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September 8, 2023September 8, 2023

Acad. Job: Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality, Eastern European Studies (Princeton University)

Deadline: October 15, 2023

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position beginning in September 2024. We are seeking an enthusiastic, creative, and productive scholar and teacher who would complement and enrich the research and teaching agenda of our present faculty in the areas of gender studies and sexuality and / or Eastern European Studies. Among secondary desirable areas of specialization are translation studies, drama/theater/performance, digital humanities, and cultural studies.

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023

CFP: Sergei Parajanov at One Hundred: Chimeras of Nation, Form, and Being (University of Southern California)

Deadline: September 15, 2023

In his interview with Ron Holloway, Parajanov proclaimed that he was a chimera, a being inscrutable to others but also uniquely able to look ahead and beyond all constraints. The chimera, a mythological figure comprising parts of different bodies, emblematizes both the possibilities of imagination and the impossibility of categorization and control. It poses a challenge to homogeneity, fixity, swift legibility and intelligibility by re-constellating the known to produce aesthetic wonders that are always in excess of the sensible. A slap in the face of propriety and pure reason, a blow to scientific and epistemological certainty, the chimera boldly transcends limiting constructions and strictures. And for those very same reasons, the chimera is often subject to suspicion, fear, and persecution.

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023

Call for Papers: Teaching the Languages of Central and Eastern Europe: Adapting to the Post-Pandemic World

Deadline: September 30, 2023

NeMLA 2024 panel (March 7-10, 2024, Boston, MA)

This panel is looking for presentations about innovations that college instructors of Central and Eastern European languages have been implementing in order to make language and culture courses relevant and meaningful in the era of post-Covid and the war in Ukraine. How has the pandemic changed our methodology and pedagogy? What approaches and techniques do we take with us? What practices do we discard? In what areas do we innovate and what are successful innovations? How do we adapt to different student expectations and experiences in face-to-face, remote or hybrid courses? What has the pandemic made obsolete, a “surplus”, in our courses? How has the war in Ukraine influenced our curriculum?

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023

MPhil and PhD Opportunities in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge

Deadline: October 11, 2023

The Slavonic Studies section in the University of Cambridge invites applications from qualified students for a 1-year MPhil or 3-year PhD in Slavonic Studies, beginning Autumn 2024.

The Slavonic Studies section engages in the advanced study of Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, with an emphasis on cultural history from the Middle Ages to the present day. It is home to a dynamic annual programme of public lectures, research seminars, conferences, and exhibitions. Its intellectual vitality is particularly evident in the fields of pre-modern East Slavic culture; Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries; Slavonic linguistics; Nationalism Studies; history of science and medicine; print culture; and film and visual culture. We encourage applications from students who work comparatively across Slavonic cultures and languages, as well as those who focus on individual ones.

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023

Post-doc Position in Warsaw, Poland: research on oral history of Ukrainian refugees in Poland

Deadline: October 15, 2023

The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences announces a competition for the position of post-doc in the project “Researching the Collecting, Preserving, Analysing and Disclosing of Ukrainian Testimonies of the 2022 War”.

For a full job description, please visit:

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023

New! ASEEES Research Meetup Series

Event Dates: September 29, October 25

Join us to share practical tips, logistical questions, and local resources!

To Register: https://www.aseees.org/news-events/aseees-news-feed/research-meetup-series

Please note that these events are open to ASEEES members only.

Doing Research in the Baltic Countries (in partnership with the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies)

September 1, 2023

Guest Editors Wanted (Russian Language Journal)

Deadline: September 29, 2023

Russian Language Journal is entertaining proposals for the special issue of Volume vol 74/issue 2 (printed issue), to be published in December 2024. Thematic issues of Russian Language Journal focus on areas of current interest and are an excellent venue to bring together in one issue numerous approaches to a methodology or an issue in Slavic linguistics and language teaching. We are particularly interested in publishing a special issue on Slavic linguistics, literature-language intersections, corpus linguistics, digital studies, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition, decolonization in Slavic Studies, but other proposals will also be considered.

September 1, 2023September 1, 2023

Acad. Job: Assistant Professor (TT) in history of modern Eurasia/Russian Empire/Soviet Union (USC)

Deadline: October 14, 2023

he Van Hunnick History Department of the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, is seeking to hire one tenure-track assistant professor in the history of modern Eurasia/Russian Empire/Soviet Union, including its constituent lands and peoples, beginning August 2024. We are looking for applications from a broad range of scholars, including those whose work decenters the imperial metropole, focuses on understudied regions and peoples, and/or crosses conventional chronological and geographical boundaries. Academic fluency in at least one regional language in addition to Russian is preferred.

September 1, 2023September 1, 2023

CFP: Re-constructing Perestroika(s): In Search of a new Vocabulary for the Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia

Deadline: October 31, 2023

Workshop 14/15 March 2024

Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Georgetown University, Washington DC

Center of Contemporary History, ZZF Potsdam

Re-constructing Perestroika(s): In Search of a new Vocabulary for the Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia

For a long time the term Perestroika meant first and foremost ‘reforms from above’, whose initiative and execution were inextricably linked with the name of Mikhail Gorbachev. Yet a look back into contemporary sources and commentary quickly points to many actors, many ideas, and many debates and conversations taking place in a time characterized by emotional intensity and economic hardship, by ardent pursuit of hidden facts and fascination with mysticism and conspiracies. From a distance of more than thirty years, it has also become apparent that Perestroika cannot be limited to the political and economic spheres, but comprises the entirety of social and cultural life as well as new fields of intellectual, organizational and cultural activity.

August 29, 2023August 29, 2023

Job: English Language Editor at Kosovo 2.0

Deadline: September 17, 2023

Are you passionate about independent journalism? Do you know all about Kosovo and the Balkan region? Do you have a background in editing?

We’re seeking an English-language editor to join our editorial team as we look to build on our bold and captivating award-winning journalism.

The person we hire will be dedicated to deepening the understanding of current affairs and political, social and cultural issues in Kosovo and the Western Balkans. They will be able to work constructively with our journalists and contributors on developing engaging ideas for journalistic coverage on a wide variety of issues from story conception, editing, and finalizing every detail for publication. The editor will also play an important role in developing our editorial policies.