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Job: Editor-in-Chief, Hungarian Cultural Studies

Deadline: August 31, 2024

Hungarian Cultural Studies, e-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association, is a peer-reviewed, open-access, no-fee scholarly journal, covering all aspects of Hungarian culture across the humanities and social sciences. The journal has developed an excellent international reputation for publishing theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded original research. In addition to full-length articles, the journal regularly publishes book reviews and bibliographies, and it supports emerging scholars from Hungary and neighboring states in helping them publish in English. The Board of AHEA invites applications from scholars interested in taking on the role of Editor-in-Chief.

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Product Support Analyst – Transit Editor bilingual – Polish Czech Nordic languages (Austin, TX)

As a Transit Editor Agent you will play a vital role in ensuring the accuracy and relevance of transit-related data that influences public transportation systems worldwide. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, curate, and research transit-related entities, ultimately supporting key decisions on a wide range of topics. In this position, you will also develop a deep understanding of our client’s policies and requirements to ensure alignment.

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Job: Librarian (Department of Transportation)

Deadline: August 1, 2024

The Librarian:

  • Curates submitted datasets and maintains all workflow documentation.
  • Creates complete data packages for dissemination through the digital repository.
  • Implements metadata standards for all data formats, with a focus on needs for mid- and long-term preservation to keep abreast of developments in the areas of data management, data curation, and library sciences.
  • Works with Data Services, Technical Services, and Digital Services teams to ensure data curation, cataloging, and repository systems support the current and developing requirements of the US DOT Public Access Plan.
  • Develops and delivers training through consultation with the external researchers and organizations funded by the above programs.

The ideal candidate will possess a master’s degree in Library and Information Science or related field and a professional understanding of modern Research Data Management (RDM) and data curation theory, standards, and practices as they relate to a digital Library environment; creates Data Management Plans (DMPs); curates submitted datasets following the CURATE(D) workflow; creates complete data packages for dissemination through the digital repository; and maintains, preserves, and adds value to digital data throughout its lifecycle.

Basic Requirements:

All librarians must meet the requirements for professional education in library science or possess equivalent experience and education as shown for GS-7; however, as a standard practice applicants enter at grade GS-9 on the basis of a master’s degree in library science.

Since many libraries are highly specialized, some librarian positions require a knowledge of a specialized subject or field of endeavor.. Also, since materials in libraries are often in foreign languages, some librarians must have a proficient knowledge of one or more foreign languages. For such positions, applicants must meet requirements that are directly related to the subject matter or language of the specialization. These requirements are in addition to the basic professional library science requirements that apply to all positions. However, these requirements may be included in or supplemental to those specified for all positions. The following specializations are authorized: biological, medical, social or physical sciences, education, fine arts, business and industry, humanities, law, music, engineering, and the Germanic, Slavic, Oriental, Semitic, or Romance languages.

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Intermediate Ukrainian Language Online (University of Kansas)

Course Begins August 26, 2024

For the first time, the University of Kansas is offering intermediate Ukrainian ONLINE in Fall 2024. UKRA 204: Intermediate Ukrainian I is open to any learner in the United States with novice-level proficiency in Ukrainian for college credit (3 credits). This course is synchronous and will meet in Zoom three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 11 am CT/12 pm ET) for 50 minutes. The emphasis will be on speaking and understanding spoken Ukrainian, as well as reading. By the end of UKRA 204, learners can expect to reach at least the ACTFL Intermediate Low level of proficiency in the oral expression, listening comprehension, and reading of Ukrainian.    

The course begins on August 26, 2024. Please let anyone who might be interested in taking intermediate Ukrainian know about this opportunity! They can email Dr. Wallo (owallo@ku.edu) with questions on how to enroll, the cost, or the course itself.   

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Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University)

Deadline: August 23, 2024

The Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC) of Hokkaido University is pleased to announce the 47th round of the SRC’s Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program for 2025-2026.


Foreign specialists in studies of the former Soviet and East European countries, who are interested in undertaking research at the SRC during the academic year of 2025-2026 as well as initiating and continuing international collaborations with our staff, may submit applications for this program.

Applicants should choose their period of employment at the SRC: Within the period from May 1, 2025 to March 19, 2026, applicants will be able to name their preferred period for a minimum of 2 months, up to a maximum of 5 months.
After the selection process, the SRC reserves the right to ask nominated applicants to change the period of stay at the Center. 

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Job: Associate Director, Russian, East European, And Eurasian Center (University of Illinois)

Deadline: August 7, 2024

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has announced a search for a new Associate Director.

This position is the senior full-time staff position at REEEC.  The Associate Director provides academic leadership and staff supervision for the Center, acts as its chief grant and financial officer, directs our interdisciplinary BA major, and teaches one course per year in the REEES curriculum. Together with the Director, the REEEC Associate Director is responsible for the overall operation of the center, including program development, coordination with other units in the Illinois Global Institute, grants management, and alumni relations and advancement.

Founded in 1959, REEEC at Illinois is an active, interdisciplinary hub for our field and is a Federally-designated Title VI Comprehensive National Resource Center. We have faculty affiliates across campus, drawing on Illinois’ historic (and continuing) investments in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) as well as Illinois’ immense educational infrastructure as a public research university. We administer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships funded by the Title VI program, and offer BA and MA REEES programs alongside a dual degree (MA REEES / MS Library and Information Sciences). We sponsor innovative academic programming on campus across the year, and conduct extensive public engagement and outreach work with schools and communities. Together with our colleagues at the Slavic Reference Service, we also run our annual Research Laboratory program, that brings dozens of scholars to campus each year for short-term research visits and training workshops.

https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/11079?c=illinois

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Job: Assistant Director, Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies (UT Austin)

Deadline: Open Until Filled (Posted July 9, 2024)

The position is grant-funded through August 14, 2026, with the possibility of renewal based on funding availability, work performance, etc. Some travel is required.

Purpose

To assist the Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) in implementing a wide range of activities to advance the center’s mission–to promote teaching, research, and outreach related to this critical global area. Serve as senior staff liaison to the College of Liberal Arts for the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

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Beginning Georgian Online Language Course (Harvard Extension School)

Deadline to register: August 29, 2024

 Harvard Extension School will be offering Beginning Georgian (GRGN E-1) virtually in Fall 2024. The course will meet twice weekly for two hours, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6-8pm ET. The last day to register for the course is August 29, 2024.  

This intensive course provides a comprehensive introduction to the modern Georgian language and culture for those who would like to speak Georgian or use the language for reading and research. Designed for students without any previous knowledge of Georgian, the course stresses all four major communicative skills (speaking, listening and viewing comprehension, reading, and writing). Students are introduced to Georgian culture through readings, screenings, and class discussions. This course prepares students to continue in Georgian at the intermediate level, for future study or travel abroad. For this course our focus is concentrated on vocabulary and pronunciation. Students also listen and comprehend natural spoken language and are exposed to as many of the introductory phrases and sentences as possible. With hard work and enthusiasm, this ancient and notoriously difficult language comes to a perfect, orderly, comprehensible, and beautiful system.

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CFP/Conference: 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (University of Hawai’i)

Deadlines: August 31, 2024 (Wkshps + Talk Story Sessions); September 30, 2024 (General Sessions)

The Department of Linguistics and the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are pleased to announce the…

9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation:

Navigating new realities in diaspora communities

March 6-8, 2025

Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA

http://www.icldc-hawaii.org

One notable achievement of the modern language documentation and conservation movement has been the (re)centering of community in language work. Rather than viewing language as an abstract system, documentary practice increasingly begins with the community, is guided by the community, and contributes to ongoing maintenance of language in the community. At the same time the nature of community is changing. Global forces of migration and urbanization have resulted in the displacement of language teachers and learners from their traditional communities, and in many cases these diaspora communities are now larger than the original communities from which they arose. And yet, whether intentionally or not, the practice of language documentation and conservation has largely ignored the diaspora in favor of more traditional undisplaced communities. 

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CFP/Conference: Telling Stories about the Dark Past

Deadline: August 15, 2024

 Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm, 12-13 September, 2024

 Storytelling takes place everywhere: in books, films, songs, magazines, and everyday conversations, as well as in school textbooks, in museums, and in academic research. But some stories are difficult and nearly always incomplete: stories about the past, and especially, about atrocities in the past. This is particularly noticeable in Eastern Europe, where constructions or reconstructions of national historical memory remain controversial, sensitive, and contested. Memories of past events tend to be fundamentally political. Governments establish or close museums of national trauma, promote some interpretations of historical events while rejecting or even legislating against others, erect or dismantle statues of national heroes, and institute new days of national commemoration. This conference will explore different uses of stories of the past, in a number of different contexts (in media productions, educational settings, academia and politics). This two-day conference at Södertörns Högskola in Stockholm seeks to attract established scholars, early career researchers, and PhD students conducting research on the Baltic countries or Central and Eastern Europe (including the Balkans). 

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