CREEES Professional Resources Forum
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
The Appleman Graduate Fellowship supports conference participation and research (including travel and equipment) on Jewish topics, and language training relevant to pursuing Jewish Studies research.
Any student enrolled in a graduate program at UT who undertakes research on any Jewish topic in the course of their graduate career.
Amount: Reimbursement up to $2,000
Continue reading “Funding: Appleman Graduate Fellowship”The Russian Program at the University of Colorado is looking for a new colleague. We are accepting applications for an Instructor in Russian Language. This is a three-academic-year, full-time (100%), non-tenure track position, with the possibility of renewal. The position begins fall 2021. Teaching responsibilities include all levels of Russian language as well as courses in 20th-century and/or contemporary Russian culture in English and/or Russian. Teaching load is three courses per semester. The position entails service components related to language placement, teaching assistant observation, assessment of learning outcomes, and participation in extra-curricular activities of the program.
The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures houses programs in German (BA, MA, PhD), Russian (BA, MA), and Nordic Studies (minor). For more information about our department, please visit our web site (https://www.colorado.edu/gsll/ ).
Continue reading “Acad. Job: Instructor in Russian Language (University of Colorado)”The Division of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Humanities Data Science. The successful candidate will be appointed to one of the twelve departments in the Division: Asian Languages and Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Comparative History of Ideas, English, French and Italian Studies, Germanics, Linguistics, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Scandinavian Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese.
The successful candidate for this position:
§ will be expected to create, analyze, use, present and communicate data, broadly understood, in disciplines of language, literature, and culture
§ will be expected to explore a variety of forms of data including large historical or contemporary corpora, textual archives, digital media and genres, or online datasets
Continue reading “Acad. Job: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Humanity Data Science (University of Washington)”The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at The University of Texas at San Antonio invites applications for a non-tenure-track Senior Lecturer in Russian starting Fall 2021. This is a full-time position with a three-year renewable contract. Beginning Fall 2021, Senior Lecturers at UTSA will be redesignated as Associate Professors of Instruction.
Responsibilities:
Teaching a variety of Russian language, literature, and culture courses in the Modern Language Studies B.A. program. Leadership in development of the Russian curriculum. Application of the latest foreign language methods and technologies to language teaching.
Required qualifications: University or college teaching experience, fluency in Russian (with a minimum of 18 graduate hours in Russian coursework). Ph.D. in relevant areas, such as Russian language, literature, culture, etc. in hand by August 31, 2021.
Continue reading “Acad. Job: Senior Lecturer in Russian (University of Texas at San Antonio)”Applications Open – Title VIII CEE Area Studies Fellowship Program
The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) is now accepting applications for the 2021 Title VIII CEE Area Studies Fellowship Program. This is a competitive, nation-wide call for applications open to American graduate-level students, post-doctoral scholars, and early career professionals.
The University of Pittsburgh invites Army, Navy/Marine, and Air Force ROTC students from any US college or university to apply for a Pitt Project GO (Global Officers) scholarship for intensive study of 1st-4th year Russian in Summer 2021. Project GO is an initiative sponsored by the Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO) and administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
Students who have not yet begun their pursuit of Russian are encouraged to apply for an 8-week beginning-level class, which will cover the equivalent of one academic year’s worth of language training. The beginning-level classes, offered by Pitt’s Summer Language Institute (SLI), are held at the University’s main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh from June 7–July 30, 2021. Pitt Project GO scholarships for Beginning Russian cover:
Continue reading “ROTC Scholarship for Project GO (Global Officers) Intensive Russian Study (University of Pittsburgh)”Greetings from the Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI)!
We are excited to announce that applications to CESSI are now open! CESSI typically offers courses in Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek. Additional Central Eurasian languages (such as Azerbaijani or Kyrgyz) may be added with sufficient student interest.
Several funding opportunities exist for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and working professionals. Graduate students (including incoming students), post-baccalaureate researchers, and professionals who are U.S. citizens are especially encouraged to apply for the Title VIII fellowship, which covers full tuition plus a stipend of $2,500 for the summer. Note: this is a great opportunity for incoming MA and PhD students to develop language skills before embarking on fieldwork.
Continue reading “Language courses at the Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (University of Wisconsin)”The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies invites applications for the 2021-2022 Stephen F. Cohen- Robert C. Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Program in Russian Historical Studies, funded by the KAT Charitable Foundation.
For the 2020-2021 academic year, the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Program will provide:
· up to five Dissertation Research Fellowships, with a maximum stipend of $25,000, to doctoral students at US and Canadian universities, who are citizens or permanent residents of the US, to conduct dissertation research in Russia;
· a Dissertation Completion Fellowship, with a maximum stipend of $25,000, to a doctoral student at a US or Canadian university, who is a citizen or permanent resident of the US, to complete their dissertation during the fellowship tenure.
Continue reading “Funding: Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellowship in Russian Historical Studies”The goal of this edited collection is to bring together the work of scholars working on Soviet and Russian animation from a transcultural or global perspective. We are interested in a variety of cross-cultural encounters between Soviet and Russian animators and their Western counterparts. Our timeline includes any Soviet cartoons produced between the October Revolution and the fall of the U.S.S.R. as well as their afterlives in the present. Our aim is to show the complex ways that Soviet/Russian animation industry interacted with the West, broadly defined, and how this interaction changed after 1991.
Continue reading “CFP: Transcultural Influences in Soviet and Russian Animation, 1917-2020.”New non-profit initiative called Borderlines Open School for Advanced Cross-Cultural Studies. The school offers online, seminar-style courses open to all adults. Part of Borderlines Open School mission is to make classes affordable for all students and to bring them to marginalized communities, as well as to ethically pay and support instructors, recognizing their intellectual and pedagogical labor as valuable work that matters.
Science Fiction with Deep Philosophical Issues (from Eastern Europe and Russia)
January 10–31, 2021
Instructor: Sibelan Forrester
https://borderlinesopenschool.org/courses/p/sf
Poetry Translation Masterclass: Theory, Problems, Practice
January 15–February 5, 2021
Instructor: Rebecca Ruth Gould
https://borderlinesopenschool.org/courses/p/translation
Queer Reawakening in Russian Literature
February 2–23, 2021
Instructor: Vitaly Chernetsky
https://borderlinesopenschool.org/courses/p/queerreawakening