Funding: Critical Languages Scholarship

Deadline: November 19, 2024

The application for the U. S. Department of State’s 2025 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program and CLS Spark virtual initiative will open in early October! We welcome your students to apply this year to learn a critical language on a funded overseas or virtual summer program.

Through the CLS Program, U.S. undergraduate and graduate students spend eight to ten weeks over the summer studying one of a dozen critical languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. The program is designed to promote rapid language gains through intensive language instruction, host community engagement, and structured cultural activities in a cohort-based setting.

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Acad. Job: Tenure-Track/Tenured Professor in Baltic Studies (Indiana University)

Deadline: November 1, 2024

Tenure Track/Tenured Professor in Baltic Studies (Open Rank)
https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/25766
Indiana University Bloomington, Central Eurasian Studies Department
The Department of Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington seeks a tenure-track hire (open rank) in contemporary Baltic studies, with a focus on security. The appointment begins August 1, 2025.

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CFP: Continuities and Ruptures in Ukrainian Culture and Society (University of Illinois)

Deadline: November 15, 2024

The Slavic Reference Service and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures are pleased to invite proposals for the biennial Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Dates: October 2-4, 2025
Theme: Continuities and Ruptures in Ukrainian Culture and Society
Format: Hybrid
The conference seeks to bring together scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines working on topics related to Ukraine. With the thematic focus ‘continuities and ruptures,’ presentations will span across historical and contemporary contexts to bring into conversation various perspectives on Ukrainian identity, ethnic minorities, culture, language, and history.

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Study Abroad and Language Programs (SRAS)

Deadline: October 1, 2024

SPRING PROGRAMS

We’d like to remind you and your students that all applications for SRAS Spring Programs are due in October 1.

You can find all our spring programs at https://SRAS.org/Spring

NEW SUMMER PROGRAMS

SRAS has several new programs on offer for this summer. I’ll list them below. We have several INFO sessions to introduce you to these, including sessions specifically for faculty and advisors!

See all our INFO sessions listed here: https://SRAS.org/INFO

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Modern Russophone Literature (USC)

Deadline: November 1, 2024

The department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in modern Russophone literature. An ideal candidate will also demonstrate expertise in one or more literature and culture of Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Caucasus, or Central Asia. Native or near-native fluency in Russian and English is required; native or near-native fluency in a language related to the candidate’s additional geographic region of expertise is desired. The successful applicant will have Ph.D. in hand by August 2025 and will be expected to teach graduate and undergraduate courses, including courses in the University’s general education program.

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Acad. Job: Assistant or Associate Professor of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies (Dartmouth)

Deadline: November 10, 20204

Assistant or Associate Professor of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies

The East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies Department at Dartmouth invites applications for a full-time tenure-line appointment as Assistant or Associate Professor. We seek qualified candidates with expertise in the region who will support the ongoing diversification of our curricular offerings and research profile. We are especially interested in applicants who specialize in more than one region/language of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, with a preference for Ukrainian, or the language(s) and cultures of the Russian Federation. The person in this position will be expected to contribute thematic or comparative courses to the EEER curriculum more broadly. Scholars in fields such as 20th-21st century literary and cultural studies, translation studies, comparative literature, sociolinguistics, or those working with other interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome to apply. We seek an innovative and dynamic teacher with experience teaching in U.S. institutions. Applicants should also demonstrate organizational leadership and service to the field appropriate to their career stage.

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Acad. Job: Teaching Assistant Professor of Polish (University of Pittsburgh)

Deadline: November 1, 2024

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for the position of Director of the Polish Studies Program, pending budgetary approval. The appointment will be made at the rank of Teaching Assistant Professor and will begin in the fall of 2025. Duties include: (i) teaching Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Polish language, as well as Polish or Polish-comparative literature, cinema, and culture in English at the undergraduate level; and (ii) non-teaching duties include oversight of Polish cultural and outreach activities in accordance with programming goals identified by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Scholarly publication and active participation in national professional associations are encouraged but are not a prerequisite for appointment or renewal. 

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Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe

Deadline: October 30, 2024

The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) is a two-week residential workshop, that provides scholars of Eastern Europe time and space to dedicate to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting. ACLS in partnership with the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS) will convene leading scholars from Eastern Europe and North America for a two-week residency in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria from June 5, 2025 to June 20, 2025.

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Call for Applications: Politics and Narratives at European Borderlands: Rethinking Balkans for Ukraine Course

Deadline: September 20, 2024

Course co-directors: Marija Mandić (University of Belgrade) and Olesia Marković (KyivMohyla Academy)

Central European University’s Invisible University for Ukraine program and IFDT Belgrade is inviting interested participants to enroll in an international interdisciplinary online course on comparing European borderlands, with a special focus on the Balkans. The course is free of charge and in English language. It seeks to bring together students from Southeast Europe, Ukraine and other countries, to discuss the politics, society, history and culture of the region, develop academic and human solidarity and think about parallels and connectivity between the European borderlands. The course consists of weekly interactive seminars held in late afternoon, by prominent lecturers and specialists focused on Southeast Europe and Ukraine. Students can also participate in small-team mentoring sessions offered by doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Participants can also contribute content to the project’s website (Balkan Talks) and the most actives students can participate in person in a Winter School in Budapest in January 2025.

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Fellowships: Scaling the Transnational: Entangled Political Imaginaries and Practices in East and West Europe

Deadline: October 21, 2024

Fellowships:
The programme addresses doctoral students and young postdocs from the humanities and social sciences whose research topics match with the questions addressed by STEPPE.

The fellows will be associated with one of the institutions that constitute the project network (Democracy Institute at the Central European University (Budapest / Hungary), New Europe College (Bucharest / Romania), Universität Leipzig (Leipzig/ Germany), and Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin / Germany)). They will be actively involved in all activities of the STEPPE research network. The fellowship programme provides funding for travel to the partner institutes for research and training purposes.

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