Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University)

Deadline: August 23, 2024

The Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC) of Hokkaido University is pleased to announce the 47th round of the SRC’s Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program for 2025-2026.


Foreign specialists in studies of the former Soviet and East European countries, who are interested in undertaking research at the SRC during the academic year of 2025-2026 as well as initiating and continuing international collaborations with our staff, may submit applications for this program.

Applicants should choose their period of employment at the SRC: Within the period from May 1, 2025 to March 19, 2026, applicants will be able to name their preferred period for a minimum of 2 months, up to a maximum of 5 months.
After the selection process, the SRC reserves the right to ask nominated applicants to change the period of stay at the Center. 

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Job: Associate Director, Russian, East European, And Eurasian Center (University of Illinois)

Deadline: August 7, 2024

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has announced a search for a new Associate Director.

This position is the senior full-time staff position at REEEC.  The Associate Director provides academic leadership and staff supervision for the Center, acts as its chief grant and financial officer, directs our interdisciplinary BA major, and teaches one course per year in the REEES curriculum. Together with the Director, the REEEC Associate Director is responsible for the overall operation of the center, including program development, coordination with other units in the Illinois Global Institute, grants management, and alumni relations and advancement.

Founded in 1959, REEEC at Illinois is an active, interdisciplinary hub for our field and is a Federally-designated Title VI Comprehensive National Resource Center. We have faculty affiliates across campus, drawing on Illinois’ historic (and continuing) investments in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) as well as Illinois’ immense educational infrastructure as a public research university. We administer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships funded by the Title VI program, and offer BA and MA REEES programs alongside a dual degree (MA REEES / MS Library and Information Sciences). We sponsor innovative academic programming on campus across the year, and conduct extensive public engagement and outreach work with schools and communities. Together with our colleagues at the Slavic Reference Service, we also run our annual Research Laboratory program, that brings dozens of scholars to campus each year for short-term research visits and training workshops.

https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/11079?c=illinois

CFP: Is War a Peace? The Future of Philology

Deadline: October 31, 2024

Journal: “Studia Rossica Posnaniensia” (issue no. 50/2/2025)

Fully Open Access, there are no fees attached to the publication

Editors: Stefano Aloe (University of Verona, Italy), Bartosz Osiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University).

Reflection on the mechanisms of power and their impact on culture evokes direct associations with the works of George Orwell and can contribute to expanding the scope of potential research. The party slogan “war is peace”, found in the novel 1984, constitutes one of the vivid examples of the writer’s concept of “doublethinking”, illustrating the possibility of both representing and distorting reality through language. In this context, language is used not only to create an image of the world, but also to control the masses and manipulate consciousness.

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Job: Assistant Director, Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies (UT Austin)

Deadline: Open Until Filled (Posted July 9, 2024)

The position is grant-funded through August 14, 2026, with the possibility of renewal based on funding availability, work performance, etc. Some travel is required.

Purpose

To assist the Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) in implementing a wide range of activities to advance the center’s mission–to promote teaching, research, and outreach related to this critical global area. Serve as senior staff liaison to the College of Liberal Arts for the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

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Job: Program Associate (Kennan Institute)

Deadline: July 12, 2024

The Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute seeks a Program Associate to take a leading role in working, with the Program Director and Deputy Director, in defining Kennan Institute (KI) strategic goals related to activities in and around Russia, Ukraine and the region. 

This position closes on July 12, 2024, or after 100 applications have been received. For full qualifications and instructions on how to apply, please view this position on USAJobs: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/797890900. Only applications submitted through USAJobs will be considered.

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Job: Criminal Investigator (Department of Homeland Security)

Deadline: July 3, 2024

As a Criminal Investigator, at the full performance level, you will perform the following duties:

  • Conduct and coordinate high-level comprehensive investigations involving individuals, groups, or large organizations operating at a local, national, or international level.
  • Use electronic surveillance, interviews, polygraph examination, and physical surveillance to obtain evidence in investigative cases.
  • Make arrests, confront multiple suspects, and secure scenes sometimes under potentially dangerous and hazardous environments.
  • Take part in securing signed statements, affidavits, and documentary evidence for inclusion in reports or case records.
  • Prepare sworn testimony on behalf of the government in criminal and federal grand jury cases.
  • Communicate with native speakers, including the general public and/or law enforcement entities in support of investigative activities.
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Job: Postdoc Researchers (University of Ostrava)

Deadline: July 15, 2024

https://www.osu.eu/job-opportunities/?kdepr=0&prace=2741

The Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava announces a selection procedure, reference number: OU-70726/25-2024, to fill the following systematized position of:

  • postdocs (non-academic staff members – researchers, systemized position Postdoc I) within the project REFRESH – Research Excellence For REgion Sustainability and High-tech Industries reg. no. CZ.10.03.01/00/22_003/0000048

Job description:

  • co-solving of complex research/development tasks within the project Refresh;
  • collaborating in a research team with other researchers at the University of Ostrava and a partner university;
  • active publishing according to the needs of the field and according to the Refresh project proposal; at least one publication (Jimp or Jsc) per year;
  • securing research funding (submitting grants, seeking other opportunities).
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Paid Internship: Digital Marketing in Polish Language (Barcelona, Spain)

The digital marketing sector is constantly evolving. What you study in books and slides today may be old hat tomorrow. 

Algorithms change, so the digital marketing strategy always has to adapt. 

Take your first steps into the digital marketing industry with the Europe Language Jobs team, and learn the secrets of TikTok from our specialist team. 

Learn transversal skills to jump into the world of social media marketing and have fun in the beautiful setting of Barcelona. 

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Job: Russian Instructor (Columbus International High School)

Deadline: Open Until Filled (posted 6/11/24)

The Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at The Ohio State University has been pleased to collaborate with the Columbus (North) International High School (CIHS) in offering Russian language instruction since August 2011. Both first and second-year introductory Russian language courses are offered, taught by an instructor with B.A. and M.A. degrees. The instructor will need to attend training alongside Graduate Teaching Associates by the Director of the Language Program at the Ohio State Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures on the most effective language pedagogy and classroom methods in August 2024. The instructor teaches fifty-minute classes five days a week during the regular Columbus School District academic calendar for a total of 35-36 weeks. Students learn elementary Russian language and engage in other activities relating to the use of Russian language such as language lab activities, watching Russian-language films, researching Russia-focused projects, etc. The instructor reports directly to Mr. Douglas Lowery, principal of the school (dlowery@columbus.k12.oh.us), for any issues related to student behavior or performance or other classroom concerns.

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Russian Language Flagship Postdoctoral Fellow (Indiana University)

Deadline Extended: June 17, 2024

The application deadline for this position has been extended until June 17, 2024:The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures and the Russian Language Flagship Program at Indiana University, Bloomington (https://slavic.indiana.edu) invites applications for the position of Russian Language Flagship Postdoctoral Fellow. The contract is for an initial period of one year (paid over 10 months), with the possibility of renewal for a second year. We invite applications from qualified individuals at any early stage of their career who hold a PhD awarded no earlier than 2019 in Russian language, Linguistics, Literature, pedagogy, or Second Language Acquisition and who do not hold tenure-track positions. The position is an exciting opportunity for an emerging scholar to conduct cutting edge pedagogical research in a vibrant environment housed at a top research university.

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