2022-2023

CFP: POST/SOCIALIST MEMORY CULTURES IN TRANSITION
2nd PoSoCoMeS Conference
20-23 September 2023, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

Paper proposals should include abstracts (no longer than 250 words) and information about the presenter(s) (affiliation and short biography). Panel and roundtable proposals should include an abstract (no longer than 250 words) and a complete list of max 4 participants, the titles of their papers. Please mention 1) if you would like to be part of one of the two streams; 2) if you need to present online. Please send your proposals by 1 February 2023 to the following e-mail address: posocomesconference@tlu.ee. The notifications of acceptance will be sent on 15 March 2023.

MEHAT/ISRG welcomes presentation proposals from graduate students (MA or PhD) and faculty/staff in any department or program related to Islamicate societies past or present. We are particularly eager to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration with those working beyond the contemporary boundaries of the Middle East. 

To apply please send a brief personal introduction, a title, and a paragraph or two about your intended presentation to Theo Knights. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis. Our desire is for the workshop to be a low stress place for students and faculty to receive collegial feedback on current, or very recently published work so please do consider applying!

Please enjoy this post by Olga V. Solovieva about the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 Announcement and Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski.

https://www.boundary2.org/2023/01/olga-v-solovieva-ales-bialiatski-together-on-the-2022-nobel-peace-prize-and-east-slavic-solidarity/

The American Home in Vladimir, Russia – which is celebrating its 31st anniversary this year – welcomes applications for part-time and full-time online and in-person ESL teaching positions in the American English Program for the 2023-2024 academic year (August 2023 - June 2024).

Information about the American Home and the American English Program, including a short video about teaching online, is at: www.ah33.ru/teach-english/

For application instructions and additional information, please contact Oxana Ustinova (assistant director): serendipity.american.home@gmail.com

Call for Proposals for Research and Pedagogical Case Studies 

Content-Based Teaching of Russian 

Do you teach content in Russian as a foreign, second, or heritage language? Please consider submitting a proposal for the edited volume Content-Based Teaching of Russian in the Routledge series on Russian language pedagogy and research     

We would like to hear from various fields and backgrounds of Russian language instruction. Language of publication: English; 3,000 to 8,000 words + references and appendices.

Wisconsin Slavic Conference 
March 24-25, 2023
University of Wisconsin-Madison  

Abstracts for 20-minute papers on any aspect of Slavic literatures, cultures (including film, music, and the visual arts), linguistics, and history are invited for the annual Wisconsin Slavic Conference. Comparative topics and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome and encouraged. The conference will be held in-person at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25, 2023.  

Recent conference programs are available on the Wisconsin Slavic Conference website at https://gns.wisc.edu/2022/04/19/wisconsin-slavic-conference-2022/ This year's keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Yuliya Ilchuk (Stanford University).

To present a paper at the Wisconsin Slavic Conference, please submit a proposal by February 19, 2023. 

The symposium will bring together Russian language program directors, Slavic department chairs and graduate program Directors to discuss the current state of the field of preparing graduate teaching fellows. Participants will discuss curricular and programmatic challenges and outline possible directions for supporting graduate students engaged in teaching the Russian language and culture across the United States. 

This face-to-face event is organized by the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at Harvard University and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California. The symposium will take place at Harvard University campus on April 1st and 2nd, 2023. Remote participation is not possible. 

You can find more information and the registration form on this website. 

The Forum on Law and Legalities welcomes Professor Monika Nalepa, Professor of Political Science here at UChicago to discuss her new book After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability with PhD student Helena Ratté.

Professor Nalepa’s book tackles transitional justice – the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist – has direct implications for democratic processes. Mechanisms of transitional justice have the power to influence who decides to go into politics, can shape politicians’ behavior while in office, and can affect how politicians delegate policy decisions. However, these mechanisms are not all alike: some, known as transparency mechanisms, uncover authoritarian collaborators who did their work in secret while others, known as purges, fire open collaborators of the old regime.

The event will be held in the John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224, from 1-2:30pm on Wednesday, January 11th, 2023.

Register to attend here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-prof-monika-nalepa-discusses-after-authoritarianism-tickets-487106728337