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February 12 - February 26, 2021
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Masterclass on Eurasia

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh is proud to offer an online masterclass series focused on Eurasian studies. The series provides a forum for experts to offer an instructional introduction to a specialized form of knowledge. The workshops are eclectic in terms of topics, but are united by the fact that they each offer a path toward skills and techniques not easily learnable in books or even a university classroom. These workshops offer an opportunity for doctoral students and scholars to expand their intellectual horizons, as well as a glimpse "under the hood" into cutting-edge research. This series is co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Center at Pitt, the Central Eurasian Studies Society, and the Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies.

PLEASE NOTE that registrations are limited and will be confirmed on a first-come, first-serve basis for Ph.D. students and faculty who work on Eurasia and can meet the language prerequisites specific to each topic.
 

THURSDAYS, MARCH 4 AND 11
Reading Safavid Occult-Scientific Miscellanies

9-10:30 a.m. (EST) | 8-9:30 a.m. (CST) | 2-3:30 p.m. (GMT) | 3:00-4:30 p.m. (CET) 4-5:30 p.m. (EET) | 5-6:30 p.m. (MSK) | 5:30-7 p.m. (IRST) | 8-9:30 p.m. (ALMT)
REGISTER

FRIDAYS, MARCH 26, APRIL 2, AND APRIL 9
Transcultural Codicology on the Silk Road

3-4:00 p.m. (EDT) | 2-3:00 p.m. (CDT) | 12-1:00 p.m. (PDT)

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THURSDAY, APRIL 15
Demystifying Diplomatic Communication in Early Modern Russia

12-1:30pm (EDT) | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (CDT) | 5-6:30 p.m. (GMT) | 6-7:30 p.m. (CET) | 7-8:30 p.m. (EEST/MSK)
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MONDAY, JUNE 7
Exploring the Eurasian Urban Spaces through Persian Verse

12-1:30pm (EDT) | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (CDT) | 5-6:30 p.m. (GMT) | 6-7:30 p.m. (CET) | 7-8:30 p.m. (EEST/MSK)
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NEW Episode!
From Soso to Stalin

A search for Stalin biographies on WorldCat turns up hundreds of volumes written or translated to tens of languages. It’s virtually impossible to account for them all. Yet, despite them all, half of Stalin’s life—his life before 1917—remains the most understudied. And the most misunderstood. How did this  impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia becoming a cunning and fearsome outlaw, and eventually one of the twentieth century’s most ruthless dictators. There’s no better person to deal with Stalin’s younger days, his upbringing and life in Georgia, and his conversion to Bolshevism than Ron Suny. So here’s Ron Suny on how Soso became Stalin.

Guest:

Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago. His written many books on the history of the Soviet Union and the South Caucasus. His new book is Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Opportunities

Call for Applications: Faculty Small Grants

REEES small grants are open on a rolling basis to all Pitt faculty working on topics related to our region. For more information on eligibility requirements and further details about the application process, please see the website. For any additional information, please contact Gina Peirce. Funding for successful proposals submitted in September – December must be spent by June 15, 2021.

Application deadline:  Rolling

**COVID-19 Advisory: At this time, the University of Pittsburgh is not allowing any non-essential travel by faculty, students, or staff on University business. Research, conference participation, and most other teaching-related travel qualifies as non-essential travel.


Call for Applications: Course Development Grants


REEES offers faculty small grants on a rolling basis for course development or language module development. Proposals are sought to enhance teaching on the cultures, languages, politics, economies and societies of Central/Eastern Europe/Eurasia, Russia and the former USSR. REEES faculty from all A&S departments and professional schools are eligible to apply. Funds may be requested to support a variety of activities. Examples include, but are not limited to:

  • Acquisition of special instructional materials (e.g., databases, monographs, periodicals, films or electronic media).
  • Bibliographic searches.
  • Payments to students for assistance with any aspect of course development. Note, however, that no payment may be given for any student work unless and until that arrangement has been approved by REEES, due to the possible complexities involved in paying students.

Application Deadline: Rolling

Apply here!

2021 Johns Hopkins Macksey Symposium for Undergraduate Students

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) encourages Pitt undergraduate students in the humanities to submit proposals focused on our world region to the 2021 Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium at Johns Hopkins University. If your proposals are accepted, REEES will cover the registration fee for up to 8 students.

The Macksey Symposium is open to undergraduate students from any two-year or four-year college or university who would like to present their original scholarship in the humanities. The organizers hope to have 400 participants this year. In addition to the multiple panels of student papers and presentations, the symposium will include a keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr and multiple professional development panels featuring Johns Hopkins graduate students and faculty, as well as editors from Johns Hopkins University Press. Students studying all areas of the humanities are welcome to attend. Attendees will also have the opportunity to work with student editors to revise their presentation into a journal-length presentation for our journal of proceedings, the Macksey Journal.

Application deadline: April 1

Virtual conference dates: April 24-25

APPLY HERE
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2022-2023

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2022-2023 competition is NOW OPEN. The Scholar Program offers diverse opportunities for U.S. academics, administrators, and professionals to teach, research, do professional projects and attend seminars abroad.

For information on the variety of scholarships available, visit the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program online. 

 
Application Deadline: September 15, 2021

ASEEES Internship Grant Program

ASEEES is pleased to announce the new Internship Grant Program. This program provides MA, PhD, and professional school students and recent graduates (i.e. those who have graduated no more than two years prior to the competition deadline) with grants that make it possible for them to accept unpaid or underpaid internships in areas directly related to Russian studies. The program promotes the entry of young scholars with considerable Russian studies expertise into sectors outside traditional academia, including not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations, business/trade councils, government, media, the arts, museums, publishers, and other sectors.

These internships must be in the US and should be substantial in duration and responsibilities (at least 25 work hours per week), lasting two months for summer internships and four months for internships during a semester in the regular academic year. The grant offers $2,000 a month, to be paid directly to the grantee (intern) during their internship.

ELIGIBILITY:

In order to be eligible one must:

  • be a recent graduate (i.e. those who have graduated no more than two years prior to the competition deadline) or current graduate student in a degree-granting institution in the US or, if a US citizen, in a degree-granting institution anywhere in the world;
  • have specialized in Russian studies or be currently in a program specializing in Russian studies.
  • Undergraduates are not eligible.
  • ASEEES membership is not required at the time of application.     
Application Deadline: March 8, 2021, 11:59PM, Hawaii Time
 
APPLY HERE
Call for Submissions: AAUS 2019-2020 Article Prize, Book Prize, and Translation Prize Competition

American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the next round of the AAUS Book, Article, and Translation Prizes. For this round, works published in 2019 and 2020 are eligible (as long as they were not nominated last year, as each work can be considered for a prize only once).

Deadline for nominated works to be received by members of the prize committees has been EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 28, 2021.
Upcoming Events
Talking About Whiteness: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia

Join us to explore how communities are often minoritized along racial lines and the challenges scholars encounter when attempting to bring race and intersectional analysis to bear upon systemic inequality in our region.

Moderator:
Roman Utkin, Wesleyan University

Speakers:
Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University
Lauren Woodard, Yale University
Sean Roberts, George Washington University
Monika Bobako, Adam Mickiewicz University

 

This event is part of the series "Race in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies." This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing research by scholars and/or on communities of color to the center stage.
 

Zoom, 2:00 pm EST, Friday, February 19, 2020

REGISTER HERE
Conquering Nature: Russian Expansion to the Brink

A live interview with Tracy McDonald (McMaster University) and Marianna Szczygielska (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

The existential threat of climate change has inspired renewed intellectual engagement with the Anthropocene. Eurasian Studies are no exception to this trend. In the last decade, studies that grapple with the past, present, and potential future of the human-nature dialectic are on the uptick. These studies have forced us to reconsider intellectual and ideological paradigms, sources, mission, and role of scholar in society.

Nature’s Revenge: Ecology, Animals, and Waste in Eurasia seeks to bring some of this scholarship and activism to a wider public through a series of live-recorded interviews. The goal is to illuminate recent scholarship and complicate our understanding of the Eurasian Anthropocene and its place in our world.

 
Zoom, 12:00 pm EST, Tuesday, February 23, 2020
REGISTER HERE
#BLM: Reception in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia

While the Black Lives Matter Movement has revived global conversations about racism and systemic inequality, its reception in our region manifested not only in anti-racist solidarity protests but also in pro-nationalist activism, most notably in Russia. Join us to discuss whether the Black Lives Matter movement will have a lasting impact on the struggle against racism and for civil rights and social equality in our region.

Moderator:
Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Speakers:
Angéla Kóczé, Central European University
Diana Kudaibergenova, University of Cambridge
Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University
Jakobi Williams, Indiana University, Bloomington

This event is part of the series "Race in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies." This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing research by scholars and/or on communities of color to the center stage.
 

Zoom, 2:00 pm EST, Friday, February 26, 2020

REGISTER HERE
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