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Job: Postdoc Fellowship (American Council of Learned Societies)

Deadline: May 6, 2021

The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the third competition of the Leading Edge Fellowship program, which demonstrates the potential of humanistic knowledge and methods to solve problems, build capacity, and advance justice and equity in society. Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations committed to promoting social justice in their communities. Fellows lead substantive projects that draw on the skills and capacities honed in the course of earning the humanities PhD, including advanced communication, research, project management, and creative problem solving. This initiative is made possible through the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Fellowship Details

  • Stipend: $60,000 plus health insurance and professional development funding
  • Tenure: 12 months beginning in September 2021
  • Applications will be accepted only through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org). Please do not contact any of the organizations directly.
  • Application deadline: May 6, 2021, 9pm EDT

For more information visit the ACLS website

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Call for Submissions: Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language

Deadline: May 19, 2021

Call for Proposals for Chapters and Case Studies
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.

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AATSEEL 2022: Call for Streams and Call for Papers

Deadline for Stream Proposals: May 15, 2021
Deadline for Panels/Papers/Roundtables: July 1, 2021

The AATSEEL national meeting is a forum for scholarly exchange of ideas in all areas of Slavic and East/Central European languages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and pedagogy. The Program Committee invites scholars in these and related areas to form panels around specific topics, organize roundtable discussions, propose forums on instructional materials, and/or submit proposals for individual presentations for the 2022 conference. The conference regularly includes panels in linguistics, pedagogy, second language acquisition, literatures, and cultures relevant to the organization’s regions of focus. The next annual AATSEEL conference will be held in person at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 17-20, 2022, and the Call for Papers and Call for Streams are currently open and accepting submissions. 

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CFP: Pussy Riot Special Issue (Canadian-American Slavic Studies)

Deadline: October 31, 2021

Canadian-American Slavic Studies is planning a special issue on Pussy Riot to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Punk Prayer. 
We encourage submissions from scholars of any relevant discipline. Articles should ideally be between 7000 and 10,000 words.  The deadline is Halloween (October 31) 2021, with the issue coming out in 2022 
Please contact guest editor Eliot Borenstein (eb7@nyu.edu) or editor Katherine  Reischl kreischl@princeton.edu if you have any questions. 
Submissions (in Microsoft Word or a compatible format) can also be sent to either one of these email addresses.

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Call for Submissions: Virtual Student Paper Competition

Deadline: April 12, 2021

Student Paper Competition: Virtual Edition

Every year, the Russian Studies department at Macalester College organizes a research paper competition for students at local institutions. This year, the competition will be in a virtual format and is open to undergrads at all U.S. colleges and universities. Cash prizes awarded! Your project should be based on a term paper (or part of a senior thesis) on any topic relevant to Russia, Eastern/Central Europe, or Central Asia written in Spring 2020, Fall 2020, or work-in-progress from Spring 2021.

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NYU Jordan Center’s 2021 Grad Student Essay Competition

Deadline: April 15, 2021

There is still time to enter this year’s Graduate Student Essay Competition from All the Russias! Enter for a chance to get published on the Jordan Center’s blog and win cash prizes.

We invite 750-1200 word submissions from full- or part-time M.A. and Ph.D. students currently based in the United States, on any topic and sub-discipline within Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, broadly defined.

Cultural criticism; public-facing treatments of scholarly work; political analysis; book, film, or event reviews; and more are welcome.

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Acad. Job: Russian Lecturer (UNC Greensboro)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

UNC Greensboro
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Full-time Lecturer – Russian

The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of North Carolina Greensboro invites applications from academic professionals with established records of dynamic undergraduate teaching for a full-time, non-tenure-track position in Russian, effective August 2021. Applicants are required to possess native or near-native fluency in Russian. The nominal teaching load for this non-tenure-track appointment is 4-4. This is a one year contract appointment with the possibility for renewal. We do not have funding for relocation expenses.

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CFP: Italian, Russian, Soviet and Post-Socialist Cinemas and Media

Deadline: May 31, 2021

Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies CALL FOR PAPERS

Past and Present Intersections among Italian, Russian, Soviet and Post-Scialist Cinemas and Media

The purpose of this themed issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies (JICMS) is to explore the encounter between artistic geographies and academic geometries delineated by the role that Italian cinema plays and has played in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia and various post-Soviet states (like the Central Asia countries, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, etc.) and East Germany, during and after the Soviet period, as well as in cooperation opportunities between the film industries of these countries.

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Lang. Training: Second/Third Year Russian Online (Yale)

This year Yale Summer Session is offering Second-Year Russian and Third-Year Russian fully synchronously on zoom.  The application is now open. Session A runs from June 7 to July 9, and session B is from July 12 to August 13. The students can register for both sessions or just one (equivalent of one semester).Please let your students know about these opportunities for summer study.  Here is the link to more information: https://summer.yale.edu/academics/courses-yale#searchStudents interested in the Second-Year Russian can email  julia.titus@yale.edu, and those who are thinking about Third-Year Russian, can contact  Constantine Muravnik at constantine.muravnik@yale.edu

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CFP: The Making of the 1990s: The Genesis of Post-Soviet Society through Its Material Culture

Deadline: May 1, 2021

Conference languages: French, English and Russian

CfP in French and Russian on the Cercec site

This interdisciplinary colloquium explores the social dynamics of the 1990s through the period’s changing material culture. Everyday “stuff” was transformed by the disappearance of the Soviet system, the irruption of the market, and the opening to the world. The aim is to investigate the long disintegration of the Soviet system by looking at how populations which are caught in a state of uncertainty react with material inventiveness in order to adapt.

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