Study Abroad: Peace and Security in the South Caucasus (Tbilisi, Georgia)

Deadline: February 15, 2022

Application is open for the American Councils’ Summer 2022 Peace & Security in the South Caucasus Program, run together with partner Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, and including program trips to Baku and Yerevan. 

https://www.studyabroad.americancouncils.org/pssc

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CFP: AWSS-sponsored Panel at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies

Deadline: November 20, 2021

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies invites papers to present at an AWSS-sponsored panel at the upcoming Southern Conference on Slavic Studies in Richmond, VA in February 2022.  If you are interested in presenting a paper or participating on a panel that focuses on gender, sexuality, and/or queer theory, please send a brief description of your project to NMcCaule@richmond.edu by 11/20/21.  Specific disciplinary foci may include, but are not limited to, literature, film/media, history, anthropology, sociology, and/or political science.  

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Acad. Job: Bilingual Assistant in Russian, Summer (Middlebury College)

Deadline: February 1, 2022

The Middlebury College Summer Russian School is pleased to announce a vacancy for an appointment as a temporary Bilingual Assistant in Russian. The position is available during the summer 2022 session (June 19 – August 20, 2022), located on Middlebury College’s campus in Vermont.

Essential to the functioning of each Language School, the Bilingual Summer Staff member organizes and implements multiple facets of the academic and non-academic operations of the School; provides language, co-curricular, and residential support to students; works alongside the School Coordinator and Director in the management of School operations; and collaborates with Faculty in support of students’ language acquisition.

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Acad. Job: Instructor of Russian, Summer (Middlebury College)

Deadline: December 1, 2021

he Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian announces openings for temporary Instructor of Russian. The position is available during the summer 2022 session (June 21-August 19) on the Middlebury College campus in Vermont. Our unique program combines a cultural immersion environment with rigorous daily classroom instruction. This is an opportunity to join a community of learners, by actively engaging in teaching, dining, and residing with students while reading, writing, and speaking exclusively in Russian. Our instructors provide four hours of classroom instruction and one formal office hour per day. In addition, participation in pre- and post-session assessment testing and cultural programming is required. Openings could potentially be at all levels of language instruction. This position is for summer 2022 only.

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Grad. Program: Prospective Graduate Student Open Houses, University of Michigan

Event Dates: Multiple, See Below

A Workshop Series to help you decide whether graduate study in Slavic Studies at the University of Michigan is right for you. Tips and tricks on how to apply and what to expect during your time as a PhD student – with University of Michigan graduate students and faculty! 

Please register for each Open House separately using the links below. 

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Acad. Job: Professor & Director, School of International Letters and Cultures (Arizona State University)

Deadline: November 15, 2021; Open Until Filled

The School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC) in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU) seeks an innovative leader and skilled administrator and scholar to serve as the next School Director, with a concurrent appointment as a tenured Professor. Appointment will be located at the Tempe campus with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2022. Salary is competitive. The College values our cultural and intellectual diversity, and continually strives to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment. We are especially interested in applicants who can strengthen the diversity of the academic community.

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CFP: Travelers in Ottoman Lands-The Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond

Deadline: April 30, 2022

SEMINAR: TRAVELLERS IN OTTOMAN LANDS: THE BALKANS, ANATOLIA AND BEYOND 
SARAJEVO, AUGUST 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS

24 – 26 August 2022
We invite proposals for contributions to a Seminar organised by ASTENE (the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East), in association with the Faculty of Islamic Studies of the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Internship: University of Eurasia Global Internship Training Program

Deadline: Ongoing

The University of Eurasia, Washington, DC is offering a Global Internship Program for students from various Universities in America, Europe, Asia and abroad the opportunity to engage with experts in the areas of international affairs: international security, business, economics, marketing, trade development, the Arts and Culture, and the development field so that through this training program they excel not only in their subject areas, but gain international experience and training which open new opportunities in a student’s career.

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Funding: Pitt Project GO Russian Programs for ROTC Students, Summer 2022

Deadline: January 12, 2022

The University of Pittsburgh invites Army, Navy/Marine, and Air Force ROTC students from any US college or university to apply for a Pitt Project GO (Global Officers) scholarship for intensive study of 1st-4th year Russian in Summer 2022. Project GO is an initiative sponsored by the Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO) and administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE).

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Symposium: Marking Loss, Making Memorials

Event Date: November 10, 2021

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 2 – 6pm

The Kibel Gallery exhibition, Making the Holodomor Memorial: Context & Questions, which reopened on October 18, 2021, tells the story of an atrocity suppressed and traces the design and development of a memorial to commemorate its victims. Through this story and the process of making a public memorial, the exhibition raises critical issues about memory, loss, place and truth–the context and questions that surround memorial-making.  

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