Job: Head of Human Dimension Unit (OSCE-Kyiv, Ukraine)

Deadline for Applications: January 12, 2017

Head of Human Dimension Unit (re-issued)
Area of Expertise: Human Rights
Level:  Senior management
Duty Station: Kyiv
Date of Entry on Duty: As soon as possible
Deadline for Applications: Apply by 12 January to receive full consideration (closing date: 19 January 2017)

View the job description: https://www.pae.com/careers-re act-opportunities

Potential applicants should be aware that this is a non-family posting.

In order to receive full consideration, interested parties should create an online application and enter the relevant vacancy number at: https://www.pae.com/careers-re act by 12 January 2017. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.  PAE-REACT will interview short-listed candidates in order to make nominations by the OSCE deadline. Continue reading “Job: Head of Human Dimension Unit (OSCE-Kyiv, Ukraine)”

Job: Head of Rule of Law and Human Rights Department (OSCE-Tirana, Albania)

Deadline for Applications: January 11, 2017

Head of Rule of Law and Human Rights Department (extended)
Area of Expertise: Rule of Law
Level: Middle management
Duty Station: Tirana
Date of Entry on Duty: As soon as possible
Deadline for Applications: Apply by 11 January to receive full consideration (closing date: 17 January 2017)

View the job description: https://www.pae.com/careers-re act-opportunities

In order to receive full consideration, interested parties should create an online application and enter the relevant vacancy number at: https://www.pae.com/careers-react by 11 January 2017. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.  PAE-REACT will interview short-listed candidates in order to make nominations by the OSCE deadline. Continue reading “Job: Head of Rule of Law and Human Rights Department (OSCE-Tirana, Albania)”

Job: Security Technical Specialist (U.S. Dept. of State)

Deadline for Applications: February 2, 2017

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
United States Department of State
An Equal Opportunity Employer
How to Apply

Announcement STS-2017-0001
Position Title: Diplomatic Security Foreign Service Security Technical Specialist
Open Period: January 4, 2017 – February 2, 2017
Series/Grade: FP – 0086-06/06
Salary: $39,954 – $58,674
Promotion Potential: FP-03
Position Information: Full-time – Permanent after tenure granted by a Foreign Service Specialist (FSS) Tenure Board
Duty Locations: MANY Vacancies – Worldwide
Security Clearance: Top Secret
Supervisory Status: Yes

Who May Apply

Must be a U.S. citizen. Potential applicants should read the entire announcement to ensure that they meet all of the requirements and understand a Foreign Service career.

Applicants may not reapply for one year after the previous application for the same positon.

If a State Department Suitability (Final) Review Panel denied suitability in the last two years, you may not apply.

Job Summary

About the Agency

The U.S. Department of State, our country’s lead foreign policy agency, provides a rich international experience whether at home or abroad, and opportunities to become responsible leaders.

Each day, our employees make a difference as they defend and advance our country’s interests and values. They work on the business of diplomacy and high priority issues that impact the safety, security, and prosperity of our world – human rights, environment, energy, food security, public health, and technology – all while experiencing a unique career.

Our talented workforce reflects and champions all of our strengths and diversity – personal, professional, and educational. We offer a workplace that values and rewards leadership, collaboration and innovation, and personal and professional development.

Security Technical Specialists (STS) provide support for and assist in worldwide technical security programs to maintain and provide protection for Department of State facilities and personnel from technical espionage, acts of terrorism, and crime.

The Department of State is developing a rank-order list of eligible hires for a number of Security Technical Specialists (STS) vacancies. The specific number to be hired will be based on the needs of the Department and is subject to change.

For additional information, please visit the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s website at www.state.gov/m/ds or the Department of State’s Career’s site at www.careers.state.gov. Continue reading “Job: Security Technical Specialist (U.S. Dept. of State)”

CFP: War Frenzy: Exploring the Violence of Propaganda (Princeton U.)

Deadline for Submissions: January 10, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS
Princeton Conjunction – 2017
An Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
May 11- May 13, 2017

WAR FRENZY
Exploring the Violence of Propaganda

In July 1942, in the middle of the Nazi advancement in the Soviet Union, Ilya Ehrenburg, one of the most cosmopolitan Soviet writers, addressed Soviet soldiers through the Soviet military newspaper Krasnaia Zvezda (Red Star). In the preceding decades, Ehrenburg became famous for his whimsical dispatches from Paris and Berlin. This time, his address was unambiguously titled “Kill them!”, appealing:

We know everything. We remember everything. We understand it now: Germans are not people… Enough of talking. Enough of outrage. Now, it’s time to kill. …Stop counting days. Stop counting miles. Count only the Germans you’ve killed… Do not fail to hit. Do not miss the target. Kill!

A classic example of war propaganda, the address framed war affectively. Deploying words and images as rhetorical weapon, Ehrenburg constituted a collectivity, channeling its anger and anxiety, providing it with a clearly defined aim, and suggesting an action to take. Descriptive and prescriptive at the same time, the address interpellated its audience, transforming readers into avengers.

Propaganda has always been a crucial part of war. Mobilizing through polarization, distortion and simplification, it helped to produce an effect of ideological cohesion and social solidarity, which, in turn, often resulted in disastrous military conflicts: be it the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the Iraq war of the last decade, or the current wars in Ukraine and Syria (to name just a few). The program committee of this conference invites historically, ethnographically and theoretically grounded contributions that explore the role of propaganda in unleashing and framing military conflicts of the last century.
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Conference: 20th Anniversary Conference on Balkan Linguistics (Ohio State U.)

Dates of Conference: January 20-21, 2017

THE CURRENT STATE OF BALKAN LINGUISTICS — WHERE DO WE STAND?

A SYMPOSIUM IN RECOGNITION OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KENNETH E. NAYLOR MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES

20-21 JANUARY 2017, AT THE BLACKWELL, ON THE CAMPUS OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

SPONSORED BY: THE KENNETH E. NAYLOR PROFESSORSHIP IN SOUTH SLAVIC LINGUISTICS, THE DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, THE CENTER FOR SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES, THE HILANDAR RESEARCH LIBRARY AND RESOURCE CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL SLAVIC STUDIES, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, ALL OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

[QUESTIONS?  CONTACT Brian D. Joseph — joseph.1@osu.edu] Continue reading “Conference: 20th Anniversary Conference on Balkan Linguistics (Ohio State U.)”

CFP: 7th Annual Czech Studies Workshop (UNC at Chapel Hill)

Deadline for Submissions: January 9, 2017

CFP: Seventeenth Annual Czech Studies Workshop

April 20-22, 2017
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



The Seventeenth Annual Czech Studies Workshop, which will be held at UNC-Chapel Hill on April 20-22, 2017, welcomes papers on Czech topics, broadly defined, in all disciplines. Slovak topics will also be considered. In the past our interdisciplinary conference has drawn participants from colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.
Areas of interest have been: anthropology, architecture, art, economics, education, film, geography, history, Jewish studies, literature, music, philosophy, politics, religion, society, sociology, and theater. Work in progress is appropriate for our workshop format. Junior faculty and advanced graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate.

This year’s program will also include a concert by the Defiant Requiem Foundation (http://jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/defiant-requiem- at-unc/) and an invited lecture by Petr Roubal of the Institute for Contemporary History in Prague (http://www.usd.cas.cz/cs/pracovnici/roubal-petr).

The deadline for submitting proposals is January 9, 2017.
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CFP: Slavic Forum (U. of Virginia)

Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2017

University of Virginia Slavic Forum (Mar. 31- Apr. 1)
“RE:Constructions: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Memory and Imagination”

Traditional applications of the terms memory and imagination have emphasized a distinct barrier between the concepts based on the premise of accuracy. Memory should be a record, one that, if occasionally faulty, remains primarily truthful. Imagination cannot be faulty because it is nebulous, fictive, unconcerned with veracity. However, in recent years, cognitive scientists have demonstrated that the same neural processes underlie both memory and imagination. Memories are as much constructs as imagination.

This forum is devoted to the intersections of memory and imagination in constructing identity, history, traditions, and futures. Memory invokes ideas of nostalgia, trauma, the urge to preserve, to delay oblivion. Imagination invokes dreaming, invention, childhood, play. Despite the seeming differences between the two, they both affect every sphere of human experience and endeavor.

The UVA Slavic Forum is committed to promoting an atmosphere of interdisciplinary cooperation. Therefore, papers from various disciplines will be accepted. Papers may deal with memory and/or imagination. Creativity in interpreting the topic is encouraged. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:

-Autobiography and historical narrative
-Invented traditions
-Imagined geography and imagined communities
-Institutional memory
-Social structures, institutions, and the social imagination
-Identity and narrative of self
-Exile and nostalgia
-Breakdowns of memory, trauma and amnesia
-Cognitive science
-Possible-world theory and worldbuilding
-Creativity

The University of Virginia Society of Slavic Graduate Students will host RE:Constructions: Memory and Imagination Mar. 31 – Apr. 1. Submissions should be sent in Microsoft Word format. Please include an abstract (no more than 200 words), as well as your name, phone number, departmental affiliation, and a short academic bio. Submissions from graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduate students will be considered. Undergraduate papers will be presented in separate panels.

Submissions should be sent to uvaslavicforum2017@gmail.com  by Feb 15.

CFP: 49th ASEEES Annual Convention (Chicago, Illinois)

Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2017

49th ASEEES Annual Convention Call for Proposals
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Nov. 9-12, 2017
[Please note that the dates are earlier than usual]
www.aseees.org/convention

Convention Theme: Transgressions: www.aseees.org/convention/2017-theme  The theme includes the centenary of the 1917 revolution.

The Proposal Submission closes on February 15: www.aseees.org/convention/cfp  ALL submissions – panel, roundtable, individual paper, lightning round presentation, and meeting request submissions – are due by Feb. 15.

New Session Types for 2017: Beyond the usual panel, roundtable and individual paper submissions, are acceptingBook Discussion Roundtable and Lightning Round Presentation submissions. Please read the descriptions here:www.aseees.org/convention/rules

Rules for Participation:  Please carefully review the rules for participation: www.aseees.org/convention/rules

Panelists Wanted Boards: We are anticipating a large number of proposals for the 2017 Convention. Individual paper submissions will have a MUCH LOWER chance of being accepted than panel/roundtable proposals. We STRONGLY encourage all interested participants to form, or become part of, a panel proposal. To assist in the process of forming panels, we have created the Panel/Paper Wanted Board: www.aseees.org/convention/paperspanels-wanted-board  If you are looking for a panel to join or a paper presenter for your panel, please review the proposals on the online board. You can also indicate your willingness to volunteer as chair or discussant. You can also post your requests on the new ASEEES Commons: aseees.hcommons.org/groups/2017-convention-paper-panelist-wanted/ (See below for more information on the ASEEES Commons). Continue reading “CFP: 49th ASEEES Annual Convention (Chicago, Illinois)”

Academic Job: Non Tenure Track Asst. Professor-Russian (Saint Louis U.)

Deadline for Applications: January 9, 2017

Saint Louis University, a Catholic, Jesuit institution dedicated to student learning, research, health care, and service, seeks an energetic scholar for a full-time non-tenure track position in Russian in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Cultures with a specialization in Russia’s long twentieth century and with a strong preference for a focus on post-Soviet culture. The successful candidate will possess native or near-native command of Russian and English and must demonstrate an ability to teach Russian language at all undergraduate levels based on experience teaching Russian at a North American university. The candidate will have a Ph. D. in Slavic languages and literature, preferably by the time of the appointment in August 2017. Advanced knowledge of a second Slavic language and evidence of professional engagement with digital humanities or technology-enhanced learning are also highly desirable.

The candidate will be expected to contribute to curriculum development, to develop courses that can be cross-listed with other disciplines, to advise undergraduate majors and minors, and to work collaboratively with colleagues in the Russian and East European Area Studies program.

To receive full consideration for this position with a 3/3 teaching load, a complete application including curriculum vitae, cover letter, 4 letters of recommendation (one of which must address your language teaching), a statement of teaching philosophy, a sample syllabus, and a writing sample must be submitted online at https://jobs.slu.edu by January 9, 2017.

Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the ASEEES convention in Washington, D.C. (November 2016) and by Skype.

Saint Louis University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for the position applied for without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, gender identity, or other non-merit factors. We welcome and encourage applications from minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities (including disabled veterans). If accommodations are needed for completing the application and/or with the interviewing process, please contact Human Resources at 314-977-5847.

For more information, and to apply, click here.

Funding Opportunity: Erne Fellowship for Serbian Studies (REEI)

Deadline for Applications: Ongoing

Indiana University alumni Ann Jakisich Erne and David A. Erne have established the Ann and David Erne Fellowship to support the studies of an incoming graduate student enrolled in the Russian and East European Institute Master’s degree plan. The one-year fellowship provides a stipend of $22,000; College of Arts and Sciences fee remission towards 12 hours of College of Arts and Sciences credit in both the Fall and Spring semesters as well as 6 hours of College of Arts and Sciences credit in the following summer session; and health insurance. The fellowship is renewable for an additional year for recipients who maintain satisfactory academic standing. No separate application is necessary (i.e. the standard application to the REEI MA program will also serve as application for this fellowship). Natives of Serbia, persons of Serbian heritage, and persons who demonstrate a strong scholarly focus on Serbia will be given special consideration in the selection process.

The fellowship will be awarded every other year, beginning in 2017-18.

For more information: http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/funding/masters.shtml

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