CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Page 82 – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

February 8, 2023May 3, 2023

Job Posting: Junior Visiting Researcher (Central European University)

Deadline: March 1, 2023

The Department of Gender Studies at Central European University (CEU, Austria) invites applications for a 36-month fixed-term position as Junior Visiting Researcher to conduct research within the framework of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network project “EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective”. The position includes fully funded enrollment in the PhD program of the Department of Gender Studies, the Doctoral Candidate is tasked with writing a PhD thesis within the area “Transnational turn in literary studies: Looking from Central and Eastern Europe”.

Contract starting date: 1 September 2023

We welcome applications from candidates with an MA degree in Humanities, a demonstrable interest and experience in Gender Studies and Literature, a willingness to undertake two months of guided internship at an Associate Partner of the DC’s choice, as well as a willingness to spend a period of 6 months on secondment at the University of Oviedo (Spain).

Deadline: 1 March 2023

Detailed job announcement: here

More about the project: here

February 8, 2023May 3, 2023

CFP: ESCAS 2023 Regional Conference – “Power, People and Cultural Change in an Ever Evolving Central Asia”

Deadline: March 15, 2023

http://www.escas.org/next-conference/

22 – 24 September 2023, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Deadline for abstract submission : 15 March 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) invites proposals for individual papers, panels and round-table discussions for the 18th ESCAS conference, which will take place on 22-24 September 2023, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. In line with regional traditions, the conference will have a nomadic format and will be held in collaboration with the German-Kazakh University, Ablai Khan University, Al Farabi University and KIMEP University. This format will allow you to experience different academic environments and networking with colleagues from various disciplines.

February 8, 2023May 3, 2023

CFP: The Weird Russian 19th Century

Deadline: March 1, 2023

Symposium: The Weird Russian 19th Century

April 28, 2023

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (via Zoom)

Organizers: Arpi Movsesian and Chloë Kitzinger (Rutgers University)

Keynote speaker: Jacob Emery (Indiana University Bloomington)

Nineteenth-century Russian literature is weird. But what is it exactly that makes it weird? Russophone writers of the era wrestled with different aspects of this umbrella category as a kind of strangeness, otherness, and disability. Meanwhile, a rise in the medicalization of eccentricity in this time period, in Russia as elsewhere, led to both diagnoses and cultural perceptions of difference as deviancy. As such, women, minorities, and those on the margins were particularly vulnerable to being categorized as “weird” in their portrayals in Russophone works. How do writers of the nineteenth century grapple with the weird, find meaning, beauty, ugliness, or perplexity within it, and ultimately push the boundaries of the acceptable and the “normal”?

We welcome 250-word abstracts for 15-minute paper presentations on weirdness broadly defined in Russophone literature of the nineteenth century. Presentations will be followed by ample time for discussion. Please submit your abstract to movsesian@greell.rutgers.edu by March 1, 2023. Selected participants will be notified by March 15.

The symposium will take place on Zoom.

February 8, 2023May 3, 2023

Funding: Aleksanteri Institute Visiting Fellowship 2022-2023

Deadline: February 12, 2023

The Aleksanteri Institute, the Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European studies at the University of Helsinki, is pleased to invite applications for its Visiting Fellowships for the academic year 2023-2024 from scholars holding a PhD degree and pursuing research that relates to the Institute’s research profile.

The Fellowship carries a monthly grant to cover the expenses related to the research visit. Fellowships are for two months (with some exceptions specified in the call for proposals, for three months). The Visiting Fellowship scheme is intended for scholars who reside outside Finland.

The deadline for applications is 12 February 2023.

Update to the call, Monday 30 January:
For scholars affected by Russia’s invasion, who reside in Ukraine or who have had to leave Ukraine after 24 February 2022, there will be two three-month visiting fellowships with an additional accommodation costs subsidy (up to 1400 € monthly), supported by the University of Helsinki Ukraine Appeal.

Please see call details and application instructions in the Call for Proposals.

You can find more information on the Visiting Fellows Programme here.

February 8, 2023May 3, 2023

Grad. Program: PhD at ZZF Potsdam

Deadline: February 28, 2023

The ZZF has a vacancy for a PhD Position, fully funded for three years. Please find particulars here:

https://zzf-potsdam.de/sites/default/files/Stellenausschreibungen/wm_03-2023_stellenausschreibung_saw_popular_cultures_phd_final.pdf

The Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) Potsdam, Department I (Communism and Society), seeks to employ a

Doctoral Student (f/m/d)

in the joint research project „Adjustment and Radicalization. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe“, under the supervision of PD (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Dr. Juliane Fürst. The envisaged starting date is May 1, 2023. The position is part-time (65%) and limited to a term of 36 months. The salary is paid in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement for public employees in Germany (TV-L 13).

February 8, 2023May 3, 2023

CFA: Black Lives under Nazism, Jacob and Yetta Gelman Research Workshop

Deadline: 3/31/2023

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for the 2023 Jacob and Yetta Gelman International Research Workshop entitled Black Lives under Nazism. The Mandel Center will co-convene this workshop with Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, and Sarah Phillips Casteel, Department of English, Carleton University. The workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, June 7 through Friday, June 16, 2023, and will take place at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

This workshop advances research on the neglected history of the African diaspora in wartime Europe and the experiences of Black people caught up in the genocidal campaign of the Nazis and their collaborators. This small yet diverse population included Black Europeans, African and Caribbean colonial subjects, African-American expatriates, and soldiers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Among the expatriates were a number of American jazz musicians, such as pianist Freddy Johnson and trumpeter Valaida Snow, who chose to stay in Europe when the war broke out rather than return to the segregated society they had sought to escape. Colonial soldiers, such as the Senegalese writer and statesman Léopold Senghor, and children of German colonial subjects, such as journalist and memoirist Theodor Wonja Michael, also found themselves in the clutches of the Nazi regime. Josef Nassy, an artist of African and Sephardic Jewish descent from the Dutch Caribbean colony of Suriname, was imprisoned as an enemy national in internment camps where he painted the most substantial known visual record of Black prisoners in the Nazi camp system. Their experiences of persecution—which ranged from social and legal ostracization, sterilization, forced labor, and imprisonment in camps to murder—are reflected in a diverse body of archival sources, testimonies, and artistic and literary work that offers us a window onto the wartime experiences of African diaspora people.

February 7, 2023May 3, 2023

Conference: PONARS Eurasia Spring Policy Conference

Event Date: March 3, 2023

The annual PONARS Eurasia Spring Policy Conference convenes international experts from North America, Russia, Ukraine, and other parts of Eurasia for a series of panel discussions. This year’s hybrid event offers insight from leading scholars and experts into comparative politics and society in the region, both related to and beyond Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

More information here.

February 6, 2023May 3, 2023

Funding: TexCEP Scholars Program

Deadline: February 13, 2023

February 6, 2023February 6, 2023

Funding: National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship

Deadline: April 25, 2023

NIJ’s Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program supports doctoral research with relevance to criminal or juvenile justice in the United States. This includes criminology, forensic science, technology for law enforcement, and more. Applications from all science and engineering fields are welcome.

The fellowship provides up to three years of support within a five-year period and includes:

$40,500/year student salary
$12,000/year cost of education allowance
$3,000/year research expenses

We anticipate funding about 20 new fellows this year.

Please share this opportunity, as appropriate, for reaching a grad student and faculty audience:

1-page flyer: https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/grf-flyer

full funding opportunity: https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/opportunities/o-nij-2023-171521

The program is currently accepting applications. The grants.gov deadline is April 25 and the JustGrants deadline is May 2, 2023.

February 6, 2023May 3, 2023

Internship: NSA Cooperative Education Program – Language

Deadline: March 31, 2023

https://apply.intelligencecareers.gov/job-description/1200946

Cooperative Education students gain valuable experience while playing a meaningful role in the development of our nation’s secure communications or in the production of foreign intelligence. Programs are available for students majoring in a language-focused majors including Chinese and Russian. Right from the start, you will be involved in real life projects and will have full use of NSA labs, equipment and advanced technologies. These areas will offer you increasing challenges and satisfying learning experiences, since our mission demands that we work on the cutting edge of technology. Language Analysts work directly with the original written or spoken foreign language, determine the relevance of the intelligence collected, research it, analyze it, and put it into context for dissemination to national-level policy makers, military commanders, and other customers. As a participant in NSA’s Co-op Program, you will earn a competitive salary and enjoy many benefits. You will operate under a rotational program, alternating semesters of full-time work at NSAW (Baltimore/Washington area) with full-time study from entry into the program until graduation. New Co-Ops will begin work in either January or August only. We require a minimum of 52 weeks of Co-op work experience prior to graduation. During your tour, you will work a regular 40-hour week. Each work tour is designed to reveal the specific areas you may want to focus on as a career. Qualifications include language-focused majors including Chinese and Russian in a four-year program. Community college students majoring in the above listed major with the intent to pursue a four-year program are also eligible to apply. A 3.0 GPA is preferred. ***PLEASE NOTE: As this program requires students to rotate between semesters of work and study, applicants are encouraged to discuss the possibility of participating in this type of program with their school (Academic Advisor, Co-Op Advisor, Registrar and/or Financial Aid Office, etc.) to determine the effect it may have on their full time student status during scheduled work tours as well as any effects it may have on scholarships and financial aid. If you are selected to process further, you will be required to complete an online interview and take the Defense Language Proficiency Test which measures language proficiency and/or the Defense Language Aptitude Battery which measures potential for learning a foreign language. Invitations and instructions for the online interview and scheduling for the language test will be emailed to you – you must complete these steps before your application can be considered for further processing. Please check your Spam folder just in case these emails landed there instead of your Inbox. You will be required to test within two months of receiving the language test email as this information will be used as part of the selection decision.