For further details of this job vacancy, please visit: http://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/vacancies

The Knowledge Exchange Partnership between CEELBAS and Russian Media House, a London-based publishing company, has recently seen three interviews with CEELBAS scholars appear in the Russian-language magazine 'Pulse UK'.

CEELBAS congratulates Professor Julian Cooper of CREES, University of Birmingham, who was appointed an OBE in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List of the New Year Honours 2012. Professor Cooper was Co-Director of CEELBAS from 2006-2011.

A summary of the recent CEELBAS / Chatham House joint seminar on 'The Parliament, the Presidency and Elections in Russia' is now available on the Chatham House website.

The latest e-newsletter from the Memory at War team at the University of Cambridge features former CEELBAS Postdoctoral Fellow Meike Wulf on 'Changing Memory Regimes in a New Europe'.

Conference Date: 18 November 2011

Location: CAN-Mezzanine, 32-36 Loman Street, London SE1 0EE

The Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies is delighted to launch a new digital repository of teaching and self-study resources to support language training for research on Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

Scholars from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine are invited by Chatham House, in partnership with the Robert Bosch Stiftung, to apply for a new Visiting Fellowship. The Fellowship provides an opportunity for researchers at the start of their careers to advance their knowledge, develop research skills, and build links with policy and academic communities in the UK, Germany and other EU countries.

RottenBeat: academic and musical dialogue with new Russian punk was a CEELBAS-funded open academic-cultural project on the contemporary Russian artistic underground. Please visit www.ceelbas.ac.uk/workshops/rottenbeat

A workshop series and an international conference, both held at the University of Cambridge and funded by CEELBAS, have led to two separate recently-published journal special issues.

Connecting Communities via Language: Reading Strategies and Translation Skills for Post-Intermediate Learners of Polish

The ESRC has launched a new Knowledge Exchange Opportunities Scheme to provide funding for social science researchers and stakeholders within public, private or civil society organisations to undertake knwoledge exchange and impact generating activities.

On 25th March 2011 CEELBAS hosted a joint workshop with the other LBAS Centres, highlighting the impact of the LBAS Initaitive and its significant achievements in knowledge exchange and user engagement. Discussion with senior figures from our Funders (HEFCE, SFC, ESRC, AHRC), knowldge exchange partners, area studies academics and experts addreesed some of the key challenges for the future and considered ways to define, measure and sustain research excellence and impact. Roundtable Report.

Workshop Date: 30 June - 1 July 2011, University of Bath
Deadline for Call: 1 April 2011

Keynote speakers: Professor Dina Iordanova, Professor Dusan I. Bjelic, Professor Natasa Kovacevic

With the twentieth anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo approaching it seems a timely moment to revisit the city and the myths that surround it. 

The Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) provides funding support for seminars and workshops that advance its research agenda on Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia – details of which are available at www.ceelbas.ac.uk/research

Interacting closely with the key CEELBAS research cluster on Health & Wellbeing, Dr Christopher Gerry (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) has been successful in a joint application to the Open Society Foundations (Soros) to establish a ‘Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching’ (ReSET). Dr Gerry will serve as Academic Director (jointly with Dr Yulia Vymyatnina from European University St Petersburg) in a three-year project to promote the development of Health Economics within universities across the CIS countries. Among the key participants, including leading international scholars, is the former CEELBAS Postdoctoral Fellow Benoit Mathivet (now Health Policy Advisor for the WHO in Tajikistan: see research project details). The ReSET scheme aims to promote the systematic redevelopment and internationalisation of the undergraduate curriculum in support of building free and open societies (www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/reset).

NEW! Workshops and Summer School for Post-Intermediate Learners of Polish

Spaces are still available on this newly-designed specialist Polish language training for postgraduate students and researchers. Further information, including fees, deadlines and registration guidance can be found at: www.ceelbas.ac.uk/workshops/polish_workshops

St Antony’s College, Oxford, 12-13 November 2010

A few places are currently still available for this conference - to register on the day go to the Hilda Besse Building for 8.30 am.

‘Research without Frontiers: inter-university cooperation in East European area studies’

Student conference at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 3-5 March 2011

Students of the Jagiellonian University cordially invite you to participate in the conference: “Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe: before, after or during?”

The conference is divided into thematic blocks:

Reports on two CEELBAS-supported workshops dealing with issues relating to New Media are published in issue 3 of the online journal Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media.

Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism in Central and Eastern Europe: From Theory and Practice

The programme for the CEELBAS Postgraduate Ethics Workshop on Saturday October 30th is now available - click on the image below to view an enlarged version. 

The CEELBAS Language Repository now houses a new set of resources for teachers of beginners and intermediate level Polish. There are a total of 24 units for each level, designed to supplement in-class teaching, plus examples of materials adapted for student self-study. Instructions (in English) are provided for each unit to enable easy adaptation to other languages.