Reminder: SLS 2026 abstracts due next week (April 15th)

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite proposals for presentations at the 21^st Annual Meeting of Slavic Linguistics Society to be held at Seoul National University (Korea), from August 12 to 14, 2026. Papers dealing with any aspect of Slavic linguistics, within any theoretical framework or methodological approach, are welcome. The abstract submission deadline is April 15, 2026.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

John F. Bailyn (Stony Brook University)

Hana Filip (Heinrich Heine Universität)

Motoki Nomachi (Hokkaido University)

TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS

We invite submissions for:

● individual papers for general sessions

● panel proposals for thematic sessions

ABSTRACT GUIDELINES 

Abstracts for individual papers should be limited to 500 words, excluding figures and references.

Panel proposals should include:

1. an abstract for the panel as a whole (maximum 1,000 words)
2. a list of the names, email addresses, and affiliations of all panel participants
3. the titles of the individual talks

Panels will consist of 3–5 talks and will run for 1.5–2.5 hours. Each panel presentation should be 20 minutes, followed by discussion. Please note that all abstracts proposed for panels will undergo peer review. Therefore, each individual abstract must be submitted separately by its author to the conference contact email.

PRESENTATION FORMAT

All talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts must be written in English and should be fully anonymous, with no identifying information (e.g., names, affiliations, or self-references). On-site presentations may be delivered either in English or in a Slavic language.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Submissions are limited to one single-authored and one jointly authored abstract per applicant.

Both individual paper abstracts and panel proposals should be emailed directly to sls21seoul@gmail.com in PDF or DOC format.

An active SLS membership will be required for presenting at the meeting but is not required at the time of initial abstract submission (join/renew here). 

We particularly encourage participation by graduate students. A limited amount of funding support will be available for student participants. Abstracts with student authors will automatically be considered for student travel awards and the annual Townsend Award.

● Deadline for abstract submission: April 15, 2026

● Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2026

● Deadline for revised abstract submission: July 15, 2026

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

SLS-21 will be held as an in-person conference. Authors who may require a letter of support for visa applications or funding purposes are encouraged to contact us at sls21seoul@gmail.com.

CONTACT

For questions regarding abstract submission or other conference-related inquiries, please email sls21seoul@gmail.com. Conference information is available at https://sites.google.com/view/sls21seoul2026/. 

Language Program: Russian Language Summer School in Yerevan, Armenia

Russian Language Summer School - 8 weeks (or 4-7 weeks), from Jul 02, 2023, Yerevan, Armenia

The deadline to apply for summer school is April 5, 2023.

8 students have already confirmed their participation in ASPIRANTUM's Russian language summer school in Yerevan. 4 of them are recipients of the Dostoyevsky scholarship. You can see the profiles of Dostoyevsky scholarship awardees on ASPIRANTUM's social media accounts: 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/aspirantumcom/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/ASPIRANTUM/

TW: https://twitter.com/Aspirantumcom 

 

The 8-week summer school will start on July 2, 2023, and last until August 26, 2023. 

Applicants may also participate in the 4, 5, 6, or 7 weeks program.

For more details and to apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/russian-language-summer-school

The deadline to apply for summer school is April 5, 2023.

During the eight weeks of international Russian language summer school, five trips will be organized to Armenia's most famous cultural heritage sites. On the first day (2 July 2023, Sunday), the school will start with a trip to the Garni pagan temple and Geghard Monastery. During four other weekends, the participants will have guided trips to Amberd fortress, Lake Sevan, Ejmiatsin, Tsaghkadzor, etc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3PmyCWDsvg 

For video testimonials of our previous students, please watch the following videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs0fjgpb7jc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKXYf_4sscg

CFA: Georgetown MA in Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Multiple deadlines: December 1, January 15, April 1

Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service is now accepting applications for the M.A. in Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies in Fall 2023.

The Master's Degree Program at Georgetown'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 of the post-Soviet space, the CERES MA educates professionals prepared to engage with global challenges and supports innovative research on current issues facing Europe and Eurasia.

To learn more about the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, please visit the CERES website at:
https://ceres.georgetown.edu/.

Program Deadlines:
December 1 (no application fee)
January 15 (with consideration for scholarship and fellowship funding)
April 1(with no consideration for funding)

Interested in Learning More?

CERES is hosting three upcoming information sessions over Zoom:

·       Tuesday, December 6 at 5:00pm ET

·       Thursday, December 8 at 12:00pm ET

·       Wednesday, December 14 at 5:00pm ET

If interested in attending an information session, please reach out to Lisa Gordinier, Director of Academic Programs, CERES, for a Zoom link at lag33@georgetown.edu. Individuals interested in the program who are not able to attend an information session are welcome to reach out to Lisa Gordinier for program and application information.

Job: 1-year VAP in Russian Area Studies, Lawrence University

Deadline: April 25. 2022/ASAP

Visiting Assistant Professor - Russian Area Studies

 

The Russian Department at Lawrence University invites applications for a one-year visiting assistant professor position in Russian Area Studies beginning fall semester 2022. Ph.D. required in Slavic Languages and Literatures with experience teaching Russian at the college level, or a Ph.D. in a related field with a certificate in Russian-language teaching. The successful candidate will be expected to teach two courses per term in topics such as Russian language, literature, and cultural history. The successful candidate may also have the opportunity to teach in Lawrence’s First-Year Studies Program. Further information about the Russian Program can be found at ttps://www.lawrence.edu/academics/college/russian

 

Lawrence University is a liberal arts college and conservatory of music of 1500 students situated in northeastern Wisconsin. Lawrence faculty are committed to excellence in both teaching and scholarship. Lawrence University strives to be a community supportive of diverse perspectives and identities. We welcome applications from individuals who will help us create a more inclusive Lawrence by: (1) further diversifying the faculty; and/or (2) demonstrating experience with successful diversity-related initiatives, creative activity or research; and (3) demonstrating interest in developing inclusive pedagogy to address the needs of a diverse student body, particularly as these pedagogies relate to antiracism and decolonizing the curriculum. 

 

Applicants should submit the following at https://lawrence.peopleadmin.com/: (1) a cover letter, (2) a curriculum vitae, including names and contact information for three individuals who can be solicited for letters of recommendation at a later stage in the search process, and (3) a statement on diversity. The diversity statement should describe the candidate’s experience related to addressing issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in an academic setting and ways that they would contribute to these efforts at Lawrence.

 

Review of applications will begin the week of April 25th and continue until the position is filled. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by Zoom.  Candidates are encouraged to read more about Lawrence at https://lawrence.peopleadmin.com as well as www.lawrence.edu/ and Colleges That Change Lives.

 

It is the policy of Lawrence University not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of their race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, being or having been victims of domestic violence or stalking, familial status, or any other categories covered by law. Lawrence University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Candidates from historically underrepresented groups, women, persons with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. 

 

For further information, please contact Peter Thomas (peter.j.thomas@lawrence.edu), the chair of the search committee.

 

CFP: White Ink, Red Flag: One-Day Symposium on Slavic and East European Maternal Studies

 Deadline: April 29, 2022

White Ink, Red Flag: Expressing Maternity in Eastern European Culture
The AHRC-funded Slavic and East European Maternal Studies Research Network
(SEEMS) will host a one-day symposium on July 9th, 2022 in Exeter, UK at the
historic Devon and Exeter Institution, Cathedral Green, Exeter. The symposium
will explore maternal creativity and depictions of motherhood in Slavic and
Eastern European cultures. The organizers (Professor Muireann Maguire,
University of Exeter and Dr Eglė Kačkutė, University of Vilnius) welcome
papers from a range of disciplines, including literature, art, cinema, and
comparative cultural studies.

‘[A] woman is never far from “mother” […] There is always within her at least
a little of that good mother’s milk. She writes in white ink,” wrote Hélène
Cixous in her influential 1975 essay, ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’. The SEEMS
research network aims to encourage and integrate scholarship from the field of
Slavic and Eastern European Studies with the wider discipline of Motherhood
Studies; for this symposium, we invite research on literary and cultural
expressions of motherhood and parenting in the Eastern European sphere, the
‘white ink’ that was hidden for decades behind the ‘red flag’ of socialist
politics and internal censorship.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Maternal fictions: literature by and/or about mothers and maternal
experience
• Parental fictions: wider explorations of parenthood, including adoption and
LGBTQ parenting
• Maternal physicality: menstruation, pregnancy, fertility treatments,
surrogacy,
childbirth and menopause
• Re-imagining maternity in the twenty-first century
• Loss and bereavement: infertility, baby loss, stillbirth, and abortion
• The symbolism of motherhood: breastfeeding and nurture in literature and art
• Motherhood as ideology or resistance: How does motherhood, as a cultural
phenomenon, interact with politics?
• Translation and motherhood: the promotion and reception of texts about
motherhood in different languages

Papers are invited on any of the above topics, within Slavic and Eastern
European and/or comparative cultural contexts. Proposals pitched from a
comparative perspective, contrasting Slavic and Eastern European texts and
authors to maternal fictions and maternal texts from other languages, are
particularly welcome. Please send proposals of up to 300 words to
SEEMSmaternal@exeter.ac.uk by April 29th, 2022. A limited number of travel
bursaries of up to £300 to offset travel and/or accommodation costs are
available for overseas speakers and/or early career researchers; please
include a CV with your proposal if you would like to be considered for
financial assistance.

CFS: All the Russias Graduate Student Essay Competition

Deadline: April 18, 2022

The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and All the Russias are pleased to announce the third annual Graduate Student Essay Competition. Enter for a chance to get published on the blog and win cash prizes.

We invite 750-1200 word submissions from full- or part-time M.A. and Ph.D. students from any accredited academic institution in the United States, on any topic and sub-discipline within Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, broadly defined.

Cultural criticism; public-facing treatments of scholarly work; political analysis; book, film, or event reviews; and more are welcome.

All submissions must be in English and observe the blog’s submission guidelines and full competition rules.

Essays are due no later than Monday, 18 April 2022, at 11:59 PM EST and must be submitted via this Google form.

Seven winners will be selected based on the originality, clarity, and argumentation of their essays, as well as general fit with the blog’s tone and interests as reflected in the submission guidelines linked above. This year, we will select three Grand Prize winners representing the disciplines of history, cultural studies, and the social sciences, each of whom will receive a $500 prize. Four additional Judges’ Choice submissions will receive $200 each. All winners will have their essays published in All the Russias.

Competition results will be announced by Summer 2022.

Please direct any questions to alltherussias@gmail.com.

Event: Expert Panel and Seminar: "Epidemics and Nation-Building in Interwar East Central Europe" 17 April 2021

The expert panel and seminar "Epidemics and Nation-Building in Interwar East Central Europe" takes place on April 17, 2021 at Central European University in Vienna. The event takes place online.

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic prompted a quest for historical parallels that help us contextualize this traumatic event. The voices of historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science are vital in this debate. The event, consisting of an expert panel and a seminar, focuses on the experience of interwar East Central Europe to explore these historical parallels.

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Expert panel (11:00-13:00)

The expert panel brings together scholars working on various contexts and issues connected to biopolitics in East Central Europe. Their presentations will be followed by a discussion, moderated by Professor Jakob Vogel of the Centre Marc Bloch and Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.

The program of the presentations is as follows:

Ana Cergol Paradiž (Ljubljana): Psychiatry and Biopolitics in Slovenia

Călin Cotoi (Bucharest): Cholera and Nation-Building in XIXth Century Romania

Friederike Kind-Kovacs (Dresden): Rescuing the Future of the Nation: Childhood, Hunger and the Spanish Flu in Budapest after the Great War

Martin Kuhar (Zagreb): Social Diseases, Social Therapy: Public Health and National Regeneration in Interwar Yugoslavia

Victoria Shmidt (Graz): Health Films for Interwar “Periphery”: Between Adapting the Global Order and Building National Authenticity

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Seminar (15:00-17:00)

Based on the proposed list of readings, seminar discussion will explore the following topics:

1.       Epidemics and nation-building

After the collapse of the continental empires in the aftermath of the Great War, East Central Europe faced a double challenge of taming epidemics and nation-building. There is an emerging body of literature that discusses the process of post-imperial transitions in East Central Europe and the continuities between the interwar states and the continental empires that preceded them. Through the prism of epidemics control, we will explore whether and how biopolitical issues fit into these narratives. Drawing on the concept of biopolitics, our seminar will thus rethink some aspects of the process of nation-building in the region.

2.       Expertise and its credibility

Sociologists and historians of science have long discussed various forms of expertise, and studied the strategies that helped them gain credibility. Drawing on these debates, we will explore the production and uses of biopolitical knowledge in interwar East Central Europe. Who claimed expertise on biopolitical issues, and on what grounds? What audiences they sought to address? Finally, how did they win – or fail to win – trust in polarized societies?

3.       Epidemics in the margins

Interwar East-Central Europe was a diverse space. Its multiethnic and yet nationalizing states pursued policies that sought to render their populace legible. Our seminar, therefore, will discuss what impact these policies had on the internal peripheries of these states. How did they represent the ethnocultural diversity of these spaces, and various racial, gender and class identities? How were these policies negotiated on the ground? Did they interact with other, local forms of knowledge, or did they marginalize it? How did these policies shape subjectivities in these areas?

4.       Global entanglements

Recently, historians in East-Central Europe turned towards the global, and started exploring imperial and colonial entanglements of their region. Drawing on this fascinating research, we discuss how the concept of circulation of knowledge complicates the narrative about biopolitics in interwar East-Central Europe. What transnational, (post-)imperial, and colonial knowledge about diseases and their control circulated in the region, and how was it appropriated? Who were the key transnational actors that facilitated the move of ideas, practices and people? What role did East Central Europe play in shaping discourses and practices on biopolitics on a global scale?

The event is organized by the research network “Intellectual History in East Central Europe,” a collective of advanced doctoral students at Central European University and partner institutions. The network promotes in the ECE area the research on intellectual history that goes beyond national canons. 

For the research network,
Lucija Balikić
Vojtěch Pojar

Contact Info: 

Lucija Balikić, Vojtěch Pojar
Department of History, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna

Contact Email: intellectualhistoryece@gmail.com

URL: https://intellectualhistoryece.wordpress.com/

CFP: DiSlaw

Deadline: April 28, 2021

 

About the journal: DiSlaw (Didaktik slawischer Sprachen) is a multilingual, subject-specific language journal for Slavic foreign and heritage languages in German-speaking countries. As a theoretically well founded and practice-oriented journal, DiSlaw targets everybody who is concerned with teaching Slavic foreign and heritage languages. Further information is available here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/slawistik/dislaw/index.html.en

Call for Papers (DiSlaw): MOTIVATION

 

Motivation is a phenomenon each and every one of us is confronted with on a daily basis. For more than three decades research has had its focus on motivation in the field of (foreign) language teaching and learning, especially in applied linguistics, social psychology and (foreign) language education. In this context, L2 motivation research has produced a large array of different models and theories regarding different motives for learning (foreign) languages and questions on how to generate and maintain motivation in the learning process (Dörnyei & Ryan 2015; Lamb et al. 2019; Legutke 2017; Riemer & Wild 2016, Ushioda 2013).

 

In spite of the recent profound engagement with the theme of motivation in the field of (foreign) language education, this research area has now become even more relevant: the Covid-19-pandemic has led to new learning settings such as online and distance learning or home schooling. These new settings again raise questions about fostering and maintaining the motivation of language learners and teachers. These questions need to be brought to the centre of public and academic attention.

 

For this reason, the first issue of the newly founded open access journal DiSlaw (Didaktik der Slawischen Sprachen) is dedicated to the topic of motivation with the aim of stimulating discourse on motivation from the perspective of teaching and learning Slavic languages. The first issue of DiSlaw will not only focus on motivational aspects of online learning, but also deal with general questions regarding motivation in the (foreign) language classroom, as well as the motivational design of teaching and learning processes.

 

As a theoretically well-founded and practice-oriented journal, DiSlaw is looking for both academic contributions as well as techniques that bolster motivation for both teachers and students learning (slavic) languages.

 

The following topics may serve as orientation, but do not exclude other aspects on motivation in (foreign) language research:

• Motivation & communication 
• Motivation & (digital) media
• Motivation & emotion
• Motivation & demotivation
• Motivation & language of origin
• Motivating teaching/learning methods (e.g. task-based/scenario-based language education) or environments
• Motivation & feedback / performance assessment
• Motivation & regional aspects, institutional frameworks, needs analysis

 

Please send the title (working title) and an abstract of approximately 250 words to the following address by 28 April 2021 at the latest: redaktion-DiSlaw-Slawistik@uibk.ac.at.

Abstracts must be written in one of the languages listed below.

 

Please indicate in which of these languages you will write your contribution and include a short biographical statement about yourself in the abstract (institutional affiliation, function/area of work, research interests).

 

Each contribution and a second abstract in English must be submitted by 31 July 2021 at the very latest, as the first issue of DiSlaw will be published this year. Further information on the length of the contribution as well as the style sheet will be made available in June 2021 at the following address: http://slawistik.uibk.ac.at/dislaw

 

Possible languages for your contribution: Bosnian, Croatian, English, German, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian

CFP: International workshop "How to teach multiethnic and transnational history: Ukraine"

Deadline: April 5, 2021

10-12 May 2021, Lviv, Ukraine

This online workshop is designed for university-level Ukrainian Studies educators, as a platform to discuss multiethnic and transnational approaches to teaching Ukrainian history in their institutions. Through an exploration of new topics and approaches, we aim to further the development of Ukrainian history as a discipline in universities. Participants are invited to present and discuss courses, teaching programs and manuals, and resources for online learning and teaching

Today, the humanities and social sciences offer a wide range of approaches and see the lands of Ukraine from a historical perspective as a space that unites the diversity of linguistic, religious, cultural, national communities. This space is part of  European and world history. Nevertheless, in courses syllabi and historical research, Ukraine is still viewed from a monoethnic perspective. Such a model leaves no room for other communities, such as Jews, Hungarians, Romanians, Poles, Crimean Tatars, Germans, or Russians, who have lived on Ukrainian land for centuries. High school and university syllabi present these communities only as minorities or avoid such topics. The multiethnic historical approach allows scholars, teachers, and students to study interethnic, interfaith, intercultural, and interlingual relations. While the transnational approach globally contextualizes Ukrainian history. This approach provides an opportunity to study phenomena and processes beyond national dimensions, such as global economy and politics, intellectual and cultural movements, migration.

The workshop is part of the international interdisciplinary initiative „Teaching Ukraine.” The initiative aims to promote courses and curricula about Ukraine and creates an infrastructure for their implementation, and development. Initiative’s workshops intend to create and develop international networks for teaching Ukraine in higher education.

We invite teachers of higher educational institutions, authors, and developers of educational programs and teaching resources to participate in the workshops. This workshop will be conducted in English and Ukrainian without translation. We expect participants to have a communicative level of proficiency in both languages.

To apply, please send an academic resume (up to 2 pages) and description of the course/program/resource related to the topic of work (up to 600 words) to the email address lada28@ucu.edu.ua. Deadline for applications is 5 April 2021. The application can be in Ukrainian or English.

Applications that do not contain the necessary information or are not relevant to the work topic will not be considered. If you fail to receive confirmation of receipt of application, please contact the organizers.

Organizers:
Department of History and the Jewish Studies Program at the Ukrainian Catholic University
Center for Governance and Culture in Europe, University of St. Gallen
Center for Urban History of Central and Eastern Europe

If you have any questions or for and further information, please contact Vladyslava Moskalets (lada28@ucu.edu.ua) or Oleksii Chebotaryov (oleksii.chebotarov@unisg.ch).

CFP: Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism

Deadline: April 16, 2021

This conference focuses on the relationship between temporality and material culture in twentieth-century socialist regimes. We are primarily interested in looking at case studies from the USSR and Europe, but also from other geographical contexts such as Asia, Latin America, and Africa, especially from a comparative perspective.

In the last decades, “time” has increasingly become a research topic in itself: theoretical studies of changing experiences, perceptions, and conceptualizations of past, present, future (and even eternity) have taken off. These studies have spawned a wide-ranging discussion on the modern and postmodern temporalities, on the so-called “régimes d’historicité” (Hartog 2003), spanning several disciplines and national contexts. 

Researchers of socialist societies have been no strangers to this boom. Temporality figures as an important theme in recent scholarship on socialist culture, including architecture, painting, literature, photography, and cinema. One of the common pieces of reference of many of these works is Vladimir Paperny’s concept of “Culture Two”. However, as in Paperny’s study of Soviet architecture, socialist temporality typically figures as only one theme among many, rather than a subject proper. As a result, for instance, scholarship often draws upon clear dichotomies between past and future, without a rigorous critique of these categories themselves.

Accordingly, this conference seeks to foreground the analysis of socialist temporality as the main object of study. All the same, we believe that material culture provides a particularly effective “entry point” into the problem of time. Following the ideas developed by the “spatial turn”, especially in memory and cultural studies, this workshop emphasizes the fact that experiences of time are hardly separable from experiences of space. Thus, tackling the issue of temporality through the lens of material culture, we intend to ground the discussion of often-abstract concepts into their spatial and tangible incarnations.  

We welcome interdisciplinary contributions dealing with the intersection of temporality and architecture, public art, urban planning, design, and other spheres of material culture. 

We are particularly interested in, but not limited to, the following themes and questions: 

• What was specific about the experience and conceptualization of time under socialism? Did it follow (or not) “Western” or global trends in the changing “regimes of historicity” and “temporality”? How does material culture reflect, embody, and represent this specific relationship to time under socialism? 
• How do experiences and conceptualizations of time vary (or not) between socialist regimes in the 20th century? How did the circulation of material culture contribute to the circulation of representations, perceptions, and conceptions of “socialist time”? 
• What was unique about the way temporality under socialism affected material culture? How was this relationship mediated by creators/artists?
• How did socialist material culture inform and participate in users’ experience and perception of time?
• How did the memorialization and heritagization of socialist material production reflect ideas about time?

We seek to foster an interdisciplinary conversation to tackle a central issue in the study of socialism – temporality – from new perspectives. We particularly encourage submissions from advanced graduate students and early career researchers.

This conference will take place on 1–2 July 2021 over Zoom. The working language will be English. Please send a short biographical statement and an abstract of up to 250 words to julie.deschepper@khi.fi.it by 16 April 2021. Decisions on the conference program will be made within two weeks of the deadline.

Organized by

Julie Deschepper, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Antony Kalashnikov, International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, NRU Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Federica Rossi, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut / Università degli Studi di Firenze

Prize/Award: NYU Jordan Center's 2021 Grad Student Essay Competition

 Deadline: April 15, 2021

The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and All the Russias are pleased to announce the second annual Graduate Student Essay Competition. Enter for a chance to get published on the blog and win cash prizes!

We invite 750-1200 word submissions from full- or part-time M.A. and Ph.D. students from any accredited academic institution in the United States, on any topic and sub-discipline within Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, broadly defined.

Cultural criticism; public-facing treatments of scholarly work; political analysis; book, film, or event reviews; and more are welcome.

All submissions must be in English and observe the blog’s submission guidelines and full competition rules.

Essays are due no later than April 15th at 11:59 PM EST and must be submitted via this Google form.

Seven (7) winners will be selected based on their pieces’ originality, clarity, and argumentation, as well as their correspondence to the blog’s general tone and interests as stipulated in the submission guidelines linked above. Winners will receive, respectively, $500 (first prize); $250 (second prize); $100 (third prize); and $50 (runners-up). Winners and runners-up will have their essays published in All the Russias.

Competition results will be announced by Summer 2021.

Please direct any questions to alltherussias@gmail.com.

CFA: M.A. Programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (UPenn and EUSP)

Deadline: March 22, 2021 (Dual M.A. Program) and April 30, 2021 (EUSP M.A. Programs)

UPenn-EUSP Dual M.A. in REES

The University of Pennsylvania and the European University at St. Petersburg have opened admissions for a dual-degree M.A. program in Russian and East European Studies, which will welcome its first cohort of students this coming fall. Students spend one year at Penn, followed by a summer and a year at EUSP, engage in archival or field research leading to a thesis, and undertake intensive language study. In distinction from many area studies programs, in our program each student will pursue a specified academic discipline of concentration represented among our faculty (anthropology, art history, demography, film studies, history, international business studies, international relations, Jewish studies, literary and cultural history, medieval studies, political science, sociology, etc.). At the program’s conclusion, students receive coordinated M.A. degrees from both Penn and EUSP. Graduates of the program will be well prepared to pursue either further study at the Ph.D. level or to go on to careers in government service, think tanks and business in the United States, their home countries or internationally.

Applications for this program are due on March 22. Note as well that fellowships will be available for a number of applicants on a competitive basis, thanks to a generous gift from Polymetal International, Plc. A seed grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York made the launch of this program at Penn possible.

Students can learn more about the Penn-EUSP Dual-Degree M.A. in REES at our websites: https://rees.sas.upenn.edu/graduate/university-pennsylvania-european-university-st-petersburg-dual-ma-program-russian-and-east and https://eupenn.eusp.org/. Any questions that arise can be directed to Kevin M. F. Platt  (kmfplatt@sas.upenn.edu) and counterpart, Dr. Gevorg Avetikyan at EUSP (avetikyan@eu.spb.ru). (Please include both in any correspondence).

IMARES and ENERPO M.A. Programs

EUSP also offers two standalone international MA programs, designed especially for non-Russian students: Russian and Eurasian Studies (IMARES) and Energy Politics in Eurasia (ENERPO). More detailed information is available here: http://int.eusp.org/ This year, these programs have continued in remote online format, as a result of the ongoing health crisis. Yet we hope and anticipate that international travel will become easier and we will return to in-person teaching in the coming academic year, as vaccination progresses and the pandemic eases. Applications are due by April 30 for these programs.

A limited number of full fellowships, with living stipend, will be available for highly qualified American students who wish to study in EUSP’s programs in St. Petersburg next year. In order to apply for a fellowship, in addition to applying to EUSP, students should contact William G. Rosenberg at wgr@umich.edu. Decisions will be made relatively quickly on a rolling basis. In the event the pandemic will make study in St. Petersburg impossible in the fall, it will also be possible to study online with fellowship support, or to defer these fellowships grants.