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CFP: AATSEEL Stream: Russian Poetry and Poetics

Deadline: August 15, 2021

Russian Poetry and Poetics

Poetry has been a key genre in many different periods of Russian literature, from the first intentionally literary attempts in the eighteenth century to the Golden Age of Pushkin, from the modernist proliferation of the early twentieth century to today’s globally distributed Russophone poetry. This stream aims to bring together scholars working on poetry today, to showcase and share new approaches to a wide range of poetic material. It features two panels exploring different aspects of Russian poetry: first, issues of poetics and stylistics, such as versification, figures of speech, and imagery, so as to explore how these aspects contribute to convey a poem’s meaning. The second panel considers pre-nineteenth-century elements in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poems, rooting them in their cultural background and illuminating links between distinct literary epochs.

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Emerging Translator Mentorships in Polish, Russian, Latvian, etc (National Centre for Writing)

Deadline: August 31, 2021

This year’s mentorships are:

  • Italian (mentored by Howard Curtis)
  • Japanese (mentored by Juliet Winters Carpenter)
  • Korean (mentored by Anton Hur)
  • Latvian (mentored by Kaija Straumanis)
  • Norwegian (mentored by Kari Dickson)
  • Polish (mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
  • Russian (mentored by Oliver Ready)
  • Swiss German (mentored by Jamie Lee Searle)
  • 2 x Visible Communities Mentorships: one mentorship for a UK-based Black or Brown literary translator and one for a UK-based literary translator from the diaspora, heritage or community languages of the UK(mentored by either Meena Kandasamy or Sawad Hussain)
  • British Centre for Literary Translation and British Council Mentorship: one mentorship for a literary translator currently resident in a country on the OECD list of countries qualifying for Official Development Assistance, or (in the case of refugees or asylum-seekers from ODA-eligible countries) who has been resident in their destination country for 12 months or fewer (mentored by Canan Marasligil). Two runners-up will receive two digital mentoring sessions each (mentored by Ros Schwartz)

Here is the link with all the info: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/emerging-translator-mentorships/apply-now-2/

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CFP: AATSEEL Stream: Carceral States in Slavic and East European Studies

Deadline: August 15, 2021

Welcoming proposals for a 2022 AATSEEL stream’s roundtable that will address approaches to teaching prison literature in classrooms and the practice of academics teaching literature in prisons.
Submissions are due by August 15 and should be made through the AATSEEL website.

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Resource: Memoirs of Russian, E European, and Eurasian Women (Slavic Reference Service)

The Slavic Reference Service is pleased to share with you a curated digital collection, Memoirs of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Women (https://archive.org/details/@slavic_reference_service?tab=collections). This is a collection of women’s memoirs from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century that were included in I.I. Iukina’s phenomenal work, ‘Istoriia zhenshchin Rossii: Zhenskoe dvizhenie i feminizm v 1850-1920-e gody. Materialy k bibliografii’.  Our goal is to amplify reference sources in REEES and help improve the overall research experience of scholars. So far, there are 90 titles in the collection and we continue to add and curate this collection. 

If you have questions or would like to collaborate on this project, please reach out to us at srscite@library.illinois.edu.

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Acad. Job: Russian Language Lab Instructor

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Macalester College in St. Paul, MN is seeking a Russian Language Lab Instructor for the 2021-2022 academic year. The language lab instructor provides Macalester students with supplemental classroom language instruction and organizes cultural activities. This part-time position is a good fit for candidates who reside in the Twin Cities.

Read on for details, and contact Julia Chadaga (chadaga@macalester.edu) if you are interested.

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Teaching Associate, Russian (Williams College)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Williams College Russian Program is still looking for a Teaching Associate for the 2021-2022 academic year. We are posting the anoiuncement once again because we have relaxed the language requirements a bit. 

-candidate must speak Russian at the superior level or higher (we are open to any academic background, from Russian, to physics, to theatre)

-must be able to obtain a visa or already reside in the US and be eligible to work here

-candidate must be able to work in person; Williams requires full vaccination against COVID-19

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Acad. Job: Associate Director of the Institute for European Studies and Polish Studies Center (University of Indiana, Bloomington)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The Institute for European Studies (EURO) in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies is the hub for academic programs and resources related to Europe and the European Union at Indiana University.

EURO is a US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center. We promote knowledge of the European region through education, scholarship, and public events.

For almost five decades, EURO has prepared students for work in a wide variety of fields, including government, business, academia, and K-12 education. Through our flexible degree programs, students have the opportunity to tailor an educational experience to their unique interests and goals. Course offerings from 20 departments in eight schools and the chance to study any of twenty European languages ensures that our students have the expertise, analytical ability, and communication skills necessary to be an asset to any team.

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Job: Diplomatic Couriers (US Department of State)

Deadline: Ongoing

Who May Apply

Must be a U.S. citizen. Potential applicants should read the entire announcement to ensure that they meet all of the requirements and understand a Foreign Service career. Applicants may not reapply for one year after the previous application for the same position. If a State Department Suitability Review Panel denied suitability in the last two years, you may not apply (except Diplomatic Security Special Agent (SA) candidates whose denial was based solely on the unique requirements for SAs.)

Duties

Summary

The U.S. Department of State is hiring Diplomatic Couriers (DSC). The salary listed is from the FS Base Schedule Payscale. In most cases, new-hires are paid at the FS Overseas Comparability Pay rate ($49,108 to $72,117). The Department of State offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Joining the Foreign Service is more than just salary.

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Online Ukrainian Course (University of Kansas)

The University of Kansas is offering first-year Ukrainian ONLINE in Fall 2021. UKRA 104: Elementary Ukrainian I is open to both KU and non-KU learners, for college credit (5 credits).  

UKRA 104 is mostly asynchronous: students work with materials in Canvas Monday through Thursday at their own pace and meet each Friday as a class for a one-hour session via Zoom. 

Among other materials, UKRA 104 uses the open-education web-based resource for learning basic Ukrainian grammar, Dobra Forma (https://dobraforma.ku.edu/), developed by the course’s instructor, Dr. Oleksandra Wallo.  

The course begins on August 23 and ends on December 17, 2021. Please email Dr. Wallo (owallo@ku.edu) with questions on how to enroll, the cost, or the course itself. 

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CFP: Screening Youth, Cinematic Representation of Youth During the Soviet/Post-Soviet Period

Deadline: August 20, 2021

Proposals are invited for a thematic cluster of articles to appear in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema on the topic of “Screening Youth,” to be published in early 2023; guest editor, Jenny Kaminer (Associate Professor of Russian, UC-Davis). Papers analyzing any aspect of the cinematic representation of youth during the Soviet- or post-Soviet periods—including close analyses of individual films or directors, as well as broader considerations of sociocultural and political questions—are welcome. Submissions that situate Soviet and/or Russian representations of youth on screen in the context of international cinematic trends are particularly welcome.

Please submit a short proposal (~200 words), along with a 1-page cv or short bio, to jekaminer@ucdavis.edu, by August 20, 2021.

Final submissions will be due by January 15, 2022.

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