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Workshop: Interrogating Neutrality during the Holocaust

Deadline: February 14, 2025

Moskowitz/Rafalowicz International Research Workshop

Interrogating Neutrality during the Holocaust 

July 7–18, 2025

Washington, D.C.

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for the 2025 Moskowitz/Rafalowicz International Research Workshop Interrogating Neutrality during the Holocaust. The Mandel Center will co-convene this workshop with Danielle Sanchez, Colorado College. The workshop is scheduled for July 7–18, 2025, and will take place at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Conference: Revolutions of Hope: Resilience and Recovery in Ukraine (University of Notre Dame)

Event Date: March 6-8, 2025

Registration (at no cost) is now available for the inaugural conference of the Ukrainian Studies Hub at the University of Notre Dame, March 6-8, 2025. Organized by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the conference title is “Revolutions of Hope: Resilience and Recovery in Ukraine.”

This multi-day conference includes:

A wide variety of panels, featuring speakers from the United States and Europe, including faculty, academic leadership, graduate students, and international scholars;

Plenary sessions with high-profile scholars and leaders;

An art exhibition and cultural event featuring the Women’s Bandura Ensemble of Chicago; and

Liturgical observances, including Holy Mass and prayers for peace.

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Postdoctoral Research Positions re: State, Church, and Body Politics in Post-Communism

Deadline: May 1, 2025

The University Lucian Blaga Sibiu (ULBS), Romania, invites applications for three (3) postdoctoral research positions to work in the FERBOPO project, funded by the European Research Area (ERA) Chair.
Position: Postdoctoral researcher
Period: 24 months fixed contract starting on 1 November 2025, with the possibility of renewal for an additional 24 months based on positive evaluation
Number of Hours per Month: 168 (full time equivalent)
Salary: 3,800 Euros per month, including taxes

Description of project: The FERBOPO project aims at building a new research group focused on the complex relationship between State, Church and Body Politics in post-communism that would foster excellence in social sciences and better integrate ULBS in the ERA. Under the guidance of ERA Chair Prof. Lavinia STAN, the new research group will engage in research related to State, Church and Body Politics, attract competitive research funding, and assist ULBS to implement institutional reforms that align with ERA priorities.

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Funding: Dame Elizabeth Hill Award

Deadline: May 31, 2025

Applications are now open for PhD students or Early Career Researchers undertaking research in history, linguistics, literature, anthropology, archaeology, or related disciplines.

The Dame Elizabeth Hill Award is funded by a gift from former SSEES academic and Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, the linguist Dame Elizabeth Hill. The Scholarship honours Professor Dame Elizabeth’s work as a linguist and seeks to help prepare future expert Slavists of wider scope and horizons. This award of up to £18,000 over the course of three years is intended to support researchers who demonstrate outstanding academic promise in undertaking ambitious research projects related to a premodern Slavonic subject, including paleography in the Slavonic languages and the pre-1800 literature of the Slavs. 

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Acad. Job; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Eastern Europe/Eurasia (University of Pittsburgh)

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Postdoc in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2025-2027)

Administration-Russian & East European Studies – Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh – (25000688)

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) at the University of Pittsburgh is offering a postdoctoral fellowship for Social Sciences scholars whose work focuses on Eastern Europe and/or Eurasia. This fellowship is a two-year appointment starting August 2025. Fellows will be expected to pursue their own scholarly work and participate in the academic and intellectual activities of REEES, University Center for International Studies (UCIS), as well as the Department(s) with which they become affiliated. 

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Junior Scholar Workshop: Writing Back from the Peripheries: Russophone Literary Diversity

Deadline: February 15, 2025

Junior Scholar Workshop “Writing Back from the Peripheries? Russophone Literary Diversity” 

funded by the BRIDGE Seed Fund for collaboration between the University of Birmingham (UoB) in the UK, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the USA

July 9-10, 2025

at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, decolonizing and decentring approaches to the study of Russophone literature and culture have become increasingly urgent tasks. This workshop seeks to offer support to emerging scholars whose research focuses on minoritized Russophone authors (both those who are “writing back” from regions formerly colonized by Russia and those who ended up living in exile abroad).

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Fellowships: Centre for Advanced Study (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Deadline: March 31, 2025

The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia would like to remind you of our
Open Calls for international fellowships for the 2025/2026 academic year.
Our programmes are designed for researchers from the social sciences and the humanities at different stages of their career from all over the world.

Additional information can be found further below.

CAS Sofia Fellowships for 2025/2026:

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Job: Program Coordinator, Dept. of German, Russian, and E European Languages (Rutgers)

Posted: January 15, 2025; Open until Filled

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Program Coordinator I for the School of Arts and Sciences.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

  • Provides administrative programmatic support to the SAS – Department of German, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures and all affiliated programs, by coordinating the administration of programs, projects, departmental operations, and/or processes, and management of the preparation and control of records, statistics, reports and documents.
  • Prioritizes work, resolves routine conflicts and issues, and prepares and implements administrative guidelines and procedures for the department.
  • Supports and oversight includes fiscal management, procurement, expense reimbursement, course scheduling, and human resources/academic personnel related processes and transactions.
  • Schedules appointments, arranges and coordinates logistics for events and meetings.
  • Creates and disseminates departmental communications, informational and marketing materials, and manages departmental listservs and databases.
  • Provides office administrative support to the department chair.
  • Processes various administrative documents and data.
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CFP: 31st Annual REECAS Northwest Conference (University of Washington)

Deadline: February 17, 2025

REECAS Northwest, the annual ASEEES northwest regional conference for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS) will take place April 10-12, 2025 at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

The REECAS Northwest Conference welcomes students, faculty, independent scholars, and language educators from the United States and abroad. Proposals on all subjects connected to the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian regions are encouraged. The conference hosts panels on a variety of topics and disciplines including political science, history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, culture, migration studies, gender studies, LGBTQ studies, film studies and more.

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