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Unpaid Internship (US Department of State)

Deadline: September 16, 2020

The U.S. Department of State is currently accepting applications for the U.S. Department of State Summer 2021 Student Internship Program (Unpaid).

Please visit the Intern section of our careers website for more information about the U.S. Department of State Summer 2021 Student Internship Program (Unpaid), and to learn about the selection process and which office may be right for you.

Visit USAJOBS.gov to view and apply to the announcement. Please note that the deadline to submit completed applications is September 16, 2020.

We suggest that you submit your application as early as possible to ensure that all documents have been uploaded properly and to account for any technical glitches that may occur.

U.S. citizenship is required. If you have any questions or would like to search for topics of interest, please visit our forums or FAQs at careers.state.gov.

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Critical Languages Scholarship (US Department of State)

Deadline: November 17, 2020

The application for the 2021 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is now open! Apply now to learn a critical foreign language next summer on a fully-funded study abroad program.The application is now live and available online at: https://www.clscholarship.org/apply

The CLS Program is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. Students spend eight to ten weeks abroad studying one of 15 critical languages. The program includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains. Most languages offered by the CLS Program (9 of 15) do not require applicants to have any experience studying critical languages.

CLS, a program of the U.S. Department of State, is part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity. CLS plays an important role in preparing students for the 21st century’s globalized workforce and increasing national competitiveness.

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Resource: Online Library Initiative

The Working Group for Solidarity in REEES, an ASEEES affiliate group, announces their new Online Library initiative. Their goal is to support research during this period of physical distancing, when many libraries are closed and inter-library loans are often not possible, by making resources available to fellow scholars in need.
To that end, they are launching a mailing list dedicated to sharing resources. If you are looking for a book or article that is not available at your library, or if you are able to share some of your resources with those who need them, please consider joining the list. You will be able to send and receive emails about requests for sources, as well as receive occasional updates on initiatives that we are carrying out in collaboration with other institutions, such as the Slavic Reference Service at UIUC.


To sign up for the mailing list, please email: wg-online-library+subscribe@googlegroups.com


On their website, you can also find a list of existing online libraries and archives that can help you continue your research during the pandemic.

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Funding: National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program

Deadline: October 8, 2020

NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship

The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These $27,500 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.

This highly competitive program aims to identify the most talented researchers conducting dissertation research related to education. The Dissertation Fellowship program receives many more applications than it can fund. This year 35 fellowships will be awarded.

More information

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CFP/Conference: 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (University of Hawai’i)

Deadline: September 30, 2020

ICLDC 2021: General Session proposals (papers & posters – deadline: September 30, 2020)

While we especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme, we also welcome abstracts on other subjects in language documentation and conservation, which may include but are not limited to:

  • Archiving and mobilizing language materials 
  • Ethical issues
  • Indigenous language education
  • Indigenous sign languages
  • Language and its relation to health and well being
  • Language planning
  • Language reclamation and revitalization
  • Language work in the era of covid-19
  • Lexicography, grammar, orthography and corpus design
  • Multidisciplinary language documentation
  • Successful models of documentation
  • Technology in documentation and reclamation
  • Topics in areal language documentation
  • Training and capacity building in language work
  • Other
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Resource: Integrated Performance Assessments (National Foreign Language Resource Center)

Integrated Performance Assessments is a seven-episode podcast produced by the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and hosted by Nicole Naditz (2015 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year). Interviewees include leading language educators speaking on the following topics: 

  1. Intro to Performance Assessments (Paul Sandrock)
  2. Performance Assessments: Presentational mode (Lynn Fulton)
  3. Performance Assessments: Interpersonal mode, pt. 1 (Iman Hashem)
  4. Performance Assessments: Interpersonal mode, pt. 2 (Ying Jin)
  5. Performance Assessments: Interpretive mode (Margaret Malone)
  6. Integrated Performance Assessments: Theoretical Considerations (Francis Troyan)
  7. Putting Integrated Performance Assessments Into Practice (Lisa Shepard)

Check them out at https://soundcloud.com/nflrc/sets/integrated-performance

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Conference: Community-Based Heritage Language Schools

Event Date: October 9-October 10, 2020

Please join us online for the 2020 Conference of Community-Based Heritage Language Schools. We hope that leaders of community-based schools across the country will have the opportunity to participate. 

The conference will be held Friday, October 9, 12:30 – 6:00 PM and Saturday, October 10, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM – Eastern time. 

After the conference opening, we will have an opportunity to interact with leaders of organizations and initiatives that are of interest and can be helpful to heritage language schools. There will then be six workshops on topics that are of interest to leaders in these schools. You will be able to participate in all six workshops, if you choose. There will also be a panel of leaders in the language field, with whom you will be able to interact. See the conference program, and speakers and workshop leaders, here. Join us by registering today!

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CFP: Dostoevsky and World Culture (Philological Journal)

Deadline: September 30, 2020

Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological Journal invites submissions to its upcoming issue to be published both electronically and in hard copy.  

Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research into the life and works of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), into the influence of the world culture on him and his influence on the world culture in a wide range of areas. The journal welcomes submissions from scholars working in literary studies, history, cultural studies, philosophy, theology, psychology, and art history.

The journal accepts submissions in Russian and English. Articles may be submitted via the journal’s website. Submission deadline for articles to be considered for the 4th issue is September 30. Submissions received at a later date will be considered for subsequent issues.

The journal is published by the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMLI RAN).

Current and back issues are available at:

http://dostmirkult.ru/index.php/ru/

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Job: Target Language Expert Consultants (American Councils)

American Councils for International Education is looking for experienced Target Language Expert consultants in Afghan-Pashto, Cebuano, Hebrew, Ukrainian, and Romanian to work on a federally funded test-item development project for the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Target Language Experts will work on passage selection, rendering into English, and item review throughout the development window. All work will be done remotely through an online item development interface.

Assessment items will be either listening or reading items targeting various levels of proficiency on the ILR scale. Consultants will be provided with training on item development and the item specifications as well as the item-development interface and procedure.

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