Thursday, September 11, 2025

An online course based on the history and culture of Central Asia

Dr. Saule Satayeva, recently retired as Deputy Director of the Central State Archive of Cinema, Photo and Sound Recording Documents of the Republic of Kazakhstan, is now offering an online course in English based on the history and culture of Central Asia, covering both pre-Soviet and Soviet periods through cinema, photo, and audio documents.

He is a Fulbright alumna (2112-2013) from American University in Washington, DC where he conducted research on American travelers to Kazakhstan in the 19th and first half of the 20th century. During his Fulbright year, he was invited to present his research titled "Illuminating the Kazakh Nomadic Culture: American Travelers to Kazakhstan in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century." Satayeva presented this work at Columbia, Texas, Maryland, Harvard, Indiana, and George Washington Universities, as well as in courses at American University. He also presented at the Smithsonian Institution (Museum of Natural History, Recovering Voices Program), the Wilson Center (Kennan Institute), the Library of Congress, and the Mongolian Embassy in Washington, DC during their Annual Mongolian Studies Conference.

He is eager to share his knowledge on Central Asian history and culture through his specialized course. The course will be available remotely as Dr. Satayeva teaches from Kazakhstan. Information on the course as well as the syllabus can be found at the link below:

Syllabus

Contact Dr. Satayeva at his email for questions, s_satayeva@mail.ru

Thursday, September 4, 2025

CFP: Seeking Russian, Soviet, and Eastern European Studies Scholars for Bloomsbury's Trans Studies Book Series

Seeking Russian, Soviet, and Eastern European Studies scholars to write and edit books for Trans Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic. We welcome books on transgender and nonbinary topics from Russian, Soviet, and Eastern European perspectives from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and biological sciences. 

Contemporary and historical works are equally appropriate. Books in this series include monographs and edited volumes that target academic audiences. We value books that explore socially relevant issues and that both clarify and question the premises of fields outside of trans studies.

Bloomsbury Academic is a leading international publisher of books in Russian Studies and Slavic & Eastern European Studies, and its Gender & Sexuality Studies list pioneers scholarship about marginalized gender identities and sexualities, as seen in the press's commitment to LGBTQIA+ topics. 

High priorities for the Trans Studies series include books that provide intersectional perspectives, as well as works that examine transgender and nonbinary topics with reference to particular linguistic, national, and regional groups. We encourage authors from around the world to contribute to the series, incorporating culture-specific insights as feasible.

To propose a book for Trans Studies, please complete this form and submit it to General Editor Douglas Vakoch (dvakoch@meti.org) and Senior Acquisitions Editor Courtney Morales (Courtney.Morales@bloomsbury.com). Please include your CV, a list of five to seven potential reviewers you do not know personally, and a sample chapter. If you do not have a sample chapter for the book, please include a previous writing sample written in the same style that you envision for the book.

On the form, list the highest degree for each author, editor, and chapter author. For edited volumes, all chapters should have at least one author who has already completed their PhD. 

All books in the Trans Studies series—whether they are grounded in the humanities, social sciences, or biological sciences—reflect on the assumptions that guide the book’s specific version of trans scholarship. We especially seek works that provide innovative reformulations of the scope and practice of trans studies, including novel methodologies and theoretical concepts that challenge the status quo. We welcome books from disciplines that are underrepresented in trans studies.

All books follow the most recent guidelines for best practices in using accurate and respectful language when discussing transgender and nonbinary people and topics. Key resources to these best practices include GLAAD’s overviews of Transgender People and Nonbinary People, as well as this Glossary of Terms.

Contributors to this series come from disciplines including but not limited to anthropology, architecture, area studies, art, biology, cinema studies, classics, communication studies, cultural studies, disability studies, ecology, economics, education, environmental studies, ethics, ethnic studies, gender studies, geography, history, law, literary studies, masculinity studies, media studies, medicine, medieval studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, public policy, queer studies, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, science fiction studies, sociology, theology, trans studies, and women’s studies. Proposals grounded in other disciplines are equally welcome.

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Reminder - Russian winter school - Discount for PhD students

We are pleased to announce the 2025 Russian Language Winter School organized by ASPIRANTUM in Yerevan, Armenia, from November 2 to December 26, 2025.

This intensive 4-8-week program (80-160 contact hours) is designed for international students, researchers, and professionals who want to deepen their knowledge of Russian through an immersive classroom experience.

Special discounted rates for PhD students only

$1490 - 4 weeks
$1990 - 5 weeks
$2490 - 6 weeks
$2990 - 7 weeks
$3490 - 8 weeks

For more information and to apply, please visit:
👉 https://aspirantum.com/courses/russian-language-winter-school

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

WGCTV Funding Opportunity for Graduate Students -- October 10th Deadline

In 2025, the Working Group on Cinema and Television (WGCTV) is committed to subsidizing graduate students working in film and media studies who are attending the ASEEES convention for the first time or who have no local institutional resources for travel support. We anticipate that we will be able to fund, on a competitive basis, 3 awards of $300 each.

Eligibility
All applicants must be:
  1. Students working at either master’s or doctoral level in film and media studies within Slavic, East European, or Eurasian Studies departments.
  2. Presenting a paper on a panel at the ASEEES Annual Convention.

*Recipients of the ASEEES Graduate Student Travel Grant cannot receive the WGCTV grant for the same convention.

Deadline
October 10, 2025  (All applicants will be notified of their status by November 1st, 2025)

Applications
Complete the online grant application form https://forms.gle/SC2VrR6uom1DsAh29

If you have questions, please contact Daria Ezerova (President) de347@cam.ac.uk or Olga Kim (Bursar) ok4@williams.edu

CfP: Contemporary Political Myth and Reality in Eurasia, February 12-13, 2026

The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian StudiesClements Center for National Security, and Department of Government are pleased to announce a joint conference on Contemporary Political Myth and Reality in Eurasia, taking place February 12-13, 2026, at UT Austin.

Eurasian states face mounting challenges amid growing polarization, gaps between social needs and political responses, and disinformation blurring myth and reality. Further, Eurasian states face additional pressures from a legacy of authoritarian rule, active conflict and irredentism, and political mobilization of social divisions across the region. Yet Eurasian countries also have unique strengths in navigating these challenges, with strong national identities, robust civic engagement, bursts of democratic progress, and deep cultural traditions.

The conference explores the complicated social and political realities and myths shaping the contemporary Eurasian region, as they are poised to either discourage democratic progress or inspire civil society to action. Academic disciplines have each made progress in understanding the complex dynamics in their area of social, political, legal, or cultural study, yet these lessons are often stove-piped. Meanwhile, states—and students training to work in those states—must grapple with the intersection of challenges across all of these areas. This conference tackles this by bridging disciplines, academic and policy spheres, and policy and cultural studies to critically examine these pressing issues in Eurasia. Panels will be designed to foster discussion among experts from political science, law, linguistics, history, sociology, cultural studies, policymaking, and other fields.

Co-hosts include the Center for European Studies, the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, the Comparative Literature Program, the Department of Communication Studies, the Department of Religious Studies, the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law. This event will thus be deeply interdisciplinary, fostering creative engagement on a diverse range of critical topics from state-building and democratic backsliding to the construction of national heroes and minority-majority identities to technology’s role in the spread of these narratives.

Please submit proposals here by October 15, 2025:

Full panels: https://forms.gle/PKQR9qhSfj21V6Un8 

Individual papers: https://forms.gle/CQ6jXK8JhVS3URCg8 

The working language of the conference will be English. For questions or more information, please contact us at eurasiapolicyforum@gmail.com. We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Texas at Austin!

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for Habsburg: 17 August - 24 August [Announcement]

H-Net Job Guide

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 17 August to 24 August. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-Announce. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.

Jewish History / Studies

Jewish History / Studies

University of Minnesota - Minneapolis - Tenured Associate/Full Professor in History, Deinard Chair in Early Modern/Modern Jewish History
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/68974/university-minnesota-minneapolis-tenured-associatefull-professor-history-deinard-chair

University of Toronto - Associate Professor/Professor - History of the Holocaust
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/68990/university-toronto-associate-professorprofessor-history-holocaust

Contact Information

Call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.

XIX International Dostoevsky Symposium CFP

We are writing with a reminder about the upcoming deadline for proposal submissions for the XIX International Dostoevsky Symposium scheduled for June 2026 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Please note that the Argentinian orgkomitet has extended the deadline to Sept 15 2025

For more information, please visit the info page on dostoevsky.orghttps://dostoevsky.org/symposia/symposium-updates/

Or the XIX IDS website: https://rusaires.wixsite.com/xix-simposio/xix-simposium-eng

All information about how to submit your proposals is available there.