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Junior Scholar Workshop: Writing Back from the Peripheries: Russophone Literary Diversity
Deadline: February 15, 2025
Junior Scholar Workshop “Writing Back from the Peripheries? Russophone Literary Diversity”
funded by the BRIDGE Seed Fund for collaboration between the University of Birmingham (UoB) in the UK, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the USA
July 9-10, 2025
at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, decolonizing and decentring approaches to the study of Russophone literature and culture have become increasingly urgent tasks. This workshop seeks to offer support to emerging scholars whose research focuses on minoritized Russophone authors (both those who are “writing back” from regions formerly colonized by Russia and those who ended up living in exile abroad).
Continue reading “Junior Scholar Workshop: Writing Back from the Peripheries: Russophone Literary Diversity”Fellowships: Centre for Advanced Study (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Deadline: March 31, 2025
The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia would like to remind you of our
Open Calls for international fellowships for the 2025/2026 academic year.
Our programmes are designed for researchers from the social sciences and the humanities at different stages of their career from all over the world.
Additional information can be found further below.
CAS Sofia Fellowships for 2025/2026:
Job: Program Coordinator, Dept. of German, Russian, and E European Languages (Rutgers)
Posted: January 15, 2025; Open until Filled
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Program Coordinator I for the School of Arts and Sciences.
Among the key duties of this position are the following:
- Provides administrative programmatic support to the SAS – Department of German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures and all affiliated programs, by coordinating the administration of programs, projects, departmental operations, and/or processes, and management of the preparation and control of records, statistics, reports and documents.
- Prioritizes work, resolves routine conflicts and issues, and prepares and implements administrative guidelines and procedures for the department.
- Supports and oversight includes fiscal management, procurement, expense reimbursement, course scheduling, and human resources/academic personnel related processes and transactions.
- Schedules appointments, arranges and coordinates logistics for events and meetings.
- Creates and disseminates departmental communications, informational and marketing materials, and manages departmental listservs and databases.
- Provides office administrative support to the department chair.
- Processes various administrative documents and data.
CFP: 31st Annual REECAS Northwest Conference (University of Washington)
Deadline: February 17, 2025
REECAS Northwest, the annual ASEEES northwest regional conference for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS) will take place April 10-12, 2025 at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
The REECAS Northwest Conference welcomes students, faculty, independent scholars, and language educators from the United States and abroad. Proposals on all subjects connected to the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian regions are encouraged. The conference hosts panels on a variety of topics and disciplines including political science, history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, culture, migration studies, gender studies, LGBTQ studies, film studies and more.
Continue reading “CFP: 31st Annual REECAS Northwest Conference (University of Washington)”Asynchronous Histories Summer School (Warsaw, Poland)
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Asynchronous Histories Summer School will be held in Warsaw 22-26 September 2025.
The Asynchronous Histories Summer School aims to explore regions and moments in history marked by the coexistence of asynchronous sociopolitical tendencies and processes. These conditions often reveal paradoxical outcomes when seemingly well-established actors and mechanisms are put into practice. The absence—or inefficiency—of “The Great Synchronizer,” whether imperial order, centralized state apparatus, or the power of capital, has, in various periods and regions, created fertile grounds for blending the old and the new in unequal and unexpected ways.
Continue reading “Asynchronous Histories Summer School (Warsaw, Poland)”2025-2026 Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society at the (University of Toronto)
Deadline: February 14, 2025
The Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto is accepting applications for the Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society for the 2025-2026 academic year. The objective of the Post-Doctoral Fellowship is to support annually one of the most promising junior scholars studying contemporary Ukraine and thereby to advance academic understanding of Ukrainian politics, culture, and society. The Fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Petro Jacyk Education Foundation.Description:
The Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship has both research and teaching components.
Continue reading “2025-2026 Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society at the (University of Toronto)”Resource/CFP: DOXA Independent Russian Media Platform
DOXA Journal is an independent Russian media outlet operating in exile. Initially launched as a student publication, it has grown into one of the largest independent Russian media platforms, covering critical issues such as human rights violations, the war in Ukraine, LGBTQIA+ oppression, and indigenous rights. Through our newsletter we aim to broaden the conversation about Russia by highlighting perspectives that extend beyond Kremlin-centric coverage.
Unlike most independent Russian media, we welcome scholarly, research-driven work.
Continue reading “Resource/CFP: DOXA Independent Russian Media Platform”CFP: Wisconsin Slavic Conference
Deadline: February 17, 2025
Abstracts for 20-minute papers on any aspect of Slavic literatures, cultures (including film, music, and the visual arts), linguistics, and history, as well as on Slavic language and literature pedagogy are invited for the annual Wisconsin Slavic Conference. Comparative topics and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome and encouraged. The conference will be held in-person at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, 2025.
Recent conference programs are available on the Wisconsin Slavic Conference website at https://gns.wisc.edu/2024/04/24/wisconsin-slavic-conference-2024/
This year’s keynote lecture “The Other Place of Language: Hybridity and Extraterritoriality in Conrad, Gombrowicz, Stasiuk, and Wilk” will be delivered by Prof. George Z. Gasyna from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Continue reading “CFP: Wisconsin Slavic Conference”Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowships
Deadline: March 10, 2025
The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office at the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) fellowships program.
The FRA program funds fellowships through institutions of higher education (IHEs) to faculty members to conduct research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies to improve their skill in languages and their knowledge of the culture of the people of these countries. Fellows conduct research abroad for three to 12 months. Funds support travel expenses to and from the fellow’s residence and the country or countries of research, a maintenance stipend related to the fellow’s academic year salary, and an allowance for research-related expenses, such as books and photocopying, tuition, affiliation fees, local travel, and other incidental expenses. Proposals focusing solely on Western Europe are not eligible.
IFLE expects to make 15 new awards totaling approximately $750,000 under the FY 2025 FRA competition. Applications for the FRA program must be submitted through the G5/G6 system. The application package document provides specific instructions on how to apply for an FRA fellowship. The deadline to apply is March 10, 2025.
Please refer to the official Federal Register notice for detailed information about the FY 2025 competition.