UCL Press is delighted to present an open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region: Sea Changes, by William Wheeler. Download it free: https://bit.ly/3IfJAPm ******************************************* Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region Sea Changes by William Wheeler Free download: https://bit.ly/3IfJAPm ******************************************* The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration. ‘Environment and Post-Soviet Transformation in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region’ is the first book to explore what these monumental changes have meant to those living on the sea’s shores. Following the fluctuating fortunes of the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet fisheries, the book shows how the vast environmental changes the region has undergone cannot be disentangled from the transformations of Soviet socialism and postsocialism. This ethnographic perspective prompts a critical rethinking of the category of environmental disaster through which the region is predominantly known. Tracing how the sea’s retreat and partial return have been apprehended by diverse local actors in the former port of Aral’sk and surrounding fishing villages, as well as by scientists, bureaucrats and international development workers, William Wheeler draws out the multiple meanings environmental change acquires within different contexts. This study of how people make their lives amidst overlapping ecological and political-economic upheavals is rich in ethnographic detail that is both rooted in Soviet legacies and alive to the new transnational connections that are reshaping the region. Offering a rigorous political ecology of Soviet socialism and after, the book is a major contribution to the nascent environmental anthropology of Central Asia. It will be of interest to environmental anthropologists, environmental historians, and scholars of all disciplines working on Central Asia and the former USSR. Free download: https://bit.ly/3IfJAPm ———————- uclpress.co.uk
CFP: Volume on the History of Moscow
Deadline: Open Until Filled
This is a call for potential contributors to a book-length collection of recent historical scholarship on Moscow for which I will serve as editor.
This volume’s scope is the history of Moscow from its origins to the present day.
In terms of length, each chapter should contain a minimum of 2000-3000 words, although longer submissions will be considered.
The volume would be published by Routledge, a major academic publisher and division of Taylor and Francis, in 2025 or later as a part of the Routledge Handbooks series.
If you are interested in participating in this project, please contact me at cward@clayton.edu.
Acad. Job: Professor in Russian Language Pedagogy and Applied Linguistics (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)
Deadline: March 26, 2023
POSITION OVERVIEW
Position title: Professor in Russian language pedagogy and applied linguistics
Salary range: $88,300 to $188,400
APPLICATION WINDOW
Open date: February 16, 2023
Next review date: Sunday, Mar 19, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Sunday, Mar 26, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.POSITION DESCRIPTION
The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures invites applications for a faculty appointment in Russian language pedagogy and applied linguistics at the advanced assistant, associate, or full professor level, beginning July 1, 2023. A thorough familiarity with L2 and heritage language learning and teaching, the use of digital resources and social media in Russian language pedagogy, and methodologies employed in Russian Flagship programs are desirable. The appointee will be expected to conduct research and provide related instructional activity in overseeing the Department’s various language offerings (principally in Russian, but also B/C/S, Polish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Romanian and possibly other languages), to direct the Russian Flagship Program and oversee its renewal, and possibly to provide leadership in other institutional language-related programs and centers in the University’s International Institute. Dynamic teaching skills are essential; responsibilities include teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, dissertation supervision, independent study courses and sharing in departmental administration. Applicants should have a PhD in hand by the time of appointment (July 1, 2023).
Continue reading “Acad. Job: Professor in Russian Language Pedagogy and Applied Linguistics (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)”Acad. Job: Russian Language and Film Instructor (Dalhousie University)
Deadline: April 1, 2023
The Dalhousie University Department of Russian Studies seeks applications for a 12-month 100% full-time limited term appointment (August 1, 2023 – July 31, 2024) at the Instructor level in Russian language and film. The position is subject to budgetary approval. The instructor will teach beginner and intermediate level Russian language classes, as well as two courses on Russian and Eastern European cinema. In addition, the instructor will be expected to oversee the establishment of a study abroad program for the Russian program. Travel abroad with the students to ensure the effective functioning of the program may be required (or alternate means of program oversight). The workload is equivalent to four full-credit (eight half-credit) classes per year.
Applicants should have a PhD in Russian; however, applicants with an MA degree may also be considered on an individual basis. Native or native-equivalent command of Russian and English, as well as experience in teaching the Russian language and Eastern European cinema are required. The successful candidate will possess strong organizational and administrative skills. Candidates should provide a cover letter, up-to-date curriculum vitae, statement of teaching interests and philosophy, evidence of teaching effectiveness. Applications are to be submitted online by clicking “Apply for this Job” above.
The Posting can be found at https://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/12859
Applications will be accepted until April 1st, 2023.
Continue reading “Acad. Job: Russian Language and Film Instructor (Dalhousie University)”Mykola Zerov Fellow in Ukrainian Studies (University of Melbourne)
Deadline: March 27, 2023
As the Mykola Zerov Fellow, you will conduct research relevant to Ukrainian Studies within the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (SHAPS). In addition, you will produce publications appropriate to your academic discipline on the basis of that research.
This is primarily a research role, however, 10% of your workload will be devoted to teaching that contributes to undergraduate programs and 15% will be devoted to activities that expand knowledge about Ukraine to a broader audience, including specific members of the community in Victoria and Australia-wide. This may include specific projects, such as collaborative research on community-held archival material; public and community lectures and seminars or engagement programs; communications or social media engagements; and a range of other outreach activities that further objectives agreed upon by the Head of School.
Continue reading “Mykola Zerov Fellow in Ukrainian Studies (University of Melbourne)”Prof. Dev: New Views on Sovereignty in Eurasia Workshop
Deadline: March 10, 2023
Greetings and warm wishes from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center and the Slavic Reference Service invite faculty, graduate students, early career scholars, independent researchers, and policy analysts to participate in the upcoming workshop, New Views on Sovereignty in Eurasia, on June 19th-20th, 2023. Scholars will be able to participate in person and virtually through Zoom.
Dr. Leone Musgrave (United States Army War College) and Dr. Kristoffer Rees (Indiana University East) will be leading this workshop as co-moderators.
This workshop will examine issues of sovereignty and national security in contemporary Eurasia. With competing spheres of influence, the post-Soviet space is undergoing rapid changes that are reshaping US foreign policy and causing widespread instability in the region. The workshop will critically apply multidisciplinary perspectives in order to contextualize regional trends.
Continue reading “Prof. Dev: New Views on Sovereignty in Eurasia Workshop”Prof. Dev: Language Learning and Language Competencies for Field Research in Eurasian Studies Workshop
Deadline: March 10, 2023
Greetings and warm wishes from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center and the Slavic Reference Service invite faculty, graduate students, language workshop participants, early career scholars, and independent researchers to participate in the upcoming workshop, Language Learning and Language Competencies for Field Research in Eurasian Studies, on June 15th-16th, 2023. Scholars will be able to participate in person and virtually through Zoom.
Dr. Timothy K. Blauvelt (Ilia State University) and Dr. Naira Sahakyan (The Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute) will be leading this workshop as co-moderators.
In recent years, there has been soul searching in ethnography about the challenges of “researching multilingually,” including calls for more reflection and openness about language learning and language competences for fieldwork. In this workshop, the participants will be invited to explore a potential range of such questions: how to go about gaining language skills (especially for the less commonly taught languages); what level of proficiency is sufficient for which kinds of research; how might technology assist with research-related language challenges; what are the distortions of interpretation and translation (including machine-assisted translation) relative to distortions introduced by varying levels of language fluency; when and how is a lingua franca (especially Russian, the former imperial/colonial idiom of the Russian/Soviet empires) still useful for research; what are the trade-offs and inequities of opportunities involved in language acquisition; and many others.
Continue reading “Prof. Dev: Language Learning and Language Competencies for Field Research in Eurasian Studies Workshop”Funding: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Funding
Deadline: March 16, 2023
Call for Letters of Inquiry: Historical Research on the Practices and Institutions of Social and Natural Science
Grants of $75,000 – $250,000 to be awarded for original research in the history of science, technology, economics, and social science, focusing on areas of broad programmatic interest to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Overview
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supports basic research and public understanding of science, technology, and economic behavior. We believe that historical scholarship is valuable to understand the contemporary context of scientific research and that historical scholarship can be critically important to informing current and future research and policy practices. The Sloan Foundation is currently soliciting Letters of Inquiry for research projects to advance historical scholarship on thematic areas of interest to the Foundation as discussed below. A small number of full proposals will be invited based on submissions received in response to this Call.
Letters of Inquiry are invited between $75,000 – $250,000 and can be for the following types of research projects:
· Faculty-led research projects of up to $250,000, with the aim of advancing original scholarship on a topic or theme of interest to the Foundation in the history of science, technology, economics, and social science
· Dissertation improvement and completion projects of up to $75,000, to specifically support dissertation research expenses including travel, archival fees, and data collection, and up to one year of graduate student stipend (including summer funding, but not tuition) on a topic or theme of interest to the Foundation in the history of science, technology, economics, and social science. A faculty member must serve as the principal investigator for dissertation improvement and completion projects.
Continue reading “Funding: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Funding”CFP: Journal “Vremennik Russkogo Formalizma”
Deadline: April 1, 2023
Journal “Vremennik Russkogo
Formalizma” (https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/RussianFormalism/about)
is pleased to invite proposals for the next issue to be published in vol. I/
2023.
MONOGRAPH SECTION
After a long decade of silence, four important international conferences
(Moscow 2013, Sheffield 2015, Paris 2015, Stanford 2015) celebrated the
centennial of the birth of Russian formalism, a movement whence emerged a
science of literature (Bottiroli 2006). The crisis of structuralism, on the
one hand, and growing aversion to theory in the humanities, on the other,
paradoxically marginalized the last century’s most original and irreverent
current of thought. The numerous recent publications dedicated to the
formalist school reveal the need to achieve some continuity in discussion on
concepts, themes, and questions that the formalists had identified,
regimented, and elaborated but not fully developed.
Prof. Dev: Executive Training for Ukrainian University Leaders at UC Berkeley
Deadline: March 31, 2023
| Executive Training for Ukrainian University Leaders at UC Berkeley Call for Applications The Executive Leadership Academy (ELA), organized by the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley, is accepting applications from Ukrainian university leaders to participate in the: ELA 2023 Virtual Program July 10 – 18, 2023 We invite applications from Ukrainian senior executive leaders (rectors, vice-rectors, deans) who are interested in advancing their leadership skills, networking with American university executives and expanding their knowledge about the US higher education system. Tuition and Scholarships: The program is free for all selected participants from Ukraine. Each selected participant will receive a $7,900 scholarship that covers all program materials and a certificate of completion from UC Berkeley. Application deadline is: March 31, 2023 For more information visit https://cshe.berkeley.edu/ela/ukraine. Please contact Samantha Rushing, Program Administrator & Executive Assistant (srushing849@berkeley.edu) if you have additional questions about the program, including how you can support these scholarships. |
| Support ELA’s Ukranian Program We welcome your donations to support this program for Ukranian higher education professionals. |
| Online Donations Make a gift to the Executive Leadership Academy permanent fund:https://give.berkeley.edu/fund/FN2542000 Donations by Check Checks should be payable to UC Berkeley Foundation, with ELA Ukraine (FN2542000) in the memo field. Please mail the check to:University of California, Berkeley Donor & Gift Services 1995 University Ave, SU 400 Berkeley, CA 94704-1070 |