April 1 is right around the corner, which means deadlines to apply for general admission to CESSI 2024 and funding through the Title VIII Fellowship and CESSI Tuition Remission Scholarship are just over a week away – no fooling! Follow the link below for more information, and read on for more updates!

Madison has a lot to recommend it to the University of Wisconsin community, tourists, foodies, and local residents alike! We will spotlight some of these on our social media sites (see below for links) starting in April and beginning with the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Seen in the movie "Public Enemies" as a stand-in for the U.S. Capitol, the Wisconsin State Capitol building offers free tours several times a day. It's just one of many activities CESSI students and instructors can look forward to this summer! Photo credit: Wikipedia

Save the date for the WISLI Student Conference on June 29, 2024! Take advantage of this great academic opportunity by showing off your research and networking with other scholars in various areas of study! This is a hybrid event, taking place in-person at the UW-Madison Pyle Center and via Zoom. In-person and distance learners are encouraged to participate. Attendance at the conference is free and open to the public. For more information, click here.

USAID Central Asia office in Almaty is hiring a seasoned Development Outreach and Communications (DOC) Team Lead, FSN-12. Deadline is April 8, 2024. More details about the application process can be found here:

U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan / Посольство США в Казахстане, U.S. Consulate Almaty

Nazarbayev University is hiring! Click HERE to read more about the Instructor, Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies, School of Sciences and Humanities posting. Apply soon as they wish to interview applicants in April to start in August 2024!

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The Central Eurasian Studies Society invites nominations for its annual Book Awards in Social Sciences and History & Humanities. They're accepting nominations (including self-nominations!) for books published in 2022 and 2023 that have made significant contributions to the field. For more information and to nominate a book, click here by the March 31 deadline.

The Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute was founded in 2011 by a consortium of international and area studies centers at major U.S. universities. We're grateful for the support of these current consortium member institutions: Columbia University's Harriman Institute, Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies, Michigan State University's Asian Studies Center and Center for European, Russian, & Eurasian Studies, The Ohio State University's East Asian Studies Center and Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California-Berkeley's Institute of Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, and Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, University of Kansas' Center for East Asian Studies and Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh's Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, University of Washington's Center for Global Studies and East Asia Center, and University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Russia, East Europe, & Central Asia and Center for East Asian Studies.