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October 24, 2022December 5, 2022

Funding: New Europe College Fellowships

Deadline: January 9, 2023

Academic year 2023/2024

New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest (Romania) launches the annual competition for the 2023/2024 NEC Fellowships. Romanian and international scholars (at postdoctoral level) in all fields of the humanities and social sciences (including law and economics) are invited to apply.

What we offer: The Fellowship consists of: a monthly stipend of 850 Euros (tax free); accommodation in Bucharest, comprising living quarters and working space; reimbursement of travel costs from the home/residence country to Bucharest and back. Fellows who stay for the whole academic year are offered a one-month research trip to an institution of their choice. Fellows have free access to the NEC library and electronic resources.

What we expect: Fellows are expected to work on their projects and take part in the scientific events organized by NEC; presence at the weekly seminars discussing the work in progress of the Fellows is compulsory. At the end of their Fellowship, Fellows are expected to hand in a research paper, reflecting the results of their work over the duration of the Fellowship. The papers will be included in a NEC publication.

Eligibility: NEC Fellowships are open to postdoctoral level scholars, Romanian and international, in all fields of the humanities and social sciences.

Duration: For Romanian citizens: a full academic year (10 months, starting with October 2023); for non-Romanian citizens: a full academic year or one term (5 months, starting with October 2023 or March 2024).

How to apply: Applications (in English, French or German) will be submitted in electronic format only, using the on-line form available at applications.nec.ro. See the guidelines below to make sure you have all the needed documents to fill in the form. Please also note that English is the preferred language of communication during most NEC events.

October 24, 2022December 5, 2022

Funding: Swiss Government EXCELLENCE Scholarships 2023/2024

Deadline: November 20, 2022

Each year the Swiss Confederation awards Government Excellence Scholarships to promote international exchange and research cooperation between Switzerland and over 180 other countries. Recipients are selected by the awarding body, the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS).

The Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships are aimed at young researchers from abroad who have completed a master’s degree or PhD and at foreign artists holding a bachelor’s degree.

Full description of the scholarships can be found here on the web-page of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Science and Innovation.

Types of scholarship

The research scholarship is available to post-graduate researchers in any discipline (who hold a master’s degree as a minimum) who are planning to come to Switzerland to pursue research or further studies at doctoral or post-doctoral level. Research scholarships are awarded for research or study at all Swiss cantonal universities, universities of applied sciences and the two federal institutes of technology. Only candidates nominated by an academic mentor at one of these higher education institutions will be considered. Art scholarships are open to art students wishing to pursue an initial master’s degree in Switzerland. Art scholarships are awarded for study at any Swiss conservatory or university of the arts. This scholarship is available to students from a limited number of countries only.

October 24, 2022May 3, 2023

Study Abroad: Security and Society in the Information Age (SRAS)

Deadline: March 1, 2023

You are invited to an Info Session about the Security and Society Summer School, hosted by Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland. This Info Session will take place on Saturday, October 29, 11:00am – 12:00pm EASTERN and will start with an introductory lecture “Terrorism and other Security Threats – CEE Perspectives” followed by Q&A and information on the summer school.

Now in its 9th year, the Security and Society Summer School has provided participants with unique perspectives on security issues in Central Europe. It is a 4-week in-person course, based in Warsaw with travel to Berlin and Krakow, followed by two additional weeks online completing a research paper as part of an internship with the Terrorism Research Centre. These papers will be published in Volume 6 of Security and Society in the Information Age.

The course offers a broad overview of the modern security challenges faced by the countries of Central Europe and more broadly by NATO and the European Union. This year we will focus on the regional and global implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, along with the broad topics of war, international law relating to war, and peacebuilding. Other topics include hybrid threats, cybersecurity, and terrorism.

October 20, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: Towards Decolonizing Eastern European and Eurasian Art and Material Culture: From the 1800s to the Present

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Proposed edited volume by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary) and Alla Myzelev (SUNY at Geneseo)

The world had changed forever after February 24, 2022, when the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. Before this invasion, it de facto occupied Belarus in 2021 and later used its territory as a launch pad for shelling Ukraine. Currently, all other neighboring countries are expressing their concerns about the future intentions of Russia, which allegedly claims that its borders be reinstated to the former Russian empire or the USSR. The urgency to reassess Russian and Slavic studies is imperative in this outrageous geopolitical situation. The evidence that we should decolonize many subfields, including art and material culture in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, is only growing.

October 20, 2022May 3, 2023

Lang. Training: STARTALK Institute on Proficiency-Based Pedagogy for Russian (Middlebury College)

Deadline: February 1, 2023

We invite everyone interested to apply for the 2023-24 Startalk Institute on Proficiency-Based Pedagogy for Russian based at the Middlebury College School of Russian. This year-long cost-free program offers intensive training in proficiency-oriented teaching of adult learners (high school and post-secondary) that is grounded in second language acquisition theory and evidence-based teaching practices. The program comprises three modules totaling 128 instructional hours:

Pre-immersion online session: Exploration of foundational principles of proficiency-based pedagogy

May 15, 2023 – June 30, 2023 (two 90-minute sessions per week)

Residential session on Middlebury campus: Practical applications of these principles in the full language immersion environment of the School of Russian

July 18 – August 2, 2023

Post-immersion online session: Knowledge and skill enhancement in a community of practice

September 30, 2023 – May 15, 2024 (one 90-minute session per month)

October 20, 2022December 5, 2022

Job Posting: Jewish Studies Librarian (Emory University)

Deadline: November 7, 2022; Open Until Filled

Please apply online at
http://apply.interfolio.com/115163

Position Summary
Reporting to the International Area Studies team leader the Jewish Studies
Librarian will be involved and engaged in the entire life-cycle of research,
teaching and learning processes. They will collaborate with and support
faculty in course-specific ways, including providing point of need instruction
sessions and assignments, research guides and/or tutorials. Focused primarily
on the The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies (TIJS) at Emory University, the
librarian will provide a full range of subject specific library services to
include collection development, consultation, instruction, reference services,
cataloging and assessment for the department and the programs housed within
it. The Jewish Studies Librarian will create and sustain working relationships
with fellow subject librarians, other Emory Library units, departments, and
campus entities and sustain strong relationships with Emory Libraries Access
and Resource Services division (ARS), Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship
(ECDS), and Academic Technology Services. The Jewish Studies Librarian will
also provide reference assistance and research support as needed.

Emory Libraries requires that our employees recognize diversity, equity, and
inclusion as essential core values to achieving our mission to enrich the
quality of life in an inclusive work environment through competency training,
reassurance of personal growth, restorative communication practices, and
embrace our diverse identities of patrons within the Emory community.

October 19, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: Diversifying Slavic: New Approaches to the Field

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Diversifying Slavic: New Approaches to the Field

Harvard University Graduate Conference, March 10-11, 2023

To Be Held In-Person

Co-organizers: Alex Braslavsky and Anna Vichkitova, Harvard University

In recent months, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has challenged scholars in Slavic studies to collectively rethink approaches to the field. Our aim for this conference is to invite fellow graduate students from other universities to join us in engaging these new and developing approaches to the region. We intend to have broad representation of many Slavic literatures and cultures along with from Russian on the panels to make for comprehensive discussion. We are interested in films and works of literature as well as other cultural representations.

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

Grad. Program: Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (The Ohio State University)

Deadline: December 31, 2022

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio welcomes applicants to our MA/Ph.D. program for Autumn semester 2023.

The Department offers graduate students a stimulating intellectual environment and generous financial support. Our graduate course offerings appeal to a broad range of intellectual interests, with three major areas of concentration: Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies; Slavic Linguistics; and Second Language Acquisition (SLA).

We are also admitting students for our terminal MA program, the Russian for the Professions specialization. This program strives to bring students to the advanced level on the ACTFL scale and features curriculum focused on advanced Russian language, developing applied language skills, and application in different professional fields, such as research, translation, business, data analytics, media, and the problems of global human trafficking.

October 19, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: ACLA 2023 “Comparative Slavic”

Deadline: October 31, 2022

Comparative Slavic

Historically, the philological traditions of Slavic Studies have proven somewhat resistant to comparativist inquiry. Yet Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, as well as a long overdue reckoning with the question of race in research and professional practices, have brought into focus the urgent imperative to decolonize and diversify the scope of Slavic Studies. What tools from Comparative Literature might help to fuel this revision?

This seminar aims to bridge the banks of Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies. It invites papers from scholars writing for audiences in both fields and hopes to provide a space for productive conversations about their respective disciplinary expectations, conventions, and trends, while also forging paths for new directions. We welcome papers that explicitly address these questions of disciplinarity, as well as those drawn from exemplary research that straddles the Slavic/Comp Lit divide and that blend a commitment to philological precision with comparative theoretical inquiry. We also especially welcome contributions from graduate students who are expecting to go on the job market in both Comparative Literature and Slavic, as the stream will aim to provide a space to think through strategies for reaching these different audiences.

October 19, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War

Deadline: November 10, 2022

Call for Papers:

International Workshop: A Music So Popular That No Curtain Could Contain: Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War

New Europe College (Bucharest, Romania), December 5, 2022

The purpose of the workshop “Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War” is to investigate the means through which popular music developed in the Eastern Bloc and circulated across borders and the Iron Curtain (on either side). In particular, we are interested in exploring how popular music was influenced by cultural, technological, and informal transfers, by the larger processes of modernization and development of leisure life, as well as by institutional cooperation between various states, either within the Socialist Bloc, or beyond it.