Category: Professional Development

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Junior Scholar Workshop: Writing Back from the Peripheries: Russophone Literary Diversity

Deadline: February 15, 2025

Junior Scholar Workshop “Writing Back from the Peripheries? Russophone Literary Diversity” 

funded by the BRIDGE Seed Fund for collaboration between the University of Birmingham (UoB) in the UK, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the USA

July 9-10, 2025

at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, decolonizing and decentring approaches to the study of Russophone literature and culture have become increasingly urgent tasks. This workshop seeks to offer support to emerging scholars whose research focuses on minoritized Russophone authors (both those who are “writing back” from regions formerly colonized by Russia and those who ended up living in exile abroad).

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Fellowships: Centre for Advanced Study (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Deadline: March 31, 2025

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia would like to remind you of our
Open Calls for international fellowships for the 2025/2026 academic year.
Our programmes are designed for researchers from the social sciences and the humanities at different stages of their career from all over the world.

Additional information can be found further below.

CAS Sofia Fellowships for 2025/2026:

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Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowships

Deadline: March 10, 2025

The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office at the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) fellowships program.

The FRA program funds fellowships through institutions of higher education (IHEs) to faculty members to conduct research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies to improve their skill in languages and their knowledge of the culture of the people of these countries. Fellows conduct research abroad for three to 12 months. Funds support travel expenses to and from the fellow’s residence and the country or countries of research, a maintenance stipend related to the fellow’s academic year salary, and an allowance for research-related expenses, such as books and photocopying, tuition, affiliation fees, local travel, and other incidental expenses. Proposals focusing solely on Western Europe are not eligible.

IFLE expects to make 15 new awards totaling approximately $750,000 under the FY 2025 FRA competition. Applications for the FRA program must be submitted through the G5/G6 system. The application package document provides specific instructions on how to apply for an FRA fellowship. The deadline to apply is March 10, 2025.

Please refer to the official Federal Register notice for detailed information about the FY 2025 competition.

VISIT THE FRA “HOW TO APPLY” WEBSITE

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Prof. Dev.: Publishing Success: Insights from Journal Editors (3-Session series)

Series Dates: February 5, February 12, February 18, 2025

Want to get your articles published in academic journals? This special CLT Demos & Discussions series will feature panel discussions by the editors of four online refereed journals published or sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center: Language Learning & Technology (LL&T), Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL), Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C), and Second Language Research & Practice (SLRP).

Panelists will discuss their journals and their submission & review process, while also providing strategies and tips for getting published in refereed journals in general. Bring your questions!

Panel sessions will be hybrid, allowing for in-person participation at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and online participation, and recorded.

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CFP: Socialisms in the Face of the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe: 80 Years to 1945, Hybrid Research Workshop (University of Haifa, Israel)

Deadline: January 25, 2025

Two radically opposed manifestations of human society reached the climax of their realization in the twentieth century: the utopian vision of socialism and the catastrophic reality of the Holocaust. Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, this workshop, hosted on 7-8 April 2025 by the Haifa Interdisciplinary Unit for Polish Studies (HIUPS), the Gotteiner Institute for the History of the Bund and the Jewish Labor Movement, and the University of Haifa, aims to untangle socialist responses to the Holocaust within the context of twentieth century Central and Eastern European Jewish history. 

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CFP: Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia (Davis Center, Harvard University)

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Call for Papers for Davis Center’s Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia

The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University will host the third annual graduate student conference on Central Asia from April 18 to 20, 2025. We invite paper proposals from graduate students at any stage, including master’s students, working on a topic related to Central Asia within any discipline. The conference will allow U.S.-based graduate students to present their original and ongoing work professionally and receive feedback from peers and experts in the field. 

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Prof. Dev. : Open Enrollment Project-Based Language Learning for Language Educators

Registration Open Until: April 30, 2025

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 April 30, 2025

Course open: January 2, 2025 – May 31, 2025

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

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REEES networking event with SRS + ASEEES

Event Date: January 30, 2025

The Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (SRS), together with the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is hosting our second annual virtual meet and greet for graduate students, recent graduates, and ASEEES members. 

This informal event is an opportunity to meet fellow REEES graduate students and scholars, play REEES-themed trivia, and learn more about SRS research support services, ASEEES resources for graduate students, the annual ASEEES convention, and more.  

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European & Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium

Deadline: January 10, 2025

URS—the European & Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium—is scheduled for March 28, 2025 and open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper (social science, humanities, or business perspective) focusing on Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or Central Eurasia.

Undergraduate students  apply here.

Details here:

  • URS applications due January 10th, 2025.
  • Limited URS travel grants help defray travel expenses for accepted participants outside the Pittsburgh region.
  • Selected participants are grouped into panels according to their research topics.
  • Participants give 10- to 15-minute presentations to a panel of faculty and graduate students.
  • URS presentations are open to the public.

URS is an annual event since 2002 that provides undergraduate students with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills. For more information, visit our page.

Should you have any questions, please reach out to Zita Tóth-Shawgo. 

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Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia 2025

Deadline: February 17, 2025

Applications are now open for the Monterey Summer Symposium 2025, a multidisciplinary bilingual program organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. The Monterey Summer Symposium will take place in Armenia and Georgia from June 25 to July 13, 2025.

Applicants must demonstrate advanced proficiency in the Russian language.

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