Professional Development – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

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

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025

Prof. Dev.: Self-Study Course for Language Educators

Deadline to register: May 31, 2026

Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) is a 5-module open-enrollment self-study course for language educators beginning to learn about Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL), offered by the National Foreign Language Resource Center. Successful learners will be able to describe essential features of high quality PBLL and to generate high-quality ideas for projects using the Product Square. A digital badge is available for candidates fulfilling course requirements.

Registration and the content for this MOOC (massive open online course) are FREE:

Registration open till May 31, 2026

Course open: January 5 – June 30, 2026

For more info or to register, visit https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/events/view/126/

October 21, 2025October 21, 2025

Call for Proposals: AATSEEL Translation Workshop

The AATSEEL translation workshop team wants to hear your ideas for translation initiatives for the 2026 conference!

Please write to Ainsley Morse (aemorse@ucsd.edu) or Jen Kindick (aatseelconference@colorado.edu) with a one-paragraph proposal for workshop material from any time period and any AATSEEL-covered [Slavic/East European/Eurasian/Caucasian/Baltic] language. The genre is also open, but please consider a length of text that can be productively dealt with in a brief (1h15m) workshop.

Examples from recent years: poems by Odesa-based poet Maria Galina; poems by early modernist classic Lesia Ukrainka; poems by Lviv-based poet Ostap Slyvynsky; poems by Austin-based poet Oksana Lutsyshyna; poems by Siberian poet Ekaterina Simonova; several passages from the autobiography of Avvakum; two brief prose passages from the novel Appendix by Rome-based Alexandra Petrova.

October 16, 2025October 16, 2025

Writing Across Boundaries Program – Call for Applications

Deadline: November 21, 2025

To integrate new research and perspectives from underrepresented regions and groups in English-language publishing outlets in Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, the Writing Across Boundaries Program invites applications for the next cycle of the program. The application is due no later than Friday, November 21, 2025.

Doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and other early career scholars from all disciplines and academic training in the arts and humanities and the social sciences are encouraged to apply. The overall goal of this program is to familiarize authors with different stages of developing a manuscript. These include:

Identifying journals for publication;
Interpreting submission guidelines and requirements;
Working with drafts;
Structuring effective arguments;
Understanding the peer review process;
Conducting revisions and incorporating feedback from reviewers;
Communicating with editors and editorial staff;
Interpreting article acceptance and rejection notices.

September 18, 2025September 18, 2025

2026 Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe

Deadline: December 2, 2025

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) 2025-26 competition. In partnership with the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS), ACLS will convene leading scholars from Eastern Europe and North America for a two-week residency in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria from June 3 to June 19, 2026.

SISECSE will provide participating scholars with time and space to dedicate to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. The program covers travel, accommodation, and per diem expenses. Scholars are expected to be in residence and to participate in all planned events for the duration of the institute.

Learn More About Eligibility and Application Requirements