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Research and Language Learning - Kazakh 

Speaker: Dr. Kristoffer Rees

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Central Time

The Language Workshop at Indiana University, the Slavic Reference Service, and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) are hosting an online discussion series -  Research and Language Learning. 

We are inviting established scholars to discuss the role language proficiency plays in research, with examples from their own scholarly work. The initiative will be launch with the Turkic languages of  Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkish, Uyghur, and Uzbek. We welcome language learners of all academic backgrounds to participate in these discussions. 

Through this series, students and established scholars will discuss the role of language proficiency in conducting research, with examples from their own scholarly work. These talks are open to the public, and those interested in participating may register below. We will announce dates for talks on Uyghur and Uzbek languages in the Spring semester.

• Research and Language Learning – Kazakh - https://forms.gle/2pV2Qu6eX4yfShxm7

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning August 14, 2023. We are seeking a dynamic, creative, interdisciplinary, and productive scholar and teacher in the area of Russian language and Cultural Studies.

Review of applications will begin December 2, 2022 and continue until a suitable candidate is chosen. To apply, visit https://employment.unl.edu

Call for Papers 

Out of the USSR: Travelling Women, Travelling Memories 

2-3.2.2023 University of Turku, Finland 

Please submit your abstract (title, ca. 250 words, names and affiliations of the presenters) by 1. November 2022 to Viola Parente-Capkova (viocap@utu.fi) and Arja Rosenholm (arja.rosenholm@tuni.fi). 

Acceptance letters and the final programme will be sent by the end of November 2022. 

The conference has its background in the research project Texts on the Move https://tekstitliikkeessa.com/, examining how Russian women’s texts and ideas have been travelling and moving across the border to Finland in 1840-2020. 

American Home in Vladimir, Russia – which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year – has several program opportunities and deadlines. 

 1) American English Program Teaching Positions – Application Deadline March 1, 2022 (http://www.ah33.ru/teach-english/) 

The American English Program has been helping Vladimir residents to learn English since 1992 and currently has more than 600 students each semester who are taught by a group of American and Russian teachers. See more by following the link.

Applications are invited for the position of Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  The Stuart Ramsay Tompkins endowment provides for the University to invite scholars from the successor states of the Soviet Union to visit the Departments of History, Classics, and Religion and Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, so that “the body of the University and Canadians generally shall have the benefit of scholarship” from this region.