CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Page 178 – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

February 24, 2021September 1, 2021

Job: Polish & Russian Lang. Lecturer/Academic Coordinator (UIC)

Deadline: March 8, 2021

Lectureship and Basic Language Program Coordinator — University of Illinois at Chicago

The Department of Polish, Russian & Lithuanian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for the position of Visiting Lecturer and Coordinator of the Basic Language Program in Polish and Russian. 9-month appointment, renewable on an annual basis. Start date August 16, 2021. The position will teach two language courses per semester, in either Polish or Russian language, at the intermediate or advanced level. As BLP Coordinator, the Visiting Lecturer will work with, evaluate and modify the department’s existing, fully-developed curriculum of blended-format courses in Polish and Russian language at the beginning and intermediate levels. Responsibilities include orientation and supervision of graduate teaching assistants; student placement decisions; liaison with the Department Head and with BLP coordinators in the School of Literature, Cultural Studies and Linguistics; course scheduling; and coordination of the Polish and Russian language and film clubs.

February 24, 2021September 1, 2021

CFP: MLA Panels “Tribune Poetics, Congress Aesthetics”

Deadline: March 15, 2021

Below are calls for paper proposals for two linked panels at the January 2022 MLA convention, of likely interest to scholars of 19th- and 20th-century Russian and Eurasian literatures. If you’re interested in participating, please send a title, 300-word abstract, and short bio to the organizers by March 15.

February 10, 2021September 1, 2021

Call for submissions: AAUS 2019-2020 Article Prize, Book Prize, and Translation Prize competition

Extended Deadline: February 28, 2021

American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the next round of the AAUS Book, Article, and Translation Prizes. For this round, works published in 2019 and 2020 are eligible (as long as they were not nominated last year, as each work can be considered for a prize only once). Deadline for nominated works to be received by members of the prize committees has been EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 28, 2021. For more information and submission guidelines, please visit
https://ukrainianstudies.org/call-for-submissions-aaus-2019-2020-article-prize-book-prize-and-translation-prize-competition-deadline-february-15-2021/

February 10, 2021April 14, 2022

Max Kampelman Fellowships (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe)

Deadline: Ongoing

The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe seeks candidates for its Max Kampelman Fellowship program. Named for a longtime U.S. Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Kampelman Fellows represent the next generation of American leaders in security policy, human rights, and strategic communications.

Kampelman Fellows join a team of world-class experts at an independent, bicameral, bipartisan, inter-branch federal agency. The Helsinki Commission advances American national security and national interests by promoting human rights, military security, and economic cooperation in 57 countries. Fellows regularly interact and work on policy with Congressional offices, executive branch officials, foreign diplomats, civil society, and the broader policy community.

February 9, 2021September 1, 2021

Funding: Academic Research Fellowship Extended Deadline (ACTR)

Deadline: February 15, 2021

The application deadline has been extended to February 15th for the fully funded Academic Fellowships in Russia.

Provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the American Councils Academic Fellowships in Russia program (AFR) supports U.S. graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars as they conduct research for three to nine consecutive months on topics within the social sciences disciplines in Russia.

February 9, 2021September 1, 2021

Grad. Program: MA Dual-Degree in Russian and East European Studies (Penn/European University, St. Petersburg)

Deadline: March 22, 2021

We are pleased to announce that the University of Pennsylvania and the European University at St. Petersburg have opened admissions for a dual-degree M.A. program in Russian and East European Studies, which will welcome its first cohort of students this coming fall.

February 9, 2021September 1, 2021

Funding: ASEEES Internship Grant

Deadline: March 8, 2021

Call for Applications: ASEEES Internship Grant Program

ASEEES is pleased to announce the 2021 competition for the Internship Grant Program: www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-internship-grant-program

This program provides MA, PhD, and professional school students and recent graduates with grants that make it possible for them to accept unpaid or underpaid internships in areas directly related to Russian studies. The program promotes the entry of young scholars with considerable Russian studies expertise into sectors outside of traditional academia. These internships must be in the US and should be substantial in duration and responsibilities, lasting two months for summer internships and four months for internships during a semester in the regular academic year. The grant offers $2,000 a month, to be paid directly to the grantee during their internship.

*Please help us disseminate the information about this program by sharing this announcement with any interested graduate students and recent graduates.

Deadline: March 8

February 9, 2021September 1, 2021

Study Abroad: Summer Program 2021 (European University Viadrina)

Deadline: March 1, 2021

VIADRINA CHALLENGE WEEKS 2021

June 7 to July 23

12-18 ECTS / 6-9 Units

For undergraduate students of Business Administration and Social/Cultural Studies

(International Relations, Global Studies, Politics, Communication Studies,…)

The students will be able to choose between two tracks: Humanities and Social Sciences Track and the Business Administration and Economics Track. Find more information on the program, the tracks and all the course syllabi on our website: Viadrina Challenge Weeks 2021.

We are planning digitally or hybrid, but since our seminars are going to be limited to a small number of students we will be flexible and might even be able conduct some courses onsite if the pandemic allows. All those who are joining digitally will regularly meet onsite students in our virtual meeting room and will be able to take part in workshops and soft skill courses. For the students coming to Viadrina we are offering a variety of excursions and extracurricular activities to enrich their experience at the German – Polish border.

February 9, 2021September 1, 2021

CFP: Translating Russian Literature in Global Context

Deadline: March 31, 2021

Call for Submissions: Edited Volume on Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context (2023)

Scholars with relevant expertise are invited to submit essays for a new edited volume on the global translation and reception of Russian literary fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. “Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context” (2023) is intended to constitute the first geographically coherent, culturally inclusive, and theoretically consistent model of the distribution and influence of translated Russian literature on global cultures from 1900 to the present day. The editors seek articles of up to 8,000 words on aspects of the history and influence of Russian literature in translation in different cultures for an Open Access publication funded by the European Research Council in association with the University of Exeter RusTrans project (Grant Agreement no. 802437).

Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words, excluding bibliography, to the editors (Dr Muireann Maguire and Dr Cathy McAteer) at rustrans@exeter.ac.uk, by March 31st, 2021.

For more information on this call, please visit our website: http://rustrans.exeter.ac.uk/translation-archive/translating-russian-literature-in-the-global-context/. Please do recirculate details to relevant networks.

February 9, 2021September 1, 2021

CFP: Special Issue of Apparatus- Moving Images in the -Russian Empire

Deadline for Submissions: March 8, 2021

Call for papers on the early period of moving images in the Russian Empire for a special issue of the peer-viewed, open-access journal Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Oksana Chefranova (oksana.chefranova@yale.edu), Natascha Drubek (dr.nataschadrubek@gmail.com) and Rachel Morley (rachel.morley@ucl.ac.uk). The full text of the call is posted below, and it is also available on the Apparatus website.

Please consider sending your proposals by 8 March!

Feel free to email us with any questions and to share this call widely.