CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Page 129 – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

December 17, 2021February 10, 2022

Funding: Title VIII Fellowships for Summer 2022 Language Study (Indiana University)

Deadline: January 29, 2022

Indiana University is accepting applications until January 29 for Title VIII Fellowships for study in its summer 2022 Language Workshop. Winter break is a perfect time to complete an application!

Title VIII Fellowships cover tuition and fees, and provide a meals/housing stipend. For courses with overseas components, Fellowships also cover international travel and study-abroad fees.

December 17, 2021February 10, 2022

Postdoctoral Fellowships, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard)

Deadline: January 24, 2022

More information: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/academic-programs/postgraduate-opportunities/postdoctoral-fellowships

The Davis Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers comprehensive research, training, and professional development opportunities for scholars advancing their careers in history and the humanities. Fellows pursue their research with support from an interdisciplinary community of experts, and with access to world-class resources. The program provides scholars with experiences and connections that endure well beyond their fellowship year.

December 17, 2021April 14, 2022

Lang. Training: Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute

Deadline: February 1, 2022

The Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) is an intensive, eight-week language program held each summer in Madison, Wisconsin. Students receive the equivalent of one year of language study during this time and earn eight credits upon completion of the program.  In addition to language classes, CESSI students have the opportunity to attend lectures on Central Eurasia; participate in cultural events; engage with local Central Eurasian communities; and network with other scholars of Central Eurasia.  Students of all disciplines and academic programs are welcome! 

December 16, 2021April 14, 2022

Conference / CFP: “In (the) Place of Memory” Interdisciplinary Conference / “Memory as History and Imagination” (student) (Russian State University)

Conference Dates: February 12, 2022 / March 11-12

CFP: “In (the) place of memory”: the historical past and literary imagination, an international interdisciplinary conference, Saturday, 12 February 2022, sponsored by the Institute of History and Philology, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). This conference addresses historical memory as approached by multiple humanistic disciplines: history, literature, and cultural studies. Questions to be considered include: the poetics of memory in fiction and non-fiction; historical/cultural memory as a function of literary process; personal and/or collective historical memory; historical memory and the reality of a work of art; postmemory (M. Hirsch); approaches to the reconstruction of the historical past in literature; fact and imagination in “historical” genres of writing; the role of imagination in the (re)construction of historical memory; the artist’s imagination and historical imagination; nostalgia and historical imagination; “places of memory” (P. Nora) and their representation in literature; “ruins”and historical memory in literature; memory and forgetting in artistic works. Working languages of the conference: Russian, English. To submit paper proposals and request additional information contact: Anatoly Korchinsky (korchinsky@mail.ru) or Viktoria Malkin (poetika@gmail.com). See below for parallel student conference.

December 16, 2021February 10, 2022

Preceptor in Russian Language (Harvard University)

Deadline: January 28, 2022

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University seeks applications for two positions of Preceptor in Russian Language. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2022 with teaching beginning in Fall Semester 2022. The job announcement is available at https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/10932 and is also reproduced below.

Position Description

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University seeks applications for two positions of Preceptor in Russian Language. The appointments are expected to begin on July 1, 2022 with teaching beginning in Fall Semester 2022.

December 16, 2021February 10, 2022

CFP: Sound in the (Post-) Soviet Realm (Journal of Sonic Studies)

Deadline: January 15, 2022

http://sonicstudies.org

When an empire falls, does it make a sound? And who is there to hear it?

The sonic history of the USSR and the Post-Soviet realm that succeeded it, is rich and turbulent. The 2013 book Sound in Z by Andrey Smirnov introduced the world to the daring sound experiments of the Soviet avant-gardists of the 1920s. From the city-wide noise symphonies of Arseny Avraamov to the first electronic instruments of Leon Theremin to experiments with sounds drawn on paper or film, the futuristic optimism of the first decade following the revolution unleashed an explosion of sonic artistry. While the strict censorship and state control over the arts forced sound artists underground or into applied work, the Soviet sonic creativity persisted on the margins, or even wholly outside, of the state-controlled art world: in the kinetic sound sculptures of the Dvizhenie art group, the explorations of light and sound by the researchers of the Prometheus Institute, or the extravagant performances of the Pop-Mechanics movement, for example.

December 16, 2021April 14, 2022

Fellowships/Communications Jobs at Data & Society

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Data & Society is looking for thoughtful, creative staff and researchers to help drive its program and projects. They’re hiring for roles in their Communications team, including a Director of Communications to lead our comms work at Data & Society — research translation, narrative change, media engagement, and more.
They’re also searching for a Senior Editor, Communications to own our all their public-facing editorial work; Design and Digital Manager to lead their visual design and website; and a Communications Assistant to help knit it all together and support the incoming director and team.
https://datasociety.net/jobs-fellowships

December 15, 2021February 10, 2022

Acad. Job: 3rd Year Russian Instructor, Study Abroad (Estonia, University of Pittsburgh)

Deadline: January 15, 2022

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for the position of 3rd-year Russian Instructor for the Pitt Project GO study abroad program in Narva, Estonia. Appointed for the Summer Term 2022, the Instructor will be chiefly responsible for teaching the ROTC 3rd-year Russian course, while working with the 2nd and 4th-year Russian instructors to integrate the language curriculum across levels. Other responsibilities will include: collaboration with Narva College on the design and implementation of cultural programs; coordinating classes with the content to be covered during lectures and excursions; preparing 3rd-year Russian students for all program-related excursions and lectures; conversing with students in the target language at all times; and assistance with the administration of required language proficiency exams.

December 13, 2021December 13, 2021

Funding: Cultural Vistas Rebuilding a Russian-American Conversation Grant Program

Deadline: February 1, 2022

Cultural Vistas is now accepting applications for “Rebuilding a Russian-American Conversation” (RARAC), a new small grants program funded by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow that aims to build connections between American organizations and their Russian counterparts to share culture, pursue common opportunities in a collaborative manner, and address common global challenges.

The RARAC program will award seed grants of up to $7,500 to 15 U.S.-based organizations to deliver virtual public diplomacy projects. This financial support will allow American and Russian organizations to jointly develop content to grow understanding between peoples of the two countries and help them increase their capacity for future collaboration.

December 13, 2021February 10, 2022

Russian Life Digital Editor Intern

Deadline: December 24, 2021

Russian Life seeks a Digital Editor intern to contribute to its weekly online publication, The Russia File.

Requirements:

* Superb English writing skills (native English).
* Ability to write succinctly, quippily, and knowledgeably about Russian culture (with little or no need for style editor intervention).
* At least intermediate Russian reading ability.
* Excellent online search, fact-checking, and news survey skills.
* Excellent sense of humor and a taste for offbeat, under-the-radar news.
* Basic HTML skills and comfort with CMS and online blog editing systems, including image manipulation, or willingness to gain this skill.