CREEES Professional Resources Forum
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
The Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University invites applications for a full-time position of Specially Appointed Associate Professor (non-tenured, four-year contract) in Post-Soviet politics with a focus on Russia, beginning on April 1, 2023.
The applicant must hold a PhD degree and a near-native level of English and Russian proficiency. After employment, the applicant should acquire basic knowledge of the Japanese language.
The Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations at Pomona College is currently accepting applications for the 2023-2024 academic year Language Resident positions!
Language Residents (LRs) are university graduates from a range of countries who are native speakers of one of the six main languages taught at Pomona: Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Japanese, Russian, or Spanish. Each year, Oldenborg recruits, hires, and trains these early-career professionals to come to Pomona College to mentor and instruct students in the target language. LRs do this through teaching conversation classes, supporting language tables, mentoring students in the language residence hall, organizing cultural events, and much more!
Information about the position and the application process can be found here:
https://www.pomona.edu/administration/oldenborg-center/opportunities/prospective-language-residents
Questions can be sent to oldenborg@pomona.edu.
Just a reminder that AATSEEL’s Certificate Program in Diverse and Inclusive Pedagogies (CDIPS) is now accepting applications for our second cohort. We invite applications from all professionals in the field of Slavic studies.
Applications are due October 15, 2022.
The CDIPS program supplies professionals in the field of Slavic languages and literatures with knowledge and training to address issues of diversity, inclusivity, equality, and justice in our teaching practice. We seek to support teachers, foster community, attract a broader range of students to the study of Russian/Slavic languages and literatures, and better support our learners of all cultural, linguistic, and gender identities and sexual orientations. The program includes a series of online sessions and culminates in a final project designing or revamping a course or unit using DEIAJ strategies and principles.
Application can be found at: https://www.aatseel.org/development/certificate/certificate-application
For more information please see our website: https://www.aatseel.org/development/certificate/
For questions or concerns please reach out to Jillian Costello at aatseelcertificate@usc.edu.
Organizers: Edyta Bojanowska and Claire Roosien, Yale University
Conference at Yale University, May 1-2, 2023 (New Haven, Connecticut)
The familiar icon of Russian imperial expansion is the violent nineteenth-century conquest of the exotic mountainous region of the Caucasus. The imperial pen – of Pushkin, Tolstoy, and others – has eagerly followed the imperial bayonet to the Caucasus. Yet the imperial plow was no less a tool of conquest than the pen or the bayonet. This conference aims to shift scholarly attention away from the high drama of military conquest to the understudied processes of settler colonization and to their cultural echoes in the Russian and Soviet empires. More than anything else, it is the activities of the Russian and Soviet agricultural settler that ultimately bound various non-Russian peripheral regions to the social and cultural imaginaries of “Russia” and established enduring forms of imperial control. The idea of settler colonization came to be viewed as Russia’s manifest destiny: its mission to settle “empty” spaces, binding them to the Russian core in the process. The Slavic settler became the key Kulturträger of Russia’s civilizing mission, especially in the east and south.
Continue reading “CFP: “The Imperial Plow: Settler Colonialism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union””The Harry S. Truman Scholarship provides $30,000 towards a public service-related graduate degree to students who aspire to work in a public service career. The Truman foundation broadly defines public service to include employment in government, public-interest organizations, nongovernmental research, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Juniors, or seniors, graduating in 2023-24, OR, seniors graduating early (3 years or less) in 2022-23 are eligible to apply.
The campus deadline for the Truman Scholarship is October 28, 2022. For more information, students can visit the ODPS website.
Concordia Language Villages (MN) has an immediate opening for an Instructor of Russian for the series of iso-immersion courses offered during the 2022-23 academic year.
The closest sessions are scheduled for the following periods:
11/06/22 – 11/19/22;11/28/22 – 12/17/22;
03/20/23 – 03/31/23;
03/31/23 – 04/06/23.
A successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the U.S., have native or near-native fluency in Russian, experience teaching adult students at the intermediate-high to advanced levels, and be comfortable working in a team.
Compensation depends on qualification with a minimum pay of $1,400/week for 100% appointment, plus room and board as well as airline travel or reimbursement of mileage expenses to and from the training site in Bemidji, Minnesota.
Continue reading “Job Posting: Instructor of Russian (Concordia Language Villages)”Boston University’s Department of World Languages & Literatures invites applications for a renewable full-time Lecturer in Russian beginning July 1, 2023. The position is a professional career track with possibility of growth. The successful candidate’s responsibilities will include teaching five Russian courses per academic year, ranging from basic language to advanced content-based courses. The candidate will also serve as Coordinator of BU’s Russian Language program: developing curriculum; collaborating closely with faculty in Russian, other languages, and in related fields across campus. Demonstrated ability to train and mentor instructors; to administer a program; and to use digital learning platforms and other instructional technologies are highly desirable. Requirements include an MA (at minimum) in Russian or a related field; native or near-native command of Russian and English; commitment to a proficiency-based communicative curriculum; leadership and administrative ability; familiarity with the North American higher education system; and demonstrated excellence in college-level Russian language teaching.
Continue reading “Acad. Job: Lecturer in Russian, Boston University”The Department of Slavic Studies at Brown University invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, beginning July 2023.
Qualified candidates will have native or near-native fluency in Russian and a strong background in the last four centuries of Russian literature and culture (documented by publication/s). We seek a dynamic teacher and an original scholar who can teach across different periods and genres of Russian literature, including the XVIII century. We expect a successful candidate to be able to teach from an interdisciplinary perspective in dialogue with other branches of the humanities, such as visual studies, art history, or theater and performing arts.
Candidates should provide: a letter of application; a dissertation abstract; a current CV; one writing sample of scholarly work (25pp maximum); three confidential letters of recommendation; and a brief description of research, teaching (including teaching evaluations), and service. This description should demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Continue reading “Acad. Job: Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, Brown University”Please find below details of 2 post-doc positions in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME) and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford on Reproductive Mobilities in Central Asia
I’m seeking to recruit 2 full time post-doctoral researchers and a project officer (0.5FTE) to join a new Wellcome-funded project on reproductive mobilities in Central Asia (‘repromobilities’). The posts are for 33 months in the first instance (36 months for the Project Officer position) and Oxford-based, though I am very happy to consider and advocate for partial remote working where this better suits the right candidate. It is anticipated that the two post-docs will be engaged in 10 months’ ethnographic fieldwork in Central Asia from October 2023.
The announcement and links to the further particulars, including application details, are available here for the post-doc positions, and for the project officer position here.
Continue reading “Job Posting: Project Officer and Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology”We are now inviting paper proposals for the international workshop “Witnessing the Now: Challenges of Emergency Documenting and Archiving in a Comparative Perspective”, that will take place in Warsaw, 23-25 February, 2023.
https://swiadectwawojny2022.org/en/#news
The escalation of Russian aggression against Ukraine – an attack launched almost all over its territory in February 2022 – has triggered numerous initiatives documenting the atrocities of the Russian aggressors and the experiences of refugees in and out of that country. The project “24.02.2022, 5 am: Testimonies from the War” was initiated by the Center for Urban History in Lviv and, apart from Ukraine, is now being implemented in Poland, Luxembourg and Scotland. Reaching the mid-term point in the process of testimony gathering, we would like to share our experience with colleagues carrying out similar projects, encourage the exchange of knowledge and know-how and initiate discussion about methodological and ethical problems of emergency documenting and archiving.
Continue reading “CFP: International Workshop “Witnessing the Now: Challenges of Emergency Documenting and Archiving in a Comparative Perspective””