CREEES Professional Resources Forum
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
The Non-Aligned News Research Partnership (NANReP) invites applications from collaborative-minded scholars located anywhere in the world to participate virtually in a five-day research workshop on the history of the New World Information and Communications Order (NWICO). This international e-workshop is scheduled for 5-9 June 2023.
Continue reading “CFP: Collaborative Research Workshop on the History of the New World Information and Communications Order”The Melikian Center for Russian Eurasian and East European Studies at Arizona State University is seeking an Associate Director with a concurrent appointment as Clinical Assistant or Clinical Associate Professor. Under administrative leadership of the Melikian Center Director, the Associate Director plans, organizes, and directs the day-to-day operations of the Melikian Center, including leadership of the Critical Languages Institute (CLI) during summer. The Associate Director reports to the Director of the Melikian Center and will hold a clinical faculty appointment in one of the interdisciplinary schools in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, with the expectation of teaching one course during the academic year. This is a fiscal year (July 1 – June 30) benefits-eligible, renewable non-tenure track faculty, with renewal and/or promotion contingent upon satisfactory performance, availability of resources, and the needs of the university. The anticipated start date is February 20, 2023, or as soon thereafter as feasible.
Continue reading “Associate Director and Clinical Assistant or Clinical Associate Professor (Melikian Center, Arizona State)”Edited by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Jasmin Dall’Agnola and Josette Baer
Were Hannah Arendt and George Orwell right in their predictions of a totalitarian future forged by technology? How has the proliferation of recent technological innovations shaped the strategies of digital authoritarianism espoused by certain political regimes? The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted new questions for social scientists, urging them to investigate the power of technology to normalize mass surveillance. Scholars working on digital authoritarianism argue that non-democratic regimes are using new high-tech tools, such as artificial intelligence (AI), advanced biometrics, smart filtering, propagames and hacking spyware (e.g., Pegasus) to track dissident activity. So far, we know little about the way sophisticated technological infrastructure and AI technologies influence the monitoring and control of dissent. This special issue focuses on the advance of digital authoritarianism in Communist and post-Communist states (CPCS) in the third millennium.
Continue reading “CFP: Authoritarianism 3.0: Arendt and Orwell in the digital age”Visual documents from the collection of the Slavonic Library (Prague) have been made available online on esbirky.cz portal (https://www.esbirky.cz). In 2021, the library joined portal esbirky.cz administered and developed by the National Museum (https://www.nm.cz/en) and has since made available following visual documents https://www.esbirky.cz/hledat/podsbirka/36044591 :
Full inventory lists of all above mentioned collections are available on „Special Collections of the Slavonic Library“ website – https://sbirkysk.nkp.cz/index.php?lang=en
CESSI is now accepting language instructor applications for summer 2023! The deadline to apply is January 9, 2023. The Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) is an eight-week intensive language institute that offers courses in Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek languages annually from mid-June through mid-August. Courses in Azerbaijani or Kyrgyz may be added in summer 2023 if there is sufficient student interest. The 2023 CESSI program will be held from June 19 through August 11 and will be preceded by a staff orientation week from June 12 – 16. CESSI is a member of the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI). You can find the Position Vacancy Listing here. Please find the job description below.
Continue reading “Language Instructors Needed (Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute)”The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2023-24 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.
The Linda Hall Library holds nearly half a million monographs and more than 43,000 journal titles documenting the history of science and technology from the 15th century to the present. Its collections are exceptionally strong in the engineering disciplines, chemistry, and physics. In addition, the Library boasts extensive resources related to natural history, astronomy, earth science, environmental studies, aeronautics, life science, infrastructure studies, mathematics, and the history of the book.
The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites applications for a full-time, nine-month, time-limited, Visiting Lecturer in Russian Language and Culture, beginning August 16, 2023.
Requirements: M.A. degree or higher in Russian language and culture or other relevant area, including second-language acquisition, applied linguistics, and language pedagogy. Other requirements include native or near-native proficiency in Russian and English. Candidates with experience teaching Russian language at the US college/university level will be preferred.
Continue reading “Acad. Job: Visiting Lecturer, Russian Language and Culture (University of Florida)”
Office Management Specialists provide office management and administrative support to U.S. diplomats (consular, economic, management, political, public diplomacy, and regional security officers), in embassies and consulates abroad and domestically in Washington D.C. and New York.
You’ll coordinate the flow of information, manage projects and events, and provide essential administrative support to our U.S. diplomats. Other tasks include scheduling meetings, coordinating high-level visits and conferences, arranging travel, managing electronic filing and retrieval of documents, and handling general office management duties.
Continue reading “Job: Foreign Service Office Specialist (US Department of State)”CEU Summer University offers high-level, research- and policy-oriented interdisciplinary courses from June 26 to July 31, 2023. All courses will be held in Budapest (with the exception of one, which will be taught in Vienna.)
We invite applications from advanced undergraduates, MA and Ph.D. students, postdocs, junior faculty, early-stage researchers, and practitioners for the short, intensive courses taught by teams of internationally renowned scholars and policy experts (including CEU and OSUN professors). Financial aid is available.
First upcoming application deadline: February 14, 2023
· Course Listings and link to the Application Form: https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses
· Contact email: summeru@ceu.edu
· Latest news and updates that can be shared: https://www.facebook.com/ceu.summer
The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies is pleased to announce its call for applications for funding and awards opportunities in 2023–24.
A primary aim of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies is to foster, develop, and support Ukrainian studies in Canada and internationally. This is done in part by offering or administering post-doctoral fellowships, graduate fellowships (to master’s and doctoral students), and scholarships to undergraduate students. Grants are also awarded to established scholars in order to support research work that leads to publications or the dissemination of results in other forms.
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