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.

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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.

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 211online

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

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.
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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.

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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