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April 20, 2023April 20, 2023

Funding: 2023 “Bobby R. Inman Award” for Student Scholarship on Intelligence

Deadline: June 30, 2023

The Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin announces the 9th annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. The winner of the “Inman Award” will receive a cash prize of $5,000, with two semifinalists each receiving a cash prize of $2,500. This competition is open to unpublished work by undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in degree programs at accredited U.S. higher education institutions during the 2022-23 academic year. The deadline for submitting papers is June 30, 2023.

The Intelligence Studies Project was established at The University of Texas at Austin in 2013 as a joint venture of the Clements Center for National Security and theStrauss Center for International Security and Law with the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The Project’s mission is to improve understanding of intelligence activities and institutions through research, courses, and public events bringing intelligence practitioners together with scholars, students, and the public.

April 20, 2023June 12, 2023

Job Posting: Summer Resident / Teaching Assistant at STARTALK Program (University of Pittsburgh)

Deadline: April 28, 2023

With an upcoming deadline of 28 April (in ten days), the University of Pittsburgh STARTALK is looking for a Resident / Teaching Assistant for three weeks for this summer (June 25 – July 15) for on-campus residence, meals, and Russian-only living with high-school students. The position is open to US citizens or permanent residents only.

The link is below. The job entails (among other things: see official description!):

· Help to maintain a Russian-only language environment

· Live in the dormitory with students to ensure continuous adult supervision and safe environment

· Join students and staff at all meals

· Provide tutoring and lead study groups and Russian conversation practice sessions

· Assist the program instructors with organizing and chaperoning cultural and co-curricular activities

· Organize evening & weekend activities in the dormitory connected “That Diverse Russian-Speaking World!”

· Attend a 1-day virtual training workshop immediately before the start; attend all staff meetings

April 20, 2023June 12, 2023

CFP: 22nd Annual Aleksanteri Conference, “Decolonizing Space in the Global East”

Deadline: May 1, 2023

We welcome submissions to the 22nd Annual Aleksanteri Conference

This year’s conference will address changes in the relationships within and between the former communist countries of the Global East, by which we mean the region that has been labelled as post/former -Soviet, -socialist, -communist, -imperial.

In particular, we encourage colleagues to propose panels and papers that address the conference’s principal themes of legal choices, political transformations, and carceral practices. We also welcome submissions on recent research across a broad range of disciplines, including (but not limited to) law, geography, politics, history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, literature and language, and international relations.

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2023

DECOLONIZING SPACE IN THE GLOBAL EAST

Legal Choices, Political Transformations, Carceral Practices

Aleksanteri Conference 2023 | 25–27 October
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland

Link with further information: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/decolonizing-space-global-east

To contact the organizing committee, please email mfcree-aleksconf@helsinki.fi.

April 20, 2023June 12, 2023

Conference: Alison Des Forges Symposium on “The Russo-Ukrainian War: Achievements and Limitations of Today’s International System” (University of Buffalo)

Event Date: April 26, 2023

This symposium will examine the Russo-Ukrainian War and what it tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary international system. It will explore war crimes, crimes against humanity and alleged genocide arising from the conflict. It will also revisit the enduring dichotomy between Russian authoritarian imperialism and Ukrainian democratic nationalism.

April 13, 2023June 12, 2023

Job Posting: Program Officer/Assistant Program Officer Southeast Europe, National Endowment for Democracy

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a 501(c)3 grantmaking foundation that receives an annual Congressional appropriation in excess of $310 million and is governed by a private, bipartisan Board of Directors. This unusual arrangement positions NED to play a unique role as America’s leading foundation for freedom, empowering the institution to be nimble, innovative, and risk-taking in support of democratic activists, civil society organizations, independent media, and the NED family core institutes (the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, the Center for International Private Enterprise, and the Solidarity Center).

We seek a motivated, energetic, organized, and resourceful Program Officer/Assistant Program Officer Southeast Europe who is a mission-oriented team player, and who would be excited to join a fast-paced Europe programs team. This position is based in Washington, D.C.

April 13, 2023June 12, 2023

CFP: GCE-HSG 2023 Conference-Environment, Energy and Economy in the Black Sea Region

Deadline: May 16, 2023

The Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland invites paper proposals for a conference “Environment, Energy and Economy in the Black Sea Region,” to be held in Constanţa, Romania, 14-16 September 2023

The rich and complex history of the Black Sea Region is very much entangled with struggles and conflicts over its resources and with empires and nation-states’ efforts to manage them. Even currently, international energy, grain, and transportation crises caused by the Russian war on Ukraine are closely connected to the Black Sea. In addition to the obvious energy and economic instability, the war creates numerous ecological challenges and is extremely harmful to the environment. These events and threats in the region create a growing demand for platforms for multidisciplinary analysis and expertise. By examining the region’s past and present through various lenses, including politics, governance, economics, social justice, and technology, the conference will contribute to a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the region’s development.

Constanţa, the venue of the event, is an outstanding location for a discussion about the environment, energy, and economy in the region. The city, a former capital of the historical border region Dobruja, has one of the biggest ports on the Black Sea and entered the Danube–Black Sea Canal, a large-scale navigable artificial watercourse.

April 11, 2023April 11, 2023

Prof. Dev: Hemispheres at UT Austin K-12 Teacher Trainings

Hemispheres: The International Outreach Consortium at UT Austin will be hosting several K-12 Teacher Professional Development trainings this summer. Please see below for information on each of the sessions.

Summer Institute: Critical Literacy for Global Citizens

Wednesday June 7, 2023
9:00 am
RLP 1.302 B | Glickman Conference Center

Hemispheres Summer Institute 2023: From Global to Local: Strategies for Teaching About the World Through Migrations

Monday June 12, 2023
9:00 am
Glickman Conference Center, UT Austin

Teaching from Digital Archives Summer Institute June 20-23, 2023 – Presented by Hemispheres Consortium and UTeach Liberal Arts

Tuesday June 20, 2023
9:00 am
Online

April 11, 2023June 12, 2023

CFP: 2023 Midwest Slavic Association Student Essay Prize Competition

Deadline: May 1, 2023

The Midwest Slavic Association, with support from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for its annual essay prize competition for undergraduate and graduate students. Students can submit a paper on any topic related to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies to the Midwest Slavic Association for consideration. The best undergraduate paper received will win a one-year membership to ASEEES, and the graduate winner will receive a one-year membership to ASEEES, as well as then being considered for the ASEEES Graduate Student Essay Prize national level competition. The graduate winner of the ASEEES Student Essay Prize at the national level wins travel, lodging, and registration for the Annual ASEEES Convention and membership for the following year. The prize is presented during the awards presentation at the Annual Convention.

Undergraduate paper submissions can be in a variety of formats, including: conference paper, thesis, course paper, or article. They should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages including notes and bibliography. Entries must be submitted electronically and written in English.

Graduate essay submissions can be of several formats: expanded versions of conference papers, graduate level seminar papers, Master’s thesis chapters, or dissertation chapters. The student should indicate what type of paper they are submitting and provide an abstract. Essays should have a minimum word count of 7,500 and a maximum word count of 14,000 (25 to 50 pages approximately) inclusive of footnotes and bibliography. Submissions must be written in English, double-spaced, and include footnotes or endnotes.

All submissions are due Monday, May 1, 2023, and should be emailed to The Ohio State University’s Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at cseees@osu.edu. Students who wish to submit an essay should have participated in the 2023 Midwest Slavic Conference, or be from an institution in the Midwest (defined as any college or university in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin). With your submission, please also include the following:a short bio of the author an abstract of the essay indicate the format of the essay

Please visit ASEEES’ website for full information on the national level competition: http://aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes/graduate-student-essay-prize.

April 11, 2023June 12, 2023

Conference: Symposium on Ukrainian Cultural and Linguistic Shift, University of Illinois

Event Dates: April 19, 21, and 26, 2023

The Russian-Ukrainian war of the 21st century aimed not only to physically destroy Ukraine but also to expand the linguistic borders of the “Russian world,” denationalize Ukraine, and reestablish the cultural dominance of Russia over the Ukrainian people. The war that began in 2014 and intensified in the last year’s invasion has led to a cultural and linguistic shift from Russian to Ukrainian among much of the Ukrainian population. On April 19, 21, and 26, 2023, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host a virtual symposium titled “Away from the Empire: The Linguistic and Cultural Shift in Ukraine in the Wake of the Russian Invasion” that will explore this topic. The symposium will feature seven Ukrainian scholars (linguists, sociologists, literary scholars, ethnologists, and political scientists) and practitioners (front-line interpreters embedded with the Ukrainian Armed Forces). We kindly invite you to this exciting event. The symposium is supported by the Center for Global Studies and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois.

For the program, registration link, and other information, please see the symposium webpage:

https://cgs.illinois.edu/spotlight/global-intersections-project/symposium-ukrainian-cultural-and-linguistic-shift

April 11, 2023April 11, 2023

Resources: Russian Independent Media Archive

The Gagarin Center at Bard College is partnering with PEN America to launch the Russian Independent Media Archive (RIMA), a project that aims to preserve the last two decades of independent Russian journalism, an irreplaceable historical record at risk of erasure as Russian media outlets not aligned with the regime of President Vladimir Putin are shuttered and their reporters and editors are cast into exile. The project is inspired by Masha Gessen, Bard faculty member and trustee of PEN America, a nonprofit organization that works to defend free expression worldwide through the advancement of literature and human rights, and made possible with the support of Edwin Barbey Charitable Trust, advised by PEN America trustee Peter Barbey.

Launched with the content from more than a dozen outlets and a half-million entries, the digital archive will include over 519,000 documents from more than 70 independent national, regional, investigative and cultural news outlets published since President Putin took office in 2000. The archive will make the journalism of this pivotal period accessible to the reporters, historians, political scientists and other researchers whose work counters propaganda-driven manipulation of Russia’s historical narrative. The archives may be viewed here.

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which contributes to archiving and securing data from Russian media and provides technical consultations, is also collaborating on the project. With the support of the Mass Media Defence Center, PEN America is entering into licensing agreements with participating outlets to protect their copyright while the archive serves as a secure home for the content.