Job Posting: Executive Director, Tajikistan (American Councils)
Deadline: Open Until Filled
SUMMARY:
The Executive Director is responsible for providing management and leadership to support the effective delivery of all programs that American Councils operates in Tajikistan.
American Councils Tajikistan office employs 25 staff members and administers a diverse portfolio of education programming. This position oversees all internal operations in the Dushanbe office and provides direction and insight to program leadership responsible for specific programs, maintaining key relationships, actively developing the portfolio and enhancing the impact of programs operating in Tajikistan. Direct delivery of program activity for some programs is involved; rigorous seasonal travel within Tajikistan as well as some regional travel are required. The Executive Director reports to the Regional Director for Central Asia located in Almaty, Kazakhstan and coordinates regularly with Washington and field-based program managers.
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Event Date: May 3, 2023
Good afternoon and warm greetings from the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois. Please join us on Wednesday, May 3rd, at 3:00 pm Central Time for the last Research and Language Learning talk of the year, featuring Dr. Darren Byler of Simon Fraser University. His talk is entitled, Reading the Backstreets in Urumchi: Translation as Ethnographic Method in Northwest China. Professor Byler will discuss his experiences learning Uyghur and incorporating his language skills in his research. This series aims to provide students and faculty with space to reflect on the ways the language learning and research processes are interconnected. All are welcome to join. Interested individuals may register through the following link: https://forms.gle/566ScxDfbAf8ch5q7.
The Research and Language Learning Series is co-sponsored by the Slavic Reference Service, The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois, and the Language Workshop at Indiana University with the support of the Title VIII grant program. You can view previous talks on our YouTube Channel.
When: Wednesday, May 3rd, 3-4 pm US Central Time
Where: Online, through Zoom. Link will be sent to participants one day in advance
Register: https://forms.gle/566ScxDfbAf8ch5q7
Questions? Contact srscite@library.illinois.edu
Acad. Job: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, Queen Mary University of London
Deadline: May 8, 2023
Start date: 1 October 2023
Application Deadline: 5.00 pm on 8 May 2023
Interviews will take place online week beginning 22 May 2023.
Queen Mary University of London and the British Library are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 October 2023 under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.
This doctoral project seeks to advance postcolonial discourse in East European studies by focusing on the British Library’s unique Belarusian collection, the history of its development during the Cold War, and the collection’s evolution in response to Belarus’ ‘decolonising moment’ as it broke out of the Soviet fold in 1991.
This project will be jointly supervised by Dr Natalya Chernyshova (School of History) and Prof Jeremy Hicks (Department of Modern Languages and Cultures) at Queen Mary University of London and by Dr Katie McElvanney, Dr Katya Rogatchevskaia, and Dr Olga Topol at the British Library. The student will spend time with both QMUL and the British Library and will become part of the wider cohort of AHRC CDP funded PhD students across the UK.
QMUL and the British Library are keen to encourage applications from the widest range of candidates and particularly welcome those currently underrepresented in doctoral student cohorts.
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Deadline: May 1, 2023
Pitt’s SLI still has funding for a few partial scholarships to the 2023 program. It is easy to apply by May 1 using the links on our website’s program pages www.sli.pitt.edu.
After May 1, we can often still take applications, but students should email us first at sliadmin@pitt.edu to ask about space availability and request a late application.
Students who are interested in applying to an SLI abroad program in Poland, Montenegro, Czech Republic, or Slovakia should apply as soon as possible.
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Event Dates: May 1-2, 2023
Location: Henry R. Luce Hall, Rm 203, (2nd fl.) 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Monday, May 1, 2023
9:00 AM Breakfast
10:00 -10:15 AM Welcome By Hosts: Professors Claire Roosien and Edyta Bojanowska of Yale University
10:15-12:00 PM Panel 1: Theories and Temporalities
- Discussant: Jane Burbank (New York University)
- Chair: Nana Osei Quarshie (Yale University)
- Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola University, Chicago), “The Cannon and the Plow: Transforming Imperial Frontiers into Colonial Borderlands”
- Sergei Glebov (Smith College), “Paradoxes of Settler Colonialism: Imperial Far East, 1850-1940”
- Timm Schönfelder (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe), “Transhumance Submerged. Adyghe Traditions and Socialist Modernity along the Kuban River”
Resources: Latest Open Access Issue of Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
The latest Open Access issue of Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies has published! Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal.
Sibirica is a part of the Berghahn Open Anthro Collection!: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/page/berghahn-open-anthro
Sibirica Volume 22, Issue 1
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Spectrum of Intersectionality in the Arctic: From Discrimination to Diversity and Inclusion
Jenanne Ferguson, Dina Abdel-Fattah, Doris Friedrich, Olivia Lee, and Sardana Nikolaeva
Articles
Climate Justice and Intersectionality in the Arctic
Doris Friedrich
Removing Barriers to Science and the Outdoors for Teenage Youth and Early Career Professionals in the US Arctic and Beyond: An Expedition-Based Model
Joanna Young, Sarah Clement, and Erin Pettit
To “Lure On the Gentle Reader”: Approaching Historical Representations of Gender and Sexuality in the Arctic through Rockwell Kent’s Salamina
Susan B. Vanek and Jette Rygaard
Examining Gender Equality in Greenland in the Last Thirty Years: An Investigation through the Lens of the CEDAW Convention’s Examinations
Siff Lund Kjærgaard
The Impact of Extractivism on Indigenous Peoples: Social, Gender, and Economic Inequality
Maria A. Pavlova and Nyurgun A. Leontiev
Plurality of Activisms: Indigenous Women’s Collectives in Olenek District (Sakha Republic)
The Indigenous Women’s Collectives of the Olenek Evenki National District (Sakha Republic) and Sardana Nikolaeva
Día de Muertos in Alaska: Indigenous Practices Honoring Life and Death from Mexico to Alaska
Itzel Zagal and Christina Edwin
Border Digs in the Circumpolar North: Tracing Embodied Sites at the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Race
Jean Balestrery
Book Reviews
Spencer Abbe, Tayana Arakchaa, and Sveta Yamin-Pasternak
CFP: Teaching Reading and Literature
Deadline: June 7, 2023
- How can the use of literary texts in Slavic language teaching foster the exchange with other cultures and the understanding of one’s own culture?
- How can lessons be designed so that learners are motivated to engage with Slavic literary texts?
- What kinds of literary texts are most suitable for the Slavic language classroom?
- How can new media be used in teaching Slavic languages to improve the understanding of literary texts?
These and other questions form the context for literary work when teaching a (foreign) language. Literary texts offer great potential for language teaching and contribute to the development of numerous competences, such as communicative, literary, personal, cultural, or reading
competences (cf. Bredella & Hallet, 2007). However, such lists of competences and a focus on output-orientation (cf. e.g. BMBWF, 2022; KMK, 2019) bear the risk of marginalising foreign language literature in the classroom, as the competences to be developed and the expected outcomes cannot always be measured with standardised test procedures, which is due to their complexity (cf. Hallet, 2017, 235). The situation is further complicated by the fact that, in the context of ‘literary education 2.0’, cinematic, multimodal and digital forms of learning languages and
immersing oneself in other cultures are gaining in importance alongside traditional literary genres (cf. Surkamp, 2020; Höfler, 2020). Furthermore, literary work is located in action- and product-oriented teaching (cf. Surkamp, 2010), and is confronted with challenges such as cultural-historical and contextualised reading (cf. Hallet et al., 2020, 267). At the same time, it seeks to address current social issues (e.g. Sippl & Rauscher, 2022). While the use of literature in (foreign) language teaching should also promote the development of a range of skills, its primary aim is
the comprehension of literary texts. One challenge in teaching Slavic foreign languages – usually taught as a third or fourth foreign language – is the level of the learners, which is often an obstacle to working with literary texts. It is, therefore, necessary to evaluate and adapt existing
concepts of literature work and to develop new ones suitable for the Slavic context.
Study Abroad: Learn Russian in the European Union Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 Programs (Daugavpils, Latvia)
Deadline: July 31, 2023; December 1, 2023
Learn Russian in the European Union (Daugavpils, Latvia) is accepting applications for the following in-person undergraduate Russian study abroad programs hosted at Daugavpils University.
– 2023 Fall semester;
– 2024 Winter;
– 2024 Spring semester.
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Deadline: May 1, 2023
West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military United States Military Academy West Point, NY September 29 – October 1, 2023
The United States Military Academy’s Department of Foreign Languages (DFL) invites proposals from scholars across cultural and linguistic disciplines for the Inaugural West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military, with a focus on representations of military experiences in the humanities. This conference welcomes multiple and diverse approaches at the intersections of language, culture, and aspects of the human experience with a nexus to “military” (such as but not limited to militar, militaire, 軍 jūn, revolution, rebellion, guerrilla, etc.). From Xenophon to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Penthesilea to Joan of Arc, Cervantes to Camões, Erich Maria Remarque to Václav Havel, we witness across all linguistic, literary, and cultural traditions the impact of what one may classify as military (or paramilitary) activities on the broader human experience. We can draw great insight from an analysis of these experiences across all linguistic and cultural traditions, as language reflects, constructs, records, and negotiates key socio-cultural aspects, such as individual and collective identities, conceptualizations of reality, motivations, aesthetics, and historical narratives.
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