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April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

Expanded Funding for Online Language Study (Indiana University)

Deadline: May 8, 2020

To help students whose summer plans have fallen through, Indiana University is expanding its student support for online study in summer 2020.

The Title VIII graduate fellowship program now supports the online study of Russian 3-6, Azerbaijani, BCS 1-2, Estonian, Hungarian, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian 1-2, , Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek.

The AABS and BALSSI programs now support the online study of Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian 1-2 in BALSSI, the Baltic Studies Summer Institute, for undergraduates and graduates alike.

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

Czech and Russian Summer Online Language Courses (University of Texas)

Deadline: May, June 2020

UT is pleased to offer both Russian and Czech Language Online this summer for both UT and non-UT students. *note: All courses, except for RUS 406/407 are FLAS-eligible.

RUSSIAN ONLINE

The online Russian classes offered through the University of Texas were developed specifically for online instruction. They are highly interactive and offer students a lot of flexibility. The first and second semester, Russian 406/Russian 407, will be offered through our extension campus this summer.

Online Russian at UT is a fully developed online sequence with both synchronous and asynchronous components and is designed to bring absolute novice learners to an intermediate level proficiency. The content was designed and developed in house at UT in conjunction with our liberal arts development studio. The three-semester sequence is semi-intensive and equates to a traditional 2-year college course. Each of the classes is offered in both the fall and spring semesters. The first and second class, RUS 406/407, is additionally offered during the first summer session.

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

CFP: The Carpathians: Transnational Perspectives Issue

Deadline: May 15, 2020

Spiegelungen: Journal for German Culture and History in South-Eastern Europe

Call for Papers: The Carpathians: Transnational Perspectives Issue Theme No. 1.21

The Carpathians – the mountain range stretching from the Czech Republic through Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, and Romania to Serbia – are an important geographic, economic, and cultural marker in Central and Eastern Europe. Over the centuries they have served – sometimes alternately and sometimes simultaneously – as sites of both refuge and war, commerce and spiritual renewal, tourism and hard-won livelihoods in remote and dangerous conditions. Like their larger cousins, the Alps, the Carpathians figure prominently in the literatures of the cultures sharing their space. Yet unlike the Alps, whose literary construction has been the subject of several recent scholarly volumes, the ways in which the Carpathians are imagined in literature have received much less attention.

April 27, 2020January 21, 2021

Acad. Job: Full-time Russian Instructor

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech invites applications for a full-time instructor of Russian position to begin August 10, 2020. The initial appointment will be for 3 years. 4/4 teaching load. Priority will be given to applicants able to teach Kazakh language and culture.

Requirements include: 1) MA or equivalent by time of appointment in Russian language, literature, culture, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, or related field; 2) evidence of successful teaching of Russian at a US university; 3) commitment to proficiency-based and communicative approaches to teaching language. 4) Native or near-native proficiency in Russian and English.

The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal background check. Occasional travel to national conferences may be required.

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

American Councils Online Summer Programs

Deadline: May 10, 2020 (extended)

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, American Councils suspended all AC Study & Research Abroad overseas programs for Summer 2020. While our overseas programs will not be running as planned this summer, American Councils is pleased to offer the following programs online for the Summer 2020 term:

Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP)
Balkan Language Intiative (BLI): Albanian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Macedonian
Eurasian Regional Language Program (ERLP): Dari, Farsi, Georgian, Kazakh, Tajiki, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Peace and Security in the South Caucasus (PSSC)
Politics and Public Diplomacy in Contemporary Russia (PPD)

The application deadline for these programs has been extended to Sunday, May 10.

Online AC Study Abroad programs feature:

Approximately 12-15 academic hours per week of instruction, both synchronous and asynchronous
Remote meetings with conversation partners to provide opportunities for informal target language practice and connections with locals
Approximately 2-3 hours per week of virtual cultural activities and excursions to places of historical and cultural importance
Academic credit from Bryn Mawr College upon successful completion of the program
Reduced program fee from overseas programs; scholarships available

For program-specific information such as dates, costs, languages offered, potential virtual activities, and more, please visit https://acstudyabroad.org/summeronline/.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions at outbound@americancouncils.org or 202-733-8522.

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020

Online Third-Year Russian Course, Summer (University of North Georgia)

The Russian program at University of North Georgia is offering an online third year Russian (fifth semester) during Summer 2020. The dates are June 1 – July 31. It is a six-credit-hour class that is going to meet synchronously MWF 10 am – 12 pm (EST) with a short break and TR will be devoted to self-studying. The goal of the course is to bring students to the Intermediate High/Advanced Low proficiency level in speaking on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines scale. The class is taught by an OPI trained instructor.

For 6 credit hours, the student will pay $1,119.18 in tuition and $281.25 in fees bringing the total to $1,400.43 for the semester. The students will also be responsible for obtaining the textbook Panorama (http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/panorama), either a hard or electronic copy. A short interview with the instructor in Russian is required prior to the class registration.

Those who are interested will have to apply to UNG as transient students. Visit the Admissions page here: https://ung.edu/undergraduate-admissions/index.php

Please send any questions to the class instructor Tatiana.Maslova@ung.edu or the program specialist at UNG Lara.DeBloise@ung.edu

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020

Cultural Exchange Program (Washington, DC/Moscow)

Deadline: April 18, 2020

An important note: we will ensure that all threat of COIVD-19 is gone before moving forward to the exchange component, which is currently postponed.

The application for a fully-funded cultural exchange program is open!

Are you a student aged 18-20 who is interested in history, graphics, and storytelling – and strives to go on a trip to Washington, D.C., and Moscow, Russia? Then this program is just for you! All you have to do is find like-minded people and put together a team of three participants.

The Elbe Arts Project – Shared Victory commemorates the 75th anniversary of the day when American and Soviet troops met on the Elbe River during World War II. We invite you to learn more about Russian-American shared history and the crucial role both countries played in restoring the world’s peace in 1945.

Two winning teams — from Russia and the U.S. – will have a chance to publish a comic book or graphic novel together!

Participation is free – the organizers cover international flights, accommodation, visas, and other expenses.

To take part in the Elbe Arts Project – Shared Victory, fill in the application form on our website: https://elbe-project.online/

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020

Online Intensive Russian Language Courses (University of Michigan)

The University of Michigan is accepting applications for three levels of intensive Russian language courses during the spring and summer terms.

Spring Term: May 5 – June 26
Russian 123 (8 credits): First-Year Intensive Russian
Russian 303 (8 credits): Third-Year Intensive Russian

Summer Term: July 1 – August 21
Russian 223 (8 credits): Second-Year Intensive Russian

All courses are taught remotely and will meet Monday-Friday, 10am-noon and 1-3pm (synchronously taught).

Courses may be taken for credit (tuition) or not for credit (program fee) and are open to guest (non-U-M) students. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the first day of class; application materials can be found online: www.lsa.umich.edu/sli.

April 10, 2020January 21, 2021

Slavic and Eurasian Languages ONLINE (University of Kansas)

Deadline: August 17, 2020

Beginning with during 2020-2021 academic year U of Kansas will be offering several Slavic and Eurasian languages online for 16-week courses in Fall and Spring next year. Languages available, include:
Elementary Polish Elementary Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
Elementary Turkish Intermediate Czech Elementary Persian/Dar/Tajik/Farsi.
We are an affordable public university, and instructors have worked and are working tirelessly to develop quality asynchronous instruction with optional synchronous components to accommodate student schedules.

Application

Apply to KU as a non-degree seeking undergraduate student (by 8/17 for Fall 2020). The application can be found here. There is an application fee of $40. If possible, upon application also send an email to thecollegeonline@ku.edu and let us know you have applied and which class(es) you hope to take.

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020

Funding: American Council Grants

Deadline: May 22, 2020

American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce a request for project proposals for the Central Asia University Partnerships Program (UniCEN). Funded by the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, UniCEN builds capacity for substantive international engagement between higher education institutions in the United States and Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan).

The current request for proposals for UniCEN grants will be awarded to U.S. university faculty members and administrators to establish partnerships or advance existing collaborations between U.S. and Uzbekistan higher education institutions.