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Applying Post-Socialist Studies 3 outside Post-Soviet Space: The Many Washington, DCs

Interview with Benjamin Peters, 8 Winner of the ASEEES 2017 Vucinich Book Prize

The William Brumfield Russian 12 Architecture Digital Collection: From Database to Semantic Web

16 Spotlight: Johnson’s Russia List

17 Affiliate Group News

18 Publications ASEEES Prizes Call for 23 Submissions

29 In Memoriam

30 Institutional Member News

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Applying Post-Socialist Studies outside Post- Soviet Space: The Many Washington, DCs1

JOHANNA BOCKMAN GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON, NJ

ver the past three years, I have been conducting a historical study of gentrification and displacement in Washington, DC. At the same time, I have also been working on a project about the 1980s debt crisis from the perspectives of the Second and Third Worlds. I find it stressful to work on very different projects Oand follow several, very different literatures – for example, on the one hand, American urban sociology and, on the other, Eastern European Studies focused on economics and finance. It often seems like I am operating in two different, unconnected worlds. This sense of disassociation results at least in part from the post-1989 reorientation and ultimately destruction of networks that had once connected these worlds and literatures. Here I explore these connections and apply the lessons of post-socialist studies to a less conventional space, specifically Washington, DC. Post-socialism may seem irrelevant to DC since it has long been a major center of RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY capitalism. However, one could argue that everyone, and especially major actors in the http://aseees.org/membership Cold War, have experienced “the global post-socialist condition” in some form or other

NEWSNET March 2018 2 NEWSNET March 2018 3 (Gille 2010). The city of the International Clinton administration transformed Fourth, post-socialist studies • low-income housing cooperatives; Dwellings were moved out in order to Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank neoliberalism by putting forth policies encourages us to revisit supposedly renovate the apartments, but only in 1996 • a local charity (funded by profits from reshaped Soviet and post-Soviet space, in support of the state, markets, public- universal social science concepts could real estate developers and white the other cooperatives to develop relating to it in new ways. Yet, there are private partnerships (rather than (Dzenovska and Kurtović 2017; homeowners nearby successfully have social action programs like schools, many DCs. For example, in the late 1970s, complete privatization), technocracy, Hann 2002; Rogers 2010), such as the buildings destroyed and replaced hospitals, and child development the city of Black Power forged DC into a and the formation of neoliberal “globalization.” with a mixed-income development. Only centers). democratic socialist space, connecting subjects. Similar to the international As part of my research on DC, I am seven of the previous 134 families were many parts of the city to the socialist 2 Givens understood these cooperatives shift from the Washington Consensus , studying a small public housing project ever able to return to the development. and Third Worlds. After 1989, within as working together, forming an which supported the free market and called the Ellen Wilson Dwellings, which This gentrification focused on removing DC, the city of the IMF and the World integrated model of community privatization, to the Post-Washington had 134 apartments and existed from concentrations of low-income African Bank implemented the same shock of development outside of conventional Consensus, which recognized the 1941 to 1996. In the US, public housing Americans to disperse them as a post-socialist neoliberalism that Black capitalism (Bockman 2016). need for the state and social programs, residents had developed grassroots Ellen Wilson Dwellings, 1941 political constituency and an obstacle Power fought against. The lessons of neoliberalism in the US shifted from organizing through tenant councils These are just a few examples of the to expanding capitalist space and to post-socialist studies should, in fact, be dismantling of the state to reorganizing locally and nationally (Williams 2004). transnational socialist spaces in DC. Of replace them with residents who would helpful to the study of DC. Here I have put nationalism, and Pan-Africanism. In this it, more in line with neoliberalism as Tenant councils, like that at the Ellen course, this socialism is quite different support a neoliberal city. together a list of potential applications of understood by Michel Foucault (2008). basement center, residents could use Wilson Dwellings, not only advocated from state socialism. At the same time, As Eastern Europe severed many of these lessons. As 1989 brought the first neoliberalism, the day care center and take a variety for repairs, security, and lower utility these socialist spaces existed in networks its socialist-era global connections and 1993 brought this second neoliberalism, of classes including African drumming. First, socialist and post-socialist bills, but also took part in broader social connecting other socialist worlds. Global turned toward the European Community, realized internationally and in DC. In 1995, Their own group, the Ujamaa Dancers chronologies are useful. During the 1980s, movements, making public housing black power and other movements – such gentrification expanded capitalist the same year as the Bokros package in and Drummers, performed for Black the Reagan administration severely an important political, economic, and as the non-aligned movement, Yugoslav geographies with their own imaginaries. Hungary, the US Congress took over the nationalist ceremonies around DC and cut domestic budgets and sought to cultural space. By the 1980s, public worker self-management socialism, Gentrification destroyed certain spaces DC government to implement austerity, beyond. destroy particular agencies, such as housing residents constituted about ten and feminist movements – sought and networks, reconstructing these enforce fiscal discipline, and realize a mix Housing and Urban Development (HUD). percent of DC’s population (Gillette 1995: Public housing also became a site new forms of economic ownership, spaces with new networks as if on a of both neoliberalisms. In 1989, with the arrival of the Bush 197) and thus were an important political for cooperative experiments. In 1970, decentralization, direct participation, tabula rasa. However, the fifth applicable administration, a group of libertarians Third, post-socialist studies cautions constituency. the Arthur Capper public housing and cultural recognition as a program for lesson of post-socialist studies is that it calling themselves “the perestroika project, just a block from Ellen Wilson, radical social change. These movements us to be wary of transitology. From early Public housing residents could also made us question the existence of group” gained influence in the White formed a food cooperative named the created new political spaces and new on, anthropologists and sociologists mobilize resources from other tabulae rasae, suggesting that they are House, and, in early 1990, celebrated a Martin Luther King Cooperative Food commons. These socialist geographies criticized transitology for its teleology, globalizations to protect themselves often a delusion held by the powerful “new paradigm” characterized by market- Store. By the early 1980s, it served over shared similar imaginaries and networks. which imagined a quick and easy shift from the global neoliberal project. (Gille 2010). While Keynesianism took orientation, decentralization, choice, and 2000 customers. Without home rule from state socialism to liberal democracy Ellen Wilson Dwellings residents had In the late 1980s, expanding capitalist its shape from the radical socialist empowerment (Rowl and Novak 1990). before 1975, DC residents, and African and free-market capitalism. Scholars transnational socialist connections. geographies sought to take over movements of the 1920s and 1930s, In early 1992, HUD Secretary Jack Kemp American residents in particular, had have further objected to transitology’s Since the 1950s, DC had become a Pan- these socialist geographies through neoliberalism takes its shape from radical unveiled a proposal for a new program created cooperatives to develop “home assumption that US economists would African space, a dense constellation gentrification in DC and throughsocialist movements against both Soviet called Perestroika for Troubled Public rule from below” and to gain economic unidirectionally transfer American of transnational connections with the privatization in Eastern Europe. Yet, state-organized socialism and Western Housing, which would privatize all public and political power in their lives. neoliberal capitalism to Eastern Europe African diaspora (Chatman 2016). Many battles with other globalizations state-organized capitalism of the 1960s housing by handing it to its residents With official home rule, Mayor Barry and thus easily realize a global neoliberal Pan-African socialists worked in DC, such troubled this expansion, slowing and and 1970s (Bockman 2012). The Black (Glasheen and Henig 1993). As Eastern created a Commission on Cooperative project (Kopeček and Wciślik 2015). as Stokely Carmichael (later known as changing the expected “transition.” In Power city fundamentally altered life European governments implemented Economic Development, headed by Kopeček and Wciślik argue that this view Kwame Ture) and C. L. R. James. Mayor Eastern Europe, technocrats and political in DC, by affirming African Americans privatization, HUD realized this program national cooperative advocate Cornelius ignores local historical evidence of highly Marion Barry (2014) traveled to 27 African elites used privatization to create new as equal citizens, creating new political first in DC. “Cornbread” Givens. Givens envisioned contentious domestic debates. We can countries during his first term in office. actors interested in a new neoliberal arenas for direct participation, and an entire development plan, organized Second, the field of post-socialist thus understand this global neoliberal These Pan-African socialist connections system (Greskovits 1998). In DC, real forging new kinds of economic commons, by a community-wide cooperative, in studies demonstrates that neoliberalism project not as smoothly imposed, but also moved through the Ellen Wilson estate developers and other capitalist especially through cooperatives. Elites which each community would integrate: changes over time and in different rather as in battle with other global Dwellings. In the 1970s photo on page actors worked to co-opt and destroy appropriated these political arenas and locations (Rogers 2010). The HUD projects, networks, and geographies, 3, the Ellen Wilson community center • producer cooperatives (particularly the political power of public housing economic commons, and used them experiment in DC reflected thewhich do not necessarily allow full was advertised by an abstract image of important for job creation); residents, who were still empowered for neoliberal capitalism. As a result of Republican Party’s neoliberalism of implementation of the project. These by “the Afrocentric era of the late 1980s particular appropriations and particular a black person on a red, black, and green • consumer cooperatives; privatization and attempted destruction multiple globalizations crossed through background looking into the light with a and early 1990s” (Chatman 2016: 240). locations within the global division of of state agencies. In 1993, the new DC. raised fist signifying Black Power, Black • credit unions; In 1988, the residents of the Ellen Wilson labor, post-socialism looks different in

NEWSNET March 2018 4 NEWSNET March 2018 5 New from Slavica PubliSherS Three String Books is an imprint of Slavica Publishers devoted to transla- different locations worldwide (Gagyi explored these relationships through Pennsylvania Press. Christopher Read, Peter Waldron, the demographic consequences to de- tions of literary works and belles-lettres and Adele Lindenmeyr, eds. Russia’s tailed studies of particular issues, these 2016). the application of some of the lessons of Glasheen, Megan, and Christopher Hornig. 1993. from Central and Eastern Europe, in- Home Front in War and Revolution, chapters take us to the cutting edge of cluding Russia and the other successor post-socialist studies. How might other “Public Housing Authorities and HOPE 1: May 1914–22, bk. 3, National Disintegra- contemporary scholarship. HUD Give Away What It Doesn’t Own?” The Urban states of the former Soviet Union. 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Bockman, Johanna. 2012. “The Political “Introduction: Towards an Intellectual History itage Language Resource Center. Fol- Novák is now published by Slavica in of Post-Socialism.” Pp. 1-35 in Thinking through The multiple crises engendered epi- today? Is nostalgia for the Black Power Projects of Neoliberalism,” Invited Response lowing the model of her work, these the original English. Although it reads Transition: Liberal Democracy, Authoritarian Pasts, demics which ravaged malnourished to Loïc Wacquant’s “Three Steps to a Historical essays seek to create bridges between like a thriller, this “novel-document” is city like nostalgia for socialism in Eastern and Intellectual History in East Central Europe after bodies. On top of the war dead some Anthropology of Actually Existing Neoliberalism.” pedagogical and linguistic research based on the true story of three young Europe? Is the attack on the Black 1989. Budapest: Central European University Press. ten million died in the Civil War, main- Social Anthropology 20(3): 310-317. with the goal of developing more con- Czech men, Radek and Ctirad Mašín ly from disease. The 34 contributions Power city similar to recent Eastern Rogers, Douglas. 2010. “Postsocialisms Unbound: sistent assessment methodologies and and Milan Paumer, whose daring ex------. 2016. “Home Rule from Below: The to books 3 and 4 of RGWR’s Home European government strategies of Connections, Critiques, Comparisons.” Slavic formulating pedagogical practices to ploits of anti-Communist resistance and Cooperative Movement in Washington, DC.” Pp. Front volume shine a piercing light on 66-85 in Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality Review 69(1):1–15. benefit heritage language learners. flight through the Iron Curtain to West white supremacy, which seek to increase these events. From broad accounts of in Washington, DC, edited by Hyra, Derek and their nations’ “whiteness” credentials Rowl, Evans and Robert Novak. 1990. “Darman’s Berlin set off the Tschechenkrieg, a Sabiyha Prince. New York and London: Routledge. Disdain.” The Washington Post, November 23. Slavica Publishers [Tel.] 1-812-856-4186 massive manhunt by 27,000 and status in the European Union by Böröcz, József and Mahua Sarkar. 2017. “The Retrieved February 24, 2017. Indiana University [Fax] 1-812-856-4187 East German police and rejecting past and current connections Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and Williams, Rhonda Y. 2004. The Politics of Public 1430 N. Willis Drive [Toll-free] 1-877-SLAVICA Red Army regulars. of solidarity with the Third World and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around ‘Race,’” Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Bloomington, IN, USA [email protected] Slavic Review 76(2): 307-314. Inequality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 47404-2146 http://www.slavica.com Magdalena making “an anti-racist, system-critical Chatman, Michelle Coghill. 2016. “At Eshu’s Williamson, John 1990. “What Washington Means Mullek & position” unthinkable (Böröcz and Crossroad: Pan-African Identity in a Changing by Policy Reform.” Available at www.iie.com/ Julia Sher- Sarkar 2017)? Or is it more similar to the City.” Pp. 239-254 in Capital Dilemma: Growth publications/papers/paper.cfm?ResearchID=486. wood, eds. white supremacy of Western European and Inequality in Washington, DC, edited by Hyra, Into the Derek and Sabiyha Prince. New York and London: Endnotes Spotlight: governments, which never had these Routledge. 1. The following is a revised version of Vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter 2018) New Writ- connections or views? What is the future Dzenovska, Dace and Larisa Kurtović. 2017. “The a presentation given in the 2017 Annual Soyuz ing from Slova- Symposium at Indiana University. Many thanks kia, trans. Mag- of post-socialist DC with its multiple future of postsocialist critique.” Presentation at the Through Picture and Story 2017 Soyuz Conference, Indiana University. to the symposium participants, Zsuzsa Gille, and dalena Mullek & Julia pasts and multiple, “uncertain, variously Andrew Zimmerman for insightful comments. Artistic Approaches to History & Peter Sherwood, viii + Foucault, Michel. 2008. The Birth of Biopolitics: apocalyptic, millennial or endlessly 2. US economist John Williamson (1990) Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 193 p., 2017 (ISBN 978-089357-466-6), Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979. New Forum: Depicting and Crafting the Ideology of Muscovite Tsardom defined the “Washington Consensus” as the http://kritika.georgetown.edu $19.95. deferred” futures (Dzenovska and York: Palgrave Macmillan. Brian J. Boeck reforms that he thought “Washington”—meaning Though Into the Spotlight is drawn from Kurtović 2017: 15)? Should we even use Gagyi, Ágnes. 2015. “The Non-Post-Communist “both the political Washington of Congress and Problems and Possibilities of a “New” Muscovite Source Sergei Bogatyrev the work of writers from one of Europe’s the term post-socialist, since socialist Left in Hungary after 1989: Diverging Paths of senior members of the administration and the Kritika is dedicated to critical Three Takes on One Legend smallest countries, this source reveals it- Leftist Criticism, Civil Activism, and Radicalizing technocratic Washington of the international inquiry into the history of Russia institutions and ideas continue, even in Nancy S. Kollmann self to be something like a magic lamp Constituency.” Pp. 335- in in Thinking through financial institutions, the economic agencies of and Eurasia. The quarterly journal out of which comes a multitude of DC (Gagyi 2015; Gilbert 2006)? Finally, Transition: Liberal Democracy, Authoritarian Pasts, the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve Board, features research articles as well The Litsevoi Svod as Graphic Novel Isolde Thyrêt subjects, themes, and styles well out of how might discoveries about places like and Intellectual History in East Central Europe after and the think tanks”—could agree were required as analytical review essays and 1989. Budapest: Central European University Press. in Latin America by 1989. extensive book reviews, especially Visualizing the Literary Image of Muscovite Royal Wives proportion to its size. Like the best writ- the multiple DCs, in turn, contribute to of works in languages other Articles ers, this anthology brilliantly balances ------. 2016. “’Coloniality of Power’ in East Central than English. Subscriptions and Joan Neuberger the specific and the universal. There post-socialist studies? Europe: External Penetration as Internal Force in previously published volumes Not a Film but a Nightmare are stories that could have taken place Post-Socialist Hungarian Politics.” Journal of World- Johanna Bockman is Associate Professor of available from Slavica—including, Alexis Peri In the introduction, I suggested that Systems Research 22(2): 349-372. Sociology in the Sociology and Anthropology as of 16, no. 1, e-book editions anywhere—of love and hate, beauty the difficulty perceiving the connections Department at George Mason University, As (ePub, MOBI). Contact our The Art of Revision and ugliness, illness and music—stories Gilbert, Andrew. 2006. “The Past in Parenthesis: of August 2018, she will be Associate Professor business manager at slavica@ Review Article distinctly and intriguingly Slovak—of between (post-)socialist multiple DCs (Non)post-Socialism in Post-War Bosnia- of Global Affairs and Sociology in the Global indiana.com for all questions Oleg Budnitskii a devout Slovak’s imprisonment in the regarding subscriptions and Herzegovina.” Anthropology Today 22(4):14–18. Affairs Program at George Mason University. A Harvard Project in Reverse and conventional (post-)socialist spaces, eligibility for discounts. Russian Gulag, the rough and tumble beyond agent and victim of neoliberal Gille, Zsuzsa. 2010. “Is There a Global Postsocialist Review Essay world of the country’s Roma—stories Condition?” Global Society 24(1):9–30. hegemony, results from the reorientation, Ryan Tucker Jones from other countries and continents, Gillette, Howard. 2006. Between Justice and Beauty: Approaching Russian History from European Seas and stories that seem to come from other obscuration, and destruction of these Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy worlds entirely—of real or imaginary connections after 1989. Here I have in Washington, DC. Philadelphia: University of doubles and surreal nocturnal circuses.

NEWSNET March 2018 6 NEWSNET March 2018 7 rough waters rocked decades of attempts it as a literary arc that ends in ruin and to build national computer networks unfavorable circumstances) and, on to manage the economy—subvert and the other hand, promoters of socialism rework traditional grand narratives that who fault the hook for meaning that advocates of the Soviet state and its socialism may only exist in capitalism. critics have long told about the grand Both criticisms miss the invitation of socialist experiment. that hook, which is, after deconstructing cold war discourse, to move beyond In particular, the book draws out these two twentieth-century ways of the conflicting institutional interests reading twentieth-century history. The that drove continuous reform of the I would be interested to know if you are conclusion argues, drawing on Hannah economic ministries and bureaucratic able to extrapolate from your initially Arendt (who read beyond the –isms of core of the Soviet national economy; it counter-intuitive, but ultimately her day first), that the liberal economic also charts how technocratic approaches utterly compelling, insight that the discourse positing an ideological conflict How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History to state reform, in an age of Soviet Soviet OGAS project was the victim between private markets and public cybernetics, struggled to account for of untrammeled competition among of the Soviet Internet states fundamentally fails to describe the the unaccountable informal factors in “socialists,” whereas the American most constitutive and crucial moments— An Interview with Benjamin Peters their systems-thinking. In the end, Soviet ARPANET succeeded thanks to centrally the building of a modern state for the state socialism was incompatible with guided cooperation among “capitalists,” INTERVIEW BY STEPHEN HUTCHINGS benefit of the many at unbearable costs, network technologies not because it and identify other areas of Soviet UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UK the uneven ushering in of the information was, as Manuel Castell claims, a statist society and the Soviet economy which age, and the eventual internal collapse hierarchy in principle, but because did not realize their potential for similar of the Soviet state—that governed the The 2017 Wayne S. Vucinich Prize was awarded to Benjamin Peters for How Not to Network a Nation: it was what the book identifies as an reasons? outcome of the Cold War over that very The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (MIT Press). Peters offers an account of the Soviet Union’s failed informal “heterarchy” in practice. We A. With gratitude for the question, ideological opposition. The living victim attempts to construct their own Internet during the Cold War period need not decide whether Anthony I’m inclined to leave the extrapolation of the varieties of networked societies to Giddens, among others in a long line Q. You suggest in your book that the failure of Soviet efforts to create a native “unified to others, and try instead to restate emerge in the late twentieth-century is since Georg Simmel, is right to call for a information network” was not inevitable. In assessing the reasons for the failure, I wonder if you can the book’s hook in a way that others now arguably the analyst—for perhaps general reconciliation of structure and say what the balance is between “structural” features connected to the particular nature of social might want to take it up. The first global we have no adequate language for agency in order to agree that, at least in networks in the Soviet Union and their relationship to the command economy, and issues connected computer networks emerged out of a describing the privations of network terms of attempts to articulate history, to individual agency (personal conflicts and errors of judgment), or even to arbitrary accidents of situation in which American capitalists surveillance in the wake of the Cold it is precisely in identifying how grand history? behaved like socialists, rather than Soviet War without defaulting to its own traps. narratives and contingency stories socialists behaving like capitalists. I mean Habermas once pointed out that the A. Perhaps contingency stories render nothing inevitable, including the tragedy of grand failure inform one another that we can begin to this hook as more than just a reversal word “publicity” had been bought out by narratives. Let’s consider whether this oversimplification may be workable: historical narratives tend see their reflexive dual nature. Computer of the obvious Cold War logics: it is an the advertising and public relations men; to land somewhere on a spectrum between, at one end point, grand narratives where civilizational or networks could have networked the invitation to move beyond them. In fact, this book makes a similar point for the meta-level structures describe change with its own ineluctable logics, such as Cold War battles between Soviet economy for the same reason it did while I have been delighted by a wide idea of “privacy”—and I suspect it will flattening market and hierarchical state ideologies, and, at the other end point, the contingencies and not: there was such institutional unrest range of positive responses to the book take many more specialists with expertise happenstance of events, such as, as you note, command economy relations, personal conflicts, and that one could conceivably believe, even (more at benjaminpeters.org), I find it far beyond my own to equip ourselves errors, making mincemeat of those assumptions. In other words, given the choice of grand narrative vs. in matters of Soviet state reform, to put a illuminating that the main two threads with the appropriate vocabulary for contingency, structure vs. agency, logic vs. chance, I see no reason why any history should be only one spin on Pomerantsev’s’ recent book title, of criticism so far come from, on the adequately criticizing modern network or the other. Perhaps no grand narrative can satisfy without some kind of surprise twist and perhaps no that nothing is true and everything is one hand, promoters of capitalism who power. contingency story can even be a story without some kind of underlying narrative arc. possible. fault the hook for giving socialist state Q. You make the fascinating So, of course, in the book, I try to draw on both narrative techniques: namely, I argue that the Q. Without wishing to take you too much credit (these critics take my observation that whereas the pioneers contingencies of the management of the national economy—and in particular the ways that those too far from your own area of expertise, tragedy to be historical, where I mean

NEWSNET March 2018 8 NEWSNET March 2018 9 longer traditions such as notions of the an answer. I suppose an overarching “The first global computer mind in virtual telecommunication with principle I might take away from the FULLY-FUNDED FELLOWSHIPS networks emerged out of a other minds in an age of radio (recently experience of writing the book is the situation in which American chronicled here by the master reader empiricist’s instincts to “trust but verify” Vladimir Welminski); or Evgenii Sokolov›s and to distrust interpretations except capitalists behaved like prescient modeling of the brain as a for those that cannot escape evidence. I socialists, rather than Soviet predictive Bayesian statistical system--a will save for another time some thoughts socialists behaving like notion resonant with chess grandmaster about why I think contemporary privacy capitalists.” Mikhail Botvinnik›s schemes to build debates cannot help but misunderstand a predictive and intuitive computer the problem (hint: it has something to chess models. Other seminal thinkers, do with the logics of private domination such as Nikolai Bernstein, and of course networking information-omnivorous of the American ARPANET (the Theodosius Dobzhansky in the modern corporations and states) and instead precursor to the Internet) foresaw evolutionary synthesis of genetics and rehearse what may seem hackneyed a national network simulating a statistics, ground predictive models of truisms for the student of Soviet history. I “brain without a body”, their Soviet intelligent collectives in biology and learned while writing this book that who equivalents anticipated a network physiognomy. I understand Iurii Lotman, you know ends up mattering even more NEW for 2018: Academic Fellowships in Russia nation simulating a body with a brain. too, promoted an organicist, “embodied” than what you know. In particular, this Provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Would you care to speculate how a account of semiosis, and there are no book owes volumes to the historian of successful “internet” based on the doubt dozens of others clamouring for science Slava Gerovitch at MIT and Vera American Councils Academic Fellowships Program in Russia (AFR) Soviet model might have differed from attention. Glushkova in Kiev, and in that sense the will support U.S. graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars the one we know as a result of this book may owe more to interpersonal What occurs to me as perhaps the most difference? networks than computer networks. The interesting avenue for future research is as they conduct field research for three to nine consecutive months first thing one needs to know before Sure thing. I say a bit more about this that all of these examples seem to offer on topics within the social sciences disciplines in Russia. arriving in Russia is your host; and that, specific question inhere . I am particularly predictive networked models for “smart” ​ as the Finns joke, in Finland everything eager to elaborate, but perhaps not until behavior, but that none of them embody works and nothing can be arranged, The total value of each fellowship ranges Research conducted on AFR must I complete work on my next manuscript, that behavior into a literal organism: while in Russia, nothing works and from $10,000 to $45,000, with actual level strengthen and broaden current schol- tentatively titled Outsmarted: How the instead, the national economy, chess everything can be arranged. I’d be glad Global North Mistook Smart Media for boards, statistical species behavior end of support depending on the duration of arship in the social sciences related to to save more details for a conversation Intelligence, a largely Slavic, but also up being “smart.” Wherever this takes us the overseas research period and the aca- Russia and U.S.-Russian relations. AFR in person, although I think the larger northern European and American history (and I’d love comments from readers), point should be obvious: the muses of demic rank of the awardee. Typical awards fellows will be expected to share their re- of how the current media environment I am confident the Slavic intellectual informal relations which characterizes include: search findings through presentations at became so smart and at once so toxic. Of tradition has much to help rethink both the method and the argument of course, first, we should admit that such current techno-obsessive approaches conferences, briefings, or other means. this particular book, have much mischief • International airfare speculation is anathema to the historical to “smart” environments and intelligent and insight to offer Slavic scholars and sensibilities which welcome negative bodies. • Academic affiliation with a leading local students. The application deadline is April 2, 2018. histories, but not counterfactual ones. Q. At the end of your book you university or educational institution AFR Fellowships must take place between Nevertheless, were we to persist in comment on a key challenge besetting wondering what a nation networked as • Visa(s) arranged by American Councils September 15, 2018, and August 31, 2019. the contemporary networked world: Benjamin Peters is director of Russian Studies if it were a brain with a body might have in collaboration with host institutions that of the extent to which state and associate professor of Media Studies at looked like, the Slavic intellectual the University of Tulsa as well as associated For further details and to apply to the Aca- institutions can and should limit the • Housing and living stipends tradition has diverse competing brain- faculty at the Information Society Project at creeping “logics of private domination”. demic Fellowships Program in Russia, visit: nation imaginaries to help us think with. Yale Law School. He is the author of How Not • Health insurance Does your experience in conducting to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History For example, as the Soviet internet book research for your book lead you to of the Soviet Union (MIT Press, 2016) as well outlines, Viktor Glushkov and his team • Ongoing logistical support from Ameri- advocate or caution against adopting as editor of Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary ➲ www.americancouncils.org/programs/ at the Institute of Cybernetics in Kiev can Councils particular models or principles in this of Information Society and Culture academic-fellowships-program-russia imagined a networked nation primarily (Princeton University Press, 2016). More at context? • 24-hour emergency assistance in terms of mapping an information benjaminpeters.org and @bjpeters ➲ [email protected] nervous system onto the economic base This is a good question, if one Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian of the nation’s means of production. As understands good questions to be Studies at University of Manchester ((UK). the next book is exploring, there are other those to which I do not know but want

NEWSNET March 2018 10 NEWSNET March 2018 11 developed by the Visual Resources of existing metadata standards and Association, as well as VRA’s manual for thesauri to provide the granularity and Cataloging Cultural Objects) to describe cultural specificity of description that the the collection’s non-mainstream subject subject matter required. The completed matter; by geo-referencing each pilot project presented a striking, building in the collection to allow for an early example of a relatively small- optional GIS-based graphic interface; scale database of consistently indexed, and by overcoming the limitations of georeferenced records for a category of the essentially flat information structures information (Russian architecture) that of existing image databases in order to utterly lacked that kind of systematic present objects within the context of online access at the time. It also their complex hierarchical relationships underscored some of the limitations of to larger or subordinate objects (e.g., a data organization and presentation that detail of a fresco within a church within a were inherent in the technology we were monastery). using. As with so many endeavors In its next phase, under the supporting our area of study, however, sponsorship of a three-year NEH Digital we have also felt we were working to fill Humanities grant, the UW development a void in the existing array of available team, in consultation with Prof. The William Brumfield Russian information resources for the study of Brumfield, sought to scale the resource Russia. For example, the Artstor image up to encompass some 30,000 images Architecture Digital Collection: database, licensed by many academic representing over 8,000 separate libraries, is widely considered a definitive buildings, or “works.” It was at this “...under the sponsorship image resource for the study and point that we began using XML as our of a three-year NEH Digital FROM DATABASE TO teaching of art history. But, as of this markup standard, largely because of its Humanities grant, the writing, it contains a scant 35 images of capacity for accommodating hierarchical UW development team SEMANTIC WEB Russian church iconostases, and not even relationships among individual works in consultation with Prof. MICHAEL BIGGINS and THEO GERONTAKOS five images of Russian church frescoes, as (buildings) and their parent works Brumfield sought to scale the compared to its more than 9,000 images (architectural complexes) or constituent resource up to encompass UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE of frescoes in Italy. Even after accounting parts (art works, named side chapels, etc.). some 30,000 images for the difference in relative worldwide Work records were created to describe representing over 8,000 For the past 16 years, the University of Washington (UW) has collaborated with Prof. impact of these two traditions, this each complete architectural or artistic separate buildings, or “works.” William Craft Brumfield (Tulane U) to preserve and provide online access to part of his vast disparity in their documentation is entity, including its standard name, along archive documenting significant architectural objects of Russia – a collection of photos out of all reasonable proportion and, with variant forms of the name, the type and slides spanning the work of nearly six decades. The joint project has culminated most unfortunately, all too common. of structure, date(s) of construction, the name(s) of the architect, builder, artist recently in the public release in 2017 of UW’s William Brumfield Russian Architecture Work on the Brumfield Collection and patron or sponsor (if any), and – in Digital Collection. began at UW in 2002 with the help of a many cases – a free-text description of generous grant from the Gladys Kriebel The UW-Brumfield collaboration has been driven by a complex of shared concerns. the history of the building’s construction Delmas Foundation to develop a pilot Of these, creating access to a major information resource for teaching and research of an and significance. Linked to the work project featuring some 1,200 digitized underrepresented architectural tradition, as well as the collection’s long-term preservation records are image records corresponding images of Russian architectural objects for future use, have been the most fundamental. At various stages we have naturally been to each photograph of the work, or of representing a wide geographical, drawn to emerging technologies and standards that have offered ways of enhancing its parts and details contained in the chronological, typological, and stylistic the final product −for instance, by employing locally-developed image management database. In addition to describing the range. This allowed the project team software (CONTENTdm, originally developed at UW) to serve images and metadata; photograph itself (including the date to index objects and images across a by adapting then newly released national metadata standards (the so-called VRA Core taken, film format, photographer’s name) matrix of categories and test the ability

NEWSNET March 2018 12 NEWSNET March 2018 13 each image record amply describes the descriptions locally, saving many hours specific architectural features depicted in of descriptive work. The data could the corresponding image – e.g. windows, be integrated with a dataset in a local gables, lintels, shaters (шатер/шатры), database, greatly increasing the amount zakomaries (закомара), kokoshniks, of data collected about any single or any of hundreds of other generic or entity. The data can be selected (often culturally specific details. In accordance by a machine), harvested, and used with best practice for achieving consistent for constructing web annotations (for indexing, we applied metadata using the example, as described in the document controlled vocabularies, thesauri and “Embedding Web Annotations in HTML” name authority files stipulated by the at http://www.w3.org/TR/annotation- VRA Core. html/ ). There are countless possible uses for a freely available dataset. In the project’s most recent phase, the project XML metadata has been One of the distinguishing converted to “linked data” for publication characteristics of this data is that it is on the semantic web. Currently some linked data. This has several meanings: English-language linked data about the data is structured using the data Russian architectural objects is freely model for the semantic web, the available on the web. For example, Resource Description Framework (RDF); DBpedia has published some useful also the data is “linked” to other datasets; data, such as http://dbpedia.org/page/ specifically, when an entity in the Russian Alexander_Nevsky_Lavra. Unfortunately, architecture dataset matches the same though, this sort of data about Russian entity in another organization’s dataset, One should note that this data is not buildings pictured. All photo descriptions One final word of caution: the architecture tends to be scarce. In the additional data is created in the Russian a database for viewing images with a include a hyperlink that, when followed, datasets are currently under interest of expanding the availability of architecture dataset that states that user-friendly display (although it could displays the photographs described development. They can be viewed such data, UW is now in the process of relation. Creating such links is central to be used for that purpose). This is a in the William Brumfield Russianas they develop; however, formally making its dataset from the Brumfield the broad movement toward linked open data collection that can be referenced, Architecture Digital Collection. incorporating the data into your own harvested, downloaded, and reused data is not fully operational, as the data Digital Archive freely available online. data, where the goal is a web of data with Agents: describes people and for any purpose. UW as the data will be changing, including the URIs. The A sample of this dataset (formatted as a common data model, interlinked, and corporate bodies associated with a site provider provides the data in a highly datasets will be complete sometime in HTML to facilitate reading, with some freely available over the Internet. or photograph. It includes architects, explanatory text added), also describing structured format optimized for machine late 2018. By publishing its data on Russian photographers, builders, etc., their Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra, can be processing, and any user is then free to architecture, UW is contributing over a names, their era, and links to descriptions Endnotes seen at http://faculty.washington.edu/ create a new use for the data. million assertions that can serve as the of the same person in other datasets. 1. Principal members of the development tgis/ld/sampleData/sampleData.html. basis for many millions more. By giving The dataset includes descriptions of team included James D. West and Michael Biggins For a look at UW’s complete Russian Three additional datasets are (project coordinators), Aylin Llona (computer our resources persistent names on the the following entities: architecture dataset (still in development, intended to supplement more detailed support librarian), Mary Giles (metadata world wide web (using http identifiers), technician) and Theodore Gerontakos (metadata but viewable as it develops) see https:// Works: describes over 8,000 Russian datasets on the web: librarian). others can use these identifiers to github.com/russianArchitecture- sites; it includes names for buildings, unambiguously refer to the same Places: lists the locations of the uwLibraries/brumfield or http://faculty. historical information, the type of resource and build additional assertions. sites pictured in Professor Brumfield’s washington.edu/tgis/ld/brumfield/ building or site, and references to places Michael Biggins is Slavic, Baltic and East This dataset provides unchanging photographs; (both sites contain the same data). and people associated with the site or European studies librarian at the University of Washington, Seattle, and an affiliate professor identities for resources related to Russian building. Subjects: primarily lists the with UW’s Department of Slavic Languages Although these collections may architecture, and others can use those architectural details visible in each Photos: describes photographs taken and Literatures ([email protected]) appear to some to be a mere tangle of identities in a worldwide collaborative photograph; data, they have many possible uses. For effort to produce and consume data on by William Brumfield; it includes view Theo Gerontakos is the principal metadata example, some part or all of the data Russian architecture. information, terms for architectural Worktypes: lists types of buildings librarian at the University of Washington, can be downloaded to provide resource details pictured, and references to the featured in the “Works” dataset. Seattle ([email protected])

NEWSNET March 2018 14 NEWSNET March 2018 15 SPOTLIGHT: JOHNSON’S RUSSIA LIST AFFILIATE GROUP NEWS by DAVID JOHNSON

Johnson’s Russia List has been Russians themselves, it’s important to and subsequent unpredictable AWSS HELDT PRIZES Clayton, VIC 3800, AUSTRALIA. CfS: SRS 2018 GRADUATE STUDENT ESSAY developments. In a situation a favored source of Russia-related see how Russia is being covered in the The Association for Women in Slavic • Rebecca Gould, College of Arts & Law, PRIZE information since it was founded by West. JRL was an early example of how where there are daily headlines Studies invites nominations for the 2018 School of Languages, Cultures, Art History The Society for Romanian Studies announces the Tenth Annual Graduate Editor-in-Chief David Johnson in 1996. the Internet can be used to monitor an about Russian propaganda and competition for the Heldt Prizes, awarded & Music, University of Birmingham, disinformation some Russia-watchers for works of scholarship. 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This bilingual collection in honor of Alexander After a decade of borrowing from the Soviet Ian Probstein’s The River of Time: Time-Space, tradition of Russian science fiction, however, Zholkovsky edited by Dennis Ioffe, Marcus Union—advisers, factories, school textbooks, History, and Language in Avant-Garde, are hard to come by in accessible form. This Levitt, Joe Peschio, and Igor Pilshchikov, A/Z: urban plans—Albania’s party clique switched Modernist, and Contemporary Russian critical reader aims to provide such a resource Essays in Honor of Alexander Aholkovsky allegiance to China during the 1960s Sino- and Anglo-American Poetry (Academic for students, scholars, and the merely curious (Academic Studies Press, 2018) brings Soviet conflict, seeing in Mao’s patronage Studies Press, 2017) explores the changing who wish to delve deeper into landmarks of together new work from forty-four leading an opportunity to keep Stalinism alive. perception of time and space in avant- the genre, discover lesser-known gems in the scholars in nine countries. Like Zholkovsky’s Mëhilli shows how socialism created a shared garde, modernist, and contemporary poetry. process, and understand why science fiction oeuvre, this volume covers a broad range of transnational material and mental culture— Probstein characterizes the works of modern came to play such a crucial role in Russian subjects and employs an array of approaches. still evident today around Eurasia—but it Russian, French, and Anglo-American poets society, politics, technology, and culture for Topics range from Russian syntax to Peter the failed to generate political unity. Combining based on their attitudes towards reality, time, more than a century. Great, literary theory, and Russian film. The an analysis of ideology with a sharp sense of space, and history revealed in their poetics. articles are rooted in computational analysis, geopolitics, he brings into view Fascist Italy’s The author compares the work of major Berghahn Books published Sacred Places- literary memoir, formal analysis, cultural involvement in Albania, then explores the Russian innovative poets Osip Mandelstam, Emerging Spaces. Religious Pluralism in the history, and a host of other methodological country’s Eastern bloc entanglements, the Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and post-Soviet Caucasus, edited by Tsypylma and discursive modes. This collection profound fascination with the Soviets, and Joseph Brodsky to W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Darieva, Florian Mühlfried, and Kevin Tuite provides not only a fitting tribute to one of the contradictions of the dramatic anti-Soviet Pound, and, in spite of the postmodernist in February 2018. Though long associated the most fascinating figures of Russian letters turn. Illustrated with never-before-published “estrangement” of reality, the author proves with violence, the Caucasus is a region but also a remarkable picture of the shape of photographs, From Stalin to Mao draws that similar traces can be found in the work of rich with religious conviviality. Based on Russian literary scholarship today. on a wealth of Albanian, Russian, German, contemporary American poets John Ashbery fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, British, Italian, Czech, and American archival and Charles Bernstein. Both affinities and Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Connecting across Languages and Cultures: sources, in addition to fiction, interviews, and drastic differences are revealed in the poets’ Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses A Heritage Language Festschrift in Honor of memoirs. Mëhilli’s perspective on the Soviet- attitudes towards time-space, reality, and vanishing and emerging sacred places in the Olga Kagan, edited by Susan Bauckus and Chinese battle for the soul of revolution history. multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Susan Kresin, is scheduled for release later in the global Cold War also illuminates the Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de- this year from Slavica Publishers. As the paradoxes of state planning in the twentieth Dan Healey’s book Russian Homophobia secularization, growing institutional control founding director of the National Heritage century. from Stalin to Sochi (Bloomsbury Publishing, over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to Language Resource Center and the Heritage 2017) explores the roots of homophobia in review social boundaries between the Language Journal, Olga Kagan has been a In her work If the Walls Could Speak: Inside the Gulag, the rise of a visible queer presence religious and the secular, this collection of core figure in the development of the field a Women’s Prison in Communist Poland, in Soviet cities after Stalin, and the political essays gives way to an emergent Caucasus of heritage language studies. By promoting (Oxford University Press, 2017), Anna Müller battles since 1991 over whether queer viewed from the ground up: dynamic, both the creation of a foundational research unearths the prison lives of women during Russians can be valued citizens. Examining continually remaking itself, within shifting base and specialized pedagogical training, interwar Poland and their lives in the post- nine “case histories” that reveal the origins and indefinite frontiers. and evolution of homophobic attitudes she has played a seminal role in establishing war period through their autobiographical The collection of essays in Secret Agents and effective methodologies that address the writings, interrogation protocols, cell spy in modern Russia, Healey asserts that the nation’s contemporary homophobia can be the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in specific needs of heritage language learners. reports, and original interviews with former Communist Eastern Europe (Anthem Press, Connecting across Languages and Cultures political prisoners. Her interviewees narrated traced back to the particular experience of revolution, political terror and war its people 2017) edited by Péter Apor, Sándor Horváth, seeks to pay homage to her work by bringing their own versions of what happened during and James Mark, addresses institutions that together heritage language specialists who their arrests, interrogations, and confinement. endured after 1917. Healey also reflects on the problems of “‘memorylessness” for develop the concept of collaboration, and work in various domains and with various They also explored their emotions: surprise, examines the function, social representation, languages. Following her model, the editors confusion, fear, and anger. Although their Russia’s LGBT movement more broadly and the obstacles it faces in trying to write its own and history of secret police archives and aim to create bridges between pedagogical imprisonments interrupted their lives, institutes of national memory that create and linguistic research, and between separated them from families, and caused history. The book makes use of little-known source material — much of it untranslated these histories of collaboration. The researchers and practitioners. much suffering, the women reflected on how essays provide a comparative account of they refashioned themselves during their archival documentation — to explore how Russians have viewed same-sex love and collaboration/participation across differing In From Stalin to Mao: Albania and the interrogations; applied their senses to orient categories of collaborators and different Socialist World (Cornell University Press, themselves in the prison space; and used gender transgression since the mid-20th century. social milieux throughout East-Central 2017), Elidor Mëhilli has produced a history their bodies to gain control over themselves Europe. They also demonstrate how secret of communist Albania that illuminates one and as a means to exercise pressure on the Anindita Banerjee edited and introduces police files can be used to produce more of Europe’s longest but least understood authorities. The creativity that they displayed Russian Science Fiction Literature and subtle social and cultural histories of the dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is individually and collectively in their cells Cinema: Critical Reader (Academic Studies socialist dictatorships. By interrogating informed throughout by Mëhilli’s access to helped them rebuild a semblance of normal Press, 2018). Since the dawn of the Space the ways in which post-socialist cultures previously restricted archives, captures the life inside prison walls despite the abuses Age, when the Soviet Union launched the produce the idea of, and knowledge about, powerful globalism of post-1945 socialism, inflicted by interrogation officers and guards. first artificial satellite and sent the first human collaborators, the contributing authors as well as the unintended consequences into the cosmos, science fiction literature provide a nuanced historical conception of cross-border exchanges from the and cinema from Russia has fascinated fans, of collaboration, expanding the concept Mediterranean to East Asia. critics, and scholars from around the world. toward broader frameworks of cooperation Informed perspectives on the long and rich and political participation to facilitate a

NEWSNET March 2018 18 NEWSNET March 2018 19 better understanding of Eastern European Mark Adryczyk published The White Chalk of communist regimes. Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology (Academic Studies Press, In The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of 2017), which commemorates the tenth year Revolution (Yale University Press, 2018), Marci of the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Series. Co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Studies Revolution during the extraordinary winter Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia of 2013-2014. Grounded in the true stories University and the Kennan Institute at the of activists and soldiers, parents and Woodrow Wilson International Center for children, Shore’s book blends a narrative Scholars, the Series has recurrently organized of suspenseful choices with a historian’s readings in the US for Ukraine’s leading reflections on what revolution is and what writers since 2008. The anthology presents it means. She gently sets her portraits of translations of literary works by Series guests individual revolutionaries against the past as that engage pivotal issues in today’s Ukraine they understand it—and the future as they and express its tribulations and jubilations. hope to make it. In so doing, she provides a Featuring poetry, fiction, and essays by lesson about human solidarity in a world, our fifteen Ukrainian writers, the anthology offers world, where the boundary between reality English-language readers a wide array of the and fiction is ever more effaced most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the past fifty years. Lilya Kaganovsky’s The Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1928– In Maxim D. Shrayer’s new book With or 1935 was published by Indiana University Without You: The Prospect for Jews in Today’s Press in February 2018. Industrialization Russia (Academic Studies Press, 2017), which and centralization of the cinema industry is based on new evidence and a series greatly altered the way movies in the Soviet of interviews, offers a richly journalistic Union were made, while the introduction portrait of Russia’s dwindling yet still vibrant of sound radically influenced the way these and influential Jewish community. This is movies were received. Kaganovsky explores simultaneously an in-depth exploration of USC HIRING TURPANJIAN CHAIR IN CONTEMPORARY ARMENIAN STUDIES the history, practice, technology, ideology, the texture of Jewish life in Putin’s Russia and aesthetics, and politics of the transition an émigré’s moving elegy for Russia’s Jews, The Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian to sound within the context of larger which forty years ago constituted one of the Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, invite applications for the Turpanjian issues in Soviet media history. As cinema world’s largest Jewish populations and which Chair in Contemporary Armenian Studies. The search is rank-open (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, industries around the globe adjusted to the presently numbers only about 180,000. Why Professor), and applications from all social science and humanities disciplines are welcome. Scholars whose work introduction of synch-sound technology, do Jews continue to live in Russia after the focuses on diaspora, immigration, transnationalism, race/identity, nationalism, post-Soviet studies, and transitions the Soviet Union was also shifting culturally, antisemitism and persecution they had to democracy—including such work in comparative perspective—are particularly encouraged to apply. The politically, and ideologically from the endured there? What are the prospects of successful candidate will have a primary appointment in his/her disciplinary home department. In addition, the heterogeneous film industry of the 1920s Jewish life in Russia? What awaits the children successful candidate will be an affiliate of the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies, and if s/he isofthe to the centralized industry of the 1930s, and born to Jews who have not left? With or appropriate rank, will be invited to serve as the Director of Research in the Institute. Applicants must have a from the avant-garde to Socialist Realism. Without You asks and seeks to answer some doctoral degree in their field of study. Kaganovsky argues that the coming of sound of the central questions of modern Jewish changed the Soviet cinema industry by history and culture. In addition to the letter of application, interested candidates should provide a research statement, their curriculum making audible, for the first time, the voice vitae, and a list of references. All application materials must be combined into and uploaded as one PDF document. of State power, directly addressing the Soviet Please submit an electronic USC application; follow this job link or paste in a browser: https://usccareers.usc.edu/ viewer. By exploring numerous examples job/los-angeles/turpanjian-chair-in-contemporary-armenian-studies/1209/7282713. Applications will begin to be of films from this transitional period, reviewed on March 19 but the position will remain open until filled. Inquiries may be directed to Silva Sevlian Kaganovsky demonstrates the importance of [email protected] or Laurie Brand [email protected]. the new technology of sound in producing USC is an equal-opportunity educator and employer, proudly pluralistic and firmly committed to providing equal opportunity for and imposing the “Soviet Voice.” outstanding persons of every race, gender, creed and background. The University particularly encourages women, members of underrepresented groups, veterans and individuals with disabilities to apply. USC will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship. Further information is available by contacting [email protected] .

NEWSNET March 2018 20 NEWSNET March 2018 21 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute ukrainian research institute | harvard summer school 2018 ASEEES PRIZES Study at one of the most prestigious CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS universities in the world Access Harvard’s immense library system ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE RULES OF ELIGIBILITY the University of Southern California, is Use the largest Ucrainica collection TO ALL BOOK PRIZE COMPETITIONS: • The competition is open to works awarded for an outstanding monograph outside Eastern Europe For full rules and complete details about of scholarship in any discipline of published on Russia, Eastern Europe, or all prizes, please see http://aseees.org/ the social sciences or humanities Eurasia in the fields of literary & cultural Visit Harvard’s world-renowned programs/aseees-prizes (including literature, the arts, film, studies in 2017. museums • The copyright date inside the book etc.). Policy analyses, however RULES OF ELIGIBILITY scholarly, cannot be considered. Take advantage of all that the vibrant city must be 2017* • The competition is open to works of • The book must be a monograph, The winner will be chosen by: scholarship in literary and cultural of Cambridge has to offer preferably by a single author, or by • Jason Wittenberg, Dept. of Political studies, including studies in the visual arts, cinema, music, and dance. Socialize with peers and experts at no more than two authors Science, 210 Barrows Hall, MC #1950, • Authors may be of any nationality UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1950 The winner will be chosen by: formal and informal gatherings as long as the work is originally • Maria Bucur, 8400 S. Ketcham Road, • Cristina Vatulescu, 13-19 University published in English in the US* The only program of its kind in North America, HUSI Bloomington, IN 47403 Place, 3rd Floor, Dept. of Comparative provides seven weeks of accredited instruction each • Textbooks, collections, translations, • Barbara Henry, 2334 NE 92nd Street, Literature, NYU, New York, NY 10003 bibliographies, and reference works Seattle, WA 98115 summer. Students earn academic credit while studying at • Jeremy Hicks, School of Languages, are ineligible • Genevieve Zubrzycki, Weiser Center an Ivy League university and exploring the dynamic city Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary • Works may deal with any area of for Europe and Eurasia, Weiser Hall, that surrounds it. University of London, Mile End Road, Eastern Europe, Russia, or Eurasia* 500 Church Street, Suite 500, Ann London E1 4NS, United Kingdom The 2018 courses are: • Additional eligibility requirements Arbor, MI 48109-1042 • Lisa Wakamiya, Dept. of Modern • Revolutionary Ukraine: Avant-garde Literature and unique to each prize competition are Languages and Linguistics, FSU, Film from 1917 to the Euromaidan of 2014 with listed below USC BOOK PRIZE IN LITERARY & Diffenbaugh 362, Tallahassee, FL George Grabowicz (4 credits) *Except where otherwise indicated CULTURAL STUDIES 32306-1540 • Laboratory of Modernity: Society, Culture and Nominating Instructions The USC Book Prize in Literary and Politics in Ukraine, 1800-Present with Serhiy Bilenky REGINALD ZELNIK BOOK PRIZE IN • Send one copy of eligible monograph Cultural Studies, established in 2009 HISTORY (4 credits) to each Committee member AND to and sponsored by the Department of • Ukrainian for Reading Knowledge with Volodymyr Slavic Languages and Literatures at The Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History, the ASEEES main office. Nominations established in 2009 and sponsored by Dibrova (8 credits) must be received by April 15. The program is designed for graduate and advanced • Fill out the Book Prize nomination undergraduate students. Students typically take 8 credits: form • Mark submissions with the name of either the language course or two subject courses. Limited the prize(s) financial assistance is available.

Deadlines: WAYNE S. VUCINICH BOOK PRIZE • March 12, 2018 for those applying for financial aid Established in 1983, the Wayne S. Vucinich • April 16, 2018 for those requiring an I-20 certificate, Book Prize, sponsored by ASEEES and the but not finanical aid Stanford University Center for Russian • All others: See Harvard Summer School deadlines for and East European Studies, is awarded June 23—August 11, 2018 course registration for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European www.huri.harvard.edu/husi studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences published in English in the US in 2017.

NEWSNET March 2018 22 NEWSNET March 2018 23 the Institute of Slavic, East European, prize is dedicated to the encouragement • Authors must be scholars who are and Eurasian Studies at the University of high quality studies of the international citizens or permanent residents of of California, Berkeley, is awarded for an behavior of the countries of the former North America. outstanding monograph published on Communist Bloc. • The competition is open to works on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia in the RULES OF ELIGIBILITY any aspect of Southeast European field of history in 2017. • Works must be about international or Habsburg studies since 1600, or RULES OF ELIGIBILITY behavior of the countries of the 19th- and 20th-century Ottoman or • The competition is open to works of former Communist Bloc. Russian diplomatic history. scholarship in history The winner will be chosen by: The winner of the will be chosen by: The winner will be chosen by: • Rachel Epstein, Josef Korbel School • James Mark, History Dept., Armory • Norman Naimark, 930 Lathrop Place, of International Studies, University Building, University of Exeter EX4 4RJ, Stanford, CA 94305 of Denver, 2201 S. Gaylord Street, UK, (email: [email protected]) • Christine Ruane, 189 Cameron Station Denver, CO 80208 • Mark Cornwall, Professor of Blvd, Alexandria, VA 22304 • Jeff Hass, Dept. of Sociology Modern European History, Faculty • Jeff Sahadeo, Institute of European, & Anthropology, University of of Humanities, Avenue Campus, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Richmond, 28 Westhampton Way, Southampton SO17 1BF, UK Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Richmond, VA 23173 • Stella Ghervas, School of History, Drive, Ottawa ON K1S-5B6, Canada • Rinna Kullaa, Institute for East Classics and Archaeology, Armstrong European History, U of Vienna, Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK DAVIS CENTER BOOK PRIZE IN Spitalgasse 2, Hof 3, A-1090 Wien, The committee will accept PDF copies of POLITICAL & SOCIAL STUDIES Austria books emailed to the members directly. The Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, established in 2008 ED A HEWETT BOOK PRIZE and sponsored by the Kathryn W. The Ed A Hewett Book Prize, established in KULCZYCKI BOOK PRIZE IN POLISH and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for 1994 and sponsored by the U of Michigan STUDIES Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard Center for Russian, East European, and The Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies, University, is awarded for an outstanding Eurasian Studies, is awarded for an established in 1996 and sponsored by monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, outstanding monograph on the political the Kulczycki family, former owners of or Eastern Europe in anthropology, economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or the Orbis Books Ltd. of London, England, W. BRUCE LINCOLN BOOK PRIZE criteria for selection. students, and submit the winning political science, sociology, or geography Eastern Europe, published in 2017. is awarded for the best book in any The W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, The winner will be chosen by: paper to the ASEEES Grad Student in 2017. RULES OF ELIGIBILITY discipline on any aspect of Polish affairs, Prize Committee. sponsored by Mary Lincoln, is awarded • Rebecca Mitchell, Dept of History, RULES OF ELIGIBILITY published in 2017. • Works must be on the political biennially (in even numbered years) for Middlebury College, Axinn Center • Essay author must be a graduate RULES OF ELIGIBILITY • The competition is open to works of economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or an author’s first published monograph or at Starr Library 239, Middlebury, VT student and must have written the scholarship in anthropology, political Eastern Europe. • Only works originally published in scholarly synthesis that is of exceptional 05753 essay in English while in a graduate merit and lasting significance for the science, sociology, or geography, and The winner will be chosen by: English, outside of Poland, are eligible • Edith Clowes, Dept of Slavic program. also to social science works that cross understanding of Russia’s past, published • Jessica Pisano, New School for Social • The book must be a monograph Languages and Literatures, 269 New • Essays can be any of several formats: strict disciplinary boundaries in the previous two years. The prize was Research, 79 5th Avenue, 7th Floor, predominantly on Polish studies. Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Expanded versions of conference established in 2004 in memory of W. The winner will be chosen by: New York, NY 10003 • Preference will be given to works by Charlottesville, VA 22904 papers; graduate level seminar Bruce Lincoln, a Russian historian and a • Jelena Subotic, Georgia State U, Dept. • Hilary Appel, Claremont Mckenna first-time authors. • Sergei Zhuk, Dept of History, Ball papers; Master’s thesis chapters; widely-read author. of Political Science. PO Box 4069. College, 850 Columbia Ave, • The competition is open to works State University, Muncie, IN 47306 dissertation chapters RULES OF ELIGIBILITY Atlanta, GA 30302-4069 Claremont, CA 91711 USA in any discipline, dealing with any NOMINATING INSTRUCTIONS • Morgan Liu, Dept. of Near Eastern • Dinissa Duvanova, International • The book must be an author’s first GRADUATE STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE aspect of Polish affairs. • Essays should be submitted by the Languages & Cultures, OSU, 1775 Relations, Lehigh University, 201 published monograph or work of The ASEEES Graduate Student Essay • Previous winners of this prize are Chairs of the Regional Affiliates or College Road, 300 Haggerty Hall, Maginnes Hall, 9 West Packer Avenue, synthesis. Prize was established in 2006 and is ineligible. the primary representatives of the Columbus, OH 43210-1340 Bethlehem, PA 18015 • It must bear a copyright date of either awarded for an outstanding essay The winner will be chosen by: Institutional Members. Graduate • Lucan Way, U of Toronto, 2 Dingwall 2016 or 2017. by a graduate student in Slavic, East BARBARA JELAVICH BOOK PRIZE • Brian Porter-Szucs, 504 Maple Ridge students whose institution is not Ave., Toronto, ON M4K 1H1, Canada • It must be published in English and in European, and Eurasian Studies. The The Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 winner of the competition receives free an ASEEES institutional member MARSHALL D. SHULMAN BOOK PRIZE North America. established in 1995 and sponsored by • Jessie Labov, 204 N. 35th Street, roundtrip domestic airfare to and room or is not holding a competition • The geographic area of study is The Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize, the Jelavich estate, is awarded for a Philadelphia, PA 19104, (email: at the ASEEES Annual Convention and this year, are advised to check the broadly defined as the territories of established in 1987 and sponsored by distinguished monograph published [email protected]) an honorary ASEEES membership in rules for their regional competition. the former imperial Russian state and the Harriman Institute of Columbia on any aspect of Southeast European • Bozena Karwowska, 917 - 1873 East 2019. Students cannot self-nominate University, is awarded for an outstanding or Habsburg studies since 1600, or Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada, the Soviet Union. The book may deal their papers/must go through the RULES OF ELIGIBILITY monograph dealing with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century (email: [email protected]) with any period of history. proper nominating procedures. international relations, foreign policy, or Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history in The committee will accept PDF copies of • Books that have received other prizes • ASEEES Regional Affiliates and • Submitter must clearly indicate the foreign-policy decision-making of any of 2017. books via email. are eligible. Institutional Members are invited format of the essay submitted and the states of the former Soviet Union or RULES OF ELIGIBILITY • Scholarly merit, originality, and to hold their own competitions for provide an abstract. Eastern Europe published in 2017. The best essay among their graduate felicity of style will be the main • Essays should have a word

NEWSNET March 2018 24 NEWSNET March 2018 25 count of 7,500-14,000 (25 to 50 the ways in which the work is The winner of the CLIR Distinguished pages approximately) inclusive outstanding in both its empirical Service Award will be chosen by: of footnotes and bibliography. and interpretive contributions, • Jon Giullian, U of Kansas Upcoming in Slavic Review Submissions must be double- along with a 700-1,000 word • Christopher Condill, U of Illinois Volume 77 Spring 2018 MENTORING PROGRAM spaced and include footnotes or abstract, written by the candidate, • Janice Pilch, Rutgers U endnotes. specifying the sources and general 2018-2019 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION • Joseph Lenkart, UIUC CRITICAL FORUM: SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET SEXUALITIES • Essays should be emailed to findings of the research. A faculty • Natasha Lyandres, Notre Dame U Our field boasts a wide range of area studies and Mary Arnstein, Communications supervisor may nominate no more “Introduction to ‘Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities’” • Liladhar Pendse, UC Berkeley disciplinary knowledge, but how one makes one’s way Coordinator, at [email protected] than one dissertation a year. Richard C. M. Mole • Erik Scott, U Kansas through dissertation rites, funding cycles, postdocs, job and to all members of the prize Nominations must be received by markets, and non-academic career trajectories is often Deadline for nominations June 1. “Between the Labor Camp and the Clinic: Tema or the Shared committee. May 15. left as much to creative invention as it is to shared advice. Forms of Late Soviet Homosexual Subjectivities” Deadline for submissions: June 1. DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTIONS Early-career scholars rightly lean on their advisors, their The winner will be chosen by: Arthur Clech AWARD universities, and their peer networks with these issues, The winner will be chosen by: but the advantage of an association like ASEEES is that • Andrew Jenks, Cal State U, Long Established in 1970, the Association’s “Soviet Legal and Criminological Debates on the we can offer a good deal more. • Victoria Smolkin, Wesleyan U; Beach, [email protected] Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, Decriminalization of Homosexuality (1965–75)” [email protected] • Robert English, USC, renglish@usc. East European, and Eurasian Studies Rustam Alexander edu ASEEES is sponsoring a network to match volunteer • Eric Gordy, U College London (UK), Award honors eminent members of mentors and mentees who are interested in conversation • Yoshiko Herrera, U of Wisconsin- “‘That’s Not the Only Reason We Love Him’: Tchaikovskii [email protected] the profession who have made major on these and other topics over the course of a single Madison, [email protected] Reception in Post-Soviet Russia” • Laura Olson Osterman, U of contributions to the field through academic year. Philip Ross Bullock Colorado, [email protected] ASEEES CLIR DISTINGUISHED scholarship of the highest quality, mentoring, leadership, and/or service SERVICE LIBRARIAN AWARD “Identity, Belonging and Solidarity among Russian-speaking APPLY to find a mentor or volunteer to serve asa ROBERT C. TUCKER/STEPHEN F. to the profession. The prize is intended The ASEEES Committee on Libraries Queer Migrants in Berlin” mentor by May 21. COHEN DISSERTATION PRIZE to recognize diverse contributions and Information Resources Richard C. M. Mole across the Slavic, East European, and The Tucker/Cohen Dissertation Prize, Distinguished Service Award, which Eurasian studies field. established in 2006 and sponsored by the was established in 2010, honors ARTICLES “The Maiden and the Wolf: Law, Gender, and Sexual Violence KAT Charitable Foundation, is awarded ASEEES member librarians, archivists or NOMINATING INSTRUCTIONS annually (if there is a distinguished in Imperial Russia” curators whose contributions to Slavic, • The Committee accepts Katherine Pickering Antonova and Sergei Antonov submission) for an outstanding English- East European and Eurasian studies nominations in writing or via language doctoral dissertation in Soviet librarianship have been especially e-mail from any ASEEES member. “The Making of an Artist as National Hero: The Great Karl or Post-Soviet politics and history in the noteworthy or influential. The effect • Submit nomination letter(s) to the Briullov and His Critical Fortunes” tradition practiced by Robert C. Tucker of these contributions may be the Committee Chair. Katia Dianina and Stephen F. Cohen. result of continuous or distinguished • The nomination letter should RULES OF ELIGIBILITY “Against the Double Erasure: Georgi Markov’s Contribution service to the profession, but may also include: biography focusing on be the result of extraordinarily active, to the Communist Hypothesis” • The dissertation must be written in the individual’s distinguished innovative or collaborative work that Nikolay Karkov English and defended at a university achievments in SEEE studies; a EXPLORING CAREER DIVERSITY deserves national recognition. in the US or Canada; list of publications, editorships, “Split Memory: The Geography of Holocaust Memory and 2018-2019 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION • The dissertation must be completed RULES OF ELIGIBILITY curatorships; a list of awards and Amnesia in Belarus” and defended during the 2017 • Active participation in special prizes; contributions in mentoring Anika Walke Established in August 2017, ASEEES Exploring Career calendar year; projects, efforts or initiatives that and training; and involvement in have measurably impacted the and service to ASEEES and/or the Diversity is a service that matches professionals with • The dissertation’s primary subject SEEES MA/PhDs employed beyond the professoriate, profession profession, if any. and analytical purpose must be in with graduate students and recent MA/PhDs who the realm of the history of domestic • Exemplary and influential research • Self-nomination is not accepted. are interested in broadening their career horizons). politics, as broadly understood in and/or scholarship pertaining to • Committe members also survey The program provides informational interviews with academic or public life, though it SEEES librarianship the field for possible awardees. professionals in interested non-academic fields. The may also include social, cultural, • Consistently superior ASEEES junior contact must be an ASEEES member; however, Deadline for nominations is April 1. the senior contact need not be an ASEEES member to economic, international or other committee or subcommittee work The winner will be chosen by: volunteer for the program. dimensions. The dissertation must and /or advocacy focus primarily on Russia (though • Amy Nelson, Virginia Tech, • Exemplary leadership on ASEEES The ASEEES will match participants according to the topic may also involve other [email protected] committees, subcommittees or in preferences for employment sector, type of work, former Soviet republics) during one • Kristen Ghodsee, U of Pennsylvania other initiatives geographic location, and/or field of study. The ASEEES or more periods between January • Lauren Kaminsky, Harvard U will match only one senior contact at a time per junior • Conceiving of and implementing Abram Gel’mont’s photographs of child viewers. 1918 and the present. • Jan Kubik, U College London (UK) contact request, but requests for multiple contacts will innovative or creative ideas that Featured in his book Izuchenie detskogo kino-zritelia (Moscow, • Eric Naiman, UC Berkeley 1933), 51. be honored as possible. NOMINATING INSTRUCTIONS benefit the profession • A nomination will consist of a letter • Quietly but enduringly and To participate as either a junior or senior contact, from the faculty advisor explaining effectively promoting and please CLICK HERE. strengthening the profession

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Baron taught at several other institutions: Resident Director SAMUEL H. BARON Grinnell College, UC San Diego and twenty MARK KULIKOWSKI in Russia two years at UNC-Chapel Hill. He retired M a r k Samuel H. from UNC as Alumni Distinguished Professor Baron passed away Kulikowski of History, Emeritus in 1986. In 1987, the ACES - American Cultural Exchange Service is unexpectedly on passed away Samuel Baron Distinguished Professorship seeking a qualified Resident Director to work on August 16, 2017. on January 14, was established at UNC. site with a group of 15 US high school students for He was 96 years 2018 at age 63. old, and healthy Baron wrote five books, three of which Kulikowski had a six-week program in Moscow, Russia through the until death. Baron were published by Stanford University Press. been teaching National Security Language Initiative for Youth was born in He was most well-known for Plekhanov: The courses in (NSLI-Y) program. Brooklyn, NY in Father of Russian Marxism, published in 1965. Russian history and Eastern history at 1921 and received This book was eventually translated into Oswego State since the 1980s. Additionally, his BS in botany Spanish, Japanese and, most unexpectedly, he spent many years on the Campus-Wide from Cornell University in 1942. Baron was Russian. Baron also edited several Library Committee. drafted into the Air Force upon graduation, anthologies on Russian history and authored Outside the classroom, Kulikowski could and later served in the Army in Germany, 80 peer-reviewed articles. He traveled to be found researching and obtaining materials Czechoslovakia, France, Austria and Italy. Russia nine times, for a combined total of to donate to archives and libraries globally. eighteen months, having received grants Baron was part of the initial cohort to Kulikowski gathered materials at the collapse from the Guggenheim Foundation and the of the Soviet Union and donated them to attend the Russian Institute at Columbia For details about the position, please download the National Endowment for the Humanities, Eastern European libraries as a way to make University, the first academic center of its among many other sources. flyer HERE kind in the United States, and received his information he found available to everyone. PhD in Russian history in 1948. Published in The News & Observer on He has collections named after him, at September 10, 2017. the Library of Congress and Binghamton After being the subject of a McCarthy-era University, where he received his doctorate. investigation at the University of Tennessee, Excerpted from obituary written by Julia Western Europe. He was a regular participant Tilley DONALD D. BARRY at annual meetings of ASEEES and served on its board. Introducing Mellon/ACLS Donald D. Community College Faculty Barry was a prolific scholar and a key Barry, a longtime Fellowships member of a vibrant community of scholars member of KU Summer Study Abroad Programs in L’viv and zadar of Soviet law. He wrote many articles The Mellon/ACLS Community College the academic The University of Kansas (KU) invites applications to its Summer exploring tort liability in the Soviet Union and Faculty Fellowships, made possible by a community of Study Abroad programs in L'viv, Ukraine and Zadar, Croatia. the Soviet legal profession. He coauthored generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Lehigh University Foundation, will support the research Contemporary Soviet Politics: An Introduction, and a pioneering ambitions of humanities and social science Intensive six-week program of Croatian language instruction, which went through four editions and was scholar of Soviet faculty at two-year colleges.These fellowships May 20-June 30 in Zadar, Croatia, on the Adriatic coast. widely adopted for course use. He edited and deepen ACLS’s commitment to extending the Students study at LinCro, run by Prof. Mile Mamić, of the University law, passed away contributed to many collections of articles reach of its programs to humanities scholars of Zadar. Six credit hours awarded by KU. One year of college-level on January 31, about Soviet and post-Soviet Russian law, from a broader range of institutions. Croatian is necessary for participation. For more info, please visit: 2018. ACLS will award up to 26 Mellon/ACLS http://studyabroad.ku.edu/language-institute-zadar-croatia including, Toward the “Rule of Law” in Russia? Community College Faculty Fellowships in 2018- Barry earned his BA at Ohio University and Political and Legal Reform in the Transition 19, which will be the first of three competitions his PhD from the Maxwell School of Public Enjoy multiple Period (1992), Law and the Gorbachev Era funded by this grant. The research projects in excursions and a Affairs at Syracuse University. As a graduate (1987), Soviet Law after Stalin (3 volumes, the humanities or humanistic social sciences rich array of student, he spent a year at Moscow State 1977), and Contemporary Soviet Law (1974). to be supported by this program may have a cultural activities wide range of outcomes, including scholarly or University in the early years of the US-USSR Together with Yuri Feofanov, he wrote in beautiful pedagogical articles, book chapters, or books; Prof. Mamić and students enjoy Krka National Park Eastern Europe! exchange program. He joined the Lehigh Politics and Justice in Russia: Major Trials of course plans and textbooks; exhibitions and University faculty in 1963, rising through the the Post-Stalin Era (1996). He also published community/campus events; online resources, Intensive six-week program of Ukrainian language instruction, academic ranks to University Distinguished extensively on American administrative law. etc. Fellowships carry a stipend of $40,000, June 3-July 17 at beautiful Ivan Franko National University in L'viv. The on-site director, University of Kansas faculty member Professor of Political Science. He served as In 2005, Robert Sharlet and F.J.M. Fedlbrugge which may be used flexibly as salary support, department chair and director of the Center research funds, or for any other activity that Dr. Oleksandra Wallo is a L'viv native with 10+ years of experience edited Public Police and Law in Russia: In advances the proposed project. teaching Ukrainian language and culture at U.S. universities. for International Studies. While at Lehigh Search of a Unified Legal and Political Space, a Proposals must be submitted through Six credit hours are awarded by KU. For more info, please visit: he was awarded the Lindback Foundation collection of essays in his honor. ACLS’s online application system, which will http://studyabroad.ku.edu/language-institute-lviv-ukraine Award for outstanding teaching and the begin accepting applications in late July. Text provided by Kathryn Hendley, William Eleanor and Joseph Libsch Research Award. Further information is available at www.acls. Voss-Bascom Professor of Law & Political Apply for a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship at He traveled extensively in connection with org/programs/community-college-faculty/. Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The application deadline is September 26, one's own university to participate in the KU summer program in academic work, most often to Russia but 2018. Contact: [email protected] L’viv or Zadar! http://crees.ku.edu/flas-fellowships Prof. Wallo and students tour the Pidhirtsi Castle also to a number of other sites in Eastern and

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The Kennan Institute welcomes: Applications are invited from researchers, the Center’s alumni, for whom the Kennan Title VIII Research Scholar THE KENNAN INSTITUTE Institute will continue to offer opportunities postgraduate students and independent AMERICAN COUNCILS Krista Goff, University of Miami: “Nested scholars. The fellowship will award up to AUD AT THE WILSON CENTER for collaboration and engagement. Nationalism: Slow Violence and Ethnic Applicants for the Billington Fellowship 20,000 in non-salary funding for project- American Councils announces the launch Conflict in the (post-) Soviet Caucasus” George F. Kennan Fellows will be based must hold a PhD awarded within the past 10 related costs to work on projects that will of the Academic Fellowships in Russia at the Wilson Center in DC for three-month years. Preference will be given to proposed benefit from concentrated access to the (AFR) Program. Provided by a grant from Title VIII Short Term Scholar Library’s Slavic collections and to promote residencies. Fellows will receive access to research in the fields of Russian history and Valerie Bunce, Cornell University: “Tit- Carnegie Corporation of New York, AFR Slavic studies and related fields. Costs could the Library of Congress, National Archives, culture. There is no citizenship restriction on for-Tat: Russian Intervention in the 2016 will support US graduate students enrolled include project, travel, accommodation and and policy research centers in DC, as well as this grant. U.S. Presidential Election” in PhD programs in the social sciences, the opportunity to meet with key experts living expenses. More than one fellowship postdoctoral fellows, university faculty, and The Billington Fellowship offers a and officials. While conducting research, monthly stipend, research facilities, a Galina Starovoitova Fellow may be awarded in 2018. independent scholars to conduct on-site Kennan Fellows are expected to actively The fellowship is intended for a length research and fieldwork in Russia for periods research intern, and computer access. Marina Agaltsova, Human Rights Center participate in discussions with the policy and of 3-6 months, and fellows are required to of three to nine months on topics within the Fellows are required to be in residence at Memorial: “Proscribing Extremist Speech: in academic communities, including speaking be in residence at the Monash Library for social science disciplines. the Kennan Institute for the duration of the Search for Balance” engagements, meetings, conferences, the duration of the fellowship. Please visit Designed to expand the accessibility grant. The deadline for this competition is and other activities. Upon completion George F. Kennan Fellows monash.edu/library/ada-booth-fellowship of Russia-based research while increasing May 15, 2018. of the fellowships, the grantees become Ewa Berard, National Center of Scientific to find more information. The deadline for US knowledge and expertise on Russia, Research, Paris: “Russian Prehistory of applications is March 26, 2018. AFR supports contacts between US fellows alumni, for whom Kennan will continue The Galina Starovoitova Fellowship on Soviet Cultural Diplomacy” and their academic counterparts in Russia, to offer opportunities for collaboration Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Lidiya Zubytska, University of Kansas: provides academic affiliation at Russian and engagement. There are no citizenship is available to scholars, policy makers, “Oligarchic Influences in the Current institutions in support of scholar’s research requirements for this grant. journalists, civic activists, and other engaged Please note that applicants have an Foreign Policy of Ukraine” objectives, and works with sponsoring persons who successfully bridge the worlds RANEPA institutions to provide archive access or option to apply for the fellowship as of ideas and public affairs to advance individuals or as part of a team. If applying James Billington Fellow The Centre for Studies in History and other research support. Applicants should human rights and conflict resolution. Natalie Rouland, Independent Scholar: be prepared to consult with Russian scholars as a team of two (or three) applicants, the Applicants with substantial experience Culture will host an international conference applicants must be citizens of at least two “Power on Pointe: Russian Ballet and the “Arts Lab in Performative Arts: Between a regarding research plans and objectives from a wide variety of backgrounds are Body Politic” while in-country and to coordinate in- different countries. The goal of such joint eligible for appointment. All applicants Metaphor and a Practice,” Moscow, October fellowships is to promote collaborative 1-2, 2018. country travel with their host institutions. are required to have a working knowledge George F. Kennan Experts Following the completion of the research research projects among US, Russian, and of English. For academic participants, The RANEPA School invites scholars of Sergey Parkhomenko, “Echo of Moscow” various research schools and disciplines to term, AFR fellows will provide a plan for the Ukrainian experts. eligibility is limited to the postdoctoral Radio: “Creation of an Independent Media focus upon the specificities of interaction dissemination of their findings designed to Kennan Fellowship Teams will: level, and normally it is expected Platform in Russia” structures amongst participants of art strengthen and broaden current scholarship Produce joint paper(s) for policy-relevant that academic candidates will have Daniil Turovsky, Meduza: “History of collectives (groups, troupes, laboratories, in the social sciences related to Russia and publications; Present work at DC, Russia, demonstrated their scholarly development Russian hackers: 1991-2017” schools), to address the Arts Lab experience U.S.-Russian relations. and/or Ukraine events; Conduct meetings by publication beyond their dissertation. It is expected that fellowships will and engage with policymakers in DC. within the context of the history of For other applicants, an equivalent level of experimental theater, personal artistic range from $10,000-$45,000, with levels Competitions for the fellowships will be professional achievement is expected. of support depending on the duration of held twice yearly. The next application MONASH UNIVERSITY LIBRARY biographies, as a sociology of art, art theory, The Starovoitova Fellowship offers a and cultural studies. the research period and the academic rank deadline is September 1. Applicants must monthly stipend, research facilities, word Monash University announces the of the awardee. Support includes housing Presentations might be arranged around submit a completed application. processing support, and research assistance. inaugural Ada Booth Research Fellowship in and living stipends; visa support; insurance; various aspects of history and contemporary One 6-month and one 3-month grant are Slavic Studies based at Monash University archive access; logistical support and travel state of affairs of the Arts Lab movement The Billington Fellow will be based available. Grant recipients are required to Library in Melbourne, Australia. to and from the fellow’s academic home in and work within theatre as well as other at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute be in residence at the Kennan Institute for Monash University Library is one of the US and the host city in Russia. artistic practices. Working languages of the in DC for a nine-month term. Fellows will the duration of their grant. Starovoitova Australia’s leading academic libraries, AFR awardees are selected through conference are Russian and English. receive access to the Library of Congress, Fellows are expected to hold public lectures inspiring and enabling scholars through a two-tiered peer-review process that Participants should email their talking National Archives, and policy research exceptional expertise, resources, spaces includes scholars from the candidate’s on the themes of conflict resolution and points (500 words max) and CV to centers in DC, as well as the opportunity to and technologies, and collaboration. The field of specialization as well as a selection human rights while conducting research [email protected]. Please mention meet with key experts and officials. While on a specific topic. In addition, Starovoitova Ada Booth Slavic Collection is home to the the panel you are applying for in the email committee that is multi-disciplinary. All conducting research, the Billington Fellow applicants must specify why the period of Fellows will participate in discussions Library’s extensive holdings in Ukrainian, subject line. will be expected to actively participate in on-site research is essential for completion with the public policy and academic Russian, and other Slavic languages. The Organizing Committee maintains a discussions with the policy and academic of the project proposal and realistic in terms communities, including giving speeches The collection also has a strong focus on limited payment fund to provide Moscow communities. These discussions can be of time and resources. Candidates will be and lectures at other institutions and taking Slavic Australiana, Soviet studies, migrant accommodation for participants from in the form of speaking engagements, requested to provide evidence of Russian part in meetings and conferences. The and diaspora literature and culture. More elsewhere. The conference will take place meetings, conferences, and other activities language proficiency. The application application deadline for this fellowship is detailed information about the Library’s at the Russian Presidential Academy of deadline is April 2, 2018. http://www. organized by the Kennan Institute and the May 15, 2018. Slavic collections is available at monash. National Economy and Public Administration americancouncils.org/programs/academic- Wilson Center. Upon completion of the edu/library/collections/special/ada-booth. (RANEPA) in Moscow. fellowships-program-russia. fellowship, the Billington Fellow will join

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