Call for Papers

9th Biennial AWSS Conference: Crossing Borders in Slavic Women’s and Gender Studies

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Renaissance Battle House Hotel and Spa, Mobile, AL, USA

The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) solicits paper presentations on the theme of “Crossing Borders in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Wom…[Read more]

We invite you to submit works and to call attention to the Modern Language Association’s upcoming publication prize competitions. In January 2020, eighteen publication prizes will be presented at the MLA Annual Convention in Seattle. In addition to the James Russell Lowell Prize for an outstanding scholarly work by a member of the association an…[Read more]

SRAS’s Home and Abroad Scholars program offers students up to $10,000 to study abroad while serving an ambitious and portfolio-building internship. Applications are due by October 1! More information can be found at http://sras.org. Any questions may be addressed to me, Josh Wilson, Asst. Director, at jwilson@sras.org.

SRAS is currently accepting…[Read more]

The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, are delighted to announce the renaming of the CESS Lifetime Service to the Field Award in honor of the late scholar of Central Asia, Professor Edward Allworth (1920-2016). The new award will be named the Edward Allworth Lifetime Service to the…[Read more]

Call for Applications: The Open Research Laboratory at Illinois

Spots are still available for the Open Research Lab (ORL), August 27 to September 29, 2018! A great time to follow-up on summer research or fit in research early in the academic year – this program is aimed at scholars who wish to visit the University of Illinois in order to work in…[Read more]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: The Oskar Halecki Polish and East-Central European History Award 

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America

Deadline: November 1, 2018

Named for an eminent historian and founding member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, the Oskar Halecki Award recognizes a scholar in the field of Polish and E…[Read more]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: The Wacław Lednicki Award in the Humanities

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America (PIASA)

Deadline: November 1, 2018

Named after the first director of the Literature and Arts Section of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, the Wacław Lednicki Award recognizes the most outstanding book or cr…[Read more]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences

Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America

Deadline: November 1, 2018

Named for an eminent social scientist and founding member and first president of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, the Bronisław Malinowski Award recognizes a scholar in…[Read more]

The Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki invites applications for an enthusiastic and creative

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

for a fixed term from 3rd of September 2018 to 30th of June 2019, to work within the project ‘Russia MediaLab: Freedom of speech and critical journalism in Russia’. The employment contract will include a trial…[Read more]

The Readers’ Advisory Board of the North American Dostoevsky Society is celebrating graduate students! We invite members of NADS in good standing to nominate an outstanding graduate-student essay on a Dostoevsky-related topic. (If you are not a member of NADS, you can join at https://dostoevsky.org/). Current M.A. and PhD students are also w…[Read more]

The Proposals for the 2018 ASEEES Convention are due 11:59pm PT on Feb. 28, 2018. Please contact aseees.convention@pitt.edu if you have any questions.

http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp

50th Annual ASEEES Convention
Celebrating ASEEES’ 70th Anniversary
Boston, MA | December 6 – 9, 2018 [Please note that the dates are later than usual]
Convention Theme: Performance
http://www.aseees.org/convention

The deadline for Proposal Submission is February 28, 2018: http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp
ALL submissions – panel, roundtable, ind…[Read more]

Populism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union:
Conceptual, Empirical and Comparative Perspectives

Annual Young Researchers Conference

Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
Miami University
Oxford, OH

February 15-17, 2018

“Populism” is a term often used in the scholarly literature on postcommunism – and yet its meani…[Read more]

The University of Pittsburgh is seeking two students for graduate positions in the program in Critical European Culture Studies. This elite program offers a unique opportunity to study the cultural questions of Europeanization in an interdisciplinary setting. It prepares students for a broad profile of academic and non-academic careers.…[Read more]

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta is proud to invite applications to its new innovative MA and PhD Programs in Modern Languages & Cultural Studies. We offer:

an interdisciplinary and transcultural focus

collaborative, student-centred programs

dual emphasis on academic and professional…[Read more]

Call for Papers: Constructivist Criticism Workshop

Jan 19 2018, University of Pennsylvania
3-6 PM, College Hall 209

A colloquium for graduate students in social sciences and humanities, studying Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus to present works in progress.

This workshop is organized by a group of graduate students working…[Read more]

https://connect.mla.hcommons-staging.org/mla-convention-activities/
<h1>Connected Academics at the 2018 Annual Convention in New York City</h1>
At the 2018 MLA convention in New York City, Connected Academics will once more sponsor an array of activities. We hope you will join us and our partners for vigorous discussions of issues related to the p…[Read more]

ASEEES announces the results of the 2017 elections for the Board of Directors positions.

President-Elect / Vice President 2018 | President 2019 | Immediate Past President 2020
Mark Steinberg, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Members-at-Large, 2018-2020
Janet Johnson, CUNY Brooklyn College
James Krapfl, McGill U (Canada)

Graduate Student R…[Read more]

The Subcommittee on Education & Access was formed in 2017 by the ASEEES Committee on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR). The goal of the new subcommittee is to promote education about libraries, information resources, digital projects, cataloging and metadata curation, and information literacy to ASEEES members and the broader community of…[Read more]