We would like to draw your attention to some resources available for students, teachers and researchers in the Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat (PSDS) (https://samizdatcollections.library.utoronto.ca) at the University of Toronto Library. Under the button “Journals,” you will find scanned issues of over 20 samizdat journals. This is a unique resource on uncensored art and literature of the late Soviet period. The set includes the landmark edition of Soviet conceptualism, the MANI folios, from the Forschungsstelle Osteuropa at Bremen University, as well as a full set of issues of the important Leningrad journal Chasy (The Clock, 1-80), furnished by the Andrei Belyi Centre in St. Petersburg. Users will also find nearly full sets of the outstanding journals Thirty–Seven and Transponans.
Continue reading “Resource: Scanned Issues of Samizdat Journals of the Late Soviet Period (University of Toronto Library)”Call for Applications: Dobro Slovo, National Slavic Honors Society
Deadline: January 31, 2022
Dobro Slovo is excited to announce our call for new inductees and applications for new chapters. Dobro Slovo is the National Slavic Honors Society, founded in 1963 on the campus of UC Berkeley. It is committed to recognizing academic excellence and commitment to the field of Slavic Studies in the U.S.
After one transition year, we now have the infrastructure in place to mail out certificates, pins, and, for the first time, honors cords, to all new inductees in time for April or May induction ceremonies. We are ready to welcome new chapter applications as well as another round of inductees from existing chapters.
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Deadline: January 31, 2022
Edited by Julie Deschepper, Antony Kalashnikov, and Federica Rossi
In what ways were Soviet temporalities unique, from a global perspective? How can studies of Soviet material culture provide a vantage point from which to address this question?
Time is hardly a new object of research in the humanities and social sciences. The last few decades have seen landmark works on the changing conceptualizations and experiences of time, written from the disciplinary standpoints of, among others, history (Hartog, Koselleck, Tamm), sociology (Bauman, Rosa, Zerubavel), philosophy (Gumbrecht, Lübbe, Osborne) and literary studies (Assmann, Berman). These studies have identified and explored multiple temporalities: the ways in which time is constructed, produced, instrumentalized, and negotiated by individuals and collectives, themselves embedded in time. As in the current animated discussion of modern and postmodern temporal orders, these investigations have been rooted in a Eurocentric framework.
Continue reading “CFA: Time, Objectified: Soviet Temporalities and Material Culture”CFA: ARISC Teaching the South Caucasus Workshop!
Deadline: January 10, 2022
The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) in conjunction with the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center’s (REEEC) Summer Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite applications for the 2022 Teaching the South Caucasus workshop, a five-day forum focusing on curricular development for post-secondary educators, with a priority given to community college and minority serving institutions (CC/MSI).
In a five-day workshop participants will engage with topics on the history, societies, politics, environment, and culture of the South Caucasus; take part in pedagogical activities; conduct research at the University of Illinois’ world-renowned library; and workshop individual and group projects. Participants will work with scholars specializing in the South Caucasus who will give lectures, lead discussions, and provide feedback on participants’ projects. The workshop will also include a session with a UIUC librarian, three nightly films, one from each South Caucasian country, as well as a presentation from a regional film scholar.
Continue reading “CFA: ARISC Teaching the South Caucasus Workshop!”CFP: Princeton University Graduate Conference
Deadline: February 1, 2022
Princeton University Graduate Conference, May 13-14, 2022
*To Be Held In-Person*
The ‘Byt’ of Literature:
Literary Personalities, Scholarly Discourses and the Modes of Their Production
Co-organizers: Lidia Tripiccione and Benjamin Musachio, Princeton University
Keynote Speaker: Kevin M.F. Platt, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
In his most famous article, Boris Eikhenbaum showed how Gogol’s Overcoat was made: a literary text was presented as a product of meticulous fabrication. In his later work, Eikhenbaum similarly explored the constructed nature of the environment (byt) in which literature is produced. Focusing on social and artistic milieus, Eikhenbaum asked: How are poets and literary figures “made?” In responding to this question, we seek to refine, recast, and expand the Formalist mode of inquiry.
Continue reading “CFP: Princeton University Graduate Conference”Conference/CFP: Varlam Shalamov in the Context of Contemporaneity
Deadline: March 1, 2022
Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum, Moscow
June 23–24, 2022
Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum organizes the Conference dedicated to the Russian writer Varlam Shalamov and invites proposals on the works and life of Shalamov in the context of literature and arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Varlam Shalamov was an attentive observer of the events of his epoch. His diaries and letters are full of accurate remarks and portraits of his contemporaries. His works cannot be examined without the context of the epoch, the history of literature, and culture of the twentieth century. It is important how Shalamov is read and understood now. Poets and writers who found themselves with Shalamov in the same epoch, also tried in their own way to reflect on the twentieth century in all the senses that this concept means.
Continue reading “Conference/CFP: Varlam Shalamov in the Context of Contemporaneity”CFP: Mobilization through Sport in Southeast Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Deadline: February 2022
The spread of various forms of physical movement could also be observed in Southeast Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries, such as physical exercise, gymnastics and organized sports. The basis for these parallel developments included a new understanding of physicality resulting from the Enlightenment and of the relationship between humans and nature, a growing political awareness, various approaches to sporting activity (from national-mobilizing in the sense of Jahn’s gymnastics movement or the widespread “Sokol” groups among the Slavs up to internationalist-socialist) and a new understanding of leisure time, which in the middle-class milieu was derived from changed working hours and a new concept of consumption. In the 19th century, the middle class created associational structures that enabled leisure and exercise in the great outdoors, for example through the widespread hiking clubs, which mainly researched and mapped mountain landscapes through infrastructural measures, which in turn contributed to creating symbolic boundaries.
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Deadline: February 1, 2022
Cornell University Press
Central European University invites applications for a fully funded PhD Fellowship starting in the 2022/2023 academic year in the Gerda Henkel research programme Democracy in East Central European Utopianism hosted by the Democracy Institute (Budapest) of Central European University. While being a research affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute, the Fellow will pursue a PhD in Comparative History or Political Science and will be funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation’s AZ 01/DE/21 Grant. The PhD will be co-supervised by a CEU faculty member and the project’s Principal Investigator Professor Zsolt Czigányik.
Grad. Programs/Funding: PhD and MA Scholarships in Comparative History (Central European University, Vienna)
Deadline: February 1, 2022
Our department is pleased to announce its call for applications for graduate programs in History in Vienna in the fall of 2022. We offer one- and two-year MA programs, as well as a doctoral program, supported by scholarships and financial aid. The deadline for applications with financial aid is February 1, 2022 at 23:59 CET.
More information about the application process can be found on our departmental website: https://history.ceu.edu/howtoapply.
The department’s recruitment coordinator, Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek, will be happy to answer further questions about the programs and the application process on history@ceu.edu.
Central Eurasian Summer Studies Institute (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Deadline: February 1, 2022
CESSI typically offers courses in Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek. Additional Central Eurasian languages (such as Azerbaijani or Kyrgyz) may be added with sufficient student interest.
The priority application deadline is February 1, 2022.
We will be regularly posting information/application deadlines to Facebook (@CessiMadison), Instagram (@uwcessi), and Twitter (@UWCESSI).
For more information, please visit our website at cessi.wisc.edu or contact cessi@creeca.wisc.edu.