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CFP: Translation Stream (ASEEES 2021 Convention)

Deadline: February 12, 2021

The Translation Stream organizing team invites proposals for the Translation stream at the ASEEES 2021 Convention. They hope to organize one or more round tables and several panels following Convention themes:

Round table topics:
Interdisciplinarity of Soviet Translation Theory 
Translation and Identity: Intersectionality and Diversity in Translation Practice

General panel topics:
Translation and diversity
Translation and interdisciplinarity
Translation and intersectionality

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CFP: Yoga in Russia: Past and Present (2021 ASEEES Convention)

Deadline: February 10, 2021

We are seeking two to three participants for our panel “Yoga in Russia: Past and Present” at the 2021 ASEEES Convention in New Orleans. 

This panel seeks to examine the theory and practice of yoga in Russia as a peculiarly Russian phenomenon and as part of a global health and spiritual movement. Relevant topics include: 

  • Yogic practices as part of interest in “Eastern” wisdom in the late Russian Empire
  • The theory and practice of yoga in Russia as relation to those in the West
  • “Russian Yogis:” Elena Roerich, Indra Devi, and other practitioners and popularizers
  • Yoga in the Soviet Union
  • Yoga in Russia today
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Acad Job: Visiting Lecturer in Russian Studies (Bates College)

Deadline: Open until filled
Review of Applications begins February 15, 2021

The Department of German and Russian Studies at Bates College, a private liberal arts college located in central Maine, invites applications for (2) two-year term visiting positions in Russian Studies to begin in Fall 2021. Candidates with demonstrated success in teaching underrepresented, first generation and marginalized students are encouraged to apply. Each position carries a four-course teaching load, including three courses in Russian language and one course in Russian history and culture taught in English. The positions entail teaching Russian language at all levels. The courses taught in English are expected to introduce undergraduates to key issues in Russian history and culture and contribute to the programs in European Studies, History and/or other disciplines. Preferred areas of specialization are the 20th and 21st centuries and a thematic focus on totalitarianism, ethnic and cultural diversity, or transregional connections (Eastern and Central Europe, Asia and Asia Minor, the Arctic, etc.).

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Job: Virtual Russian Language Instructor

Deadline: Open until Filled

Science, Language & Arts International School (SLA) in Brooklyn, New York is seeking an experienced Russian language instructor. All instruction will happen virtually.

For more information on the position, check the job posting here or email Elizabeth Lahart at elizabethlahart@gmail.com.

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Resource: Words Without Borders Online Magazine: Russophonia

 The February 2021 issue of Words Without Borders is all young Russophone writers in English translation:

Our February 2021 issue features nine young writers on the cutting edge of Russophone literature. The term “Russophonia,” coined by literary scholar Naomi Caffee, speaks to the diversity of Russian-language authors today—from Russian nationals to Indigenous writers in post-Soviet countries to émigrés around the world. 

Featuring work by Olga Breininger, Alisa Ganieva, Ksenia Zheludova, Danyil Zadorozhnyi, Galina Rymbu, Ilya Danishevsky, Alla Gorbunova, Xenia Emelyanova, Dinara Rasuleva, and an introductory essay from guest editors Hilah Kohen and Josephine von Zitzewitz.

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Grad. Program: MS in Global Media Studies and Cultures (Georgia Tech)

Deadline: February 15, 2021

The M.S. in Global Media and Cultures, a joint degree by the School of Modern Languages and School of Literature, Media, and Communication, is currently offered with tracks in Russian, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.

As a professional master’s degree, the MS-GMC reflects the rising importance of humanistic study for many career fields in the 21st century, ranging from media, education, and international business to non-profit and engineering. The degree builds on a rapidly expanding global media ecosystem in Atlanta, where humanities fields and their graduates are providing sought-after cultural and creative industry competence. The aim is to help students apply their skills in language and analysis—as well as their passion for cross-cultural communication, social justice, and media—to a successful, impactful career.

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CFP: “Contemporary Poetic Practices”

Deadline: February 1, 2021

The Department of the History of Contemporary Russian Literature of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) invites participants in its international conference “Contemporary Poetic Practices”. The event will take place on February 18-20 in Zoom with the participation of the Poetry Library project. Conference topics: history, theory and methodology of studying the forms of existence of poetry.

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CFP: “The Unknown Nineteenth Century” Russian Literature Journal

Deadline: March 15, 2021

The purpose of this special issue on the “unknown nineteenth century” is to collect and highlight new research on less-studied authors, and to encourage the creation of more venues for work on a broader, more diverse, and less predictable nineteenth century. We conceive of this as a project for literary scholarship. Historians have done much to expand the social, cultural, economic, and geographic breadth of nineteenth-century Russian studies, but literary studies, with some prominent exceptions, has tended to remain locked into discussions of major canonical figures. We hope that this special issue will contribute to closing that gap. We welcome proposals for articles focused on specific writers in Russian, as well as other languages of the Russian Empire, and studies of groups of authors and of issues in the broader literary culture of the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century. Because the center of gravity for the canon of authors we now study is realism and the latter half of the nineteenth century, this issue will generally focus on the realist period (roughly, 1835-1905), but we are open to studies of literary works in all genres—novel, play, poem, feuilleton.

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Lex Academic Humanities Scholarship (for Dyslexic Scholars)

Deadline: March 2021

Lex Academic Humanities Scholarship.  Lex Academic, recognizes the important contribution of dyslexic individuals to academic research and broader society. Often meeting with discouragement in mainstream education, they believe that exceptionally promising dyslexic students deserve investment and support, helping them to realize the potential of their ideas.

The Lex Academic Humanities Scholarship is granted annually to a student studying any of the following humanities subjects: Art History; Classics; English; History; Modern Languages; and Philosophy. In addition to a grant of £500, Lex Academic Scholars will receive gratis proofreading services for their MA/PhD theses, provided by the Oxbridge-educated editors at Lex Academic. 

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Russian Study Abroad Programs (Daugavpils University, Latvia)

Deadline: June 23, December 1, 2021

“Learn Russian in the European Union” is accepting applications for 2021/2022 academic year and 2021 Fall semester study abroad programs hosted at Daugavpils University, Latvia.

The following customized programs are available to Russian majors and students who are not majoring in Russian, but study the language:
    – Russian Language, Literature, and Culture;
    – Russian Language and Political Science;
    – Russian Language and East European Studies;
    – Russian Language and Natural Sciences/STEM (math, physics, biology, chemistry, and environmental studies) with theory and laboratory practice in Russian/English.

Citizens of the USA and Canada do not need a visa to study in Latvia.

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