The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College invites applications for a lecturer position (instructional staff) in Russian language, beginning Fall 2013. Applicants should have native or near-native competence in both Russian and English, experience teaching North American post-secondary students, demonstrated excellence in language teaching, and enthusiasm for Russian language and culture. Knowledge of teaching technology is essential.
]]> The position requires an MA or PhD degree (or ABD) in a relevant field. The teaching load will include four sections of Russian language classes (first and second year, fall and spring, co-taught with faculty members), an Introduction to Russian Culture (taught entirely in Russian) in the fall, a half-credit conversation course in the spring, and co-curricular activities (attending Russian Table, supporting Russian Club, working with faculty on various kinds of cultural programming).The initial appointment is for one year with the possibility of renewal. The 7/8-time position includes health benefits and some support for professional development. Salary will depend partly on experience.
Please send curriculum vitae, cover letter, and the names of three references to: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/2706. If unable to submit online, send materials to:
Professor Sibelan Forrester
Chair, Russian Lecturer Search Committee
Modern Languages and Literatures
Swarthmore College
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390
Evaluation of applicants will begin on June 24 and will continue until the position is filled.
Swarthmore College is a highly selective liberal arts college, located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, whose mission combines academic rigor with social responsibility. Swarthmore has a strong institutional commitment to inclusive excellence through diversity in its educational program and employment practices. The College actively seeks and welcomes applications from candidates with exceptional qualifications, particularly those with demonstrable commitments to a more inclusive society and world.
]]>Call for Papers: Changes and Challenges in Glocalizing Russia and
Northeast Asia
October 18-19, 2013
Institute of Russian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul,
Korea
-Place and identity
-Memory and glocalism
-Cultural diversity, multiculturalism
-Everyday experiences
-Local mass media/communication
-Integration of local market into global market
-Global migrations
Conference languages: English and Russian
Proposals: Please send your proposals of 300 words in English or
Russian to Dr. Jooonseo Song at songjoo1@gmail.com . Proposals are due
by August 2, 2013. Successful presenters will be notified before
August 16.
Final papers: Final papers are due by September 30, 2013. Please
understand the early deadline. We need extra time to prepare a
conference proceeding by compiling all the final papers.
Free Accommodation: We will provide FREE accommodation for all
participants from abroad during the period of 17~20th October.
If you have any questions please contact Dr. Joonseo Song at
songjoo1@gmail.com
ZMO announces the opening of a number of three-year positions for postdoc
researchers and a very limited number of doctoral positions for the second
phase of the current research programme, conditional on the confirmation
of funding.
The positions are open from 1 January 2014 for 36 months.
Applications should be sent until August 11th, 2013 to Dr. Silke Nagel at
Zentrum Moderner Orient, Kirchweg 33, D-14129 Berlin (silke.nagel@zmo.de).
http://www.zmo.de/Ausschreibungen/Call_Research_Positions_2013.pdf
ZMO announces the opening of a number of three-year positions for postdoc
researchers and a very limited number of doctoral positions for the second
phase of the current research programme, conditional on the confirmation
of funding. Depending on the development of the programme, an extension of
up to three more years may be possible at a later stage.
Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin is an independent research center
devoted to a multidisciplinary study on the history, societies and
cultures of the Middle East, North and sub-Saharan Africa and South,
Southeast and Central Asia from the eighteenth century to the present.
Its main research programme is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education
and Research. ZMO hosts international researchers from different
disciplinary perspectives. It focuses on investigating social actors’
experiences and perceptions of translocal connections as well as
influences and processes of transformation in the above-mentioned regions.
In the frame of the current research programme “Muslim Worlds – World of
Islam? Concepts, Practices and Crises of the global”, Muslim social actors
and their (non-Muslim) neighbours are at the centre of attention.
Research will be organized in the following thematic fields:
Progress and its Discontents studies concepts which aim at a
transformation of individual and society, as well as actors who intend to
realise them and the semiotic materiality that represents them. Projects
that investigate progress as a social project and probe the resistance to,
and the negotiation of, its multifarious intellectual, practical and
symbolic imprint on culture and politics are welcome here.
The Politics of Resources investigates contested and changing ways of
appropriating, accessing and using material resources. We invite projects
which explore historical and contemporary processes of transformation
through which specific matters (land, water, minerals, forest etc.) are
valorized/devalued and ‘turned into’ resources, as well as practices that
challenge, reject or accommodate these processes by specific social
actors.
Trajectories of Lives and Knowledge analyses biographical pathways of
individual actors, and how these intersect with education, knowledge and
expertise. Projects which closely link intellectual history with the
social history of their carriers by investigating the role of knowledge
for living within a given social, historical, religious or regional
context are intended here.
Cities as Laboratories of Change explores the socio-political dynamics and
transformations of urban life, notably the development of new practices
and formation of new ideas. Projects focusing on urban development past,
present and future, as well as on the problem of the constitution of
urbanity with a particular view to the margins and hinterland of cities
are particularly welcome.
For further information on ZMO and its research see www.zmo.de or contact
Dr. Nagel at silke.nagel@zmo.de.
Applicants should relate their project to one of the four working fields
within the overall ZMO programme. Applications should include a CV, a
5-page research project outline (including a working plan with time frame
and necessary fieldwork), and a cover letter stating the relevant thematic
field. Successful applicants will be expected to reside in Berlin.
Working language at ZMO is English. Applications should be sent until
August 11th to Dr. Silke Nagel at Zentrum Moderner Orient, Kirchweg 33,
D-14129 Berlin.
Remuneration will be according to Tarifvertrag für den öffentlichen Dienst
(TvöD), grade 13; limited funds for archival and field research may be
available. Applications should not contain any original materials, as the
documents will not be returned.
The Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) in Leipzig kindly invites applications from highly qualified and motivated individuals for
3 PhD fellowships
to commence as soon as possible. The IfL is a non-university research institute and member of the Leibniz Association with currently around 70 employees. It is institutionally financed by the Free State of Saxony and the Federal Republic of Germany in the context of a common research funding agreement.
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The fellowships will be financed within the framework of the international comparative re-search project “Urban reconfigurations in post-Soviet space” (ira.urban). They aim at analyz-ing and explaining continuities and discontinuities in the reconfiguration of urban spaces in the light of traditional, reproduced Soviet and newly formed post-Soviet conditions as well as of changing global economic and social orders. On basis of transnationally comparative case study research, the project focuses on the question to what extent urban development has become part of a socially negotiated adjustment processes, and a mirror of a comprehensive
modernisation process of urban societies in the republics of the former Soviet Union.
The fellowships will be offered to researchers working in one or more of the following three fields:
(1) Large Housing Estates in post-Soviet Cities: Housing strategies and prospects for sustainability – (subject: ira.urban_housing)
(2) Contested and Negotiated Urban Space: modes, impacts and potentials of civil and economic actors in post-Soviet urban development – (subject:
ira.urban_conflicts).
(3) Spatial Organisation of Knowledge-Based Urban Economies: The Role of Permanent and Temporary Clusters in post-Soviet Space – (subject:
ira.urban_economy)
The research fellows are expected to empirically and/or conceptually contribute to one of the aforementioned topics. The successful candidates will be in an advanced stage of their PhD projects, have gained skills in social research methods as well as experiences in urban research in post-Soviet space and/or have elaborated concepts for researching one of the topics in question. Fur-thermore, we expect geographic flexibility, fluency in English and in at least one
language of the post-Soviet space, as well as working knowledge in Office software. The positions require hard working individuals with analytical strengths, communication skills, self-initiative and a strong team spirit.
Please submit your complete application package in English or German as one pdf-file by e-mail to: Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography,
Administration Management, Beata Kirch-ner, personal@ifl-leipzig.de. The deadline for applications is July 20th 2013.
Please enclose the following documents:
o CV
o letter of motivation/ statement of purpose, including a short display of the links between your PhD project and ira.urban (2 pages max.)
o exposé of your PhD project, including your time table and work progress (5 pages max, excluding sources)
o list of your publications and presentations
o Certificates, references etc.
Should you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Isolde Brade (I_Brade@ifl-leipzig.de) or Carola Neugebauer
(C_Neugebauer@ifl-leipzig.de). We are looking forward to your application!
Deadline: August 30, 2013
France, the USSR and the end of the Cold War, 1975-1991
Paris, January 23, 24 and 25th, 2014
Sorbonne Cold War History Project
in partnership with the Gorbachev Foundation (Moscow)
and the François Mitterrand Institute (Paris)
Presentation:
Studying French-Soviet relations is important in many regards in order to understand the complex international dynamics that led to the end of the Cold War.
Later, their participation in opposite Cold War alliances did not prevent the emergence of a privileged relationship. Under General de Gaulle, these relations developed in the framework of a “détente” that, on the French side at least, sought to move beyond the opposition between the Soviet bloc and the West, and promote the idea of a Europe “from the Atlantic to the Urals”. Twenty years later, French-Soviet relations played a significant role in ending the Cold War, evidenced by the signing of the Charter for a New Europe in Paris in November 1990. This initiative, taken by French President François Mitterrand, was supported by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, thereby ratifying the end of the “Yalta era”.
Over the past 25 years, French-Soviet relations have been studied extensively, through the lens of primary sources. Their impact on the evolution of the European continent and their role in ending the Cold War, however, received limited attention. Therefore, rather than addressing the bilateral aspects of French-Soviet relations, this conference will focus on their international dimension and European implications from the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975 until the end of the USSR in 1991.
Contributions on the following topics are welcome:
1. The first objective will be to explain and clarify, based on primary sources, the impact of French-Soviet relations on the evolution of the European context. To what extent did these relations contribute to challenging or, on the contrary, freezing and perpetuating the Cold War? Pivotal moments (the Helsinki conference and the 1989 revolutions, for instance) and key concepts (Pompidou’s détente, Gorbachev’s “common European home”, Mitterrand’s “confederation”) will be given priority.
2. Reciprocally, the second objective will be to understand how the European context weighed on French-Soviet relations, and influenced, if not determined, them. To that aim, important East-West events, such as Ostpolitik, the 1980 Polish upheaval or the Euromissile crisis, but also collateral processes, such as the enlargement and deepening of the European community, the evolution of NATO and the crises within the Warsaw Pact, will also be considered.
3. Although the diplomatic and geopolitical dimensions will be central, other aspects could be explored. This might include domestic politics (notably the influence of the French communist party) or cultural and economic exchanges, as they relate to the topic of the symposium.
4. Finally, contributions centered around personalities who played a prominent role, such as political figures and intellectuals, will also be welcomed.
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The conference will take place in Paris in January 2014, and will be conducted in English.
The proposal (one page) and a resume (half a page), written in English, will be sent by August 30th, 2013, in PDF format and in a single email, to both:
Marie-Pierre Rey: Marie-Pierre.Rey@univ-paris1.fr
and Céline Marangé: celine.marange@univ-paris1.fr
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University College, London announced its 13th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe. The conference will take place in February 2014 and will discuss generational divides in Central and Eastern Europe.
]]> he conference will take place in February 2014 and will discuss generational divides in Central and Eastern Europe. Generational divides with regard to rules and traditions are a recurring theme in the past and present of Central and Eastern Europe. The region has been subject to great turmoil and has undergone amultitude of changes and transformations over time. While some traditions have survived, others have been overhauled. Rules have been broken or adapted; yet each generation has also attempted to make their own rules and created new traditions. These phenomena can be observed and analysed from a variety of perspectives: historical, cultural, political, economic, social, and beyond. Therefore, 13th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe welcomes papers that analyze generational divides in Central and Eastern Europe adopting various perspectives.Eligible topics for the conference
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies looks forward to submissions that arecross-cultural, cross-national, and multi-disciplinary. Topics can include but are not limited to the following areas:
national identityand nation building;
a clash of urbanand rural ways of life;
insiders andoutsiders;
economic orpolitical reform;
religiosity andsecularism;
modernisation;
Particular attention will be given to papers addressingthe conference theme but also other research dealing with the countriesof Central and Eastern Europe, South-East Europe and the formerSoviet Union are also welcome. Submissions that place these countries intoan inter-regional comparative context are also encouraged.
Guidelines for submission
The conference invites applications from postgraduate students and earlycareer researchers from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Abstracts ofup to 300 words and a CV with full contact information should be sent to postgradconference2014@gmail.com. The language of theconference is English. A selection of papers will appear in a separateconference publication.
Organizer
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University College London
Information & contacts
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies
e-mail: postgradconference2014@gmail.com
conference website
More information here
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The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in the European Union
“Sustainable Economic Growth, Further Integration and Common Identity: Moving towards a European Consensus”
(Brussels; July 3rd - 5th, 2013)
www.eu-culturaldiplomacy-conference.org
]]> Since its foundation the EU has undergone multiple transformations in the socio-cultural, political, and economic spheres. Today, the European Union consists of 27 member states, all of which work closely together to develop policies to facilitate common interests such as the free movement of people, goods, services, and capital across borders.
Although the EU has made great strides in the past six decades- both politically and economically- the region still faces challenges in terms of delivering prosperity, bridging the gap between institutions and citizens, and creating a common and collective “European Identity.” Over four years of economic, social and political crisis have presented the EU, its leaders, and its people with a number of crucial challenges, which must be thoroughly and instantly tackled in order for Europe to be successful and to maintain its leading position in the global arena.
The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in the EU will therefore offer participants a platform to discuss the present and future challenges of the European Union, and will elaborate on the role of Cultural Diplomacy in improving European relations, enhancing cross-cultural collaboration, building democratic governance, and sustaining peace and stability in the region.
Symposium Locations
Based in Berlin, the Conference will be hosted at a number of important political, historic, and cultural locations across the city, and will consist of excursions to the country's top institutions and landmarks.
Symposium Participants
Participation in the conference is open to governmental & diplomatic officials, academics, artists, journalists, civil society practitioners, private sector representatives, young professionals and students as well as other interested individuals from across the world. If you would like to reserve a position and participate in the symposia, please click HERE
Symposium Speakers
Speakers during the symposium will include leading dignitaries, heads of state, ministers, politicians, diplomats, academics, authors, human rights activist, journalists, and artists. These speakers will include a number of individuals from the ICD Advisory Board. To learn more about the ICD Advisory Board, please click here.
Speakers for the Symposium include:
· The Hon. Dr. Alfred Sant - Former Prime Minister of Malta
· H. E. Amb. Andrej Lepavcov - Ambassador of Macedonia to the EU
· H. E. Amb. Carlos Appelgren Balbontín - Ambassador of Chile to the European Union
· Charles-Etienne Lagasse - President, EUNIC
· Elke Van den Brandt - Member of the Flemish Parliament
· H. E. Amb. Fuad Eldar oglu Isgandarov - Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Kingdom of Belgium and Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
· Giuseppe Gargani - Member of the European Parliament
· H. E. Amb. Kornelios S. Korneliou - Ambassador of Cyprus to the European Union
· The Hon. Luc van den Brande - Former Minister-President of Flanders-Belgium; Former President, European Committee of the Regions
· H.E. Amb. Mihnea Motoc - Ambassador of Romania to the European Union
· Philippe Suinen - CEO, Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency and Wallonie-Bruxelles International
· Senator Richard Miller - Member of the Flemish Parliament
· H. E. Amb. Vangelis Vitalis - Ambassador of New Zealand to the European Union
· Wilfried Vandaele - Member of the Flemish Parliament
· Willem-Frederik Schiltz - Member of the Flemish Parliament
· The Hon. Yves Leterme - Deputy Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development; Former Prime Minister of Belgium.
]]>The workshop will convene at Sarajevo University, under the auspices of the
Religio-West project at
RSCAS, EUI, Florence
and the Faculty of Islamic Studies, at the University of Sarajevo
The organisers will cover all the expenses of
participants
4) Inter-religious tolerance and dialogue.
Send your abstracts (up to 300 words), one paragraph CV and your contact
details to Arolda Elbasani, email:
arolda.elbasani@eui.eu
Deadline for sending the abstract: June 25, 2013
Notification of accepted papers: July 2, 2013
Deadline for complete papers: October 15, 2013
Between Labour and Leisure: Towards the New Economy of Salvation
An International Conference
26th and 27th November 2013
Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Moscow, Russian Federation
Working languages: English, Russian, French (with translation to be
provided by us).
Please send an abstract (max. 700 words) for a 20-minute paper and your
short CV by 1st August 2013 to mmaiatsky@gmail.com.
In case of acceptance you will be notified by 1st September 2013.
We will partially cover travel and accommodation expenses for all selected
participants.
You can find more details on the web-site of the Research Group:
http://culture.hse.ru/en/postindustry
We look forward to reading your proposals.
Michail Maiatsky
PhD, professor, head of the project
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Middle’ and ‘Creative’: Emerging Russian Social Groups in Language and
Culture
International Conference
Organiser: The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, the University of
Edinburgh, in partnership with the Russian State University for the
Humanities (Moscow, Russia).
Dates: Friday 25th-Saturday 26th October 2013
The conference aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary investigation of
the linguistic and cultural forms, codes and practices associated with the
Russian ‘creative’/‘middle class’. Approaches including socio-cultural
linguistics, discourse studies, media and new media studies, cultural
anthropology, theatre, film, visual studies and related disciplines are
welcome.
The conference will focus (but not exclusively) on the following themes:
• The ‘creative’/‘middle class’ as an object of contemporary discourse
• Linguistic representation and self-representation of the
‘creative’/‘middle class’
• Practices and styles of communication associated with the
‘creative’/‘middle class’
• The ‘creative’/‘middle class’ as reflected in practices of work, leisure
and consumption
• Representations and counter-representations of the ‘creative’/‘middle
class’ in film, literature, theatre and the media
• The ‘creative’/‘middle class’ and civil society
• The internet domains of Russian ‘creative’/‘middle class’
We invite proposals for full paper panels, individual papers and
roundtables. Proposals including paper abstracts of 250 words accompanied
by a short CV to be submitted by no later than 15 August 2013 to
Dashkova.Centre@ed.ac.uk . Authors of accepted papers will be expected to
register for the conference by the pre-registration deadline of 15
September. All participants are expected to submit a full version of their
paper by 1 October 2013; the papers will be posted on the conference's
website.
The conference will take place at The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre,
the University of Edinburgh.
It is expected that the conference participation will involve a £60
registration fee which will include lunches, coffee breaks and a
conference pack.
Cloudberry Language School is a new generation language school that focuses on teaching some of the world’s most widespread languages which are not taught as commonly in the U.S. - Russian, Mandarin Chinese and Arabic. At Cloudberry we offer corporate training and fun pre-travel classes. We also have separate programs for children who speak another language at home.
]]> Learn more about Cloudberry, an expert in creating cross-cultural understanding and fostering bilingualism at: www.cloudberrylanguageschool.com
Requirements
1. BA, MA desired
2. Understanding the second language acquisition process and teaching techniques
3. Ability to communicate with different people and incorporate fun activities (both with adults and children)
4. Ability to create engaging, effective and interesting lessons based on practical materials
5. Enthusiasm for culture and language
6. A desire to learn and attend training sessions
7. Motivation to grow in foreign language education
8. Proficiency in English (and the target language)
9. Experience teaching foreign languages is desired
Cloudberry provides training to all new teachers.
Responsibilities
Developing and implementing communicative, task-based, student-centered, and proficiency-oriented learning activities in accordance with course requirements
Explaining concepts clearly and coherently to students and providing constructive feedback to students in a timely manner.
Assisting with the evaluation of students as necessary
Participating in field trips within the Chicago area
Holding lessons that include survival, familiarization, language/regional expertise/culture, initial acquisition, sustainment/enhancement, situational, and live environment training
Part-time, different locations in Chicago and the suburbs, work on evenings and weekends is possible, work with adults and/or children at all levels of proficiency.
Benefits:
Opportunity for training and development in foreign language education
Free lessons for teachers and their children
Community of like-minded professionals
Opportunity to provide the local communities with a global perspective
To apply, please email your resume to ksenia@cloudberrylanguageschool.com
]]>Interested candidates should apply online at http://www.noblenetwork.org/job-opportunities/meet-our-team and then click on the "apply now" tab on the right edge of that webpage. Next, select Noble Street College Prep and the position of ‘Russian Teacher’). Noble Street’s principal, Bill Olsen, is in charge of hiring.
]]>9th Annual Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine
Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, 31 October-2 November 2013
CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS
The Chair of Ukrainian Studies, with the support of the Wolodymyr George
Danyliw Foundation, will be holding its 9th Annual Danyliw Research
Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine at the University of Ottawa on 31
October-2 November 2013. The Seminar will feature research papers, related
to Ukraine, from a range of disciplines that could include political
science, history, anthropology (ethnology), sociology, law, education,
religious studies, demography, economics, geography, literature, cinema,
folklore and other fields of social science and humanities.
Depending on the thematic compatibility of quality proposals, the Seminar
will also feature a number of additional sections that could include one
or several of the following themes (listed below alphabetically and not in
an order of preference):
•Economy & Society: energy policy, oligarchs, informal economy and
politics,taxation, foreign investment, agriculture, free trade/customs
union, social programs (welfare state), neoliberalism, economic migration
and related topics.
•Law & Society: Rule of law in post-Soviet Ukraine, sociology and
anthropology of the law, the Procuracy, citizenship, international
assistance/NGO engagement in rule of law programs, corruption,
international law, the European Union, border control, the
Venice Commission, war crimes trials, the Beilis Trial (100th Anniversary)
and related topics.
•Politics & Society:
gender, culture and politics, social movements, protests, education
(curriculum and teaching), party and electoral politics, national
identity and nationalism, regime transformation and/or consolidation,
demography,health care and related topics.
•Religion & Society: the sociology (or anthropology) of religious beliefs
and practices, religion and civil society, religious policy in pre-Soviet,
Soviet or
post-Soviet Ukraine, churches as civil actors and related topics.
Scholars and doctoral students are
invited to submit a 1000 word paper proposal and a 250 word biographical
statement, by email attachment, to Dominique Arel, Chair of Ukrainian
Studies, at darel@uottawa.ca AND chairukr@gmail.com. Please also include
your full coordinates (institutional affiliation, preferred postal
address, email, phone) and indicate your latest publication (or, in the
case of doctoral applicants, the year when you entered a doctoral program,
the [provisional] title of your dissertation and year of expected
completion).
The proposal deadline is 27 June 2013. To be eligible, papers must not
have been accepted for publication by the time of the Seminar. The Chair
will cover the expenses of applicants whose proposal is accepted by the
Seminar. The proposals will be reviewed by an international selection
committee. Applicants will be notified in July.
Those among accepted applicants whose profile is doctoral or post-doctoral
(defined as up to six years after the completion of a PhD) will be
eligible for the Danyliw Seminar Emerging Scholar Award, which comes with
a monetary prize. Launched at the 2011 Seminar, the award was shared in
2012 between Mayhill Fowler (U of Toronto, Canada) for her paper
“Korniichuk and the Cabaret: Art Between Center and Periphery in Lviv,
1939-1941” and Joseph Livesey (NYU, US) for this paper “Stalinist
Humanitarianism: State Practices in the Soviet Countryside during the
Famine in Ukraine, 1932-1933.”
The aim of the Seminar is to provide a unique forum for researchers from
Canada, Ukraine, the United States, Europe and elsewhere to engage in
fruitful inter-disciplinary dialogue, disseminate cutting-edge research
papers on the Chair web site, encourage publications in various outlets,
and stimulate collaborative research projects. Information on past Annual
Danyliw Research Seminars in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies can be
accessed at www.ukrainianstudies.uottawa.ca. The Seminar adopts the format
of a Workshop, where each presentation is followed by group discussion,
and is open to the public.
The Seminar is made possible by the
commitment of the Wolodymyr George Danyliw Foundation to the pursuit of
excellence in the study of contemporary Ukraine.
International Conference: Simon Wiesenthal Conference 2013
Collaboration in Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust
December 5-7, 2013, Vienna, Austria
Organizers
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)
Call for Applicants for travel support
]]> The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) and the UnitedA limited number of junior scholar stipends will be available to partially
defray costs for graduate students and junior scholars from post-communist
countries to attend the conference without presenting a paper. Applicants
must be advanced graduate students or recent Ph.D. recipients no more than
three years beyond conferral of their degree, and must reside in one of
the countries in the regions covered by this CfP. Scholars enrolled in
graduate programs or teaching at universities outside of these countries
are not eligible for junior scholar travel stipends. Please note that
these awards are not for panelists presenting papers, but for junior
scholars who wish to attend the conference as part of the audience.
To apply for a junior scholar travel stipend, please submit (1) a
curriculum vitae that indicates your current academic affiliation; (2) a
statement of interest of not more than 750 words addressing your specific
interest in attending the conference, background in the area of study, and
how attendance will benefit the candidate’s research, teaching, or future
publications; and (3) a supporting letter from an academic advisor,
department chair, or dean that addresses the candidate’s qualifications
and research as well as his/her potential as a scholar to Krista Hegburg,
Ph.D., Program Officer, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, at
khegburg@ushmm.org.
Statements of interest and CVs must be submitted in English; the
supporting letter may be submitted in either English or one of the
languages of the applicant’s country. The deadline for receipt of
application for the junior scholar travel stipends is June 15, 2013.
Participants will be notified in July 2013.
The Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission provides grants to U.S. scholars to teach or pursue research in Poland. Scholars may be invited to give occasional lectures at various Polish universities. Affiliations are possible with a variety of academic institutions; opportunities also exist for collaboration with public officials and professionals at other institutions. English is widely used at the university level. Knowledge of Polish is not a must, as English is often used in offices.
The program is open to scholars from all disciplines; preferences are indicated under individual award descriptions. The Commission strongly encourages candidates in the fields of science and technology (STEM) to apply.
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