University of Oxford Job: University Lecturership in the International Relations of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia

University of Oxford - The School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies in Association with St Antony's College

Grade 10a: Salary £42,563 - £57,201 p.a

Research on Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia is thriving within Oxford University and this is just one of many academic posts across the social sciences at Oxford engaged in this field. The School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies seeks applications for a full-time University Lecturership in the International Relations of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The Lecturership is tenable from 1 September 2011 or as soon as possible thereafter and will be held in conjunction with a Fellowship at St Antony's College.

The main duties of the post-holder will be to engage in research and produce publications of an international standard, to provide University teaching for the School at graduate level, and to offer graduate
supervision. Other key duties include co-operating in the administrative work of the School.

The successful candidate will hold a doctorate in international relations or politics or in a related field, with reference to Russia, Eastern Europe and/or Eurasia, and have a proven track record ofhigh-quality research and publication at an international level, along with evidence of imaginative research plans and the potential to lead and manage new research initiatives. He or she should be able to demonstrate expertise in a language from Russia, and/or Eastern Europe and/or Eurasia, and have a strong research interest in one or more of the following areas: foreign policy; regional security and conflicts; energy; the international dimensions of Islam; or migration. Expertise in the history of Russia, the USSR and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century is highly desirable. Evidence of inter-disciplinary skills, the ability to teach at graduate level, and the skills and commitment to become a fully participating member of the School are also essential.

Candidates will be considered on the basis of the selection criteria outlined in the further particulars which can be obtained by emailing vacancies@area.ox.ac.uk, by visiting http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/fp/, or by tel: 01865 284991. Applications including curriculum vitae, a list of principal publications, and the names of two referees, should be sent to the Departmental Administrator, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, 12 Bevington Road, Oxford, OX2 6LH.  Applications may also be sent by email
to vacancies@area.ox.ac.uk.

The closing date for applications is noon on 23 February 2011. Please quote reference number SSD/215/E on all correspondence and state where you saw this post advertised.

Azerbaijani Dissertations Online

Azerbaijan's Academy of Sciences Portal has made available for its users dissertations of the members of the Academy of Sciences at no cost. These dissertations can be downloaded at http://www.aak.ab.az/avtoref_to_mudaf/avtoref_after_elm_sahe.php

Some Ukrainian Language Newspapers for Online

1. ZIKhttp://www.zik.com.ua/
   
2. Vikno http://vikno.eu/
   
3. Siverhttp://siver.com.ua/
   
4. Lvivska Gazeta http://www.gazeta.lviv.ua/
   
5. Vecherniy Kiev http://www.ukraine.org/VKyiv/vk1/index.htm
   
6. Noviny Ukrainy http://www.novyny.org.ua/
   

The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative Released

The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) has now released an update and redesign of the website, available at: http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/. In addition to improved navigation throughout, it is now easier to access the major document outlining best practices, the "Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage materials" (http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/digitize-technical.html ).  There are currently 15 federal agencies actively involved in this initiative, the most recent to join was the National Park Service.   Other interested agencies are welcome to contact us for information on participating in the initiative.

FADGI is divided into two working groups, "Still Image" and "Audio Visual", with documentation, presentations, and publications relevant to each.  In addition, there is a comprehensive glossary of over 200 digitization-related terms available on the site (http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/glossary.php )

Since the site's launching in 2007, there have been several sub-groups formed to focus on key areas such as metadata issues, archival color, and recorded sound and moving image.  The site will be updated on a regular basis to reflect new documents and activity.

Source: Susan Manus, Library of Congress

CONF./CFP- CESS Annual Conference, Ohio State University, Sept. 15-18, 2011

The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) invites panel and paper proposals for the Twelfth Annual CESS Conference, September 15-18, 2011, in Columbus, Ohio. The event will be held at Ohio State University, hosted by the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, the Middle East Studies Center and the East Asian Studies Center.

Panels begin Friday morning, September 16, and continue through mid-day on Sunday, September 18.

Panel and paper topics relating to all aspects of humanities and social science scholarship on Central Eurasia are welcome. The geographic domain of Central Eurasia extends from the Black Sea and Iranian Plateau to Mongolia and Siberia, including the Caucasus, Crimea, Middle Volga, Afghanistan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Central and Inner Asia. Practitioners and scholars in all humanities and social science disciplines with an interest in Central Eurasia are encouraged to participate.

The program will feature approximately 50 panels. There will also be a supplementary program including a welcome reception on Thursday, a conference dinner and a plenary speaker.

Deadline for submission of panel/paper proposals: Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Submissions of pre-organized panels are strongly encouraged and will be given some preference in the selection process. In forming panels, consider including scholars whose work is situated outside of Central Eurasia but who can speak to the panel topic thematically or comparatively, especially in discussant roles. For complete details, please see the complete Call for Papers

(http://www.units.muohio.edu/cess/CFP_2011.html) on the CESS website.

Registration information:

The registration fees cover a welcome reception on Thursday and the conference dinner on Friday. The deadline for pre-registration payment (required for all presenters) is August 1.

 

Fees for 2011 are as follows (figures are in US dollars):

 

Regular fee members*: $80 $120 (after August 1)

Reduced fee members**: $40 $60 (after August 1)

Non-members: $140 $180 (after August 1)

 

* "Regular fee members" are those who have paid their annual dues at

$60 or $75.

** "Reduced fee members" are those who qualify and have paid for

membership at reduced fees.

 

Panel participants may submit the registration fee at the same time as submitting their proposal form, or at any time before the pre-registration deadline of August 1. We accept payment by credit card (preferred; see the Credit Card Payment Form (http://www.units.muohio.edu/cess/utilities/ccard.php); all payments are in US$), or by check or money order. Check and money order payments should be mailed to: Central Eurasian Studies Society, Havighurst Center, Harrison Hall, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA. Please consult the CESS Membership Form

(http://www.cess.muohio.edu/cesspg_memb_form.html) for full details on methods of payment.

 

NOTE: CESS does not have funds to support the costs of conference participation, and does not waive the conference fee for participants who cannot afford it. Participants must obtain their own funding -- from personal resources, their own institutions, or grant-giving organizations which provide conference travel grants.

Further Information

If you do not have web access, or if you do not find the answer to your questions on the conference website, you can contact the conference organizers by e-mail at cess@muohio.edu.

 

Source:

Victoria Clement

Scott Levi

Morgan Liu

 

William Skinner Map Collection Online Resource

G. William Skinner Map Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/skinnerweb/





Professor G. William Skinner of the University of Washington was a major
theorist of family systems and of spatial social science. Professor
Skinner's maps are products of his "lifelong interest in the spatial
distribution of social variables." His maps document subjects such as
agrarian China, 19th century France, and Japan.
Some of the variables he was
most interested in included agricultural wages, fertility rates, and the sex
ratio in various regions.

This remarkable digital collection from the
University of Washington Libraries brings together all 1200 maps from the
Skinner Collection. Visitors can browse the maps by country and region,
subject, or theme. The site also includes several documents by Professor
Skinner on his work dealing with hierarchical regional space and a complete
list of all the publications related to this work.

Germany Under Reconstruction (University of Wisconsin Digital Collections)

Site Description: The Germany Under Reconstruction digital collection provides a varied selection of publications in both English and German from the period immediately following World War II. Many are publications of the U.S. occupying forces, including reports and descriptions of efforts to introduce U.S.-style democracy to Germany. Some of the other books and documents describe conditions in a country devastated by years of war, efforts at political, economic and cultural development, and the differing perspectives coming from the U.S. and British zones and the Russian zone of occupation. At the same time, the Germans themselves and the occupying forces look back at the National Socialist period and try to come to terms with what had happened.

Polish Literary Prize- Nike (Nagroda Literacka)

Second in my series postings about various literary prizes in Eastern Europe stands the famous literary prize for Polish literature from Poland- The Nike Prize. The prize's name is derived from Nagroda Literacka.


This prize is administered by Fundacja Nagrody Literackiej NIKE and a href="http://wyborcza.pl/0,0.html">Gazeta Wyborcza is the sponsor for it.


Self-Description in English: NIKE is a prize for his book of the year. Is awarded annually in October for the best book of the previous year. Awards aim is to promote Polish literature, with emphasis on the novel.

The winner for 2010, Nike prize was a work “Nasza klasa” (“Our Class”) that was authored by Tadeusz Słobodziank


The title of the book is the same as the Polish social networking site Nasza Klasa. However the book itself is about the World War II experiences and has nothing to do with Polish "Facebook". According to the news as reported on the site of the museum of the history of Polish Jews, "Nasza klasa, published by słowo / obraz/ terytoria, is a drama describing the tragic stories of people who at first lived next to each other, and then started killing themselves. It is not a text with a thesis prepared in advance and the director transposing it on stage will have to reject easy, binary oppositions and search for the existential experience of the times of the Second World War."




We have ordered this book for our scholars at the library.

China Biographical Database at Harvard!

Although not a part of Eastern European cultural experience, the relevant political experience of China under the Communist rule was one factor that has influenced my decision to post some information about Harvard's China Biographical Database.


Self-Description: The China Biographical Database is an online relational database with biographical information about approximately 93000 individuals as of September 2010, primarily from the seventh through nineteenth centuries. The data is meant to be useful for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as well as serving as a kind of biographical reference.



The long term goal of CBDB is systematically to include all significant biographical material from China’s historical record and to make the contents available free of charge, without restriction, for academic use. That data is regularly being enriched and new biographical entries are being created for Tang, Five Dynasties, Liao, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing figures.

Czech Literary Prize-Magnesia Litera

I wanted to introduce to my readers to a series on the literary prizes in the Central and Eastern Europe. The first on my list is Czech Literary Prize- Magnesia Litera.


Site Self-description: The most important task of the annual book awards Magnesia Litera is to promote good literature and good books. And without limitation and regardless of genres, deserves the same attention to writers, poets, translators, publishers and researchers, and theorists. Therefore, it was scheduled to nine awards categories, which tries to cover all domestic book production: Litera act as publishing, literature in translation book, literature as non-fiction literature, literature for the discovery of, literature in poetry, literature for prose, literature for children's book , literature for his contribution to Czech literature and the main prize at the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year.


The winner of 2010 Magnesia Litera is Petra Soukupová for "Zmizet".

Happy New Year!

Dear Readers


I want to wish each of us a very Happy New Year, Good Health, Success in 2011!