Resources – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

October 17, 2025October 17, 2025

ACTR Event on Navigating Job Interviews for Graduate Students

Event Date: October 21, 2025

ACTR Graduate Outreach and Support Committee are happy to invite you to our upcoming event “Academic Job Interviews Explained: Strategies and Insights for Graduate Students” on October 21 at 6 p.m. ET. Registration for the event is free and can be accessed here.

Our guest speaker is Dr. Amy S. Thompson, the Mack and Effie Campbell Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Teacher Education in the Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at Florida State University. A renowned applied linguistics scholar and language education advocate, Dr. Thompson is the recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Service to the Profession Award from the Association of Language Departments (ALD), a part of the Modern Language Association (MLA).

August 14, 2025August 14, 2025

Call for Applications: Workshop in Ukrainian Studies in New York City (For PhD candidates and Post-Doctoral Scholars)

Deadline: September 10, 2025

The Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States, in partnership with the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and Razom for Ukraine, is pleased to announce a call for applications from early-career scholars. PhD candidates studying at US universities and post-doctoral fellows who received their PhD degrees within the past three years are invited to apply for participation in an interdisciplinary workshop in Ukrainian Studies. Applicants engaged in a wide range of approaches and subfields are welcome to apply. Topics include, but are not limited to, civil society, culture, economic development, gender, historical memory, humanitarian aid, international relations, migration, and war. The in-person workshop will be held in New York City on October 31 – November 1, 2025, which will provide participants with an opportunity to attend some events at the Ukrainian Cultural Festival.

July 7, 2025

2nd KIU Summer School: Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies

Deadline: July 20, 2025

Between 8 and 19 September, 2025 the 2nd KIU SUMMER SCHOOL In Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies takes place at European University Viadrina under the umbrella topic:

Ukraine in Europe: Controversies, complexities and agency of a multifaceted interconnection

Our international summer school is part of the MA certificate program in Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies and will bring together students and scholars interested in historical, cultural, social, political, economic, law-based and conflict-related questions on and about Ukraine. We invite you to explore Ukraine and Ukraine’s European entanglements in past, present and future, improve your Ukrainian language skills, and learn from great scholars who have been dedicating their research to Ukraine since decades. Students will also have the opportunity to work in interactive formats, learn in sessions on conflict management, enjoy arts and culture and to present and debate their own projects in open discussion rounds.

May 13, 2025May 13, 2025

Language Learning: Online Intermediate Russian Conversation (Queens College)

Queens College, CUNY

RUSSIAN 2143: Intermediate Russian Conversation

ONLINE (via Zoom)

https://globalsearch.cuny.edu/CFGlobalSearchTool/search.jsp

FALL 2025

8/26/2025 – 12/22/2025

Mondays and Thursdays (2 times a week) 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Instructor:

Pisetskaya Aksana, email: Aksana.Pisetskaya@qc.cuny.edu

Enhance your Russian speaking skills in a dynamic, interactive environment. This intermediate-level course is designed for students with prior Russian knowledge who want to improve fluency, expand vocabulary, and gain confidence.

P.S. Potential students will have to register at Hunter College as non-matriculating students, and they should do so quickly since the CUNY registration process takes time.

April 21, 2025April 21, 2025

Summer 2025 Online Courses: Russian, Ukrainian Language, Cinema, & Literature (Stony Brook University)

Stony Brook University is offering courses in Summer & Fall 2025. Most courses are offered fully online synchronously (see details below for some exceptions). Please spread the word and inform your students.

Summer I (5/27 – 7/5)

Intensive Russian RUS 101 (6 credits) – covers two semesters of Beginner Russian.

Intensive Ukrainian UKR 101 (6 credits) – covers two semesters of Beginner Ukrainian.

Contemporary/Professional Russian RUS 332 (3 credits) – Intermediate to Advanced Russian reading and writing, asynchronous directed readings.

Russian Cinema HUR 241 (3 credits) – Post-Soviet Russian Cinema, in English.

Summer II (7/7-8/16)

Russian Literature and the West HUR 341 (3 credits) – Competing Conceptions of Self and State, in English.

Fall

Elementary Russian I RUS 111, an online section and an in-person section

Intermediate Russian I RUS 211, online

Russian for Heritage Speakers RUS 213 (3 credits), online

For more information on enrollment, please visit the Stony Brook Summer website. Contact me directly with questions on the program at anna.geisherik@stonybrook.edu

March 4, 2025March 4, 2025

Online Film Screening and Discussion: Named Voices

Event Date: March 26, 2025, 1:00–3:00 PM EST

This compelling documentary theater play, Named Voices, examines the Nazi genocide of Roma in Ukraine during the 1940s and the ongoing experiences of Roma communities under Russia’s current war against Ukraine. The film interweaves stories of Roma people affected by WWII, connecting their past and present struggles. Produced by the Agency for the Advocacy of Roma Culture ARCA in collaboration with the Inclusive Theatre Association ART-PLAYBACK, the film draws upon ARCA’s archives and interviews with Roma provided by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies. Following the screening, join Nataliia Tomenko, Roma activist and cultural heritage expert, and Lesia Pagulich, Ukrainian queer studies scholar, for a conversation on how histories of violence shape new understandings of care, solidarity, and healing. The film is in Ukrainian with English subtitles (78 min).

Please register to receive the link.
https://forms.gle/zCvqDeWEi3QqkbUN6

February 6, 2025February 6, 2025

Resource: Digital Library for Slavic Scholars

Bibliorossica.com is a digital library for Slavic scholars with more than
30,000 titles within thematic collections spanning works in history,
philosophy, linguistics, art, memoirs, modern fiction etc. This is an explicit
collection of titles for Russophone readers worldwide with books from Leading
Russian Scholarly Presses.

January 31, 2025January 31, 2025

Resource/CFP: DOXA Independent Russian Media Platform

DOXA Journal is an independent Russian media outlet operating in exile. Initially launched as a student publication, it has grown into one of the largest independent Russian media platforms, covering critical issues such as human rights violations, the war in Ukraine, LGBTQIA+ oppression, and indigenous rights. Through our newsletter we aim to broaden the conversation about Russia by highlighting perspectives that extend beyond Kremlin-centric coverage.

Unlike most independent Russian media, we welcome scholarly, research-driven work.

January 22, 2025January 22, 2025

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.

January 6, 2025January 6, 2025

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.