Russia

The Slavic Graduate Students Association (SGSA) in conjunction with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and co-sponsored by the Department of History and REEEC at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign invites submissions of presentation proposals from scholars across disciplines to this year’s conference, titled “Shifting Grounds: Changing Models of Nature in the Former Soviet Sphere.” We invite all professors, graduate students, and professionals to submit papers related to our topic for consideration.  

The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 15th, 2022.

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. 

The Harriman Institute invites applications for 2 two-year Mellon Teaching Fellow positions, extending over 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. Mellon Fellows are expected to concentrate on their own research and writing; to teach a course of their own design in the spring semester of each of the two years; to give a public seminar/lecture on their research and to be active participants in the Institute's scholarly community. The Institute provides opportunities to organize conferences and other public events around their particular interests.

Eligibility is restricted to those who have received the Ph.D. between January 1, 2020 and June 30, 2022 and do not hold a tenure-track position.

Benjamin Rifkin, Professor of Russian and author of  Advanced Russian through History, will be teaching an asynchronous distance course in Hofstra’s January 2022 term called “Jewish Voices in Russian Culture.”  This course uses the anthology edited by Dr. Maxim Shrayer of Boston College.

On November 18th, at 7:30PM EST Hofstra University will host a zoom-based event on the coup of August 19, 1991. The event will feature a screening of the documentary film The Event by Sergei Loznitsa, and a panel discussion with individuals who were in the USSR on the day of the coup, discussing how they experienced the day.

Kenyon College’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures invites applications for a two-year (2022–2024) Visiting Assistant Professorship in Russian.

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.

The Slavonic Studies Section in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics in the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor (University Lecturer) in Russian culture from September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.