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Submissions Wanted: Collective Subjects in Historical Narratives of the Balkans

Deadline: January 10, 2025

Makers of Their History: Collective Subjects in Historical Narratives of the Balkans 
Hiperboreea journal (thematic issue)Contributors are invited to propose analyses and interpretations of the ways in which authors have discursively shaped group-identities based on cohabitation, common labour, place, political practices, class, ethnicity, gender, and social kinship as agents, passive characters, narrators, and narratees in narratives of the Balkans’ past. Contributors can also submit theoretical essays focusing on collective subjectivity through literary, narrative, sociological, political-science or anthropological approaches, with case studies from the region. 

Please submit a 300-word article proposal to milan.vukasinovic@lingfil.uu.se by  Friday, 10 January 2025.

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Job: Managing Editor, Russian Review (University of Kansas)

Deadline: December 9, 2024

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas (KU CREES) invites applications for the position of Managing Editor of The Russian Review. The successful candidate is expected to start on July 1, 2025. To read the full position description and apply, please visit this link.
Position Overview
The Managing Editor enjoys a full-time staff appointment through KU CREES and oversees the editing, publication, and operations of The Russian Review, which ranks among the oldest and most widely read journals of Russian and Eurasian studies in the world. The Managing Editor reports to Professor Erik Scott, Editor of the journal, but is expected to work independently to manage submissions, prepare manuscripts for publication, and ensure timely production of the journal.

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Job: Assistant Director for Academic Affairs, REE Studies (University of Pittsburgh)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Administration-Russian & East European Studies – Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh – (24008418)

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The University of Pittsburgh is seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Assistant Director for Academic Affairs at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES). This is a full-time, year-round role, and the successful candidate will be responsible for a range of academic and administrative duties, including:

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Special Agent – Linguists/Foreign Language Background (FBI)

Deadline: January 21, 2025

FBI Special Agents apply their professional expertise and unique skill sets to their work every day. Many have foreign language/linguistics backgrounds and use them to interview victims, translate during a suspect interrogation or testify in court. Language skills and cultural knowledge, specifically in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Farsi, Russian, Somali, Uzbek, Korean or another language are highly sought after by the FBI. All applicants must pass the FBI’s Foreign Language Test Battery.

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Job: Managing Editor of The Russian Review (University of Kansas)

Deadline: December 8, 2024

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas (KU CREES) invites applications for the position of Managing Editor of The Russian Review. The successful candidate is expected to start on July 1, 2025. To read the full position description and apply, please visit this link.

Position Overview

The Managing Editor enjoys a full-time staff appointment through KU CREES and oversees the editing, publication, and operations of The Russian Review, which ranks among the oldest and most widely read journals of Russian and Eurasian studies in the world. The Managing Editor reports to Professor Erik Scott, Editor of the journal, but is expected to work independently to manage submissions, prepare manuscripts for publication, and ensure timely production of the journal.

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Job: Administrative Assistant, Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art Department (Rutgers University)

Deadline: Open Until Filled, posted October 24, 2024


Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art Department
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking an Administrative Assistant to be responsible for everyday operations and office management of the Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art Department at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.

The key duties of the position include:

– Handling the administrative work in the Department of Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art.
– Preparation and overseeing financial documents.
– Submitting travel expense reports for reimbursement.
– Assists with putting together annual department budgets and tracking the budget.
– Keeping track of department activities and statistics.
– Writing special and annual reports.
– Assisting with exhibition and program coordination.
– Handling mail distributions and department mailing list.
– Handling graduate assistants’ and postdocs’ appointment processes, travel needs and schedules.
– Handling overall office management.
– Facilitating the Department purchasing in compliance with the University procurement policies and procedures.

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CFP: Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies

Deadline: September 1, 2025

Special Issue on Russian Postcolonial Studies

Guest Editor: Tamar Koplatadze, Christ Church, University of Oxford, tamar.koplatadze@chch.ox.ac.uk

Russia and the countries that were incorporated into the Soviet Union have not historically received extensive critical attention within the postcolonial discourse. In the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, scholarly interest has grown in re-assessing established methodologies and engaging with postcolonial theory when studying these countries. Postcolonial approaches can be key to analyzing the link between imperialism and situations of core-periphery disparity, both past and ongoing, whether expressed in the man-made famines in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the overproduction of cotton in Central Asia, the nuclear testing in Semipalatinsk, the extraction of natural resources in Siberia, or post-Soviet migration patterns. Moreover, local writers, creative artists and activists addressing these questions are increasingly situating their works within the global postcolonial tradition.

This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary inquiry of the current decolonial turn, build on existing scholarship and bring to the fore new postcolonial interventions, while also countering the pitfalls of the “decolonial bandwagon” (Moosavi) such as tokenism and uncritical use of decolonial terminology. We welcome contributions that critically engage with postcolonial and decolonial theory, attempt to bridge Western and local epistemologies, compare different geographical contexts of (post)coloniality, or untangle various types of decoloniality – including political, epistemological, cultural and aesthetic, while addressing, among others, the following themes:

  • Critical theory
  • Literature, Culture and Language
  • Comparative studies of (post)coloniality
  • History
  • Race
  • Gender
  • Environment
  • Migration
  • Activism

Submission Instructions

Manuscripts following the journal guidelines and formatted in MLA style should be submitted by September 1, 2025 at https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/submit

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CFP: “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Translation in the Teaching and Researching of Slavic Languages and Literatures” 

Deadline: September 15, 2024

Purpose, Aims, and Foci of the Thematic Issue:  

The topic of AI has been gaining significant traction in the field of Slavic Studies. Major conferences now feature panels and streams dedicated to AI integration, and numerous professional training events have been organized to equip instructors with the skills needed to utilize AI tools in teaching and research. 

This thematic issue seeks to capitalize on this growing momentum by documenting the integration of Artificial Intelligence technologies in the teaching and research of Slavic languages and literatures. The focus will be on how these advancements can be effectively leveraged to enhance both pedagogical practices and scholarly inquiry. AI applications, such as machine learning, AI text and image generators and digital humanities tools, offer new methodologies for analyzing Slavic texts, teaching language skills, and understanding cultural contexts. The purpose of this issue is to provide an overview of current teaching and research practices and bring together diverse perspectives from educators, linguists, and researchers to reflect on the potentials and challenges of incorporating AI into the study and teaching of Slavic literatures and cultures. 

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Donna Tussing Orwin Essay Competition on Tolstoy

Deadline: September 13, 2024

We’re approaching the deadline for essay submissions to the first annual Donna Tussing Orwin Essay Competition for early career scholars writing on Tolstoy. Please submit or circulate among those who might be interested!

Eligible scholars (undergraduate, graduate students, pre-tenure scholars) are encouraged to submit essays (approximately 8,000 words) on any topic related to Tolstoy. Please send submissions to tgershko@andrew.cmu.edu. They will be evaluated by the editors as well as a panel of judges, and the winning essay will receive a cash prize and publication in Tolstoy Studies Journal. The deadline for submission is the second Friday in September (9/13/2024). The winner will be announced in early November, and the selected essay will be published in our next issue in early 2025. 

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Job: Director, Kennan Institute (Washington, DC)

Deadline: September 3, 2024

The Kennan Institute performs two broad functions for the overall Wilson Center mission. First, it encourages policy-relevant scholarship and brings together key stakeholders from policy, academia, the media, business, and civil society together to address the most pressing political, social, and economic issues affecting Russia, the former Soviet Union and the impact on U.S. policies and relations. Kennan Institute accomplishes this through seminars, workshops, and briefings featuring prominent scholars and policymakers from America, and beyond.

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