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CFP: Decolonizing Eastern European Studies

Deadline: March 20, 2022

Decolonizing Eastern European Studies – Knowledge as an Object of Inquiry

May 13, 2022 (virtual)

Calls for decolonization have become a mainstream politics in contemporary academia: rethinking epistemology, destabilizing the canon, and challenging existing institutional structures. Eastern European Studies is no exception and numerous scholars wish to work toward a more relational, hybrid, and plural vision of the field. But what does it mean to decolonize Eastern European Studies? What is to be gained by decolonizing Eastern European Studies? How can this intellectual project advance our understanding of the region?

This interdisciplinary workshop invites proposals from advanced PhD students who are currently working on a publishable piece or a dissertation and are interested in rethinking epistemology and exploring the systems of knowledge production in and about Eastern Europe broadly understood. Some of the topics may include:the role of scholarship produced in the region and its languages for rethinking the interdisciplinary field of Eastern European Studies,  the relation between knowledge production and politics,  prospects and challenges of decolonial methodology,  the role of the canon in sustaining systems of knowledge control, epistemological tensions and contradictions in studying the region, the relation between memory and history in decolonizing Eastern European Studies, access to and dissemination of knowledge,  knowledge production in the moment of political and social change, challenges and prospects of comparative research in and outside the region.

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

Deadline: March 14, 2022

Please find full posting here: Associate Professorship in Soviet History at University of Oxford (jobs.ac.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.

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CFA: Marc Raeff Book Prize

Deadline: June 15, 2022

The Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, an affiliate organization of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for the 2022 annual Marc Raeff Book Prize. We encourage both presses and individual scholars to submit nominations to the members of the prize committee (listed below).

The Raeff Book Prize is awarded for a publication that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for understanding Imperial Russia during the long 18th century.  The recipient of the award will be recognized with a cash prize, which will be presented in November 2022 during the ASEEES annual convention in Chicago. The award is sponsored by the ECRSA and named in honor of Marc Raeff (1923-2008), historian, teacher, and dix-huitièmiste par excellence.

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Job Posting: Outreach Coordinator (University of Kansas)

Deadline: March 1, 2022

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Kansas (KU) is seeking an Outreach Coordinator to develop Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia-related programs, events, and resources for teachers, students, and the general public. The position will support CREES’ mission as a National Resource Center on this culturally and geopolitically crucial world region. 

To learn more and apply for this position, please click here. 

Review of applications begins Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Please contact Prof. Erik R. Scott at scott@ku.edu or KU CREES at crees@ku.edu if you have any further questions. 

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Lang. Training: Center for Language Studies Summer Program (Beloit College)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

The 39-year-strong Center for Language Studies language program at Beloit College will offer in Summer 2022 Chinese, Japanese and RUSSIAN languages, first through fourth year college level!

We remain committed to a world-class summer language immersion experience for students, while remaining safe and reliable. Our superb instructional team is already planning an engaging, interactive and exciting program in-person. 

Dates in 2022: 

June 18th through August 5th

Session 1: June 18th – July 12th

Session 2: July 12th – August 5th

 Students earn 8 US undergraduate credits for the full 7-week

program!

For details: www.beloit.edu/cls, or write to Olga Ogurtsova at ogurtsov@beloit.edu 

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CFP: Nabakov Panel at MLA 2023

Deadline: March 19, 2022

Nabokov and Curiosity  The International Vladimir Nabokov Society invites paper proposals for the 2023 MLA Convention (San Francisco, January 5-8) for a panel session on the topic “Nabokov and Curiosity.” Proposals should examine some aspect of curiosity as a theme in Nabokov’s works or as an approach to reading them. Possible topics include: interest, attention to detail(s), and inquiry; puzzle solving; novelty, freshness, and wonder; exploring the hidden or unknown; scientific, metaphysical, or sexual curiosity; curiosity as care, compassion, tenderness (including readings of Nabokov via the feminist-originated “ethics of care”); incuriosity as moral blindness in Nabokov’s villains; etc.  Please submit 250-word abstracts by March 19 to linkc@newpaltz.edu.  
“Toilers of the world, disband!”: Work, Freedom, and the Creative Act in Nabokov  The International Vladimir Nabokov Society invites paper proposals for the 2023 MLA Convention (San Francisco, January 5-8) for a panel session on the topic of “Work, Freedom, and the Creative Act in Nabokov.” Proposals might examine one or more of the following topics: Nabokov on work, especially creative labor and its prerequisites (memory, imagination, freedom, play, etc.); jobs/joblessness in Nabokov’s fictions; Nabokov in or on academia (academic labor, themes, characters); working conditions of émigré life; issues of class, wealth, and poverty; responses/opposition to Marxism, collectivism, totalitarianism; self-reflexive or metafictional commentary on writing, literature, style, or process; the importance of freedom, play, leisure, or personal vision for homo poeticus and the act of creation. Please submit 250-word abstracts by March 19 to linkc@newpaltz.edu. 

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Lang. Training: Russian Summer Language Intensive in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Bard College)

Deadline: March 4, 2022

Bard Abroad is excited to announce a new Russian Summer Language Intensive to be held at the American University of Central Asia, Bard’s longstanding partner in Central Asia. The program combines intensive Russian study with an academic course, taught in English, to contextualize Central Asia’s historical, cultural, and contemporary ties to Russia and the former Soviet Union.

For more information, click here.

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Resources: AATSEEL Graduate Student Committee

On behalf of the AATSEEL Graduate Student Committee, I am writing to encourage graduate students in Slavic and Eastern European Studies to join our organization. This is a wonderful opportunity for graduate students to collaborate with other colleagues and gain service experience valuable for professional development. The main goal of the committee is to help graduate students improve their experience at the conference.  

Every year at the AATSEEL Conference, the graduate student committee meets and gathers opinions from graduate students in Slavic Studies, then communicates them to the Executive Council. We also organize special events and panels at the conference, which will help you to meet other graduate students and build relationships with professionals in the field.

We welcome diverse students from all countries and universities! If interested (and we hope you are!), you can sign up by emailing me at ashkireva@umass.edu. We are also encouraging you to participate by attending the Graduate Committee meeting at the AATSEEL 2022 conference, which will take place on the 18th of February (3:30-4:30). We will be thrilled to see new faces tomorrow!

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions by emailing me at ashkireva@umass.edu

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Acad. Job: Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian (Wake Forest University)

Deadline: March 14, 2022

 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY’s Department of German and Russian invites applications for a one-year non-renewable position in Russian/Russian Studies at the level of Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, beginning in July 2022. The area of specialization is open. The teaching load is 3 courses per semester, and may include courses in language, literature, linguistics, and/or culture. We welcome candidates with expertise in linguistics, ethnic studies, women and gender studies, and other related fields. A Ph.D. in hand is preferred by the start of the appointment, but advanced ABD candidates will also be considered. Native or near-native fluency in Russian is required.

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CFA: PhD Placement Opportunities at British Library

Deadline: February 25, 2022

Applications are open for two PhD placements working with the Slavonic and East European collections at the British Library. Successful applicants will receive a hands-on introduction to the activities of a major cultural organisation and help to improve access to the collections.  

The first project, ‘Displaced Persons (DP) Camp Publications in the British Library’, will involve enhancing metadata for the Library’s Ukrainian DP camp publications and researching and promoting this collection.

Info: https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2022/02/phd-placement-opportunity-displaced-persons-dp-camp-publications-in-the-british-library.html 

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