Managing Editor of The Russian Review, KU CREES

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas (KU CREES) invites applications for the position of Managing Editor of The Russian Review. The successful candidate is expected to start on July 1, 2025. To read the full position description and apply, please visit this link. 

Position Overview

The Managing Editor enjoys a full-time staff appointment through KU CREES and oversees the editing, publication, and operations of The Russian Review, which ranks among the oldest and most widely read journals of Russian and Eurasian studies in the world. The Managing Editor reports to Professor Erik Scott, Editor of the journal, but is expected to work independently to manage submissions, prepare manuscripts for publication, and ensure timely production of the journal.
Due to complex state employment laws, the University of Kansas may be unable to hire fully remote workers for this position outside of Kansas. Specifically, we cannot currently offer employment to candidates residing in the following states:  California. We appreciate your understanding and invite interested individuals from eligible states to apply.

Required Qualifications

1. MA in History, Literature, Political Science, Russian and Eurasian Studies, or a related field, with a focus on Russia and Eurasia.
2. High working proficiency in Russian language, as demonstrated by application materials.
3. At least three years of relevant professional experience in scholarly publishing, including significant experience editing, copyediting, and corresponding with authors and reviewers.
4. Work experience requiring excellent organizational and record-keeping skills, as evidenced by application materials.

Preferred Qualifications

1. PhD in History, Literature, Political Science, Russian and Eurasian Studies, or a related field, with a focus on Russia and Eurasia.
2. At least five years of relevant professional experience in scholarly publishing, including significant experience editing, copyediting, and corresponding with authors and reviewers.
3. Experience managing and maintaining and online submission portal, as evidenced by application materials.
4. Experience in web design and/or digital production, as evidenced by application materials.

Contact Information to Applicants - Erik Scott: scott@ku.edu

Additional Candidate Instruction

A complete application will include:

1. Cover letter outlining your interest in the position and describing how you meet the required and preferred qualifications.
2. Resume/CV.
3. List of three (3) professional references, with contact information.

Finalists for the position will be asked to submit examples of their copyediting work for consideration by the search committee.
Application review will begin Monday, December 9th, 2024, and will continue until a qualified pool of applicants is identified.

Tenure track position Assistant Professor - Early Modern or Modern Eastern European / Eurasian History, Stony Brook University (New York)

The Department of History at Stony Brook University (State University of New York) is delighted to invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History in the area of early modern or modern Eastern Europe/Eurasia. The specific area of specialization is open, including Russia, Eastern Europe and areas of Central Asia, the Eastern Steppes, and the Caucasus. We particularly encourage scholars with interests in transregional, multiethnic, and/or borderlands histories. We also welcome interdisciplinary candidates whose historical work addresses social, cultural, economic, and/or political processes, and who engage with material and/or visual/aural cultures.  We expect the scholar in question to have completed significant work in an Eastern European or Eurasian language and archives.

We seek a colleague who will contribute to the History graduate program thematic clusters. The successful applicant will have the ability to teach a survey of Russian history over at least a few centuries, and should be prepared to offer a range of undergraduate lecture and seminar courses, as well as graduate seminars, on various topics related to Eastern Europe and/or Eurasia.  This faculty member will have opportunities for affiliation and collaboration with interdisciplinary Stony Brook programs, institutes, and centers aligned with their interests. These may include units in the College of Arts and Sciences such as the Institute for Globalization Studies, the Humanities Institute, the Center for Changing Systems of Power, and others. For more details about the History Department and our undergraduate and graduate curriculum, please see: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/history/

Qualifications

Required qualifications:
PhD (or foreign equivalent) in History, or a related field from an accredited instutition. The selected candidate should have their degree in hand by July 1, 2025.

Preferred qualifications:
Research Specialization, Training and Accomplishment in the History of Early Modern or Modern Eastern Europe or Eurasia and in one of several subfields including (but not limited to) transregional histories, multiethnic histories, and imperial borderlands. Publication record in the History of Early Modern or Modern Eastern Europe/Eurasia. Experience teaching undergraduate courses in person. Ability to teach a relatively broad survey of the region over at least a few centuries, at the graduate as well as undergraduate levels.

Application Instructions

A completed initial application will include:

1. Letter of interest
2. CV, including teaching experience
3. Writing sample (chapter or journal article of 25-40 pages)
4. List of three references with e-mail contact information

Only references of shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Shortlisted candidates will be expected to provide a research statement and teaching statement with sample syllabus, and possibly other materials.

The Department expects to conduct remote interviews with shortlisted candidates and then host finalists on campus in early 2025. 

Review of applications will begin on November 1, but additional applications will be accepted until December 15, 2024.
For questions regarding this role, please contact Alix Cooper (Chair of Search Committee) Alix.Cooper@stonybrook.edu

Part-Time Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies, University of Chicago

The Humanities Collegiate Division and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Chicago invites applications for part-time Lecturers during the 2024-25 academic year.

The selected candidate will have part-time teaching opportunities in various courses of the Russian and East European Studies curriculum. Responsibilities include preparing and teaching  seminar-style culture courses with a highly interactive discussion element, holding regularly scheduled office hours, and the preparing and grading of assignments and testing materials. Depending on the curricular needs of the department, the successful candidate may teach between one and four courses per academic year.

The terms and conditions of employment for this position are covered by a collective bargaining agreement between the University and Service Employees International Union. The per-course salary for academic year 2024-25 will be at least $7,538. This position is not benefits eligible.

Qualifications

Applicants must hold a doctorate or equivalent in Russian and East European Studies or a related field.

Application Instructions

Applications must include:

• A current curriculum vitae,
• A cover letter that addresses professional and teaching experience and discusses approaches to pedagogy,
• And the names and contact information of three references whose recommendation letters may be solicited.
• A sample syllabus for a course in Russian and East European Studies.

Optional Materials:

• Course evaluations, if available

The materials listed above must be submitted through the University of Chicago’s Academic Recruitment site at the following link: https://apply.interfolio.com/156186. Applicants will be asked to provide additional materials following initial review.

In the event that a teaching opportunity becomes available, we will contact applicants with the academic training and experience most appropriate for our available classes. This posting will expire on March 31, 2025.

This position is contingent upon budgetary approval.  Only complete applications will be considered. For more information about this position, please contact Stephan Carver, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, spcarver@uchicago.edu.   

Slavic Language Cataloger, Princeton University

Princeton University Library (PUL) seeks candidates for the Slavic Language Cataloging Librarian position. The position serves as the primary cataloger for Slavic language material (in all formats) in the Cataloging and Metadata Services department and engages in the full spectrum of activities relating to the creation and management of metadata for Library materials in Slavic languages.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create metadata (original and copy cataloging plus related authority work) according to national and local standards for newly acquired resources, primarily in Slavic languages, as well as for other Library material in various formats and subject areas based on department needs.
• Update and enhance existing metadata according to national and local standards to reflect the most recent metadata rules, and practices for monographic and serial publications in both OCLC Connexion Client and the Library's local database.

Key Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in library science from an ALA-accredited institution or advanced degree in a relevant field.
• Proficiency in the Russian language.
• Minimum three years of cataloging experience.
• Thorough knowledge of metadata content and encoding standards such as RDA, LCSH, LCC, and MARC 21.
• Grounding in cataloging principles and familiarity with current developments in resource description, along with flexibility and adaptability in the context of conceptual and technological change.
• Preferred: Working knowledge of at least other Slavic languages, preferably Polish or Ukrainian.

The successful candidate will be appointed to an appropriate Associate Librarian or more senior rank depending upon qualifications and experience. Applications must be submitted here and include a resume, cover letter, and a list of three references with full contact information. This position is subject to the University's background check policy. 

Director of Community Engagement, Razom, Inc. - Washington D.C. or New York, NY

Razom’s mission is building a prosperous Ukraine. Razom means “together” in Ukrainian and serves as a constant reminder of the community that it takes to create, build, and do. Razom creates spaces where people meet, partner and work together to unlock the potential of Ukraine. They maintain a relentless focus on the needs on the ground to support Ukraine and on opportunities to amplify voices from Ukraine in conversations in the United States.

The Director of Community Engagement serves as the main liaison between Razom and its network of partner organizations through the American Coalition for Ukraine. The role involves reaching out to external organizations, connecting people and ideas, and building bridges between external partners and Razom’s Advocacy Team. The Director also co-manages and oversees the Community Engagement team, setting strategic goals and managing workflow for staff, volunteers, and interns in partnership with the Director of Grassroots Advocacy.

Kennan Institute Research Internship

Research Interns provide direct support to Kennan Institute scholars and are matched according to their interests, background, and availability. The Kennan Institute accepts applications for Research Internships on a rolling basis.

Description

The Kennan Institute offers paid Research Internships lasting two to nine months for undergraduate, graduate, and prospective graduate students. Each intern works with a scholar in residence at the Institute over a period of two to nine months. This internship offers a flexible schedule of 15 hours per week, and a stipend of $10 per hour.

Qualifications

Applicants should have a good command of the Russian or Ukrainian language and ability to conduct independent research.

How to Apply

Please send a resume and cover letter describing your availability to work in Washington, D.C., your research interests and strengths, and the period for which you wish to be considered (in terms of which months or semesters). You may send your application by email to joseph.dresen@wilsoncenter.org. 

The Kennan Institute accepts applications on a rolling basis. Applicants will be contacted for an interview if their research interests, background, and availability should match an incoming research project. For more information about Kennan Institute Research Internships, please email Joseph Dresen or call (202) 691-4245. 

International students are eligible for Wilson Center internships, but they must hold a valid F-1 or J-1 visa and appropriate work authorization especially if they are receiving compensation for the internships. All international students must obtain written permission from their Designated School Official or Responsible Visa Officer at their university stating that they are in valid immigration status and eligible to do an internship at the Center. The Wilson Center is an equal opportunity employer and follows equal opportunity employment guidelines in the selection of its interns.

SRAS Online Research Internships

SRAS is offering online research internships. If accepted, you will be researching and writing about popular or folk culture for SRAS sites. Internships are flexible and SRAS editors will work with you to assign tasks that are both of interest to you and fill the needs of the SRAS Family of Sites. The internship dates are also flexible - to be able to best fit the individual break taken at your university and your own schedule.

How to apply: https://sras.heiapply.com/catalog/programs/4218

Winter Internship: Enroll By: 15 Dec 2024

- Start Date: 20 Dec 2024

- End Date: 01 Feb 2025

Summer Internship: Enroll By: 26 May 2025

- Start Date:02 Jun 2025

- End Date:31 Jul 2025

Aleksanteri Institute Visiting Fellowships 2025

The Aleksanteri Institute, the Finnish Centre for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Helsinki, is pleased to invite applications for its Visiting Fellowships from scholars pursuing research that relates to the Institute's research profile.

The Visiting Fellowship scheme is intended for scholars who hold a PhD degree and reside outside Finland. Visits can take place between April and December 2025 (excluding July) and are supported with a monthly grant. Fellowships are for two months, with exceptions detailed in the call.

The deadline for applications is 23 December 2024.

Please see call details and application instructions in the Call for Proposals.
You can find more information on the Visiting Fellows Programme on our website.

2025–26 HRI Fellowships: “Story and Place”
HRI is pleased to announce that its 2025–26 fellowship year theme will be “Story and Place.”

In spite of the impact of global economic and culture forces on our lives—and of course because of it—attention to the particularity of place remains key to how humanists and artists think about the world. How does your work engage with place-based experiences, histories, performative cultures, languages, politics, literatures? What does storytelling that emerges from specific places and spaces contribute to how we apprehend the visual, the material, the political, the queer, or the orthodox?

Place often takes root through story, but it is as often made in the telling. How can storytelling and story-making create place and its attachments—or unravel it, or make it legible to new audiences? What is the role of place-based story in how we grapple with war, social movements, equity work, fantasy, political ideology, art practice, social media, ecological crisis, and/or the land grant university itself? And what is “place” beyond the local, exactly?

HRI invites proposals which engage the intersection of place and story in a variety of mediums— narrative, textual, maker-oriented, graphic, and more. We look forward to learning from humanities- and arts-based researchers who are working with place at any scale and in any number of forms. We’re interested in the geography closest in or the farthest out; in stories that stick close to home or those that carry home with them as they move.

We’re curious, in short, about multi-form ways of exploring the places, real and imagined, that help us reckon with the world as we know it, tell it, and want it to be told. If place is a backdrop to how you are communicating your work, this is an opportunity, in the context of a yearlong interdisciplinary seminar, to converse with colleagues interested in experimenting with how to bring place and storytelling into sharper relation.

The projects proposed to HRI for 2025–26 fellowships will be evaluated on the scholarly excellence and promise of the project, the applicant’s preparation/readiness to undertake the proposed research, the quality of the narrative proposal, the relationship to the annual theme, the case made for how the interdisciplinary experience offered by the Fellows Seminar would be beneficial to the project, and the letters of support.

HRI welcomes applications from all disciplines and departments with an interest in humanities and humanities-inflected research. HRI is especially interested in fostering interdisciplinary work, both within the humanistic disciplines, and between the humanities and the arts.

See the links available here for specific guidelines. The submission portal will open on September 1, 2024.

ASPIRANTUM's Dostoyevsky Scholarship to Study Russian Language in Summer 2025

Yerevan, Armenia

Undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA), and postgraduate (Ph.D.) students, as well as researchers in Slavic Studies and related fields, enrolled in universities and other academic institutions from the below-specified countries, are eligible to apply for the Dostoyevsky scholarship. The ideal candidates will be 19 - 39 years old by the program's start. Only the citizens of the following countries are eligible for this scholarship:

Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay.

Deadline: January 15, 2025

For more details, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/dostoyevsky-grants-to-learn-russian

2025 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships Program

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship program provides opportunities for doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to deepen research knowledge and increase the study of modern foreign languages, cultural engagement, and area studies not generally included in U.S. curricula.

Program features

Students may request funding to support overseas research for a period of no less than six months and no more than 12 months. Funds support travel expenses to and from the residence of the fellow and the country or countries of research, maintenance and dependent allowances based on the location of research for the fellow and his or her dependent(s), an allowance for research-related expenses overseas, and health and accident insurance premiums. Projects may focus on one or more of the following geographic areas:

• Africa
• East Asia
• Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
• South Asia
• the Near East
• Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia
• Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories)

NEW IN 2025: The DDRA program is pleased to share that in fiscal year (FY) 2025, the academic fields of psychology and social work are now included in Competitive Preference Priority 2—Thematic Focus on Academic Fields. Projects focusing on psychology and social work are now eligible to receive two additional points.  For full details on each Competitive Preference Priority, please review the 2025 DDRA application instructions.

Eligible applicants

Institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the U.S. are eligible to apply for grants under this program. As part of the application process, eligible students submit their individual research narratives and application forms to their home IHE. The IHE compiles all eligible individual student applications for inclusion in the institutional application that is submitted to the U.S. Department of Education (Department). A student is eligible to receive a DDRA fellowship from their IHE if they

• are a citizen, national, or permanent resident of the United States.
• are a graduate student in good standing at an IHE.
• are admitted to candidacy in a doctoral degree program in modern foreign languages and area studies at that institution when the fellowship period begins.
• are planning a teaching career in the United States upon completion of their doctoral program.
• possess sufficient foreign language skills to carry out the dissertation research project.

Deadline to apply: Jan. 15, 2025

ARISC Collaborative Heritage Management Grant In the Republic of Armenia 2024-25

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus invites proposals from collaborative teams in support of the preservation and conservation of the Republic of Armenia’s archaeological and historical heritage. This ARISC program, generously funded by private donors, seeks to foster joint work between American and Armenian scholars and institutions dedicated to the proper curation and preservation of heritage materials such as artifacts, sites, and manuscripts. Successful applications will demonstrate substantive collaborations that not only contribute to heritage conservation but also demonstrate efforts to build capacity and enhance local knowledge of current techniques and approaches to heritage management. These grants require active participation of both American and Armenian principal investigators (PI) in all aspects of the collaborative project.

Examples of potential projects include:

• Restoration of threatened archaeological remains
• Stabilization of historical resources
• Long-term protection for archaeological sites or historical monuments
• Curation and permanent exhibition of heritage materials
• Cataloging and recording of collections
• Digitization of heritage materials for wider public access
• Enhancement of conservation lab facilities
• Advanced training for specialists

Given the level of funding, these awards can also be used as seed grants to demonstrate the feasibility of a pilot program and/or in concert with funds from parallel sources. Grantees will be required to either give a talk or run a workshop pertinent to the subject of the grant while in Armenia. Fellows must acknowledge ARISC in any publications and presentations. Funding for this grant opportunity is made possible by private donors.

Deadline: Friday, January 17, 2025

Eligibility:

• Citizenship: Proposals are submitted jointly by a team of two or more scholars and/or specialists. At least one must be a citizen of the U.S. and one a citizen of the Republic of Armenia.
• Status: applicants must have a master’s degree or higher
• Project requirements:
  • These grants are not intended for primary research.
  • The participants must demonstrate that the project requires true collaboration between both PIs, as well as active participation by both PIs in all aspects of the work required to complete the project. 
  • Proposals must show evidence of endorsement from all relevant institutions in Armenia in order to demonstrate the feasibility of the undertaking.

Deadline: Friday, January 17, 2025

For more information: https://arisc.org/arisc-collaborative-heritage-management-grant-in-the-republic-of-armenia-2024-25/

Contact email: info@arisc.org

ARIT Fellowships for research and language study in Turkey, 2025-2026

ARIT Summer Fellowships for Advanced Turkish Language in Istanbul offers intensive advanced study of Turkish at Bogazici University during the summer 2025.  Participants must have completed two years of Turkish language study or the equivalent.  The fellowships cover round-trip airfare to Istanbul, application and tuition fees, and a maintenance stipend.   The application deadline will be in February, 2025.

For additional information please see the ARIT webpage at https://aritweb.org/fellowships/

CFP: Student Research on Dostoevsky

Are you a student working in English on some aspect of Dostoevsky studies?
Are you interested in the opportunity to present your work on a Zoom panel in front of an international audience of Dostoevsky scholars?
Following the success of our 2021 and 2022 Graduate Research Forum events, the North American Dostoevsky Society is delighted to announce this call for our 2-day 2025 Student Research Forum on Dostoevsky event. This year we are adding a new Undergraduate Research Forum!
This event is closely aligned with our Student Essay Competitions and some of the presenters will include the authors of the winning and honorable mention papers from those contests.
We invite abstracts of 300 words on any subject related to Dostoevsky studies for 15 minute long presentations, to be delivered live on Zoom at either our Graduate Research Forum (January 9, 2025) or our Undergraduate Research Forum (January 10, 2025).
The deadline for abstract submissions is December 15, 2024. See below for abstract submission links and details.

Graduate Research Forum on Dostoevsky
Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 9am MST/11am EST/4pm GMT
Sponsored by the North American Dostoevsky Society and the University of Leeds
Cohosted by the University of Leeds and the University of Toronto
Panel organizers: Sarah Hudspith and Kate Holland
Click here to submit an abstract

Undergraduate Research Forum on Dostoevsky
Friday, January 10, 2025 at 10am MST/12pm EST/5pm GMT
Sponsored by the North American Dostoevsky Society and Brigham Young University
Cohosted by Brigham Young University and the University of Toronto
Panel organizers: Katya Jordan and Kate Holland
Click here to submit an abstract

CFP: Fluidity and Musicality: Exploring the Rhythms of Language, Culture, and Identity

The 6th Annual Modern Languages & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Conference has extended their Call for Papers for their “Fluidity and Musicality: Exploring the Rhythms of Language, Culture, and Identity” conference scheduled for February 27-28, 2025 at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.

This year’s theme, “Fluidity and Musicality,” invites participants to examine the intersections and transformations in language, identity, culture, and sound. They welcome submissions that reflect a diverse range of interests, from linguistic analysis to cultural studies and literary exploration.

Faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from different institutions are encouraged to submit proposals by December 15th, 2024, at midnight at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUWEcizY1l8kjiOjwxjunVKAoleCmSk674lot6SswILChEMQ/viewform.

For full details, including submission guidelines, deadlines, and potential topics, please refer to our call for papers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14MKp8alVG2Pe2qUM69SEmJQ6v-EBNa1U/edit.

To learn more about our Keynote Speakers, team, and past conference, please visit our website: https://mllgraduatestudentconference.wordpress.com/.

If you have questions or would like to discuss potential proposals, please reach out to mllgradconference@gmail.com.

CFP: ESCAS 2025 Regional Conference – “Moving Central Asian Studies ever further: Orthodox vs Unorthodox approaches”

The European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) invites proposals for individual papers, panels and round-table discussions for the 20th ESCAS conference, which will take place June 5-8, 2025, in Tashkent and Samarkand, Uzbekistan. In line with regional traditions, the conference will have a nomadic format and will be held in collaboration with Tashkent State University of Economics. This format will allow you to experience different academic environments and networking with colleagues from various disciplines. 
In line with our mission, we are now looking to revitalize ESCAS as an inclusive academic platform which responds to the needs of exchanging information and ideas and identifying challenges and opportunities of conducting research in and about Central Asia, fostering discussions between disciplines and scholarly traditions. The topic of this year’s conference is very broad and reflects the fact that ESCAS is interested in contributions from the humanities, social sciences, and economics disciplines. The broad scope of the conference is particularly suitable for interdisciplinary collaborations. Therefore, whether you are interested in research on remote areas, socio-economic transformations in the region, societal and cultural change, macro or micro tendencies, anthropology, archeology, environmental issues or economics, law and legal studies, sociology or political science or cross-disciplinary research, you are very much encouraged to submit an abstract and join our discussions. We also welcome sessions and presentations offering non-orthodox approaches to the study of the region as well as papers bridging social sciences with life and exact sciences (medicine, engineering, environment)

The broad Central Asian region as a topic encourages us to look at the power shifts that are now unfolding, due not only to the current war in Ukraine, but also to the changing role of the region in economic, cultural and developmental issues. We would like to promote the event as a showroom of research on Central Asia, promote collaborations and exchanges between researchers and institutions and offer career development opportunities for young and mid-career researchers.

We welcome a regional focus on the broader Central Asian region and invite interested researchers to submit an abstract for individual papers, panels, or roundtables. Proposals can be related to all aspects of research in the arts, humanities and social sciences on Central Asia – namely the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, together with Xinjiang, Mongolia, Afghanistan and adjacent regions of Russia, China, Iran, South Asia and the Caucasus.

Please submit a 300 word abstract and 2-3 lines of biographical statement to escastudies@protonmail.com 

Deadline: January 5, 2025

Junior Scholar Workshop: "Writing Back from the Peripheries? Russophone Literary Diversity"

funded by the BRIDGE Seed Fund for collaboration between the University of Birmingham (UoB) in the UK, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the USA

July 9-10, 2025 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, decolonizing and decentring approaches to the study of Russophone literature and culture have become increasingly urgent tasks. This workshop seeks to offer support to emerging scholars whose research focuses on minoritized Russophone authors (both those who are “writing back” from regions formerly colonized by Russia and those who ended up living in exile abroad).
The interdisciplinary workshop follows the symposium on Russophone Literary Diversity organized at the University of Birmingham in September 2024. It is open to advanced graduate students and early career scholars working in literary studies, linguistics, human geography, anthropology, history, and political science. We welcome submissions focused on Russophone literary diversity and peripheries, with diversity being understood along a number of different axes: geographic, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual/gender. Abstracts and papers should highlight the critical methodologies used in the work. Selected papers will be pre-circulated among the participants, to maximize opportunity for discussion.
The workshop participants will receive feedback on their projects both from their peers and senior scholars, the latter serving as panel discussants and mentors. A specialized bibliography session on the topic of the workshop will be offered by the UIUC Slavic Reference Service.
The workshop committee will comprise: Valeria Sobol, David Cooper and George Gasyna (UIUC); Nataliya Rulyova, Isobel Palmer, and Irina Kuznetsova (UofB).

Application and funding information
To apply, please send a 300-word abstract and CV to vsobol@illinois.edu by February 1st, 2025.  In your email message subject, please write “Peripheries Workshop” and your name, for example: “Peripheries Workshop_Sobol.”
We will inform participants who have been selected by March 7^th and ask you to develop a paper of 4,000-5,000 words by June 1st, 2024.
The workshop will cover accommodation (dormitory housing) and offer partial travel reimbursement. Most meals will be covered for all the participants.

SRS 9th Annual SEEES Dissertation Research Workshop

The Slavic Reference Service, together with the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) invites doctoral students in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (SEEES) and affiliated disciplines to register for the 9th Annual SEEES Online Dissertation Research Workshop on March 6, 2025, 9:00 am – 12:45 pm Central Time.

This annual event brings together SEEES doctoral students, librarians, archivists, and faculty advisors to discuss resources, strategies, and professional development opportunities. We seek to foster a sense of community and support among SEEES doctoral students.

Workshop focus areas include:

• Dissertation Writing
• Planning Research Trips
• Research Support
• Sources and Collections
• ASEEES Dissertation Writing Grants

Register - https://forms.gle/o3pAe4CZmgDGvQiJ9

Call for Proposals: Gazeta Workshop virtual presentations, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

Gazeta Workshop offers a digital community for scholars of Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Russia to share their research on the history of the press. Founded in 2021, Gazeta Workshop is an online forum for scholars across the humanities and social sciences to share research related to the history of the press from the eighteenth century to the present. It offers an interdisciplinary and international community of scholars analyzing the historical press through its many facets, from history, sociology, political science, literary and cultural analysis, art history, and more. We welcome presentations from museum and archival curators, historians, literary scholars, and scholars in other academic disciplines working with newspapers, journals, almanacs, magazines, and other forms of periodicals circulating in the Eurasian, East European, and Russian space.

There are three formats for presentations: talks, workshopped papers, and book presentations. Invited talks are 45 minutes to an hour, with Q&A afterwards. For workshopped papers, we circulate papers one week prior to the event date, then discuss them. If you have a new book coming out in 2024-25, we invite a 45-minute presentation with discussion afterwards. Invited talks and book presentations are usually recorded and posted to YouTube; workshopped papers are not. We generally meet once per month via Zoom in the Fall semester and again in the Spring. While past presentations have been on Fridays at 3PM EST, we hope to accommodate our presenters with additional time slots at 12PM EST on Wednesday, Thursdays, and Fridays.

We’re open to scholars from around the world. Independent scholars are welcome, as are Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers. If you would like to present, please send us a title, abstract, and your CV to gazeta.workshop@gmail.com. In your email, please indicate your preference either for the Fall semester (September – December 2024) or the Spring semester (February – May 2025), as well as the format (on presentation formats, see below).

Contact Email: gazeta.workshop@gmail.com

Gender and Transformation in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia Workshop (Fall 2024- Spring 2025)

European Union Studies Center/CUNY Graduate Center

Call for Papers 2024-2025 online and in-person/hybrid

Founded in 1993, amidst the conflicts in Yugoslavia, this workshop is driven by the exploration of questions related to gender in postcommunist countries of East, South and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, including the Baltic countries and Central Asia. Centered on debates on communism’s impact on women and gender and on how to converse and theorize across the East-West divide, this workshop strives to include voices from not just the New York City area, but also from the region and around the world. We continue to be an informal and friendly gathering for feminist scholars, activists, and journalists to discuss recent theoretical and/or critical work, empirical research, and critical and scholarly reflections on activism. 

Theme: We invite papers on any topic related to the themes of communism and postcommunism and gender, but this year, we are particularly p thinking about the impact of Russia’s long war against Ukraine and of the threat of anti-gender populism and authoritarianism. We remain especially interested in proposals that consider the impact of Russia’s aggression on gender in the region, state gendered violence inside and outside the state borders, and the role of state propaganda in fostering ultranationalism and war. We are also especially interested in reflecting on our work as scholars of gender and this region, including  the continued influence of Russia-centrism and West-based scholarship.  We welcome conversations that put this region in the context of global events and processes, including the Israel-Gaza war.

Details:

• Meet monthly, usually on Fridays, at the CUNY Grad Center in New York City (with Zoom participation available) or via Zoom only, 2-3 PM New York time (8-9PM Poland time)
• Presenters share a 10-15 page paper in advance to those who have registered. We ask authors to limit their presentation to 20 minutes to allow maximum time for conversation.
• We will moderate the sessions so that we check in with what we are all thinking about, hear and see the key ideas of the paper, and have lots of time to discuss collaboratively.

To participate, please fill out this google form with your name, email, location/affiliation, current related interests.  We have also created a space there for you to share your thoughts and suggestions about the workshop as well as to indicate interest in participating in a NYC-based networking session to foster collaboration and mentoring.

If you’d like to present your work/project  this next academic year, please also add the following: 

• tentative title for your talk
• abstract of less than 200 words describing your proposed talk
• up to 5 recent publications or information about your activism
• your schedule clarifying which Fridays you could present
• Preferred format: Zoom or in-person

We regret that, despite our best efforts, we do not have funds for an honorarium. All are welcome to participate.

Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Symposium-Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture

Minority groups are often underrepresented in official archives, which has resulted in their continuing marginalization in historiography. Critical archive scholars argue for empowering such groups by developing and investigating archival collections. This symposium intends to expand this approach by demonstrating how the visual practices of underrepresented groups can be studied through underutilized data sources. To this end, the symposium will focus on diaspora communities seen through their visual production with the presumption that the vernacular representations of everyday life can provide substantial insights into evolving minority identities. Therefore, we want to explore the interplay of vernacular visual practices and the transformations of minority identities by posing two broad research questions: What is the role of vernacular visual practice in shaping minority identities? How does looking at identity through vernacular images challenge pervasive representations of minority groups?

Vernacular visual culture—commonplace, ordinary, or everyday images that people make and use—provides a rich set of material for the study of the culture of underrepresented groups. Yet, too often these materials are overlooked. As noted by Patricia Zimmerman, in the context of home movies, in popular imaginary, these images “are often defined by negation: noncommercial, nonprofessional, unnecessary.” Vernacular images were historically often considered subordinate; however, they constitute an essential corpus of sources produced “from below” by the community members. Our initial inquiry shows these marginal media forms can reveal depreciated or repressed histories that have failed to gain mainstream representation. One of the symposium’s key goals is to recognize the possibilities these sources offer in the context of writing “history from below.”

The symposium will be held in person only at The Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, May 9-10, 2025. Participation in the symposium is free (there is no registration fee). Travel/accommodation support will be available for a limited number of presenters without access to institutional funding.

We request that proposals be received no later than Tuesday, December 10, 2024, at 11:59 pm. If you are interested in presenting, please email Agata Zborowska (azborowska@uchicago.edu) with the following details:

• paper title,
• abstract of 300-500 words,
• short bio of 200-300 words,
• information on whether you want/need to apply for funding for travel/accommodation costs.

Accepted presenters are asked to submit their paper (or final draft) at least two weeks before the symposium date.

Call for Proposals: 29th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

Columbia University
Co-Hosted by the Harriman Institute
22-24 May 2025

Proposals must be submitted to darel@uottawa.ca AND asnconvention25@gmail.com in a single Word attachment.
Each applicant must also fill out a Fact Sheet online.

Key Points

• Following a highly successful return in person to Columbia University in 2023 and 2024, the ASN World Convention will be held once again on May 22-24, 2025.
• The Convention is welcoming five different types of proposals: Individual Paper Proposal, Panel Proposal, Book Panel Proposal, Roundtable Proposal, Film Proposal. Paper and panel proposals are based on written papers.
• Two new permanent sections — Populism and the Far Right, Gender and Nationalism — are added. The Convention will also a have Special Focus on the Russian War in Ukraine, American Nationalism, and Political Memory.
• Registration fees will be waived for discussants, unless they are making a presentation on a different panel.
• The Convention is in person only. No presentation will be on Zoom.
• Applicants will be notified of the status of their proposal in January 2025.

The Convention

Over 150 Panels in 4 global sections: 

• Nationalism (incl. First Nations)
• Populism and the Far Right
• Migration, Refugees, and Diasporas
• Gender and Nationalism

And 8 regional sections:

• Balkans
• Belarus
• Caucasus
• Central Europe
• Eurasia (Central Asia and China)
• Russia
• Turkey and Greece
• Ukraine

ASN Awards

• Best Doctoral Papers
• Best Book on Nationalism (Joseph Rothschild Prize)
• Best Article in Nationalities Papers (Huttenbach Prize)
• Best Documentary Film
• Nationalities Papers Photo Contest
• Social Media Awards

 The Scope of the Convention

 The ASN World Convention, which brings together 750+ scholars from 50+ countries annually, welcomes proposals on a wide range of topics related to nationalism, national identity, ethnicity, indigenous and racialized groups, political memory and migration in regional sections of Central, Southern and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and cross-regional sections in nationalism studies, populism and the far right, migration/diaspora studies, and gender.

Popular themes include language, religion, EU integration/exit, security, energy politics, parties and elections, youth, media, and civil society.

Disciplines represented include political science, history, anthropology, sociology, international studies, security studies, area studies, economics, geography, literature, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.

Prospective applicants can get a sense of the large thematic scope of ASN Convention papers and presentations by looking at the 2024 Convention Program (https://www.asnconvention.com/panels-by-date)

Applying to the Convention

To submit a proposal, fill out a Fact Sheet online, download the relevant form below and send it as an attachment to darel@uottawa.ca and asnconvention25@gmail.com.

• Paper Proposal
• Panel Proposal
• Roundtable Proposal
• Book Panel Proposal
• Documentary Film Proposal
• Discussant Proposal

Applying to the Convention: Five Categories

• Accepted individual paper proposals will be included in panels created by the Program Committee.
• A panel proposal is comprised of up to five panelists whose presentations are based on written papers, as well as a chair and a discussant.
• A roundtable proposal includes four presentations not based on written papers and generally addresses ongoing events (such as a recent election or protest) or issues pertaining to research methods and challenges.
• A book panel proposal is based on a monograph published in 2024 or early 2025. Edited volumes have fewer chances of being accepted.
• Film proposals will be considered for documentaries produced between 2023-2025.
• A discussant proposal is for applicants who are NOT on other proposals (individual, panel, book, roundtable) but would like to volunteer as discussant on a panel created from individual proposals by the Program Committee.

Applying to the Convention: Guidelines

• In a nutshell: applicants may not appear on more than two panel proposals (three if one is a book panel) and may not present more than one paper (whether as the main author or the co-author).
• Only ONE paper proposal per applicant will be considered. If your name appears on more than one paper as either single author or co-author, you will be asked to choose which proposal you want the Program Committee to consider.

Convention Outreach

• Publishers and other companies wishing to advertise in the Convention program and/or in our book exhibit can contact ASN Executive Director Ryan Kreider at rk2780@columbia.edu
• The ASN Convention website is at http://asnconvention.com
• The ASN website is at http://nationalities.org
• Follow us on Twitter (X) at @asn_org
• Follow us on Facebook at  https://www.facebook.com/Nationalities

Deadline for proposals: 12 December 2024 (to be sent to both darel@uottawa.ca  AND asnconvention25@gmail.com 

in a single Word attachment).

Call for Papers— University of Chicago Slavic Forum Graduate Student Conference 

We are pleased to invite submissions for the University of Chicago’s Slavic Forum Graduate Student Conference to be held on April 4, 2025. The Slavic Forum is a one-day multidisciplinary conference dedicated to graduate student work in the field of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. We welcome papers discussing any aspect of culture, literature, or history from the region as well as research that engages with the study of Eastern Europe and Eurasia from a transnational perspective. We especially encourage submissions that adopt an interdisciplinary approach and take as their focus traditionally underrepresented geographic and linguistic constellations.  

Format: This conference will take place in person at the University of Chicago. We intend to offer advanced graduate students the opportunity to present their work and receive constructive feedback from senior scholars in the field. Presentations will be delivered in a roundtable format with fifteen minutes allotted to each presenter. Paper presentations will then be followed by an extended discussion. Participants will be expected to pre-circulate their papers prior to the conference. The working language of the Slavic Forum is English. 

Submission Details: Only submissions from advanced graduate students in the Midwest region will be considered. Limited reimbursement for transportation is available. Please send an abstract (300 words or less) and short bio (100 words or less) to uchicago.slavicforum@gmail.com. Any questions can be sent to the same address. 

The deadline for submissions is December 30, 2024.

Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies

Resilience and Adaptation in Times of Adversity

11-13 June 2025, Tartu, Estonia

The Centre for Eurasian and Russian Studies (CEURUS) at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu, in collaboration with the University of Tartu Ukraine Centre (UTUC), invites proposals for full panels, roundtables, and individual papers for its 2025 annual conference on East European and Eurasian Studies. The Tartu Conference provides an academic forum that brings together scholars from area studies, comparative politics, international relations, economics, history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and related disciplines to discuss the fundamental cultural, social, economic, and political trends and questions affecting all aspects of life in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The organisers expect that, as in previous years, more than 200 scholars will attend the event. 

The conference will take place as a fully in–person event at the University of Tartu, Estonia. The conference will begin in the afternoon on Wednesday 11 June and end in the late afternoon on Friday 13 June. The conference opening ceremony will take place on Wednesday evening, followed by a plenary roundtable on “Democracy and Resilience” and a drinks reception. On Thursday evening, there will be a keynote lecture followed by a conference dinner. This year’s keynote will be given by Kate Brown, Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will speak about community action and urban self-provisioning in a talk entitled: “Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A Kaleidoscopic History of the Food Sovereignty Frontier.”

The Tartu Conference 2025 invites participants to address the historical legacies, contemporary challenges, and future pathways of resilience in Eastern Europe and Northern Eurasia, focusing on social, political, economic, and environmental factors shaping how different states, communities, and individuals adapt and transform when faced with adversity. The conference welcomes submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes: 

• Historical and contemporary cases of resilience, including adaptations and transformations during times of crisis (e.g., wars, regime change, migration and population displacement, pandemics, economic downturns)  

• Cultural resilience, including the role of language, identity, memory, and heritage in building and sustaining communities 

• Democratic resilience, social mobilization, and collective action in response to political and legal challenges (e.g., authoritarianism, populism, political polarization, disinformation, corruption) 

• Resilience and adaptive strategies in the face of resource scarcity, environmental degradation, and climate change  

• Institutional adaptations to (geo)political pressures and internal and external security threats, including EU integration, NATO cooperation, hybrid warfare, and shifts in foreign policy alignment 

• Strategies to counter the impact of disinformation and information warfare on public opinion, political stability, and social cohesion 

The Tartu Conference invites submissions for panels, roundtables, and individual papers addressing the above and related themes, as well as other issues relevant to the past and present developments in Eastern Europe and Northern Eurasia. Comparative research focusing on the region and beyond, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives, are especially welcome. The Programme Committee will give careful consideration to all proposals, however, full panel proposals are particularly encouraged. 

Each paper proposal must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Panel and roundtable proposals should list all speakers (3 or 4 per panel/roundtable), along with abstracts and, if available, information about the chair and the discussant (alternatively, these can be assigned later by the Programme Committee). In the formation of panels, we are committed to promoting diversity in gender, career stage, and institutional/country affiliations to foster a broad range of perspectives and enhance scholarly dialogue. 

Please visit the submit a proposal webpage to upload an individual paper, panel, or roundtable proposal. All submissions will undergo review by the Programme Committee. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by email by 20 February. Accepted participants will be expected to register by 20 April and pay a registration fee of 120 euros. Students are eligible for a reduced fee of 80 euros. Please see Rules of Participation and Important Dates for other deadlines and requirements.

For scholars whose primary affiliation is with an institution in Ukraine, participation fees will be waived. Please note that all participants are expected to attend in-person and we are unable to accommodate requests for online participation or proposals for hybrid sessions. 

All participants should plan to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. The organisers will issue visa invitations upon request. 

The deadline to submit proposals is 20 January 2025. 

For further information, please see the conference website: https://tartuconference.ut.ee
If you have any questions, please contact the organisers at tartuconference@ut.ee

2025 Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, OH

The Midwest Slavic Association and The Ohio State University’s (OSU) Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) are pleased to announce the 2025 Midwest Slavic Conference to be held in-person in Columbus, OH on April 4-6, 2025. The conference committee invites proposals for papers on all topics related to the Slavic, East European and Eurasian world, particularly those related to the theme of authenticity. 

The desire for the authentic emerges from a complex interplay of cultural, historical, and social factors, often stemming from a longing for connection to one's heritage and identity. In a world increasingly dominated by globalization and mass production—processes that have both human and machine dimensions—many find themselves yearning for narratives, artifacts, and practices that resonate with their cultural origins and lived experiences. At the same time, forces in society today and in the past, including governments and non-government actors, sometimes look to “sell” items and storylines as “authentic” when they are anything but and have distinctly manipulative and often malign aims. Why do people desire the authentic and what values underlie that desire? Conversely, what motivates people to produce inauthentic products or narratives? We welcome papers that will examine these concepts as we explore how the tension between authenticity and inauthenticity affects perceptions of the peoples, cultural practices and histories of Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

The conference will open at 5:30PM on Friday with a keynote address by Dr. Mikhail Epstein (Emory U.). Building on the keynote address, a plenary panel will follow on Saturday morning. Panels by conference participants will then be held on Saturday from 10:30AM-4:45PM and Sunday from 8:30AM-11:45AM.

Please submit a one-paragraph abstract and C.V. in a combined, single PDF file using our submission portal by 11:59 PM EST January 24th, 2025. Undergraduate and graduate students are strongly encouraged to participate. Interdisciplinary work and pre-formed panels are encouraged. Proposals for individual papers are also welcome. Have questions? Please send all inquiries to cseees@osu.edu.

Deadlines                                                                                                      

• Abstract and C.V. Deadline: Friday, January 24, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: Monday, February 17, 2025
• Scheduling Conflicts Due: Friday, February 21, 2025
• Panels Announced: Monday, February 24, 2025
• Final Papers to Chair: Monday, March 24, 2025
• Presenter Registration Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2025

REGISTRATION FEES*

• Student Presenters: $35
• Faculty/Independent Scholars: $50
• All attendees (those not presenting): $25

Call for Applications: University of Pittsburgh Summer Language Institute

The Summer Language Institute (www.sli.pitt.edu) at the University of Pittsburgh is accepting applications to summer 2025 programs in Pittsburgh and abroad, as well as to our trademark 10-week Pitt+abroad programs and language internship programs. SLI is planning a primarily in-person program in 2025, but will offer a limited number of online, synchronous opportunities. We welcome inquiries from students about the availability of their preferred instructional format.

Our priority application due date for best funding consideration is March 1. Please note that the deadline for FLAS applications from Pitt’s REEES and other international studies centers this year is February 17.

SLI's 2024 languages are:

Arabic (Beginning-Intermediate)

Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian (Beginning-4^th-year)
Also offering study abroad in Montenegro

Bulgarian (Beginning)

Czech (Beginning-4^th-year)
Also offering study abroad in Czech Republic

Hungarian (Beginning)
Program aligned for participation in IU’s 4-week study abroad in Hungary after SLI

Hebrew (Beginning)

Polish (Beginning-4^th-year)
Also offering study abroad in Poland

Russian (Beginning-5^th-year)
Also offering a new program of study abroad in Latvia

Slovak (Beginning-4^th year)
Also offering study abroad in Slovakia

Turkish (Beginning-Intermediate)

Ukrainian (Beginning-Intermediate)
Also offering Ukrainian Internship

For specific program offerings, dates, and links to our applications, visit: www.sli.pitt.edu

 SLI Program Highlights:

• Intensive language training: 2 semester’s worth of academic credit (6-10 credits) and the corresponding proficiency gains in one summer
• Generous scholarships available: All applicants are eligible to apply for scholarship support from SLI (including non-Pitt, out-of-state students and not-currently-enrolled language learners). Explore all our funding opportunities on our Funding Your Study page
• Expanded internship opportunities: Built on the model of our Ukrainian internship program, SLI is expanding the credit-bearing language internship program to other languages
• Cultural enrichment through films, lectures, masterclasses on arts, music, and movement, extra-curriculars, excursions, ethnic picnics, and more
• A diverse student body of undergraduate and graduate students from institutions all around the country and highly-motivated, non-student learners
• Expert teaching faculty of highly experienced, dedicated, friendly, and inspiring language teachers

SLI celebrates a 36-year tradition of passionate teaching and proven results. Students who complete SLI programs rapidly acquire language proficiency and cultural competency, while enjoying the camaraderie of other motivated language learners and friendly, experienced instructors. Enjoy the culturally rich, urban environment of University of Pittsburgh’s main campus or come abroad with us!

To explore our programs and apply: www.sli.pitt.edu

We welcome your questions! Direct inquiries to our team at sliadmin@pitt.edu  

Reach SLI Director, Kathleen Manukyan, at manukyan1@pitt.edu

Call for Applications: YCIE Summer School 
Being Apart – Being a Part: Practices and Theories of Belonging
June 15–29, 2025 | Armenia

The Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE) invites applications for the 2025 YCIE Summer School, “Being Apart – Being a Part: Practices and Theories of Belonging,” the second event in the series “Societies and Cultures Torn Apart,” launched in Armenia in June 2024.

The 2025 summer school will focus on practices and theories of belonging in Eurasia. Participants will discuss links, formations, and contexts that enabled individuals, groups, and institutions to create shared experiences and distributed agency during the Soviet period and after the USSR's collapse.

What are the experiential and conceptual options for crafting a satisfactory sense of belonging in situations where state borders are unstable, national histories are imagined, family configurations are flexible, and personal identities are fluid? How do people forge social ties and group loyalties in the face of powerful social conflicts that are reassembling society? How do they envision communities to which they belong now and those to which they belong no more? How are these choices made? How are these choices articulated, represented and symbolized? How are they justified? More specifically, what vernacular theories of belonging and solidarity were used in the USSR and are used now to normalize relationships with variously scaled formations – be it a state, a nation, a community, or a family?

We invite graduate and advanced undergraduate students in social sciences and humanities, studying the USSR and its aftermath to discuss these and related problems together with leading academics in the field. The summer school will consist of a thematic series of lectures and seminars, and it will include workshops on academic writing and ethnographic fieldwork.

The summer school will be structured around four thematic clusters:

• Nations & States: Exploring how nations and states foster loyalty or alienation, the impact of memory politics, and the interplay of cosmopolitan aspirations with localized experiences.
• Cities: Examining the material and institutional affordances of Soviet and post-Soviet cities for creating attachments to spaces, networks, and urban life.
• Home & Family: Investigating family dynamics, cultural intimacy, and personal freedom in Soviet-style modernity and post-Soviet transformations.
• Affective Communities: Focusing on communities formed through shared emotional reactions, such as fandoms, performing collectives, or other affective networks.

Application Requirements

• A one-page cover letter outlining your interest in the summer school and relevant qualifications.
• A creative or research project addressing one of the cluster themes (e.g., a short essay, podcast, or curated archive).
• A CV.
• One letter of recommendation from an academic advisor.

Applications must be submitted via the form on our website: https://summerschool.yerevancenter.org

Priority deadline: January 20, 2025, by the end of the day. Applicants will receive notification of acceptance in February.

Financial Information

The program cost is $900, which includes room and board (two meals per day) and a limited number of excursions. Travel expenses are not included.

Financial assistance: Financial support in the form of a partial or full tuition waiver and/or a travel allowance is available for admitted students with demonstrated need. The level of support awarded will be dependent on the scale of requests we receive, given that our budget for support is not unlimited.

For questions or additional information, please contact us at summerschool@yerevancenter.org

SRAS Study Abroad Program: Russian as a Second Language

Gain fluency in Russian and first-hand knowledge of local culture.

In Tbilisi, Georgia an intensive and supportive environment for Russian language study is paired with home stay to provide you with an immersive language and cultural experience. Out-of-classroom experiences and special lectures and workshops introduce you to local Georgian identity, history, and current issues in contemporary Georgia. Tbilisi is a very affordable option for study abroad, due to the many inclusions in this program and the generally low cost of living.

2025 Summer (4 weeks): Application Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

• Start Date: 23 May 2025
• End Date: 22 Jun 2025

2025 Summer (8 weeks): Application Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

• Start Date: 23 May 2025
• End Date: 20 Jul 2025

2025 Summer (10 weeks): Application Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

• Start Date: 23 May 2025
• End Date: 03 Aug 2025

2025 Summer (6 weeks): Application Deadline: 15 Mar 2025

• Start Date: 20 Jun 2025
• End Date: 03 Aug 2025

2025 Fall: Application Deadline: 01 May 2025

• Start Date: 22 Aug 2025
• End Date: 14 Dec 2025

SRAS Study Abroad Program: Identity and Conflict in the Caucasus

Perfect for anthropology, international relations, conflict studies, or history majors.

The Caucasus are rugged mountains that have historically separated – and been contested and colonized by – great empires. Politically and demographically, the extreme geography has given rise to dozens of languages, cultures, and identities packed into small and often isolated territories. These hard-to-access areas pose challenges to infrastructure and economic development, with competition for scarce funds divided along regional and ethnic lines. In some cases, regions are additionally divided by the scars of war and separatism. Yet, the unique geography also presents potential advantages – in untapped resources, renewable energy potential, tourism, and providing transport links between larger economic powers.

While based in Tbilisi, Georgia, you will travel extensively within that country's diverse landscape and also to Armenia and Azerbaijan to discuss the conflicts in these states, both past and present, with local experts. Learning of the historical background and the interests of groups involved, including foreign interests, you will critically consider the governance issues that face modern multiethnic states. You will search for pragmatic solutions using the experience you gain on the ground. This program provides invaluable experience for anyone interested in diplomacy or policy making.

2025 Fall: Application Deadline: 01 May 2025

• Start Date: 22 Aug 2025
• End Date: 14 Dec 2025

SRAS Study Abroad Program: Georgia Spring Break

An excellent and delicious introduction to the region!

Join SRAS for Spring Break in Georgia. In this 8-day trip you will be immersed in Georgian landscape, food, and culture. We will be based in Tbilisi with day trips to Kakheti (wine country) and Kazbegi (mountains). Enjoy the amazing culinary side of Georgia with the full "Georgian table," cooking class, and tastings.

The itineraries are based on weather conditions during that time period, which means we stay based (accommodations) in Tbilisi so as to be able to more easily make adjustments to the day trips. We have left plenty of time for independent exploration and we will offer some optional activities and give you recommendations. We'll keep an eye on any cultural events taking place during your stay and we'll introduce you to our spring semester students based in Tbilisi and to locals.

Spring Break 2025 Session 1: Application Deadline: 20 Dec 2024

• Start Date: 01 Mar 2025
• End Date: 09 Mar 2025

Spring Break 2025 Session 2: Application Deadline: 20 Dec 2024

• Start Date: 08 Mar 2025
• End Date: 16 Mar 2025

Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP)

American Councils Study & Research Abroad is pleased to announce that in addition to summer programming, the Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) will now be offered for semester and academic year programming in Tallinn, Estonia, starting in 2025. The program provides 20 hours per week of intensive in-class Russian language instruction, housing with Russian speaking host families, weekly meetings and activities with conversation partners, weekly cultural activities, extended group travel to explore the host country, and a rich array of opportunities to engage with the host culture through extracurricular activities and volunteering opportunities.

Open to both graduate and undergraduate students who have completed at least two semesters of Russian language study, the program offers academic credit (graduate or undergraduate) from Bryn Mawr College upon its successful completion.  

Generous financial aid is available for all RLASP sites and includes the Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship and the Dan E. Davidson Scholarship for advanced students of Russian.

Application deadlines:

Summer 2025: February 15, 2025 

Fall 2025: March 15, 2025

SRAS 2025 Summer Study Abroad Program: Warsaw: Slavic Studies Summer

Warsaw, Poland

Join SRAS in Warsaw for a Slavic experience this summer. Study intensive Polish or Ukrainian, practice with native conversation partners and immerse yourself in the multi-Slavic environment of Warsaw.

All participants will also take part in the Slavic Seminar - a series of lectures and workshops diving into topics of identity, language, literature and film, history, and more - and enjoy an extensive cultural program.

This program is open to all levels of Ukrainian or Polish language, including beginners. Belarusian language (all levels, individualized) is available on request.

2025 Summer (4 weeks)

• Start Date: 14 Jun 2025
• End Date: 12 Jul 2025

2025 Summer (8 weeks)

• Start Date: 14 Jun 2025
• End Date: 09 Aug 2025

Application Deadline: 15 Mar 2025

Website: https://sras.heiapply.com/catalog/programs/190385

SRAS 2025 Summer Study Abroad Program: Yerevan: Armenian Studies Summer

Yerevan, Armenia

Explore the Armenian language, history, and culture through the lens of museum studies. This highly experiential program takes you to the past and back again, providing new perspectives on history, geography, identity and more.

Often referred to as "The Museum Under the Sky," Armenia is a walk through history, nestled in incredibly beautiful landscape. It is one of the oldest centers of civilization and home to an ancient cultural heritage. This setting, along with well-developed museums, active excavation sites, and restoration labs, provides us with opportunities to understand how history is uncovered, interpreted, preserved, and presented.

Summer 2025 (4 weeks)

• Start Date: 13 Jun 2025
• End Date: 13 Jul 2025

Application Deadline: 15 Mar 2025

Website: https://sras.heiapply.com/catalog/programs/191717

SRAS 2025 Summer Study Abroad Program: Tbilisi: Georgian Language & Culture

Tbilisi, Georgia

Embark on a travel writing adventure in Georgia with SRAS. Over four weeks we will travel extensively, noting the pillars of Georgian identity - Georgian language, food and wine, music, and dance - and how they are shaped by geography. We will discuss Georgia's growing tourism sector and sustainability. If you are linguistically and culturally curious, enjoy writing, and love sharing your experiences with others, this course is for you!

The Georgian language is the most widely spoken Kartvelian language, a language grouping not related to any other. It features a unique script (seen above in an inscription dedicated to the builders of Georgia's Ananuri Fortress). The language has a rich, complex grammar and a long literary history. The Georgian language, which has survived pressures from many empires over many centuries, is also considered an important pillar of Georgian identity.

Food and wine are perhaps the most recognized expression of Georgian identity and diversity. Extremely healthy (think superfoods), with amazing vegetarian and vegan dishes, Georgian food evokes emotion in any who have been lucky enough to try it. The wine industry has ancient roots, fascinating and unique history, and is making its way steadily into world markets.

From polyphonic singing to incredible folk and jazz, Georgia is a music destination. Georgian dance is famous for its difficulty. All of this we will experience firsthand.

Summer 2025

• Start Date: 23 May 2025
• End Date: 22 Jun 2025

Application Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

Website: https://sras.heiapply.com/catalog/programs/190394

SRAS 2025 Summer Study Abroad Program: Crossroads: Geopolitics and Security in the Caucasus

Location(s): Yerevan, Armenia; Baku, Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, Georgia

This course takes us to the South Caucasus countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Since independence from the USSR, each of these countries has pursued individual paths in foreign policy, shaping alliances with neighboring countries. We will study these paths both individually and collectively. Individually we explore the complex relationships with not only the most proximate (geographically) powers of Iran, Turkey, and Russia, but also with the EU, US, China, India, and others. Collectively we look at the relationships between these three countries, conflicts, real and potential areas for cooperation, and infrastructure development.

The geography of the Caucasus is some of the most dramatic and fascinating in the world. It is truly a region where geography shapes history and identity. We will start and end in Tbilisi (Georgia) and in between visit Baku (Azerbaijan) and Yerevan (Armenia). We will blend formal lectures and workshops with experiential learning. We will come to understand the worldview from these countries and why we should be paying more attention to them.

2025 Summer + Language

• Start Date: 23 May 2025
• End Date: 19 Jul 2025

2025 Summer

• Start Date: 20 Jun 2025
• End Date: 19 Jul 2025

Application Deadline: 01 Mar 2025

Website:  https://sras.heiapply.com/catalog/programs/189746

Bard College Russian in Central Asia Summer Program (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

Bard Abroad is pleased to announce that we opened applications for the Russian in Central Asia Summer Program in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The program is open for students with at least one year of college level Russian. It is hosted by the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), a Bard College dual-degree partner. Below are the program details.

Program Dates: June 5 to August 2, 2025.

Application Deadline: March 15, 2025.

For more information and to apply visit the website.

Program Overview 

The Summer Program combines intensive Russian study with an academic course to contextualize Central Asia’s historical, cultural, and contemporary ties to Russia and the former Soviet Union. This 8-week program consists of two 4-credit courses: Post-Soviet Central Asia: Sovereignty, Community, and Cultural Self-Expression and Russian Language Course.

Academic Program 

Track 1

● Beginners to Intermediate: Transitional Russian Language Course

Track 2

● On the Road to Proficiency: Russian from Intermediate to Advanced

In addition to daily Russian Language classes, both tracks include:

● Post-Soviet Central Asia: Sovereignty, Community, and Cultural Self-Expression Course (4 credits)

● Russian Table lunches, which encourage casual conversation in Russian

● Guided homework sessions with peer tutors.

Cultural Program and Extracurricular Activities

Participants experience the culture, history, society, and natural beauty of Kyrgyzstan through weekly excursions in Bishkek, and trips to sights of interest in Kyrgyzstan including the stunning Lake Issyk-Kul and Ala-Archa Nature Park.

Homestays

Participants live with local Russian-speaking families in Bishkek, experiencing daily life in Kyrgyzstan while immersing themselves in a Russian language environment. Homestays include two meals a day during the week and three meals on weekends.

For more information or questions, contact Tatiana Orlova torlova@bard.edu. 

Summer Program: Learn Russian in the European Union (Daugavpils, Latvia)

Learn Russian in the EU offers an intensive summer Russian program in Daugavpils, Latvia. This program takes advantage of our experience in providing highly successful summer programs for universities, federal service academies, Project GO, and other institutional customers from the USA and Europe.

This program is focused on improving practical Russian communication skills and confidence, extending active vocabulary, and refining grammar. The in-class study is augmented with full language and culture immersion.

6 week program – application deadline: May 18, 2025

• June 30^th – August 8^th 2025
• Intensive 6-week language study and full Russian language immersion in Daugavpils, Latvia, the  Russian-language enclave in Latvia.
• 144 instruction hours with Daugavpils University professors.
• 13.5 ECTS credits in Russian language at Daugavpils University (optional).
• Conversation practice with native Russian communication tutors, 12 hours.

5 week program – application deadline: April 14, 2025

• May 25^th  – June 27^th 2025
• Intensive 5-week language study and full Russian language immersion in Daugavpils, Latvia, the  Russian-language enclave in Latvia.
• 120 instruction hours with Daugavpils University professors.
• 9 ECTS credits in Russian language and 3 ECTS credits in area studies at Daugavpils University (optional).
• Conversation practice with native Russian communication tutors is included, 10 hours.

Intensive Language Instruction Program (formerly IFLIP)

The Intensive Language Instruction Program (ILIP)—formerly known as the Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program, or IFLIP—is a unique educational experience designed to accelerate language learning through an immersive classroom atmosphere that is fun and welcoming. ILIP classes combine language and culture through engaging high-quality activities facilitated by our skilled instructors.

ILIP is open to members of the university community and to the general public and offers classes in several languages, including beginner Polish and Ukrainian. Learn more here:

Intensive Language Instruction Program (formerly IFLIP) | School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics | UIUC (illinois.edu)

Aspirantum- Armenian School of Languages and Cultures

ASPIRANTUM provides life-changing education for academically-oriented people, students, researchers, and professionals. ASPIRANTUM - School of Languages and Cultures has a long tradition of organizing language schools in the Republic of Armenia.  ASPIRANTUM operates as a separate brand/entity with the aim to offer language courses in Armenian, Persian, Russian, Georgian, Arabic, Turkish, and Kurmanji. Since 2014 we have organized Armenian, Persian and Russian summer and winter schools for students and scholars from around the globe. ASPIRANTUM has already served more than 100 students from more than 20 countries. Current ASPIRANTUM programs include: Persian Language Winter School and Russian Language Winter School. CIEE Study Abroad in Russia

Since 1947, nonprofit study abroad and intercultural exchange organization CIEE has been bringing the world together, advancing peace by building bridges of mutual understanding between different people, different countries, and different cultures. The current programs CIEE offers are: Semester or Year Russian Area Studies, Summer Russian Area Studies, Semester or Year Russian Language, and Summer Russian Language.

Deadlines differ based on program.

Russian Practicum at Columbia University 

The Russian Practicum offers three courses in the Russian language (beginning, intermediate and advanced). The first session is offered June 3–27, and the second session is offered July 1–25. Each Russian session carries four (4) credit points and is offered at a flat payment rate, which is lower than the standard semester per credit rate. It is an excellent opportunity to explore a new language or, if you have taken Russian before, bring it up to the next level of proficiency.

The Russian Practicum provides an opportunity to deepen your knowledge of the Russian language and culture in an immersive and engaging environment. The program is designed to provide you with instruction in speaking and listening, reading and writing. You will have the chance to learn alongside other enthusiastic students who share your passion for the Russian language and culture.

If you have any questions or if you need help with registration, contact Alla Smyslova at as2157@columbia.edu.