CFP: Studies in Russian, Eurasian, and Central European New Media

Deadline: July 31, 2020

Call for proposals for a special issue of Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (www.digitalicons.org)

“Digital Selves: Embodiment and Co-Presence in New Media Cultures in Central Europe and Eurasia” (to be published early summer 2021)

Guest editors: Cassandra Hartblay and Tatiana Klepikova (University of Toronto)

Since the emergence of new media cultures, the theorization of the relationship between embodied positioning in space and our digital personas has evolved in new and significant directions. We have become increasingly aware of the forms of extended, multiple and fragmented selves that are made possible by internet and computer-facilitated settings. New media have championed previously unthinkable practices of self-representation necessitating a change in how researchers understand the virtual traces of our bodies online and the relationship between material bodies and physical spaces.

As of recently, the global pandemic has shifted daily practices and forced many people to seek new, predominantly online, ways of socializing. However, even before this crisis, there were many digital ways of being apart together – developed in minority or marginalized communities. For instance, in mid-March 2020, Russian disability activists started a hashtag campaign, #ButWeAreAlwaysAtHome (#АМыВсегдаДома) seeking to mobilize popular conversations about ‘surviving quarantine’ to highlight ongoing social exclusion of people with disabilities and crip strategies for living at home.

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Translation Project Coordinator – Artificial Intelligence (entry level) TransPerfectPrague

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The position of the Translation Project Coordinator  (Artificial Intelligence) is responsible for managing and coordinating the completion of all projects within AI experience. 

The monthly gross salary for this position is 30K-35K CZK.

Responsibilities:

  • Be responsible for the entire life-cycle of all projects assigned to the individual
  • Juggle multiple projects and priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
  • Understand and abide by individual project instructions
  • Liaise with sales staff to clarify project parameters
  • Establish and maintain excellent relationships with contract translators and proofreaders globally
  • Negotiate with vendors
  • Coordinate with quality personnel to ensure that the translation perfectly complies with instructions and is linguistically perfect
  • Communicate any issues/problems/caveats or additional
  • Distribute information to sales staff as soon as that information is available
  • Travel internationaly to deliver projects
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Job: Executive Assistant (Travel Coordinator)(Army Futures Command Austin, TX)

Deadline: Continuing

This is an Open and Continuous Announcement to establish a standing register of qualified candidates. We have established a cut off of 25 applications at a time, which will be referred to the manager. Final application disposition will be completed once position has been filled.

This position is being filled under the Direct Hire Authority for Post-Secondary Students and Recent Graduates.

Position will be filled at the GS-09 or GS-11 level. If selected at the GS-09 or GS-11 level, may be non-competitively promoted to the full performance GS-12 level.

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Acad. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Language of Fake News (University of Oslo)

Deadline: September 1, 2020


A 2,5-year postdoctoral research fellowship in linguistics within the “Fakespeak – The language of fake news” project is available at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo.

The successful candidate will have competence within one or more of the following sub-disciplines: Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, general linguistics, English language and linguistics, Russian language and linguistics. 

About the Fakespeak project: 

https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/projects/fakespeak/index.html

Full job announcement and how to apply:

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/188582/postdoctoral-research-fellowship-within-fakespeak

Contact: Silje Susanne Alvestad, s.s.alvestad@ilos.uio.no (Project Manager/Postdoctoral research fellow)

CFP: Journal of Ukrainian Studies: Cities in Limbo: Katerynoslav–Dnipropetrovsk–Dnipro and Aleksandrovsk–Zaporizhzhia

Deadline: August 15, 2020

For this special issue, authors are encouraged to explore the following issues or other relevant themes connected to the multifaceted nature of the two cities of Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk) and Zaporizhzhia:

  • Public spaces, landmarks, and architecture and their places in the formation of urban identities;
  • Local and national heroes and antiheroes and the making/unmaking of urban, ethnic, and civic national identities;
  • Correlations between place and regional and national identities of city inhabitants;
  • Historical myths and city legends; 
  • Development of scholarship and science; 
  • Environment and social movements;
  • Images of the cities in literature and cinema; 
  • Official and underground cultures;
  • Social and linguistic landscapes of the cities;
  • Manifestations of religions and beliefs;
  • Russian imperial and Soviet legacies;
  • Frontline cities;
  • Provincialism.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 400 words to Dr. Oleksandr Pankieiev (oleksandr.pankieiev@ualberta.ca) by August 15, 2020. Authors whose abstracts are approved by the guest editors will be invited to submit complete manuscripts of up to 10,000 words, including references, by January 31, 2021.

For more information on East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, see https://www.ewjus.com/. For submission guidelines, please refer to https://www.ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

CFP: Polish Literature as World Literature

Deadline: October 1, 2020

Contact:Piotr Florczyk (University of Southern California)
K. A. Wisniewski (American Antiquarian Society)

Description:
While the concept of world literature remains both elusive and controversial, especially in the eyes of the critics of globalization’s reach into spheres of literary production and dissemination, Polish authors’ engagement with worldly themes and styles is undisputed. Counting no fewer than five Nobel in Literature laureates (six if Isaac Bashevis Singer is included), the Polish literary canon has played a vital role in shaping literary conversations around the world. 
The editors invite chapter abstracts on any subject that falls within the topic of “Polish Literature as World Literature.” This project is planned for Bloomsbury’s “Literatures as World Literature” series.

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Job: Program Coordinator and Part-Time Russian Language Instructors (Russian School of Indiana)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The Russian School of Indiana seeks a program coordinator and part-time instructors of Russian-as-foreign language (children and adults, various levels) as well as Russian-as-a-heritage-language (children, various levels) to teach on-line.

Qualifications: comfortable working with heritage speakers and/or people with no background in Russian; some proficiency  in use of ZOOM (or equivalent) for on-line language instruction. More info about school is at www.indyrussianschool.com.

If interested, please send an email to: info@indyrussianschool.com and include your resume, contact information, and any questions you may have.

CFP: Research Articles for Journal re: Geniuses, Aliens, and Dinosaurs: Unobvious Associations between the Sciences and Humanities

Deadline: December 31, 2020

On behalf of the Editorial Team of the journal “Adeptus” we would like to invite you to submit your research articles for the new issue (1/2021), entitled “Geniuses, aliens and dinosaurs: Unobvious associations between the sciences and the humanities”. The theme of the issue was chosen to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the birth of Karel Čapek, Czech writer and one of the fathers of the modern science-fiction genre. The issue is being prepared in cooperation with the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Karel Čapek Center for Values in Science and Technology and Zdeněk Burian Museum in Štramberk.

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Job: Assistant Director of REEE Program (UNC Chapel Hill)

Deadline: June 16, 2020

The Language Flagship is a federally-funded, national initiative to change the way Americans learn languages through a groundbreaking approach to language education for students from kindergarten through college. Through a network of Flagship programs at institutions of higher education across the U.S., the Language Flagship graduates students who will take their place among the next generation of global professionals, commanding a superior level of proficiency in languages critical to U.S. national security and economic competitiveness. Flagship students participate in intensive language courses which are supplemented by tutoring sessions and various co-curricular activities. The program culminates in an Overseas Capstone Year featuring rigorous language study, extensive cultural immersion, and a professional internship.

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Job: Global Security Analyst (Austin, Texas)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Global Security Analyst

https://ranenetwork.com/careers/#1583861496468-70abbfa1-e976

As a member of Stratfor’s core team of analysts, you will be responsible for developing high-quality and forward-looking analysis related to corporate security, business continuity, cyber security, organized crime, and global terrorism. Analysts are responsible for ensuring that a broad range of clients are well served by proactively identifying critical crime, terrorism and business continuity issues while conducting deeper research on key topics to include terror and criminal attack cycles, and cyber-attack tactics. Stratfor Threat Lens helps corporate security leaders identify, anticipate, measure and mitigate risks that emerging threats pose to their people, assets and interests around the world. Clients rely on Threat Lens to pinpoint which evolving global events are truly significant so they can save time and make decisions with confidence.

Analysts also play a critical role in the Stratfor forecasting process and production of the Geopolitical Risk Index and Geopolitical Risk Monitor.  Analysts have direct engagement with clients supporting inbound geopolitical inquiries while providing briefings.

Global Security Analysts will have the opportunity to partner with colleagues across the broader RANE organization and gain exposure to a range of industries and risk topics, including geopolitical; cyber and information; physical safety and security; and legal, regulatory, and compliance.

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