CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Page 128 – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

January 5, 2022February 10, 2022

Call for Applications: Dobro Slovo, National Slavic Honors Society

Deadline: January 31, 2022

Dobro Slovo is excited to announce our call for new inductees and applications for new chapters. Dobro Slovo is the National Slavic Honors Society, founded in 1963 on the campus of UC Berkeley. It is committed to recognizing academic excellence and commitment to the field of Slavic Studies in the U.S.

After one transition year, we now have the infrastructure in place to mail out certificates, pins, and, for the first time, honors cords, to all new inductees in time for April or May induction ceremonies. We are ready to welcome new chapter applications as well as another round of inductees from existing chapters.

January 5, 2022February 10, 2022

CFA: Time, Objectified: Soviet Temporalities and Material Culture

Deadline: January 31, 2022

Edited by Julie Deschepper, Antony Kalashnikov, and Federica Rossi

In what ways were Soviet temporalities unique, from a global perspective? How can studies of Soviet material culture provide a vantage point from which to address this question?

Time is hardly a new object of research in the humanities and social sciences. The last few decades have seen landmark works on the changing conceptualizations and experiences of time, written from the disciplinary standpoints of, among others, history (Hartog, Koselleck, Tamm), sociology (Bauman, Rosa, Zerubavel), philosophy (Gumbrecht, Lübbe, Osborne) and literary studies (Assmann, Berman). These studies have identified and explored multiple temporalities: the ways in which time is constructed, produced, instrumentalized, and negotiated by individuals and collectives, themselves embedded in time. As in the current animated discussion of modern and postmodern temporal orders, these investigations have been rooted in a Eurocentric framework.

January 5, 2022February 10, 2022

CFA: ARISC Teaching the South Caucasus Workshop!

Deadline: January 10, 2022

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) in conjunction with the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center’s (REEEC) Summer Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite applications for the 2022 Teaching the South Caucasus workshop, a five-day forum focusing on curricular development for post-secondary educators, with a priority given to community college and minority serving institutions (CC/MSI).

In a five-day workshop participants will engage with topics on the history, societies, politics, environment, and culture of the South Caucasus; take part in pedagogical activities; conduct research at the University of Illinois’ world-renowned library; and workshop individual and group projects. Participants will work with scholars specializing in the South Caucasus who will give lectures, lead discussions, and provide feedback on participants’ projects. The workshop will also include a session with a UIUC librarian, three nightly films, one from each South Caucasian country, as well as a presentation from a regional film scholar.

December 23, 2021April 14, 2022

CFP: Princeton University Graduate Conference

Deadline: February 1, 2022

Princeton University Graduate Conference, May 13-14, 2022
*To Be Held In-Person*
The ‘Byt’ of Literature:
Literary Personalities, Scholarly Discourses and the Modes of Their Production

Co-organizers: Lidia Tripiccione and Benjamin Musachio, Princeton University

Keynote Speaker: Kevin M.F. Platt, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

In his most famous article, Boris Eikhenbaum showed how Gogol’s Overcoat was made: a literary text was presented as a product of meticulous fabrication. In his later work, Eikhenbaum similarly explored the constructed nature of the environment (byt) in which literature is produced. Focusing on social and artistic milieus, Eikhenbaum asked: How are poets and literary figures “made?” In responding to this question, we seek to refine, recast, and expand the Formalist mode of inquiry.

December 23, 2021April 14, 2022

Conference/CFP: Varlam Shalamov in the Context of Contemporaneity

Deadline: March 1, 2022

Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum, Moscow

June 23–24, 2022

Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum organizes the Conference dedicated to the Russian writer Varlam Shalamov and invites proposals on the works and life of Shalamov in the context of literature and arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Varlam Shalamov was an attentive observer of the events of his epoch. His diaries and letters are full of accurate remarks and portraits of his contemporaries. His works cannot be examined without the context of the epoch, the history of literature, and culture of the twentieth century. It is important how Shalamov is read and understood now. Poets and writers who found themselves with Shalamov in the same epoch, also tried in their own way to reflect on the twentieth century in all the senses that this concept means.

December 23, 2021April 14, 2022

CFP: Mobilization through Sport in Southeast Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Deadline: February 2022

The spread of various forms of physical movement could also be observed in Southeast Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries, such as physical exercise, gymnastics and organized sports. The basis for these parallel developments included a new understanding of physicality resulting from the Enlightenment and of the relationship between humans and nature, a growing political awareness, various approaches to sporting activity (from national-mobilizing in the sense of Jahn’s gymnastics movement or the widespread “Sokol” groups among the Slavs up to internationalist-socialist) and a new understanding of leisure time, which in the middle-class milieu was derived from changed working hours and a new concept of consumption. In the 19th century, the middle class created associational structures that enabled leisure and exercise in the great outdoors, for example through the widespread hiking clubs, which mainly researched and mapped mountain landscapes through infrastructural measures, which in turn contributed to creating symbolic boundaries.

December 17, 2021April 14, 2022

“Democracy as a Utopia” Fully-Funded PhD Fellowship (Central European University)

Deadline: February 1, 2022

Cornell University Press
Central European University invites applications for a fully funded PhD Fellowship starting in the 2022/2023 academic year in the Gerda Henkel research programme Democracy in East Central European Utopianism hosted by the Democracy Institute (Budapest) of Central European University. While being a research affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute, the Fellow will pursue a PhD in Comparative History or Political Science and will be funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation’s AZ 01/DE/21 Grant. The PhD will be co-supervised by a CEU faculty member and the project’s Principal Investigator Professor Zsolt Czigányik.

December 17, 2021April 14, 2022

Grad. Programs/Funding: PhD and MA Scholarships in Comparative History (Central European University, Vienna)

Deadline: February 1, 2022

Our department is pleased to announce its call for applications for graduate programs in History in Vienna in the fall of 2022. We offer one- and two-year MA programs, as well as a doctoral program, supported by scholarships and financial aid. The deadline for applications with financial aid is February 1, 2022 at 23:59 CET.

More information about the application process can be found on our departmental website: https://history.ceu.edu/howtoapply.

The department’s recruitment coordinator, Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek, will be happy to answer further questions about the programs and the application process on history@ceu.edu.

December 17, 2021April 14, 2022

Central Eurasian Summer Studies Institute (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Deadline: February 1, 2022

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.

The priority application deadline is February 1, 2022.

We will be regularly posting information/application deadlines to Facebook (@CessiMadison), Instagram (@uwcessi), and Twitter (@UWCESSI).

For more information, please visit our website at cessi.wisc.edu or contact cessi@creeca.wisc.edu.

December 17, 2021April 14, 2022

The Monterey Trialogue Initiative Fellowship Program

Deadline: February 20, 2022

The Monterey Trialogue Initiative is a new trilateral program that hopes to engage young scholars and established experts from the USA, Europe, China, and Russia to find collective solutions to global crises. We are now inviting applications for the Monterey Trialogue Initiative Fellowship from PhD candidates working in the fields of IR, politics, or area studies with a focus on relations and cultural exchange between Russia, China, and the ‘West’. Applications close on February 20, 2022 and the eligibility criteria and required documents are available on our website (link below). The fellowship comprises five modules, all centered around Virtual Reality experiences, roundtables with leading experts, and simulations and negotiations task forces. It will take place online except for an in-person, all expenses paid trip to Vienna at the end of the course.