CREEES Professional Resources Forum – Page 97 – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

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.

October 10, 2022December 5, 2022

Funding: Truman Scholarship

Deadline: October 28, 2022

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship provides $30,000 towards a public service-related graduate degree to students who aspire to work in a public service career. The Truman foundation broadly defines public service to include employment in government, public-interest organizations, nongovernmental research, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Juniors, or seniors, graduating in 2023-24, OR, seniors graduating early (3 years or less) in 2022-23 are eligible to apply.

The campus deadline for the Truman Scholarship is October 28, 2022. For more information, students can visit the ODPS website.

October 6, 2022February 13, 2023

Job Posting: Instructor of Russian (Concordia Language Villages)

Deadline: Open Until Filled

Concordia Language Villages (MN) has an immediate opening for an Instructor of Russian for the series of iso-immersion courses offered during the 2022-23 academic year.

The closest sessions are scheduled for the following periods:

11/06/22 – 11/19/22;11/28/22 – 12/17/22;

03/20/23 – 03/31/23;

03/31/23 – 04/06/23.

A successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the U.S., have native or near-native fluency in Russian, experience teaching adult students at the intermediate-high to advanced levels, and be comfortable working in a team.

Compensation depends on qualification with a minimum pay of $1,400/week for 100% appointment, plus room and board as well as airline travel or reimbursement of mileage expenses to and from the training site in Bemidji, Minnesota.

October 6, 2022February 13, 2023

Acad. Job: Lecturer in Russian, Boston University

Deadline: November 2, 2022

Boston University’s Department of World Languages & Literatures invites applications for a renewable full-time Lecturer in Russian beginning July 1, 2023. The position is a professional career track with possibility of growth. The successful candidate’s responsibilities will include teaching five Russian courses per academic year, ranging from basic language to advanced content-based courses. The candidate will also serve as Coordinator of BU’s Russian Language program: developing curriculum; collaborating closely with faculty in Russian, other languages, and in related fields across campus. Demonstrated ability to train and mentor instructors; to administer a program; and to use digital learning platforms and other instructional technologies are highly desirable. Requirements include an MA (at minimum) in Russian or a related field; native or near-native command of Russian and English; commitment to a proficiency-based communicative curriculum; leadership and administrative ability; familiarity with the North American higher education system; and demonstrated excellence in college-level Russian language teaching.

October 6, 2022February 13, 2023

Acad. Job: Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, Brown University

Deadline: December 1, 2022

The Department of Slavic Studies at Brown University invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, beginning July 2023.
Qualified candidates will have native or near-native fluency in Russian and a strong background in the last four centuries of Russian literature and culture (documented by publication/s). We seek a dynamic teacher and an original scholar who can teach across different periods and genres of Russian literature, including the XVIII century. We expect a successful candidate to be able to teach from an interdisciplinary perspective in dialogue with other branches of the humanities, such as visual studies, art history, or theater and performing arts.

Candidates should provide: a letter of application; a dissertation abstract; a current CV; one writing sample of scholarly work (25pp maximum); three confidential letters of recommendation; and a brief description of research, teaching (including teaching evaluations), and service. This description should demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

October 6, 2022December 5, 2022

Job Posting: Project Officer and Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology

Deadline: October 26, 2022

Please find below details of 2 post-doc positions in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME) and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford on Reproductive Mobilities in Central Asia

I’m seeking to recruit 2 full time post-doctoral researchers and a project officer (0.5FTE) to join a new Wellcome-funded project on reproductive mobilities in Central Asia (‘repromobilities’). The posts are for 33 months in the first instance (36 months for the Project Officer position) and Oxford-based, though I am very happy to consider and advocate for partial remote working where this better suits the right candidate. It is anticipated that the two post-docs will be engaged in 10 months’ ethnographic fieldwork in Central Asia from October 2023.

The announcement and links to the further particulars, including application details, are available here for the post-doc positions, and for the project officer position here.

October 6, 2022December 5, 2022

CFP: International Workshop “Witnessing the Now: Challenges of Emergency Documenting and Archiving in a Comparative Perspective”

Deadline: November 13, 2022

We are now inviting paper proposals for the international workshop “Witnessing the Now: Challenges of Emergency Documenting and Archiving in a Comparative Perspective”, that will take place in Warsaw, 23-25 February, 2023.

https://swiadectwawojny2022.org/en/#news

The escalation of Russian aggression against Ukraine – an attack launched almost all over its territory in February 2022 – has triggered numerous initiatives documenting the atrocities of the Russian aggressors and the experiences of refugees in and out of that country. The project “24.02.2022, 5 am: Testimonies from the War” was initiated by the Center for Urban History in Lviv and, apart from Ukraine, is now being implemented in Poland, Luxembourg and Scotland. Reaching the mid-term point in the process of testimony gathering, we would like to share our experience with colleagues carrying out similar projects, encourage the exchange of knowledge and know-how and initiate discussion about methodological and ethical problems of emergency documenting and archiving.

October 5, 2022February 13, 2023

Job Posting: Deputy Director, German Marshall Fund Digital

Deadline: Open Until Filled

We’re excited to announce that the German Marshall Fund is looking to hire a Deputy Director for the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative (GMF Digital). We welcome interested applicants to apply for the position here, and encourage you all to share this posting with qualified candidates in your networks.

The Deputy Director will support our program by fostering networks and partnerships in the transatlantic tech policy community; managing day-to-day programmatic operations and staff; and taking ownership of workstream for research, publications, strategic convenings and fundraising.

Candidates with a background in tech policy—including substantive knowledge of issues related to platform governance, AI, 5G and cybersecurity—are strongly encouraged to apply. This is a hybrid, full-time position based in our Washington, D.C. office. For those who are able to amplify, we tweeted the position out.

October 5, 2022February 13, 2023

Funding: ASPIRANTUM Dostoyevsky Scholarship for Study Abroad

Deadline: December 15, 2022

10 scholarships are available through ASPIRANTUM’s Dostoyevsky scholarship scheme to those students who meet the eligibility criteria presented below and are interested to learn Russian in Armenia during the ASPIRANTUM’s 4-8 weeks of Russian language summer school: https://aspirantum.com/courses/russian-language-summer-school

The scholarship:

The participation fee for the 4-8 weeks Russian Language summer course is $2500-$4920.

The Dostoyevsky scholarship will cover $1000, and the student, if awarded the scholarship, will have to pay $1000 less for the course.

For more details about the scholarship, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/dostoyevsky-grants-to-learn-russian

Who is eligible?

Only undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA), and postgraduate (Ph.D.) students, as well as researchers in Slavic Studies and related fields, enrolled in universities and other academic institutions from the below-specified countries, are eligible to apply for the Dostoyevsky scholarship.

The ideal candidates will be 19 – 39 years old by the program’s start.

Only the citizens of the following countries are eligible for this scholarship:

Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay.

Deadline to apply:

Please apply for this scholarship by December 15, 2022.

For more details about the scholarship, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/dostoyevsky-grants-to-learn-russian

October 3, 2022February 13, 2023

Funding: P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship (IPS)

Deadline: December 15, 2022

The scholarship is based upon demonstrated need; however, the award is not intended to cover all academic or personal expenses. At the time of application, the applicant is required to indicate additional financial resources adequate to meet her estimated expenses. Examples of additional resources are personal and family funds, tuition waivers, work scholarships, teaching assistantships, study grants and other scholarships.

The maximum amount awarded to a student is $12,500. Lesser amounts may be awarded according to individual needs.

An applicant must be qualified for admission to full-time graduate study and working toward a graduate degree in an accredited college or university in the United States or Canada. A student who is a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or Canada is not eligible. Scholarships are not given for online courses, research, internships or for practical training if not combined with coursework. In order to qualify for her first scholarship, an applicant must have a full year of coursework remaining, be enrolled and in residence for the entire school year. Doctoral students who have completed coursework and are working only on dissertations are not eligible as first-time applicants.