Tuesday, February 7
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Rubenstein Forum
1201 E. 60th St.
At this Director’s Lecture, political theorist Lea Ypi will read and discuss a chapter from her forthcoming book on dignity. Ypi will look at her Albanian family’s history to explore the moral and political meanings of dignity (both individual and collective) in connection to questions of truth, reconciliation, historical injustice, and the relationship between facts and fiction.
In Conversation with Yevgenia Albats: Masha Gessen
Join us for another installment in our series of conversations hosted by Jordan Center Distinguished Journalist in Residence Dr. Yevgenia Albats. Masha Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of 11 books of nonfiction, most recently Surviving Autocracy (Riverhead Books, June 2020)
Thursday, February 2
4:00 pm ET/3:00 PM CT
Register for the Zoom webinar
Friday February 10, 2023
4:30 PM – 6:00
Classics Room 110
The Subversive Pedagogy of Belgrade Surrealism
Aleksandar Bošković and Ansley Morse will present their collaborative work on translation and critical edition of The Fine Feats of the Five Cockerels Gang: A Yugoslav Marxist-Surrealist Epic Poem for Children
THE AMERICAN CENTURY & ITS CHALLENGES:
U.S., RUSSIA, P. R. CHINA
Mss. Deadline: March 15, 2023. Send 1 electronic file (in MS Word or RTF), including 150-175 word Abstract, typed, double-spaced, in-text citation format, via e-mail attachment + 1 Both-Sided copy of: 15-25 page manuscript (ca. 5,000-7,500 words), author identification on a separate sheet, via regular mail, to: Dr. O. Gruenwald, JIS Editor, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, 1065 Pine Bluff Drive, Pasadena, CA 91107, USA. Early mss. submissions recommended. View Mss. Guidelines. E-mail inquiries: info at jis3.org.
The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to invite applications to the summer program in Turkish, Istanbul 2023.
For additional information please see the ARIT webpage at https://aritweb.org/fellowships/arit-summer-fellowships-turkish/
The Library of Congress Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access Directorate, Germanic and Slavic Division has an entry-level professional librarian position in its East Central Europe Section.
See https://www.usajobs.gov/job/696874100 for full information.
On Thursday, January 19, at 9 am US CT join the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois for a webinar with the National Library of Serbia. The webinar is a part of the Meet the National Libraries series. Attendees will learn about physical and digital collections, services and preservation work at the National Library of Serbia as well as the Digital Library of Serbia. For more information and to register, please visit: https://forms.gle/ow6a5QwsnW931FYS6.
Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society, a book talk with Professor Melis Hafez, Virginia Commonwealth University.
The author explores what we can learn about Ottoman history over the long nineteenth-century by looking closely into the contested and shifting boundaries of the laziness - productivity binary. Hafez also considers how 'laziness' can be used to understand emerging civic culture and its exclusionary practices in the Ottoman Empire.
Lecture, In person at ANAMED Auditorium, İstiklal Caddesi, 181, Merkez Han, Beyoğlu and streamed online.
Date: January 31, 2023
Time: 6:00 pm (Istanbul, UTC + 3),10:00 am EST (New York).
For the online presentation, please Register here. For more information, please see https://aritweb.org/events/ or write to aritevents@gmail.com.
If it isn’t broke: Regional Shipbuilding Traditions and Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean, an online seminar with Professor Paul Salay, Coe College.
Dr. Salay applies the geo-spatial tools of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to create a picture of the development and increasing complexity of maritime connectivity and transport from the Late Archaic to the Early Empire.
Date: January 27, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm (Istanbul, UTC + 3),11:00 am EST (New York).
Please Register here. For more information, please see https://aritweb.org/events/ or write to aritevents@gmail.com.
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University invites applications for a Lector/Senior Lector I in Russian language. The appointment will begin on July 1, 2023, with the teaching beginning at the start of the fall semester 2023.
