November 2025 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

November 20, 2025

Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Bulgarian Language and Culture (University College London)

Deadline: November 26, 2025

Part time / £43,981-£52,586

Founded in 1915, the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is one of the UK’s largest institutions for research and teaching on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Baltic region and Russia. Our mission is to create in-depth knowledge of the SSEES region in comparative, transnational, and global contexts, and to promote and disseminate an understanding of our region to the wider world; to develop multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multi-method approaches to knowledge creation and to teaching; and to enhance the development of area studies at UCL and among the wider academic community. We offer undergraduate, postgraduate taught and postgraduate research programmes, both in our four core disciplines (Economics and Business; Politics and Sociology; Languages and Culture; and History) and in our interdisciplinary programmes (for example, our BA in History, Politics & Economics).

November 4, 2025November 4, 2025

Wayne Vucinich Fellowship 2026 (Stanford University)

Deadline: November 15, 2025

The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) at Stanford University invites applications for the Wayne Vucinich Fellowship.

This is a three-month residential fellowship to be offered in the period between April-June, 2026. The fellowship is open to scholars in any discipline whose research focuses on historical or contemporary topics in Russia, East Europe, the Caucasus, or Central Asia. Scholars who have received the PhD within the past five years are eligible to apply. (A PhD in hand is required at the time the residency begins.) Preference will be given to scholars who are residents of countries that fall under the direct purview of the Center: Russia, East Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

During the fellowship period, the Vucinich Fellow is expected to pursue independent research in residence and to participate actively in the scholarly activities of the Center. The fellow will hold a lecture, seminar, or workshop on their research. The fellow will have access to Stanford University Libraries and the use of a shared workspace at the Center.

The fellowship award funds international travel, health insurance, and a visa, in addition to a $15,000 stipend for living expenses.

A complete application consists of an online application form, a letter of application (including a research project description), a Curriculum Vitae, a writing sample (book chapter or article length, in English), two letters of recommendation, and a short proposal for a public lecture and/or workshop. Applications will be accepted until November 15, 2025.

October 17, 2025

Acad. Job: Lecturer/Assistant Instructional Professor, Russian Language (University of Florida)

Deadline: November 30, 2025

Lecturer/Assistant Instructional Professor, Russian Language and Culture, University of Florida

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Florida (www.languages.ufl.edu), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites applications for the position of Lecturer/Assistant Instructional Professor in Russian Language and Culture, to begin August 15, 2026. This is a full-time, renewable, nine-month, non-tenure accruing position.

The salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience, and the compensation includes a full benefits package.

October 17, 2025October 17, 2025

CFP: KFLC 2026: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference (University of Kentucky)

Deadline: November 15, 2026

https://meetinghand.com/e/kentucky-foreign-language-conference

The Russian, Eurasian and Slavic Studies section of KFLC is a small but enthusiastic track of this large, dynamic conference. We encourage you to join us to share new research work in progress or a finished project in need of feedback toward publication. This is also a terrific venue for graduate students to get conference presentation experience in a supportive scholarly setting. In addition, we are hosting an undergraduate research session this year; undergrads can submit directly to Russian/Slavic—I recommend this—or choose to present in the broader conference undergrad sessions.

October 16, 2025October 16, 2025

Writing Across Boundaries Program – Call for Applications

Deadline: November 21, 2025

To integrate new research and perspectives from underrepresented regions and groups in English-language publishing outlets in Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, the Writing Across Boundaries Program invites applications for the next cycle of the program. The application is due no later than Friday, November 21, 2025.

Doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and other early career scholars from all disciplines and academic training in the arts and humanities and the social sciences are encouraged to apply. The overall goal of this program is to familiarize authors with different stages of developing a manuscript. These include:

Identifying journals for publication;
Interpreting submission guidelines and requirements;
Working with drafts;
Structuring effective arguments;
Understanding the peer review process;
Conducting revisions and incorporating feedback from reviewers;
Communicating with editors and editorial staff;
Interpreting article acceptance and rejection notices.

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025

Workshop at SLE 2026: Constructions with multiple wh-words across languages

Deadline: November 5, 2025

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of constructions with multiple wh-words across languages, which are understood as constructions structured with two or more wh-elements that can fulfil different functions.

We propose the following questions for discussion:

● What semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic factors underlie the restrictions on wh-variables and their possible pairings in multiple wh-constructions, especially in their distributive readings?

● Under what semantic and pragmatic conditions are such constructions licensed in discourse, and what communicative functions do they perform across languages?

● What syntactic positions can these constructions occupy within the clause, and how do they interact with the valency requirements of the predicate (if present)?

● How do frequency, idiomatization and formulaicity influence the grammatical status of these constructions across different languages?

● What are the historical sources of such constructions (e.g. indirect questions > quasi-relatives > distributives), and what grammaticalization paths can be identified cross-linguistically?

● Can we detect areal or genealogical patterns in the distribution and structure of these constructions, and what do such patterns reveal about contact-induced change versus independent development?

● How do multiple wh-word distributives compare with other distributive strategies (lexical, morphological, or clausal) cross-linguistically?

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025

CFP: Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, & Care under Socialism

Deadline: November 15, 2025

Health, social welfare, and the organization of family and social life have been central concerns for historians of socialist states. This conference invites a fresh perspective, examining how intimacy—as both concept and practice—offers new insights into how socialist institutions fostered, reimagined, or contained bonds between parents and children, patients and practitioners, and citizens and the state itself.

How might foregrounding intimacy reshape our understanding of health, medicine, and welfare in Europe under state socialism? We particularly welcome work that explores the role of expertise and caregiving practices within diverse institutional spaces. We are interested in a breadth of state socialist institutions, spanning hospitals and clinics, nurseries and retirement homes, asylums and sanitoria, maternity wards and childcare centers, among many others. By centering intimacy in institutional settings, this conference seeks to generate new histories of medicine, society, and the everyday that reveal socialism’s distinctive social worlds.

September 30, 2025

Learn Russian in the EU (Latvia)

Deadline: November 25, 2025 (Spring); July 31, 2026 (Fall)

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.

September 26, 2025September 26, 2025

Grad. Program: MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (Georgetown University)

Deadlines: November 1, 2025 (for Spring Admission); January 15, 2026 (for Fall Admission)

The Master’s Degree Program at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) brings together scholars, practitioners and students working on contemporary and historical issues affecting Eurasia and beyond. Through multidisciplinary coursework on the politics, history, language(s) and culture(s) of the region, the CERES MA program educates professionals prepared to engage with global challenges and supports innovative research on current issues facing the region.

September 25, 2025

Study Abroad: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Bard College)

Deadlines: November 5, 2025: March 15, 2026

Bard College is currently accepting applications for the following programs in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan:

1) Spring 2026 Bard-AUCA Study Abroad Program

Program Dates: January 5 – May 23, 2026.
Application Deadline: November 1, 2025.

For more information and to apply visit the website.

2) Russian in Central Asia Summer Program 2026Program Dates: June 5 – August 1, 2026.
Application Deadline: March 15, 2026.

For more information and to apply visit the website.

Both programs are hosted by the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), a Bard College dual-degree partner since 2009.

Program descriptions are included below. If you or your students have any questions, feel free to contact me at torlova@bard.edu.