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Call for Applications: American Councils Programs Abroad in Russian, Balkan, and Eurasian Languages
Dear H-NET colleagues, Happy New Year from AC Study & Research Abroad!
American Councils is pleased to offer the following programs for students, scholars, and professionals in the REES field in 2023:
Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program, currently offered at:
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Yerevan State University in Yerevan, Armenia
Towns and Cities in the Russian Empire, ed. by Boris Belge and Ulrich Hofmeister. Special Issue: Moderne Stadtgeschichte 2022/2 (partly in German)
Towns and Cities in the Russian Empire, ed. by Boris Belge and Ulrich Hofmeister. Special Issue of Moderne Stadtgeschichte 2022/2 (partly in German)
including:
Boris Belge / Ulrich Hofmeister: Einleitung: Die Stadt und das Russländische Imperium im 18. Jahrhundert
Tilman Plath: „Fremde Negocianten“ in St. Petersburg und Riga im 18. Jahrhundert als Herausforderung des russländischen Merkantilismus
Literature on Soviet cybernetics
Dear colleagues,
Can you please recommend some readings on Soviet cybernetics for a non-specialist audience.
Thank you!
Re: How the Field was Colonized: Russian History’s Ukrainian Blind Spot
Smith-Peter is to be commended for initiating a potentially productive discussion concerning the ways of influence as they relate to Michael Karpovich, his students, and the development of the field of Russian historical studies in the United States. Let me be clear: The following is in no way meant to be a comprehensive answer to the important questions addressed by Smith-Peter. Instead, it’s a bloggy “hot take,” based on materials at hand, composed in some haste at the end of the day, intended to advance the discussion.
Call for Applications: PhD and MA Scholarships in Comparative History (CEU, Vienna)
Call for Applications: PhD and MA Scholarships in Comparative History (CEU, Vienna)
CEU Department of History | Apply for PhD and MA Scholarships!
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Russia: 5 December - 12 December
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
5 December 2022 to 12 December 2022. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Russia. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
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Special issue of JMSS on Russia and the war in Ukraine
Dear Readers,
The University of Calgary's Journal of Military and Strategic Studies has just published a special issue on the current war in Ukraine with contributions from Geoffrey Roberts, Paul Robinson, Andrej Krickovic and Richard Sakwa, Andrei Tsygankov, Olayinka Ajala and Alexander Hill (guest editor). The contents of the special issue are as below. All articles are free to download. All of the articles in one way or another challenge the dominant Western narratives on the causes of and course of the war to date.
Thanks,
Alexander Hill
CfA: 2 PhD Positions (part-time), Bremen
The joint research training group of the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen (FSO) and the Russian Art & Culture Group at Jacobs University has a vacancy for