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February 13, 2020February 13, 2020

Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship, Study Art Abroad in Belarus

Deadline: March 20, 2020

Exploring History through Art and Art through History

We are excited to announce that applications for the Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship 2020–2021 are now open.

Helix is the opportunity for students and scholars to explore historical borderlands through the lens of Jewish and intercultural creativity. We invite students and educators enrolled or employed at a recognized institution during the 2020–2021 academic year to be part of this transformative experience.

Throughout the course of the program, fellows spend a full year immersed in the regions and cultures that sustained vibrant and diverse multilingual communities before the genocidal devastation of the twentieth century. Fellows literally follow in the footsteps of great poets in Minsk and painters in Vitebsk, reproducing artworks and reciting poems in the places they were originally created. With the generous support of the Annenberg Foundation, the Fellowship cultivates and shares new artistic and scholarly work inspired by the themes and figures that fellows encounter together.

APPLY TODAY TO THE HELIX FELLOWSHIP

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020

Conference: MAG International Congress: Cultural Transformations (Belarus)

Event Date: June 23-25, 2020

In partnership with the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) the International Association for the Humanities (MAG) is delighted to announce that its 2020 Congress will be held in Minsk, Belarus next June.

THEME

The Congress will focus on the humanities and related social sciences as intellectual practices fundamentally integrated into culture. Historically, the humanities and social sciences arose in Europe and elsewhere in response to the social and cultural needs of individual and community life. In East Europe and Eurasia the principles of the European humanistic tradition have also sustained critical enquiry and common, trans-national values. Assuming a close relation between the humanities and social sciences, the agenda of the Congress includes an examination of this division, as well as the interchange between scholarly reflection and public socio-cultural initiatives. We particularly invite participants to examine from any perspective the roles socio-humanistic studies have played and might continue to play in shaping socio-cultural transformations in the region.

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020

Funding: Civil Society in Russia Research Grant

Deadline: April 1, 2020

Thanks to a grant from the US-Russia Foundation, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies is sponsoring grants with stipends of up to $6,000 for the purposes of conducting graduate research related to the rule of law, governance, economy, business, and civil society in Russia. These grants are intended to provide opportunities for young scholars to make connections with Russian peers and senior specialists, promoting long-term professional relations, and to foster the next generation of Russia experts.

Graduate students in MA programs and professional schools are strongly encouraged to apply. PhD students at the predissertation level may apply for pre-dissertation research.

The grants may be held concurrently with other partial funding sources. The grant recipient cannot concurrently hold the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation research Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays DDRA, SSRC IDRF, and other similarly fully-funded dissertation research fellowships.

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020

Funding: ASEEES Dissertation Research Grant

Deadline: April 1, 2020

Thanks to the generosity of donors and members, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies is sponsoring up to 16 grants annually, at a maximum of $6,000 each, for the purposes of conducting doctoral dissertation research in Eastern Europe and Eurasia in any aspect of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies in any discipline. These awards may be held concurrently with other partial funding sources, but are intended to support students whose projects have not yet been fully supported. The grant recipient cannot concurrently hold the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays DDRA, SSRC IDRF and other similarly fully-funded fellowships. The grant is for primary dissertation research, not for dissertation write-up.

ELIGIBILITY

Applicant may be a graduate student of any nationality, in any discipline currently enrolled in a PhD program in the United States
Applicant must have successfully achieved PhD candidacy (ABD status) by the start of the proposed research travel
Applicant must have language proficiency to conduct the proposed research
Applicant must be a student member of ASEEES at the time of application
Applicant must plan to conduct research in one or more of countries within the region covered by ASEEES, including: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Applicant must plan to start the research travel by no later than January 31 of the subsequent year (Ex: Upon notification of the fellowship in the summer of 2020, the grant recipient must start his/her research travel no later than January 31, 2021)
Applicant must not hold the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays DDRA, SSRC IDRF and other similarly fully-funded fellowships for the same research project

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020

Study Abroad: SRAS Central Asian Studies Program (Kyrgyzstan)

Deadline: March 1, 2020

During this six-week program, students look at identity and ethnicity in Central Asia, embark on a horse trek in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan and explore Uzbekistan. They then select from one of two tracks, the first focused on language study (Russian, Kyrgyz, or Tajik) and the second on linguistic anthropology. All levels of Russian are accommodated, including beginner.

An extended track, with 4 additional weeks of intensive language study, is also available.

Dates: June 13 – July 26, 2020 (10-week option runs May 30 – August 9)

Application deadline: March 1

Cost: $5,495 (6 weeks); $7,995 (10 weeks)

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020

Prof. Dev. : 2020 Summer Institute: Planning for Project-Based Language Learning (University of Utah)

Deadline: February 28, 2020; March 20, 2020

June 10-16, 2020

This Summer Institute is designed for world language educators who have some knowledge of Project-Based Learning (PBL) as well as some practice in generating project ideas. During the Institute, participants will flesh out their ideas for a project design they have already subjected to critique. Applicants must complete the prerequisite NFLRC MOOC (massive open online course) Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning and earn a badge in order to qualify for consideration for the Institute. Participants who fulfill requirements outlined in an associated course syllabus may opt to receive two (2) graduate course credits (tuition fee).

Duration: 5 instructional days (Wed., Th., Fri., Mon., and Tue.)
Location: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Sponsors: Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC) and National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
PREREQUISITE: Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning MOOC

February 10, 2020February 10, 2020

Resource: SMARTool for Learners of Russian

Announcing the SMARTool for learners of Russian (Strategic Mastery in Acquiring Rich morphology Tool), a free open-source resource you can find here: https://smartool.github.io/smartool-rus-eng/.

SMARTools: Strategic Mastery in Acquiring Rich morphology: Tools for language learning

Many languages have “rich morphology”, meaning that words can have many different forms to signal grammatical categories such as case, number, tense, etc. Rich morphology presents a challenge for second language learners because even a basic vocabulary of a few thousand words can entail mastery of over a hundred thousand word forms. This is particularly the case with Slavic languages like Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Croatian, Baltic languages like Lithuanian and Latvian, and Uralic languages like Finnish and Estonian, but not irrelevant for a Romance language like Spanish with large paradigms for verbs. However, only a handful of the potential forms of any given word occur frequently, while the remainder are rare (some vanishingly so).

February 10, 2020February 10, 2020

Prof. Dev. : Webinar: Academic Job Market in Russian Language, Literature & Culture

Event Date: February 25, 2020

The Academic Job Market in Russian Language, Literature, and Culture: Preparation, Pitfalls, and Pathways
led by Karen Evans-Romaine

Tuesday, February 25, 4:30-6:00 PM EST
Register now

On the academic job market in Russian? Karen Evans-Romaine, professor of Russian in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic and director of the Russian Flagship program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison will talk about applying for academic positions in Russian language, literature, and culture, including documents that go into the dossier, preparing for first-round and campus interviews, and other aspects of the job application process. There will be plenty of time allotted for questions.

Register at https://actr.wildapricot.org/event-3736856
The webinar is free for current ACTR members ($15 fee for non-members)

All registered participants will receive access to the webinar recording. Register even if you cannot attend the webinar live.

Certificate of participation will be emailed upon request

February 10, 2020February 10, 2020

Conference: Community-Based Heritage Language Schools: Promoting Collaboration and Advocacy Among Educators (Washington, DC)

Event Date: October 10, 2020

Community-Based Heritage Language Schools:
Promoting Collaboration and Advocacy Among Educators,
Families, and Researchers
American University, Washington, DC

Informative sessions and practical workshops for school administers, teachers, and researchers will include best practices for effective instruction; engaging with state and national organizations and embassies to advocate for your school; engaging and collaborating with parents and community members; hiring, training, and retaining effective teachers; and gaining language recognition for students through the Seal of Biliteracy and the Global Seal.

Would you like to be a conference sponsor or exhibitor at the conference? Do you have any questions?

Please let us know! joy@peytons.us

Registration will begin in June 2020.

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February 6, 2020

CFP: Migration as a narrative: Russian-speaking identities and communities in space and time (University of Edinburgh)

Deadline: February 18, 2020

Migration is a constant feature of the current age of ‘liquid modernity’, transforming societies into a collection of diasporas(Bauman). Research in Russian speaking mobility offers a valuable contribution to both the theoretical and empirical aspects of migration and mobility studies. While Russian speakers have crossed state boundaries for centuries, the collapse of the Soviet Union has created an unprecedented environment for mobility and diasporic processes of Russophones, destabilising hegemonic relations between the centre and the periphery and producing emerging conditions including ‘beached diasporas’, ‘Global Russians’, ‘virtual Russophonia’, and ‘transnational Russian cultures’, to name but a few. Currently, the geography of Russian-speaking communities outside Russia is wider than ever with the overall population comparable in size to that of the Russian Federation. Discourse perspectives have recently marked a theoretical shift in migration research. Mobility is intrinsically discursive as space, communities,identities and belonging are constructed in narratives-those produced by migrants and those about migrants. What do these stories –written and oral, visual and multimodal, fictional and real –tell us about Russian-speaking movers across the world? As the Russian speakers populate the ‘third space’ (Bhabha) of diasporic sites, and as these sites turn to the ‘zones of intense cutting-edge creativity’(Karim), what are the discursive manifestations and articulations of this condition? And how do the current migration narratives of Russophones compare with those produced in other ‘waves’ of migration from Russia and the Soviet Union?