Weekly Events from REEI

Lectures, Local Conferences, and Academic Events:

1.       Monday October 11: Barbara Skinner, Assistant Professor, History, Indiana State University, "Fault Lines of Faith: Rethinking Orthodox Identity in Russia's Western Borderlands"

2.       Tuesday, October 12: Emanuela Grama-Neamtu, PhD candidate in Anthropology, University of Michigan, “Historical Preservation, Ethnic Belonging, and Symbolic Geographies in Contemporary Transylvania”

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

4.      Monday, October 11, 2010:  Kyllike Sillaste-Elling, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Estonia, Washington DC, “Estonia and the New Europe”

Cultural Events:

1.       October 8-9: A Choreographer’s Evening – Fall Ballet

2.      Friday, October 8, 2010: University Singers

3.       October 9 & 10: Arvo Part – A Jubilee

4.      October 4-29, 2010: Polish Trade Union Collection Exhibit

5.        Sunday, October 24th, 2010: Good Evening Monsieur Chopin (Buy Tickets by October 16, 2010)

Calls for Papers and Out-of-State Conferences:

1.       CALL FOR PAPERS: Voices of Freedom or Western Provocation? 60 Years of Radio Free Europe in Munich and Prague

2.       CALL FOR PAPERS: SIEF 2011: Objects, domestic routines and the making of everyday life

3.       CALL FOR PAPERS: Memory and history: identity, social change and the construction of places

4.      CALL FOR PAPERS: Speaking Nature

5.      CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd Global Conference: Evil, Women and the feminine

6.      CALL FOR PAPERS: 1st Global Conference Queer Sexualities

7.      CALL FOR PAPERS: Languagetalks 2011: Speaking about Boundaries. Multilingualism in Europe and the World

8.       CALL FOR PAPERS: Performing Ethnicities through Sport

9.       CALL FOR PAPERS: Family in Film - Jura Gentium Cinema

10.  CALL FOR PAPERS:"Discourses of Ritual and Power"

11.   CALL FOR PAPERS: “The Regimen of Bodily Health: Nourishment and Natural Knowledge”

12.   CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History "Nationalism, Literature, and National Culture"

13.   CALL FOR PAPERS: Keeping The Faith: Successful Strategies to Help Underrepresented Faculty Achieve Tenure and Promotion

Funding, Grants, and Scholarships:

1.       Grants-in-aid: Polish Studies Center

2.       National Research Competition/ Research on the Indigenous Peoples of Russia (NRC/RIPR)

3.       Wolfsonian-Florida International University Fellowships

4.       Title VIII Research Scholarship, Kennan Institute

5.       The British Library’s Endangered Archive Programme

6.       Postdoctoral Fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence

7.       Research funding, Freie Universitaet Berlin

8.       Open Society Archives, Grant

9.       IREX Grants and Fellowships

10.   Grants for the 2011 IREX/WWC Regional Policy Symposium

11.   Faculty Grants-in-Aid of Research

Other Announcements:

1.       Collegium Civitas Professional Internship Program

2.       National Research University – Higher School of Economics – International Winter Session

Language Tables and Coffee Hours:

1.       Thursday, October 7: Czech Language Table

2.       Thursday, October 7: Russian Language Table

3.       Thursday, October 7: Polish Language Table

4.       Monday, October 11: Estonian Language Coffee Hour

5.       Tuesday, October 12: Hungarian Language Coffee Hour

6.       Wednesday, October 13: Ukrainian Language “Salo” Hour

7.       Wednesday, October 13: South Slavic Language Table