Do you teach Russian as a foreign, second, or heritage language? Do you employ fun and engaging strategies, games, and simulations instead of or in addition to a textbook? Please consider submitting a proposal for the edited volume Dynamic Teaching of Russian: Gamification of Learning in the Routledge series on Russian language pedagogy and research. Proposals due May 19, 2022.
SRAS is offering online research internships. If accepted, you will be researching and writing about popular or folk culture for SRAS sites. Internships are flexible and SRAS editors will work with you to assign tasks that are both of interest to you and fill the needs of the SRAS Family of Sites. The internship dates are also flexible - to be able to best fit the individual break taken at your university and your own schedule. Applications due May 25, 2022.
The Pushkin Club invites you to a virtual talk by Robert Chandler in celebration of Pushkin’s birthday on 6 June and by way of introduction to his recently published selection of Pushkin’s prose, Peter the Great’s African. June 7, 2022, 1:30PM CST.
Chicagoland Community-Based
Heritage Language Schools: Learning and Moving Forward Together
Thursday, June 2 2022
Harper Memorial Library, Room 140
1116 E 59th St, Chicago IL 60637
Register to attend at https://bit.ly/3yKTGoc
Keynote address at 3:00pm followed by presentations
Comenius Exhibition and reception at 7:00pm
This event is free and
open to the public
AI:When A Robot Writes A Play
Innovative Theater Workshop presented by Švanda Theatre and TheAItre (Prague, Czech Republic) at the University of Chicago
Thursday June 2, 2022
10.00am-3.00pm (lunch will be provided)
1155 East 60th Street, Room 319
Chicago, IL 60637
Capacity is limited to 20 participants
Register at https://bit.ly/3l9hmKM
Critical Urban Theory and Comparative Urbanism from the Eastern Fringes of Europe
Lecture by Judit Bodnár
Wednesday, May 25 at 4:30 PM
To attend in person:
Social Sciences Tea Room (2nd Floor)
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Register to attend online at:
https://bit.ly/3MkOhYY
Tuesday, May 24 at 2:00 pm
BETWEEN WORLDS
A Conversation with Writer and Translator Izidora Angel
This meeting will be held via Zoom only. To attend follow this link:
https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91791776703?pwd=ZW4rTUpMME95R0ZHWk45czl6ZGgzQT09
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian position to begin August 10, 2022. 3/3 teaching load. Application review begins May 16.
The Russian program in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Missouri is looking for a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) of Russian, for a one-year appointment starting August 2022. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
You are welcomed to join Maxim Sonin for the presentation of his latest book, Ступает Слон, and a discussion about feminism, LGBTQ+ rights and teenagers in Russia in the current political climate. The event will be conducted in Russian. May 19, 2022, 6:00PM CST.
