CFP: “Eastern European Urban Narratives of Conflict,” Studia Rossica Posnaniensia

Deadline: November 15, 2022

The deadline for abstracts for the special volume of "Studia Rossica Posnaniensia": “Eastern European Urban Narratives of Conflict” is November 15, 2022.

Editors of the issue: Seth Graham (University College London), Rachel Morley (University College London), Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak (Adam Mickiewicz University)

1) Scope of the special issue and the relevance of the subject:

The 2022 edition of ‘Millennium Docs Against Gravity’, Poland’s largest documentary film festival, featured a Susan Sontag retrospective that included her work Waiting for Godot…in Sarajevo, made in the Bosnian capital during the siege and codirected with Nicole Stéphane. The film, which is often described as Sontag’s lasting gift to Sarajevans and which gave them hope and the possibility of responding to suppressed emotions, today inevitably brings to mind places such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol, whose suffering inhabitants and ruined architecture have made us doubt the existence of a civilized world. Focusing attention on the mission of art and the role of the artist as an engaged witness of reality, this special issue of “Studia Rossica Posnaniensia” will concentrate on urban experiences of all kinds of conflicts: military, political, interpersonal, ethnic, religious, environmental, etc. We would like to pinpoint the role of Eastern European cities as sites of power and powerlessness, as spaces where pain is/was inflicted, contemplated, embodied, expressed or (re)negotiated, and as intersections of different cultures and traditions (e.g. Catholicism and Orthodoxy). We would also welcome proposals rooted in gender studies, queer studies, post-colonial studies, disability studies, performative studies and animal studies, that may offer perspectives on the city space as a battlefield for one’s dignity, rights and identity. We expect that authors might refer to Sontag’s belief in the artist’s social and ethical duty to explore the link between the aesthetic and the political as well as the relationship between the mind and the body in urban environments.

Treating Russian and Soviet literature, cinema and language as a point of departure for discussion, we anticipate that the special issue will address, among others, the following questions:

What is the language of conflict as expressed in visual images, metaphors and verbal communication? Are there recurrent formulas and images in Eastern European cultures? Are they linked specifically to one culture or are they multicultural?

• How does urban space endorse or prevent conflicts and/or wars?
• How/why do specific cities become the primary sites of conflict?
• How are future urban conflicts imagined, predicted and narrated?
• How do Eastern European cities engage in negotiating conflicts related to sexual identity? What is the role of liminal and transit spaces in this domain? Does urban architecture blur or define sexual conflicts?

Both theoretical works and discussions of artistic representations are welcome. We are particularly interested in proposals that seek connections between various disciplines, such as literary studies, film studies, linguistics, urban studies, memory studies, anthropology, and urban psychology, to name just a few.

2) Possible topics and areas of discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:

• conflicts of marginalized nationalities and ethnicities
• places that are ignored, neglected, degraded or destroyed as a result of (military) conflicts
• literary and cinematic first and second cities
• monster cities – city monsters
• navigating the psycho-fantastical geography of urban conflict
• urban memory spaces
• human vs. non-human in cities
• bodies in pain
• travel writing in the context of social, political and military conflicts
• common challenges of survival in the city
• city diaries, cinematic cities
• sounds & silence in the city under siege
• urban nature-culture
• crime fiction, speculative fiction, nuclear narratives, utopias/dystopias
• healing spaces in the urban context
• city diasporas, biopolitics, surveillance
• environmental justice, ecofiction & ecocatastrophes
• Holocaust, genocide, urban ghettos
• urbicide, the killing of cities, urban destruction, death in the city
• representations of trauma, grief, loss, mourning, works on witnessing conflicts
• urban narratives as metaphors of fear & apocalypse
• Eastern European war testimonies
• fragmented cities – fragmented nations
• decaying empires
• working women in the city, social and political control, violence and discrimination
• liminality of the city, borderlands, peripheral spheres, intersections in the context of city architecture
• childhood conflicts in the city
• cities of revolution

3) Deadlines and editorial timetable:

Submission of abstracts: 11/15/2022

Decision of the editors’ committee regarding abstracts: 12/15/2022

Submission of complete articles: 5/15/2023

Results of reviews: 6/30/2023

Submission of revised articles: 9/15/2023

Publication of the issue: 6/30/2024

Languages of submissions: English, Russian and Polish;

Abstracts (1000-1500 characters, in the language of the article) should be sent by email to the editors of the volume by November 15, 2022: Dr. Seth Graham (s.graham@ucl.ac.uk), Dr. Rachel Morley (rachel.morley@ucl.ac.uk), Dr. Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak (beata.waligorska@amu.edu.pl).

We kindly ask you to submit complete papers (25,000-40,000 characters with spaces including bibliography) through the OJS platform at https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/strp/login.

Editorial guidelines can be found at:

https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/strp/about/submissions

More information about the journal is available on the journal’s website: http://srp.amu.edu.pl/en/about-the-journal/

Job: Program Assistant, Kennan Institute

Deadline: November 14, 2022

The Kennan Institute is glad to announce a new opportunity for a Program Assistant position. The selected candidate will work closely with the Kennan Institute Director in managing the day-to-day operations at the Kennan Institute. This job will remain open until November 14, 2022.

Responsibilities for this position include the following:

·       Developing conferences and seminars—to include designing the agenda, recruiting speakers, and working with other KI staff and partner organizations to ensure the implementation of needed logistical arrangements.

·       Drafting and assisting with all phases of producing publications based on events and projects, to include original writing, editing, and overseeing all aspects of the editing, design, and printing of bulletins, reports, and articles in the associate’s areas of expertise

·       Arranges travel and hotel accommodations for staff members and participants in the Institute's activities.

·       Publish and manage upcoming event information on the wilsoncenter.org website.

·       Updating purchase orders, confirming meetings, and other administrative tasks.

·       Managing the day-to-day operations of the Kennan Institute.

·       Identifying and working closely with partner organizations in areas of expertise, maintaining fluid communications and exchange and identifying opportunities for joint activities.

·       Conducting outreach and engagement with KI’s network of Fellows and Global Fellows, including fellowships sponsored by the Kennan Institute.

·       Working closely with other KI staff on budget oversight and management.

 

For more information and to apply, please view the posting on USA Jobs here: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/686935200

If you have questions, please email kennan@wilsoncenter.org

 

Job: Postdoctoral position, ExpertTurn, research focus on Czechoslovakia

Deadline: November 30, 2022

The Director of the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences announces a vacancy for the position of Postdoctoral researcher for the ExpertTurn team, a research project “Expertise in authoritarian societies. Human sciences in the socialist countries of East-Central Europe” (principal investigator Kateřina Lišková, supported by EXPRO of the Czech Science Foundation), more information on the project on request at subrova@hiu.cas.cz.

Start date: 1 January 2023 or by agreement

Workplace: Prague, Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic

 

Job description: research on human science expertise during state socialism in Czechoslovakia, data analysis, discussing findings within the team, writing papers for peer-reviewed journals, presenting research at international conferences, and disseminating the results to the general public.

 

The minimum job requirements: Ph.D. in social sciences or humanities, research proximity to the topic of the project, knowledge of Czech or Slovak at C1/C2 level, English at C1 level, and relevant publication activity.

 

We offer

-        Part-time job (0.7 FTE, 28 hours per week)

-        Salary 38.000,- CZK

-        Flexibility in working hours, workplace in Prague, and home office 

-      Job offer for one year with an expected extension until June 2025, upon mutual satisfaction with the first year 

-        Working in an international team on exciting new research 

-   Close cooperation with accomplished teams and researchers in Europe and beyond 

-   Active support for professional and personal development (knowledge and experience sharing in the team, support in grant applications, etc.)

-        Five weeks of vacation

 

Necessary documents

-    Professional CV with detailed descriptions of your previous work on research projects

-        Proof of highest level of education

-        A sample of your scholarly text (ideally a published paper)

-        Motivation letter

-        Two letters of recommendation

 

Please send all your application materials electronically to subrova@hiu.cas.cz

The deadline for the submission of applications is 30 November 2022.

CFP: International Workshop: Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War

Deadline: November 10, 2022

International Workshop: A Music So Popular That No Curtain Could Contain: Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War

New Europe College (Bucharest, Romania), December 5, 2022

The purpose of the workshop “Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War” is to investigate the means through which popular music developed in the Eastern Bloc and circulated across  borders and the Iron Curtain (on either side). In particular, we are interested in exploring how popular music was influenced by cultural, technological, and informal transfers, by the larger processes of modernization and development of leisure life, as well as by institutional cooperation between various states, either within the Socialist Bloc, or beyond it.

For further information, please visit the link below:

https://nec.ro/popular-music-and-cultural-transfers/?fbclid=IwAR1p-QkR67eErUa9jt1rplH9Jba-O2VLM7dUucVCbpT4CBEtnMR4u1MY4bg

Those interested in taking part are kindly asked to submit a 300 word paper proposal and a 100 word short bio to the following address: oancea_claudiu@yahoo.co.uk

Deadline for submission: November 10, 2022.

We intend to publish the papers, in extended and revised form, in an edited volume. When submitting your paper proposal, please mention whether you are also interested in contributing to this volume.

The workshop will be held in a hybrid form. We invite presentations to be held online, or on site, at New Europe College, in Bucharest, Romania.

Working language: English.

Organizers: Claudiu Oancea (Project Director, New Europe College); New Europe College.

This workshop is organized within the framework of the project “Rocking under the Hammer and the Sickle: Popular Music in Socialist Romania between Ideology and Entertainment (1948-1989)”, supported by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2021-0244 within PNCDI III.

CFP: "Towards Decolonizing Eastern European and Eurasian Art and Material Culture: From the 1800s to the present"

Deadline: November 1, 2022

The world had changed forever after February 24, 2022, when the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. Before this invasion, it de facto occupied Belarus in 2021 and later used its territory as a launch pad for shelling Ukraine. Currently, all other neighboring countries are expressing their concerns about the future intentions of Russia, which allegedly claims that its borders be reinstated to the former Russian empire or the USSR. The urgency to reassess Russian and Slavic studies is imperative in this outrageous geopolitical situation. The evidence that we should decolonize many subfields, including art and material culture in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, is only growing. 

These political events received immediate attention in the cultural sphere. It triggered the re-examination of identities that were intentionally altered by the Russian imperial and Soviet official narratives. Still, the Russian and Soviet cultural hegemonies created myths concerning the colonized territories, including Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Poland, Finland, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Arguably, this colonial cultural order started in the 18th century when Peter I defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War (1707-1721) and founded a new capital on the Swedish lands and when Catherine II annexed Crimea in 1783. It continued when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned and the Russian empire acquired new western territories and thus changed the political map of Europe. The centrality of the Russian empire was consolidated in the 19th century when imperial Russia settled its dominance in its western provinces and colonized the Caucasus and Central Asia. Revised colonial narratives persisted in the 20th century when the Soviet Union imposed its cultural policies based on the dominance of the “title nation” of Russians over other ethnicities and with the Russian language as lingua franca and Russocentrism as a core cultural discourse. 

 

This volume hopes to re-examine and deconstruct the imperialist history that laid the foundation of Russia’s aggressive geopolitics. We seek contributions to a volume of essays centered on the decolonization of the visual arts and material culture to deconstruct the hierarchies of arts and visual cultures created by the Russian empire and the USSR. In the context of Eastern Europe, post-colonial studies often add the account of the “colonized” without a thorough investigation of hegemony and resistance through time and place. The former provinces of the Russian empire and the republics of the USSR do not fully respond to this approach as Svitlana Biedarieva and Vitaly Chernetsky propose. Therefore there is an urgent need to develop an approach that explains Russia’s colonialist narratives and the cultural resistance expressed by the oppositional voices. We hope to start developing the methodology of  decolonization that answers to Walter Mingolo and Madina Tlostanova’s call to build the “epistemology of exteriority.” We envision this volume as an attempt to find new approaches that inform Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies and reassess the existing framework.

 

The proposed volume asks questions related to the emergence of Russian centrality in the region of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. However, we are more concerned with re-examining of both the hegemony of Russian culture and the inferiority of cultures that previously constituted both the Russian empire and the USSR. How did visual representations and material culture resist or conform the hegemonic narratives? How were these official colonial accounts created and what spheres did they aim at and why? How did these unequal narratives co-exist and relate to one another?   

 

We hope to receive submissions targeting different geographical regions, including Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, the Baltic states, Central Asia, the Caucasus and the multiethnic Russian Federation. The case studies that focus on 19th and 20th-centuries and post-Soviet resistance against colonization are especially welcome. We are particularly interested in the following topics but welcome submissions that deal with other aspects of visual and material culture and decentering of cultural heritage: 

 

• Official art, art education and the tension between dominant and colonized voices; 
• Rethinking the histories of collecting and museums through decolonization and the ideas of the restitution; 
• World Fairs as an opportunity for acquiring voice for the colonized ethnic groups and their cultures;
• Photography and print media: the interrelationship between word and image in caricatures, posters, and book illustrations as messages of colonialism and resistance; 
• Dress and textiles as bearers of ethnic identity within the official colonial and imperialist cultures;
• Gendered narratives of decolonization in visual culture and collecting; 
• Arts and crafts movements in the Russian empire and the Soviet Union and their revival in post-Soviet period;
• Appropriation of ethnic crafts and symbols into Soviet design and mass production; 
• Architecture as a decolonizing tool. 

 

The abstract should clearly state the author’s argument, outline, and briefly describe the research methodology, and identify the aims of the work. Please provide a short proposed bibliography with your abstract.  

 

Formal invitation to contribute to the volume will be emailed by December 31, 2022. The first drafts of the chapters will be expected by May 31, 2023. The final contributions should be 6,000-8,000 words in length. 

 

Please submit an abstract of the proposed paper of up to 500 words and a short CV by November 1, 2022 to Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary) hanna.chuchvaha@ucalgary.ca and Alla Myzelev (SUNY Geneseo) myzelev@geneseo.edu

CFP: “The Imperial Plow: Settler Colonialism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union,” Yale

Deadline: November 7, 2022

Conference at Yale University, May 1-2, 2023 (New Haven, Connecticut)

Organizers: Edyta Bojanowska and Claire Roosien, Yale University

The familiar icon of Russian imperial expansion is the violent nineteenth-century conquest of the exotic mountainous region of the Caucasus. The imperial pen – of Pushkin, Tolstoy, and others – has eagerly followed the imperial bayonet to the Caucasus. Yet the imperial plow was no less a tool of conquest than the pen or the bayonet. This conference aims to shift scholarly attention away from the high drama of military conquest to the understudied processes of settler colonization and to their cultural echoes in the Russian and Soviet empires. More than anything else, it is the activities of the Russian and Soviet agricultural settler that ultimately bound various non-Russian peripheral regions to the social and cultural imaginaries of “Russia” and established enduring forms of imperial control. The idea of settler colonization came to be viewed as Russia’s manifest destiny: its mission to settle “empty” spaces, binding them to the Russian core in the process. The Slavic settler became the key Kulturträger of Russia’s civilizing mission, especially in the east and south.

We propose to examine the cultural and ideological forces that worked to legitimize settler colonialism as a peaceful and superior mode of expansion, and to challenge the notion that it was supposedly neither colonial nor particularly exploitative. In doing so, we hope to engage the emerging field of settler colonial studies, which theorizes settler colonies as distinct colonial formations possessing unique structural features, legitimation strategies, and discursive tropes. As the durable polities of Russia, the United States, or Australia show, these tropes and strategies make the settler colonial societies of continental empires particularly resistant to decolonization. Could the field of Russian and Eurasian studies, somewhat skeptical of postcolonial paradigms, find settler colonial ones to have greater relevance and explanatory power? Can the many supposed idiosyncrasies of Russian colonialism be in fact due to the preponderance of the settler colonial model in the formation of the Russian empire? What can scholars of Eurasia learn from comparative research on settler colonialism elsewhere?

Given the centrality of land as a geographic space and a material resource in settler colonial situations, we plan to engage the eco-critical turn in postcolonial studies. In what ways did settler colonialism destroy not only local cultures but also nature? Disparate forms of land use by nomads and settlers, changes in soil and hydrology caused by intensive agriculture, nuclear and chemical pollution – we ask how these ecological dimensions shaped settler colonies in material ways. We also wish to consider the impact of settler colonialism on indigenous people. What physical, spatial, legal, administrative, cultural, and symbolic means were used to eliminate or displace indigenous people in order to take their land? Along with the mythologizing of the settlers, we wish to explore the pathologizing of the nomads. To what extent are sedentarization campaigns forms of biopolitical violence that paved the way to removals? And how did artists and intellectuals – Russian and Soviet, metropolitan and indigenous – conceive both of those who wielded the imperial plow, and those who stood in its way?

This will be a multidisciplinary international conference. We welcome proposals from a variety of disciplines, including scholars of literature and culture, including visual culture, historians, and anthropologists. The end goal is to facilitate a cross-disciplinary dialogue, solidify this incipient area of inquiry, and to involve emerging young scholars who bring new perspective to this topic. As an outcome of the conference proceedings, we hope to organize a special issue of Slavic Review or an edited volume. Travel to New Haven, CT and accommodation will be covered for all participants.

Paper proposals (300-400 words) and short CVs should be submitted by November 7 to the following portal: https://forms.gle/UhDZzJsgK5fCkNuj6

Please direct any questions about the conference to Claire Roosien (claire.roosien@yale.edu).

Study Abroad: Critical Language Scholarship

Deadline: November 15, 2022

We are delighted to announce that the application for the U. S. Department of State’s 2023 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is now open! We welcome your students to apply now to learn a critical language on a funded virtual or overseas summer program.  The application is available at https://clscholarship.org/apply. The deadline for applications is 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, November 15, 2022.

The CLS Program includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains. Depending on language and level, U.S. students can either apply for the overseas CLS Program or the virtual program -- CLS Spark.  The CLS Program offers in-person cohort-based programs at partner institutions abroad that provide instruction at various levels for U.S. graduate and undergraduate students in 14 critical languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. CLS Spark provides virtual instruction to U.S. undergraduate students at the complete beginning level of Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, specifically targeting students who do not have access to studying these languages at their home campus.  More information on eligibility is available at: https://clscholarship.org/applicants/eligibility.  

 

The CLS Program will host frequent webinars, Q&A sessions, and alumni panels for students and advisors throughout the fall. A full calendar with these events and corresponding registration links is available at: https://clscholarship.org/events.

 

The CLS Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, with funding provided by the U.S. Government and supported in its implementation by American Councils for International Education. It is part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity. The CLS Program plays an important role in preparing students for the 21st century's globalized workforce and increasing national competitiveness.

 

If you have any questions, please contact the CLS Program team at: cls@americancouncils.org.

CFP: International Workshop, 23-25 February, Warsaw

Deadline: November 13, 2022

We are now inviting paper proposals for the international workshop "Witnessing the Now: Challenges of Emergency Documenting and Archiving in a Comparative Perspective", that will take place in Warsaw, 23-25 February, 2023.

https://swiadectwawojny2022.org/en/#news

The escalation of Russian aggression against Ukraine - an attack launched almost all over its territory in February 2022 - has triggered numerous initiatives documenting the atrocities of the Russian aggressors and the experiences of refugees in and out of that country. The project “24.02.2022, 5 am: Testimonies from the War” was initiated by the Center for Urban History in Lviv and, apart from Ukraine, is now being implemented in Poland, Luxembourg and Scotland. Reaching the mid-term point in the process of testimony gathering, we would like to share our experience with colleagues carrying out similar projects, encourage the exchange of knowledge and know-how and initiate discussion about methodological and ethical problems of emergency documenting and archiving.

The war and refugee crisis in Central and Eastern Europe brings us closer to similar situations in different regions of the world, which are also being (or have been) documented and researched. Therefore, while the Russian invasion of Ukraine will be our primary focus, we want to approach the topic from a comparative perspective. This might include (but is not limited to) protests in Belarus in 2020, the Russo-Georgian war of 2008, wars and humanitarian crises in the Middle East and North Africa, or doing research in temporary accommodation for refugees.

Participants are encouraged to address one or more of the following topics in their proposals:

- When is the right time to start documentation? Who should decide on the project timing?
- Which methodology is best for emergency documenting and archiving? What are the consequences of choosing particular methods?
- What should the ethical standards of interviewing and archiving look like? Where to look for inspiration? Who can and should control the standards?
- What are the limits of the researcher’s position? Can a researcher or documentalist be also a community activist or person involved in humanitarian aid?
- What is the role of the interviewee/witness in the process of documenting? How should the relation between the researcher and the witness look like? What are the possible problems?
- What is the agency of local initiatives and the role of international actors? How do the need for fundraising and the current political context influence the project’s timing and dynamics?
- How and when (or whether at all) to make the archived material open to the wider public? What is the researchers’ responsibility towards collected data?
- What are the possibilities of analytical work with collected material? How to conceptualize the interviewees’ experiences (“trauma” and beyond)? What are the necessities and constraints of using the concept of trauma in emergency research?

The workshop will be held in English. We invite both academic researchers and non-academic professionals involved in documentation initiatives to submit their applications. A paper abstract (up to 300 words) and a short bio should be sent by 13 November, 2022 to: swiadectwa.wojny@gmail.com.

Successful applicants will be notified by the end of November 2022. There is no conference fee. We will also offer travel grants to participants from Ukraine and Belarus. Accommodation for other participants might be offered depending on the funding obtained.

We are pleased to announce that the confirmed keynote speaker at the workshop will be Elisabeth Dunn, a distinguished scholar from Indiana University and anthropologist working on post-socialist Eastern Europe (author of the books “Privatizing Poland” and “No Path Home”).
 
Workshop’s organizers:
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Mieroszewski Centre
Polish Oral History Association

 
Organizing committee:
Anna Wylegała, Institute of the Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Marcin Jarząbek, Jagiellonian University, Polish Oral History Association
Róża Kochanowska, Institute of the Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek, Pedagogical University in Cracow
Małgorzata Łukianow, Center for Research on Social Memory, University of Warsaw

Job: Teaching Assistant Professor of Russian Language, Literature, and Culture, University of Pittsburgh

Deadline: November 15, 2022

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a non-tenure-stream faculty position at the rank of Teaching Assistant Professor to begin in August 2023, pending budgetary approval. Duties include (i) teaching a broad range of specialized as well as general education courses on the Russian language (all levels), literature, and culture, sometimes in a comparative context, (ii) undergraduate mentoring, (iii) active participation in outreach and cultural as well as intellectual programming, and (iv) additional service duties in the Department. The teaching load is six three-credit courses per year.

A Ph.D. in Slavic or a related field is required at the time of appointment. Native or near-native (or ACTFL superior-level) proficiency in English and Russian is required, and expertise in a second Slavic language and literature is desirable. Experience teaching Russian language, literature, and culture courses at a North American institution of higher education is strongly preferred.

Candidates should submit a letter of application, CV, a teaching portfolio which includes such documents as a teaching statement, representative student evaluations, samples of learning activities and assessments, and syllabi, and the names and contact information for three persons able to provide confidential professional letters of recommendation (we do not need the letters themselves at this time, but we do need the names of the recommenders). Please also provide a separate description of how your research, teaching, and service demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion. Questions may be directed to Sara Abbott, Faculty Actions Coordinator at sea127@pitt.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately. Applications are due by 15 November 2022.

The Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences is committed to building and fostering a culturally diverse environment.  Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of individuals and constituencies in support of a diverse community are required.

Apply at  https://cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/pitt_faculty_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=22007713&tz=GMT-04%3A00&tzname=America%2FNew_York

CFA: Post-Doc for ethnographic research with Ukrainian Pentecostals in Poland

Deadline: November 15, 2022

Missionaries, Migrants and Hosts. Pentecostalism, the 'Other', and Activism in Contemporary Poland

A Post-Doc for ethnographic research with Ukrainian Pentecostals in Poland. The post-doc will be contracted as a full-time assistant professor at the Institute for the Study of Religion, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, for 30 months. Advanced knowledge of Ukrainian and Russian, and excellent command of English is required. More details here: https://sway.office.com/4EO3FMJ2ivnfqlsn?ref=Link

Application submission deadline: Nov 15, 2022
Candidate selection by Dec 19, 2022
The start of employment is scheduled between 1 January 2023 and 31 March 2023.

Contact: Dr Natalia Zawiejska: natalia.zawiejska@uj.edu.pl.

Job: Indigenous Studies, The Ohio State University

 Deadline: November 14, 2022

Please see below an exciting job opportunity. We invite all interested colleagues to apply through the Academic Jobs Online website:

https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22616

 

Description:

The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (DSEELC) at The Ohio State University invites applications for a position at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor. We seek an innovative scholar and excellent teacher whose research program centers on Indigenous Siberian Studies. We invite scholars whose research interests explore questions about indigenous people’s knowledges and cultural practices as they intersect with one or more of the following: race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, im/mobility, health, food, and environment, in imperial/post-imperial, communist/post-communist, or comparative contexts. While we will give preference to candidates with a research profile in Indigenous Siberian Studies, we will also consider applicants whose work examines this set of questions around the experiences of non-Slavic communities in other parts of the Russian Federation or who look at indigenous communities in a comparative perspective, as well as scholars who investigate “Siberia” as a constructed and contested colonial location. Ideally, candidates will demonstrate a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; a record of community engagement is desirable. The candidate will be able to offer introductory courses in Ohio State’s newly re-designed General Education program, as well as upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in the department, and will contribute to DSEELC’s strengths in cultural studies.

 

This hire in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures is part of a cluster hiring collaboration with the Department of Comparative Studies, the Department of English, the Department of Linguistics, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies which will each hire an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies. The Ohio State University occupies the ancestral and contemporary territories of the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Seneca, Wyandotte, Ojibwe and Cherokee peoples. Ohio State was the location of the first meeting of the Society of American Indians (SAI) in 1911, and today the university has an American Indian Studies program in the College of Arts and Sciences which offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate Minor. The Office of Student Life supports Native American/Indigenous Initiatives through its Multicultural Center. The Ohio State University campus located in Newark, Ohio, supports the Newark Earthworks Center, an interdisciplinary academic center that develops projects and research about indigenous people, cultures, and tribes that produced monumental earthen architecture in the region. DSEELC looks forward to building cross-disciplinary and cross-campus collaborations by expanding the scholarly dialogue with knowledges of Indigenous Studies in global context.

 

Qualifications:

 

Required: Candidates must have Ph.D. in hand at the time of appointment (August 15, 2023), and possess native or near-native fluency in Russian and English. ABDs welcome to apply.

 

Preferred: Candidates with training in Slavic Studies, Comparative Studies, and/or Anthropology are preferred as well as those with competency in other language(s), particularly indigenous languages.

 

Appointment is contingent on the university’s verification of credentials and other information required by law and/or university policies, including but not limited to a criminal background check.

 

About Columbus:

 

The Ohio State University campus is located in Columbus, the capital city of Ohio. Columbus is the Midwest’s fastest-growing city and the nation’s 14th largest city. Columbus offers a diverse array of welcoming neighborhoods and a vibrant arts and culture scene. Additional information about all that the Columbus area has to offer is available at https://visit.osu.edu/experience.

 

Application Instructions:

 

Apply to Academic Jobs Online. A complete application consists of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research, teaching and diversity statements, and three letters of reference. The diversity statement should articulate your demonstrated commitments and capacities to contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion through research, teaching, mentoring, and/or outreach and engagement. Review of applications will begin on November 14, 2022 and will continue until the position is filled. Inquiries may be directed first to Professor Yana Hashamova (hashamova.1@osu.edu).

 

Application Materials Required:

Submit the following items online at this website to complete your application:

Cover letter

Curriculum Vitae

Research statement

Teaching statement

Diversity Statement

Three reference letters (to be submitted online by the reference writers at this site help popup)

And anything else requested in the position description.

 

Further Info:

https://slavic.osu.edu/

Yana Hashamova (hashamova.1@osu.edu)

Job: Senior Lecturer of Russian, Columbia University

 

Deadline: November 18, 2021/Rolling

The Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University invites applications for the position of Senior Lecturer in Russian Language, to begin on July 1, 2022. The Senior Lecturer would become Director of the Russian Language Program on July 1, 2023.  This is a full-time appointment with multi-year renewal contingent on successful review. 

Applicants should have extensive experience teaching all levels of Russian at the university-level to native speakers of English, documented exceptional teaching achievement, evidence of professional achievement and standing in the field of Russian language pedagogy.  Applicants should show evidence of their ability to train and organize language lecturers and graduate student instructors and to administer a program.  Academic training in language pedagogy, language acquisition, and/or applied linguistics is preferred. Demonstrated knowledge of web-based and other computer-oriented applications for the production of learning materials is highly desirable.

Qualifications:                   

Required:  M.A. and teaching experience.  Ph.D. in Second-Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, or other relevant field is highly preferred.

Application Instructions:

All applications must be made through Columbia University’s Academic Search and Recruiting (ASR) system. Please apply using this link apply.interfolio.com/95975. Please upload the following required materials:

Cover letter
Curriculum vitae
Teaching statement
Sample teaching materials and syllabi
Course evaluations
List of courses taught
Names and contact information of three references. (Recommenders should submit confidential letters of recommendations through Interfolio). 

A link to a teaching video is optional. Please provide a separate document with the link as an optional document.

Review of applications will begin on November 18, 2021 and will continue until the position is filled.  Preliminary interviews will take place on Zoom.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

CFP: Russian Conference on NEP, Dobroljubov State Linguistic University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Deadline: November 30, 2021

Dobroljubov State Linguistic University in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia  issued a call for papers for an international interdisciplinary scholarly conference, Dec. 21, 2021, to be conducted in Russian and English, online and in person.  Deadline for submissions: Nov. 30, 2021. The topic is: 

The Effect of NEP on World History and Its Legacy in Post Soviet Russia. 

For further details, see the university website: https://lunn.ru/events/8789

The contact person for the conference is Prof. Marta Valeri, martavaleriv@gmail.com

CFA: (PhD student position) The Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy

Deadline: November 30, 2021

The Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies is offering a Ph.D. student position in the project “Digital Edition of Sources on Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy (1500-1918).”

The position is for a duration of 36 months (30h. per week), from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024.

The position is limited to the current duration of the project (until December 31, 2024). If the project is transferred to the long-term program of the ÖAW, an extension for another two years is possible. 

For further details, please refer to the job announcement on the ÖAW's website - which you may access here.

Questions and inquiries may be sent to the coordinator of the project, Dr. Arno Strohmeyer, at the following address: Arno.Strohmeyer@oeaw.ac.at

CFA: AATSEEL Certificate Program in Diverse and Inclusive Pedagogies

Deadline: November 15, 2021

AATSEEL has received a generous grant to fund a non-degree certificate program in inclusive pedagogy in Slavic languages and literatures. The program will train two cohorts of thirty professionals in the field at different levels, pre-college teachers, graduate students, and faculty members. Its goals are to foster community, attract a broader range of students to the study of Russian, and better support students of diverse backgrounds.

The program will involve remote participation in workshop sessions before and after the February 17-20 AATSEEL conference in Philadelphia, and participation in workshops and community-building events at the conference. The grant subsequently pays for participants’ registration, air travel (max $400), lodging at the conference hotel, and a per diem for meals during the conference, as well as any books and materials required for training events. AATSEEL will grant the participants complimentary membership, if they are not already current members of the organization.

We anticipate that our cohort for the first year of the program will include 10 K-12 teachers, 10 graduate students, and 10 post-secondary faculty (any career stage, institution type, or employment status).

To apply, please fill out the online application, including a 250-word explanation of how you anticipate that students would benefit from what you would learn during this program. The deadline is November 15 at midnight Pacific time. Applicants will be informed about the status of their candidacy by November 30. The application can be found here: https://www.aatseel.org/development/certificate/

If you have any questions, please contact AATSEEL Executive Director Elizabeth Durst (aatseel@usc.edu), AATSEEL Conference Manager Rachel Stauffer (aatseelconference@usc.edu), or CDIPS Project Manager Jillian Burgie Costello (aatseelcertificate@usc.edu).

We recommend that prospective applicants consult the schedule on the website to confirm their future availability for the fullest participation possible in the founding cohort. For information about the conference in Philadelphia, please visit the AATSEEL Conference pages on the AATSEEL website: https://www.aatseel.org/program

*Note that this Certificate Program is separate from the AATSEEL K-12 Teacher Excellence Program. Prospective candidates may apply to both.

Job: Assistant Professor of Russian Culture, University of Cambridge

Deadline: November 11, 2021

The Slavonic Studies Section in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics in the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor (University Lecturer) in Russian culture from September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. 

The successful candidate will hold, or be about to complete, a PhD in Slavonic Studies in a relevant area, and will have a record of, or clear potential for, outstanding research in the broad area of recent and contemporary Russian culture (with 'recent and contemporary' understood to mean culture since approximately 1985, and 'culture' including but not limited to all forms of literary, cinematic, artistic, dramatic, and digital production).

Closing Date: 11 November 2021

For further information see here https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/31531/

Job: Senior Lecturer of Russian, Columbia University

Deadline: November 17, 2021

The Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University invites applications for the position of Senior Lecturer in Russian Language, to begin on July 1, 2022. The Senior Lecturer would become Director of the Russian Language Program on July 1, 2023.  This is a full-time appointment with multi-year renewal contingent on successful review. 

Applicants should have extensive experience teaching all levels of Russian at the university-level to native speakers of English, documented exceptional teaching achievement, evidence of professional achievement and standing in the field of Russian language pedagogy.  Applicants should show evidence of their ability to train and organize language lecturers and graduate student instructors and to administer a program.  Academic training in language pedagogy, language acquisition, and/or applied linguistics is preferred. Demonstrated knowledge of web-based and other computer-oriented applications for the production of learning materials is highly desirable.

Qualifications:                   

Required:  M.A. and teaching experience.  Ph.D. in Second-Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, or other relevant field is highly preferred.

Application Instructions:

All applications must be made through Columbia University’s Academic Search and Recruiting (ASR) system. Please apply using this link apply.interfolio.com/95975. Please upload the following required materials:

Cover letter
Curriculum vitae
Teaching statement
Sample teaching materials and syllabi
Course evaluations
List of courses taught
Names and contact information of three references. (Recommenders should submit confidential letters of recommendations through Interfolio). 

A link to a teaching video is optional.   Please provide a separate document with the link as an optional document.

Review of applications will begin on November 18, 2021 and will continue until the position is filled.  Preliminary interviews will take place on Zoom.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran