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ACADEMIC JOB MARKET FALL WORKSHOP SERIES
Wednesdays, September-November, 12:30 to 1:30/2:30 p.m., UChicagoGRAD HQ (3rd floor, UChicago Bookstore)
Are you applying for academic jobs this fall?  Put your best foot forward by attending UChicagoGRAD’s Academic Job Market Fall Workshop Series.  You’ll learn best practices for each stage of the application process, including document preparation, interviewing, and negotiation. RSVP for each session in GRAD Gargoyle (gradgargoyle.uchicago.edu).
• 9/5, 12:30-1:30: CV Best Practices

Please join us this Friday, June 1, at Interdisciplinary Approaches to Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) for:

“Not Just Tea-Drinking”: Early Soviet Public Sphere Institutions in Uzbekistan

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Please join us this week at the last Persian Circle at the University of Chicago of the academic year for a talk in Persian entitled:

The Contemporary Revival of the Aryan Discourse in Iran and the Diaspora

Dr. Afsaneh Kalantary

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Thursday 24th May

5:00-6:30pm

Farouk Mustafa Seminar Room (Pick Hall #218)

5828 S. University Ave

Chicago, IL 60637

Please join us Friday, May 25, at Interdisciplinary Approaches to Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) for:

Transsexual Bodies: Normalizing Difference in the Era of Normalization

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Modes of Ethnographic Inquiry: Where Ethnographic Practice Meets Multimedia

Thu, May 24 • 3:30pm Reception, 4:00pm Panel Discussion • Wilder House (5811 S Kenwood Ave) • Free and open to the public

In this panel discussion, Maple Razsa will join Meg McLagan (Barnard College), Tirtza Even (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and Nadav Assor (Connecticut College), in a conversation moderated by Owen Kohl (PhD’2017, Anthropology, University of Chicago). Organized by Kaushik Sunder Rajan (University of Chicago) and Julie Chu (University of Chicago).

Urban Reader Series: Maple Razsa— Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics After Socialism

Wed, May 23, 6:00pm • Seminary Co-Op (5751 S Woodlawn Ave) • Free and open to the public

Maple Razsa discusses Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics after Socialism. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.

Rose Stair – "On Scholem's 'Theological Didactic' Poem 'With a Copy of Kafka's Trial'"

University of Chicago, Cobb Hall, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, Room 402

5:00 p.m.

Rose Stair, MA student in the Divinity School, will deliver a lecture for the Jewish Studies Workshop. For information, contact the workshop coordinators, Matt Johnson at mjohnson26@uchicago.edu or David Cohen at davidc1@uchicago.edu.

Anna Daučíková & Assaf Evron: FOR
Opening Reception
June 8, 2018
6-8pm

Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S. Woodlawn Ave.

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Please join us this Friday, May 18, for another session of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA). We will be discussing a work-in-progress entitled:

Second Sight: Once More on Nikolai Ostrovsky and the Optics of Soviet Culture

Author: William Nickell, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (UChicago)

Discussant: Eleonor Gilburd, Assistant Professor of History (UChicago)