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How to End a Revolution?

Call for Papers

The Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference

The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University

April 13-14, 2012

How to begin a revolution is a question that has received much attention from many great thinkers. The goal of the 2012 Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Mahindra Humanities Center is to reverse that perspective and ask: How to end a revolution?

Associate Professor in Russian Area Studies at the University of Oslo

A position of Associate Professor in Russian Area Studies is available at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages from August 2012. The person appointed must be able to initiate and lead research, supervise research students and must be prepared to take part in exam work and paper grading and to carry out administrative duties in accordance with the needs of the department. Teaching will be at both BA and MA level.

Call for applications IAS-Paris

The Institute for Advanced Study - Paris (IAS-Paris) invites you to submit applications for the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 academic years for five- or nine-month residencies. Longer stays (i.e. nine months) are given priority for 2013-2014. IAS-Paris is planning to host about fifteen guest researchers for 2012-2013 and about twenty-five guest researchers for 2013-2014 to work on research projects of their choice.

Relevance of Postcolonialism in Post-Soviet Space

Call for Papers

The Kowalsky Eastern Ukrainian Institute (Kharkiv, Ukraine) invites you to take part in the publishing project “Neo-Anti-Colonialism vs. Neo-Imperialism: Relevance of Postcolonialism in Post-Soviet Space”, devoted to the discussion of anti-colonial, postcolonial, colonial, and imperial discourses in Eastern and Central Europe, and Eurasia.

The First Princeton Young Scholars’ Interdisciplinary Conference on Soviet Science and Technology

The organizing committee invites graduate students and young scholars to submit proposals for the First Princeton Young Scholars' Interdisciplinary Conference on Soviet Science and Technology to take place at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, on February 10-11, 2012

The Gulag Unbound: Remembering Soviet forced labour

The history of the Gulag is conventionally understood as a story of enormous injustice and heroic endurance. This story is "bound" to the compelling narrative of suffering of the intellectual in the Gulag, exemplified by the classic accounts of its highly literate survivors or mourners of its victims.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Resident Fellows Program

The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities offers residential fellowships to scholars and writers in the humanities. We seek applications that are intellectually stimulating, imaginative, and accessible to the public. There are no restrictions on topic, and applications are invited from across the broad spectrum of the humanities. All applicants are considered for our two endowed fellowships.

Senior position in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University, Bloomington, announces an open-area faculty position at the senior level, to start fall semester 2012. Although area(s) of specialization are open and joint appointment with other units is possible, the successful candidate should have administrative experience, native or near-native English and excellent command of one or more Slavic languages, an established publication record, and an attractive research agenda.

Fellowships at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

The Davis Center is pleased to announce the theme for its 2012-2013 Fellows Program. The Fellows Program brings together scholars at early and later stages in their careers to consider a common theme spanning the social sciences and humanities. The program is coordinated by faculty from across Harvard University whose research interests include aspects of the selected theme. In 2012-2013, the Fellows Program will be coordinated by Professors Tim Colton (Government) and Serhii Plokhii (History).

Job: Director of Slavic Languages Program, Harvard University

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University invites applications for the position of Director of the Slavic Language Program at the rank of Senior Lecturer, expected to begin July 1, 2012.

Postcolonial Europe

How to End a Revolution?

Associate Professor in Russian Area Studies at the University of Oslo

Call for applications IAS-Paris

Relevance of Postcolonialism in Post-Soviet Space

The First Princeton Young Scholars’ Interdisciplinary Conference on Soviet Science and Technology

The Gulag Unbound: Remembering Soviet forced labour

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Resident Fellows Program

Senior position in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University

Fellowships at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Job: Director of Slavic Languages Program, Harvard University

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