Postdoctoral Fellowship “Russian Studies at the Margins: Migration in the Post-Soviet Borderlands” (Arizona State University)

Deadline: September 25, 2022

As part of the new project “Russian Studies at the Margins: Migration in the Post-Soviet Borderlands,” Arizona State University’s Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship with an anticipated start date of October 3, 2022 through June 30, 2023. The application deadline is September 25.

The fellowship is open to early-career scholars who received their terminal degree between May 2017 and July 2022, whose work combines regional focus with global relevance. The fellow’s primary responsibility will be to lead research, writing and testing of curricular materials for high school and community college students on migration and borderland communities in the former Soviet Union (case studies focus on Ukraine/Russia, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus). Post-doctoral appointments at ASU do not offer tenure. The pro-rated salary for the 7.5-month position is set at $41,667.

August 19, 2022December 5, 2022

Job: Holocaust Indexer (Shoah Foundation Institute)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

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Information Technology ServicesITS
Los Angeles, California

We are currently seeking Holocaust Indexers to join the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History within Information Technology Services. Indexers will be responsible for indexing oral history interviews with survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. The indexing work involves researching, selecting and placing terms from a thesaurus into timecoded segments of the video or audio interview.

The successful candidate should have at least one year of experience with indexing as well as possess excellent analytical, writing and communication skills. They should be highly knowledgeable of Holocaust terminology and European geography. The knowledge of a second language, such as well as experience in higher education are strongly preferred.

August 12, 2022December 5, 2022

Instructors/Camp Counselors Wanted for STARTALK Russian Immersion Program (Oklahoma City University)

Deadline: October 1, 2022

STARTALK Russian immersion program at Oklahoma City University is looking to hire several Russian language instructors and camp counselors for Feb. 2023. The theme of the program is “Contemporary Russophone Cultures: Diversity and Community” and we focus the program on the independent republics of the former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and others.

August 4, 2022September 1, 2022

Job: Teaching Associate in Russian Studies (University of Nottingham)

Deadline: August 24, 2022

The successful candidate will be expected to deliver and contribute to non-language/content modules at all levels of undergraduate study. They will also be required to undertake Russian language teaching at all levels of undergraduate study. The successful candidate will also offer pastoral support to students and take an active role in teaching-related administration duties.

Applicants must have completed, or be close to submission of a PhD (or equivalent) in relevant subject area by start date of post, and have native or near-native competence in spoken and written Russian and English. As well as teaching experience at undergraduate level.

August 4, 2022December 5, 2022

Job: Director of Academic Programs (CERES, Georgetown University)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Georgetown’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) in the Walsh School of Foreign Service houses one of the nation’s preeminent Master’s degree programs and hosts a rich program of events on the region.

The Director of Academic Programs is responsible for all academic advising, academic program development and recruiting activities in CERES. They manage CERES admissions and recruitment, coordinate with the CERES Director and CERES faculty in program and curriculum development, and develop outreach activities related to alumni and other stakeholder groups.

August 1, 2022December 5, 2022

Assistant Program Officer / Program Officer, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia (National Endowment for Democracy)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a federally funded, private, nonprofit grantmaking organization that works to support freedom around the world, seeks an Assistant Program Officer or Program Officer for Southeast Europe. The position is based in Washington, D.C.

Position Summary:

The Assistant Program Officer (APO) or Program Officer (PO) will work with the regional director and senior program staff to manage the Endowment’s grant programs in the Southeast Europe region, with emphasis on Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, and potentially Central Europe, as well as other countries in Europe as needed.

July 22, 2022September 1, 2022

Job: Digital Archivist (Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Budapest)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Job Post: https://www.ceu.edu/job/digital-archivist

The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University (CEU) based primarily in Budapest but with teaching tasks in Vienna, Austria invites applications for the Digital Archivist position.

Blinken OSA is part of Central European University (www.ceu.edu), one of the most multinational graduate institutions in Europe, engaged primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Blinken OSA is a complex institution of memory that supports scholarship, is engaged in research, is the initiator of high visibility public programs, and manages the Archives and Evidentiary Practices specialization at the History and Legal Studies Departments at CEU. Blinken OSA is an “archive of last resort”, the archive of (politically) endangered collections.

July 22, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: “Eastern European Urban Narratives of Conflict” (“Studia Rossica Posnaniensia”)

Deadline: November 15, 2022

Editors: Seth Graham (University College London), Rachel Morley (University College London), Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak (Adam Mickiewicz University)

1) Scope of the special issue and the relevance of the subject:

The 2022 edition of ‘Millennium Docs Against Gravity’, Poland’s largest documentary film festival, featured a Susan Sontag retrospective that included her work Waiting for Godot…in Sarajevo, made in the Bosnian capital during the siege and codirected with Nicole Stéphane. The film, which is often described as Sontag’s lasting gift to Sarajevans and which gave them hope and the possibility of responding to suppressed emotions, today inevitably brings to mind places such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol, whose suffering inhabitants and ruined architecture have made us doubt the existence of a civilized world. Focusing attention on the mission of art and the role of the artist as an engaged witness of reality, this special issue of “Studia Rossica Posnaniensia” will concentrate on urban experiences of all kinds of conflicts: military, political, interpersonal, ethnic, religious, environmental, etc. We would like to pinpoint the role of Eastern European cities as sites of power and powerlessness, as spaces where pain is/was inflicted, contemplated, embodied, expressed or (re)negotiated, and as intersections of different cultures and traditions (e.g. Catholicism and Orthodoxy). We would also welcome proposals rooted in gender studies, queer studies, post-colonial studies, disability studies, performative studies and animal studies, that may offer perspectives on the city space as a battlefield for one’s dignity, rights and identity. We expect that authors might refer to Sontag’s belief in the artist’s social and ethical duty to explore the link between the aesthetic and the political as well as the relationship between the mind and the body in urban environments.

July 15, 2022September 1, 2022

Job: Academic Advisor, REEES (University of Pittsburgh)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The University of Pittsburgh invites applications for the Academic Advisor position at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES).

This position is a full-time, year-round position with the following responsibilities: advertising REEES academic credentials and programs at academic fairs, marketplaces for new and prospective students, and additional events throughout the year; advising students seeking to complete the requirements for the undergraduate and graduate credentials provided through or supported by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; hiring and supervising REEES student ambassadors and language tutors; creating and/or updating all credential- and advising-related advertising and websites, approved course lists, and resource lists for students; running all aspects of the AY and summer FLAS award competitions as well as handling REEES scholarship awards to SLI in consultation with the REEES Associate Director and Assistant Director;

July 6, 2022September 1, 2022

Jobs: Artists at Risk Connection

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Artists at Risk Connection (artistsatriskconnection.org) has two open job
positions that might be of interest to SEELANGS subscribers.

Senior Manager, Protection Programs
The senior manager for protection programs will drive forward ARC’s work to
protect artists at risk around the world. The role will develop a new
emergency grantmaking initiative and expand PEN America and ARC’s protection
programs for individuals in peril because of their creative expression. The
role requires experience working with individuals at risk or otherwise
vulnerable communities, ideally in the protection field, and a demonstrated
commitment to the arts and human rights internationally. This is a new full-
time position expected to be based at PEN America’s New York office. The
position reports to the Director, Artists at Risk Connection.
(https://pen.org/artists-at-risk-connection-arc-senior-manager-protection-programs/)