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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 of Contributions

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

Marc Raeff Book Prize awarded by The Eighteenth Century Russian Studies Association, an affiliate organization of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Nominations by 30 May 2011.

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

International Committee of Slavists

Organization Committee of the First Slavistics Congress of Bosnia and Herzegovina in May 2011

First Notice ::: Second Notice ::: Submission for the Congress

Additional information

XV International Congress of Slavists in Minsk, August 2013

Call for Papers and Themes [Russian]

ПРОТОКОЛ расширенного заседания Президиума МКС, 26-27 августа 2009 г., Стара Лесна, Словакия

ПРОТОКОЛ рабочего совещания МКС в Великом Новгороде (14-16 августа 2010 г.)

XV International Congress of Slavists, 20-27 August 2013
The XV International Congress of Slavists will be held in Minsk, 20-27 August 2013. The topics for thematic sessions are listed on the webpage of the International Committee of Slavists, and above.

Applications to give individual 15-minute papers in thematic sessions are invited to meet the organizational deadline of 15 December 2011. Individual papers are subject to the national quota and must therefore be forwarded via the national representative on the ICS not later than 30 November 2011, with an indication of the appropriate thematic section. The quota of places for UK delegates at the Congress is 15, and the national representative is Mary MacRobert (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford OX2 6QA). She is willing to arrange electronic publication, as prepublication is a condition of participation in the Congress.

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.

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

Director of the King's Russia Institute

King's College London wishes to appoint a Professor who will be the Director of the King's Russia Institute. While the field for the appointment is open, there is particular interest the fields Russia and global politics, ethics and governance, entrepreneurship and development, the politics of development, and social change.

Closing Date 13 February 2012

RAWNSLEY SCHOLARSHIP 2012
ST HUGH’S COLLEGE, OXFORD, UK
Rawnsley Graduate Studentship 2012

St Hugh’s College proposes to award a Rawnsley Graduate Studentship to a graduate student accepted by the College to read for the degree of DPhil from October 2012. This award will be made on the basis of academic excellence, and is designed to offer support to those who have not received funding from other sources and may not be held in conjunction with any other funding award.
The Studentship will pay the College and University fees (at the Home/EU rate) and a maintenance allowance of £12,300 per year. Subject to satisfactory progress, the studentship will be tenable for three years.

To be eligible for the Studentship, applicants must:
1. Have received an offer of a place to begin DPhil study at Oxford in October 2012. (If the successful candidate does not have a place at St Hugh’s, their first choice College will be asked to release them.)
And either
2a. Be of Czech, Slovak or Polish nationality, working in the fields of Czech, Slovak, Polish, or English Language or Literature (or in a field which combines the study of these subjects).
Or-
2b. Be studying Czech, Slovak, or Polish Languages or Literature (or in a field which combines the study of these subjects).

Applications will be considered by a selection committee including Fellows of the College in Modern Languages and in English. The committee considers applications according to academic merit and the criteria for eligibility. Applicants will not normally be interviewed.

An application should comprise:
- A covering letter explaining the pertinence of the applicant’s research to the academic interests of the Rawnsley Studentship.
- A copy of the applicant’s Oxford successful DPhil application, including the text of two academic references.

Applications should be sent, by Friday 9th March 2012 at the latest, to the Academic Registrar, St Hugh’s College, Oxford OX2 6LE
The application form for the Rawnsley Scholarship is available online.