CREEES Professional Resources Forum
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
The Fall 2019 issue of Slavic and East European Journal is now available:
https://seej.org/issues/63.3
The journal has a new website: https://seej.org
Subscription info can be found at: https://www.aatseel.org/publications/inst_subscriptions
Slavic and East European Journal • Volume 63 Number 3 (Fall 2019)
Continue reading “Resource: Slavic and East European Journal”The Embassy of Hungary in Washington D.C. would like to inform you that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary offers various scholarships in the framework of the Balassi scholarship program in the academic year of 2020/2021: the Hungarian Language and Cultural Studies Programme and the Credit-based Hungarian Language and Hungarian Studies Programme.
The detailed calls for applications are available here:
https://balassischolarship.kormany.hu/hungarian-language-and-cultural-studies-2020-2021
https://balassischolarship.kormany.hu/hungarian-language-and-hungarian-studies-2020-2021
The Slavic Reference Service is excited to announce a workshop for doctoral students: Collections, Services & Dissertation Research Online Workshop. The theme of this workshop will focus on conducting a literature review. It will feature scholars and librarians offering helpful perspectives, as well as advice from a doctoral student about his experience conducting dissertation research abroad. Our panelists will include:
· Zachary Hoffman | University of Virginia
· Slavic Reference Service | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
· Angela Cannon | Library of Congress
· Katya Rogatchevskaia | The British Library
· Anatol Shmelev | Hoover Institution
The workshop will be held online through Blackboard Ultra on Thursday, February 27th at 9:00 AM CST. After registering for the workshop, you will receive an invitation to the Blackboard virtual conference room in the days leading up to the workshop. You can register for the workshop here: https://tinyurl.com/t2tmsbt.
Instructor of Russian Studies
The Department of Russian Studies seeks applications for a 3-year 100% full-time limited-term appointment (2020–2023) at the Instructor level in Russian language, literature and culture, effective July 1, 2020. The Instructor will teach language courses at various levels, courses in Russian literature (ability to teach the 19th century period is a plus), as well as an introductory Russian culture course and/or a course matching the successful candidate’s expertise. The workload is equivalent to four full-credit (eight half-credit) classes during the academic year. Russian Studies at Dalhousie is a small but vital department, part of an active community of faculty and students that relies on faculty engagement and participation in departmental extracurricular and cultural events. The successful candidate will be expected to make active and regular contributions in this area. This position is subject to budgetary approval.
Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Russian literature or linguistics. Native or native-equivalent command of Russian and English, as well as expertise in teaching the Russian language at an undergraduate level, are required. The successful candidate will possess strong organizational and administrative skills.
Applications will be accepted until 20 February 2020 and must include the following:
A letter of application addressed to the Search Committee Chair
A CV
A statement of teaching philosophy
A teaching dossier that includes evidence of teaching effectiveness
The names and contact information of 3 referees
The School of Languages and Cultures is seeking to appoint a Research Associate to take part in a three-year project. It is funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council and will start on 1 June 2020.
The project, entitled Feast and Famine: Confronting Overabundance and Defectivity in Language, looks at non-canonical inflectional morphology in morphologically complex languages of central and eastern Europe. It includes eight institutions across four countries: the UK, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Estonia, and will be led by Professor Neil Bermel (University of Sheffield) in collaboration with Professor Dunstan Brown (University of York).
Continue reading “Acad. Job: Research Associate, Slavic, Baltic, or Finno-Ugric Linguistics (University of Sheffield)”Nazarbayev University (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan) is pleased to announce that the application is now open for our Summer School in Russian and Eurasian Studies (SSRES), an 8-week intensive program in Russian or Kazakh languages. We operate on rolling admissions until April 1 and there is no application fee.
Classes follow standardized US curricula and textbooks, which means that students can return seamlessly to language programs at their home institutions.
At NU, students study languages on our modern campus in an environment that minimizes culture shock and maximizes close contact with multilingual local students.
Program dates:
May 23 – July 22 (equivalent to one academic year)
Program fees:
$5000 (for Russian) OR $4000 (for Kazakh)
Continue reading “Study Abroad: 8-Week Summer Intensive in Russian or Kazakh (Kazakhstan)”I would like to invite your students to apply to top Russian university and study in English, study Russian or do REM in Moscow (and travel to St Pete, Volga River or Siberia). If you are interested in combing study with unpaid internship with the international office of the faculty of economic sciences, please contact obudjko@hse.ru as soon as possible and be ready to apply before February 15, 2020
HSE International Summer University https://www.hse.ru/international/summer in Moscow, REM in math https://math.hse.ru/en/reu and Russian language intensive course https://www.hse.ru/en/rfl/intensive are accepting applications. The Summer U. or REU can be combined with courses of Russian language on various levels, starting from beginners. All courses are taught in English. More courses in various fields, including Russian studies are available via the Summer University website https://www.hse.ru/international/summer
The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) is now accepting applications for Fall 2020 study abroad programs in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Please share this information with your students.
All CIEE semester programs in Russia feature:
The new episode of Foreign Language Teaching Podcast is out!
This is a second part of our interview with William Comer, Professor of Russian and Director of the Russian Flagship Program at Portland State University.
Podcast new host Izolda Savenkova and her guest are discussing approaches to teaching grammar.http://alturl.com/bz2q2
If you missed the first part of the podcast on teaching reading skills, you can listen to it here: http://alturl.com/2aexm
Dr. Comer has published numerous articles in national journals including the Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Language Journal and Foreign Language Annals. His pedagogical edition of Viktoria Tokareva’s short story A Day without Lying (Slavica, 2008) was awarded the prize for Best Book in Language Pedagogy by American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in 2010. In August 2009 he won the University of Kansas W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. He is co-author of Mezhdu nami (=Between you and me), an online, open-access textbook for elementary Russian. At Portland State he teaches courses in Russian language, literature and culture, and directs the Russian Language Flagship Program.
Podcast host Izolda (Iza) Savenkova is a Visiting Assistant Scholar at Dickinson College, PA. She has been teaching Russian for 7 years after graduation from Lomonosov State University with a Master’s degree in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language. The main sphere of her academic interests is Russian for Specific Purposes. She is currently completing her PhD in Teaching Russian as a Second Language at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Before coming to Dickinson College in 2018, she taught courses in Russian language, literature, and culture and assisted a Dickinson-in-Moscow program at Russian State University for the Humanities. During the summers of 2018 and 2019 she taught at Middlebury College Cathryn Davis School of Russian.The podcast is created by TeachRussian.org.
1st-year Ukrainian classes taught at the SLI provide the equivalent of an academic year’s worth of study. Classes meet on the University of Pittsburgh campus Monday – Friday from 9am to 3pm. In addition to intensive language classes, students attend Ukrainian films, lectures, and other activities centering on Ukrainian art, food, and culture.
Post-SLI Internship Opportunity for 6-Week Ukrainian Students
SLI is pleased to announce that during the summer of 2020, we are partnering with the Ukrainian Museum-Archives in Cleveland, Ohio to offer a limited number of internships to SLI-Ukrainian students. Students who apply and are accepted to the internship would work at the museum-archives on a project that makes direct use of their newly-acquired knowledge of Ukrainian. Students would also have the opportunity to use the vast resources of the archives to complete a research project related to their academic or career interests. This internship must be taken for academic credit and would commence immediately after the completion of the 6-week beginning Ukrainian course in Pittsburgh. The number of credits taken and the duration of the internship would be negotiated between the applicant, SLI, and the director and curator at the museum-archives. Interested students should contact SLI Managing Director, Kathleen Manukyan, manukyan1@pitt.edu to learn more about this unique opportunity.