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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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.

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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Summer Research Laboratory (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Deadline: March 1, 2024

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are pleased to announce a call for applications to the Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) program. The program will take place June 10 – August 2, 2024. Funded in part by the U.S. Department of State’s Title VIII Program, the SRL program provides research support for graduate and post-graduate level research on Central and East Europe and the Independent States of the former Soviet Union.

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Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (University of Wisconsin)

Deadline: February 1, 2024

Greetings from UW-Madison’s Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI)! We are excited to announce that applications for CESSI 2024 are now open! CESSI typically offers courses in Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek. Additional Central Eurasian languages (such as Azerbaijani or Kyrgyz) may be added with sufficient student interest.

Several funding opportunities exist for students of any type. Graduate students (including incoming students), post-baccalaureate researchers, and professionals who are U.S. citizens are especially encouraged to apply for the Title VIII Fellowship*, which covers full tuition plus a stipend of $2,500 for the summer. Note: This is a great opportunity for incoming MA and PhD students to develop language skills before embarking on fieldwork. *TVIII funding is provided by the United States government. Funding is conditional on final approval from U.S. State Department.

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Interdisciplinary Summer Courses (CEU Sumner University/Budapest, Vienna)

Deadline: February 14, 2023

CEU Summer University offers high-level, research- and policy-oriented interdisciplinary courses from June 26 to July 31, 2023. All courses will be held in Budapest (with the exception of one, which will be  taught in Vienna.)  

We invite applications from advanced undergraduates, MA and Ph.D. students, postdocs, junior faculty, early-stage researchers, and practitioners for the short, intensive courses taught by teams of internationally renowned scholars and policy experts (including CEU and OSUN professors). Financial aid is available.

First upcoming application deadline: February 14, 2023   

·                     Course Listings and link to the Application Form: https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses   

·                     Contact email: summeru@ceu.edu   

·                     Latest news and updates that can be shared: https://www.facebook.com/ceu.summer   

Free Online Course Lectures: “The Making of Modern Ukraine” (Yale University)

Dr. Timothy Snyder at Yale University is teaching a class on “The Making of Modern Ukraine” this semester. The lectures are being made available on a Youtube channel: the first one is here. They will continue to be published over the course of the autumn. If interested, the syllabus is available here: https://snyder.substack.com/p/syllabus-of-my-ukraine-lecture-class .

Online Ukrainian Folklore Course

Dates: June 9- July 2, 2022

The Partnership for Russian, East European and Eurasian Folklore, a nonprofit dedicated to cultural exchange and the study of folklore, is honored to present an online course in Ukrainian folklore.

This course is a collaboration between two distinguished folklorists, Dr. Liudmila Ivaniikova (Kiev) and Dr. Yelena Minyonok (Moscow).  Dr. Ivaniikova will lecture in Ukrainian. Dr. Minyonok will deliver an introductory lecture in English and provide English translation for subsequent lectures.

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