CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Page 158 – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

May 18, 2021September 1, 2021

CFP: Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language

Deadline: May 19, 2021

Call for Proposals for Chapters and Case Studies: The due date is approaching

Russian as a Foreign Language: Dynamic Teaching for Dynamic Times

Do you teach Russian as a foreign, second, or heritage language? Do you employ fun and engaging strategies instead of or in addition to a textbook that have your students beg for more Russian? Please consider submitting a proposal for a chapter or a case study in the edited volume Russian as a Foreign Language: Dynamic Teaching for Dynamic Times. We would like to hear from various fields and backgrounds of Russian language instruction. Language of publication: English; 1,500 to 5,000 words + references and appendices.

May 18, 2021September 1, 2021

Acad. Job: Senior Lecturer in Polish (Ohio State)

Deadline: May 24, 2021 but Open Until Filled

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University invites applications for the position of Senior Lecturer beginning August 2021. We are seeking a dynamic and talented instructor of Polish language and culture who can contribute to and further develop the strength of the Polish program.

May 17, 2021September 1, 2021

CFP: Summer Workshop on Language Pedagogy (Duke)

Deadline: June 1, 2021

CALL FOR PAPERS
Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center
Duke University

The Duke Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center will host a summer workshop from July 29 to July 31, 2021 on Pedagogy, Diversity and Equitable Teaching and Learning of Languages and Cultures across the Curriculum and Platforms. We are pleased to call for papers by interested scholars, graduate students, and professionals on workshop-related topics and that focus on teaching/learning ANY language.
Workshop topics have included, but are not limited to:

May 17, 2021September 1, 2021

CFP: SEET Special Issue “Dostoevsky and Philosophy”

Deadline: July 1, 2021

Studies in East European Thought Special Issue “Dostoevsky and Philosophy”

SEET SPECIAL ISSUE TO COMMEMORATE 200 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF
Fyodor M. DOSTOEVSKY

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Editorial Board of SEET are calling for contributions which re-examine and reinterpret Dostoevsky’s works – creative and publicist – in the context of leading philosophical thinkers of his time – Kant, Hegel, Marx, Solovyov, Danilevsky, Ivanov, Shestov, Merezhkovsky, as well as the reception of Dostoevsky by the Russian religious and other philosophers, in order to shed new light on or find new contexts for Dostoevsky’s poetics. Readings of Dostoevsky’s works through philosophical texts are also welcome.

May 17, 2021September 1, 2021

Intern: Virtual Internships at Voice of America

Deadline: Open Until Filled, May and June Depending on Position

VOA INTERNSHIPS

***VOA’s Internship Program will be virtual through January 2021, and is smaller than our usual program. Please send in your application to the appropriate team and a manager will follow up if they are able to accept virtual interns.***

Are you motivated, hard-working, and enthusiastic? Think about becoming a VOA intern!

Click here to learn more about VOA and the Internship program or here to learn more about VOA.

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May 13, 2021September 1, 2021

Acad. Job: Lecturer in Russian Lang/Lit (Dartmouth)

Deadline: May 31, 2021 but Open Until Filled

Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature

Dartmouth College – Hanover, NH

The Department of Russian at Dartmouth College invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professorship in Russian Language and Literature for the academic year 2021-2022, with the possibility of an additional year. This appointment’s start date will be July 1, 2021. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. by the date of the appointment and have native or near-native fluency in both Russian and English.

May 12, 2021September 1, 2021

Job: Cultural Program Coordinator for Russian Language Dorm (Colorado College)

Deadline: July 1, 2021

The Department of Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, and Russian Studies at Colorado College is soliciting applications for the position of Cultural Program Coordinator (CPC) of the Russian House for the academic year of 2021-2022. The Russian House is a small dormitory for 12 students studying Russian language, literature, history, and culture.

We are looking for candidates with experience in teaching Russian to non-Russian speakers, proficient in both Russian and English, energetic, with good communicative skills, and enthusiastic about Russian culture. Applicants should have a completed Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Russian or related disciplines.

May 12, 2021September 1, 2021

CFP: International Journal on Slavic Lang, Lit, Cultures (Poljarnyj Vestnik )

Deadline: August 15, 2021

Poljarnyj Vestnik – An International Journal of Slavic Studies is calling for papers! Poljarnyj Vestnik was earlier the working papers of the University of Tromsö, but has been upgraded to an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research about Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. We now welcome submissions for our eighth volume after the reorganization. Contributions from Slavists from any country and institution are welcome. Articles are published in English or Russian. The homepage of the journal is: http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/vestnik/index

May 10, 2021September 1, 2021

CFP: Literature and State Repression (Costellazioni: Journal of Lang. and Lit)

Deadline: May 31, 2021

Costellazioni. Peer-reviewed Journal of Languages and Literatures. Volume 23 (Expected publication date: February 2024)
Call for papers: Literature and State Repression in Russia, Central, and Eastern Europe
Editor: Andrea Gullotta, Lecturer in Russian, University of Glasgow

State repression has been a constant feature of the Soviet experience. Emerged in the revolutionary years, developed later, and perfected by Stalin, it remained in place, albeit less strict and deadly, until the perestroika. The same repressive system was utilized in the Warsaw Pact countries, which initially adopted the Stalinist model and then developed it in different forms, often generating repressive systems which were similar to the Soviet original, especially for what concerns the impact on individual lives and on privacy.

May 10, 2021September 1, 2021

CFP: Linguistics of Lying Special Issue

Deadline: July 31, 2021

Dear authors!

Scientific professional journal Linguistic and Conceptual Pictures of the World (Editor: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Assigned by Category B, Order of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine № 157, September 2, 2021) invites authors to submit papers for the thematic issue “Language of Lying”.

Since being established in the middle of the 20th century by H. Weinrich, D. Bolinger and others the Linguistics of Lying has become especially relevant at the beginning of the 21th century in the context of active mediatization of society. The degree of significance of the informational, semiotic space for the average person is sometimes equal to or even exceeds the degree of direct presence in his life of the real, extrasemiotic world. Such a being’s environment is ideal for reference deviations, zero and faked denotations, in other words, for lies. Thus, we aim at exploring the following issues: