CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Page 192 – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019

Grad. Program: German and Russian Studies (University of Missouri)

Deadline: January 1, 2020

The University of Missouri Department of German and Russian Studies invites qualified candidates to apply to our MA program in Russian Studies. The MA is a two-year, intensive course of study with an emphasis on literature and intellectual history, and with opportunities for cross-disciplinary coursework. Students may also earn a Minor in College Teaching.

Eligible applicants may receive a graduate assistantship (on a competitive basis) that covers tuition and pays a stipend. Graduate assistants typically help teach either in a beginning Russian sequence or in the writing-intensive civilization course.

The Russian Studies program at the University of Missouri is small but active, and students receive careful advising to help develop their particular study and research interests. The MA program also offers mentoring and resources for career readiness and professionalization.

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019

Prof. Dev. : Course for Language Educators (National Foreign Language Resource Center)

Deadline: December 1, 2019

Intersections Between High-Leverage Teaching Practices (HLTPs) and Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) Intersections Between HLTPs and PBLL is a short course designed to provide world language educators ideas for implementing the elements of six high-leverage teaching practices (HLTPs) in project-based language learning (PBLL) contexts. This self-study course comprises seven lessons, with each lesson containing a video of an interview with experts in PBLL, a quiz, links to additional materials on the topic of the lesson, and a discussion prompt. An optional badge is available for a small fee for participants who fulfill all course requirements.

For more information about course prerequisites, content overview, registration (free – open through December 1), and optional digital badge, please visit our Short Course webpage:

https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/events/view/124/

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019

Job: Counselors and Russian Teachers for Summer Russian Immersion Program (Minnesota)

Deadline: December 1, 2019

Concordia Language Villages’ summer Russian immersion program “Лесное озеро” is actively recruiting a diverse pool for positions as counselors and high school credit teachers in our residential program for kids ages 6-18, July 6 – August 8, 2020 in Bemidji, MN.

High school credit teachers should have experience teaching Russian as they will be expected to independently plan lessons and create materials and assessments for a class that covers a year of high school Russian in four weeks.
Counselors teach Russian language and culture in an informal program with extensive mentoring and support, and also lead camp activities (canoeing, art, etc.) These positions are appropriate for those with abundant energy and a dedication to and background in work with children and teens. They do not require teaching experience, as we expect to provide these staff with intensive teacher training, a very thorough curriculum, and in-service support. We anticipate that we will have a particular need for applicants with experience in outdoor skills/nature /camping/ecology, folk art, guitar/balalaika/domra, Central Asia, and/or the Caucuses.
These positions require a strong command of informal spoken Russian. Staff members are expected to be able to use Russian to communicate both in staff meetings and with campers in all daily life situations. Most successful domestic applicants are either heritage speakers or L2 speakers who have already spent at least a year in a Russian-speaking country. We also hire international staff through our J1 camp counselor visa program.

November 15, 2019November 15, 2019

Funding: Project Go Scholarship for ROTC Students Studying Russian

Deadlines: January 13, 2020 (abroad program); February 17, 2020 (Pittsburgh program)

The University of Pittsburgh invites Army, Navy/Marine, and Air Force ROTC students from any U.S. college or university to apply for a Pitt Project GO (Global Officers) scholarship for intensive study of 1st-4th year Russian in Summer 2020. Project GO is sponsored by the federal Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO) and administered nationally by the Institute of International Education (IIE).

Students who have not yet begun their pursuit of Russian are encouraged to apply for an 8-week beginning-level class, which will cover the equivalent of one academic year’s worth of language training. The beginning-level classes, offered by Pitt’s Summer Language Institue (SLI), are held at the University’s main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh from June 1-July 24, 2020. Pitt Project GO scholarships for Beginning Russian cover:
• Full tuition for 8 University of Pittsburgh credits
• Housing and a living stipend
• Travel between the student’s home city and Pittsburgh
• Textbooks

November 15, 2019November 15, 2019

Resource/Lang. Training: Instagram with Russian Grammar/Vocabulary

This instagram posts weekly challenges of Russian grammar/vocabulary with free exercises supported with Russian/Soviet art visuals. They also post Instagram stories with fun Russian grammar in a trivia quiz style. For lower levels of Russian (mostly first and second years).

The account name is kto_smeliy, or you can follow this link: Екатерина (@kto_smeliy) • Instagram photos and videos

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019

Resource/Conference: Live Stream of The Scholarly World of Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov: Assessments, Reassessments, Reflections (UCLA)

Event Date: November 15, 2019

For those of you who are interested, the conference announced below will be live-streamed on the Facebook page of the UCLA Slavic Department.
Please use your personal Facebook account to search our department page: UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures. Please contact Deanna De La Hunt at deanna@humnet.ucla.edu should you have any questions or issues accessing the Facebook page.
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The UCLA Dept. of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures and UCLA’s Program in Indo-European Studies are pleased to announce an international conference, “The Scholarly World of Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov: Assessments, Reassessments, Reflections,” on the occasion of the 90th year of his birth and the second anniversary of his passing. The conference will take place November 15, 2019 at the Faculty Center, UCLA Campus. Morning sessions will be devoted to Vyacheslav Ivanov’s contributions to Indo-European studies and general linguistics, and afternoon sessions – his contributions to semiotics of culture and poetics. Guest speakers include:

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019

CFP: The Legacies of State Socialist Memory Politics (Canadian Slavonic Papers/ Revue canadienne des slavistes )

Deadline: December 15, 2019

CfP: Special issue on “The Legacies of State Socialist Memory Politics”
Canadian Slavonic Papers/ Revue canadienne des slavistes seeks submissions for a special issue on the theme of “The Legacies of State Socialist Memory Politics.” This project will investigate those mnemonic discourses, strategies, and media which, transcending the collapse of state socialism, continue to play a role in contemporary memory politics. The special issue aims to rebalance the discussion in a field that tends to focus on the contemporary determinants of memory: the political and sociocultural vagaries of post-socialism.
After all, mnemonic discourses are path-dependent, and thereby partially disconnected from the political objectives of the present moment. Which narratives of the past survived state socialism and retain a certain degree of resonance? How do they constrain memory actors? Conversely, can they be embraced as a political resource (for instance, by illiberal forces)?

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019

CFP: Edited Volume: Authenticity across Languages and Cultures – Transcultural and Philosophical Motives in Foreign Language Teaching & Learning

Deadline: January 31, 2020

Aim of the book

In the research literature on foreign-language teaching and learning (FLTL), ‘authenticity’ emerges as an important issue (for a list of relevant publications, see the file ‘References’). The term, due to its strong connotation and its colloquial ubiquity, has been used to denote a multitude of concepts. This volume is conceptually grounded in the writings of Will (2018) and Pinner (2016), who have recently contributed to an increased level of discursive clarity (Will) on the one hand, and a promising reconceptualization (Pinner) on the other. One of the main aims of this interdisciplinary volume is a new conceptual cohesion in accordance with seminal works in FLTL (e.g. van Lier, Widdowson, Breen), literary and cultural studies (e.g. Delanoy, Kramsch, Butler) as well as in existentialist philosophy (e.g. Sartre, Heidegger). In this book, ‘authenticity’ will be investigated as an educational construct apt to enrich (the modern) foreign language classrooms and university lecture halls in an age of globalisation, digitalisation, mobility and transculturality. With the contributors to this book coming from different countries and continents, the WHO, WHAT and HOW of ‘authenticity’ shall be investigated, overcoming widespread notions of native-speakerism, essentialism and stereotype. We encourage both theoretical and conceptual as well as empirical papers.

November 14, 2019

Lang. Training: Summer Programs in Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, Uzbek (University of Wisconsin)

Deadline: February 1, 2020

The Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is now accepting applications! We offer courses in intensive elementary and intermediate Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek. Additional levels and languages (such as Kyrgyz) may be added with sufficient student interest.

Graduate students, researchers, and professionals who are US citizens are especially encouraged to apply for the Title VIII fellowship, which covers full tuition plus a stipend of $2,500 for the summer. FLAS fellowships are also available for eligible undergraduate and graduate students, and all applicants (including international students) are eligible for the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI) tuition scholarship or for tuition remission scholarships.

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019

Grad. Program: Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (Indiana University)

Deadline: December 1, 2019 (international); January 15, 2019 (domestic)

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University invites applications to its MA and PhD programs.

With fifteen faculty in the core unit, the Indiana Slavic department is one of the largest in the country. We support PhD level work in Russian, Polish, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), as well as in Slavic linguistics and language pedagogy. Home to a Russian Flagship Program, we have seen recent growth in Russian enrollments and maintain programs in BCS, Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian.

Our core faculty offers mentorship in diverse areas including the theory and practice of translation, memory studies, economic criticism, cultural studies, and critical theory; research strengths in linguistics include pragmatics, phonology, second language acquisition, and pedagogy. Our extensive and engaged network of adjunct faculty adds expertise in fields such as documentary film, computational linguistics, and religious thought. Graduate students also have the opportunity for apprenticeships at our in-house press, Slavica, which puts out academic books in Slavic studies and, under the imprint Three String Books, literary translations.