CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Page 123 – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

Help Wanted: Data Rescue for Ukraine

Event Date: March 5, 2022

We will be hosting a data rescue session focused on identifying and archiving data and sites for music collections at cultural heritage institutions in Ukraine which may be at risk during the attack and invasion by Russia. The session will occur on Saturday, March 5, 2022 (time TBD).

If you are interested in participating, please complete this form so that we can share additional information with you. The event will be held virtually, instructions will be provided for a variety of roles (no programming background required). Asynchronous participation is also possible.

Organized by Anna E. Kijas and Francesca Giannetti (Digital Humanities Interest Group, Music Library Association) and Andy Janco (Digital Humanities Interest Group of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies).

For more information about the project, click here.

March 1, 2022April 14, 2022

Acad. Job: Lecturer in Ukrainian (University of California, Berkeley)

Deadline: March 24, 2022

The UC Berkeley Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Ukrainian language for the 2022-23 academic year, with the possibility of renewal and of subsequent continuing status. This is a part-time position with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2022.

Applicants should have experience teaching Ukrainian, preferably at the college level, and a near-native proficiency in Ukrainian and English. The minimum qualification for the position is a Master’s degree (or equivalent international degree) by the time of application, preferably in Ukrainian language or other relevant field. A legal permit to work in the United States is required by the appointment start date. A successful applicant will be expected to be able to teach Ukrainian at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Please see further details and submit application materials at our general lecturer pool (https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03243) by March 24, 2022 and select the
“other languages” specialty when applying, specifying Ukrainian in your cover letter. Interviews will take place on Zoom. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

March 1, 2022April 14, 2022

Acad. Job: Associate Prof. in Soviet History (University of Oxford, UK)

Deadline: March 14, 2022

We are seeking a highly motivated, inspirational historian of Soviet Russia and/or the Soviet Union to take up a joint post in the History Faculty and the interdisciplinary Russian and East European Studies programme (REES), which forms part of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). Russian History is a lively area in our large History Faculty, with three other postholders working in the modern period; connections between European and global history are strong, and the Faculty covers a very broad thematic range. In OSGA, the postholder will work alongside a team of six permanent REES staff who research Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives. The post is also attached to St Antony’s College, which specialises in Area Studies and has a long association with Soviet Studies. The successful applicant will join its Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre.

We seek a person with expertise in any aspect of the history of Soviet Russia and/or the Soviet Union, 1917-91. We particularly encourage applications from people interested in the history of Soviet Russia, or Ukraine, Central Asia and the Caucasus and/or the USSR in a broader global context, and historians who work on women’s and/or gender history. We welcome applications from candidates at all career stages, provided they have a doctorate. We particularly encourage applications from women, people with disabilities and Black, Asian, and minority ethnic candidates, as these groups are currently under-represented in the academic staff of the College and Faculty of History.

March 1, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: Surveillance, Security, and State Instiutions (Babes-Bolyai University; Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Deadline: March 30, 2022

-11 June 2022, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

The conference is intended to take place face to face. Depending on the COVID-19 regulations, we may host it in a hybrid or completely on-line format.

The importance of surveillance, security and state institutions lie at the core of key debates in the academia, politics, journalism and in various professional fields. The multiplication of criminal activities, political crises or terror attacks determined the state institutions to use intensively surveillance as an instrument for thwarting security threats. This reality along with the technological evolutions stimulated the emergence of surveillance societies in which surveillance is used in every social sector and individuals cannot escape it. These evolutions generated multiple controversies and raised questions such as: How can security be defined today? What is the meaning of contemporary surveillance? Is surveillance conducted to achieve security objectives? Are the state institutions that perform surveillance upright? Why does contemporary surveillance affect the privacy of the individuals? The relevance of these questions increased significantly especially during the COVID-19 pandemics when most of the world’s governments increased the number of surveillance policies and practices for combating the spread of the virus.

March 1, 2022April 14, 2022

Seminar: “What Would a Feminist Foreign Policy Look Like in ESEE Region?” (ESEE Fanel Network)

Event Date: March 2, 2022

On behalf of the Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (ESEE) Fanel Network, coordinated by prof. Liliana Popescu, PhD, we are pleased to invite you to the webinar titled ” What would a Feminist Foreign Policy look like in ESEE Region?”. The event will take place on Wednesday, March 2, at 2 PM EET (Romania time).

We invite you to connect via this link https://snspa.webex.com/snspa/j.php?MTID=m7d993d6552c14b21a38e6837c0764fae, with the event number: 2731 456 6058, and the password: guest.

February 28, 2022April 14, 2022

Acad. Job: Senior Preceptor in Czech Language (Harvard University)

Deadline: March 1, 2022

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University seeks applications for a Senior Preceptor in Czech Language. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2022, with teaching and administrative responsibilities to begin in Fall Semester 2022. The job announcement is available at https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/10966 and is also reproduced below.

February 25, 2022April 14, 2022

Resources: Doctoral Student Peer Mentoring Program (Slavic Reference Service)

Deadline: March 18, 2022

The Slavic Reference Service will be facilitating the next cycle of the Doctoral Student Peer Mentoring Program this Spring. This program aims to connect doctoral students at all levels of study and in all disciplines conducting research related to Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasia. Through this program, we hope to foster networking and mentoring among emerging scholars. Interested students can register for the program here: https://forms.gle/D3qdzdWSBfb6NmcT9. Please register by March 18 to be mentor matched and participate in an initial meet and greet event. Questions may be directed to srscite@library.illinois.edu. We hope that you will encourage students to apply as mentees and mentors

February 25, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: Exclusions – Nationalities Affairs

Deadline: March 31, 2022

CFP for the new volume Sprawy Narodowościowe Seria Nowa / Nationalities Affairs (SNSN): EXCLUSIONS

“All paradises are designed by the people who are not allowed in”: Exclusion in and beyond Central Europe. Volume 54 of the journal will discuss the experiences, appearances and narratives of exclusion.

Our website: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sn/

Please find attached detailed information about the volume.

February 24, 2022April 14, 2022

Seminar: Voices from the Eastern European Anthropocene

Event Date: February 25, 2022

Anastasia Fomina: Voices from the Eastern European Anthropocene Workshop

Friday, February 25, 1 p.m. EST

Join us for a lecture, Q&A discussion, and workshop with Anastasia Fomina, Russian environmental activist. Anastasia Fomina is a youth activist and Fridays for Future Russia climate strike organizer from the industrial city of Arkhangelsk, Russia. She is also a lead organizer for the regional environmental movement “42” (Экологическое движение 42), which focuses on climate change education and waste processing in the Russian context. Fomina translates materials for the International Anti-Nuclear Network, holds solo pickets, organizes global strikes, and hosts lectures and film screenings about climate change. Fomina’s commitment to intersectional approaches to environmental activism has led her to coordinate the first feminist movement in Arkhangelsk.Conducted in Russian with English interpretation.Free and open to the public.Stay tuned for more information on future events in the Voices from the Eastern European Anthropocene speaker series featuring Svetlana Alexievich.

February 24, 2022April 14, 2022

CFP: Redefining Borders and Peripheries in Central Asia and the Far East

Deadline: March 15, 2022

Virtual conference, May 23–24, 2022

See below or https://www.redefiningborders.com/ for more details.Call for Papers

The issue of borders has long been contested in Central Asia and the Far East with present-day consequences stretching from academic theorizations to military confrontations. These debates often fixate on the role of the state in drawing and fortifying boundaries with skewed historical arguments about glorified national pasts and anxieties about the future, often overlooking the complicated meaning and nuanced context in which borders are formulated. The outdated approaches, underpinned primarily by colonial and Eurocentric perspectives, have long limited directions in research, and necessitate rethinking and reformulation.

The purpose of the conference is to critically interrogate these conventional narratives and rethink the role of borders through a historical and anthropological perspective. By challenging the preoccupations around divisions and boundaries, the conference invites participants to consider the importance of hubs and mobilities throughout the modern age. We hope to bring together histories and ethnographies of mobility and the everyday in Central Asia and the Far East to challenge narratives of the periphery and frontier that continue to frame the region.