AC Study & Research Abroad Application Deadlines

This is a kind reminder that the following deadlines for American Councils overseas programming are soon approaching:

• Summer Professional Development and Fellowship Opportunity for US Teachers of Russian at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) in Almaty, Kazakhstan: March 9, 2026

• Fall 2026 and Academic Year 2026-2027 American Councils Study Abroad programming (language intensives, area studies programs, social entrepreneurship): March 15, 2026

Financial aid is available from U.S. government funding in addition to American Councils' own scholarships, which can help cover significant portions of program cost. For more information on American Councils' generous funding, please visit https://www.studyabroad.americancouncils.org/financial-aid. American Councils is committed to working with all applicants who demonstrate financial need to make sure they have the opportunity to study abroad. 

2026 Russian Language Summer School in Yerevan – ASPIRANTUM

ASPIRANTUM’s 2026 Russian Language Summer School in Yerevan, Armenia.

The program offers 6 to 10 weeks of intensive Russian instruction (120 to 200 contact hours), beginning on June 21, 2026. Courses are available at beginner, elementary, and intermediate levels and focus on reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar, and vocabulary in small groups.

In addition to classroom instruction, participants take part in organized cultural excursions, including visits to Garni and Geghard, Aragats and Amberd Fortress, Ejmiatsin, Khor Virap and Noravank, and Lake Sevan, along with selected museum visits and cultural events.

Full program details and application form:
https://aspirantum.com/courses/russian-language-summer-school

Early deadline for discounted participation fee: February 25, 2026
Application deadline: May 21, 2026

Curriculum information:
https://aspirantum.com/curriculum

Student testimonials:
https://aspirantum.com/testimonials

Video overview of classes and program activities:
https://www.youtube.com/@aspirantum

Program updates:
https://www.instagram.com/aspirantumcom/

American Councils - AUCA Semester Program for Social Entrepreneurship in Bishkek

This fall, American Councils and the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) will launch a groundbreaking semester program for undergraduate and graduate students that blends social entrepreneurship, problem-based learning, and Central Asian studies in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

 

Program participants will:

 

• Join teams of Central Asian students to research local community needs in Bishkek and develop products that address those needs in sustainable and environmentally responsible ways;
• Develop prototypes of the products they design in the AUCA Maker Space, an open-access workshop equipped with 3D printers and other high-tech tools;
• Pitch their new products to a group of investors and community leaders at semester’s end;
• Complete semester coursework in Social Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, and Central Asia Today;
• Earn 16 semester credits from Bryn Mawr College in economics, sociology, and international studies;
• Gain hands-on skills that are most in demand by today’s employers, including creative problem-solving, leadership, and flexibility; 
• Live with local host families, who provide two meals per day and private, furnished rooms;
• Receive ongoing support, including 24-hour emergency assistance, from a full-time American Councils Resident Director; and
• Be eligible for financial aid from a wide range of American Councils scholarships.

 

Participants may opt to study Russian or Kyrgyz on program, but no prior language study is required to join the program.

 

More information on the program can be found on our website:
https://www.studyabroad.americancouncils.org/socialentrepreneurship

 

Or by writing: Outbound@americancouncils.org

UGA summer program "Russian for Global Professionals" - Summer 2026

UGA is accepting applications for summer 2026 program “Russian for Global Professionals”. This 8-week hybrid program will start with 2 weeks of virtual immersion and will continue with an intensive 6-week domestic immersion program at the UGA field study site in Honolulu, HI. The program accepts students with Novice High-Intermediate Low proficiency (ILR 0+/1).

 

Program dates: May 12^th – May 22^nd online, May 25^th – July 2^nd in-person (8 weeks total)

Program location: Honolulu, HI

For more information and to apply, please visit https://dfs.uga.edu/_portal/tds-program-brochure?programid=14063

2025 Russian Study Abroad programs at Daugavpils University, Latvia -- Learn Russian in the EU

Learn Russian in the European Union (Daugavpils, Latvia) is accepting applications for the following Russian study abroad programs:

- 2025 Spring Semester Study Abroad Program.

- 2025 Summer Russian Language and Area Studies Program, 5 weeks

- 2025 Summer Intensive Russian Language Program, 6 weeks

- 2025 Fall Semester Study Abroad Program.

Daugavpils University will host all these programs and award undergraduate credits. We will appreciate your sharing this information with your students and colleagues.

PROGRAM SUMMARY

2025 SPRING SEMESTER

The following study options are available:

- Russian Language and Political Science;

- Russian Language and East European Studies;

- Russian Language, Literature, and Culture.

Application deadline November 25, 2024

Document submission deadline December 1, 2024

Optional pre-semester Russian January 13, 2025

Semester start date January 27, 2025

End date May 16, 2025

Duration 16 weeks

Total in-class hours 320

Credits 30 ECTS

2025 SUMMER RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES PROGRAM, 5 weeks

Application deadline April 14, 2025

Document submission deadline April 21, 2025

Start date May 25, 2025

End date June 28, 2025

Duration 5 weeks

Total in-class hours 120

Russian class level Intermediate, Advanced

Credits 9 ECTS Russian, 3 ECTS Area Studies

2025 SUMMER INTENSIVE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE PROGRAM, 6 weeks

Application deadline May 18, 2025

Document submission deadline May 25, 2025

Start date June 30, 2025

End date August 8, 2025

Duration 6 weeks

Total in-class hours 144

Russian class level Intermediate, Advanced

Credits 13.5 ECTS Russian

2025 FALL SEMESTER

The following study options are available:

- Russian Language and Political Science;

- Russian Language and East European Studies;

- Russian Language, Literature, and Culture.

Application deadline July 24, 2025

Document submission deadline July 31, 2025

Optional pre-semester Russian August 18, 2025

Semester start date September 1, 2025

End date December 19, 2025

Duration 16 weeks

Total in-class hours 320

Credits 30 ECTS

INTENSIVE PRE-SEMESTER COURSE

Students may select an optional intensive pre-semester course before starting the Fall or Spring Semester programs. This 2-week Russian language course enables students to brush-up the language skills, refresh grammar and active vocabulary, and ensure a smooth start of the academic program. The course doesn’t give academic credit.

ALL PROGRAMS INCLUDE

- Homestays with vetted and trained Russian host families, breakfast and dinner included.

- Exciting excursions, study trips around the Baltic states, and cultural experience.

- Airport pick-up and two-way transfer.

- Local insurance, 24/7 in-country support, and many more.

DAUGAVPILS

Daugavpils is the second largest city in Latvia and the largest Russian-speaking city in the European Union. Daugavpils is a Russian language enclave, where modern standard Russian is the language of daily communication.

Please find full details at Learn Russian in the EU website.

Application for the 2025 Critical Language Scholarship Program Opens Early October!

The application for the U. S. Department of State’s 2025 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program and CLS Spark virtual initiative will open in early October! We welcome your students to apply this year to learn a critical language on a funded overseas or virtual summer program.

Through the CLS Program, U.S. undergraduate and graduate students spend eight to ten weeks over the summer studying one of a dozen critical languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. The program is designed to promote rapid language gains through intensive language instruction, host community engagement, and structured cultural activities in a cohort-based setting.

Additionally, the CLS Spark virtual initiative provides beginner-level virtual instruction in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian, as well as advanced beginner-level Japanese. Applicants for CLS Spark must be undergraduate students and preference will be given to applicants from institutions where these languages aren’t offered.

To learn more about the eligibility for the CLS Program and CLS Spark, please visit: https://clscholarship.org/applicants/eligibility. The application deadline is 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, November 19, 2024.

Our team will be hosting webinars and alumni panels over the coming weeks to provide more detail and answer questions. You can find the full event schedule and registration links here: https://clscholarship.org/events.

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

PROGRAM: Bristol Translates Summer School

Here is the complete programme for this year's literary translation summer school. As always, I am looking forward to it. This year we are offering workshops for translation into English from ten different languages. We are also, for the first time, offering several workshops for translations out of English. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/sml/documents/Bristol%20Translates%202024%20Draft%20Programme%20WEB%20(002).pdf

AUCA-Bard Programs in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: accepting applications

This is a reminder that Bard College is still accepting applications for the following programs in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: 1) Russian in Central Asia Summer Program Program Dates for Fall 2024: June 6 - August 3, 2024 Application Deadline: March 15, 2024. For more information and to apply visit the website. 2) AUCA-Bard Study Abroad Programs for Fall 2024 and AY 2024/2025 Program Dates for Fall 2024: August 23 – December 21, 2024. Program Dates for AY 2024/2025: August 23, 2024 - May 18, 2025. Application Deadline: April 1, 2024. For more information and to apply visit the website. Direct questions to torlova@bard.edu

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

 

Program: Development of Russian Law-XII: Law, Tradition and Conservatism: Legal Responses to Neoliberal Governance

Deadline: ASAP

We would like to announce the programme for the annual Development of Russian Law conference.  Please find the programme below, as well as at our website. Interested parties can register here.

Location

Aleksanteri Institute and Faculty of Law

University of Helsinki, Finland

Monday, 4  November 2019

• Venue: TBD
• 10.00-10.30 Registration and Coffee
• 10.30 – 10.45 Opening
• 10.45 – 12.30 Session I: Traditional Values and Neo-Liberalism in Russian Law
• Chair/Discussant: Associate Professor Marianna Muravyeva, University of Helsinki
• Keshner, Maria - Kazan Federal University, Russian Federation
• Can International Law Be Russian? "Protection" of Traditional Values and Legal Protectionism as a Basis of Modern Russian Foreign Policy
• Mouliarova, Ekaterina - The Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russian Federation
• The Illusion of Choice? Reform and Tradition in Russian Case Law
• Ponomariov, Alexander - University of Passau, Germany
• Traditional Values and Their Legal Protection in Russia:  the Impact of the Russian Orthodox Church on Federal Laws
• Tolkachev, Dmitrii - Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation
• Policy Evaluation of “Non-Traditional Sexual Relationships” Regulation

12.30 – 13.30  Lunch

• 13.30 – 15.15 Session II: Round Table: Legal Conservatism and “Non-Prohibitive Practice” in Human Genome Issues: Case of Russia
• Moderator: TBA
• Kalinichenko, Paul - Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Russian Federation
• The Alpha and Omega of the Human Genome Regulatory Framework in Russia: From International and European Human Rights Standards to National Security Rules

• Sorokina, Elizaveta - “Reznik, Gagarin & Partners” Law Firm, Moscow, Russian Federation
• Morphological Freedom and Reproductive Technologies in Russia: Surrogacy and Designer Babies vs. Family Law
• Kosilkin, Sergey - Advanced Legal Consulting LLC, Russian Federation
• International Legal Regulation Principles for Genetic Research and Biobanking in Russian Federation Legislation
• Kubyshkin, Aleksey-  Sancta Lex Law Office
• Genom Research in the Field of Human Reproduction: Conflicts of Interests and Legal Regulation in Russia
• Moskovkina, Elizaveta – Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation
• Legislation on Genetic Passportization in Russia: Boon or Bane?
• Ponomareva, Daria - Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Russian Federation
• Patenting a Human Gene in the Russian Federation: The Victory of a Conservative Approach or Is There Hope?

15.15-15.45 – Coffee Break

• 15.45 – 17.15 Session III: Neoliberal Constitutionalism and Citizenship in Eurasia
• Chair/Discussant: TBA
• Bresky, Oleg - European Humanities University, Lithuania, Vilnius

• The Meeting of Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship in Constitutional Law of Eastern Europe
• Da, Lu - Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
• The New Developments of Constitutionality Review in China

17.30 – 20.00 Reception

Tuesday, 5 November 2019

• 09.00 – 11.00 Think Corner Breakfast Open Debate - Freedom of Peaceful Assembly: Supporting Legal Response with Data and Research
• Special Venue: Think Corner – Fönster Stage (Yliopistonkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki)
• Moderator: Platov, Artem - OVD-Info, Russian Federation
• Discussant: Koroteev, Kirill - Agora, Moscow, Russian Federation
• Shedov, Denis - Human Rights Center “Memorial”, OVD-Info, Russian Federation

• Russian Regional Legislation on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly: Is It Orwellian Doublethink or Not?
• Borovikova, Ekaterina - OVD-Info, Russian Federation
• Government Data on Prosecutions for the Exercise of Freedom of Assembly: Problems and Limitations
• Chernikova, Tatiana - Human Rights Center “Memorial”, Russian Federation
• Freedom of assembly in Russia in the context of elaboration of the UN Human Rights Committee’s General Comment on Article 21 of the ICCPR
• Durnovo, Grigory - OVD-Info, Russian Federation
• Data on Arrests at Rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg from 2012 to 2019
• Glushkova, Tatiana - Human Rights Center “Memorial”, Russian Federation
• Freedom of Assembly in the Internet Era: Innovative Technologies, Innovative Restrictions

11.00 – 11.30   Coffee

• 11.30 – 13.15 Session V: Neoliberal Financial Regulation and Russian Law
• Chair/Discussant: TBA
• Gurkov, Alexander - University of Helsinki, Finland
• Blockchain Based Alternatives for Corporate Governance
• Michalevic, Alaksiej - International Collegium of Lawyers, Vilnius, Lithuania
• The Banking System of the Russian Federation: From Economic Neoliberalism to State Monopoly
• Sahling, Cornelia - RUDN University, Moscow, Russian Federation
• The Role of Law and Financial Regulation in Maintaining Financial Stability in Russia
• Vishnevskiy, Alexadner – HSE Moscow, Russian Federation
• Neoliberalism & Traditionalism v. Interests of the Banking System – Neoliberalism & Traditionalism v. Interests of the Banking System – the Time for Changing of the Paradigm of Banking Regulation

13.15 – 14.15  Lunch

• 14.15 – 15.45   Session VI: Neoliberal Limitations and Legislation in Eastern Europe
• Chair/Discussant: TBA
• Marochkin, Sergey - University of Tyumen, Russian Federation

• Political and Legal Responses to Short-Time Liberalization: the Russian Case
• Flikke, Geir - University of Oslo, Norway
• Authoritarian Policing: Extrajudicial Persecution and Intimidation in Russia
• Damsa, Liviu - Birmingham City University, UK
• Legislative Tradition Beating Law and the Pretences of Neoliberalism in Central Eastern Europe?
• Antonov, Michael – Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation
• Law and Memory Politics in Russia

15.45 – 16.00   Coffee

• 16.00 – 17.45   Session VII: Property, Finances and Security: Legal Constraints
• Chair/Discussant: TBA
• Molodyko, Kirill- HSE Moscow, Russian Federation

• Formation of the Financial Ombudsman Institution in Russia and CIS Countries
• Malyaev, Vladimir - HSE, Russian Federation
• FATCA and Common Reporting Standard: The End of the Era of Bank Secrecy
• Tuzov, Andrei- Saint Petersburg State University, Russian Federation
• Arrest of Property in Criminal Proceedings as a Manifestation of Disrespect for the Right of Ownership
• Sorokin, Maksim, Memorial, Moscow
• Tackling the Financing of Terrorism by Executive Action in Russia: An Incorporation of Disbalance between Liberty and Security?

17.45-18.00 – Closing

If you are unable to attend, but find the event of interest, we welcome you to join next year. There is also an opportunity to follow us on facebook, follow our blog, or join our mailing list by sending an emailing noting your interest to bradley.reynolds@helsinki.fi.