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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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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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Dobro Slovo National Honor Society

Deadlines: February 3, 2025 (inductees, new chapters); March 17, 2025 (inductees)

Dobro Slovo, the National Slavic Honor Society, is pleased to announce our call for new chapters and new inductees for the 2024–2025 academic year. You may apply to open a new chapter and induct new members at the same time. In addition, we are looking for translation assistance in translating some of our materials into other Slavic languages in addition to Russian. 

This year, we will once again have two waves of inducting new members. These dates are noted below. We encourage you to make the first deadline if possible, especially if your institution has an early induction date. If this is not feasible, we will have a second deadline in mid-March. Please note that if you submit after the due date for round one, you will automatically be included in the group for round two.  Keep in mind that the second deadline often overlaps with spring break, so please plan accordingly.  

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Russian Online Language Pedagogy (OLP) Video Series

This NFLRC professional learning opportunity, offered this past summer and designed specifically for online Russian language teachers, focused on three key areas of teaching Russian online: 1) Adapting materials and resources; 2) Teaching writing and reading in Russian; and 3) Learner interaction.

We’ve divided the three panel sessions up into TED-Ed lessons by interview question, providing you with a quick and easy way to access the particular content you want in the time you have. Resources mentioned in the clips are included in the Dig Deeper sections, and we encourage you to share your own responses to the interview questions in the Discuss sections. Access them here: https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/olp/#section8

And for those who prefer to watch everything all at once, the full video recordings for all 3 panels can be found on our NFLRC YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLBJ9BLnZf1UoOkQ8Rs0Hwsk2Z6kQWFtY

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Call for Applications: Politics and Narratives at European Borderlands: Rethinking Balkans for Ukraine Course

Deadline: September 20, 2024

Course co-directors: Marija Mandić (University of Belgrade) and Olesia Marković (KyivMohyla Academy)

Central European University’s Invisible University for Ukraine program and IFDT Belgrade is inviting interested participants to enroll in an international interdisciplinary online course on comparing European borderlands, with a special focus on the Balkans. The course is free of charge and in English language. It seeks to bring together students from Southeast Europe, Ukraine and other countries, to discuss the politics, society, history and culture of the region, develop academic and human solidarity and think about parallels and connectivity between the European borderlands. The course consists of weekly interactive seminars held in late afternoon, by prominent lecturers and specialists focused on Southeast Europe and Ukraine. Students can also participate in small-team mentoring sessions offered by doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Participants can also contribute content to the project’s website (Balkan Talks) and the most actives students can participate in person in a Winter School in Budapest in January 2025.

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Resource: BiblioRossica E-Book Library

We would like to bring to your attention e-book library platform BiblioRossica.com, a project of Academic Studies Press (Boston, MA), which may be a valuable resource for Slavic departments and scholars. We carefully select and share various collections according to the requests of librarians.

BiblioRossica’s highlights include:

– Over 27,000 Russian-language books, providing access to major scholarly
works from a region that is increasingly isolated for scholars.
– 300 new titles added on a monthly basis at no extra cost.
– Primary focus in Eastern European, Eurasian, Jewish, and Russian humanities
and social sciences.
– Thematic collections spanning history, philosophy, linguistics, art,
sociology, and more.
– Content from the most significant Russian publishers generally unavailable
outside of Russia’s borders or previously unavailable in digital formats.
Publishers include Ad Marginem, Rosspen, NLO, Hylaea, Grundrisse, Vodolei and
Nestor-Istoriia, among others.
– User-friendly platform featuring an array of search capabilities of PDF
content with up to 15% of each book available for download and sharing.
– Comprehensive usage monitoring for librarians and other stakeholders,
including dedicated login credentials to access real-time usage analytics.
– Seamless user access via IP ranges, EZ-Proxy, Shibboleth.
– MARC-21 records to ensure integration with your library catalog.
– Dedicated and knowledgeable staff to assist with issues and to help build
collections.
– А free 30 day trial with no obligation.

More information: https://www.bibliorossica.com/about.html?ln=en.

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Call for Applications: Hellenic Research Fellowship Program 2024-2025 (Sacramento, CA)

Deadline: May 3, 2024

Call for Applications

Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection

Hellenic Research Fellowship Program 2024-2025

Thanks to generous funding from the Tarbell Family Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Endowment Fund of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation of Sacramento, the University Library at California State University, Sacramento is pleased to offer the continuation of the Hellenic Research Fellowship Program (HRFP) for a 12th year. The HRFP, the only residential fellowship program west of the Mississippi in Hellenic studies broadly conceived, enables visiting scholars to conduct research using the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection in Sacramento, CA. This year we are happy to inaugurate writer-in-residence fellowships as an addition to the Program. The HRFP provides a limited number of fellowships in the form of reimbursement to help offset transportation and living expenses incurred in connection with the awards. The fellowship application deadline is May 3, 2024. No late applications will be considered. See below for full program information and application instructions.

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Paid study on Russian Writing Styles (University of Maryland)

The University of Maryland, College Park is seeking native and non-native (advanced) speakers of Russian to participate in an ongoing paid study on the diversity of writing styles around the globe. This study is approved by the internal review board (IRB) of the University of Maryland, College Park, and our team hopes that the documents we collect will help provide some insight into how individual writing styles differ by region and document type.

Participants in this study will be asked to author original writing samples for several different genres. Participation is entirely online, and compensation will be provided upon proper completion of study participation tasks. There is also a corresponding study in English. Participants who are bilingual are welcome to complete either or both the Russian and English versions of our study. 

Russian study:

https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_0TA1m4IaROInO6i

English study:

https://umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_6xIMk9fHTe50ZPU

If you have any questions about the study, please email Gretchen McKnight at gbelnap@umd.edu

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Summer and Fall ’24 Language and Culture Courses Abroad (SRAS)

Deadline: April 1 (Summer) & May 1, 2024 (Fall)

Fall Courses

  • Russian as a Second Language (Riga, Tbilisi, Bishkek)
  • Identity and Conflict in the Caucasus (Tbilisi)
  • Central Asian Studies (Bishkek)
  • Security and Society in the Information Age (Warsaw)

Summer Courses

  • 10th Annual Security and Society Summer School (Warsaw)
  • Russian as a Second Language, late 6-week sessions (Batumi, Bishkek)
  • Ukrainian Language Workshop (Warsaw)
  • Polish Language and Culture (Warsaw)

See the SRAS Program page for details and to sign up for an info session.

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Summer Courses (Stony Brook University)

summer opportunities at the Russian program at Stony Brook University. All our courses are online and open to students from other schools. We are excited to offer a new course on Ukrainian culture and politics this year.

Application information can be found here: https://www.stonybrook.edu/summer/

Please contact me with any questions.

SUMMER I (May 20 – July 1)

Russian Cinema HUR 241 (3 credits)

A 6-week online course in which you will watch some of the best Russian movies of the past 20 years. We’ll discuss the culture and politics of Russia (the good, the bad and the ugly) as well as the art of cinematography.

Mon/Wed at 1:30-3 pm.

Russian for Russian Speakers RUS 213 (3 credits)

This is a course for heritage speakers.

Tues/Thur at 1:30-3 pm.

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