Opportunity: Working Group on Socialist Realism

 

Dear SEELANGers,

We are inviting graduate students researching Socialist Realism and 20th-century state-sponsored cultural production to participate in a new graduate student virtual working group.

While Socialist Realism has long been an overlooked topic, recent scholarship has moved toward more nuanced, interdisciplinary, and comparative approaches. In the spirit of this evolving field, this working group is open to students of all specializations, including, but not limited to literature, visual art, film, material culture, history, and gender studies.

The aim of the group is to create a cross-institutional network and community that provides support for graduate students that study Socialist Realism through initiatives such as:

• Reading groups (primary texts and new theoretical scholarship)
• Dissertation workshops and work-in-progress presentations
• Film screenings and visual culture discussions
• Semi-regular virtual meetings to discuss pedagogy and archival research

If interested in joining the group, please add your information here: SR working group form

We plan to hold an initial organizational meeting online to discuss the goals of the group and brainstorm ideas for the upcoming academic year. 

Sincerely,

Stella Sarefield 

stellas6@illinois.edu

Andrey Ridling

ridling.1@osu.edu 

Kasym Orozbaev

kao172@pitt.edu

Announcement: American Councils 2022 Programming

Due to the Russian invasion in Ukraine, American Councils has decided to cancel its Fall 2022 semester in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The health and safety of our participants is American Councils’ top priority, and at this time, the security situation in Russia leaves us no alternative but to cancel program activity at these sites.  

  

We are still accepting applications for our Fall 2022 Russian Language and Area Studies Program in Almaty, Kazakhstan and Chisinau, Moldova. 

  

Applications can be found here and are open until 30 April 2022. Financial aid is available for both sites.  

 

Please note that while Chisinau, Moldova is not an option to choose from on our website as of now, Chisinau applicants can choose either “Moscow” or “Saint Petersburg” as their desired host city and will automatically become candidates for RLASP Chisinau.  

 

The on-site programs in Kazakhstan and Moldova provide the same level of instruction, host family housing, academic credit, cultural programming, and logistical support as the programs we had planned in Russia. In both locations, American Councils has been running intensive Russian language programs with native Russian-speaking faculty for many years. With extensive support from additional American Councils staff, a full-time Resident Director provide ongoing assistance to participants at both locations.  

 

If applicants are interested in online programming, applications can be submitted here.   

 

We hope you may share the opportunity to continue intensive Russian language study with American Councils in either Almaty or Chisinau. More information can be found at the following link: https://www.studyabroad.americancouncils.org/rlasp 

 

Please do not hesitate to contact Max Shelton with any questions at mshelton@americancouncils.org 

Announcement: 2020 Institute for Curriculum & Campus Internationalization at Indiana University

Deadline: April 21, 2020

Attention, College & University Faculty, Staff, and Administrators

WHY ATTEND ICCI? 

This institute will help you and your institution prepare students, faculty, and staff to be effective scholars, practitioners, and citizens of the 21st century. ICCI provides the highest quality learning environment for you to think more deeply and productively about the internationalization of your campus, department, program, curriculum, and courses.

WHAT WILL YOU DO? 

ICCI includes two distinctive tracks with individualized workshops led by experts in international education (Course and Campus tracks). Whole group highlights include key presentations by national leaders, interactive sessions to identify common ground among disparate campus audiences, an Innovative Internationalization Best Practices discussion panel, a multi-regional cultural evening for networking, and a summative Taking Action session that includes communication strategies for institution-wide internationalization.

PRE-INSTITUTE WORKSHOP: 

If you are new to internationalization, consider joining the optional pre-institute workshop, The Increasingly Comprehensive World of Academic Internationalization: The Essential Context.

Registration now open. Space is limited.

COSTS: 

• Institute- $475 (includes all events, materials, all meals except 1 dinner)
• Pre-institute- $100 (includes materials & meals).

Scholarships: Faculty, staff, and administrators from community colleges and minority-serving institutions can apply for a scholarship to offset the cost of ICCI registration. 

Dates: May 17-20, 2020

Location: Indiana University, Bloomington

Registration Deadline: April 21, 2020

Details/contact information: https://icci.indiana.edu

For Questions: icci@iu.edu

Proud to be partnering with the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the American Council on Education, and supported in part by Department of Education Title VI Funding.

Michigan Graduate Consulting Club: 5th Annual Midwest Case Competition

Deadline to Register: March 10, 2019 at 11:59 pm 

Michigan Graduate Consulting Club (MGCC) presents 5th Annual Midwest Case Competition for all graduate students (Ph.D., non-MBA Master, post-doc, MD, JD, and PharmD, etc) in the Midwest region. You will be working in a team of 2-5 to solve a real business problem to win a $1,000 prize and hone your skills to excel in the consulting world. Please check attachments for more details. 

To register for the case competition, please visit our registration page. REGISTRATION FOR THE CASE COMPETITION IS FREE OF CHARGE.

Important Dates

• Register teams here by Sunday, March 10^th 11:59 pm EST.
• Case problem distributed to teams via email on Wednesday, March 13^th 6:00 pm EST.
• First-round case response is due by Wednesday, March 20^th 11:59 pm EST.
• Finalists notified via email by Monday, March 25^th 6 pm EST.
• Final round presentation edits are due by Wednesday, March 27^th 11:59 pm EST.
• Finalists present to a judging panel of our sponsors in Ann Arbor, MI on Friday, March 29^th.

Competition Rules:

• Team size is limited between 2 to 5 group members; each team must include 1 graduate student (PhDs, MDs, JDs, Post-Doc, or non-MBA master).
• No faculty/advisor support
• Students can be from any discipline, and having a diverse team is encouraged and possibly helpful.
• Deliverables
• First round: 1-3 page executive summary and an additional 12 to 15 pages of a PowerPoint presentation in support of the summary, substantiating any analysis you may do
• Final round: 30-minute PowerPoint presentation to the panel of judges from our sponsors
• For final presentations on March 29^th, all the students are not required to be present, though full team participation is highly encouraged.
• All finalist teams are invited to attend the exclusive networking events on March 29^th.

For any questions regarding the competition, please contact mgccboard2019@umich.edu, cc’ing Feiran Li (feiran@umich.edu).

Announcement: Russian Language Reviewers Needed for MERLOT.org

Deadline: None 

MERLOT.org needs more reviewers with expertise in learning and teaching Russian.  Reviewers are volunteers. They can do as much or as little reviewing as they wish. It’s a great way to learn about resources available for you to use in your own classroom and to contribute to the profession. It’s also a great way for graduate students and beginning assistant professors to get some professional service on your curriculum vitae AND learn about new resources for teaching with technology (a topic, I’m told, that comes up often in job interviews). To learn more about MERLOT.org, please go to the website and explore. If you’re interested in being a reviewer for Russian, please reach out to me directly / off-list at this address:  iknokh@umich.edu

Job: Graduate Student Advisor

Deadline: December 10, 2018


Responsibilities
Student Admissions: Oversee and coordinate student admissions and Rackham Merit Award Fellowship competition for the Masters in International and Regional Studies graduate programs.  Support the eight regional and thematic subplan admissions and fellowship committees. Compose acceptance and rejection letters and track student responses.  Manage applications within Rackham on-line application system.  Process all graduate program scholarship and fellowship payments and Gradcare. 

Student Advising: Counsel prospective students on graduate program and associated subplans, dual-degrees with U-M professional schools, and graduate certificates, fellowships and internships, employment opportunities, and relevant programming events. Provide one-on-one advising with in-person appointments, phone calls and emails. Advise students on requirements of the graduate program, course selection, help students assess course options. Provide accurate information about policies and procedures, maintain accurate records in student electronic files, maintain degree audits, and serve as an informed resource for all II graduate academic services. Maintain online advising calendar. Develop relationships with students, advise students from point of orientation through graduation providing continuity throughout their time at U-M.  Maintain a close, collaborative relationship with the II programs and centers, and Rackham Graduate School. Lead efforts to establish relationships with LSA departments and non LSA units to collaborate on graduate courses and dual-degree programs of study. As a part of the II Academic Services team, collaborate and provide academic support to the II’s undergraduate majors and minors.

Curricular Administration: Prepare Course Approval Request Forms (CARFs) and Program Approval Request Forms (PARFs) for graduate courses and the graduate program; schedule graduate courses and coordinate their publicity.  Establish meet-together courses with other units, approve graduation requirements to be submitted to Rackham Graduate School.  Manage graduate course scheduling/permissions processes within M-Pathways. Assist academic services manager, academic advising coordinator, program directors and other team members in projects such as: development of reports that relate to student services, assessment of student plans of study, course enrollments, course planning, curricular updates and course approvals. Provide ad hoc data request and analysis on enrollment trends and graduation projections.  Regularly attend Rackham Graduate School and College of LSA meetings and trainings for graduate services coordinators.

Program Coordination: Lead orientation sessions for students interested in graduate program.  Lead appropriate outreach efforts; represent the II at campus events to prospective students and University advisors. Lead weekly graduate student study hall and semi-regular graduate workshop events.  Attend graduate social events: career events, professional and academic networking events, graduation/receptions, etc.  Coordinate and report on accounts designated for graduate student scholarships and fellowships.


Required Qualifications

• Associate degree

• At least three years of admissions, recruitment and outreach experience, or equivalent, in Higher education, International Studies, International Relations or similar

• Exemplary work ethic

• Collaborative work style and team-building skill; ability to work with diverse constituencies; ability to lead groups

• Willingness to be innovative; capacity for exercising initiative

• Ability to adapt to change

• Ability to act independently; manage multiple tasks as once, and exercise good judgment

• Demonstrated advising/counseling skills

• Familiarity with college students and the college environment

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including public speaking and presentation skills

• Familiarity with technology and its application in an academic advising setting

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in International Studies, International Relations, or Area Studies or a related field

• Experience with graduate program administration

• Extensive knowledge of College policies, procedures, and requirements

• Strong cross-cultural interpersonal skills

• Experience with any of the University’s student services modules on M-Pathways

CFP: Fourth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, 9-11 June 2019

Deadline: February 20, 2019

You are invited to submit proposals for panels, roundtables and papers for the Fourth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian And East European Studies on 9-11 June 2019, Tartu, Estonia under the theme “Communities in Flux: Rethinking Sovereignty and Identity in an Era of Change”. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Prof Nancy Condee (University of Pittsburgh) and by Prof Gerard Toal (Virginia Tech).

The problem of community – moral and political, cultural and civic, national, local, regional and global – is central to many heated debates of our time. These debates often focus on state sovereignty, including such issues as national independence, control over territories and people, interdependence and regional integration, minorities and immigration. However, we live in an increasingly fragmented world, where political polarization and ‘culture wars’ undermine national cohesion. Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space is a region where such controversies are as salient as anywhere in today’s world. In the recent decades, the region has been affected by global post-industrial transformations, while also becoming an arena of multiple overlapping struggles between tradition and change. Conference participants are invited to reflect on these challenges as they are faced by local communities and entire nations; comparative research focusing on the region and beyond is particularly encouraged. Please find full details of the Call at the conference website.

The Tartu Conference is a venue for academic discussion of the fundamental cultural, social, economic and political trends affecting all aspects of people’s life in Russia and Eastern Europe. Inaugurated in June 2016, this forum brings together scholars from across multiple disciplines, from the region and beyond. The Programme Committee will consider proposals addressing the above and related questions as well as other issues relevant to the development of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia from any disciplinary angle. Interdisciplinary perspectives are particularly welcome.

Each paper proposal must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Panel and roundtable proposals should list all speakers, along with abstracts and, if available, information about the chair and the discussant (alternatively, these can be assigned by the Programme Committee). Please use this link to submit your proposal by 20 February 2019.

The 2019 Tartu Conference is organized by the UT’s Centre for EU–Russia Studies (CEURUS) in cooperation with the Institute of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University and the Global Europe Centre at the University of Kent. Please find more information the conference website www.tartuconference.ut.ee

We look forward to seeing you (again) in Tartu!

Programme Committee

Viacheslav Morozov, University of Tartu

Eiki Berg, University of Tartu

Stefan Hedlund, University of Uppsala

Elena Korosteleva, University of Kent

CFP: April International Academic Conference On Economic and Social Development — National Research University Higher School of Economics

Deadline for Speakers: November 2, 2018
Deadline for Attendees: March 25, 2019

On April 9-12, 2019, in Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) will be holding the 20th April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. The Conference’s Programme Committee is chaired by Professor Evgeny Yasin, HSE’s Academic Supervisor.

The Conference features a diverse agenda concerning social and economic development in Russia. The special focus for round table discussions and the keynote speakers’ presentations will be announced at a later date.

The Conference will bring together senior Russian government officials, including representatives of the Presidential Executive Office, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, high-level experts of the World Bank, the OECD, large national and global companies, and leading academics.

Participants are invited to submit extended abstracts of their papers for presentation at the Conference’s sessions. Proposals must be submitted through HSE’s online system at https://conf.hse.ru/en/ by November 12, 2018. The Programme Committee will then send notifications on the acceptance of proposals by January 25, 2019, after considering the results of reviews carried out by independent experts. The Programme Committee also welcomes proposals from groups of potential participants wishing to present their papers during one session.

Papers included in the programme will have the opportunity of being published in leading Russian journals dedicated to economics, sociology, management, public administration, etc. (subject to additional reviews by the editorial board of a given journal). These journals are either cited in the Scopus and WoS databases or are included in the list published by the Russian Higher Attestation Commission.

To learn more, click here.

CFP: Conference, March 22, 2019; London

Deadline: October 15, 2018 

Call for Conference Papers
Russia: Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy
Friday 22 March 2019
Conference 10.00-18.00; Drinks reception 18.00-20:30
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London

A collaboration between Royal Collection Trust, Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre and The Burlington Magazine, this one-day international academic conference takes its cue from the exhibition, ‘Russia: Royalty and the Romanovs’, to be held at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, from 9 November 2018 to 28 April 2019.

The exhibition explores the relationship between Britain and Russia and their royal families through the stories of art and objects in the Royal Collection, charting a history of alliance, dynastic marriage, and war. Over a long historical timeframe beginning with Peter the Great’s visit to London in 1698, the display of portraits, sculpture, photographs, archival documents and miniature masterpieces by Fabergé will illustrate historic events, state ceremony, and family meetings between the rulers of the two nations.

For further information, visit the website of the Royal Collection at: https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/russia-royalty-the-romanovs/the-queens-gallery-buckingham-palace

The conference ‘Russia: Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy’will explore themes of courtly gift-giving and cultural diplomacy between Russia and the west, a history that sits within the broader framework of the history of British-Russian state and cultural relations. Scholarly research in these areas has flourished over the past few decades, and continues to generate debate and activity as the discipline of history itself has developed to encompass the study of material culture; sensory history and the history of emotions; domestic history; histories of power, ceremony and ritual; and internationalism and cross-cultural exchange. Increasing access to archives and the availability of new methodologies, not least the advent of the ‘digital’ humanities, have provided further opportunities for cutting-edge research. This conference accordingly embraces innovative methodologies from disciplines including history, art history, literature, area studies, and anthropology to explore ways in which Russia’s international relations have been forged, fermented and fractured by the exchange of material objects in the social, cultural and political spheres.

Call for Papers

Papers are invited on the following themes:

· practices of gift-giving between the British and Russian monarchies and governments

· British-Russian cultural exchange at state and diplomatic level

· interactions between cultural diplomacy, art and politics

· cultural diplomacy and nationalism/imperialism

· gift-exchange in the formation of royal collections

· royal portraits as gifts

· the exchange of court artists, craftsmen and other cultural producers

· the role of ambassadors and cultural mediators

· royal photographs, photographs of royalty

· royal patronage in the cross-cultural context

· gift-giving and domestic court life

· family, marriage, and dynastic ties

· material culture and gift-giving

· the material accompaniments of royal travel and state visits

· transcultural ritual and ceremony

· custom, convention and protocol

· societies promoting cultural exchange between governments

· the forging of cultural links between state departments

· British artists and makers and Russian royal patronage (e.g., Godfrey Kneller, Christopher Galloway, George Dawe, Christina Robertson, Charles Cameron)

· Russian artists and makers and British royal patronage (e.g., Carl Fabergé, Savely Sorine)

Paper topics should relate to a British-Russian or British-Soviet context and, to complement the exhibition, may address any period from the late seventeenth to the mid twentieth century.

Papers shall be twenty minutes long and will be organised into panels of two to four papers, with time allocated for questions on all papers at the end of each session.

Participation in the conference for both speakers and delegates will include an opportunity to visit the exhibition and an early evening drinks reception.

In accordance with the event policy for conferences held at The Queen’s Gallery, the conference organisers will not be able to reimburse travel expenses or arrange accommodation for speakers. Some limited funding may become available as a result of grant applications that are in progress; if you wish to be considered for this, please provide an estimate of costs as part of your proposal.

Further information
Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted to Dr Louise Hardiman (Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre) at courtlygifts2019@gmail.com. Please include a paper title, your name, institution (if applicable), brief biography, and full contact information (address, phone number, and email). Any questions about the conference may also be sent to the above email address.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday 15 October 2018.

Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC) is an academic collaboration between the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge and The Courtauld Institute of Art. CCRAC promotes research, collaboration and scholarly debate on all aspects of the visual arts, architecture, design, and exhibitions in Russia and the Soviet Union. For further information see www.ccrac.org.uk.

Organising Committee
Caroline de Guitaut (Royal Collection Trust), Dr Louise Hardiman (CCRAC), Professor Rosalind P. Blakesley (University of Cambridge and CCRAC), Professor John Milner (The Courtauld Institute of Art and CCRAC) and Michael Hall (Editor, The Burlington Magazine).

CFA: The Open Research Laboratory at Illinois

Spots are still available for the Open Research Lab (ORL), August 27 and September 29, 2018! A great time to follow-up on summer research or fit in research early in the academic year - this program is aimed at scholars who wish to visit the University of Illinois in order to work in our Library's famous collections in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. An expansion of Illinois’ famed Summer Research Laboratory, the ORL is open to researchers from all fields at all stages of their work, from initial conception to final revision.

Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

Scholars participating in the Open Research Laboratory may apply for:

* up to 5 days of housing on campus;

* travel grants of up to $500 for their trip to Urbana-Champaign;

* research stipends


They are also welcome to attend all campus programming and public talks at the Center during their stay. We are happy to introduce them to local students and scholars, as well as to make arrangements for them to present their work in progress for discussion.


The ORL is supported by the U.S. State Department Title VIII Program for the Study of Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union, which exists to support policy-relevant research on the region.


For more information and to apply, please see https://reeec.illinois.edu/programming-and-events/open-research-laboratory/

CFP: Making the New Man, International Conference; St. Petersburg, Russia

Deadline: October 20, 2018

Making the New Man: Scientific and Artistic Experiments in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1900–1939

International Conference
St. Petersburg State University
St. Petersburg, Russia
May 16–18, 2019


“Man ought to be renewed”
Maxim Gorky, 1906

In 1901 H. G. Wells published a series of essays titled Anticipations, in which he envisioned profound influences that rapidly developing science and technology were about to exert “upon human life and thought” in the course of the unfolding century. In the follow-up Mankind in the Making, he expanded this vision by focusing specifically on the effects of anticipated scientific, technological, and social advances “upon the evolution of man.” Both Anticipations and its sequel exemplified the recent resurgence of interest in the old idea – dating as far back as Plato’s Republic and Thomas More’s Utopia – of the “new man”. Indeed, in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century scores of writers, scientists, and artists in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the United States, and elsewhere produced their own visions of the “coming man”. US writer Edward Bellamy’s novel Looking Backward (1888), French immunologist and physiologist Charles Richet’s essay Dans cent ans (1891–92), Italian psychiatrist Paolo Mantegazza’s novella L’Anno 3000 (1897), German journalist Arthur Brehmer and artist Ernst Lübbert’s compilation Die Welt in hundert Jahren (1910), and many other cultural productions considered the future development of humanity. They debated its tempos: a slow evolution, stretching over millennia, as in H. G. Wells’s story “The Man of the Year Million” (1893), or a rapid revolution, taking no longer than a single century as in Richet’s essay. 

They thought about its modes as primarily spiritual, anatomical, physiological, moral, intellectual, technological, or social. They discussed its possible units: an individual, a family, a community, a nation, a race, or entire humankind. They speculated on its ultimate directions and results: the divergence, degeneration, and eventual extinction of the human species or human biological perfection and the emergence of a “God-man,” a “communal mind,” an “Übermensch,” and a symbiotic “super-organism.” They contemplated its various agents and agencies: the will of God(s) and the wishes of men, the laws of Nature and the laws of History, communal mores and societal conventions, the state’s bureaucracies and the world’s leading scientists and engineers. And many of them reflected upon a variety of possibilities offered by the contemporary advances in biomedical science and technology to direct human future evolution to a desired end.

The goal of our conference is to explore the fantastic visions of, and the actual experiments in, “making the new man” in one particular setting – the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The revolutionary transformations of 1917 boosted scientific fantasies of engineering human evolution, and the young Soviet republic of the 1920s and 1930s became a stage for astounding experiments in medicine, biology, psychology, pedagogy, literature, art, and cinema, all aimed at exploring the possibilities of making the “new man”. By focusing on the first forty years of the twentieth century, we hope to uncover continuities and discontinuities in elaborating the concept of the “new man” across the customary divide of the Great War and 1917 revolutions, as well as to explore similarities and differences between the concurrent Russian/Soviet and other/Western visions of the “new man”. By combining the perspectives of different disciplines, we want to examine the continuous interaction and cross-fertilization among major cultural domains (natural and social sciences, theater, education, literature, medicine, religion, cinema, and the fine arts) in the construction of the new man. Of primary interest are the mechanics and dynamics of interconnections between the biomedical visions, and actual experiments, of perfecting human beings, on one hand, and the expression and transformation of these visions and experiments in literature, cinema and the arts, on the other.

Topics relevant to the conference include (but are not limited to):
Western visions of the new man as reflected and/or transformed in Russian/Soviet science and literature
The mechanisms of human evolution in Russian/Soviet thought
The construction units of making the new man
The dualities of the new man: biology and sociology, nature and nurture, inborn and learned, body and mind, normal and pathological in various cultural forms and practices (from clinics to novels and from movies to laboratories)
The dreams and realities of proletarian culture and proletarian science
Eugenics, bourgeois and proletarian
Pro-creation of the new man: sex, love, marriage, family, and children
The new biological man on canvas, stage, and screen
“Biomechanics” and “psychotechnics” of the new man

Guidelines for Submission
If you are interested in presenting a paper at this conference, please send a 300-500 word-long abstract and a brief biographical statement to the following address: new_man@spbu.ru
The deadline for proposals is October 20th, 2018. Decisions will be announced on November 1st, 2018.
The working languages of the conference are Russian and English

Job: Assistant Professor, at the University of California, Berkeley

Deadline is October 25, 2018. 

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a full-time faculty position at the Assistant Professor level (tenure track), in the area of Balkan/South Slavic Studies. The expected start date is July 1, 2019. 

The department seeks a specialist in South Slavic Languages/Literatures/Cultures whose primary focus is Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS).

This may include specializations in literature, folklore, linguistics, and/or the cultural history of the region. Candidates will be expected to supervise BCS language instruction and should be able to teach BCS at the advanced level. Expertise in additional Slavic languages is welcomed. 

For more details about the position, including required qualifications and application materials, please visit:
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF01863. 

Questions, contact issahr@berkeley.edu. 

UC Berkeley is an AA/EEO employer.

Announcements: Ask Aleksandra, AWSS Newsletter

Deadline: October 1, 2018

The AWSS newsletter invites all members to send questions
for our advice column: Ask Aleksandra. The deadline for
submissions to the next newsletter is October 1.

With more than two decades of experience in Slavic Studies
and lots of chutzpah, Aleksandra will share with you her
hard-won wisdom. Under a cloak of anonymity, you can
safely ask Aleksandra anything you like, and in doing so
you'll help not just yourself but probably others as well
who no doubt have the same questions. Please send
your questions to awssnewsletter@gmail.com and put
“Ask Aleksandra” in the subject line.

If you did not see our most recent newsletter, it is available
on-line at
https://awsshome.org/resources/women-east-west-newsletter/.

CFA: Short-Term Grants, Kennan Institute, Washington D.C.

Deadline: September 15, 2018

Reminder: Title VIII Short-Term Grants Deadline Approaching

The Kennan Institute is holding the next round of competition for its Title VIII Short-Term Grants. Detailed information about the grant is below, and more information about all opportunities can be found at: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/kennan-institute-fellowships-and-internships.

The Kennan Institute offers Title VIII Short-Term Grants to scholars whose research in the social sciences or humanities focuses on Russia, Ukraine, and the countries of Eurasia, and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C. area. Policy-relevant research is preferred. Academic participants must either possess a doctoral degree or be doctoral candidates who have nearly completed their dissertations. For non-academics, an equivalent degree of professional achievement is expected. Only U.S. citizens are eligible for Title VIII Short-Term Grants.

Please send all questions and application materials to kennan@wilsoncenter.org.

CFA: Senior Editor of /Aspasia/

Deadline: October 1, 2018

/Aspasia,/ an international, peer-reviewed annual of women’s
and gender history of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
(CESEE) published by Berghahn Journals, invites applications for
a new senior editor or team of co-editors. Founded in 2007,
/Aspasia/ was created to help move the European history of
women and gender beyond the Western European perspective.
For over a decade, the journal has been dedicated to furthering
historical research on women and gender in CESEE. It has
emphasized research that examines the ways gender intersects
with other categories of social organization and has advanced
work that explores transnational aspects of women’s and
gender histories within, to, and from CESEE. Throughout its
existence, /Aspasia/ has provided an important venue for
scholars working in CESEE itself to publish their research for
a wide audience.

/Aspasia/’s approach to women’s and gender history has been
purposefully eclectic. The journal’s scope extends from the
former Habsburg Monarchy to the former Soviet Union, from
the Baltics to the Balkans and to all time periods. Articles
published in /Aspasia/ have covered a rich variety of topics
and historical eras, as well as a wide range of methodologies
and approaches to the history of women and gender. Past
themes for issues have included: the history of feminism,
gender history and everyday life, gendering spiritualities and
spiritualisms, women’s autobiographical writing, rethinking
empire, gendering the Cold War, and women and violence.
In addition to formal articles, /Aspasia/ has published forums
with leading scholars working on the CESEE region on topics
such as Communism and feminism, the state of women’s
and gender history in CESEE and the development of
women’s and gender studies as an interdisciplinary field
in CESEE.

We seek a new senior editor or team of co-editors who will
bring new and innovative ideas to the journal and work with
continuing members of the current editorial team to further
/Aspasia/’s work as a leading force in the field of women’s
and gender history in and about CESEE. The new senior
editor will begin work immediately on volume 14, which will
come out in 2020.

Applications to edit /Aspasia/ should include 1) a written
proposal explaining your vision for Aspasia and detailing
your editorial philosophy and editorial experience 2) a
curriculum vitae for the proposed editor and all co-editors.

Completed applications are due by October 1, 2018. They
should be sent via email to Professor Francisca de Haan at
Dehaanf@ceu.edu

CFA: MA Degree Programs, The European University at Saint-Petersburg

Deadlines: October 30, 2018 - for the Spring 2019 semester 

April 30, 2019 - for the Fall 2019 semester

The European University at Saint-Petersburg (EUSP) invites all students interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet area (Eurasia) to join one of our international Master's degree programs in Political Science. You may focus on Russian and Eurasian Studies or on Energy Politics in Eurasia.

EUSP means:

o Private graduate school in Russia

o Top research university for social sciences and humanities

o MA degree in 1 year

o Language of instruction - English

o 3:1 student/faculty ratio

o Individual guidance and personal attention

o 24/7 staff assistance in English

o A new campus in the city center

o Life and study experience in enchanting St. Petersburg

Please select your program:

IMARES: International MA in Russian and Eurasian Studies – Master’s degree program in the politics, economy, society, culture, arts and history of Russia and neighboring Eurasian countries. One-year intensive program. eu.spb.ru/imares

ENERPO: Energy Politics in Eurasia - Master’s degree program in energy politics in Eurasia with specific focus on energy security, energy economics and markets, energy law, and regional energy studies (EU, Middle East, and East Asia) and current events in the energy sector. One-year intensive program. eu.spb.ru/enerpo

Russian language courses from beginner to advanced levels are also available as part of each program’s curriculum and can be taken for credit.

Our students:Last academic year more than 30 students from Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, the UK and the USA enjoyed the international atmosphere of our campus in the heart of St. Petersburg - the cultural capital of Russia.

Calendar:One-year intensive MA programs (IMARES and ENERPO) start twice a year. The spring semester starts at the beginning of February. The fall semester starts at the beginning of September. You may choose whichever start date serves you better.

Application deadlines:Admissions continue on a rolling basis. Due to a somewhat lengthy Russian study visa-issuing process we ask prospective students to send us their completed application forms no later than:

Easy steps to apply:

1. Complete the Online Application Form

2. Send us all the required documents

3. Receive your Letter of acceptance or notification of rejection.

Detailed application procedure and the list of documents is available in each program’s description at our website.

You may apply online or send all the required documents by e-mail to international@eu.spb.ru

The recommendation letters must be e-mailed directly from your referees to the same address.

EUSP is the first private graduate school in Russia. The mission of the University is to facilitate the professional development of highly qualified specialists, and to enable those specialists to fulfill their creative and scholarly potential on the basis of international experience and cooperation. EUSP is committed to the integration of Russian scholarship with scholarship in Europe, America, and Asia.

International Programs Office
+7 812 386 76 48, international@eu.spb.ru
6/1 Gagarinskaya street, St.Petersburg, Russia
eu.spb.ru/internationa

CFA: 2018 Grant Applications, The Malevich Society

Deadline: September 30, 2018

The Malevich Society is pleased to announce its call for 2018 grant applications.

Based in New York, the Malevich Society is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the knowledge about the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich and his work.

In the belief that Malevich was a pioneer of modern art who should be recognized for his key contributions to the history of Modernism, the Society awards grants to encourage research, writing, and other activities related to his history and memory.

The Society welcomes applications from scholars of any nationality and at various stages of their career. Graduate students are welcome to apply after completing at least one year of dissertation research. Proposed projects should increase the understanding of Malevich and his work, or augment historical, biographical, or artistic information about Malevich and/or his artistic legacy. The Society also supports translations and the publication of relevant texts.

Application forms and instructions may be requested by e-mail at info@malevichsociety.org or may be downloaded from the Society's website: www.malevichsociety.org.

Applications and all supporting documents should be submitted via e-mail to applications@malevichsociety.org.

CFA: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2019-2021

Deadline: November 15, 2018

University of Pittsburgh, University Center for International Studies
UCIS Postdoctoral Fellowships in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2019-2021

The University of Pittsburgh is offering two postdoctoral fellowships—one in the arts and humanities; and one in the social sciences and/or professional disciplines—to begin in September 2019 for scholars whose work focuses on Russia, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet regions of Eurasia. These fellowships are designed to offer junior scholars the time, space, and financial support necessary to produce significant scholarship early in their careers while simultaneously building their teaching records.

The UCIS Postdoctoral Fellowships in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies are for two years, renewable for an additional (third) year. Fellows will be expected to pursue their own scholarly work and participate in the academic and intellectual activities of UCIS and REEES, as well as the department or professional school with which they are affiliated.

Each of the UCIS/REEES Fellows will teach one course in the first year, two in the second year, and two in the third year, if the fellowship is extended. The specific courses to be taught will be determined according to fellows’ interests, the needs of their departments, and REEES. At least once during the fellowship period, each Fellow will serve as the instructor for the interdisciplinary REEES capstone course, in which undergraduates undertake a major research project as part of the REEES certificate program requirements. Fellows will additionally support the Center’s annual graduate and undergraduate student conferences and other Center outreach activities.

The Center particularly seeks candidates who are ready to join the curriculum development team for the project Water in Central Asia (https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/neh-courses), funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and are interested in co-teaching an undergraduate course (listed in History or Political Science) as part of this initiative.

The annual stipend will be $47,476 plus benefits. The UCIS/REEES Fellows are eligible to apply for REEES Faculty Small Grants for up to $3,000 annually to support their research.

Eligibility: We invite applications from qualified candidates in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and professional disciplines who have received the Ph.D. or final professional degree from a university other than the University of Pittsburgh no earlier than December 2016. Applicants who do not have the Ph.D. in hand at the time of application must provide a letter from their department chair or advisor stating that the Ph.D. degree will be conferred before the term of the fellowship begins. The fellowship may not begin before the candidate has actually received the Ph.D. or equivalent final degree in a professional discipline. Strong preference will be given to candidates whose application is supported by an agreement from a current University of Pittsburgh faculty member to serve as mentor for the candidate during the period of the fellowship.

Applicants must clearly specify whether their application is for:

· UCIS/REEES Postdoctoral Fellowship: Arts and Humanities OR

· UCIS/REEES Postdoctoral Fellowship: Social Sciences and Professional Disciplines.

All applications must include:

1. Application form

2. Curriculum vitae

3. Statement of current research interests that outlines the goals of the research to be undertaken during the term of the fellowship (1,000 words maximum).

4. One writing sample no longer than 25 pages

5. Copy of the Dissertation Table of Contents

6. Two-page statement of teaching interests and two course proposals (including subject area, brief syllabus and proposed methods) for 15-week courses directed toward advanced undergraduates or graduate students. As part of their two-page statement, applicants should address their interest/preparedness to teach the NEH courses on Water in Central Asia in History or Political Science and the REEES undergraduate capstone course.

7. Names, professional titles, and email addresses of three references

Applications must be submitted by November 15, 2018 via https://ucis.submittable.com/submit/48448/ucis-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-russian-east-european-and-eurasian-studies-for. Only complete applications will be considered. A committee will review all applications and contact a smaller pool of candidates for Skype interviews. Final notifications will take place by March 1, 2019.

Contact:
Zsuzsánna Magdó, Ph.D.
Acting Associate Director
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of Pittsburgh
(412) 648 7423 | zsuzsannamagdo@pitt.edu

CFS: All the Russias, the official blog of NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia

As we gear up for the new academic year, All the Russias, the official blog of NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, is accepting submissions. We welcome short pitches and/or completed drafts of 500-1200 words on any topic relating to Russian, East European, and Eurasian politics and culture. 

Pieces may belong to any number of different genres, including, but not limited to,

• Cultural criticism 
• Political analysis 
• Reviews of recently released or upcoming films or books, fictional or non-; ongoing or upcoming exhibitions, performances, or events 
• Exposés of recent research within Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, broadly defined 
• Essays on disciplinary matters
• “Explainers” offering insight into perplexing contemporary cultural phenomena or current events 

Please send ≤200-word proposals/ pitches (in the body of your email) or 500-1200-word drafts (as .docx’s or Google Drive attachments) to Maya Vinokour at alltherussias@gmail.com, along with a one-line bio (including a hyperlink to your webpage, if applicable). For detailed submission and style guidelines, please see this page. We’re excited to read your submissions!

JOB: Three-Year Assistant Professorship Dept. of Slavic Languages & Lits; University of Virginia

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invites
applicants to fill a three-year, potentially renewable Assistant
Professor position on the Academic General Faculty (tenure-
ineligible) with an anticipated start date of December 25,
2018.

Subject areas of particular need include, but are not limited
to: Slavic folklore, film, cultures, and literatures, and Polish
language. Compensation will take the form of full-time
salary with full-time benefits. Applicants must hold a Ph.D.
at the time of application or be on track to receive a Ph.D.
in the relevant field by December 1, 2018. Applicants must
hold the terminal degree at the time of appointment.

Candidates must have a strong, demonstrated commitment
to teaching, and experience in teaching large-enrollment
courses.

Applications will be considered, beginning September 3,
2018; the position will remain open until filled.

To apply, please complete a Candidate Profile online at:
Jobs@UVa (https://jobs.virginia.edu), and electronically
attach the following:
1. a current CV,
2. a cover letter that includes a detailed statement of
teaching philosophy,
3. the applicant's most recent student evaluations (attach
to Other 1),
4. a writing sample, and
5. three letters of recommendation from references who
can comment in detail on the applicant's teaching and
service.
Search on posting 0623456. Short-list candidates should
expect to send a teaching portfolio or other proof of
teaching excellence.

Questions regarding this position should be directed to:
Edith Clowes, Chair, Search Committee
eec3c@virginia.edu

The University will perform background checks on all
new hires before making a final offer of employment.

The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity/
affirmative action employer. Women, minorities,
veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged
to apply.