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October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

CFP: 16th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Proposal Deadline: March 15, 2021

Slavic-Eurasian Research Center of Hokkaido University (http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/index-e.html) is pleased to inform that the 16th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-16) will take place at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

The conference website has just been launched: https://bit.ly/SLS-16 and the conference FB page is also ready:https://www.facebook.com/16th-Annual-Meeting-of-the-Slavic-Linguistics-Society-107796054428299

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

Summer Language Training Info Sessions (Arizona State University)

Event Date: October 5, 15, 28

In the summer of 2021, the Critical Languages Institute (CLI) at Arizona State University will offer intensive training in 13 less-commonly-taught languages: Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Uzbek. We know that the challenges of the last six months have exacerbated the pressures faced by our students, our colleagues, and our institutions. In these exceptionally trying times, the experience of CLI 2020 served to reaffirm our belief in the importance of providing high-quality and low-cost language-learning opportunities to the next generation of scholars and practitioners.

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

Assistant Professor in the Russian Program of the Department of Foreign Languages (West Point)

Deadline: November 5,6, 2020

The West Point Department of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce an immediate opening date for two positions in its Russian program: one position is a tenure-track position; the other is a 3-year position with the possibility of renewal. Unless an applicant specifically states otherwise, we will consider all applications for both positions. The closing date of the announcement is 5 November 2020. The positions and application details are described at the following USA Jobs links below:

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/580121100

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/580122100

The point of contact for applying is MS Rose Maresco. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, only electronic applications will be accepted at this time. Please submit your full application package to: rose.maresco@westpoint.edu

October 2, 2020October 2, 2020

Resource: Practice your Russian with Film Hour/Book Club

Film Hour

Join Evgenia Wilkins at the University of Texas at Austin for an hour-long Zoom session every other week to watch and discuss clips from contemporary Russian films, commercials, and shorts. Practice your listening and speaking skills, get ideas about the films to watch later, and learn Russian set phrases. All levels are welcome!

Book Club: Russian Short Stories

Every other week we will meet for 1 hour over zoom to discuss Russian short stories of the XX century in Russian. Read the story ahead of time and bring one question for the discussion to the meeting. You could also sit in on any of the meetings. We will clarify the language, talk about the characters and the plot. Readers of all levels are welcome!

See the events page for meeting details/reading lists

October 2, 2020January 22, 2021

Research Fellowships for UT Faculty and Graduate Students (Harry Ransom Center)

Deadline: December 1, 2020

Awards for Fall 2021 and Spring 2022

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications from the UT-Austin community for its 2021–2022 research fellowships.

In this next award cycle, the Ransom Center will grant 12 fellowships—approximately 6 to UT faculty and 6 to UT graduate students—for projects that require substantial on-site use of its collections and critically or creatively engage the collections. The Ransom Center’s internationally renowned collections support research in all areas of the humanities including literature, photography, film, art, performing arts, music, cultural history, and humanity more broadly.

October 2, 2020January 22, 2021

Alfa Fellowship Program

Deadline: December 1, 2020

The Alfa Fellowship Program is a distinguished international initiative that each year offers up to 18 accomplished young Americans, Britons, and Germans the opportunity to complete a high-level professional development program in Russia. Over the course of the program, fellows complete work placements at leading institutions, attend professional seminars, and receive intensive language training.

The fellowship provides a monthly stipend, accommodation, insurance, all program-related travel costs, language training in Russia, and private tutoring in the U.S., U.K., or Germany.

The Alfa Fellowship Program was founded in 2004 with the aim of fostering a community of emerging leaders who have first-hand experience in the business, public policy, and cultural environments of Russia and the region. Since then, over 200 Americans, Britons, and Germans have been able to experience the workplace, while living and traveling in Russia through this unique professional opportunity.

Key goals of the Alfa Fellowship Program are to expand networks of American, British, German, and Russian professionals, develop greater intercultural understanding, and advance knowledge of Russian affairs in the West.

The program is funded by Alfa-Bank, and is administered in the U.S., U.K., and Germany by Cultural Vistas and in Moscow by the Fund for International Fellowships and Cultural Dialogue.

Learn More

October 1, 2020January 22, 2021

Associate/Full Professor of History or Cultural Studies (UT Austin)

Deadline: December 11, 2020

The Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies (DSES) in collaboration with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for the position of tenured associate or full professor. The anticipated start date is fall semester 2021, and the position is contingent upon budget availability. We seek applications from scholars whose research focuses on the Poland or the non-Russian peoples and cultures of the former Soviet republics, though transnational research might also include Russians. Our preference is for a research specialization in Cultural (including literary) Studies or History, though interdisciplinary work that crosses into these fields will be considered. All candidates must have an outstanding and active research and publication record consistent with achievement at the intended rank at a leading research university. Teaching duties will include a two course per semester load. The selected candidate will be expected to exhibit an interest in and commitment to departmental and center administration and service and be qualified to teach undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as direct independent research. Candidates who are currently or will potentially make outstanding contributions to diversity in their scholarly fields and/or institutions of higher education, or have experience mentoring a diverse student body, are especially encouraged to apply.

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020

CFP: Literary Classics and Intellectual Autonomy in the Soviet World from 1920s to 1980s

Deadline: November 30, 2020

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Online Conference: March 26th 2021
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This one-day conference aims to explore how classic works of “foreign” literature were experienced by different groups of readers in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1980s. For many Soviet citizens, regardless of their social status and political views, fictional worlds from bygone centuries and alien cultures formed an alternative reality that allowed them to escape the difficulties of everyday life. The translation and publication of classics helped those intellectuals who did not toe the party line to survive, both physically and morally. By attempting to use the concept of world literature for propagandist aims the state unwittingly created a zone of intellectual autonomy that it could not penetrate. We are particularly interested in papers that interrogate ideological positions and interpretative models, regardless of whether they aim to address institutional or individual aspects of literary reception.

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020

Resource: Language Learning and Pedagogy Podcasts

“Ракета” (https://russianrocket.libsyn.com): podcast for students in the Novice High – Intermediate Mid range of proficiency with short weekly recordings of native speakers talking about themselves, their families, hobbies etc.
The transcripts of the recordings are available here: https://bit.ly/2VvrRvP
Foreign Language Pedagogy Podcast (https://teachrussian.libsyn.com): interviews with colleagues around the world where we discuss various issues and topics related to teaching Russian and foreign languages in general.
Recently, podcast host Izolda Savenkova and her guests discussed new trends in teaching bilingual kids, teaching the language of mass media, positive lessons from teaching during the pandemic, games in language classroom and many other topics.

September 28, 2020September 28, 2020

Resource: The Corpus of Russian Translations Website

The website presents samples of original texts alongside their Russian translations. The comparison helps one not only to see the translator’s method and principles, but also to get an idea of how Russian readers understood and interpreted European political treatises throughout the “long” eighteenth century.

The website also provides a context for the key political concepts that entered the Russian language at the time. When the different contexts of a certain concept are put in chronological order, it will be possible to see how political terms changed their meaning, in other words, how the language and the semantics of Russian political culture evolved.

The database will provide scholars with a basis for further research in the history of language and political thought in Russia and will allow researchers and lovers of history to expand their understanding of the political discourse of eighteenth-century Russia.

https://krp.dhi-moskau.org/en/about