, and timely translations, interpretations, and other Language-related support to Directorate of Operations clandestine operations. Language Officers are key to the success of many foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, cyber, and covert action operations and have native or near-native level fluency in one or more of the following Languages:

  • Japanese
  • Persian/Farsi
  • Khmer
  • Arabic
  • Chinese Mandarin
  • Russian
  • Spanish
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Job: Foreign Language Instructor, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (CIA)

Deadline: September 29, 2026

As a Foreign Language Instructor, you will deliver programs that provide intelligence professionals with the Foreign language communications skills and cross-cultural awareness they need to live and work abroad effectively or to perform other language-related duties. Foreign Language Instructors apply the latest instructional methodologies to meet highly customized student needs. You will also complete a language proficiency testing certification to conduct and rate language proficiency tests in three modalities: reading, speaking, and listening. In addition, you may be asked to provide a variety of language support services worldwide.

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Job: Special Agent – Linguists/Foreign Language Background (FBI)

Deadline: December 30, 2026

FBI Special Agents apply their professional expertise and unique skill sets to their work every day. Many have foreign language/linguistics backgrounds and use them to interview victims, translate during a suspect interrogation or testify in court. Language skills and cultural knowledge, specifically in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Farsi, Russian, Somali, Uzbek, Korean or another language are highly sought after by the FBI. All applicants must pass the FBI’s Foreign Language Test Battery.

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Job: Librarian (National Library of Medicine)

Deadline: July 10, 2026

NLM seeks both new and experienced librarians for several roles and positions. Work varies by position and includes applying terminology and metadata standards, cataloging (skill in either Russian or Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts desired), book and paper conservation, data management and standardization, digitization and digital library services, licensing and managing e-resources, processing archival collections, reference services, and emerging information and AI technologies.

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CFP: AATSEEL 2027 Stream Topics and Poster Panel

Deadlines: July 25, 2026; August 1, 2026

We are pleased to announce the Stream Topics for AATSEEL 2027, which will be held virtually on February 18-21, 2027. These streams promote greater cohesion among conference panels and foster a broader dialogue throughout the conference. The result can be a series of mini-conferences within the framework of our larger conference.

Stream 1: Toward Slavic Sensory Studies: East European Memory and the Senses
Stream 2: Transformational Sexualities in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Literatures and Cultures
Stream 3: Practices of Multilingualism in Online and Offline Spaces
Stream 4: New Directions in Russian Language and Area Studies: Perspectives from the Summer Russian Language Teachers program in Kazakhstan
Stream 5: Beyond the Horizon III: Rethinking the Canon of Polish Studies
Stream 6: Contested Monuments: Canonical Writers of the Stalin Era between Hagiography and Demythologization.
Stream 7: Career Readiness in Russian and Slavic Studies Programs
Stream 8: AI, Language, and Media in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Contexts

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CFP: “Intersectionality + Pluricentricity: Teaching Russian Language(s) and Culture(s) (Russian Language Journal)

Deadline: August 15, 2026

The guest editors at Russian Language Journal (RLJ) are pleased to announce a call for proposals for a special issue on the topic “Intersectionality + Pluricentricity: Teaching Russian Language[s] and Culture[s]”.

The special issue considers intersectional and pluricentric pathways intentionally for language instructors to more accurately describe and interpret diverse Russian speech communities in teaching culture. It seeks to didactically counter narrate Russocentric, Eurocentric, and monolingual approaches to canons and curricula (i.e., Russkij mir), while also discussing their application as content in P-24 language classrooms.

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Language Training: Intermediate Polish, Online (University of Kansas)

Course Begins August 24, 2026

In Fall 2026, the University of Kansas is offering Intermediate Polish ONLINE. This course is open to any learner in the United States with novice-level proficiency in Polish for college credit.

PLSH 204: Intermediate Polish I (3 credits) is a synchronous online course that meets two times a week via Zoom (Monday and Wednesday, 10:00-10:50 am CT). On Friday students work on assignments individually. In this course, we use Agnieszka Dixon’s and Agnieszka Jasinska’s Hurra!!! Po polsku 2 (new edition) as the main textbook, along with many supplementary materials, including authentic ones. The course emphasizes all four skills and developing students’ communicative competence in Polish. By the end of the first semester, motivated learners can expect to reach the ACTFL Intermediate Mid-level of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing.

The course begins on August 24, 2026. Please let anyone who might be interested in taking Intermediate Polish know about this opportunity! They can email Dr. Vassileva-Karagyozova (svk@ku.edu) with questions on how to enroll, the cost, or the courses themselves. 

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Library of Congress Russian Research Orientation

Event Date: July 15, 2026

 Are you wondering if the Library of Congress has any Russian materials for your research? Are you planning a trip to Washington, DC, to use the Library’s Russian collections? Connect with reference librarians from the European Reading Room directly and avoid red tape such as that depicted in the 1858 Объясненіе къ плану теченія бумагъ, a Russian bureaucratic flow chart from the tsarist era! Please join us on July 15 at 2-3 pm Eastern Time for a virtual orientation to the Russian print and digital collections and how to get started. After the session, you’ll have the opportunity to connect with Russian collection specialists during a Q&A. The Library of Congress is free and open to everyone age 16 and older.

This will be the first in a series of online orientations to the European collections of the Library of Congress offered by the reference staff of the European Reading Room.

Register today:  https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/2917762799840/WN_SUSRD4eRTpiHAAP6raj6fQ

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Contemporary European History Article Prize

Accepting Submissions: July 1 – September 11, 2026

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/the-ceh-prize

Submissions for the 2026 prize can be made at anytime between the opening of the submission window on 1 July 2026 and the deadline of 11 September 2026.

The editors of Contemporary European History have established this prize with the aim of encouraging, recognizing and promoting high-quality research among postgraduate and early career scholars.

The winner’s prize will consist of:

  • Publication of the winning submission in Contemporary European History
  • £400 worth of CUP books

Other entries of quality may be invited to publish their submissions in the journal.

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