CREEES Professional Resources Forum
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University announces an opening for a part-time Lecturer/Visiting Professorship in Armenian Studies, under the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professorship program.
Continue reading “Acad. Job: Lecturer/Visiting Professorship in Armenian Studies, Part-time (Columbia University)”edited by Juliane Fürst, Bradley Gorski, Veronika Pehe, Kathleen Smith
We invite submissions of abstracts for a collective volume to be published by CEU Press under the title “The Long Perestroika from Below.” The volume will be open access and aims for publication in the summer of 2027. It wants to be a comprehensive overview over the historical research on Perestroika ‘from below’, meaning the experience of and activism in perestroika actions, which took place across Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and outside the centres of political power usually associated with the reforms and campaigns of the time. We encourage scholars at all stages of their career to participate in this volume, which aims to turn perestroika research on its head by switching the perspective of investigation from Gorbachev and political elites to society.
Continue reading “CFP: “The Long Perestroika from Below””NLM seeks both new and experienced librarians for several roles and positions. Work varies by position and includes applying terminology and metadata standards, cataloging (skill in either Russian or Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts desired), book and paper conservation, data management and standardization, digitization and digital library services, licensing and managing e-resources, processing archival collections, reference services, and emerging information and AI technologies.
Continue reading “Job: Librarian (National Library of Medicine)”We are pleased to announce the Stream Topics for AATSEEL 2027, which will be held virtually on February 18-21, 2027. These streams promote greater cohesion among conference panels and foster a broader dialogue throughout the conference. The result can be a series of mini-conferences within the framework of our larger conference.
Stream 1: Toward Slavic Sensory Studies: East European Memory and the Senses
Stream 2: Transformational Sexualities in Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Literatures and Cultures
Stream 3: Practices of Multilingualism in Online and Offline Spaces
Stream 4: New Directions in Russian Language and Area Studies: Perspectives from the Summer Russian Language Teachers program in Kazakhstan
Stream 5: Beyond the Horizon III: Rethinking the Canon of Polish Studies
Stream 6: Contested Monuments: Canonical Writers of the Stalin Era between Hagiography and Demythologization.
Stream 7: Career Readiness in Russian and Slavic Studies Programs
Stream 8: AI, Language, and Media in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Contexts
In Fall 2026, the University of Kansas is offering Intermediate Polish ONLINE. This course is open to any learner in the United States with novice-level proficiency in Polish for college credit.
PLSH 204: Intermediate Polish I (3 credits) is a synchronous online course that meets two times a week via Zoom (Monday and Wednesday, 10:00-10:50 am CT). On Friday students work on assignments individually. In this course, we use Agnieszka Dixon’s and Agnieszka Jasinska’s Hurra!!! Po polsku 2 (new edition) as the main textbook, along with many supplementary materials, including authentic ones. The course emphasizes all four skills and developing students’ communicative competence in Polish. By the end of the first semester, motivated learners can expect to reach the ACTFL Intermediate Mid-level of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing.
The course begins on August 24, 2026. Please let anyone who might be interested in taking Intermediate Polish know about this opportunity! They can email Dr. Vassileva-Karagyozova (svk@ku.edu) with questions on how to enroll, the cost, or the courses themselves.
Are you wondering if the Library of Congress has any Russian materials for your research? Are you planning a trip to Washington, DC, to use the Library’s Russian collections? Connect with reference librarians from the European Reading Room directly and avoid red tape such as that depicted in the 1858 Объясненіе къ плану теченія бумагъ, a Russian bureaucratic flow chart from the tsarist era! Please join us on July 15 at 2-3 pm Eastern Time for a virtual orientation to the Russian print and digital collections and how to get started. After the session, you’ll have the opportunity to connect with Russian collection specialists during a Q&A. The Library of Congress is free and open to everyone age 16 and older.
This will be the first in a series of online orientations to the European collections of the Library of Congress offered by the reference staff of the European Reading Room.
Register today: https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/2917762799840/WN_SUSRD4eRTpiHAAP6raj6fQ
| CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, BASEES NEWSLETTER NO.47 (JULY 2026) Submissions are now open for the next issue of the 2026 BASEES Newsletter.This next issue will hopefully feature the launch of a new section, “Spotlight on Teaching”. BASEES members are strongly encouraged to submit any news regarding their teaching approaches, new initiatives, or courses in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences they’re pioneering or proposing.Please submit your news, comments, or letters to the editor to the BASEES Information Officer, Samuel Foster (Samuel.Foster@uea.ac.uk), by Friday, 3 July. |
SYSTEMATIC DISORDER: RUSSIAN CULTURE UNDER NEOLIBERALISM
An international conference to be held on September 25-26, 2026,
at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University in New York
Organizers: Daria Ezerova (Cambridge), Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia),
and the Harriman Institute
Keynote: Masha Salazkina (Concordia)
Special Event: the launch of Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology (Stanford University Press, forthcoming in September 2026) by Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev
For all participants, the Harriman Institute will cover travel expenses and a three-night stay in New York.
In the past few decades, a body of historical and theoretical work has emerged on neoliberalism that might radically alter our understanding of the decline and fall of the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet transition. It allows us to see beyond the narratives of the triumphant liberal world order of the 1990s, to read cultural shifts in relation to the transformation of the global economy from the crisis of the 1970s onward. Although the leadership of the late Soviet Union could not crush worker power, roll back the welfare state, deregulate financial markets, or enforce a new spirit of competitive individualism like their Western counterparts, they arguably already governed under the same straitened circumstances of the global economy after the oil shock. 1991 would provide the opportunity to finally shred the socialist state and turn its former citizens into faster guns than even those in the West. As communities held together by socialized labor, housing, and healthcare were torn apart, nationalism and conservatism, with their promises of the restoration of organic community, gained purchase.
Continue reading “CFP: Systematic Disorder: Russian Culture under Neoliberalism”https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtranslates/apply
Applicants are required to demonstrate that they have excellent command of the target language of their chosen workshop (mother-tongue level or language of habitual use) and superior proficiency in the source language.
The summer school is aimed at practising and aspiring translators. We do not require attendees to have experience of the translation industry or to have published.
There is no application deadline but applications will close for a particular language when that workshop reaches capacity. Places in language workshops are limited to 12 and allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
Continue reading “Oxford Translates Online Summer School”Learn Russian in the European Union (Daugavpils, Latvia) is accepting applications for the following 2026 Russian study abroad programs:
– Spring Semester and Fall Semester Programs
– Summer Russian Language and Area Studies Program, 5 weeks
– Summer Intensive Russian Language Program, 6 weeks
– Two-Week Intensive Russian Language Program (January and August)
We will appreciate your sharing this information with your students and colleagues who may be interested in these opportunities.
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