Acad. Job: Postdoctoral Researcher, Soviet Homefront in WWII (Centre d’Historie of Sciences, Paris)

Deadline: September 15, 2026

The European Research Council Advanced Grant “The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945” seeks a Postdoctoral researcher on the Soviet Union’s home front and the war on Soviet civilians in the Second World War. The project is hosted by the Centre d’Histoire of Sciences Po in Paris, France.

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CFP: Special Issue on 70th Anniversary of Sputnik Launch (Journal of American Studies)

Deadline: September 15, 2026

The editors of the Journal of Russian American Studies (JRAS) are calling for proposals for a special issue on the 70th Anniversary of the 1957 Sputnik launch.  The theme of this issue will revolve around how this event in 1957, and the space race in general (before and after 1957), played a role in the larger theme of Russian-American relations.

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CFP: Women’s Education, Careers, and Social Change in the Russian & Ottoman Empires & Beyond, 1860s-1920s

Deadline: August 10, 2026

https://newsroom.aua.am/2026/07/02/call-for-papers-womens-education-careers-and-social-change-in-russian-and-ottoman-empires-and-beyond-1860s-1920s

The Max Weber Network Eastern Europe (MWNO) Georgia branch office, in cooperation with the Turpanjian Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) at the American University of Armenia (AUA) is hosting an international conference and calling for papers on Women’s Education, Careers, and Social Change in the Russian and Ottoman Empires and Beyond. 

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Acad. Job: Lecturer/Visiting Professorship in Armenian Studies, Part-time (Columbia University)

Deadline: July 31, 2026

The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University announces an opening for a part-time Lecturer/Visiting Professorship in Armenian Studies, under the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professorship program.

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CFP: “The Long Perestroika from Below”

Deadline: July 31, 2026

edited by Juliane Fürst, Bradley Gorski, Veronika Pehe, Kathleen Smith

We invite submissions of abstracts for a collective volume to be published by CEU Press under the title “The Long Perestroika from Below.” The volume will be open access and aims for publication in the summer of 2027. It wants to be a comprehensive overview over the historical research on Perestroika ‘from below’, meaning the experience of and activism in perestroika actions, which took place across Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and outside the centres of political power usually associated with the reforms and campaigns of the time. We encourage scholars at all stages of their career to participate in this volume, which aims to turn perestroika research on its head by switching the perspective of investigation from Gorbachev and political elites to society.

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Job: Language Officer, Russian (CIA)

Deadline: September 30, 2026

As a Directorate of Operations Language Officer at CIA, you will perform a critical and dynamic function within the Directorate of Operations by using your advanced foreign Language skills combined with cultural experience and expertise to produce high-quality, accurate, and timely translations, interpretations, and other Language-related support to Directorate of Operations clandestine operations. Language Officers are key to the success of many foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, cyber, and covert action operations and have native or near-native level fluency in one or more of the following Languages:

  • Japanese
  • Persian/Farsi
  • Khmer
  • Arabic
  • Chinese Mandarin
  • Russian
  • Spanish
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Job: Foreign Language Instructor, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (CIA)

Deadline: September 29, 2026

As a Foreign Language Instructor, you will deliver programs that provide intelligence professionals with the Foreign language communications skills and cross-cultural awareness they need to live and work abroad effectively or to perform other language-related duties. Foreign Language Instructors apply the latest instructional methodologies to meet highly customized student needs. You will also complete a language proficiency testing certification to conduct and rate language proficiency tests in three modalities: reading, speaking, and listening. In addition, you may be asked to provide a variety of language support services worldwide.

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Job: Special Agent – Linguists/Foreign Language Background (FBI)

Deadline: December 30, 2026

FBI Special Agents apply their professional expertise and unique skill sets to their work every day. Many have foreign language/linguistics backgrounds and use them to interview victims, translate during a suspect interrogation or testify in court. Language skills and cultural knowledge, specifically in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Farsi, Russian, Somali, Uzbek, Korean or another language are highly sought after by the FBI. All applicants must pass the FBI’s Foreign Language Test Battery.

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Job: Librarian (National Library of Medicine)

Deadline: July 10, 2026

NLM seeks both new and experienced librarians for several roles and positions. Work varies by position and includes applying terminology and metadata standards, cataloging (skill in either Russian or Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts desired), book and paper conservation, data management and standardization, digitization and digital library services, licensing and managing e-resources, processing archival collections, reference services, and emerging information and AI technologies.

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CFP: AATSEEL 2027 Stream Topics and Poster Panel

Deadlines: July 25, 2026; August 1, 2026

We are pleased to announce the Stream Topics for AATSEEL 2027, which will be held virtually on February 18-21, 2027. These streams promote greater cohesion among conference panels and foster a broader dialogue throughout the conference. The result can be a series of mini-conferences within the framework of our larger conference.

Stream 1: Toward Slavic Sensory Studies: East European Memory and the Senses
Stream 2: Transformational Sexualities in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Literatures and Cultures
Stream 3: Practices of Multilingualism in Online and Offline Spaces
Stream 4: New Directions in Russian Language and Area Studies: Perspectives from the Summer Russian Language Teachers program in Kazakhstan
Stream 5: Beyond the Horizon III: Rethinking the Canon of Polish Studies
Stream 6: Contested Monuments: Canonical Writers of the Stalin Era between Hagiography and Demythologization.
Stream 7: Career Readiness in Russian and Slavic Studies Programs
Stream 8: AI, Language, and Media in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Contexts

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