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Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Competition

Deadline: January 21, 2025

Did you know that there is a Department of Education grant that provides overseas training, research, and curriculum development experiences for U.S. teachers, faculty, and students?Picture of participants abroad on a Group Projects Abroad trip
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 Group Projects Abroad (GPA) program.
The GPA program provides grants to institutions and private, nonprofit education entities that organize programs for K-12 teachers, college students, and faculty to engage in short- or long-term overseas projects focused on training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies. GPA short-term projects include seminars, curriculum development, and group research or study. GPA long-term projects support advanced intensive overseas programs that focus on languages, the humanities, or social sciences.
IFLE expects to make 20 new awards totaling approximately $3.3 million under the FY 25 GPA competition. The application is now available at www.grants.gov. The deadline to apply is Jan. 21, 2025.Please refer to the official Federal Register notice for detailed information about the FY 2025 competition.

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Fieldwork Opportunities in Slavic Studies, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Deadline: March 1, 2025

Partnership for Russian, East European and European Folklore invites students and established scholars in documenting Russian and Kazakh traditional culture in Kazakhstan. We are preparing two expeditions for 2025:
Legends of Bayanaul  July 20-31 2025  Collect and compare old Kazakh oral legends with the newer Russian-  and English-language versions which have emerged in recent years. Most of the legends relate to the dramatic rock formations in Bayanaul National Park.

Old Believers of the Bukhtarma Valley July 5-17 2025  Record traditional songs, family histories, material culture, holiday customs, life-cycle rituals, and traditional beliefs of this religious group firmly rooted in the past.

Expeditions are led by Dr. Yelena Minyonok and Dr. Alevtina Tsvetkova. Individual research interests can usually be accommodated.

Expedition languages are Russian, English and Kazakh. Participants pay their own way plus a share of the expedition expenses.  Some financial assistance is available.

Application deadline is March 1, 2025.

Details:  https://preeef.org    Queries:  info@preeef.org

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CFP: HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia:The Humanities and Social Sciences Perspectives

Deadline: December 10, 2024

Konstanz, October 9–10, 2025

Organizers:  Katerina Suverina (U of Konstanz), Tatiana Klepikova (U of Regensburg), Nikolay Lunchenkov (TU Munich)

Since its emergence in the late twentieth century, the HIV/AIDS virus has caused one of the longest-lasting and deadliest pandemics in human history.[1] This pandemic has had vastly different fates across the world, shaping the image of whole continents (Africa),[2] animating identitarian movements (gay and lesbian movements in the US, the UK, and Western Europe),[3] or facing silence in the public discourse (socialist and post-socialist countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia).[4]

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Acad. Job: Lecturer, Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Michigan)

Deadline: November 15, 2024

The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Michigan invites applicants to apply for a LEO Lecturer I position for the Winter 2025 semester

The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Michigan invite applicants to apply for a LEO Lecturer I position for the Winter 2025 semester, January 1 – April 30, 2025. The chosen applicant will teach courses in East European Literature and Culture with either a 33.33% or a 66.66% effort, based on qualifications. 

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Special Agent – Linguists/Foreign Language Background (FBI)

Deadline: January 21, 2025

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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Title VIII Research and Dissertation Grants

Deadline: December 31, 2024

The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research welcomes applications to its 2025 Title VIII competitions:

The Title VIII National Research Competition (PhD holders, US citizens only) provides funding of up to $20,000 for individual projects and $40,000 for collaborative projects on issues relevant to current US foreign policy within the Title VIII eligible regions (please see www.nceeer.org for eligible countries).

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2025 Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Deadline: March 17, 2025

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are accepting applications for our 2025 Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) program. The SRL is an in-person program that offers comprehensive research support, access to library resources and competitive Research Awards to graduate and post-graduate scholars developing projects on all aspects of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies. It is funded by the U.S. Department of State through its Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII).

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CFP: Problematizing “Eurasia”: 2025 Detroit Pre-Conference to the American Association of Geographers (AAG)

Deadline: December 15, 2024

2025 Detroit Pre-Conference to the American Association of Geographers (AAG)
March 22 & 23, 2025
Organizers: Evangeline McGlynn (Harvard), Ariel Otruba (Virginia Tech), Kate Shields (Rhodes College), and Megan Dixon (College of Idaho)

Since the escalation of Russia’s war in Ukraine in 2022, scholars working on the post-Soviet world have begun critical conversations reflecting on the dominance of Russian centered scholarship in the field. Naming this region has proven difficult and produced long and unwieldy labels such as “Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian” studies. Previous attempts at renaming the region, for example, the 2016 renaming of the “Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European” specialty group as the “Eurasian” specialty group, sought to include colleagues working in the post-Soviet peripheries and build bridges beyond the former Soviet world. While within AAG, renaming the group originally led to productive conversations across regional divisions; these larger engagements were fleeting. 

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Acad. Job: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Modern Russophone Literature

Deadline: November 1, 2024

The department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in modern Russophone literature. An ideal candidate will also demonstrate expertise in one or more literature and culture of Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Caucasus, or Central Asia. Native or near-native fluency in Russian and English is required; native or near-native fluency in a language related to the candidate’s additional geographic region of expertise is desired. The successful applicant will have Ph.D. in hand by August 2025 and will be expected to teach graduate and undergraduate courses, including courses in the University’s general education program.

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Yiddish (University of Wisconsin)

Deadline: December 2, 2024

The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin – Madison invites applications for a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are seeking scholars with an active research program in the field of Yiddish literature/culture with the demonstrated ability to teach Yiddish language and at the university level. The selected candidate will be committed to advancing an innovative research agenda, to working with colleagues to develop a Yiddish language sequence, and to supporting a robust Yiddish studies curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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