Category: Professional Development

Deadline: May 10

Students in this program have presented their projects at the ASEEES Annual Convention, and we look forward to seeing more projects this year in Philadelphia. Think Tank participants work with a faculty mentor, attend the virtual Summer Research Laboratory at UIUC, and receive a stipend at the end of the program. Their final research projects are digitally published. The program runs May 2023 to February 2024.

The REEES Think Tank is a nationwide micro-credentialing undergraduate research program for BIPOC undergraduates; students from other communities underrepresented in higher education, including first-generation students; and students lacking substantive REEES resources at their home universities. For more information, see: https://buff.ly/3Ht5S0c.

Deadline: May 21, 2023

Call for Applications
ASU’s Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies invites applications for its second annual in-person workshop on multi-media methods in public scholarship , which will be held on ASU’s Tempe campus on August 10-12, 2023. Applications are invited from early-career scholars and practitioners (including advanced PhD and master’s students and recent graduates) with an interest in taking knowledge public. The workshop will provide participants with professional and technical support to effectively translate in-depth regional knowledge of Russia, Eurasia and East Europe to engage public and policy audiences.

Workshop Dates: June 15-16, 2023

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite faculty, graduate students, early career scholars, independent researchers, and policy analysts to participate in the upcoming workshops, New Views on Sovereignty in Eurasia and Language Learning and Language Competencies for Field Research in Eurasian Studies. Scholars will be able to participate in person and virtually through Zoom.  For questions about the Summer Research Laboratory, funding, and information on other workshops, please contact us at reeec-srl@illinois.edu. This year’s SRL is made possible by generous support from the US Department of State, through its Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). Revised information on each workshop is linked down below. 

Deadline: March 10, 2023

Greetings and warm wishes from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center and the Slavic Reference Service invite faculty, graduate students, early career scholars, independent researchers, and policy analysts to participate in the upcoming workshop, New Views on Sovereignty in Eurasia, on June 19th-20th, 2023. Scholars will be able to participate in person and virtually through Zoom.

Dr. Leone Musgrave (United States Army War College) and Dr. Kristoffer Rees (Indiana University East) will be leading this workshop as co-moderators.

This workshop will examine issues of sovereignty and national security in contemporary Eurasia. With competing spheres of influence, the post-Soviet space is undergoing rapid changes that are reshaping US foreign policy and causing widespread instability in the region. The workshop will critically apply multidisciplinary perspectives in order to contextualize regional trends.

Deadline: March 10, 2023

Greetings and warm wishes from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center and the Slavic Reference Service invite faculty, graduate students, language workshop participants, early career scholars, and independent researchers to participate in the upcoming workshop, Language Learning and Language Competencies for Field Research in Eurasian Studies, on June 15th-16th, 2023. Scholars will be able to participate in person and virtually through Zoom.

Dr. Timothy K. Blauvelt (Ilia State University) and Dr. Naira Sahakyan (The Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute) will be leading this workshop as co-moderators.

In recent years, there has been soul searching in ethnography about the challenges of “researching multilingually,” including calls for more reflection and openness about language learning and language competences for fieldwork. In this workshop, the participants will be invited to explore a potential range of such questions: how to go about gaining language skills (especially for the less commonly taught languages); what level of proficiency is sufficient for which kinds of research; how might technology assist with research-related language challenges; what are the distortions of interpretation and translation (including machine-assisted translation) relative to distortions introduced by varying levels of language fluency; when and how is a lingua franca (especially Russian, the former imperial/colonial idiom of the Russian/Soviet empires) still useful for research; what are the trade-offs and inequities of opportunities involved in language acquisition; and many others.