2022-2023

Wars are fueled by hatred. We should show this enemy, as well as the countries we live in (the US among those) our solidarity against hatred and against the war in Ukraine.

This world-wide rally was initiated by the diasporas in Poland, and new countries and cities are getting on board every day. Here is a self-updating list of participating cities: https://taplink.cc/solidarityagainstwar

Please join us in Chicago this coming Sunday October 23, and share the list of cities with your friends worldwide.

Please join the Classics Department in welcoming Anna Stavrakopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Friday, Oct 28th at 5:30 in Social Sciences Room 122, as she speaks on "The State of the Stage in 21st-Century Greece".

 

A reception will follow.

THE PEARSON INSTITUTE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FUND The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts administers a research and innovation fund that provides grants to faculty and PhD students at the University of Chicago conducting research on global conflict.

Please send application materials and any questions to Molly O’Donnell, Director of Operations at The Pearson Institute, at modonne1@uchicago.edu


The deadline for proposals is Friday, December 16, 2022, at 5:00 pm CT. Decisions will be announced in early 2023.

The Translation Studies Hub at the University of Washington in Seattle--together with UW's department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies--cordially invites you to the following virtual event focused on the work of translating the contemporary Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan:

October 25 pm Pacific (8 pm Central) on Zoom

Free and open to all

Translating the Eccentric and the Commonplace

With translators Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler

Details here; register here (required).

The Translation Studies Hub at the University of Washington in Seattle--together with UW's department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies--cordially invites you to the following virtual event focused on the work of translating the contemporary Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan:

 

Oct 20, 6 pm Pacific (8 pm Central) on Zoom 

Free and open to all.

 

Translations that Sound Right: On Rendering the Ukrainian Writer Serhiy Zhadan into English 

 

With translators Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler

 

Details here; register here (required).

We invite everyone interested to apply for the 2023-24 Startalk Institute on Proficiency-Based Pedagogy for Russian based at the Middlebury College School of Russian. This year-long cost-free program offers intensive training in proficiency-oriented teaching of adult learners (high school and post-secondary) that is grounded in second language acquisition theory and evidence-based teaching practices. The program comprises three modules totaling 128 instructional hours: 

Reporting to the International Area Studies team leader the Jewish Studies
Librarian will be involved and engaged in the entire life-cycle of research,
teaching and learning processes.  They will collaborate with and support
faculty in course-specific ways, including providing point of need instruction
sessions and assignments, research guides and/or tutorials.  Focused primarily
on the The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies (TIJS) at Emory University, the
librarian will provide a full range of subject specific library services to
include collection development, consultation, instruction, reference services,
cataloging and assessment for the department and the programs housed within
it.

Review of applications will begin the week of November 7, 2022.

Please apply online at
http://apply.interfolio.com/115163

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