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.

Control Risks, an independent, specialist risk consultancy, is currently recruiting a full-time Analyst to cover Central and Southeastern Europe. The role, based in London, entails substantial research and travel opportunities to the region, as well as consulting directly with clients. Detailed knowledge of political, business and security developments in the region is essential, as is postgraduate-level study, knowledge of a local language, and prior work or living experience in the region.

The University of Manchester is offering a range of awards to which candidates working on topics related to Russia and Eastern Europe are eligible to apply. The two main awards, which comprise a fee-bursary and a maintenance grant, are ESRC studentships in Language-Based Area Studies and the University-funded President’s Doctoral Scholar Awards.

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

For further details, fees, application form and deadline, please visit: www.ceelbas.ac.uk/workshops/polish_workshops

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.

Closing Date: October 12th 2011.

For further details please visit the British Academy website: http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/pdfells.cfm

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

There is a vacancy for a 3-year post-doctoral Research Associate in Russian at the University of Cambridge, linked to a project on the cultural and social history of information technologies in Russia. View details.

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.

Convenors: Sean Hanley (UCL), Tim Haughton (Birmingham) and Allan Sikk (UCL)   

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.

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 North West Doctoral Training Centre, jointly run by the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester, is offering 3 PhD studentships in Language-Based Area Studies, in fields which include Russian and East European Studies.

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).

The Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of
Sheffield invites applications for a fully-funded PhD scholarship dedicated to the folklore and literature of the Caucasus region. Proposals may pertain to
the folklore and literature itself, the history of scholarship on the question, and the role they have played in the formation of social and cultural
identity.

The School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester expects to offer one AHRC Doctoral Studentship to a candidate starting on PhD research in Russian and East European Studies in September 2011.

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.