Prof. Dev: Intersectionality in Focus Series (University of Pittsburgh)

Event Dates: October 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2021

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce the series titled “Intersectionality in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated pre-existing institutional, structural, and systemic discrimination and inequality in societies across the world. Furthermore, continued campaigns against gender and LGBTQ equity in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, racism in the United States, and the social protest movements that arose in response to such exclusionary projects have reinforced calls for intersectional approaches in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (SEEES). Class, ethnicity and race, dis/ability, gender and sexuality, and other identity markers interweave to produce inequality differently in Eastern Europe and Eurasia than in the Americas or Western Europe. Yet, it is these very differences that provide a rich ground for intellectual conversations in our field.

Recordings for all sessions will be made available at a later date on our program page: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/intersectionality-in-focus.

Continue reading “Prof. Dev: Intersectionality in Focus Series (University of Pittsburgh)”

Acad. Job: Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature (Yale University)

Deadline: November 1, 2021

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated appointment start date of July 1, 2022.  The area of specialization is fully open and applicants from all subfields will be carefully considered.  Candidates with expertise in theater and performance studies, race and ethnicity studies, and gender and sexuality studies are particularly welcome to apply.  Responsibilities include teaching four courses per academic year and service to the department. The successful candidate will have native or near-native fluency in Russian.  We also invite applicants with strengths in other East European, Caucasian, or Central Asian languages.

Continue reading “Acad. Job: Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature (Yale University)”

SRAS Explorer App

Event Dates: September 21-25, 2021

The SRAS Explorer App is aimed at guiding students and visitors in fun and purposeful exploration of our region. Its versatility will allow us to further enhance individual and faculty-led programs by creating connections and encouraging student participation.  While we hope you’ll be able to use it abroad, until then, explore with us virtually!

Join us September 21-25 for a virtual quest – we’ll be giving away more than $10,000 in study abroad scholarships, conversation practice, SRAS gear, and more. Our questions will challenge you to explore some of our study abroad locations and learn more about our region by hunting for answers on our app and the SRAS Family of Sites. You will also have a chance to get creative and share with us your knowledge and passion for the region.

Continue reading “SRAS Explorer App”

CFP: The Red Globe. Writing the World in Eastern European Travel Literature

Deadline: September 30, 2021

1–3 Jun 2022, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)

Organisers: Susanne Frank (EXC 2020/HU Berlin), Clemens Günther (FU Berlin), Matthias Schwartz (ZfL Berlin)

The conference will be held in cooperation with the projects “(Post-)Soviet Literary Cosmopolis” and “Writing Berlin” of the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities.

Keynote speakers:

Eleonory Gilburd (University of Chicago)
James Mark (University of Exeter)

Continue reading “CFP: The Red Globe. Writing the World in Eastern European Travel Literature”

2021 AWSS Patricia Herlihy Graduate Research Prize

Deadline: September 15, 2021


The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) Patricia Herlihy Graduate Research Prize is awarded annually to fund promising graduate-level research in any field of Slavic/East European/Central Asian studies by a woman or on a topic in Women’s or Gender Studies related to Slavic Studies/East Europe/Central Asia by a scholar of any gender.

The AWSS graduate research prize is now supported by a recent endowment established in the name of Dr. Patricia Herlihy by her colleagues, students, and family.  Dr. Herlihy made incredible contributions to the study of Ukraine and supported and mentored generations of scholars across disciplines engaged in study on Ukraine and its neighbors.  Graduate students who are at any stage of master’s or doctoral level research are eligible.  Only current graduate students are eligible for this prize.

Continue reading “2021 AWSS Patricia Herlihy Graduate Research Prize”

CFP: Translation in Transition

Deadline: February 14, 2022

The conference is a continuation of the well-established Translation in Transition series that serves as a meeting point for scholars conducting research in translation based on an empirical methodological paradigm. With the previous conferences in mind, held in Copenhagen, Germersheim, Ghent, Barcelona and Kent (Ohio), the Prague edition wants to put special emphasis on three main directions: we would like to draw on the vast resources of the Czech National Corpus (including InterCorp, a large multilingual parallel corpus), and concentrate on the methodological interplay between translation studies and contrastive linguistics. At the same time, prominence will be given to machine translation, as Prague is one of its international centres.

Continue reading “CFP: Translation in Transition”

CFP: Contemporary International Affairs (Cornell University)

Deadline: September 15, 2021

The Cornell International Affairs Review is a student-run, biannually published academic journal at Cornell University dedicated to publishing undergraduate, postgraduate, and expert scholarship on contemporary international affairs.

The Review seeks to curate papers that present original research and demonstrate novel arguments or interpretive approaches. Papers should preferably address events and trends that are not well-established in current scholarship, yet have immediate global relevance and engage a broader and more diverse audience beyond the traditional academic sphere. We welcome submissions from any relevant field of study, and particularly encourage papers that seek to address historically underrepresented demographics, as well as lesser-studied regions, trends, and events. We also heavily encourage the submission of papers that utilize non-English language secondary scholarship or primary source research.

Continue reading “CFP: Contemporary International Affairs (Cornell University)”

Acad. Job: Assistant Professor, Soviet and Post-Soviet History (University of Illinois)

Deadline: October 11, 2021

 The Department of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a tenure-track position in Soviet and Post-Soviet History. We welcome applications from scholars whose research explores any topic, region, or period within that specialization. The position will start at the rank of Assistant Professor (100% FTE, on a 9-month service basis, with a 2-2 course load). Priority will be given to applicants whose research and teaching interests show a deep engagement with methodological and historiographical debates as they relate to Soviet and Post-Soviet history. All thematic emphases are welcome, including environmental history, colonialism and post-colonialism, transnational or global history, the global south (Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia), the African diaspora, digital history, religion, law and human rights, capitalism and socialism, nationality, race and racism, and gender and sexualities. 

Continue reading “Acad. Job: Assistant Professor, Soviet and Post-Soviet History (University of Illinois)”

Acad. Job: Assistant Professor of Linguistics (California State University)

Deadline: October 1, 2021

The Department of English at California State University, San Bernardino invites applications from a diverse group of qualified applicants for a tenure track position (at the level of Assistant Professor) to begin August 15, 2022. We seek a specialist in Linguistics or Applied Linguistics with expertise in any of the following areas: discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, TESL methods, or second language writing. The successful candidate will teach in a recently revised undergraduate and graduate curriculum in a large, diverse, and dynamic English department that includes Linguistics, Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, and Creative Writing.

https://careers.csusb.edu/en-us/job/500794/assistant-professor-of-linguistics-department-of-english

Continue reading “Acad. Job: Assistant Professor of Linguistics (California State University)”