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CFP: Edited volume on “Contemporary Russian Documentary”

Deadline: April 15, 2021

CFP: Edited volume on “Contemporary Russian Documentary”

Submissions are being solicited for a new edited volume, tentatively titled Contemporary Russian Documentary, which will hopefully open up a scholarly conversation on this incredibly rich and diverse documentary landscape. We define ‘contemporary’ in a broad way as the last thirty years during which documentary in Russia has been free from state monopoly. We deliberately avoid referring to this new cinema as “post-Soviet” or “the cinema of Putin’s Russia,” as these categorizations would inevitably restrict both the texts under consideration and the methodological approach. We adopt a similarly liberal and inclusive approach to what might be considered “Russian” documentary: we hope to solicit essays on a range of Russophone documentaries including films made by Russian directors, those trained in Russia, or trained elsewhere but drawn to making films in and about Russia.

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Prof. Devt: Online Workshop for teachers of Russian (STARTALK, MSU)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The Second Language Studies Program and the Department of Linguistics & Languages at Michigan State University are pleased to offer a STARTALK synchronous online workshop on language-assessment development for teachers of Arabic and Russian. The workshop runs June 7 to 30, 2021 (Mondays and Wednesdays 6:00pm-8:00pm EST), with follow-up components during the 2021-2022 academic school year.

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Prof. Devt: Summer Online Research Internship (SRAS)

Deadline: May 20, 2021

SRAS will be offering free summer online research internships.

These will be flexible – based on student interests and student schedules – and allow participants to build up their portfolio of published works via the SRAS Family of Sites.

Current topics of interest center on Eastern or Central Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. They include sport teams, movies, video games, fashion brands, and music groups/artists based there. We will also be open to articles on art, contemporary literature and food. We are particularly interested to hear from heritage speakers of minority languages or Caucasian languages who can research in those languages, provide first-hand perspectives, and potentially contribute to our Talking Phrasebooks. Students with an interest in translation are also encouraged to apply.

Application deadline is May 20. Internships will run from approximately June 1 – July 30, but with a high degree of flexibility.

Find out more about the free program here: https://sras.org/internship

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CFP: Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism

Deadline: April 16, 2021

Call for Papers
Conference: Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, 1–2 July 2021

This conference focuses on the relationship between temporality and material culture in twentieth-century socialist regimes. We are primarily interested in looking at case studies from the USSR and Europe, but also from other geographical contexts such as Asia, Latin America, and Africa, especially from a comparative perspective.

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CFP: “Taking Stock of Change: South Caucasus After a Turbulent Year”

Deadline: April 16, 2021

Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) is organizing its Seventh Annual Conference Taking Stock of Change: South Caucasus After a Turbulent Year. The conference will be held online, on June 25-26, 2021.

Please find below and attached the detailed Call for Participants (CfP).

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Study Abroad: Summer Virtual Kazakh Language Program (ASU & Nazarbayev U)

Deadline: March 15, 2021, Ongoing

Nazarbayev University (NU) in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, in collaboration
with Arizona State University, is pleased to announce their next session
of the Summer School in Russian and Eurasian Studies (SSRES), which
will be an online, intensive summer language program in Kazakh
(SSRES). The 8-week intensive course, which will be online for summer
2021 offers over 140 contact hours.

Program dates for SSRES 2021:
June 7 – July 30 (8 weeks, equivalent of one academic year)

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Grad. Program: Contemporary Russian Studies and Regional Studies Consortium (UVA)

Deadline: May 1, 2021

UVA’s programs in regional studies have partnered to create a vibrant intellectual and professionally minded community for master’s students that multiplies their academic and career opportunities. The four separate degree programs allow students to engage directly with cultural, historical and political experts on the topics and populations that are most central to their research interests. At the same time, the regional studies consortium provides students with communal training in research methods and professional writing, access to academic exchanges and industry-based internships, and interaction with a network of accomplished graduates in shared employment sectors.

The four MA programs are: East Asian Studies; European Studies; Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages and Cultures; and Contemporary Russian Studies

For students interested in the new Consortium on Regional Studies, visit the website for more information.

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Funding: Graduate/Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Southeastern Europe (AISEES)

Deadline: April 15, 2021

The American Institute for Southeast European Studies (AISEES) announces the availability of 3 fellowships for US graduate students and early postdoctoral scholars in the United States to support research in Southeast Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia) for research conducted within the 18-month period of June 2021 and December 2022. Awards will be made for a maximum of $3000 each. Projects in all fields in the social sciences, humanities and related disciplines are eligible.

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Funding: Postdoc Grants from Bassi Foundation

Deadline: Ongoing

The Bassi Foundation is pleased to provide a small number of postdoctoral grants, the sizes of which vary by year. Prospective applicants are asked to submit a 2-page statement of research, a writing sample not exceeding 10,000 words, and a copy of their CV to scholarships@editing.press. Applications are assessed as part of a double-blind peer review process.
The results for this cycle will be released in May 2020, contact the foundation for more information

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