CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Page 216 – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020

Acad. Job: Instructor of Russian Studies (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Deadline: February 20, 2020

Instructor of Russian Studies

The Department of Russian Studies seeks applications for a 3-year 100% full-time limited-term appointment (2020–2023) at the Instructor level in Russian language, literature and culture, effective July 1, 2020. The Instructor will teach language courses at various levels, courses in Russian literature (ability to teach the 19th century period is a plus), as well as an introductory Russian culture course and/or a course matching the successful candidate’s expertise. The workload is equivalent to four full-credit (eight half-credit) classes during the academic year. Russian Studies at Dalhousie is a small but vital department, part of an active community of faculty and students that relies on faculty engagement and participation in departmental extracurricular and cultural events. The successful candidate will be expected to make active and regular contributions in this area. This position is subject to budgetary approval.

Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Russian literature or linguistics. Native or native-equivalent command of Russian and English, as well as expertise in teaching the Russian language at an undergraduate level, are required. The successful candidate will possess strong organizational and administrative skills.

Applications will be accepted until 20 February 2020 and must include the following:

A letter of application addressed to the Search Committee Chair
A CV
A statement of teaching philosophy
A teaching dossier that includes evidence of teaching effectiveness
The names and contact information of 3 referees

Details: https://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/2647

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020

Acad. Job: Research Associate, Slavic, Baltic, or Finno-Ugric Linguistics (University of Sheffield)

Deadline: February 27, 2020

The School of Languages and Cultures is seeking to appoint a Research Associate to take part in a three-year project. It is funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council and will start on 1 June 2020.

The project, entitled Feast and Famine: Confronting Overabundance and Defectivity in Language, looks at non-canonical inflectional morphology in morphologically complex languages of central and eastern Europe. It includes eight institutions across four countries: the UK, the Czech Republic, Croatia and Estonia, and will be led by Professor Neil Bermel (University of Sheffield) in collaboration with Professor Dunstan Brown (University of York).

January 28, 2020February 4, 2020

Study Abroad: 8-Week Summer Intensive in Russian or Kazakh (Kazakhstan)

Deadline: April 1, 2020

Nazarbayev University (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan) is pleased to announce that the application is now open for our Summer School in Russian and Eurasian Studies (SSRES), an 8-week intensive program in Russian or Kazakh languages. We operate on rolling admissions until April 1 and there is no application fee.

Classes follow standardized US curricula and textbooks, which means that students can return seamlessly to language programs at their home institutions.

At NU, students study languages on our modern campus in an environment that minimizes culture shock and maximizes close contact with multilingual local students.

Program dates:

May 23 – July 22 (equivalent to one academic year)

Program fees:

$5000 (for Russian) OR $4000 (for Kazakh)

January 27, 2020January 27, 2020

Study Abroad: Russian, Math in Moscow (Higher School of Economics)

Deadline: February 15, 2020; April 20, 2020

I would like to invite your students to apply to top Russian university and study in English, study Russian or do REM in Moscow (and travel to St Pete, Volga River or Siberia). If you are interested in combing study with unpaid internship with the international office of the faculty of economic sciences, please contact obudjko@hse.ru as soon as possible and be ready to apply before February 15, 2020

HSE International Summer University https://www.hse.ru/international/summer in Moscow, REM in math https://math.hse.ru/en/reu and Russian language intensive course https://www.hse.ru/en/rfl/intensive are accepting applications. The Summer U. or REU can be combined with courses of Russian language on various levels, starting from beginners. All courses are taught in English. More courses in various fields, including Russian studies are available via the Summer University website https://www.hse.ru/international/summer

January 27, 2020January 27, 2020

Study Abroad: Semester Programs in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Deadline: May 1, 2020

The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) is now accepting applications for Fall 2020 study abroad programs in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Please share this information with your students.

All CIEE semester programs in Russia feature:

24/7 on-site support
Comprehensive pre-departure and onsite orientations: an introduction to Russian culture, practical matters of living in the city and being in the program
Carefully vetted housing: host families (St. Petersburg); on-campus dormitory (Moscow)
Diverse cultural activities and volunteer opportunities to promote intercultural understanding
Excursions in and beyond the city to enhance classroom learning
Program with Russian peers (in both Moscow and St. Petersburg) for language and cultural immersion
US academic record administered through Tulane University
Medical insurance and other travel benefits, with CIEE iNext

January 27, 2020January 27, 2020

Resource: Teaching Grammar Podcast

The new episode of Foreign Language Teaching Podcast is out!
This is a second part of our interview with William Comer, Professor of Russian and Director of the Russian Flagship Program at Portland State University.

Podcast new host Izolda Savenkova and her guest are discussing approaches to teaching grammar.http://alturl.com/bz2q2

If you missed the first part of the podcast on teaching reading skills, you can listen to it here: http://alturl.com/2aexm

Dr. Comer has published numerous articles in national journals including the Slavic and East European Journal, Russian Language Journal and Foreign Language Annals. His pedagogical edition of Viktoria Tokareva’s short story A Day without Lying (Slavica, 2008) was awarded the prize for Best Book in Language Pedagogy by American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in 2010. In August 2009 he won the University of Kansas W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. He is co-author of Mezhdu nami (=Between you and me), an online, open-access textbook for elementary Russian. At Portland State he teaches courses in Russian language, literature and culture, and directs the Russian Language Flagship Program.
Podcast host Izolda (Iza) Savenkova is a Visiting Assistant Scholar at Dickinson College, PA. She has been teaching Russian for 7 years after graduation from Lomonosov State University with a Master’s degree in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language. The main sphere of her academic interests is Russian for Specific Purposes. She is currently completing her PhD in Teaching Russian as a Second Language at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Before coming to Dickinson College in 2018, she taught courses in Russian language, literature, and culture and assisted a Dickinson-in-Moscow program at Russian State University for the Humanities. During the summers of 2018 and 2019 she taught at Middlebury College Cathryn Davis School of Russian.The podcast is created by TeachRussian.org.

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020

Lang. Training/Internship: Ukrainian Museum Archives (Pittsburgh/Cleveland)

Deadline: March 1, 2020

1st-year Ukrainian

1st-year Ukrainian classes taught at the SLI provide the equivalent of an academic year’s worth of study. Classes meet on the University of Pittsburgh campus Monday – Friday from 9am to 3pm. In addition to intensive language classes, students attend Ukrainian films, lectures, and other activities centering on Ukrainian art, food, and culture.

Post-SLI Internship Opportunity for 6-Week Ukrainian Students
SLI is pleased to announce that during the summer of 2020, we are partnering with the Ukrainian Museum-Archives in Cleveland, Ohio to offer a limited number of internships to SLI-Ukrainian students. Students who apply and are accepted to the internship would work at the museum-archives on a project that makes direct use of their newly-acquired knowledge of Ukrainian. Students would also have the opportunity to use the vast resources of the archives to complete a research project related to their academic or career interests. This internship must be taken for academic credit and would commence immediately after the completion of the 6-week beginning Ukrainian course in Pittsburgh. The number of credits taken and the duration of the internship would be negotiated between the applicant, SLI, and the director and curator at the museum-archives. Interested students should contact SLI Managing Director, Kathleen Manukyan, manukyan1@pitt.edu to learn more about this unique opportunity.

https://www.sli.pitt.edu/program-listing/ukrainian/domestic

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020

CFP: Decentred and Asymmetrical? Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Deadline: February 29, 2020

GWZO Annual Conference 2020
Decentred and Asymmetrical? Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective

6–8 July 2020

Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig

Comparison is one of the most frequently used approaches in the humanities and social sciences. Several disciplines comprise established fields dedicated to comparative research, ranging from comparative history, politics to literature. In recent decades, however, comparative research has also been subjected to continuous methodological debates. While comparative frameworks had been promoted by some researchers as a means to overcome methodological nationalism and exceptionalism, others have criticised comparative approaches for homogenising research subjects and defining artificial boundaries of container entities. In response to such criticism, many recent approaches have sought to integrate comparative methods with research on transfer, exchange and entanglement. This discussion also shed light on the role of circulation and changing points of reference, as actors and objects moved within and across different spaces. Differences in perspectives and the relevance of change, mobility and border-crossings came to the forefront of scholarly enquiries, which again inspired the formation of new subdisciplines (most notably, the discussion on world literature emerging from comparative literature). At the same time, reservations towards illegitimate comparison, presented by the figurative apples and oranges, have been considerably weakened as researchers start paying more attention to social, economic, cultural and other asymmetries, thus raising the question of how comparative research may consider apparent inequalities.

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020

Funding: European Anthropology Fellowship

Deadline: February 1, 2020

The Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) and CES invite eligible graduate students with a focus on European Anthropology to apply for the 2020-21 Anthropology of Europe Pre-Dissertation Fellowship. The SAE is the section of the American Anthropological Association that promotes the anthropological study of European societies and culture, encouraging connections between scholars working in Europe. Each fellowship includes a $5,000 stipend to fund two months’ research in Europe, and travel support for attending and presenting at the International Conference of Europeanists.

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020

Study Abroad: Free Summer Polish Language Program in Poland

Deadline: February 18, 2020

Announcement of the call for proposals to participate in the Summer Courses of Polish Language and Culture 2020 Program

The Director of the National Academic Exchange Agency announces the call for applications for participation in the Summer Courses of Polish Language and Culture 2020 Program.

Program objective

The aim of the Program is to teach and promote Polish language and Polish culture abroad by enabling foreign students to participate free of charge in several-week long Polish language and culture courses organized in Poland.

The program is addressed to students learning Polish as a foreign language, as well as to those who are just planning to start learning. The aim of the Program is to encourage foreign students to continue learning Polish after returning to their universities or to study in Poland.