Announcing two fully-funded PhD positions for linguistic analysis of Russian news media, with secondary focus on media in English, Norwegian, and/or North Saami.

Please use the links below to find the complete announcements and to apply for these positions.
PhD in Russian Linguistics – Language of perceived threats in Russian…[Read more]

Dear friends,

I hope you all are surviving in this crazy time! Below is a CFP for the upcoming SMT-Rus meeting at SMT 2020.

The Russian Music Theory Interest Group (SMT-Rus) invites proposals for lightning talks for the meeting at SMT 2020. The topics may include

• Theoretical/analytical materials originally written in the Russian language,…

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Visegrad Scholarship at the Open Society Archives

Research theme within the Visegrad Scholarships at OSA in 2020/21: Possibilities of knowing: Truth seeking in a polarized world and [in] its aftermath

We invite applicants from the fields of history, the arts, philosophy and sociology to reflect on the conditions of knowledge production during…[Read more]

The Professorship for Slavic Linguistics and Cultural Studies (Prof. Dr. Thomas Daiber), Institute of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Language, Literature, Culture, invites applications for a part-time position to the extent of 50 % full-time equivalent as a
Research Assistant
The position is available as of October 1, 2020. The position is funded…[Read more]

Rachel Carson – Simone Veil Fellowship, Call for Applications Summer Term 2021
The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and Project House Europe, both located at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, invite applications for their joint fellowship.
The Rachel Carson Center (RCC) fosters innovative research and education in the env…[Read more]

Simone Veil Fellowship, Call for Applications Summer Term 2021
In 2020, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) established a new research center: the Project House Europe (PHE), which seeks to promote cutting-edge research from around the world on the history of Europe during the 20th and 21st centuries.
In honor of the French jurist, p…[Read more]

The Society of Fellows at Princeton University, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, calls for fellowship applications annually. For the 2021-2024 competition, three fellowships will be awarded: Open Discipline (2) and Humanistic Studies (1).

We encourage outstanding graduate students to apply—those now f…[Read more]

US Fulbright Scholar Program at the Institute of International Education offers grant opportunities cover teaching and research opportunities in a variety of countries. Below are the links to the awards:

Postdoctoral Research Award- Czech Republic: https://awards.cies.org/content/postdoctoral-research-award-1

All Disciplines Research/Teaching-…[Read more]

International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS)

The Program

The Council on Foreign Relations’ International Affairs Fellowship (IAF) for Tenured International Relations Scholars offers tenured international relations professors practical experience in the foreign-policymaking field through placement at…[Read more]

I have started recruiting 1 senior and 2 postdoctoral researchers and 3 PhD students for my European Research Council (ERC) project “Translating Memories: The Eastern European Past in the Global Arena”. Deadline for applications is 15 April 2020.

More information about the senior researcher position can be found…[Read more]

The American Institute for Southeast European Studies (AISEES) is happy to announce this year’s call of applications for its fellowship and travel grant program, designed to promote research by North American scholars in southeastern Europe and support scholars in southeastern Europe who wish to attend professional conferences in North America.…[Read more]

Call for Applications: Russian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Indiana University-Bloomington
The Russian Studies Workshop (RSW) at Indiana University’s Russian and East European Institute (REEI) and Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies (HLS) invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship beginning August 1, 2…[Read more]

Congratulations to Aleksandra (Sasha) Drozzina, who recently defended her dissertation “Schnittke, Gubaidulina, and Pärt: Religion and Spirituality during the Late Thaw and Early Perestroika.” This was written at Louisiana State University, under the supervision of Inessa Bazayev. Looking forward to reading Sasha’s work!

Check out some of Philip Ewell’s recent publications on Russian-language music theory:

“On Rimsky-Korsakov’s False (Hexatonic) Progressions Outside the Limits of a Tonality,” in Music Theory Spectrum, Fall 2019 https://academic.oup.com/mts/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mts/mtz020/5688659

“On the Russian Concept of Lad, 1830–1945…[Read more]

The European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has two Fellowships to fill. The successful candidates are expected to do a full-time teaching and research job. Details can be found here: https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/1562/0/263887/15539/lse-fellow-in-european-comparative-and-or-international-political-economy

With apologies for cross-posting, I’d like to remind everyone on this list about the opportunity for literary translators from Russian that Dr Muireann Maguire and I are offering through our ERC-funded project RusTrans. You can find out all the details here:

Translators Wanted – Apply Now!

In essence, if you are one of…[Read more]

Monash University Arts Graduate Research is offering a PhD scholarship generously funded by the Ukrainian Studies Foundation in Australia (USFA).

We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed graduate research student to undertake research in Ukrainian Studies, including but not limited to Ukrainian literature, in the graduate research program in…[Read more]