Author: Cara Keirstead

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CFP: Heritage AS Resistance – Looking Forward to Cultural Recovery

Deadline: January 10, 2023

SIEF2023 16th Congress, Living Uncertainty, Brno, June 7-10, 2023

This panel looks at Ukrainian cultural responses to Russia’s war, from explicit resistance to humour, from verbal defences to re-assertions of identity through traditional practices. In dark times, we need optimism and hope; we try to reassert a sense of control.

Much of culture is an attempt to assert control over the world around us, controlling the uncontrollable through searching for patterns and predictability. But when the world as you know it is turned upside down, questions of identity are brought to the fore – Who am I? Who are we? Who are my people? – and there is an urgent need to reconstruct it through enacting and reinventing traditions, humour, and stories.

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Anthropology of Violence and Post-Soviet Ethnography – Lecturer (McGill University)

Deadline: December 26, 2022

The Department of Anthropology seeks applications to fill a non-tenure track, eighteen-month position of Faculty Lecturer with teaching responsibilities in the Anthropology of Violence and Post-Soviet Ethnography. The teaching load is 8 courses over three terms (Winter, Fall, Winter). The subject and title of the courses will be determined in consultation with the Chair of Anthropology.

The 18-month appointment commences January 1, 2023. Applicants should have a PhD in Anthropology and a specialization in the Anthropology of Violence and/or Post-Soviet Ethnography.

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Preceptor in Ukrainian Language (Harvard University)

Deadline: February 3, 2023

The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at Harvard University seeks applications for a position as Preceptor in Ukrainian Language. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2023 with teaching beginning in fall semester 2023.

The preceptor will be responsible for courses in beginning and intermediate Ukrainian (4 courses per academic year) and additional language tutorials in advanced Ukrainian as needed. The preceptor will work with the Director of the Slavic Language Program to develop courses and materials in Ukrainian language and assist with recruitment of students and expanding interest in the Ukrainian language program. An interest in furthering broader Slavic Language Program goals is highly desirable, including materials development for Ukrainian. The preceptorship in Ukrainian language is offered for three years, renewable for a second term of up to five years for a combined total of eight years, contingent on performance, enrollments, curricular need, position availability, and divisional dean authorization. Interviews will be conducted by phone or video conference in spring semester 2023.

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South Caucasus Overseas Program for Educators

Deadline: Monday, January 23, 2023

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) invites applications to the South Caucasus Overseas Program for Educators (SCOPE) taking place in the summer of 2023.

SCOPE will consist of an immersive ten-day visit to Armenia and Georgia for post-secondary educators, with priority given to faculty at community colleges and minority serving institutions. The program will run in the South Caucasus from Tuesday, June 20 to Thursday, June 29, 2023.

The program will be co-led by regional experts Dr. Anna Ohanyan (Stonehill College) and Dr. Benjamin Bamberger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). SCOPE participants will attend lectures and workshops run by local academics, visit sites of historical and cultural significance, and engage with scholarly communities in Armenia and Georgia from a variety of disciplines. The program will also offer Introductory virtual talks on the regional languages prior to travel as well as opportunities to collect and develop curricular resources.

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Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia (Armenia and Georgia)

Deadline: February 1, 2023

The Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies (MIRS) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey invites applications for the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia 2023.
It is our pleasure to announce the upcoming Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia 2023. It will be held in Armenia and Georgia, running from July 2 to July 17, 2023. Armenia and Georgia are two very different countries, differently positioned geopolitically, though with shared history in the Soviet Union and Russian Empire. They stand at a proverbial crossroads of international affairs. China’s Belt and Road Initiative runs through the South Caucasus, which are crucial to global energy supplies. On energy and regional security, the United States plays an important role, while Turkey and Iran are neighboring countries, connected to Armenia and Georgia through bonds of tension and affiliation. Armenia and Georgia have been profoundly affected by Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has added degrees of uncertainty to a region long familiar with uncertainty.

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CFP: Collaborative Research Workshop on the History of the New World Information and Communications Order

Deadline: January 15, 2023

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.

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Associate Director and Clinical Assistant or Clinical Associate Professor (Melikian Center, Arizona State)

Deadline: January 15, 2023

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.

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CFP: Authoritarianism 3.0: Arendt and Orwell in the digital age

Deadline: January 9, 2023

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.

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Resource: Online Slavonic Library (Prague)

 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

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Language Instructors Needed (Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute)

Deadline: January 9, 2023

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.

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