June 06, 2013
Course: Grantwriting to Support Quantitative Research in Eurasian Contexts - SSRC Eurasia Program Webinar Series
Webinar: June 12, 2013
SSRC Eurasia Program Webinar Series: Issues in Quantitative Methods in Eurasian Studies
The SSRC Eurasia Program is pleased to announce the fourth installment in our Webinar Series on Issues in Quantitative Methods in Eurasia Studies:
June 12, 2013
3:30PM EDT
To register, click here: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/881234958
Grantwriting to Support Quantitative Research in Eurasian Contexts
This webinar will recommend strategies for writing effective proposals, and also review potential funding sources. Topics to be covered include the following:
-Identifying potential funding sources
-Types of grant support: for collecting new surveys, adding on to existing surveys, and/or analysis of existing surveys
-Writing about research design: sampling, measures, models, quality control, analytical techniques
-Estimating timelines and costs
-Tailoring proposal to audience: explaining quantitative approaches to interdisciplinary and non-quantitative audiences; justifying Eurasian context to non-area-studies audiences
The webinar instructor, Jane Zavisca, is a sociologist at the University of Arizona who has won multiple nationally-competitive awards to support both quantitative and qualitative research in Eurasia, including support from NSF, SSRC, NCEEER, and Fulbright-Hays. She has also advised multiple graduate students on successful grant applications. Professor Zavisca is currently fielding a large survey of housing in Russia (in collaboration with Ted Gerber of the University of Wisconsin). They have also just been awarded a large grant to conduct a related comparative survey in four countries in Eurasia.
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April 02, 2013
Courses: New Master of Arts Degree Program in Central Asian Studies
The American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and its Central Asian Studies Institute are happy to announce the opening of a new MA program in Central Asian Studies in Fall 2013. The program will provide students with a critical understanding of past and present social, political, economic and cultural processes in Central Asia and a proficiency in a local language at a level allowing them to conduct independent research or professional work. Students enrolled in the program become part of a vibrant academic and research community and are offered the possibility, through the ongoing series of meetings, lectures, seminars and round tables, to meet key political actors and experts and to get in touch with a variety of visiting scholars.
The M.A. program is four-semesters long, but motivated students could also be given the option of completing it within two semesters. On request, and with a prior approval by their home universities, foreign students can be admitted to the program for a single semester, combined or not with summer field work, internship, or with AUCA Summer Language School (see http://www.auca.kg/en/sls/).
To learn more on the program, visit: http://www.auca.kg/en/masters_of_central_asian_studies/
Further enquiries can be addressed to Svetlana Jacquesson at jacquessonsvetlana@gmail.com
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March 21, 2013
Course: Summer Institute for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics, August 2013, Ohrid, Macedonia
Deadlines: April 20 and May 20, 2013
The Euro-Balkan University (Skopje, Macedonia) in cooperation with the Faculty for Media and Communications at Singidunum University (Belgrade, Serbia)
Announces the CALL FOR APPLICATIONS for the
OHRID SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2013
SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR SEXUALITIES, CULTURES, AND POLITICS
(August 15-21 2013, Ohrid, Macedonia)
CONFIRMED LECTURERS
- Didier Eribon (School of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the
University of Amiens, Paris, France)
- Antke Engel (Institute for Queer Theory, Hamburg/Berlin, Germany)
- Tomasz Sikora (Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland)
*COURSES OFFERED*
- Title TBC (Lecturer: Didier Eribon)
- Desire, Power and Fantasy (Lecturer: Antke Engel)
- The Violence of Inclusion and the Ethics of Betrayal (Lecturer:
Tomasz Sikora)
** For detailed information for the Summer Institute programme please
visit our website
<http://euba.edu.mk/details-ohrid-summer-university/items/158.html,
or see detailed document
<http://euba.edu.mk/tl_files/OSU%20aplikacii%202013/SISPC%20Call%202013.pdf
*ELIGIBILITY *
- Participants should be postgraduate students (preferably MA, PhD
student or young researchers) interested in exploring the issues of
Gender,
Queer, Cultural Studies, Visual Arts and Humanities and related Studies.
- Participants from all countries are eligible to participate.
- All applicants should send Application form including paper abstract
(appr. 200 words max.). Please download the application form on our
website.
*TUITION FEE: 300 EUR *
- *Note that we offer 20% discount if the participant apply in the first
application deadline and pays the total fee to 15th of May and 10%
discount
if the participant pay the total fee to 15th of June.*
- *Applicants from the partner universities are offered 30% tuition fee
discount*
Discounts: university partners, alumni and university groups (see more on
this in the detailed
document
http://euba.edu.mk/tl_files/OSU%20aplikacii%202013/SISPC%20Call%202013.pdf
or on our website
http://euba.edu.mk/details-ohrid-summer-university/items/158.html
MOBILITY & GRANTS: CEEPUS Freemover Mobility Grants (see instructions here
*APPLICATION DEADLINES* - Deadline 1 for early applications (20% discount): April 20th / Please send all applications to Slavco Dimitrov and Stanimir Panayotov: slavco.euba@gmail.com, spanayotov@gmail.com
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We offer programs offer intensive language instruction for participants with a variety of academic or non-academic goals. Whether you are planning to study or work abroad, or just wish to strengthen your skills so you can enroll in higher-level courses at your home institute, our intensive and custom language programs might be just what you are looking for. We offer summer language programs in 6 languages (www.miis.edu/academics/language/summer), as well as customized one-on-one and small group language training programs in common and less-commonly taught languages (www.miis.edu/academics/language/custom). These programs are open to anyone interested in language study and development of cross-cultural understanding. Program Dates: June 17-August 9, 2013 Program Highlights: • Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese For more information, contact: Monterey Institute of International Studies
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Portland State University is pleased to announce that it will offer Intensive First-Year, Second-Year and Third-Year Russian in Summer 2013 as well as Russian Culture Courses taught by International visiting Professor, Dr Alexander Kochetkov from the Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod. Language Courses: Culture Courses: More information is available at http://www.pdx.edu/wll/courses-summer-2013
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Deadline: May 24, 2013 The Arizona State University Critical Languages Institute is now accepting applications on a rolling basis for summer study in ALBANIAN, ARMENIAN, BOSNIAN CROATIAN SERBIAN, PERSIAN, POLISH, RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN and UZBEK. Russian and Ukrainian classes are held in 8-week sessions overseas. Other classes combine 7-weeks of study in Arizona with (optional) 4-week programs in country. Summer Language & Study-Abroad Opportunities for Less Commonly-Taught Languages:
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The Committee on College and Pre-College Russian annual list of US-based Summer 2013 programs in Russian, Slavic, and other East European languages is posted on the CCPCR Summer Program website at: http://www1.american.edu/research/CCPCR/Summer%20programs.htm
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Deadline: May 17, 2013 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Slavic Languages and Literature is pleased to announce that it will offer Intensive First, Second and Third Year Russian in Summer 2013. Study Russian on the shores of beautiful Lake Mendota in Wisconsin’s vibrant capital, Madison! Dates: June 17-August 9, 2013 Slavic 101 and Slavic 102: Intensive First Year Russian (8 credits) Tuition and fees for the 8-credit courses in the Summer 2013 (est.): Students who are not current UW-Madison students must apply to enroll as University Special Students at least one month in advance of the course. See: http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/info/applySpecial.htm The earliest date students will be able to enroll in summer courses as Special Students is April 8. Students with prior experience in Russian from outside of post-secondary educational settings should contact Dr. Anna Tumarkin in advance for a placement test. Contact: Project GO at UW-Madison has generous funding for ROTC students (commissioned and participating) to study Russian during Summer 2013. All ROTC students, both at UW-Madison and at other institutions, are encouraged to apply to domestic and study abroad programs. Please visit rotcprojectgo.wisc.edu for more information and the online application.
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A National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College & University Teachers This Institute will consider the substance of the terms "diaspora," "transnational," "accommodation," and "memory" through the specific prism of the four distinct waves-First (1917-40), Second (1947-55), Third (1967-89), and Fourth (1989 to the present)- of Russian-speaking immigrants to America. One of the core issues addressed is whether we can create a sophisticated narrative synthesis of the "Russophone Experience" in America, that could be integrated into broader courses on American politics and immigration, sociology, anthropology, and ethnic studies. More than this, can this synthesis be applied to the experience of other immigrant groups? Institute applicants-current faculty members at U.S. institutions, independent scholars, museum curators, and up to three advanced graduate students-will compete for the twenty-five available Summer Scholar spots. Over a three-week period, this select group will engage in a lively dialogue with an extraordinary array of upwards of fifty master teachers, scholars, and social services and community representatives of the last three waves of emigration (and with the children of the first). A full description, daily schedule, and application information will be found at: http://nehsummerinst.columbia.edu/
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selection results by April 30th / payment due May 15th
- Deadline 2 for early applications (10% discount): May 20th /
selection results by May 30th / payment due June 15thCOURSES: 2013 Summer Intensive Language Program at the Monterey Institute
• 8-week intensive program
• Small class size (8-10 student average)
• Graduate and undergraduate credit earned
• Elementary, intermediate, and advanced courses offered
in most languages
Intensive and Custom Language Programs
831-647-4115
silp@miis.eduFebruary 19, 2013
Courses: Summer 2013 Russian, Portland State U
RUS 101, RUS 102 & RUS 103: Intensive First-Year Russian (4 credits each)
RUS 201, RUS 202 & RUS 203: Intensive Second-Year Russian (4 credits each)
RUS 301, RUS 302 & RUS 303: Intensive Third-Year Russian (4 credits each)
Dates: June 24-August 23, 2013
RUS 410: Constants of Russian Culture in Modern Literature (4 credits, in English)
RUS 421: Contemporary Issues in Post-Soviet Russia (4 credits, in Russian)
Dates: June 24-August 16, 2013Courses: Summer 2013 Language and Study-Abroad Opportunities, ASU CLI
Courses award 8-11 ASU credits.
Courses are tuition free, but study-abroad fees and summer fees of $850 apply.
Rolling admission deadline is May 24.
THE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY CRITICAL LANGUAGES INSTITUTE
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CLI HYBRID PROGRAMS:
7-week intensive courses on the ASU main campus plus optional 4-week follow-on courses overseas, providing 8-11 academic credits.
In-language cultural programming, one-on-one peer-led extramural programming in select locations
- Albanian (Arizona - Tirana, 1st-Year - 2nd-Year)
- Armenian (Arizona - Yerevan, 1st-Year - 2nd-Year)
- Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (Arizona - Sarajevo, 1st-Year - 2nd-Year)
- Persian (Arizona, 1st-Year - 2nd-Year)
- Polish (Arizona - Poznan, 1st-Year (research focus))
- Uzbek (Arizona, 1st-Year - 3rd-Year)
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CLI OVERSEAS PROGRAMS:
8-week summer programs providing 8 academic credits.
Homestays, one-on-one peer-led extramural activities, summer internships and extensive cultural programming
- Armenian, Advanced (Yerevan)
- Russian 3rd-Year - 6th-Year (Kiev)
- Ukrainian, 1st-Year - 4th-Year (Kiev)
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- DATES: Vary. See http://cli.asu.edu
- COSTS: Vary. See http://cli.asu.edu/costs
- DEADLINE: May 24, 2013
- DETAILS/APPLICATION: See http://cli.asu.eduCourses: List of US-based summer programs in Slavic and East European languages
February 12, 2013
Courses: Intensive First, Second and Third Year Russian at UW-Madison
Times: 8:50-10:45 am, 12:05-2:10 pm, Monday-Friday
Slavic 117 and Slavic 118: Intensive Second Year Russian (8 credits)
Slavic 279: Intensive Third Year Russian (8 credits)
• Wisconsin resident: $2,690.52
• Non-resident: $6,627.96
• Minnesota resident: $3,455.05
Dr. Anna Tumarkin
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
atumarki@wisc.edu
(608) 262-1623December 12, 2012
Course: America's Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees: Twentieth Century Migration and Memory
Columbia University, New York
June 9-29, 2013