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American Councils is currently seeking a qualified consultant to serve as an Azerbaijani-speaking Resident Director to work on a summer Azerbaijani language program approximately eight weeks in length. The program is designed for undergraduate and graduate students and is focused on the acquisition of Azerbaijani language in an immersion setting. Applicants should provide a description of previous experience in Azerbaijan, as well as any familiarity with additional regional languages, in their cover letter. The program location is subject to change prior to program start. The consultant agreement includes a scaled compensation fee structure in the event of a cancellation six weeks or less before the start of the program. 

Direct Line is a creative, adaptive, and passionate web design & software development firm, based in Philadelphia, PA. We're looking for an individual who is highly motivated to work in a fast-paced environment, who wants to learn and is dedicated to attaining a high level of success for the company and each other. Applicants should have strong communication skills in English as well as in Russian.

Based in Washington D.C., NAFSA is searching for a full-time Program Manager in Learning Services. Reporting to the Senior Director, IEM-ISS Services, the Program Manager in partnership with the Director of Programs and Training plays a pivotal role in ensuring high quality production of programs, trainings, meetings, and customer service. The Program Manager is responsible for managing registration, promotion, logistics billing and evaluations for a variety of programs and trainings. Additionally, the Program Manager has an important role in ensuring the success of the Trainer Corps program. 

American Councils is searching for a part-time FLEX Database Assistant in Tbilisi, Georgia. The Database Assistant supports the FLEX alumni program by maintaining up-to-date records of alumni data, reconnecting with inactive program alumni, processing data and statistics from alumni coordinators’ reports and, supporting alumni projects. The Database Assistant is supervised by Senior Program Officer for the Secondary School Alumni Programs, Natia Sharikadze.

American Councils is searching for part-time FLEX Alumni Coordinators in Baku, Azerbaijan and Tbilisi, Georgia. The goals of the FLEX alumni program are to maintain long-term communication with program alumni and to encourage alumni to organize and/or engage in activities related to community service, community engagement, English language, American culture, development of personal and professional skills, networking, and other areas that address the needs of alumni and their local communities.

Join us this Friday for a special lecture with historian Bruce Berglund where he will discuss his book The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports (University of California Press, 2021) and how hockey has become an important part of Putin’s program to restore Russian greatness, both at home and abroad.

The Department of State's Title VIII program funds graduate students with U.S. citizenship to study the less commonly taught languages of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union at ASU’s Critical Languages Institute. For summer 2022, CLI is looking forward to returning to in-person instruction on the ASU campus and at our overseas locations. Languages include: Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), Kazakh, Macedonian, Polish, Russian (3rd year or higher), Tatar, Ukrainian, and Uzbek. The application deadline is January 24, 2022.

The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs and the Pulitzer Center at Georgetown University will be hosting a webinar on "Authoritarianism and Misinformation in Eastern Europe", December 3 at 12:30 p.m. EST. 

Princeton University is hosting a Graduate Conference, May 13-14, 2022, on The ‘Byt’ of Literature: Literary Personalities, Scholarly Discourses and the Modes of Their Production. We welcome submissions from graduate students and postdoctoral scholars across disciplines working on 19th, 20th, and 21st-century Russian/Soviet literary and literary-academic culture. Note that the deadline for submissions has been extended to February 20, 2022.