CFP: Belarusian Visual Culture in the 21st Century
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 1, 2024
We are inviting essay submissions for an edited volume on contemporary visual culture of Belarus. The volume is projected to have 12-14 chapters (5000-6000 words each) on Belarusian visual culture divided in three parts: early 2000s, 2010s, and post-2020 visual culture. The volume is expected to have color illustrations and to feature interviews with contemporary artists, filmmakers, and cultural figures.
Submissions on all aspects of Belarusian visual culture are encouraged, including, but not limited to: art history; all aspects of visual arts and art spaces; photography; visual aspects of social media; television and media studies; theatre and cinema studies; dance studies; street art and folk art; protest visual culture and visual art as testimony; independent and official art.
We are particularly interested in submissions that examine Belarusian visual culture from the following conceptual perspectives: decolonization and postcolonial optics; political and protest art; national identity and belonging; diaspora and art in exile.
We hope to secure a contract this summer (tentatively with Routledge) after collecting abstracts by the deadline of June 1. The deadline for the finalized peer-reviewed chapter submissions is likely to be in spring 2025, with a publication in early 2026.
If interested, please submit a short abstract for your essay (200-300 words) and CV via email by June 1, 2024 to: volha.isakava@cwu.edu and/or sasharazor@ucsb.edu
Do not hesitate to email us with any questions!
The New Area Studies Research Centre, the East Centre and the School of Global Development at the University of East Anglia are calling for papers between 5000-8000 words to be presented at a symposium on 2nd and 3rd October 2024 on the topic of Imagined Geographies: from Past to Future. It will take place at UEA, Norwich, UK, in person and online, and will address the topic from a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspective. We plan to publish selected papers from the symposium in a special edition of New Area Studies.
‘Imagined Geographies’ may include but are not limited to:
attachment to place
identity
the perceptions of homeland imagined or real
the idea of country, nation, borders, fronts, zones or edge lands
and liminal places
Papers and presentations may address, but are not limited to:
colonisation/decolonisation
the geographies of marginalisation
narratives and local voice, indigeneity, agency, the post-colonial
the intersection of colonial to contemporary knowledge
knowledge-making, production, and professional ignorance
We are pleased to consider proposals from any disciplinary perspective: Anthropological, Geographical, Literary, Historical, Political Science/International Relations, Sociological, Philosophical etc. We particularly welcome original, cross-disciplinary topics and approaches, showcasing innovation, evolving, or new methodologies.
Enquiries and proposals for papers (no more than 250 words) should be addressed to Professor Susan Hodgett S.Hodgett@uea.ac.uk by 1st June 2024.
There is no fee for the symposium, online or in person, but in person symposium attendees are responsible for their own travel, accommodation and expenses. The organisers are unable to provide support on this occasion.
Symposium on 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
7-8 September 2024
at the University of Birmingham, UK
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, decolonising and decentring approaches to the study of Russophone literature and culture have become increasingly urgent tasks. This symposium seeks to advance these efforts by examining texts by minoritized Russophone authors, including those who are ‘writing back’ from regions formerly colonized by Russia and those who ended up living in exile abroad.
The symposium will be multi- and interdisciplinary; we encourage contributions from established scholars and early career researchers working in literary studies, linguistics, human geography, political and social sciences.
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. The symposium include several panels, each focusing on one of the following: (1) space, place and periphery; (2) ethnic/racial/cultural diversity; (3) linguistic hybridity; (4) sexual/gender diversity; (5) stylistic diversity/mode of expression (genre, literary style, etc.).
Best papers will be considered for publication in a collaboratively edited special issue in a research journal.
We have limited funding to support some paper-givers, giving priority to early career researchers and scholars from Eurasian universities.
We invite you to submitan abstract (up to 300 words)on one of the topics given above anda two-page CVby sending both as Word documents to Natasha Rulyova atn.e.rulyova@bham.ac.uk. In your email message subject, please write ‘Russophone Literary Diversity Symposium’ and your name, for example: ‘Russophone Literary Diversity Symposium_Rulyova.’
The submission deadline is June 10, 2024.
The Symposium committee will comprise: Nataliya Rulyova, Isobel Palmer, and Irina Kuznetsova (UoB); Valeria Sobol, David Cooper and George Gasyna (UIUC).
in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus
The continuation of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, political repressions, crackdowns on LGBTQ+, women’s, ethnic and religious communities’ rights, environmental crises, and the ramifications of colonial legacies have marked the past several years in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. While indispensable academic research is being carried out to investigate various forms of political, social, cultural, and economic oppression and violence, it is crucial to highlight positive alternatives nurtured in these hostile contexts. Throughout history, individuals, communities, institutions, and states have and continue to navigate, adapt, and resist multiple overlapping challenges, fighting for their right to imagine and realize a better future.
The 2024 SSEES Postgraduate Conference celebrates the champions of hope and resilience of the past, present, and future of the region. In this Call for Papers, we invite early-career researchers (including MA students, PhD students, and scholars who recently received their PhDs) who work in various academic disciplines (including but not limited to political science, international relations, economics, history, anthropology, sociology, literature, and inter-disciplinary fields) to share their insights on how diverse actors and institutions have found, constructed, and negotiated political, social, cultural, and economic alternatives in the face of oppression, structural marginalization, and numerous overlapping threats and vulnerabilities.
As such, paper proposals can address, but are not limited to, the following issues:
· social and political mobilization, activism, and protest movements
· everyday practices of resistance and coping
· amplifying marginalized voices and rewriting narratives
· future imaginaries, the transformative potential of art/literature, visionaries and pioneers
· business and technological innovation, problem-solving, and adaptation
Abstracts should be between 250 and 350 words. The deadline for submissions is 14 June 2024.The conference will take place on 4-5 November 2024, at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London, and will be conducted in English.
We seek contributions for a special edition of Religion and Gender with a focus on the Christian East broadly defined. This special issue aims to foster conversation surrounding the intersections between Eastern Christian traditions and gender, offering a platform for discussion, debate, and critical reflection.
Potential topics for exploration include, but are not limited to:
The role and representation of gender within Eastern Christian traditions throughout history.
How gender is constructed, performed, and experienced in Eastern Christian liturgical practices and rituals.
Theological perspectives on gender, sexuality, and identity within Eastern Christian theological frameworks.
The portrayal of gender in Eastern Christian iconography and visual culture.
Current debates and challenges related to gender within Eastern Christian communities.
We welcome contributions from various disciplines, including but not limited to religious studies, theology, anthropology, history, sociology, and gender studies.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 June 2024
Notification of Acceptance: 30 June 2024
Full Paper Submission Deadline: 22 December 2024
Abstracts (300 words max.) should be submitted via email to kkelaidis@hellenicmuseum.org by 15 June 15, 2024. Please include a brief biography, institutional affiliation, and contact information with your submission.
All final submissions will undergo a peer-review process.
For further inquiries, please contact one of the guest editors:
Climate Change Adaptation: Historical Lessons from Eurasia
Adapting to climate change and climate extremes in historical perspective
27 February 2025 – 1 March 2025, on site
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
Reichsstraße 4-6
D-04109 Leipzig
As meeting the 1.5-degree benchmark for limiting the effects of climate change becomes increasingly implausible, the technological and social discussion is moving towards adaptation. Adaptation features prominently in the most recent synthesis report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), and formed a key theme at the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28). There are, however, also gaps and barriers in adaptation policies, mostly caused by insufficient funding and inadequate technology in addition to the complex character of the climate change process. Philipp Staab (2022) argues that this gradual shift from mitigation to adaptation illustrates a greater shift from (self-)development to (self-)preservation in society, opposing the modernist agenda of democratization, emancipation, and individualization. This recent reappraisal of adaptation as policy and concept prompts the question: how and what can contemporary discussion learn from historical experience? As sociologists like Talcott Parsons have argued, adaptation is a structural means of human behavior and social order. This also holds true for the adaptation to changing environmental conditions, both in short- and long-term perspective.
The regions and countries of the former Soviet and Russian empires promise to be particularly rewarding case studies in this respect, considering the area’s marked climatic zonal shifts and the prevalence of extreme weather and climate events. Furthermore, the area encompasses a range of competing adaptation approaches and traditions including, for example, the large-scale technocratic focus of Soviet and Russian managerialism, the more nuanced, local level adaptations at the national, regional, and local levels, and the enduring, lived adaptations of Indigenous peoples. Its history also embodies the ambiguity and dialectics of adaptation, namely the human adaptation to environmental conditions and the adaptation of environmental conditions to human needs.
This conference calls for the historical lessons we can learn from these policies of adaptation from the 18th to 21st century. It invites scholars from various disciplines, including historiography, geography, literary and cultural studies, anthropology, and the natural sciences, to present small- and large-scale case studies on adaptation, its discursive implications and technological practicability in Eastern Europe and the former territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
Contributions may address, among others, the following issues:
the cultural imaginary of climate change adaptation; tropes and narratives of adaptation; generic conventions (science-fiction, utopia/dystopia etc.)
technological, political, moral and social constraints of adaptation
strategies of activating adaptive capacities
adaptation strategies in specific sectors (agriculture, urban planning), ecoregions or environments
national and transnational approaches to climate challenge and adaptation
local and Indigenous strategies of adapting to changing climates; protection against and preparedness for extreme climate conditions; tools of adaptation
personal, collective, institutional and infrastructural resources that allow individuals, groups or systems to respond and adapt to climate change
limits and risks of adaptation; historical fallacies and their reasons
Please submit your abstract (up to 300 words), a short CV (1–2 sides of A4) and your contact details to Julia Herzberg <julia.herzberg@leibniz-gwzo.de> and/or Clemens Günther <clemens.guenther@fu-berlin.de> by 30 June 2024. We might be able to cover costs for travel and accommodation if needed.
This conference is organized by Julia Herzberg, Mika Perkiömäki, Jonathan Oldfield, Clemens Günther and Andrei Vinogradov.
Literature
Block, Rachel; Ebinger, Jane; Fay, Marianne (eds.). 2010. Adapting to Climate Change in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Washington.
Chavez-Rodriguez, Libertad; Klepp, Silja (eds.). 2018. A Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaptation: Discourses, Policies and Practices. Boca Raton.
IPCC, 2023: Sections. In: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 35–115, doi: 10.59327/IPCC/AR6-9789291691647
McQuillen, Colleen. 2018. Human adaptation in late-Soviet environmental science-fiction. In McQuillen, Colleen & Vaingurt, Julia, eds. The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia, 99–113. Boston.
Staab, Philipp. 2022.Anpassung. Leitmotiv der nächsten Gesellschaft. Berlin.
Tennberg, Monica.2012. Governing the Uncertain: Adaptation and Climate in Russia and Finland. Heidelberg/London/New York.
Co-organizers: Kathleen Mitchell-Fox, Melvin Thomas, Yazhe Yang, Princeton University
Inter arma silent Musae (“in times of war the Muses are silent”) - does this phrase still ring true today? To paraphrase Adorno, is writing poetry after Auschwitz “barbaric?” What can or should art do in today’s world of high-speed intercultural communication and, moreover, in times of crisis? For Mikhail Bakhtin, art and life were supposed to “become united” in an act of aesthetic answerability. Answerability to what, or better yet, answerability to whom?
The “answerability of art” is a question that has long been open to interpretation and interrogation. From Lev Tolstoi to LEFist Boris Arvatov, numerous artists, writers, and theorists have formulated conceptions of art and its implications of and for responsibility. The vocabularies for navigating this relationship have encompassed “infection,” “function,” and “structure.” Beyond theoretical and philosophical criticism, literature, poetry, and the arts (broadly understood) can offer reflections on the role of aesthetics, including, even, an insistence that it remain role-less. Therefore, we must consider: what are the responsibilities advertently or inadvertently entailed by art for its readers and/or consumers?
We invite submissions that both examine and challenge understandings of the ways in which art might be and has been considered “answerable” in the Slavic context. Is “responsible art” synonymous with a “responsible artist,” or is it determined by aesthetic form alone? How can the relationship between aesthetics and ethics be adequately theorized? How have specific political conditions and crises influenced the production of literature, its metaliterary understanding, and the mythos surrounding writers? What duty does art have, if any, to social bodies (e.g., nations, ideologies, social classes), literary institutions (e.g., the so-called “canon,” literary movements, or particular media), or metaphysical aspirations? What are the limitations of “art and answerability?” We hope to encourage probing discussions of these questions at our conference.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
· The forms and content - aesthetic or otherwise - that answerability takes on across various genres and media: what are the structures, materials, and substances of “answerability” for different artists?
· Theorizing the answerability of art before and after Bakhtin: how productive are old frameworks (including Bakhtin’s) in light of new contexts and texts?
· The interconnections between aesthetics, ethics, and politics: what are possible interpretations of the claim that art is “apolitical?” Should art be categorized as “ethical,” “political,” “social?”
· The ethics of artistic production in times of crisis: how can art respond to conflict, disaster, and violations of human rights?
· The “art of answerability” in the contemporary episteme: how have recent studies in critical race, postcolonial, and gender and sexuality studies informed new ideas of writing and reading as potential responsibilities?
· The transmission of art: looking beyond artists, authors, and readers, what responsibilities might translators, editors, curators, and scholars be said to have?
Format This conference will be in-person. It intends to provide graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with the opportunity to present their work to senior scholars in the field and to receive as much constructive feedback as possible. Each presenter will be given approximately 20 minutes to present a pre-circulated paper, followed by commentary from the panel discussant and then open Q&A with the audience.
The conference is hosted by Princeton University's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. The working language of the conference is English, but we will also accept presentations in Russian.
Abstract Submission Details We welcome abstract submissions from graduate students and postdoctoral scholars across disciplines working on any and all Slavic and Eastern European art forms and cultures. Please submit all abstracts (300 words or less) and a short bio (no more than a few sentences) in a Word document file to princeton.slavic.conference@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2024.
We will be able to provide travel subsidies and lodging for conference participants.
Nominations are now open for the 2025 BASEES Women’s Forum Prizes. Nominations for the book and article/chapter prizes should be submitted by 1st July 2024. Please do submit your eligible publications for consideration!
At this stage, the Forum intends to offer two prizes for scholarly works of high quality, either produced by a woman or which furthers knowledge about gender and diversity relevant to the East European, Russian and Eurasian region, in the following categories:
a) A singly or jointly authored book OR a singly or jointly authored edited collection. b) A scholarly article or book chapter.
(Due to the ICCEES Congress replacing the annual BASEES Conference in 2025, the traditional postgraduate conference paper prize will be confirmed and advertised at a later date. Please keep your eyes peeled for communications regarding this early next year.)
Works nominated for consideration for the book and article/chapter prizes must be of a scholarly character and must be in English. Books and articles for the 2025 prize must have a 2023 publication date. The authors of nominated works must at the time of nomination be members or associate members of BASEES. If you have any queries about your eligibility, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
For book prize nominations, two hard copies of the nominated work should be sent to the BASEES Women's Forum Prize Committee at the following address (for article and book chapter nominations, emailed PDF copies are sufficient):
BASEES Women’s Forum Prize Committee
c/o Dr Sasha Rasmussen
Department of History, University of Nottingham
Lenton Grove
Beeston Lane
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
United Kingdom
You may submit nominations using the official form. This will shortly be available on the BASEES website, where you will also find further details about the prizes: http://basees.org/basees-womens-forum-prizes-1. You can also email me for a copy directly. Please send your completed form to sasha.rasmussen@nottingham.ac.uk.
In 2024, the Working Group on Cinema and Television (WGCTV) is committed to subsidizing graduate students working in film and media studies who are attending the ASEEES convention for the first time or who have no local institutional resources for travel support. We anticipate that we will be able to fund, on a competitive basis, 3 awards of $300 each.
Eligibility
· MA and PhD students from all backgrounds working in film and media studies at any college or university
· Applicants must be session participants (panel, roundtable, or lightning round) in the convention program to apply.
· Recipients of a Graduate Student Travel Grant cannot receive the WGCTV grant for the same convention.
Deadline
July 1, 2024 (All applicants will be notified of their status by mid-August)
European Humanities University announces the Call for Papers for the Interdisciplinary conference organised by the Laboratory for Studies of Visual Culture and Contemporary Art called “VASIL BYKAŬ’S FRONT LINE: BETWEEN LITERATURE AND CINEMA”
The life and fictional worlds of the prominent Belarusian writer Vasil Bykaŭ have been structured by a front line, both personally and politically. In Bykau’s dramatically charged stories and novellas, characters are positioned in relation to the front line, whether they just encounter or cross it. Mostly, this is not a physical line one can draw on a strategic military map: rather, this is the line beyond which a hostile world lies. This line may run along a country road next to a village in the midst of the occupied territory. At the same time, the line may run ‘across’ his characters’ psyche at their moments of existential crisis.
We welcome proposals that engage withthe following topics:
Psychobiographical and political dimensions of war experience in literature and film
Vasil Bykaŭ’s War and Peace: the front line as a semiotic border
The film adaptations of Vasil Bykaŭ’s existential prose: forms and limits of the cinematic representations
Woman as a missing Other in Bykaŭ’s prose, biographical narrative, and film adaptations
Soviet vs. Belarusian: evolving cinematic representation of Bykaŭ’s works during the Thaw, stagnation, and the post-Soviet period
Vasil Bykaŭ’s legacy and the politics of memory in Belarus: before and after 2020.
Abstract Submission
We welcome submissions of paper proposals via email –conferencevasilbykausfrontline@gmail.com Please, send a title, an abstract of about 300 words, a short bio (max. 150 words), and contact details. When submitting your proposal, put your name and the title of your paper in the subject line and indicate in your message whether you plan to attend online or in person. Any questions should be directed to the same address.
Deadline for submitting proposals: July 10 Applicants will be notified by July 20.
Participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation in Vilnius. Belarusian scholars at risk, independent scholars and PhD students will be prioritised for limited (up to 200 Euro) travel funds and offered hotel accommodation in Vilnius.
Conference will take place onSeptember 24-25at European Humanities University, Savičiaus g. 17, Vilnius, Lithuania. Online participation is also available
Time frame:each participant will have twenty minutes to present a paper to be followed by a ten-minute discussion.
Conference languages:English/Belarusian/Russian
Publication of conference proceedings:
Please, let us know when applying for the conference whether you are interested in developing your presentation into an article (20-40 000 characters) to be published in English in a collective volume or a special academic journal issue.
September
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies is pleased to announce the call for submissions for the 2024 Undergraduate Essay Prize and the 2024 Graduate Essay Prize.
The Undergraduate Essay Prize recognizes outstanding essays in Slavic/East European/Eurasian women's and gender studies written by an undergraduate student in any discipline based at any tertiary institution worldwide. Submissions must: (1) be in English, (2) have been written while the author was a degree-seeking undergraduate, (3) have been submitted and assessed for an undergraduate class between August 1, 2023 and August 31, 2024, (4) be of 3,000-5,000 words in length, (5) be accompanied by a nomination letter from the instructor of the course for which the essay was written. The instructor must be a current member of AWSS. Letters of nomination, accompanied by an electronic copy of the essay in either Word or PDF, should be sent electronically to each of the committee members listed below. Be sure to include both the permanent mailing address and email contact information for the student.
The Graduate Essay Prize is awarded to the author of a chapter or article-length essay on any topic in any field or area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies written by a woman-identifying scholar, or on a topic in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women's or Gender Studies written by a scholar of any gender. The Graduate Essay Prize carries an award of $500. This competition is open to current doctoral students and to those who defended a doctoral dissertation in 2023-2024. If the submission is a seminar paper, it must have been written during the 2023-2024 academic year; if a dissertation chapter, it should be accompanied by the dissertation abstract and table of contents. Previous submissions and published materials are ineligible. Essays should be no longer than 50 double-spaced pages, including reference matter, and in English (quoted text in any other language should be translated). Please send a copy of the essay and an updated CV to each member of the Prize Committee as email attachment.
Deadline for both prizes: Completed submissions must be received by September 1, 2024.
Please direct any questions to Student Essay Prize Committee Chair, Dr. Melissa Bokovoy: mbokovoy@unm.edu
October
The submission period is open from now until October 7, 2024.Late submissions will not be considered.
Please also send the following information to me at yfurman@humnet.ucla.edu: your name, preferred email, paper title, and name and email of your advisor. Please do this now even if you are planning to submit your paper later so that we have a preliminary headcount.
It is expected that you will work with your advisor between now and the submission deadline on revising your paper. Your papers should have a well-formulated and well-developed thesis, with plenty of textual evidence to back it up. When citing a non-English language source, please give the quote in the English translation in the body, and in the original language in the footnotes. Your paper must contain evidence of research, in the form of direct citation, in a Slavic and/or East/Central European language.
The papers should be between 15 and 25 double-spaced pages, including footnotes and a Works Cited list. For the Works Cited, please use the Chicago Manual of Style format (available online). Please send your submission as a .doc or .docx file; do not send pdfs.
The journal now welcomes submissions of reviews of academic books dealing with any aspect of Slavic and/or East/Central European Studies, with up to five appearing in each issue. The book under review should have been published within the past two years and may be in any language. Please return your review as soon as you can, within the limits imposed by a careful and discriminating reading; the need for a fair and serious reading is fundamental.
Unless otherwise stipulated, please confine your review to approximately 1,000 words (1,250 words for edited collections), including a brief summary of the book's contents.
State as clearly as possible the book's interpretation, methodology, style, and its strengths and weaknesses. If possible, please recommend a specific readership.
If you are not familiar with the journal, you can get acquainted with it here: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cwl/slavicjournal/1575 Please feel free to email me with any questions. We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Year Round
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) is pleased to be able to offer travel grants of between $200 and $1000 for scholars from Eurasia studying women's and gender studies, who are presenting papers at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) meetings, the AWSS meetings, or the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) meetings.
Requests to support travel to other conferences will be considered if funds are available. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Scholars should complete the information listed below and submit a budget and a current CV with their application. All recipients of awards are required to submit a short (maximum 250 words) report on their grant activity within 30 days after the event for which travel was supported.
A summer internship with the theme of Advancing Digital Democracy in Eastern Europe. All questions/inquiries regarding this opportunity including the deadline for applying which was not provided in the two attachments should be directed to:
For Russian Language Teachers, Students, and Others Interested in Russia,
On behalf of the American Home in Vladimir, Russia – which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year – I would like to remind you about several program opportunities and deadlines.
Longer and shorter programs, from one week to a year, are also possible.
The benefits of the American Home’s long-standing Intensive Russian Program – the main program offers one-to-one instruction to each participant – are provided to group participants:
Experienced faculty specializing in teaching Russian to non-native speakers;
Program and schedule customized to the needs of each group of students;
Study from one week to one year;
Individual home-stay with a Russian family;
“Russian friend-conversation partner” program;
On-site administrative support;
Well-equipped classrooms in a comfortable, home-like, atmosphere;
Excursions in Vladimir and to Suzdal (a UNESCO World Heritage site) and Bogoliubovo;
Opportunities to meet and socialize with some of the more than 600 Russians participating in the American Home English Program and others;
Opportunities to participate in a variety of activities—for example, volunteering at an orphanage
New master’s program “Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages” (EFUL) at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu.
This two-year MA program is unique in combining in-depth language learning with comprehensive, English-based studies in linguistics. Because classes are taught in English (with the exception of language classes, of course), students whose Estonian language skills are not advanced enough to take university classes in Estonian can still study Estonian and Finno-Ugric languages in Tartu, and take full advantage of the great opportunities that Estonia has to offer.
Students in the program can choose between specializing in either Estonian or Finno-Ugric languages. In addition to attending the institute’s advanced classes in linguistics and digital methods taught by cutting-edge researchers and lecturers, studying in Tartu has a clear advantage because of its location in Estonia and in proximity to other Finno-Ugric language areas. This gives our students not only the chance to practice Estonian on a daily basis, but also access other Finno-Ugric languages, partly via the many smaller Finno-Ugric language communities in Estonia. In addition, students can develop their digital skills in modules on computational linguistics and programming, in collaboration with the University of Tartu’s Centre for Digital Humanities and Information Society.
We are happy to offer a number of scholarship opportunities, including full tuition waivers. The final details about the application process are still being worked out, but will be announced next month. For more information about the program as well as about living and studying in Tartu, check out both the EFUL website at https://ut.ee/en/curriculum/estonian-and-finno-ugric-languages and the Study-in-Estonia website www.studyinestonia.ee.
I have also attached our EFUL flyer. And of course, feel free to contact me or the program director Prof. Gerson Klumpp (gerson.klumpp@ut.ee) if you have any other questions.
Please see the link below for unpaid part/full time internships with the US Department of Education. All inquiries/questions should be directed to the point of contact at the bottom of the advert. Thank you.
On behalf of the Modern Humanities Research Association, the editors of the Modern Language Review (MLR) are happy to announce that the journal will henceforward award an annual Article Prize. This is in recognition of the success of our inaugural article prize – details of the winners below.
MLRpublishes articles and book reviews on modern and medieval English and European languages, literatures, and cultures around the globe where European languages are spoken. The journal welcomes scholarship that takes a global or comparative approach as well as articles that appeal to a broad cross-section of scholars working on areas including, but not limited to, literature, the visual and performing arts, sociolinguistics, cultural history, and Translation Studies. We encourage submissions from scholars at all stages, including postgraduate researchers.
The Article Prize for volume 120 will be awarded to an outstanding article published in volume 120, which will appear in four issues in 2025. Submissions can be on any topic appropriate to the journal’s remit. The competition is open to all researchers. Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of the journal’s editors. Any piece accepted for publication in volume 120 will be considered for this prize. We encourage early submission of your work. Articles must have been through peer review and finalised for inclusion in MLRby mid-March 2025. The winner will receive a prize of £750 and be interviewed for the Modern Humanities Research Association website. At the judges’ discretion, an Editorial Commendation prize of £350 may also be awarded. Articles must be written in English and conform to MLRguidelines. Articles are typically about 8000 words in length, including footnotes. Articles should conform to MHRA style and be accompanied by an abstract of maximum 100 words. See full submission guidance at http://www.mhra.org.uk/pdf/mlr-submission-guidelines.pdf
The winner of the inaugural MLR Article Prize (for volume 118 of the journal) was Kathryn Bryan for her article ‘Fantine in the Belle Époque: Representation of the Fille-Mère in L'Assiette au beurre (1902) and Marcelle Tinayre's La Rebelle (1905)’. Editorial commendation went to Margarita Vaysman for her article ‘The Trouble with Queer Celebrity: Aleksandr Aleksandrov (Nadezhda Durova)'s A Year of Life in St Petersburg (1838)’.