Professional Development – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

August 4, 2026August 4, 2026

Kennan Institute Digital Fellowship 2026-2027

Deadline: August 14, 2026

https://www.kennaninstitute.org/digital-fellowship

The Kennan Institute Digital Fellowship program is meant to promote original scholarship and quality non-fiction writing about Russia and the former Soviet Union. Fellowships will be awarded to ten outstanding figures from academia, journalism, and the expert community. The program will give fellows six months of financial support, integrate them into a network, and assist them in communicating their ideas to the public and to the policy community in Washington, DC. This program will also establish an international cohort, which upon completion of their fellowship will be incorporated into the Kennan’s alumni network. A selection committee will choose awardees for a six-month fellowship, beginning in late October 2026 and concluding in March 2027. Fellows will meet virtually once a month, and in the course of their fellowship they will be required to publish a piece for the general public and policy community, working with Kennan Institute staff to develop and edit ideas. The Digital Fellowship is designed to support a diverse range of research proposals and meet the fellows’ needs during the research process, from making professional connections to providing a platform for sharing findings.

August 4, 2026

Graduate Student Opportunity: International Symposium at the Icon Museum and Study Center

Deadline: September 1, 2026

The Icon Museum and Study Center, together with the Mary Jaharis Center, invites 2 graduate students of any level to submit a one-page letter of interest to attend the international symposium Encountering the Sacred Image: Highlights from the Icon Museum and Study Center held Oct. 15-16, 2027, in conjunction with the exhibition opening Light from the East: Masterpieces from the Ikonen-Museum Recklinghausen.
Successful applicants will be invited to attend the two-day symposium, as well as the exclusive opening of the exhibition, and will receive a reimbursement for travel and lodging up to $1,000.
The deadline for letter of interest submissions is September 1, 2026. Submit your letter of interest to Dr. Elliot Mackin, e.mackin@iconmuseum.org.

June 23, 2026June 23, 2026

Library of Congress Russian Research Orientation

Event Date: July 15, 2026

Are you wondering if the Library of Congress has any Russian materials for your research? Are you planning a trip to Washington, DC, to use the Library’s Russian collections? Connect with reference librarians from the European Reading Room directly and avoid red tape such as that depicted in the 1858 Объясненіе къ плану теченія бумагъ, a Russian bureaucratic flow chart from the tsarist era! Please join us on July 15 at 2-3 pm Eastern Time for a virtual orientation to the Russian print and digital collections and how to get started. After the session, you’ll have the opportunity to connect with Russian collection specialists during a Q&A. The Library of Congress is free and open to everyone age 16 and older.

This will be the first in a series of online orientations to the European collections of the Library of Congress offered by the reference staff of the European Reading Room.

June 23, 2026

Online Course: A Grand Tour: Travels in the South Caucasus

Course Dates: June 29 – August 17, 2026

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) in partnership with the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) at the University of Chicago announce a joint online course:

A Grand Tour: Travels in the South Caucasus

Course Schedule: 8 weeks, Mondays, June 29th–August 17th, 2026, 4–6 pm CDT/5–7pm EDT. Classes meet online via Zoom with recordings available.

May 7, 2026May 7, 2026

Oxford Translates Online Summer School

Term: July 6 – July 10, 2026 (limited to 12 student)

https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtranslates/apply

Eligibility criteria

Applicants are required to demonstrate that they have excellent command of the target language of their chosen workshop (mother-tongue level or language of habitual use) and superior proficiency in the source language.

The summer school is aimed at practising and aspiring translators. We do not require attendees to have experience of the translation industry or to have published.

There is no application deadline but applications will close for a particular language when that workshop reaches capacity. Places in language workshops are limited to 12 and allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

April 7, 2026April 7, 2026

Online Workshop: Cultural Resistance: First Half of the 20th Century

Event Date: Saturday, April 11, 2026

The concept of cultural resistance has become integral to sociological, political, and cultural studies. Emerging after the “youth revolutions” of the late 1960s (the “long year 1968”), this concept encompasses practices, artistic works, and initiatives aimed at revising or deconstructing established social hierarchies, challenging hegemonic “common sense” and dominant tastes, and confronting neo-fascist and right-wing populist movements as sociocultural forces.

April 3, 2026April 3, 2026

Travelling Lectorium 2026: Bulgaria: Intercultural and Inter-Religious Spaces

Deadline: April 15, 2026

The Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IEFSEM–BAS) is pleased to invite applications for the Travelling Lectorium 2026: “Bulgaria: Intercultural and Inter-Religious Spaces,” to be held from 24 to 30 August 2026.

This intensive one-week programme combines lectures, ethnographic field visits, and discussions with local communities and experts, offering participants an in-depth perspective on Bulgaria’s ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity. The itinerary includes Sofia, Breznitsa, Ribnovo, Plovdiv, Bachkovo, and Sliven.

March 17, 2026

Biweekly Research Colloquium (Institute for Social and Cultural Studies, Ilia State University)

Event Date: March 19, 2026

Biweekly research colloquium, organised by the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies at Ilia State University, on March 19, 7 pm Tbilisi time.

We will be hosting Geoffrey Durham with a talk on his research: “Georgian in Form, Tsarist in Content: Colonial Weights, Measures, and Money in the South Caucasus, 1801-45”.

Please register here if you would like to attend online.

February 24, 2026February 24, 2026

Call for Applications: 2026 Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Deadline: March 16, 2026

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are pleased to announce a new Call for Applications for our 2026 Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) program. The SRL is an in-person program that offers comprehensive research support, access to library resources, and competitive Research Awards to graduate and post-graduate scholars developing projects on all aspects of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. It is funded by the U.S. Department of State through its Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII).

January 9, 2026January 9, 2026

Translating Ukraine Summer Institute (Wroclaw, Poland)

Deadline: February 1, 2026

Translating Ukraine Summer Institute, co-organized by the University of Alberta’s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), DUSS UAlberta—Disrupted Ukrainian Scholars and Students Initiative, the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, the Yale Ukrainian Program at Yale University, Ukrainian Studies Program at Cambridge University, Kolegium Europy Wschodniej, National Ossolinski Institute, New Eastern Europe, NGO Translatorium, and the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US, is currently accepting applications for its Summer 2026 program. The organizers are inviting all eligible candidates to apply by 1 February 2026.

The full call for applications can be found here: https://www.translatingukraine.org/apply