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Conferences

Seminar Series

UCL, Russian Cinema Research Group

University of Glasgow, School of Modern Languages and Cultures: "Languages in Context: Histories and Futures of Modern Language Study in Britain"

 

Call for Submission

CFP: Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922: The Centennial Reappraisal

Research Information

Lorton House is a resource centre for the continuing study of communism and the implications of the fall of the Soviet system. Research on eastern and east-central Europe as the communist regimes weakened was inevitably curtailed by the actual collapse of those regimes, as scholars turned their attention to the new order. Lorton House has available a collection of material on that period, mostly in English, focusing on the relations between dissidence in the region and the peace and environmental movements in western Europe, which it would hand over to a suitable candidate. It includes runs of the /END Journal, Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, RFE/RL Situation Reports/ and a good number of occasional pieces. Time is already taking its toll on participants in the events and debates of those years, and now is the time to secure live witness. Supervision could also be arranged but it is expected that anyone interested in this material will be working in an already conducive environment. If you are interested, contact Professor Michael Waller


SEND US YOUR VIEWS ON THE REF

How BASEES should respond to the HEFCE proposals for the new Research Excellence Framework? (For the proposals, see the HEFCE website; for a summary of the main points, see the editorial in this issue of the Newsletter.)

If you have any suggestions or comments please send them to Terry Cox by email no later than 27 November 2009.

The BASEES Committee will draft a response to the REF which we can submit by the HEFCE deadline of 16 December. We would be grateful particularly if you would refer to the list of 13 questions posed by HEFCE in Annex A of the REF proposals and send your views as answers to these questions. This will be a great help in collating your views and composing a response on behalf of BASEES as a whole.

Special Announcements

Festschrift : Dostoevsky: On the Threshold of Other Worlds . Essays in Honour of Malcolm V Jones. Edited by Leslie Milne and Sarah Young. Special offer for BASEES members only.

International Seminar for Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture

Every year the Modern Humanities Research Association publishes a critical bibliography entitled The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies . The book runs to over 1000 pages, and aims to cover scholarship in all the European languages (language and literature) in the past year. We are currently
looking for contributors in the following Slavonic fields: Russian language; Russian literature to 1800; Czech literature; Slovak Studies; Polish language; Ukrainian Studies; Belarussian Studies; Bulgarian Studies. Contributions should take the form of a bibliography with critical comment, where appropriate, and should be about 4000 words long (in English). The MHRA is also able to provide a fee for these contributions. For further information please contact David Gillespie. 

CoFoR-REES is a partnership of nearly 20 UK libraries with important REES collections. Among other activities it maintains a National Desiderata List of major sources (e.g. microform sets, online services) that are important for REES research in Britain but which are not at present accessible, usually because of their high cost. CoFoR-REES has used the Desiderata List in consortial negotiations with publishers, and we are now updating it to serve as a basis for preparing cases for special funding to help acquisition by libraries. We welcome recommendations from BASEES members for items to be included on the revised Desiderata List , particularly if they are seen as essential to current research in more than one institution, and if their cost has so far prevented acquisition. :::: Please send recommendations to: Dr Gregory Walker, Administrator, CoFoR-REES, Bodleian Library, Oxford OX1 3BG, or email.   Please give the full title and publisher of the product, with a note on its importance to research.

 

Job Announcement(s) / Studentships

PhD studentship in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Manchester
The Discipline of Russian and East European Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, at the University of Manchester is offering a Graduate Teaching Fellowship for candidates who want to pursue doctoral research from 1 September 2010 for three years. The financial support offered to the successful candidate is as follows:
1. Coverage of Home/EU fees. It might be possible to cover overseas fees. However, the latter is not guaranteed.
2. An annual maintenance grant of 7.5K.
The successful candidate will be required to do a PhD in the area of Russian or East European Studies and to teach up to three hours within the Discipline Area. The nature of teaching will depend on the candidate’s skills and qualifications.
Staff in REES are happy to supervise PhD candidates on a wide range of topics in the field of Russian and East European culture, history and society. For details of the departmental research expertise, please see our web-site. In the UK’s independent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) REES at Manchester has been assessed as the best department in the country for research on Russia and Eastern Europe.
In order to apply to our PhD programme please follow the instructions
If you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact Mrs. Michelle Fenlon
For informal inquiries about the opportunities to pursue doctoral research in REES, please contact Professor Vera Tolz, PGR Officer for Russian and East European Studies.