Friday, October 1, 2010

Weekly Calendar of Events from REEI

Calendar of Events 09/30/10 - 10/07/10

For a pdf version, click here
Lectures, Local Conferences, and Academic Events:


Cultural Events


Calls for Papers and Out-of-State Conferences:


Funding, Grants, and Scholarships:



Other Announcements:

Language Tables and Coffee Hours:



Detailed Descriptions of Events

Lectures, Local Conferences, and Academic Events:

1.      October 7- 9, 2010: Minority Languages in Europe Conference, “Minority Languages in Europe: Successes and Challenges”

The preliminary schedule is posted at:  http://www.iub.edu/~west/documents/eurlangsprogram.pdf

8:00 PM-9:00 PM, City Council Chambers, City Hall (Showers Bldg.) 401 North Morton Street

Photojournalist and educator Steve Raymer kicks off Monroe County Photo Expo with a talk entitled: "Searching for the Perfect Moment: A Life in Photography." Raymer is a former staff photographer at National Geographic magazine and a journalism professor at IU. Presenter: Steve Raymer. Contact: Brenda Stern, 812-322-6854.  For more information:  http://www.monroecountyphotoexpo.org/.

3:30 PM, M 267

Cultural Events
Indiana University Art Museum, Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor

Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor. This exhibition is a tantalizing glimpse of the arts—religious and secular—of Mongolia and Tibet and spans a time period from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century.
This exhibition and related programming are funded by the Thomas T. Solley Endowed Fund for the Curator of Asian Art and the IU Art Museum’s Arc Fund.

Saturday, October 9, 4pm, Sweeney Hall
"Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue"

A Film Presentation
 (Estonia, 2002), runtime 90 minutes, English subtitles
Introduced by Dr. Toivo Raun, Professor of Central Eurasian Studies

Sunday, October 10, 12:00 PM-2:00PM, Sweeney Hall

“Arvo Pärt: Icon of an Age”


Followed by a panel discussion with:
Dr. Peter Burkholder (Distinguished Professor of Musicology, Jacobs School of Music)
Dr. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert (Professor of Music Theory, Jacobs School of Music)
Dr. Toivo Raun (Professor of Central Eurasian Studies.)

Sunday, October 10, 4pm

“Arvo Pärt at 75: A Portrait Concert”

           
Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble and Guests Carmen Helena Téllez, Artistic Director and Conductor Jeffrey Smith, Organ Soloist

I.
Trivium (1976) for organ
Miss Syllabica (1977) for voices and organ
Bogorodits djevo (1990) for chorus
II.
Fratres (1980) for violin and piano
Nunc dimittis (2001) for chorus a capella
Spiegel im Spiegel (1978) violin and piano
III.
Summa for string quartet
...which was the Son of... (2000) for chorus and a capella
Salve Regina (2002) for chorus and organ

Reference Reading Room, Wells Library

In October an unusual event will be taking place in the Reference Reading Room of the Wells Library. It is a book exhibition that celebrates the acquisition by the Indiana University Libraries of an extensive Polish collection formerly owned by the former Central Trade Union Council (Centralna rada zwiazkow zawodowych – CRZZ) Library of Poland. It is a very unique collection consisting of more than one thousand unique booklets, brochures, and research monographs, many of which are not owned by any libraries outside Poland now. Even more unique than these monographs are the serials, which number more than 120 titles. They include 20 of the 22 national periodicals that were published by the trade union movement of Poland up until 1980. Combined, these serials and monographs will contribute to making the IUB Library one of the major repositories of rare research materials pertaining to the history of the workers’ movement of communist Poland. This exhibition is held in tandem with an international symposium to be held on campus on October 22nd in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Polish independent social movement Solidarity (Solidarnosc) and an one-credit course entitled “The Technology of Revolution” to be taught by Prof. Padraic Kenney of the Department of History. The exhibition will be open on October 4th and will last until October 29th. The exhibition is curated by Wookjin Cheun, librarian for Slavic and East European studies.

Please direct any questions regarding this exhibition to him at wcheun@indiana.edu.


Calls for Papers and Out-of-State Conferences:

10-11 March 2011, Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia
Deadline for paper and panel proposals: December 1, 2010

International conference; 10-11 March 2011

Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, in collaboration with the University of Leeds

Conference website: http://dtv.vladstrukov.com

As many other countries anticipating the digital television transition, Russia faces a few formidable challenges, including selecting technical standards, developing new digital content, regulating relationships between platforms and service providers, and balancing between public and commercial interests. The complexity of the process is exacerbated by the sheer size of the country and by uneven development of its regions.

The conference aims to explore social and cultural implications in the transition to digital television by providing an analysis of the regulatory framework, DTV markets, forms of signal delivery, configuration of DTV channels in Russia ’s regions, and convergence of media platforms. The conference specifically endeavours to examine the role of digital technologies in transforming the political and cultural landscape of Russian television by looking at internet television channels, multi-regional channel *Russia Today,* and other delivery platforms. It plans to investigate social and cultural implications of DTV in Russia by focusing on new genres, hybrid forms of media texts, innovative content of DTV programming as well as on the changing role of DTV audiences.

Papers are sought from a spectrum of disciplines such as Television and Film Studies, Media and Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, History, and Political Science. The themes for papers might include:

DTV theory and practice: success and complexity of digitalization (processes, experiences and first results of introducing new technology into Russian media landscape, case-studies of existing DTV platforms).

Advancing DTV: interrelations of the state, business and the public in the process of Russian media digitalization; DTV and public and private spheres, central and regional players.

Locating Russian DTV: traditions of the Soviet television, changes and innovations of 1990-2000s in the context of new media forms.

International Perspective: comparison of Russian digital switchover with cases in Europe, USA , China , Japan , and former Soviet republics.

DTV audiences: case studies of Russian DTV audiences, diversification and segmentation of audiences, influence of digital technology on social activism, new fandoms.

DTV programming: analysis of changes to TV content because of new technologies, new television texts and their messages, global versus local produce, constructions of a new social, political and cultural reality on DTV channels.

DTV as a new medium / language: cultural implications of DTV technology,new formats, interactivity, viewers’ creativity as resources for future development; creolized TV-Internet texts, technological convergence versus cultural hybridization.

Confirmed List of Plenary Speakers:

Professor Stephen Hutchings  ( University of Manchester ); 
Professor Andrei Richter ( Moscow State University );
Mr Michael Starks (Oxford University ).

Organizers / Contact Information

Vlad Strukov (Russian DTV conference) SMLC University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom v.strukov@leeds.ac.uk

Vera Zvereva, k. 307, 5 korpus, Department of History and Theory of Culture, Russian State University for the Humanities 6, Miusskaia pl. Moscow , Russian , Moscow ) e-mail: zverca@yandex.ru

You can submit either a paper or a panel proposal. If you plan to submit a paper proposal, please provide an abstract of your paper (either in English or Russian, maximum 400 words) along with your registration form. If you plan to submit a panel proposal, please provide a panel description (either in English or Russian, maximum 300 words), an abstract for each paper on the panel (either in English or Russian, maximum 400 words) and a registration for each presenter.

The registration form should include the following information: title, name and surname, name of your organization, your position, postal address, e-mail address, and contact telephone number.

The working languages of the conference are Russian and English.

Preliminary conference programme will be announced on 20 December 2010. The final conference programme will be published on the conference website in January 2011.

Planned Publication
Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in leading Russian and British academic journals. Materials of the round table discussion will be published in *Iskusstvo kino* [Art of cinema] journal.

2.      CALL FOR PAPERS: “Platonov Revisited. Past and Present Views on the Land of the Philosophers”
May 26-27, 2011, Ghent University
Deadline for Proposals: November 1, 2010

The Department of Slavonic and East European Studies at Ghent University (Belgium) is pleased to announce the international conference “Platonov revisited. Past and present views on the land of the philosophers”.

The conference will be held at Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium) on Thursday, May 26 and Friday, May 27, 2011

Keynote speakers: Philip Bullock (University of Oxford, Oxford) Hans Günther (Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld) Natal’ya V. Kornienko (Institute for World Literature, Moscow) Thomas Seifrid (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) Yevgeny A. Yablokov (Moscow)

Abstracts are invited for presentations addressing the changes in the perception of Platonov and his works over the last twenty-thirty years.

While in Europe and the United States Platonov’s Chevengur and Kotlovan found their way to the public as early as in the 1960s and the 1970s, in Russia these masterpieces were published only in the perestroika era. Of course, Platonov’s works had already been known before, but often in an incomplete form. The publication of the novel and the novella – with the post scriptum of the author! – and the subsequent edition of other unknown and forbidden works in enormous print numbers stimulated not only the interest of the reading public, but also gave a strong impulse to the existing scholarly study of Platonov’s work, both in Russia and abroad. Soon letters, notes and unknown literary works of the writer-engineer, reactions on the campaign against Vprok, reports of the writer’s appearances at the Writers’ Union and much more were brought into the open. These newly available materials, the new possibility to write about literature outside of (the previously almost obligatory) ideological presumptions, the fruitful contacts between Russian and non-Russian scholars, the publication of translations of parts of Platonov’s oeuvre all contributed to the successful development of Platonov studies and transformed it into the fully fledged scholarship it is today.
Now, more than twenty years later – and even more than thirty years after the appearance of the first studies on Platonov – it is a good moment to stand still and to have a look at the past and the present (and maybe even the future) of Platonov studies. It is the aim of the conference to reflect on the changes in the perception of Platonov and his works over the last twenty-thirty years in Russia and abroad. The aim of the conference is not to disclose the newest discovery or analysis regarding Platonov, but to reflect on the changes in the readers’ reception and the scholarly study of Platonov’s oeuvre. The following questions take a central place:

1. have our views on Platonov (the man, the engineer, the writer, the thinker) and his oeuvre changed since the first publications in Russia and the West and the subsequent startup of Platonov scholarship?;

2. what effect has the publication of archive materials of the Stalin-era had on the study of Platonov’s works?;

3. to what extent was and is the reception of Platonov’s work or aspects of his work (mythopoetics, philosophy, metaphysics, …) influenced by the ideological context of the reader / scholar?;

4. has the dominance of politicized readings of Platonov’s oeuvre come to an end or has the opposition between anticommunist and procommunist readings been followed by other ideologically inspired readings?;

5. why should we read Platonov now? During the perestroika era and in the first years after the collapse of the Soviet-Union one would read Platonov to retrieve the exceptional legacy of a brilliant but repressed writer, but what is the reason for reading him now?;

6. is it possible to read Platonov outside of his (more and more historically distant) socio-political context?;

7. how has the redefinition of the canon of 20th-century literature in general and Soviet literature, in particular, affected our understanding of Platonov?;

8. is the study of Platonov affected by revised concepts and terms and new scholarly paradigms (cf. modernism vs. avant-garde)?;

9. what will the latest landmark in Platonov scholarship – the acquisition of Platonov’s personal archive by the Institute for World literature – mean for the current Platonov scholarship, and will – and if so, to what extent – the disclosure of Platonov’s personal archive force scholars to reevaluate the scholarly work written the past 40 years?;

10. what have been the effects of the publication of new works of the writer and the “depoliticization” on the reception of Platonov’s works and how have these elements affected translations, readers’ responses to the oeuvre and its translation, reviews, discussions in the media, adaptations of the oeuvre to other media, the popularity of Platonov’s works, the status of Platonov’s work in the Russian canon and in the canon of world literature?

We welcome contributions from a variety of methodological approaches and on any topic relating to this problem.

Please submit an abstract (in English or in Russian, maximum 500 words) to Thomas.Langerak@UGent.be or Ben.Dhooge@UGent.be. Please add your name, departmental affiliation, email address and the title of your proposed paper. The deadline for proposals is November 1, 2010. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Notification of acceptance of proposals will be provided by January, 2011. All abstracts will be made available prior to the conference through the conference website.

Presentations should be in English or Russian. Each presentation will be allowed 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute open discussion.

An edited volume with a selection of papers is planned.

Information on registration, transportation, accommodations, and the conference venue will be forthcoming. Please forward this call for papers to your colleagues and graduate students who may be interested in presenting or attending.

April 5-8, 2011, Washington, DC
Application Deadline: December 10, 2010

IREX, in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Kennan Institute (WWC), is pleased to announce its 2011 Regional Policy Symposium, “Gender in the 21st Century Eastern Europe and Eurasia.”

The research symposium, supported by the United States Department of State (Title VIII Program), will bring American junior and senior scholars and members of the policy community together to examine and discuss gender and women’s issues in Eastern Europe and Eurasia from multi-disciplinary perspectives. Topics may include: education, migration, trafficking, women in politics, domestic violence, and economic opportunities, among others.
Junior scholars will be chosen based on a national competition to present their current research on the topic of the Symposium. Grants will be awarded to approximately ten junior scholars.

The Symposium is scheduled to take place April 5-8, 2011 in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and will involve two full days of reviews of current research projects, roundtable discussions, and the development of policy recommendations. 

Technical Eligibility Requirements:
Applicants must be US citizens

Applicants must either be currently enrolled in an MA, MS, MBA, JD, or PhD program or have held a graduate degree for 10 years or less.  Applicants who hold an academic post must be pre-tenure.

Grant Provisions:
Round-trip airfare (provided by IREX through its travel office) and/or surface transportation from anywhere in the United States to the symposium site.

Meals and accommodations for the duration of the symposium.

To receive more information on the 2011 Regional Policy Symposium, please send e-mail inquiries to Symposium@irex.org.

Application materials are available on the IREX website at: http://www.irex.org/application/regional-policy-symposium-application



Funding, Grants, and Scholarships:

Deadline: January 1, 2011

The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) is pleased to announce, as part of its National Research Competition (NRC), the availability of funds for summer research proposals on the indigenous peoples of Russia. The NRC/RIPR fellowship supports the collaboration of postdoctoral scholars and graduate students at universities in the United States with demonstrated experience in scholarship and/or outreach with indigenous communities and populations to study the indigenous peoples of Russia.

NCEEER is currently soliciting applications for this new program.  Please see the following page for more information and/or to apply, and contact
info@nceeer.org with any questions:
http://www.nceeer.org/Programs/NRC/RIPR/ripr.php

About the National Research Competition/Research on the Indigenous Peoples of Russia (NRC/RIPR):

The NRC/RIPR fellowship supports the collaboration of postdoctoral scholars and graduate students at universities in the United States with demonstrated experience in scholarship and/or outreach with indigenous communities and populations. Such scholars and students will conduct research at the Gorno-Altaisk State University (GASU,
http://www.gasu.ru/eng/frame.html) in the Altai Republic in Russia, a leading Russian university for the support of research on the indigenous peoples of Russia. Research may be conducted at other Russian universities, but only if the proposal demonstrates clear and established contacts for placement at the Russian university. All applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Projects involving the participation of Native American graduate students are particularly encouraged.

The principal investigator must hold a Ph.D. in any discipline of the humanities and social sciences. The maximum award is $38,000. Research topics will focus on the following issues: environmental protection and sustainability, environmental journalism, preservation of indigenous language and culture studies, educational and curricular reform for indigenous populations, issues of self-determination, sovereignty, and treaty rights, cultural preservation and enrichment, land rights, and the study of networking of indigenous populations and organizations in Russia.
Placements may begin as early as June 1, 2011. Applicants must spend no less than two months in the Altai Republic or another Russian research venue.

2.      Kennan Institute Summer Research Scholarship Program
Closing Date: December 1, 2010

The Kennan Institute offers funding to scholars who conduct research in the social sciences or humanities focusing on the former Soviet Union (excluding the Baltic States), and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C. The summer grants must be used between May-September 2011, and grant applicants are required to hold an MA degree or higher. The Summer Research Scholarships will provide a stipend of $6400 for 62 days ($103.22/day). The Kennan Institute provides a work space and research assistant for each Summer Scholar. Travel and accommodation expenses are not directly covered by this grant.  Applicants are required to submit a concise description (700-800 words) of his or her research project, curriculum vitae, a statement on preferred dates of residence in Washington, D.C., and two letters of recommendation specifically in support of the research to be conducted at the Institute. All of these materials may be submitted via e-mail except for the letters of recommendation. The letters should be sent, with signature, either by fax or post.
Applicants should also note their citizenship in their materials.

For more information, go to
http://wilsoncenter.org

3.      Wolfsonian-Florida International University Fellowships
Applications must be postmarked by: December 31, 2010

The Wolfsonian–Florida International University is a museum and research center that promotes the examination of modern visual and material culture. The Wolfsonian’s fellowship program is intended to support research on the museum’s collection, generally for periods of three to four weeks. The program is open to holders of master’s or doctoral degrees, Ph.D. candidates, and others who have a significant record of professional achievement in relevant fields. The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design from the period 1885–1945. The United
States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands are the countries most extensively
represented. There are also smaller but significant collections of materials from a number of other countries, including Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, the former Soviet Union, and Hungary. The collection includes works on paper (including posters, prints, and design drawings), furniture, paintings, sculpture, glass, textiles, ceramics, lighting and other appliances, and many other kinds of objects. The Wolfsonian’s library has approximately 50,000 rare books, periodicals, and ephemeral items. Applicants are encouraged to discuss their project with the museum staff prior to submission to ensure the relevance of their proposals to The Wolfsonian’s
collection. For more information about The Wolfsonian and its collection, visit the website at
http://www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu, call 305-535-2686, or email to research@thewolf.fiu.edu.
Deadline for receipt of applications: December 1, 2010

Title VIII Research Scholarships lasting three to nine months are available to academic participants in the early stages of their career (before tenure) or scholars whose careers have been interrupted or delayed. For non-academics, an equivalent degree of professional achievement is expected. Eligibility is limited to the postdoctoral level for academic participants, although doctoral candidates in the process of completing a dissertation may apply. Applicants must be U.S. Citizens. Research proposals examining the countries of Central Eurasia are eligible. Those proposals related to regional Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Belarus, the Caucuses, and contemporary issues are particularly welcome. The Title VIII Research Scholar grant offers a stipend of $3,300 per month, research facilities, computer support, and some research assistance. Grant recipients are required to be in residence at the Institute in Washington, D.C. for the duration of their grant.

The deadline for receipt of applications and supporting materials is December 1, 2010. Application materials must be submitted by mail; materials sent by electronic mail or facsimilie will not be considered. If you plan to apply, please e-mail
kennan@wilsoncenter.org to inform us of your intention. For details on criteria go to at http://wilsoncenter.org
5.      The British Library’s Endangered Archive Programme
Deadline for preliminary grant applications: 5 November 2010

The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library is now accepting applications for the next round of funding. Detailed information on the timetable, criteria, eligibility and procedures for applying for a grant is available on the Programme’s website. Applications will be accepted in English or in French. The deadline for receipt of preliminary grant applications is 5 November 2010. The aim of the Programme is to contribute to the preservation of archival material worldwide that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration.

The Programme’s objectives are achieved principally by awarding grants to applicants to locate relevant endangered archival collections, where possible to arrange their transfer to a suitable local archival home, and to deposit copies with local institutions and the British Library. For further details of EAP projects and collections as well as application procedures visit the Programme’s new website:
http://eap.bl.uk
6.      Postdoctoral Fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence
Max Weber Fellowships.
The Max Weber Programme is the largest postdoctoral programme for young researchers
in the social sciences, funded by the European Commission (DG Education). Max Weber
Fellowships are for 1 or 2 years and are open to candidates who have received a doctorate
in the social sciences (economics, law, political science, sociology, history and related
fields) within the last 5 years.  The Max Weber fellowships are designed for junior post
docs who would like to pursue an academic career, concentrate on their own research and
enhance their academic practice in a multidisciplinary environment. Fellows are selected
on the basis of their research accomplishments and potential, their academic career
interests, and the availability of the EUI faculty to provide mentorship. For more
information on how to apply please see:
WeberFellowships/Index.aspx 

Jean Monnet Fellowships
Through its Jean Monnet Fellowship Programme the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies offers fellowships to post-docs in an early stage of their academic career. During their stay at the RSCAS, fellows work on a research topic that fits well in the overall research profile of the RSCAS and participate in the academic life of the Centre and of the EUI. Each fellow is assigned a professorial mentor.

Jean Monnet Fellowships usually have a duration of 12 or 24 months and are open to candidates who have received a doctorate within the last 7 years. The main criteria during the selection procedure are the CV, the overall scientific quality of the proposal, and
the fit of the proposal with the research programme
of the Centre. For more information please see:
http://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/PostdoctoralFellowships/JeanMonnetFellowships/Index.aspx  


The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to one year of research support at the Freie Universität Berlin. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on modern and contemporary German and European history. The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students enrolled at a North American university who have achieved ABD status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and Canadian Ph.D.s who have received their doctorates within the past two calendar years. The Berlin Program is based at, funded and administered by the Freie Universität Berlin. The program's publicity and selection process is organized in cooperation with the German Studies
Association (GSA).

For more information, go to:
http://www.fu-berlin.de/bprogram


For a better and deeper understanding of the interdependent recent history of (the center of)  Europe, the International Visegrad Fund offers ten research fellowship grants annually in the Open Society Archives at Central European University, Budapest on a competitive basis to support scholars who wish to conduct research in the holdings of OSA, and whose current research projects are relevant to the holdings and the given research priorities of the Fund and OSA. The grants of 2.000 euro are designed to provide access to the archives for scholars, artists, and journalists, and to cover travel to and from Budapest, a modest subsistence, and accommodation for a maximum research period of two months.

Fellows are free to work on the project of their choice; however, in the academic year of 2010-2011, applicants with one of the following topics might enjoy advantage over other applicants:

Representations and interpretations of World War II and/or subsequent wars in Europe
The complicated relationship between historiography/history writing and propaganda.

Applicants, preferably but not exclusively, from a V4 country, may be researchers, students after their first degree carrying out research, or artists, journalists, academics, or others who have already started their project that is relevant for the holdings at OSA. For further details please consult www.osaarchivum.org
Deadline: 5:00 PM  on November 17, 2010

IREX is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program. The Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program (IARO) provides students, scholars and professionals with support to perform policy relevant field research, in the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. In addition to engaging in research in the region, the IARO fellowship affords scholars the
opportunity to increase their understanding of critical, policy relevant issues, develop and sustain international networks, and collaborate with foreign scholars on topics vital to both the academic and policy-making communities. Applications and all supporting documents for 2011-2012 IARO Fellowship will only be accepted through the online application system found at:
http://www.irex.org.

Deadline is 5 p.m. on November 17, 2010. Questions may be addressed to the IARO Program Staff at
iaro@irex.orgor by telephone at 202-628-8188.


IREX , in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Kennan Institute (WWC), is pleased to announce its 2011 Regional Policy Symposium, “Gender in the 21 st Century Eastern Europe and Eurasia.”

The research symposium, supported by the United States Department of State (Title VIII Program), will bring American junior and senior scholars and members of the policy community together to examine and discuss gender and women’s issues in Eastern Europe and Eurasia from multi-disciplinary perspectives. Topics may include: education, migration, trafficking, women in politics, domestic violence, and economic opportunities, among others.

Junior scholars will be chosen based on a national competition to present their current research on the topic of the Symposium. Grants will be awarded to approximately ten junior scholars. The Symposium is scheduled to take place April 5-8, 2011 in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and will involve two full days of reviews of current research projects, roundtable discussions, and the development of policy recommendations.

Details on eligibility and application materials are available on the IREX website at:
http://www.irexorg/application/regional-policy-symposium-application

Deadline: Thursday, October 25, 2010

In academic year 2010 - 2011 the Polish Studies Center is offering two grants-in-aid, one student award and one faculty award, to support travel for activities related to scholarship in Polish Studies. Each grant provides up to $500 in support of travel to a conference to make a presentation in the field of Polish Studies. The grant may also be used towards the cost of other research-related travel.

A selection committee appointed by the Director of Polish Studies will read all applications.
Applicants should submit the following to the Polish Studies Center:
•         A current c.v.
•         An abstract of your conference paper, or a half-page statement explaining the nature and purpose of your travel.
•        If you are attending a conference, a copy of the acceptance letter or invitation letter.
•         Itemized budget of expected expenditures.

The award will be processed after travel is completed. Recipients will be informed about the necessary procedures for reimbursement.

Complete submissions should be received at the Polish Studies Center by Thursday, October 25, 2010.

Please contact Gosia Swearingen at the Polish Studies Center for more information:
telephone: 812-855-1507



Deadlines: October 1, January 15, April 1 (if funds available)
Grants-in-Aid of Research
Small grants are available to help graduate students who require modest support (up to $700/year) for research-related travel (domestic or international), travel for participation in a structured internship program, or travel for advanced language study in the Russian East European region. Grants may also be used for expenses related to publication of completed research. Students applying under this program may also be eligible for support under Office of International Programs, International Enhancement Grants. Please discuss your plans with the REEI staff before submitting an application.
Application Materials Needed:
  • One REEI/Mellon Endowment graduate student application form (available at REEI, Ballantine Hall 565 and online.
  • One letter of recommendation (preferably from the student's academic advisor) addressing the quality of the student's work generally.
  • Itemized budget of expected expenditures.
  • Current IU transcript (unofficial transcript sufficient) and CV or list of academic honors.
  • For conference travel: an abstract of the paper and a copy of the conference program (or notification of the acceptance of the paper).
  • For research: a statement of 1,000 words or less describing educational goals, career interests and plans; the statement should describe the project and the specific purposes for which aid is sought; it should address this activity will further the participant's academic progress and ultimately help achieve career goals.
  • For internships: include documentation of confirmed acceptance by the internship provider.
REEI provides grants to help graduate students who specialize in the Russian East European region present their research at major association meetings and conferences. Student travel reimbursement is limited to minimum airfare or mileage (per IU guidelines), one night lodging, and conference registration fee. Students may also be eligible for conference travel support from the College of Arts and Sciences. Please check with your home department graduate advisor to see if you can be nominated. REEI domestic conference travel grants will not exceed $400 and international grants will not exceed $600.
Application Materials Needed:
  • One REEI/Mellon Endowment graduate student application form (available at REEI, Ballantine Hall 565 and online.
  • One letter of recommendation (preferably from the student's academic advisor) addressing the quality of the student's work generally.
  • Itemized budget of expected expenditures.
  • Current IU transcript (unofficial transcript sufficient) and CV or list of academic honors.
  • For conference travel: an abstract of the paper and a copy of the conference program (or notification of the acceptance of the paper).
  • For research: a statement of 1,000 words or less describing educational goals, career interests and plans; the statement should describe the project and the specific purposes for which aid is sought; it should address this activity will further the participant's academic progress and ultimately help achieve career goals.
Deadlines: October 1, January 15, April 1 (if funds available)
Grants-in-Aid of Research
Small grants are available to help graduate students who require modest support (up to $700/year) for research-related travel (domestic or international), travel for participation in a structured internship program, or travel for advanced language study in the Russian East European region. Grants may also be used for expenses related to publication of completed research. Students applying under this program may also be eligible for support under Office of International Programs, International Enhancement Grants. Please discuss your plans with the REEI staff before submitting an application.
Application Materials Needed:
  • One REEI/Mellon Endowment graduate student application form (available at REEI, Ballantine Hall 565 and online).
  • One letter of recommendation (preferably from the student's academic advisor) addressing the quality of the student's work generally.
  • Itemized budget of expected expenditures.
  • Current IU transcript (unofficial transcript sufficient) and CV or list of academic honors.
  • For conference travel: an abstract of the paper and a copy of the conference program (or notification of the acceptance of the paper).
  • For research: a statement of 1,000 words or less describing educational goals, career interests and plans; the statement should describe the project and the specific purposes for which aid is sought; it should address this activity will further the participant's academic progress and ultimately help achieve career goals.
Conference Travel Grants
REEI provides grants to help graduate students who specialize in the Russian East European region present their research at major association meetings and conferences. Student travel reimbursement is limited to minimum airfare or mileage (per IU guidelines), one night lodging, and conference registration fee. Students may also be eligible for conference travel support from the College of Arts and Sciences. Please check with your home department graduate advisor to see if you can be nominated. REEI domestic conference travel grants will not exceed $400 and international grants will not exceed $600.
Application Materials Needed:
  • One REEI/Mellon Endowment graduate student application form (available at REEI, Ballantine Hall 565 and online).
  • One letter of recommendation (preferably from the student's academic advisor) addressing the quality of the student's work generally.
  • Itemized budget of expected expenditures.
  • Current IU transcript (unofficial transcript sufficient) and CV or list of academic honors.
  • For conference travel: an abstract of the paper and a copy of the conference program (or notification of the acceptance of the paper).
  • For research: a statement of 1,000 words or less describing educational goals, career interests and plans; the statement should describe the project and the specific purposes for which aid is sought; it should address this activity will further the participant's academic progress and ultimately help achieve career goals.
Deadlines every year: October 1, January 15, and April 1 (or the following Monday if the deadline falls on a weekend)
Please find below the procedures to apply for REEI conference travel support, first for domestic and then for international conferences, through the end of academic year 2010-11 and summer 2011.
Domestic
Applications for funding of faculty travel to conferences in the United States and Canada will be evaluated and awards made twice a year. Grants will not exceed $500, and faculty members are encouraged to combine REEI funds with other IU sources. The fall application deadline is October 1. The spring application deadline is February 1, 2010. In either round, faculty members may apply for travel to conferences that will take place before August 14, 2011.
Applications will be ranked on the following basis: 1) paper presenters; 2) officers of national professional organizations whose attendance is required for committee or board meetings; 3) round table participants and panel commentators; 4) panel chairs; and 5) others.
There are no application forms. Applications should be submitted in the form of a memo either on paper or by e-mail reply to this message and should include: 1) faculty name (and any change in contact information from last year); 2) name of conference; 3) confirmation of participation on program (if it is not printed in a national newsletter that REEI receives); and 4) short abstract or title of paper or 1 paragraph statement of importance of faculty member's attendance.
The applications will be ranked according to the above priorities, and a final funding decision will be made as soon as possible after the application deadlines. Consideration will be given to the significance of the conference, the number of times REEI has supported the faculty member's travel in recent years, and the overall budget situation. Highest priority will be given to faculty whose conference travel will contribute to future teaching and research activities at Indiana University.
            International
REEI has set aside special Mellon Endowment funds (up to $850 per grant) to assist a limited number of faculty members in traveling to conferences abroad during each academic year. Applicants should be presenting a paper or otherwise participating in the program as a chair or discussant on a panel or roundtable.
Applicants are encouraged, but not required, to apply to the Office of International Programs for travel support as well (“Overseas Conference Fund” program http://www.indiana.edu/~ovpia/ovpia/funding/uWide.php#OCF, with current deadlines of October 1, January 15, April 1, July 1).
 Application materials needed:
  • Application form for REEI Faculty Travel Grant/International
  • Itemized budget of expected expenditures;
  • A copy of the preliminary conference paper showing the panel on which the applicant will be participating (or confirmation of faculty member participation from conference organizers);
  • An abstract of the paper;
  • Faculty members not presenting a paper should include a brief statement (one page) addressing the importance of their attendance for participation on a panel of for other purposes;
  • Current c.v.
Applications are available in Ballantine Hall 565 or on the web
 As in all REEI travel support competitions, consideration will be given to the significance of the conference, the number of times REEI has supported the faculty member's travel in recent years, and the overall budget situation. Highest priority will be given to faculty whose conference travel will contribute to future teaching and research activities at Indiana University.
Full information about REEI faculty research and travel funding can be viewed on the web at


Other Announcements:


Throughout October, the IUB Libraries Reference Services Department is offering workshops designed with the more in-depth research needs of faculty and graduate students in mind.  Upcoming sessions include:

Explore the best methods for finding your field’s important literature and examine the benefits and drawbacks of using certain search tools, such as Google Scholar.

Learn how to search individual library catalogs from around the world as well as how to use WorldCat to do a comprehensive search of published material, verify citations, identify other libraries that own an  item, and place interlibrary loan requests.

Citation indexes make it possible to trace patterns of influence among scholars and scientists.   Learn how to set up citation alerts and use search analysis tools to enhance your research in all fields.

Explore the basics of copyright law for authors and learn how to protect and manage your rights.  (Copyright 101 for Instructors is also available.)

Explore the essential library resources for historical and literary research on 18th and 19th century topics, including new digital resources that give researchers enhanced access to books, journals, newspapers, and other primary source materials. 

This session will focus on easy access to print sources from the 19th century onward and the IU Libraries’ web archiving project for national level statistical websites.


6:00PM-8:00PM, Oak Room, IMU

The Partnership for Public Service is a public relations agency hired by the federal government to promote career opportunities within the federal government. Amy Bush, the Federal Service Student Ambassador for Indiana University from the Partnership of Public Service, is leading a workshop on finding a federal government internship.  The workshop, Finding an Internship with the Federal Government, will cover resources that advertise federal opportunities, how to find and apply for internships through USAJobs, and will cover helpful tips on utilizing the website.  She will also review federal student programs such as the Student Career Experience Program (SCEP) and discuss how you can make your application competitive.  For further information, please contact Amy at amybush@indiana.edu. The workshop is sponsored by the Career Services Council (a consortium consisting of all the directors of career services at IUB).
The workshop will take place on Thursday, October 7 from 6-8PM in the Oak Room of the IMU.

January 4-21, 2011

We are glad to announce that starting from January 2011 National Research University - Higher School of Economics offers an International Winter Session.
The Winter Session gives students a unique opportunity to immerse in intensive studies at the Higher School of Economics - one of the biggest research universities in CIS and Eastern Europe. The International Winter Session will take place January 4-21, 2011. HSE provides a choice of courses enabling students to earn academic credit and speed up the progress towards their degree or focus on the enhancement of a particular skill. Students are offered courses in Russian Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Economics and Russian Language.

Rich and engaging cultural program will allow to fully experience the beautiness of Russian winter and participate in great networking events together with other international students. It is a great opportunity to study Russia from inside with internationally renowned professors and make full use of abundant intercultural and tourist opportunities. More detailed information is available at HSE website
http://cie.hse.ru/index.php/programs/international-winter-session

HSE is the leading Russian university in the socio-economic sciences, we are quite young but very dynamic and progressive university. This year QS have included us in top 500 world best universities. We are currently the biggest socio-economics think-tank in Russia and Eastern Europe. Our 18 000 students study at our four campuses - in Moscow, St.Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod and Perm. Currently we are offering over 100 courses taught in English and these courses are available to both exchange and fee-paying students. We offer solid programs in various aspects of Russian Studies including Russian language courses. The link to the semester section of our website follows:
http://cie.hse.ru/index.php/programs/semesteryear-programs.
12:00 PM, Winslow Woods Shelter, 2120 S. Highland Ave.

The Hungarian Cultural Association's Fall Picnic will be held this Saturday, Oct. 2nd at 12 noon in the Winslow Woods picnic shelter here in Bloomington. The Winslow Woods shelter is just under three miles south of campus at 2120 S. Highland Ave., across from the YMCA. There is a playground for children. The HCA will be grilling, but please feel free to bring a dish to share. There will be no written invitations for this even, so if you know someone who may not have received this announcement, please send HCA a note or share this message.

5.      October 3, 2010: IU Association of Central Eurasian Students and the IU Navruz Students' Association Fall Picnic
12:00 PM, Bryan Park Woodlawn Shelter
Fall Picnic, Sunday, October 3rd. Bryan Park Woodlawn Shelter. Students, faculty, staff, visiting scholars, and families and friends from CEUS, RIFIAS, IAUNRC, CeLCAR, MONSOC, NSA, etc., are invited to join the officers of the IU Association of Central Eurasian Students and the IU Navruz Students' Association for the annual Fall Picnic/BBQ. ACES and NSA will provide grilled foods, soft drinks and paper goods. Guests are welcome (but not required) to bring food donations - salads, desserts and other side dishes. Specialties from the regions covered by CEUS are especially appreciated. Bryan Park is approximately seven blocks south of campus. The Woodlawn Picnic Shelter is on the west side of the park on Woodlawn Avenue. There is ample parking nearby. The Woodlawn Shelter is wheelchair accessible. Accessible bathrooms are centrally located in the park. There is playground equipment nearby. An effort is made to arrange rides for those without cars. If you need a ride, write to aces@indiana.edu as far in advance as possible. If you have spare seats in your car, write to aces@indiana.edu. Information on Bryan Park can be found at http://bloomington.in.gov/documents/viewDocument.php?document_id=271


Language Tables and Coffee Hours:

5:30 PM, Yogi’s Bar and Grill

 6:00PM – 7:00PM, Ballantine 005

NOTE: PLACE CHANGE FOR THIS WEEK

Four weeks deep into the fall semester, it is hard to believe that only a month ago we
were not students or professors, not studying, not doing our homework… yeah, those
good times…

Join us this Thursday September 30th to remember and commemorate our summers!!!
Mingle among Slavic faculty, meet new people, and nibble on Russian food!
We are looking forward to seeing you all!

6:00 PM, Runcible Spoon

5:45 PM, Indiana Memorial Union Starbucks

2:30 PM, Ballantine Hall 244

5:30 PM, Pourhouse Café (314 E Kirkwood)

5:30 PM, Ballantine Hall 506

7:00 PM, Runcible Spoon

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