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February 28, 2022April 14, 2022

Acad. Job: Senior Preceptor in Czech Language (Harvard University)

Deadline: March 1, 2022

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University seeks applications for a Senior Preceptor in Czech Language. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2022, with teaching and administrative responsibilities to begin in Fall Semester 2022. The job announcement is available at https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/10966 and is also reproduced below.

February 25, 2022April 14, 2022

Resources: Doctoral Student Peer Mentoring Program (Slavic Reference Service)

Deadline: March 18, 2022

The Slavic Reference Service will be facilitating the next cycle of the Doctoral Student Peer Mentoring Program this Spring. This program aims to connect doctoral students at all levels of study and in all disciplines conducting research related to Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasia. Through this program, we hope to foster networking and mentoring among emerging scholars. Interested students can register for the program here: https://forms.gle/D3qdzdWSBfb6NmcT9. Please register by March 18 to be mentor matched and participate in an initial meet and greet event. Questions may be directed to srscite@library.illinois.edu. We hope that you will encourage students to apply as mentees and mentors

February 25, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: Exclusions – Nationalities Affairs

Deadline: March 31, 2022

CFP for the new volume Sprawy Narodowościowe Seria Nowa / Nationalities Affairs (SNSN): EXCLUSIONS

“All paradises are designed by the people who are not allowed in”: Exclusion in and beyond Central Europe. Volume 54 of the journal will discuss the experiences, appearances and narratives of exclusion.

Our website: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sn/

Please find attached detailed information about the volume.

February 24, 2022April 14, 2022

Seminar: Voices from the Eastern European Anthropocene

Event Date: February 25, 2022

Anastasia Fomina: Voices from the Eastern European Anthropocene Workshop

Friday, February 25, 1 p.m. EST

Join us for a lecture, Q&A discussion, and workshop with Anastasia Fomina, Russian environmental activist. Anastasia Fomina is a youth activist and Fridays for Future Russia climate strike organizer from the industrial city of Arkhangelsk, Russia. She is also a lead organizer for the regional environmental movement “42” (Экологическое движение 42), which focuses on climate change education and waste processing in the Russian context. Fomina translates materials for the International Anti-Nuclear Network, holds solo pickets, organizes global strikes, and hosts lectures and film screenings about climate change. Fomina’s commitment to intersectional approaches to environmental activism has led her to coordinate the first feminist movement in Arkhangelsk.Conducted in Russian with English interpretation.Free and open to the public.Stay tuned for more information on future events in the Voices from the Eastern European Anthropocene speaker series featuring Svetlana Alexievich.

February 24, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: Redefining Borders and Peripheries in Central Asia and the Far East

Deadline: March 15, 2022

Virtual conference, May 23–24, 2022

See below or https://www.redefiningborders.com/ for more details.Call for Papers

The issue of borders has long been contested in Central Asia and the Far East with present-day consequences stretching from academic theorizations to military confrontations. These debates often fixate on the role of the state in drawing and fortifying boundaries with skewed historical arguments about glorified national pasts and anxieties about the future, often overlooking the complicated meaning and nuanced context in which borders are formulated. The outdated approaches, underpinned primarily by colonial and Eurocentric perspectives, have long limited directions in research, and necessitate rethinking and reformulation.

The purpose of the conference is to critically interrogate these conventional narratives and rethink the role of borders through a historical and anthropological perspective. By challenging the preoccupations around divisions and boundaries, the conference invites participants to consider the importance of hubs and mobilities throughout the modern age. We hope to bring together histories and ethnographies of mobility and the everyday in Central Asia and the Far East to challenge narratives of the periphery and frontier that continue to frame the region.

February 23, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: Decolonizing Eastern European Studies

Deadline: March 20, 2022

Decolonizing Eastern European Studies – Knowledge as an Object of Inquiry

May 13, 2022 (virtual)

Calls for decolonization have become a mainstream politics in contemporary academia: rethinking epistemology, destabilizing the canon, and challenging existing institutional structures. Eastern European Studies is no exception and numerous scholars wish to work toward a more relational, hybrid, and plural vision of the field. But what does it mean to decolonize Eastern European Studies? What is to be gained by decolonizing Eastern European Studies? How can this intellectual project advance our understanding of the region?

This interdisciplinary workshop invites proposals from advanced PhD students who are currently working on a publishable piece or a dissertation and are interested in rethinking epistemology and exploring the systems of knowledge production in and about Eastern Europe broadly understood. Some of the topics may include:the role of scholarship produced in the region and its languages for rethinking the interdisciplinary field of Eastern European Studies, the relation between knowledge production and politics, prospects and challenges of decolonial methodology, the role of the canon in sustaining systems of knowledge control, epistemological tensions and contradictions in studying the region, the relation between memory and history in decolonizing Eastern European Studies, access to and dissemination of knowledge, knowledge production in the moment of political and social change, challenges and prospects of comparative research in and outside the region.

February 23, 2022April 14, 2022

Acad. Job: Associate Prof. in Soviet History (University of Oxford)

Deadline: March 14, 2022

Please find full posting here: Associate Professorship in Soviet History at University of Oxford (jobs.ac.uk)

Deadline: March 14, 2022

We are seeking a highly motivated, inspirational historian of Soviet Russia and/or the Soviet Union to take up a joint post in the History Faculty and the interdisciplinary Russian and East European Studies programme (REES), which forms part of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). Russian History is a lively area in our large History Faculty, with three other postholders working in the modern period; connections between European and global history are strong, and the Faculty covers a very broad thematic range. In OSGA, the postholder will work alongside a team of six permanent REES staff who research Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives. The post is also attached to St Antony’s College, which specialises in Area Studies and has a long association with Soviet Studies. The successful applicant will join its Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre.

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

CFA: Marc Raeff Book Prize

Deadline: June 15, 2022

The Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, an affiliate organization of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for the 2022 annual Marc Raeff Book Prize. We encourage both presses and individual scholars to submit nominations to the members of the prize committee (listed below).

The Raeff Book Prize is awarded for a publication that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for understanding Imperial Russia during the long 18th century. The recipient of the award will be recognized with a cash prize, which will be presented in November 2022 during the ASEEES annual convention in Chicago. The award is sponsored by the ECRSA and named in honor of Marc Raeff (1923-2008), historian, teacher, and dix-huitièmiste par excellence.

February 21, 2022April 14, 2022

Job Posting: Outreach Coordinator (University of Kansas)

Deadline: March 1, 2022

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Kansas (KU) is seeking an Outreach Coordinator to develop Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia-related programs, events, and resources for teachers, students, and the general public. The position will support CREES’ mission as a National Resource Center on this culturally and geopolitically crucial world region.

To learn more and apply for this position, please click here.

Review of applications begins Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Please contact Prof. Erik R. Scott at scott@ku.edu or KU CREES at crees@ku.edu if you have any further questions.

February 21, 2022April 14, 2022

Lang. Training: Center for Language Studies Summer Program (Beloit College)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The 39-year-strong Center for Language Studies language program at Beloit College will offer in Summer 2022 Chinese, Japanese and RUSSIAN languages, first through fourth year college level!

We remain committed to a world-class summer language immersion experience for students, while remaining safe and reliable. Our superb instructional team is already planning an engaging, interactive and exciting program in-person.

Dates in 2022:

June 18th through August 5th

Session 1: June 18th – July 12th

Session 2: July 12th – August 5th

Students earn 8 US undergraduate credits for the full 7-week

program!

For details: www.beloit.edu/cls, or write to Olga Ogurtsova at ogurtsov@beloit.edu