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CFP: Ivan Turgenev and the European Novel International Conference (Bougival, France)

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Conference Title: Ivan Turgenev and the European Novel

Dates and Venues: April 9–11, 2026, in Rouen and Bougival, France

Format: Hybrid format – in-person or online presentations

Working Languages: French, Russian, and English

The international conference “Ivan Turgenev and the European Novel”, jointly organised by the European Ivan Turgenev Museum in Bougival, the Friends of Flaubert and Maupassant, the Meìrimeìe Society, the Literary Society of the Friends of Eìmile Zola, and the Ivan Turgenev Centre at the University of Mons, will take place in Rouen and Bougival from April 9 to 11, 2026.

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Call for Chapter Proposal: The Handbook of Place-Based Pedagogies in Language and Culture Studies 

Deadline: May 25, 2025

See CFP for more details: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fM4H8f03hlgEZ8TGO7RHB_kiEZKh51AZDe-vSq6fvCk/edit?usp=sharing
Submission Form: https://forms.gle/cPgKmRncM8SxX7xX9   

The Handbook of Place-Based Pedagogies in Language and Culture Studies is envisioned as a scholarly volume which offers a comprehensive overview of the theories, methodologies, and applications of place-oriented frameworks in language and culture studies. It examines how educators and researchers incorporate spatial constructs, local environments, and community knowledge into pedagogical and scholarly practices across diverse disciplinary contexts. Emphasizing the significance of geographical, cultural, ethnographic, geopolitical, historical, and linguistic features of place, the handbook aims to deepen our understanding into spatial dimensions of cultures and languages and enrich language and culture learning, making it more engaging and relevant for students. 

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Acad. Job: Visiting Lecturer in Russian (Texas A&M)

Deadline: Open Until Filled; Posted May 5, 2025

The Department of Global Languages and Cultures in the College of Arts & Sciences at

Texas A&M University invites applications for a full-time Visiting Lecturer position

(Non-Tenure Track) in Russian language with a 9-month academic appointment for the

Academic Year 2025-2026. The anticipated start date is August 1, 2025. The successful

candidate will be expected to teach four (4) courses per semester in Russian language,

from the Beginning to the Advanced level, and to contribute to program building in

Russian studies. Depending on program needs, there may also be opportunity to teach

other courses in Russian culture and literature.

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Job: Armenian, Albanian, Hebrew, Romanian, Russian and Turkish Language Linguists (SOSi)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

SOSi is seeking Armenian, Hebrew, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croation and Turkish Language Linguists to join our team supporting all duties assigned to communicate and translate within our customer’s requirements. 

Languages can also include Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarin, Byelorussian, Czech, Estonian, Georgian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Lativan, Lithuanian, Luxembourgisch, Macedonian, Romansh, Slovak, Slovene, Tajik, Ukranian, Uzbek, and Yiddish.

https://sosi.jibeapply.com/jobs/9574?lang=en-us

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CFP: Destabilizing Nabokov International Conference (Princeton University)

Deadline: August 1, 2025

April 23–26, 2026

Key Dates:

Abstract submission deadline:August 1, 2025

Author notification: August 15, 2025

We invite papers that present or engage with iconoclastic, revisionist, and innovative approaches to Nabokov studies. Contributions that challenge traditional interpretations or offer new critical frameworks are especially encouraged.

Keynote Speakers

Opening Keynote: John Banville

An acclaimed Irish novelist and author of over 30 books, including the Booker Prize winning novel The Sea (2005. Banville’s many honors include the Franz Kafka Prize (2011), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature (2013), and Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2014).

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Language Learning: Online Intermediate Russian Conversation (Queens College)

Queens College, CUNY

RUSSIAN 2143:  Intermediate Russian Conversation

ONLINE (via Zoom)

https://globalsearch.cuny.edu/CFGlobalSearchTool/search.jsp

FALL 2025

8/26/2025 – 12/22/2025

Mondays and  Thursdays (2 times a week) 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Instructor:

Pisetskaya Aksana, email: Aksana.Pisetskaya@qc.cuny.edu

Enhance your Russian speaking skills in a dynamic, interactive environment. This intermediate-level course is designed for students with prior Russian knowledge who want to improve fluency, expand vocabulary, and gain confidence.

P.S. Potential students will have to register at Hunter College as non-matriculating students, and they should do so quickly since the CUNY registration process takes time.

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Call for Abstracts: The Life and Death of Cold War Funding

Deadline: July 1, 2025

Special Issue of The Russian Review

From Fulbright and IREX scholarships facilitating in-country immersion, to the Wilson Center’s efforts to connect academics and policymakers, to Title VI and Title VIII support for less commonly taught “critical” languages, funding programs that began in the Cold War shaped the field of Russian and Eastern European studies in enduring ways. These programs not only helped the US government “know its enemy” but also consolidated and institutionalized new fields of knowledge (“area studies”), trained experts in the United States, and developed a network of content-creators in the region. Despite its ideological partiality, this system of knowledge production helped soften hearts and minds on both sides of the so-called Iron Curtain. Though the original political impetus behind these programs ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, many initiatives survived. Even after the Cold War they funded the continued creation of cross-cultural knowledge and expertise, training the next generation of American scholars, and bringing academics, writers, and other practitioners from the region to the West.

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Acad. Job: Postdoc Position in Political History/Historical Sociology of Interwar Poland (Warsaw University)

Deadline: June 1, 2025

We invite applications for a post-doctoral research position in the project Patchwork Parliaments. Post-Imperial Field of Power in The New Republic Of Poland, Greater Romania and The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War funded by the Polish National Science Center.

The project Patchwork Parliaments studies the historical and social conditions of politics in a state made up of post-imperial tributary regions. We focus on constituent assemblies to understand the dynamic interrelationships between personal, regional and state factors in Poland, Greater Romania and The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, three countries made from scraps of former empires. We will seek answers to questions about how different types of elites and regional groupings compete for power with the help of different resources, or capitals. Methodologically, the study builds on (1) parliamentary debates, (2) the political divisions and social contexts of politics, and (3) the biographies of MPs from different regions. The project leader is Wiktor Marzec, PhD. You can read more about the project here.

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Summer Online Research Internships (SRAS)

Deadline: May 26, 2025

SRAS is accepting applications for our Summer Online Research Internships.

Internships are open to anyone with strong writing skills and an interest in the Baltics, Eastern/Central Europe, the Caucasus, or Central Asia. Persons with heritage from these areas or with recent travel experience to these areas are especially welcome to apply for these positions. Eligible applicants include high school students, university students, young professionals, and anyone else who would like build their resume with published material.

Interns will research and write about popular culture, folk culture, art, contemporary literature, or food. Internships are flexible and SRAS editors will work with interns to assign tasks that are both of interest to the intern and fill the needs of the SRAS Family of Sites.

Those that complete the internship will receive a scholarship towards study abroad or study online with SRAS.

More information and the application can be found here: https://sras.org/internship

Applications should be submitted by May 26th.

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