Информационный бюллетень № 349

Информация для гуманитариев: гранты, стажировки,
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ST. PETERSBURG CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF IDEAS
SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF IDEAS IN ST. PETERSBURG
http://ideashistory.org.ru/
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Information for scholars: grants, fellowships, conferences, job
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САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКИЙ ЦЕНТР ИСТОРИИ ИДЕЙ
ОБЩЕСТВО ИСТОРИИ ИДЕЙ В САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГЕ
http://ideashistory.org.ru/
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Информационный бюллетень № 349
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Информация для гуманитариев: гранты, стажировки,
конференции, вакансии
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Председатель Общества: Татьяна Владимировна Артемьева
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FELLOWSHIPS / СТАЖИРОВКИ И СТИПЕНДИИ
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https://www.daad.ru/ru/stipendien/nauchnye-stazhirovki/
Научные стажировки для ученых и преподавателей вузов: 1 — 3 месяца
Стипендии DAAD дают возможность ученым из-за рубежа проводить исследования и повышать профессиональную квалификацию в Германии. Широкий спектр стипендиальных программ позволяет получить поддержку соискателям, имеющим различный уровень академической квалификации и находящимся на разных ступенях карьерной лестницы.

Цель данной программы – поддержка краткосрочных исследовательских стажировок для обмена опытом, а также расширения и укрепления контактов с коллегами.
Целевая группа
К участию в конкурсе допускаются преподаватели вузов и состоявшиеся ученые, которые, как правило, должны иметь степень кандидата наук и работать в российском вузе или научно-исследовательском институте/ центре.

Бывшим стипендиатам Фонда им. Александра фон Гумбольдта рекомендуется, в первую очередь, обращаться в этот Фонд.

Тип стипендии
Стипендия предназначена для прохождения научной стажировки в государственном или имеющем государственную аккредитацию вузе или внеуниверситетском исследовательском центре Германии. Реализация проекта может осуществляться на базе нескольких немецких вузов.
Воспользоваться стипендией можно не чаще одного раза в течение 3 лет.
Выступления с лекциями и участие в конгрессах в рамках данной стипендии не поддерживаются.
Длительность стипендии
от 1 до 3 месяцев; период, на который назначается стипендия, определяется отборочной комиссией в зависимости от представленного на конкурс проекта и календарного плана работы.
стипендии данного типа не продляются.
Размер и содержание стипендии
сумма стипендии (ежемесячно) в зависимости от статуса стипендиата
2.000,- евро для преподавателей и доцентов,
2.150,- евро для профессоров.
фиксированная выплата на частичное покрытие дорожных расходов (в случае если расходы не берет на себя вуз или третьи лица на родине стипендиата).
какие-либо другие финансовые выплаты не предусмотрены.
Отбор соискателей
Решения принимаются независимой отборочной комиссией.

Основными критериями отбора являются:
научные достижения и актуальные публикации соискателя, которые должны быть отражены в резюме и в перечне публикаций
убедительный и хорошо спланированный исследовательский проект
Сроки подачи документов:
до 31.05.2018.
В случае положительного решения комиссии стипендия должна быть реализована в период с 01.12.2018 до конца мая 2019.

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http://fulbright.ru/ru/russians
Открыт конкурс на 2019-2020 учебный год по всем программам Фулбрайта для граждан России.
ГРАНТЫ ДЛЯ РОССИЙСКИХ СОИСКАТЕЛЕЙ
ПРОГРАММЫ ДЛЯ СТУДЕНТОВ И ПРЕПОДАВАТЕЛЕЙ
МАГИСТРАТУРА И СТАЖИРОВКА
ПРОГРАММА ДЛЯ ПРЕПОДАВАТЕЛЕЙ ВУЗОВ (FFDP)
ПРОГРАММА ДЛЯ МОЛОДЫХ ПРЕПОДАВАТЕЛЕЙ АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА (FLTA)
ДЛЯ УЧЕНЫХ
АРКТИЧЕСКАЯ ПРОГРАММА ФУЛБРАЙТА
SIR
ДЛЯ УЧЕНЫХ И ДЕЯТЕЛЕЙ ИСКУССТВ
NEW CENTURY SCHOLARS
ДЛЯ СОТРУДНИКОВ МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫХ ОТДЕЛОВ
ПРОГРАММА ДЛЯ СОТРУДНИКОВ МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫХ ОТДЕЛОВ ВУЗОВ (RIEA)
ДРУГИЕ ПРОГРАММЫ
МАЛЫЕ ГРАНТЫ ДЛЯ ВЫПУСКНИКОВ
ПРОГРАММА ХЬЮБЕРТА ХАМФРИ

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http://jordanrussiacenter.org/short-term-fellowship-program/
Short-Term Fellowship Program
The NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Short-Term Fellowship Program is designed to facilitate research in local collections, expose visitors to the intellectual life of the Russian field at NYU and in the greater New York community, and acquaint faculty and graduate students at NYU with the most recent world-wide trends in the study of Russia.

The fellowship program is geared toward scholars who have earned their doctoral degrees or equivalents. Fellowships can be awarded for use during any period of the year, lasting up to a maximum of one month. Candidates should supply a one-page written description of their current research and demonstrate their need to conduct research and open professional contacts in the New York area; a CV; a list of at least three referees; and up to three preferred time-periods for a proposed visit. Stipends of up to $5,000 may be used for travel, housing, or daily expenses and a detailed budget explaining intended use of requested funds should be submitted. Awardees will be expected to participate in the activities of the Jordan Center and have the opportunity to present their work to colleagues and graduate students. Awardees will be given an NYU affiliation, shared office space, and access to NYU libraries. The Jordan Center does not secure housing.

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https://nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/individual-fellowship-applicants-dutch-affiliation/Individual   
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) provides temporary fellowships for talented scholars – renowned and up-and-coming researchers alike. It stimulates curiosity-driven advanced research in a collaborative and constructive environment.
Fellowship – non-Dutch
Individual fellowships for scholars with a non-Dutch affiliation, who wish to work on an individual project for 5 or 10 months. These fellowships are by application. The call for individual fellowships for the academic year 2019/20 is NOW OPEN.
Who can apply?
NIAS individual Fellowships are awarded to scholars to carry out advanced research in the humanities and the social sciences. Fellows have have already made a considerable contribution to their field.
In order to be considered eligible for a fellowship by NIAS, the following criteria and rules are applicable:
• At least 3 years of post-Ph.D. degree academic experience
• Applicants must have an affiliation with a university or research institute during the period of the fellowship. The NIAS Fellowship does not constitute an employment relationship: the fellow is and remains an employee of his or her own university or research institute. NIAS is thus not obligated to make social insurance contributions or to contribute to pension or unemployment insurances
• Applicants can only apply for either an individual fellowship or a theme-group fellowship in a single year, not for both
• If applicants were granted with an earlier fellowship at NIAS, they can apply for a new fellowship 10 years after finishing the first fellowship
• A completed online application form with all requested documents uploaded
 
Selection criteria
Applications are primarily evaluated on the basis of scientific quality, innovative character and originality. Scholarly achievements, grants, awards and publication record are also taken into consideration in the selection process.
In order to establish a diverse and coherent research group, additional elements that are taken into consideration by the NIAS directorate include the spread across disciplinary backgrounds, gender, age and geographical origin. In addition, the availability of facilities such as housing are also taken into consideration.
Selection procedure
All correctly submitted applications are screened for eligibility on the basis of the abovementioned formal criteria. Applications that fit the formal criteria are sent to independent external reviewers. Applicants who do not meet the criteria are notified by email that NIAS does not intend sending their application to external reviewers for evaluation. Applicants can object to this decision by email. On the basis of the arguments given by the applicant, NIAS will decide whether or not to reconsider.
Based on the reviewers’ assessments, in combination with the abovementioned additional selection criteria, it is the director who ultimately decides which applicants will be invited for a NIAS Fellowship.
Please note that NIAS only offers a limited number of NIAS Fellowships each year and that the competition is fierce, which means that less than 10% of all applications is accepted.

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10 Postdoctoral and 12 Collegium Researcher
positions
University of Turku – Turku Institute for Advanced
Studies (TIAS)
13th April 2018
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BIH853/10-
postdoctoral-and-12-collegium-researcher-
positions/

TIAS promotes cutting-edge interdisciplinary university research in the
humanities and social science including studies in arts and literature, cultural studies, history,
archaeology, languages, linguistics, speech and language pathology, business studies, economics,
education, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, social policy, social work, sociology and
research methodologies. TIAS is supported by the faculties of Education, Humanities, Law and Social
Sciences and the Turku School of Economics, and its researchers span these disciplines. TIAS will appoint
researchers for two different positions: Postdoctoral Researchers and Collegium Researchers. TIAS selects
researchers through an international call for applications and rigorous review process. This call
for applications is open to all researchers in the respective fields. However, tenured professors are
not eligible. Successful candidates must provide evidence of their ability to work in an interdisciplinary 
research environment of high international standard. All applicants must have a
doctoral degree at the point of application. TIAS selects researchers on the basis of external
evaluations. In the selection process, particular attention is paid to the quality of the candidate’s
research proposal and their international collaborations. TIAS researchers are located in
departments which act as hosts to the research. Applicants must have a letter of commitment from 
one of the departments at the University of Turku stating that it undertakes to serve as the site of the
research and provide the researcher with the necessary support. Please see detailed guidance on
this in the Instruction for Applicants. TIAS aims to support the research priorities of the University of
Turku, which consist of six thematic collaborations:
1) Biofuture 
2) Digital futures 
3) Cultural memory
and social change 
4) Children, young people and
learning 
5) Drug development and diagnostics 
6) Seaand maritime studies. 
Applicants are requested to demonstrate a linkage between their research and these thematic collaborations.

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http://www.collegeart.org/jobs-and-opportunities/opportunities/listing/16636/NEW
ART HISTORY FELLOWSHIP AT THE BOGLIASCO FOUNDATION
Type : Awards, Grants, Fellowships [ View all ] 
Posted by: The Bogliasco Foundation
Deadline: Sun, April 15th, 2018

The Bogliasco Foundation is pleased to announce a new residential Fellowship for an American scholar in European art history. The five-week Fellowship, which will take place at the Foundation’s Study Center near Genoa during the Spring 2019 semester, includes full room and board and a travel stipend of $1000. The Fellowship is open to American art historians of all ages who are working on pre-modern projects (antiquity to early 19th century), and who are not currently in a degree-granting program.
For complete instructions and eligibility details, kindly consult the Foundation’s online application site at  http://www.bfny.org/en/apply
The deadline to apply is April 15th, 2018. 
 
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CONFERENCES / КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ
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Call for papers: "Islam" as epistemic field: imperial entanglements and Orientalism in the German-speaking world since 1870
An International Conference 11-12 October 2018
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
“Islam” is at the center of current societal and academic debates in Germany. These eminently political debates revolve around issues such as the status and rights of refugees, of migrant workers, of women and headscarves, and the question whether “Islam” and “Muslims” belong to a politically and historically constituted entity called “Germany.” They also invoke and put on stage claims about the “Enlightenment,” “secularization” and the historical progress of Christianity and Judaism. Such claims are often contrasted with claims about the inability of Islam to achieve an “Enlightenment,” ”secularization,” or a “Reformation,” that is, to become a full part of the “modern secular” world. Publications and statements about “Islam” that reproduce such historical-political-ethical claims seem to be multiplying daily. “Islam,” so it seems, has become one of the major “problems” in debates about the present and future of German society.
The idea that “Islam” itself poses a major political “problem” for German politics has important historical precedents: at the turn of the twentieth century German publics discussed the “Islamic question” (“die Islamfrage”) and “Islamic policy” (“Islampolitik”) regarding policies in German colonies. “Islam” constituted a “problem” to be analyzed as the influential scholar of Islam (“Islamwissenschaftler”) Carl Heinrich Becker wrote in the first issue of the then newly established journal “Der Islam” (1910). Moreover, “Islam” was invoked in German war propaganda during the first and the second world war. Imperial Germany had not only been concerned with Protestantism and Catholicism in the “culture war” (“Kulturkampf”), but also with Islam, as Rebekka Habermas has pointed out (2014: 252). “Islam” is, one could argue, another unmarked center of what is called German history. What was at stake in those debates was not only the shifting imaginations of “Islam” as an “Other” of “the West” within a setting of empires. But, at the same time and within this imperial setting, another crucial stake was the problem of “religion” as a modern concept in relation to the secular modern and, therefore, the political dimension of the contingent forms of instituting and grounding a political formation. The foundational problem-space of scholarly disciplines concerned with “Islam” emerged in during the era of German imperialism and must therefore be situated within this history of German imperialism – a history that connects both the “foreign” territories and “German” territories. A critical question pertains to how the legacies of these historical constructions of “Islam” as an epistemic field within an imperial setting have shaped later and contemporary German debates about “Islam.”
Regarding academic debates, however, there is a dearth of works concerned with a “history of knowledge” of “Islam” as a historically constituted field in German-speaking settings that can address these historical, epistemological, and political dimensions within a single analytic framework.
The conference of the Research Field “Trajectories of Lives and Knowledge” at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, seeks to take up and develop the perspective of a history of knowledge to use it to re-describe “Islam” as an epistemic field.
The conference thus pursues two aims:
First, the conference is to further develop a postcolonial perspective on the production of “Islam” as an epistemic field in German-speaking settings since 1870. In our view, imperial entanglements are constitutive for this field. Our interest lies therefore in examining the history of these entanglements and their afterlives up to the present. We thus understand articulations of “Islam” – e.g. in “area studies,” as an object of intervention by the state, in public debates among Muslims and non-Muslims – as moments of a local, but globally entangled history of knowledge production. We ask about the historical connections between these articulations and their relation to certain observed problems or political goals.
Second, the conference asks about the emergence of the epistemic field “Islam” to provide an important methodological contribution existing interdisciplinary research in this field. In focusing on the epistemologies and the politics that have produced the epistemic field “Islam,” the conference aims at countering the tenacious view of Islam as an “area” sui generis. Heuristically, with Timothy Mitchell (2004) we use a consciously broad concept of “area” – i.e., not only in the geographic, but also in the history-of-knowledge sense of a context that constitutes a certain object of knowledge. As areas of knowledge and power, “Islam,” “Orient,” and “Orientalism” cannot be understood in isolation, but only in relation to areas of knowledge and thereby as part of the production of knowledge about historically constituted areas such as “politics,” “economics,” “religion,” “Christianity,” “overseas,” “the non-European,” “history,” “the secular,” etc. in an imperially structured environment. This metaphorical use of “area” methodologically opens up a history-of-knowledge perspective that productively interlocks the dimensions of social history, global intellectual history, and the history of concepts, to develop an optic that allows us to follow research questions across disciplinary limits.
Possible fields of inquiry are (but not exclusively):
1) Islam as a historical concept
2) Islam, Orientalism, and area studies
3) Islam, „race,“ and gender
4) Islam as („world-)religion,“ liberalism, and the secular
The publication of the results of the conference is planned.
Paper abstracts (max. 500 words) should be sent to Nils Riecken ( [email protected] ) by  30 May 2018 . Applicants will be informed about our decision until 16 June 2018.
There is limited funding available for travel and accommodation for the selected participants .
Contact Info: 
Nils Riecken
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2016-2019)
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin
https://zmo.academia.edu/NilsRiecken
Contact Email: 
[email protected]

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Seventeenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities - University of Granada  Conference  

3rd to 5th July 2019  Granada, Spain  

Website:  http://thehumanities.com/2019-conference/call-for-papers  
Contact person:  Sara Hoke  

New Directions in the Humanities Research Network: a conference and journal collection founded in 2003, exploring established traditions in the humanities as well as innovative practices that set a renewed agenda for their future.  

Organized by:  Common Ground Research Networks  
Deadline for abstracts/proposals:  3rd June 2019  

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 Dear Colleagues, 
We are pleased to send you the call f or papers for the conference Memory and Religion: Central and Eastern Europe in a Global Perspective ( Warsaw, 16-18 October 2018 ). 
You may find the CfP at the following link: bit.ly/CfP_Genealogies2018
The conference will be the 8th edition of our Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe programme. 
The deadline for submissions is: 14 May 2018 . 

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Early modern English and German collecting networks and practice: medicine and natural philosophy (8-9 June 2018, Leopoldina, German National Academy of Sciences, Halle)

The shift from a purposefully and playfully disordered Kunstkammer to the well-ordered Enlightenment museum is known. What has yet to be explored fully is the process through which this transformation occurred. This two-day workshop will investigate the role of learned societies in that transformation between England and German-speaking lands, focusing on the relatively understudied period from the foundation of the Leopoldina as a medical association (1652) to the start of the Royal Society Presidency of Joseph Banks (1778). It will explore why it was that physicians seemed to have such a seminal role in collecting and connoisseurship in both regions. Did medics in the Leopoldina, the Society of Antiquaries in London and the Royal Society have similar collecting practices, strategies, and underlying reasons for collecting? What were their contributions to the creation of wonder cabinets and early museums, as well as their development of norms of connoisseurship and classification of knowledge?

Participants will engage with the archives of the Leopoldina and the Francke Foundation’s extant Kunst- und Naturalienkammer (art and natural history cabinet) in Halle, a rare survivor from the 17th century. The Kunst- und Naturalienkammer was assembled as a teaching tool for children in the Francke Orphanage and Hospital, where a hands-on, and playful curriculum using objects and instruments, the practice of crafts, and musical performance was prized. This workshop will thus be accompanied by a concert of baroque chamber music to raise public awareness of the work of the Francke Foundation, an instance of collecting for charity. The workshop is also being held during the Handel Festival in Halle.

Speakers include Julia Schmidt-Funke, Dominik Hunniger, Vera Keller, Fabian Krämer, Anna Maerker, Anna Marie Roos, and Kelly Whitmer.

This workshop is part of a very recent networking grant award from the AHRC: Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy. (PI: A.M. Roos, Co-I: Vera Keller).

Please send a 200-word abstract for a 20-minute paper and a CV to Anna Marie Roos ([email protected]) by 8 May 2018. Early career researchers and established scholars are welcome.

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Call for Papers – ecah.iafor.org/call-for-papers/

The conference theme for ECAH is "Fearful Futures", and the organisers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions across a variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives.

Submissions are organised into the following thematic streams. Abstracts can be submitted through the conference website:

Arts
– Teaching and Learning the Arts
– Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy
– Arts Theory and Criticism
– Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
– Visual Arts Practices
– Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
– Literary Arts Practices
– Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media
– Other Arts

Humanities
– Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication
– Aesthetics, Design
– Language, Linguistics
– Knowledge
– Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
– History, Historiography
– Literature/Literary Studies*
– Political Science, Politics
– Teaching and Learning
– Globalisation
– Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
– Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
– First Nations and Indigenous Peoples
– Sexuality, Gender, Families
– Religion, Spirituality
– Cyberspace, Technology
– Science, Environment and the Humanities
– Other Humanities

Submit your abstract: ecah.iafor.org/call-for-papers/

To find out about registration packages, presentation options, conference events and more, please visit the conference website: ecah.iafor.org/registration/

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http://www.connections.clio-online.net/event/id/termine-36359?utm_source=connectionshtml&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2018-2&utm_campaign=htmldigest

Mapping and the Global Imaginary, 1500-1900

David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University
Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick / History Department, Stanford University
14.02.2019 - 15.02.2019
Deadline 01.06.2018

Maps have long been used to bring imaginary places to life, from Thomas More's Utopia to JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth. But the role of the imagination in mapping extends well beyond the depiction of fantasy realms. Some cartographers have conjured places that were only rumored to exist but that they hoped could one day be charted. Others have drawn on their creative faculties to map sites that were only hazily known. Not a few cartographers have intentionally imposed illusory elements on their maps, whether in jest or in earnest (to mislead enemies, to foil would-be plagiarists, or to score political or philosophical points). In the broadest sense, all maps are works of the imagination: at the moment of creation, the mapmaker translates a mental image into a visual and textual medium that can be shared. The various contexts that shape this process, the forms chosen for sharing spatial visions, and the nature of the resulting maps’ relationship to perceived reality all form important aspects of the study of cartography.
This conference is designed to showcase research and facilitate conversation about the role of the imagination in the cartographic enterprise writ large. Rather than attempt to draw a hard line between genres—distinguishing maps of ‘the real’ from those that represent avowedly fictional worlds—we invite presenters to focus on intersections between the two, highlighting the ways in which mapmakers at different moments have drawn on personal or social imaginaries to create alternative, sometimes destabilizing representations of the world. While we are particularly keen to include papers that address theoretical or historiographical issues in the field of world history, inquiries at more local scales are also welcome.
The conference will be hosted at the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford  https://library.stanford.edu/rumsey . Founded in 2016, the Rumsey Center holds a collection of some 150,000 maps and their digital surrogates; it also provides state-of-the-art facilities for projection and display of images, offering a unique venue for collaborative research.
Professor Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University), author The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories, will be the plenary keynote speaker.
Presentations will ideally focus on a handful of particular maps, drawing chiefly on examples made between 1500 and 1900. Possible themes for exploration include:
- Mapping utopias and dystopias
- Projections of power and competing border claims
- Recidivist cartography
- Maps of alternative futures; maps of alternative pasts
- Topographies of the unknown (uncharted territories)
- Imagining populations, nations, and civilizations
- The fabulous; the monstrous
Each accepted presenter will also be asked curate a small exhibit of 2-4 maps that relate to their talk. We will use whenever possible items from the David Rumsey Map Center's collections either in original or facsimile. Each submission should include a 100-200 word narrative that pull the maps together, a small paragraph that talks about each map and finally, author, title and date information. This may include maps that you talk about in your presentation, or ones that are related. Ideally, this is work that you would be doing anyway as you prepare for your talk. Rumsey Map Center staff will work with each of the presenters on this piece. The exhibit will live past the conference, until the end of Summer 2019, and will be posted online. Here is an example of a similar exhibit put together for a recent conference:  https://exhibits.stanford.edu/blrcc
Here is an example of what is expected from each speaker:
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/blrcc/feature/mapping-cholera-19th-century
To submit a proposal, please send (1) a 300-word abstract of the proposed paper, (2) high-resolution images of two maps you propose to discuss, and (3) a one-page CV, to:  [email protected]
The closing date for proposals is June 1st, 2018. Successful applicants will be notified by June 30th, 2018. To appear on the final program, each selected speaker must submit a text of no more than 2,500 words in length—as well as the related exhibit material described above - by October 31st, 2018.
The conference has a small registration fee ($50 for regular registration, $20 for students) to ensure attendance after registration and to cover a small part of expenses. Tenured participants and senior scholars are expected to organize and cover the cost of their own travel and lodging. A small number of subsidies will be available to graduate students and early-career scholars (within 6 years of the PhD). Please note in your application if you are eligible and wish to be considered for such a subsidy.

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Vse idet po planu? – Unwrapping the (un)planned Soviet economy
Workshop at the German Historical Institute
 
Moscow May 27 th -28 th , 2019
 
Alexandra Oberländer (FSO Bremen), Katja Bruisch (Trinity College Dublin)
 
The economic history of the Soviet Union remains a mystery for many historians. As a subject of historical research, it has been either avoided or dominated by rather stereotypical ideas about the Soviet style of economy: that it was ineffective and wasteful, that it failed to create positive incentives for workers and that, eventually, it caused the collapse of the Soviet state. Perhaps the most important notion of the Soviet economy is, that it was planned. However, we have been knowing for decades that the plan was constantly adjusted and as such very flexible. Sticking to the label of the “planned economy” that contemporaries both within and outside of the Soviet Union used for different purposes, therefore means to reinforce debatable notions and terms.
 
In assessing the Soviet economy merely by economic criteria, we fail to see its “by-products” which, even though they did not translate into measurable economic output, helped Soviet citizens organize their lives and shaped individual and collective identities. Moreover, if we characterize the Soviet economy just by the existence of the plan, we will hardly be able to explain shifts and transformations in the relationship between ideas, policies and the everyday experience of production and consumption over the course of the Soviet period. In this workshop we want to focus on the post-Stalinist period to look for alternative categories and concepts that help us understand rather than mystify the realities of the Soviet economy.
 
We invite participants to rethink Soviet history by looking at four dimensions of (non-)planning and how they unfolded at the micro-level:
 
1. Plans: While the Five-Year-Plans often serve to break up Soviet economic history into different periods, not much is actually known about how these plans materialized and how they affected the everyday decision-making of bureaucrats, managers and workers. We are interested in the processes of planning and plan adjustment as well as in the relationship between planned and unplanned economic activities. What was planned, what were the figures, what did they mean? How were the plans adjusted? Who was involved? How did the plan inform people’s lives and their professional and private decisions about what to consume and what to produce? To which extent was the existence of the second economy reflected in the planning process? How formal was the informal sector? What was socialist about Soviet plans?
 
2. Space: Economic activity always has a location, while, at the same time, it also transforms and constitutes spaces, through the allocation of resources, the construction of infrastructure or the controlled or uncontrolled flow of people and goods. We are interested in how space was imagined, produced, shaped and contested in the Soviet economy. Which spatial hierarchies did the Soviet economy bring about, between regions as well as within particular cities, villages or factories? How were spaces of production and consumption designed, and how did Soviet citizens appropriate them for their own interests? Can the commonly accepted dichotomy of urban and rural regions been held up, if we look at concrete economic practices and individual biographies, rather than adopting the categories of the Soviet administration for our analysis?
 
3. Risk: While the Five-Year-Plans were presented as tools to design and control the future, Soviet planners were often confronted with the fact that economic success depended on a number of factors that were beyond their control: technological failure, environmental hazards or human error. We want to understand the role and the meanings of risk and contingency within the allegedly planned Soviet economy. Why was the Soviet economy so prone for environmental phenomena, like drought? To which extent did the planned economy calculate risks and hazards which often were to be compensated by man power and unskilled labor? How did the Soviet economy and its planners react to accident? How were risks in practice distributed between different social and institutional actors?
 
4. Value(s) and prices: Contrary to the seemingly straightforward definition of value in Marxist theory, the concept remained highly contested in academic debate throughout the Soviet period. At the same time, calculating or projecting value as intended by Soviet planners proved impossible: How valuable something appeared from the perspective of contemporaries was highly contingent and dependent on many factors: the accessibility of concrete goods, services or favors and the availability of substitutes; the social status and the power of individual or collective actors who supplied or demanded something; the cultural prestige assigned to certain things. We invite participants to develop a fresh view on the problem of value in the Soviet economy by approaching it as a social and cultural category. How did cultural norms, power relations and social practices define economic value in the Soviet Union? What was the relationship between cultural preferences and the monetary value assigned to concrete goods or services? Did money function as a measure or a store of value in the Soviet economy? Which non-monetary forms existed to store value?
 
The workshop seeks to understand Soviet economy better by looking at the “plan” not only as an economic policy, but also as an institution that shaped peoples’ lives, while at the same time being subject to constant renegotiation and adjustment. We aim at integrating economic history into the social and cultural history of the everyday. Drawing upon the rich scholarship of the late-Soviet period, production and consumption in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union will be approached as social and cultural practices. In a more broader sense, we would like to find out what was “economic”, “Soviet” and “socialist” about the Soviet planned economy in order to situate the Soviet economic style in a larger international context of state economic activity during the 20th century.
 
This workshop is meant to create a platform for discussing work in progress in the exciting field of Soviet economic history. The papers will be pre-circulated among all participants and commented by two discussants each. The event is going to take place at the German Historical Institute, Moscow. Working languages will be Russian and English.
 
Abstracts (max. 300 words) and a short CV should be submitted by April 1st 2018 to one of the following addresses: oberlaendera[at]uni-bremen.de and BRUISCHK[at]tcd.ie.

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 Государственный музей истории российской литературы имени В.И. Даля 
ИНФОРМАЦИОННОЕ ПИСЬМО
Уважаемые коллеги!
Приглашаем Вас принять участие во Всероссийской научно-практической конференции «Литературные музеи в контексте истории и культуры России», которая состоится 30 мая - 3 июня 2018 г.
Для обсуждения предлагаются следующие вопросы:
•реальность – литература – литературный музей
•коллизии личной жизни писателя как фактор формирования культурного пространства и сети литературных музеев
•меморизация социального и духовного опыта писателя средствами музея
•литературное наследие – памятник литературы – музейный предмет в литературном музее
•документирование музеями развития отечественной литературы
•репрезентация закономерностей литературного процесса и субъективного опыта творческой личности в экспозициях литературных музеев
•литературные музеи как инструмент культурной идентификации индивидуумов и социума 
•литературно-мемориальные музеи – хранители традиций или активные участники современного литературного процесса?

Оргкомитет конференции просит Вас до 25 апреля 2018 г. подать заявку на участие в конференции для формирования предварительной программы. 
Внимание! К заявке необходимо приложить аннотацию (500-800 знаков). 
Оргкомитет оставляет за собой право при несоответствии тематике конференции отклонять представленные заявки.

По итогам конференции будет опубликован сборник (РИНЦ). Публикация бесплатная. Оргкомитет оставляет за собой право отклонять или редактировать представленные тексты.

Командировочные расходы – за счет направляющей стороны.

Адрес Оргкомитета: 119334, г. Москва, Трубниковский пер., 17, Государственный музей истории российской литературы имени В.И. Даля, сектор издательских проектов.
Контактные телефоны координатора (Евгении Александровны Воронцовой):  8 926 918 02 28 ,  8 915 326 93 72 . 
Е-mail координатора:  [email protected]

Приложения:
1.Форма заявки.
2.Требования к оформлению статей.

Заявка на участие 
во Всероссийской научно-практической конференции 
«Литературные музеи в контексте истории и культуры России»
(30 мая - 3 июня 2018 г.)
 
Фамилия_________________________________________________
Имя________________________________________________________
Отчество__________________________________________________________________
Ученая степень, звание_______________________________________________________
Место работы ______________________________________________________________
Должность__________________________________________________________________
Служебный адрес_____________________________________________________________
Контактный телефон__________________________________________________________
Электронная почта___________________________________________________________
Очное / заочное участие _______________________________________________________
Тема выступления_____________________________________________________________
Необходимые технические средства______________________________________________



Требования к оформлению статей

Объем текста – до 1 авт. л. (40 000 знаков).
Статью присылаете в электронном виде (WinWord, расширение doc или rtf; размер кегля 12, шрифт Time New Roman; межстрочный интервал – одинарный; выравнивание текста по левому краю – за исключением специально оговоренных случаев).
Перед текстом даете (через пробельную строку):
УДК (вверху слева)
фамилию автора/соавторов на русском и английском языках (курсивом, справа);
название статьи на русском и английском языках (полужирным по центру);
аннотацию на русском и английском языках (5–7 строк);
ключевые слова на русском и английском языках (10 слов);

Через одну пробельную строку даете текст статьи.
Библиографические ссылки в статье даете так: [номер работы по Библиографии или номер работы по Библиографии и номера страниц].
Повторную ссылку оформляете так: [Там же] или [Там же. С. 48]. 

После текста, через одну пробельную строку, в алфавитном порядке и без нумерации даете пронумерованную Библиографию (цифры – арабские) 
Библиографическое описание должно включать: фамилии и инициалы всех авторов (курсивом); полное название работы; название издания, в котором она опубликована (для статей); место издания: название издательства или издающей организации, год издания; том (для многотомных изданий), номер, выпуск (для периодических изданий); объем публикации (количество страниц – для монографии, первая и последняя страницы – для статьи, тезисов). 

В самом конце, одной пробельной строкой ниже Библиографии даете на русском языке:
фамилия, имя, отчество автора, ученая степень и звание, место работы (учебы) и должность, почтовый адрес и контактный телефон, адрес электронной почты.

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Уважаемые коллеги!
 
            Кафедра русской филологии Учреждения образования «Гродненский государственный университет имени Янки Купалы» и Кафедры Современной русской литературы и Кафедра древнерусской литературы Института Восточнославянской филологии в Белостоке имеют честь пригласить Вас принять участие в XV II международной конференции «Взаимодействие литератур в мировом литературном процессе. Проблемы теоретической и исторической поэтики» , которая состоится 
21-25 сентября 2018 года. Как и в прошлые годы, конференция проводится в рамках совместного проекта двух вузов «Вокруг проблем антропологии литературы» и пройдет в 2 этапа: с 21 по 23 сентября в Гродно на базе ГрГУ, с 24 по 25 сентября в Белостоке на базе Белостокского университета. Вы можете принять участие в одном (1 доклад и 1 публикация) или в двух этапах (2 разных доклада и 2 публикации). На каждом этапе предусмотрены разные секции и разные культурные программы.
Центральная проблема конференции в Гродно – «Человек говорящий, пишущий, читающий в литературе»
Имея общефилологический смысл, изучение языковой ситуации позволяет осмыслить проблему в более широком – антропологическом – аспекте: если язык есть отражение сознания, то по состоянию языка художественной литературы можно судить о состоянии когнитивных процессов, нравственного уровня, общекультурной и коммуникативной направленности развития человека и общества в целом, то есть о становлении нового антропологического типа. Объектом осмысления и обсуждения на конференции станет человек как языковая личность, проявляющая себя в практике повседневного общения, письма, чтения, человек как герой художественного произведения и/или СМИ, а также как субъект творческой деятельности. При этом понятие «язык» может рассматриваться в литературоведческом, лингвистическом и культурологическом понимании. 
Тема конференции в Белостоке: «Литературное произведение в культурном пространстве».
В рамках так сформулированной темы мы хотели бы обратить внимание на факт, что антропологический подход учитывает широко понимаемый контекст культуры, в котором всегда функционирует человек-творец и его произведение. Литературное произведение можно понимать как текст культуры, предопределенный контекстом времени, контекстом пространства (здесь необходимо выделить писателя, который функционирует исключительно или прежде всего, в пространстве Интернета), контекстом идеологии и т.д. Так понимаемое литературное произведение можно многосторонне исследовать только благодаря междисциплинарному подходу, который отличается методологическим разнообразием (например, структурализм, семиотика, постструктурализм, психоанализ, постколониализм), а также многообразием контекстов (литература, фильм, театр, музыка, изобразительные искусства, межкультурная коммуникация, популярная культура, игра, самоидентификация, пол, религия и т.д.). Предполагается публикация материалов конференции в журнале „ Studia Wschodnios ł owia ń skie ”.
 
 
Мы будем признательны, если Вы предложите для обсуждения другие аспекты вышеуказанной темы. 
К участию в конференции приглашаются представители не только филологических специальностей (литературоведы и лингвисты), но и других гуманитарных наук (философы, историки, культурологи).
Обращаем внимание: обсуждение антропологической проблематики в докладах и статьях предполагает обращение к поэтике произведения (на уровне образов, мотивов, стиля, жанра и т.д.).
Рабочие языки конференции: русский, польский, белорусский, украинский, английский. Регламент выступления: пленарный доклад – 25 минут, секционный – 20 минут.
Заявку на участие в конференции просим выслать не позднее 15 июля по адресам (убедительная просьба: высылать заявку только на соответствующий этап):
1) этап в Гродно: helen - bogdevich @ yandex . by 230023 Беларусь, г. Гродно, ул. Ожешко, 22, к. 217, Гродненский госуниверситет, кафедра русской филологии, оргкомитет конференции. Fax : (8 0152) 73-19-10 Te л.: (+375 152) 74-43-81 ;
2) этап в Белостоке :  [email protected] Katedra Współczesnej Literatury Rosyjskiej, Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, Plac Niezależnego Zrzeszenia Studentów 1, 15-420 Białystok ( с припиской „Dzieło literackie”). 
Финансовые условия:
- проезд, проживание, питание, экскурсионная программа за счет участников конференции ;
- оргвзнос, который включает стоимость публикации и рассылки материалов:
1) этап в Гродно: 30 евро (для участников из РБ – 10 евро в белорусских рублях по курсу Нацинального банка); 
2) этап в Белостоке: 200 PLN (польских злотых – примерно 50 евро).
 
Оргкомитет надеется, что проблематика конференции откроет возможность конструктивного диалога, плодотворного обмена мнениями, интересного общения.
 
Оргкомитет:
                   Профессор Татьяна Автухович 
к. г. н. Эва Паньковска
к.г.н. Иоанна Дедзиц
к. г. н. Вероника Беглюк-Лесь 
к.г.н. Агнешка Бачевска-Мурдзек
к.ф.н Инна Бубнович
 
Секретари конференции:
аспирант Елена Богдевич
аспирант Ольга Гриневич
                                   
 
Контактные данные:
1) в Гродно : тел.: + 375 29 7830943 (Т.Е. Автухович); + 375 152 74 43 81 (кафедра);
e-mail:  [email protected]
2) в Белостоке: e - mail : konferencja . bialystok 2018@ gmail . com
 
ЗАЯВКА
на участие в конференции «Человек говорящий, пишущий, читающий в литературе»
 
Фамилия ________________________________________________________________
Имя, отчество ____________________________________________________________
Ученая степень, звание ____________________________________________________
Место работы (учебы), должность ___________________________________________
Домашний адрес __________________________________________________________
Факс, E-mail ______________________________________________________________
Телефон _________________________________________________________________
Предполагаемая секция / секции ____________________________________________
Тема / темы доклада / докладов _____________________________________________
Краткая аннотация________________________________________________________
Прошу заказать мне место с ___ по ___ сентября (нужное подчеркнуть).
 
ВНИМАНИЮ УЧАСТНИКОВ:
1) В заявке просим указать, собираетесь ли Вы принять участие в одном или двух этапах конференции. 
2) Обратите внимание на то, что участие в Белостокском этапе конференции предполагает наличие визы (польской или шенгенской). В случае необходимости Вам будет выслано соответствующее приглашение.
3) Просим в заявке указать, нужно ли заказать Вам место в гостинице/общежитии и на какой срок (даты приезда и отъезда);
4) Культурная программа:
 в Гродно (на выбор): экскурсия «Замки Беларуси» (Мир-Новогрудок-Несвиж), «Дорогами А. Мицкевича», «Августовский канал – место дружбы» ( экскурсии состоятся 23 сентября), а также экскурсия по городую. Просим в заявке указать, собираетесь ли Вы принять участие в экскурсии. 
5) После включения Вашего доклада в программу соответствующего этапа конференции Вам будут высланы требования к оформлению текста статьи. Предварительные сведения: объем статьи – до 8 страниц через 1 интервал (0,5 печ. л.). Статья (распечатка и электронный вариант) сдается в оргкомитет во время конференции;
6) Вся необходимая информация о вариантах проживания, проезда из Гродно в Белосток и обратно будет выслана всем участникам конференции после получения заявки не позднее 5 сентября. 
 
 ЗАЯВКА
на участие в IV Международной научной конференции
«Вокруг проблем антропологии литературы» :
«Литературное произведение в культурном пространстве»
(Белосток, 24-25 сентября 2018 г.)
 
1. Фамилия, имя, отчество: 
2. Ученая степень, звание: 
3. Место работы: 
4. Должность: 
5. Контактный телефон: 
6. E-mail: 
7. Почтовый адрес для переписки: 
8. Паспортные данные для приглашения:
9. Тема доклада:
10. Краткое описание доклада:

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В конкурсе могут участвовать некоммерческие организации, а также государственные и муниципальные учреждения. Подробно о конкурсе на сайте Фонда:  http://www.fondpotanin.ru/effectivephilanthropy/socialinnovations .
Заявки принимаются до 30 апреля (включительно) 2018 года в электронном виде в личном кабинете на сайте Фонда  www.fondpotanin.ru (баннер или кнопка «Войти» в правом верхнем углу).
Консультации по проведению конкурса проводятся сотрудниками Фонда по телефону  +7 495 974 3017 и электронной почте  [email protected] .

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   http://fulbright.ru/ru/russians/scholars
Программа Фулбрайта проводит открытый конкурс для ученых в области гуманитарных, общественных, точных и естественных наук и для деятелей искусств. Финалисты конкурса получают грант на поездку в США для:

чтения лекций
проведения научных исследований
проведения мастер-классов (по творческим дисциплинам)
Главная цель Программы – укрепление культурно-академических связей между народами США и России, улучшение взаимопонимания между нашими странами. Программа полностью финансируется Государственным департаментом США.

•Продолжительность исследовательского гранта – от 3 до 6 месяцев; лекторского и на проведение мастер-классов – от 3 до 9 месяцев.
•Распределение в любой университет, архив и исследовательский центр США.

Гранты на конкурсной основе выдаются:
Ученым, сотрудникам научно-исследовательских институтов, преподавателям вузов (обязательно наличие ученой степени);
Деятелям искусств и специалистам в области прикладных и творческих дисциплин (наличие ученой степени не требуется).
В конкурсе могут участвовать представители академических и творческих дисциплин, перечисленных в разделе Список конкурсных дисциплин.

Требования к соискателям*

Российское гражданство и постоянное проживание на территории РФ, начиная с января 2018 года.
Наличие ученой степени (для представителей академических дисциплин); или диплом о высшем образовании и стаж работы (для деятелей искусств и специалистов в области прикладных и творческих дисциплин).
Владение английским языком в пределах, необходимых для выполнения заявленного проекта.
Возраст соискателей не ограничен.
Соответствующее физическое и умственное состояние.
На конкурс принимаются только индивидуальные проекты.
Соискатели, постоянно проживающие на территории США, имеющие вид на жительство в США или подавшие заявку на его получение, к конкурсу не допускаются.

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 CALL FOR PAPERS: Theoretical Practice Journal

CFP for new issue of Theoretical Practice Journal. 

*From Weak Thought to Weak Agency. Image, Resistance and Utopia Beyond the Heroic Paradigm* 

issue 2/2019 *Abstract submission deadline:  May 30 2018 * 
 

The concept of the common has inspired the radical imagination for many
years. Discussed by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt as an alternative to
private property on one hand, and a narrow, state-oriented conception of
public property on the other, the common transcends the capitalist horizon of
determinism and separation. 
The common does not merely constitute another form of property, emphasizing
the common good and the commons as its most important formats. The word
„common" does not only point to a particular form of community, it also
expresses the everyday commonality and perhaps even the triviality of a
common form of life, the ordinary and the everyday. It is therefore a
recollection of the community and common people, of the excluded and the
exploited, of the wretched of the Earth and those who have nothing to lose
but their chains.
Drawing upon Walter Benjamin's formulation in On The Concept of History of a
"weak messianism", we might consider the common as a form of "weak"
subjectivity. Doing so would imply a reference both to contemporary theory
and practice. Given the contemporary dominance of heroic political logics and
discourses, it is only natural to look to theories and political and artistic
representations of 'weakness' for alternatives and forms of resistance.
Viewed as a central attribute of femininity, weakness is also a form of
resignation, refusal or an incapacity for the use of force. It might also
denote homelessness, poverty and experiences of exploitation in their most
atrocious forms. Weakness is also a form of ontology in which political
agency is not framed solely in the terms of a masculinized, individualized
Western subjectivity nor the sociality that emerges from it.
In this issue of the Praktyka Teoretyczna Journal we would like to examine
the notion of weakness as it appears in various forms of political agency,
community and the visions or forms of life they generate.
In the political context, theories of weakness and weak resistance have held
a marginal status. Yet they have influenced peripheral, decolonial,
antiauthoritarian and feminist perspectives on resistance and protest. For
instance, James Scott wrote of struggle and resistance in Weapons of the
Weak; Vaclav Havel's essay The Power of the Powerless inspired a number of
people to build structures of the "Solidarność" independent labor unions
and to participate in grassroots, proletarian counterpublics. The practices
of weak resistance have also been important for the constitution of
alternatives to capitalist logics of accumulation and appropriation of the
commons.
As it is depicted in the ethnographies of capitalist peripheries and ruined
social landscapes portrayed by Anna Tsing  and Tomasz Rakowski, confronting
capital's violence is always intertwined with the emergence of alternative
forms of collectivity and survival which are the domain of the powerless. The
political and economic creativity of life and survival strategies in the
social landscapes devastated by capital is also connected to debt, among the
key tools of control and normalization in the neoliberal arsenal. The
community of the indebted and the forms of resistance they create suggest a
transformation of the concept of political agency away from appropriation and
domination to practices of solidarity.
Weakness also constitutes a tangible form in the capitalist, patriarchal
distribution of visibility and the narrative logic of the history written
from the perspective of the winners. History depicted from a minoritarian
point of view is a particularly important element of the concept of weakness
as we understand it. It can amplify voices of the powerless and signal other
dimensions of collective life. This sort of historical agency of the weak,
expressed in the fight for the commons, can be found in the forms of
resistance to the practices of enclosure and colonialism, depicted by Peter
Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker in The Many-headed Hydra 
In aesthetics weakness is at times discussed as a form of universalism. This
has been done by Boris Groys, among others. In his essay Weak Universalism
Groys discusses the early twentieth century Russian avant-garde as searching
for a common attribute for experiences of oppression and emancipation, one
which would undermine class divisions. The weak are also present in
contemporary artists' research and work, as is evident, for example, in Hito
Steyerl's search for "the wretched of the screen" or other weak
subjectivities
In feminist and queer theory, the turn towards weakness emerges in research
concerning agency within popular cultures and reactions to hate speech. In
this context, the work of Jack Halberstam and Judith Butler is crucial, as
are theories developed in the "affective turn", such as the work of Eve
Kosfsky-Sedgwick's. Here the closeted identity determines an epistemology of
the excluded, similar to bell hooks's "epistemology of the margins" (hooks
2014). Sara Ahmed's theory of "willful subjects" expresses the power of
non-conformity of those who are constantly refused the status of subects and
agency – children, queers or persons experiencing violence who generate
their politics of disagreement in their persistence within the oppression
they have to endure (Ahmed 2014).
These and other forms of weakness will be developed in our issue of the
Praktyka Teoretyczna Journal. We will build upon theories of weakness in
aesthetics and film studies, feminism, queer theory, social and political
philosophy. We invite abstracts (until  30 April 2018 ), articles (only after a
positive decision concerning the abstract, until  30 September 2018 ). The
issue will be published on-line in Spring/Summer 2019. You can also send us
reviews (until  30 September 2018 ). This issue will accept articles in Polish
and in English, we might also publish some translations (into Polish) of
texts important for the topics covered in this issue.
           
 Suggested problems and areas of inquiry:
   + weak messianism: political theory after Walter Benjamin;
   + after heroism: messianism, history and renaissance of romantism in the
making of herstories and plebeian counterpublics;
   + weak precarious subjects, homeless and monstrous: political agency in
times of transformation;
   + history should not be written by the winners: vindications of agency
in historical narratives;
   + masses, classes and privilege: subaltern counterpublics and plebeian
classes;
   + the wretched of the Earth: anti-colonial and post-colonial narratives
concerning weakness;
   + weak resistance and the power of the powerless in Vaclav Havel's work;
the guilt and faith in Jacek Kuroń and other semi-peripheral narratives on
weakness;
   + the ordinary in the weak: Negri's and Hardt's theory of the common;
peripheries and gender;
   + beyond the productivity's fetish: the common and the commons in the
context of the feminist critiques of the political economy;
   + weak thought: Derrida, Vattimo, Agamben and the revival of dialectics;
   + queer art of failure as resistance to neoliberalism: Halberstam,
Butler and semi-peripheral kwir;
   + weakness after the human: posthumanism and transhumanism;
   + weak avant-garde, the art's black matter and its emancipations;
   + weak screen and weak images: the film experiments of Hito Steyerl and
other artistic interpretations interpointerpretationon weakness.

Full info:  http://www.praktykateoretyczna.pl/english/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-2-2019-2/

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From: Slavic and East European Journal ([email protected])

Dear Colleagues,

The Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ) encourages scholars to submit original research and review essays in the areas of Slavic and East European languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics, and methodology/pedagogy. Papers on non-Slavic East European subjects are also invited, specifically subjects concerning Hungarian, Romanian, and Baltic cultures. Caucasian cultures (Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijan) in interaction with Slavic cultures also fall within the purview of the journal.

Submitted articles should be well-documented and should reflect command of relevant primary sources in original languages and knowledge of the current state of research in appropriate areas. Pedagogical articles report the results of research, experimentation, and evaluation.

SEEJ is a double-blind, peer-reviewed publication, issued quarterly by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). If you are interested in submitting an article to SEEJ, we ask that you first visit the SEEJ website and read over our submission guidelines and then use our electronic form to submit an article for consideration. Note that SEEJ submissions should be no longer than 9,000 words.
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Scholars interested in writing shorter pieces (1000-1500 words), are encouraged to submit their ideas to the Slavic and East European Blog (SEEB). SEEB was established by the Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ), as an opportunity for junior scholars (faculty, graduate students, and outstanding undergraduates) to publish articles, essays, interviews, and translations on a variety of different topics. Blog posts can be submitted at this link, or you can email us directly with an idea at [email protected].

We look forward to your contributions,
Yana Hashamova and Alex Burry, Co-Editors

Slavic and East European Journal
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Culture
400D Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Rd.
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210-1340
(614) 688-3709  [email protected]

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Harvard University - Senior Preceptor in Russian Language
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56583

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Lecturer in Russian, Lewis University
Lewis University is looking for a Lecturer in Russian
to teach beginning Russian in its intensive four-week
summer STARTALK Program conducted on its
Romeoville campus from June 18th to July
13th Monday through Friday, from 9 am to 2:30 pm.
STARTALK is a federal language education grant
created under the National Security Language
Initiative. Its goal is to increase the number of young
Americans learning to speak critical-need foreign
languages. The salary of $ 4.000 and, if needed, we
offer free accommodation in the residence hall.  For
more information about this position, please contact
Dr. Serafima Gettys,  [email protected]

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The Journal of the History of Ideas Blog (https://jhiblog.org) promotes a wide range of scholarship on intellectual history, and we are eager to include scholars on our team of Contributing Editors who can promote work on the intellectual history of Russia and the Soviet Union. Contributing Editors either write their own or commission a short piece every 4-6 weeks. If you are interested in auditioning for a position, please feel welcome to contact our primary editors at  [email protected]  for more information.

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