CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Page 94 – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

October 20, 2022December 5, 2022

Job Posting: Jewish Studies Librarian (Emory University)

Deadline: November 7, 2022; Open Until Filled

Please apply online at
http://apply.interfolio.com/115163

Position Summary
Reporting to the International Area Studies team leader the Jewish Studies
Librarian will be involved and engaged in the entire life-cycle of research,
teaching and learning processes. They will collaborate with and support
faculty in course-specific ways, including providing point of need instruction
sessions and assignments, research guides and/or tutorials. Focused primarily
on the The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies (TIJS) at Emory University, the
librarian will provide a full range of subject specific library services to
include collection development, consultation, instruction, reference services,
cataloging and assessment for the department and the programs housed within
it. The Jewish Studies Librarian will create and sustain working relationships
with fellow subject librarians, other Emory Library units, departments, and
campus entities and sustain strong relationships with Emory Libraries Access
and Resource Services division (ARS), Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship
(ECDS), and Academic Technology Services. The Jewish Studies Librarian will
also provide reference assistance and research support as needed.

Emory Libraries requires that our employees recognize diversity, equity, and
inclusion as essential core values to achieving our mission to enrich the
quality of life in an inclusive work environment through competency training,
reassurance of personal growth, restorative communication practices, and
embrace our diverse identities of patrons within the Emory community.

October 19, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: Diversifying Slavic: New Approaches to the Field

Deadline: November 1, 2022

Diversifying Slavic: New Approaches to the Field

Harvard University Graduate Conference, March 10-11, 2023

To Be Held In-Person

Co-organizers: Alex Braslavsky and Anna Vichkitova, Harvard University

In recent months, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has challenged scholars in Slavic studies to collectively rethink approaches to the field. Our aim for this conference is to invite fellow graduate students from other universities to join us in engaging these new and developing approaches to the region. We intend to have broad representation of many Slavic literatures and cultures along with from Russian on the panels to make for comprehensive discussion. We are interested in films and works of literature as well as other cultural representations.

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

Grad. Program: Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (The Ohio State University)

Deadline: December 31, 2022

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio welcomes applicants to our MA/Ph.D. program for Autumn semester 2023.

The Department offers graduate students a stimulating intellectual environment and generous financial support. Our graduate course offerings appeal to a broad range of intellectual interests, with three major areas of concentration: Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies; Slavic Linguistics; and Second Language Acquisition (SLA).

We are also admitting students for our terminal MA program, the Russian for the Professions specialization. This program strives to bring students to the advanced level on the ACTFL scale and features curriculum focused on advanced Russian language, developing applied language skills, and application in different professional fields, such as research, translation, business, data analytics, media, and the problems of global human trafficking.

October 19, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: ACLA 2023 “Comparative Slavic”

Deadline: October 31, 2022

Comparative Slavic

Historically, the philological traditions of Slavic Studies have proven somewhat resistant to comparativist inquiry. Yet Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, as well as a long overdue reckoning with the question of race in research and professional practices, have brought into focus the urgent imperative to decolonize and diversify the scope of Slavic Studies. What tools from Comparative Literature might help to fuel this revision?

This seminar aims to bridge the banks of Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies. It invites papers from scholars writing for audiences in both fields and hopes to provide a space for productive conversations about their respective disciplinary expectations, conventions, and trends, while also forging paths for new directions. We welcome papers that explicitly address these questions of disciplinarity, as well as those drawn from exemplary research that straddles the Slavic/Comp Lit divide and that blend a commitment to philological precision with comparative theoretical inquiry. We also especially welcome contributions from graduate students who are expecting to go on the job market in both Comparative Literature and Slavic, as the stream will aim to provide a space to think through strategies for reaching these different audiences.

October 19, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War

Deadline: November 10, 2022

Call for Papers:

International Workshop: A Music So Popular That No Curtain Could Contain: Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War

New Europe College (Bucharest, Romania), December 5, 2022

The purpose of the workshop “Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War” is to investigate the means through which popular music developed in the Eastern Bloc and circulated across borders and the Iron Curtain (on either side). In particular, we are interested in exploring how popular music was influenced by cultural, technological, and informal transfers, by the larger processes of modernization and development of leisure life, as well as by institutional cooperation between various states, either within the Socialist Bloc, or beyond it.

October 11, 2022December 5, 2022

Acad. Job: Specially Appointed Associate Professor (Hokkaido University)

Deadline: October 30, 2022

The Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University invites applications for a full-time position of Specially Appointed Associate Professor (non-tenured, four-year contract) in Post-Soviet politics with a focus on Russia, beginning on April 1, 2023.

The applicant must hold a PhD degree and a near-native level of English and Russian proficiency. After employment, the applicant should acquire basic knowledge of the Japanese language.

October 11, 2022October 11, 2022

Funding Resource for UTexas Students (Office of Distinguished and Postgraduate Scholarships)

The ODPS supports UT students and alumni interested in applying for prestigious national and international scholarships and fellowships. Some of these opportunties allow applicants to apply directly for the fellowship or scholarship. However, other scholarships and fellowships require an applicant to be endorsed (or nominated) by their academic institution such as the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. In these instances, applicants will go through the UT endorsement process.

UT students and alumni should identify scholarships that align with their academic and professional interests. Review the mission, eligibility requirements, and selection criteria of each opportunity. Applicants are strongly encouraged to share their intent and request assistance with their applications from the ODPS staff.

Explore here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/odps/explore/

October 11, 2022December 5, 2022

Job Posting: Language Resident (Pomona College)

Deadline: October 14, 2022; Open Until Filled

The Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations at Pomona College is currently accepting applications for the 2023-2024 academic year Language Resident positions!

Language Residents (LRs) are university graduates from a range of countries who are native speakers of one of the six main languages taught at Pomona: Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Japanese, Russian, or Spanish. Each year, Oldenborg recruits, hires, and trains these early-career professionals to come to Pomona College to mentor and instruct students in the target language. LRs do this through teaching conversation classes, supporting language tables, mentoring students in the language residence hall, organizing cultural events, and much more!

Information about the position and the application process can be found here:

https://www.pomona.edu/administration/oldenborg-center/opportunities/prospective-language-residents

Questions can be sent to oldenborg@pomona.edu.

October 10, 2022December 5, 2022

Prof Dev: AATSEEL’s Certificate Program in Diverse and Inclusive Pedagogies (CDIPS)

Deadline: October 15, 2022

Just a reminder that AATSEEL’s Certificate Program in Diverse and Inclusive Pedagogies (CDIPS) is now accepting applications for our second cohort. We invite applications from all professionals in the field of Slavic studies.

Applications are due October 15, 2022.

The CDIPS program supplies professionals in the field of Slavic languages and literatures with knowledge and training to address issues of diversity, inclusivity, equality, and justice in our teaching practice. We seek to support teachers, foster community, attract a broader range of students to the study of Russian/Slavic languages and literatures, and better support our learners of all cultural, linguistic, and gender identities and sexual orientations. The program includes a series of online sessions and culminates in a final project designing or revamping a course or unit using DEIAJ strategies and principles.

Application can be found at: https://www.aatseel.org/development/certificate/certificate-application

For more information please see our website: https://www.aatseel.org/development/certificate/

For questions or concerns please reach out to Jillian Costello at aatseelcertificate@usc.edu.

October 10, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: “The Imperial Plow: Settler Colonialism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union”

Deadline: November 7, 2022

Organizers: Edyta Bojanowska and Claire Roosien, Yale University

Conference at Yale University, May 1-2, 2023 (New Haven, Connecticut)

The familiar icon of Russian imperial expansion is the violent nineteenth-century conquest of the exotic mountainous region of the Caucasus. The imperial pen – of Pushkin, Tolstoy, and others – has eagerly followed the imperial bayonet to the Caucasus. Yet the imperial plow was no less a tool of conquest than the pen or the bayonet. This conference aims to shift scholarly attention away from the high drama of military conquest to the understudied processes of settler colonization and to their cultural echoes in the Russian and Soviet empires. More than anything else, it is the activities of the Russian and Soviet agricultural settler that ultimately bound various non-Russian peripheral regions to the social and cultural imaginaries of “Russia” and established enduring forms of imperial control. The idea of settler colonization came to be viewed as Russia’s manifest destiny: its mission to settle “empty” spaces, binding them to the Russian core in the process. The Slavic settler became the key Kulturträger of Russia’s civilizing mission, especially in the east and south.