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ARISC Graduate/Postdoctoral Fellowship 2022-23

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) announces the availability of graduate/postdoctoral fellowships in support of research in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia). During their stay in the South Caucasus, the fellow is expected to give an ARISC-sponsored public presentation on a subject related to their research. The fellow will acknowledge ARISC in any publication that emerges from the research carried out during the fellowship. Funding for this fellowship is provided by ARISC General Funds.

Deadline: Friday, December 9, 2022

Apply here: https://arisc.org/arisc-graduate-postdoctoral-fellowship-2022-23/

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the The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC) is pleased to invite scholars from all disciplines in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies to submit proposals for individual papers and panels at its annual meeting to be held from Thursday, April 20 through Saturday, April 22. 

Please Visit https://kflc.as.uky.edu/ <https://kflc.as.uky.edu/> to learn more about the conference, create an account, and upload your abstract(s) by 11:59pm on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

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Nina Jankowicz
How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict (I.B. Tauris, 2020)

The United States and the Western world have finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it? 

Central and Eastern European states, however, have been aware of the threat for years. Nina Jankowicz has advised these governments on the front lines of the information war. The lessons she learned from that fight, and from her battle to get US Congress to act, make for essential reading.

How to Lose the Information War takes the reader on a journey through five Eastern European governments' responses to Russian information warfare tactics–all of which have failed. She journeys into the campaigns the Russian operatives run and shows how we can better understand the motivations behind these attacks and how to beat them. Above all, this book shows what is at stake: the future of civil discourse and democracy, and the value of truth itself. 

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Hamid Ismailov
Gaia, Queen of Ants (Syracuse University Press, 2020)

From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of civilizations and mythologies as he follows the lives of three expatriates living in England. Domrul is a young Turk with vague and painful memories of ethnic strife in the Uzbekistan of his childhood. His Irish girlfriend Emer struggles with her own adolescent trauma from growing up in war-torn Bosnia. Domrul is the caretaker for Gaia, the eighty-year-old, powerful wife of a Soviet party boss with a mysterious past. All three are connected to Kuyuk, a traditional Central Asian bard.

One of Ismailov's few novels written in Uzbek, Gaia, Queen of Ants offers a rare portrait of a complex and little-known part of the world. A plot centered on political corruption and ethnic conflict is punctuated with Sufi philosophy and religious gullibility. As Ismailov's characters grapple with questions of faith, power, sex, and family, Gaia, Queen of Ants presents a moving tale of universal themes set against a Central Asian backdrop in the twenty-first century. 

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Please join CEERES for our annual Director’s Lecture series on Tuesday, April 19, at 5:30 PM (US Central Time).

In person attendance will be located in the Social Sciences Tea Room, 1126 E. 59th Street, 2nd Floor.

Online attendees should register at the following link: https://uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RYm9xv5bTEGHojz7ScIOjw

Endings in crisis: pandemic narratives in times of conflict

Dora Vargha, Professor of History and Medical Humanities based jointly at Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Exeter, will give the CEERES Director's Lecture.

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Interested in integrating the Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia into your courses? Apply today to join us this summer for a curriculum development workshop on the South Caucasus! The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) in conjunction with the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center’s (REEEC) Summer Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite applications for the 2022 Teaching the South Caucasus workshop, a five-day forum focusing on curricular development for post-secondary educators, with a priority given to community college and minority serving institutions (CC/MSI). The deadline to apply is Monday, January 31, 2022

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IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, March 31-April 2, 2022

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies welcomes paper proposals from scholars engaged in research on the role of gender in understanding acts of violence, including epistemological and discursive violence, and the power dynamics of gender in the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian regions. We seek paper submissions that will discuss the breadth of gender-based violence which may include examples from war, ethnic and racial conflicts, displacement, state policies, domestic and sexual abuse, trafficking, suppression of LGBTQ+ identities, and violence emanating from other contexts.

The deadline for submissions is January 14th, 2022. 

 

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