CESSI Updates | December 2024
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Greetings from the Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute!
Since sending a newsletter update earlier this week, CESSI 2025 instructor applications have opened. February 1, 2025, is the deadline to apply to teach with us as well as the priority deadline for student applications.
Our unique, 8-week intensive summer language program will be held entirely online June 16-August 8, 2025, and is open to undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, researchers, and professionals. Courses in Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek are most commonly taught contingent upon sufficient enrollment. (With enough interest, courses in Azerbaijani and Kyrgyz may also be offered.) The priority deadline is February 1 with rolling admissions through March.
Read on for updates about four generous funding opportunities, instructor applications, and other events on the horizon and opportunities of note. For more information, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, visit our website, or contact cessi@creeca.wisc.edu.
Wishing one and all a very happy holiday season and Happy New Year!
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CESSI Instructor Applications
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Applications for language instructors are now open for CESSI 2025! Positions will be contingent upon sufficient student enrollment. For more information and to apply, click the button below.
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Looking to Fund Your CESSI 2025 Experience?
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Title VIII Fellowship
- Title VIII is open to U.S. citizens who are graduate students (or will be beginning a graduate program in the fall), post-baccalaureate scholars, and working professionals.
- Funding is provided by the United States Department of State.
- The fellowship covers full tuition + a $3,500 stipend.
- The priority deadline is February 1.
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FLAS Fellowship
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships are open to U.S. citizens, permanent residents and U.S. nationals with a language level requirement dependent on the applicant.
- Funding is provided by the United States Department of Education.
- The fellowship covers full tuition + a $3,500 stipend.
- The final deadline is February 14.
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CESSI Tuition Remission Scholarship
- The CESSI Tuition Remission Scholarship is open to all CESSI applicants.
- The scholarship amount is up to $4,000. Scholarships are awarded based on merit and availability of funding.
- The priority deadline is February 1, with rolling applications accepted through April 1.
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WISLI Tuition Scholarship
- The WISLI Tuition Scholarship is open to all CESSI applicants.
- The scholarship covers 50% of tuition for summer 2025 language study at one of the WISLI summer language institutes including CESSI.
- The final deadline is March 2.
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CESSI Events on the Horizon
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AATSEEL Virtual Conference
The annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Language will take place in a fully virtual format February 20-23, 2025. CESSI and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) will be among the participating exhibitors.
Register for the conference here.
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UW-Madison & CESSI Kazakh Instructor Gulnara Glowacki will be among the participants on a panel titled: Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series 2.0: Focus on Kazakh History and Culture.
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ADDITIONAL EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES OF NOTE
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NCEEER Grant Opportunities
The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research welcomes applications to its 2025 Title VIII competitions:
- The Title VIII National Research Competition
- The Title VIII Short Term Research Grant Competition
- The Title VIII Dissertation Completion Grant
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The deadline to apply is December 31, 2024.
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ESCAS Call for Proposals
The European Society for Central Asian Studies is inviting proposals for individual papers, panels and round-table discussions for the 20th ESCAS conference. The event will be held in Tashkent and Samarkand, Uzbekistan, June 12-15, 2025.
For more information and to submit your abstract by January 5, 2025, click here.
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University of Pittsburgh URS Call for Proposals
The European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on March 28, 2025 at the University of Pittsburgh. All undergraduates who have written a research paper from a social science, humanities, or business perspective focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or Central Eurasia are encouraged to submit. Learn more and submit your paper here.
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Applications are due by January 10, 2025.
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Bodies in Focus Virtual Series
CREECA, together with the University of Pittsburgh and Ohio State University, is hosting a 6-part virtual event series focused on examining body matters within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. The next panel will be on January 24 with a focus on Endangered Bodies & Activism.
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MSA Call for Proposals
The Midwest Slavic Association and Ohio State's Center for Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) are inviting proposals for papers on all topics related to the Slavic, East European and Eurasian world, particularly those related to the theme of authenticity. The event will be held in Columbus, Ohio, on April 4-6, 2025.
The abstract deadline is January 24, 2025, at 11:59 pm CST. For more information and to submit a proposal, visit the conference website here.
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Central Asia Research Forum Call for Proposals
The Slavic Reference Service is hosting their 4th Annual Central Asia Research Forum. The event will be held on Zoom February 19-20, 2025.
The forum invites scholars to submit proposals that retrace the founding of Central Asian Studies, under the theme of Teaching Central Asia, in the region and abroad, and the numerous academic institutions that trained (and continue to do so) generations of scholars to study and teach this region.
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The abstract deadline is January 24, 2025, at 11:59 pm CST. Submit a proposal here.
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REEESNe Call for Proposals
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Northeast Network is hosting their annual free student conference on March 29-30 at Yale University. The conference is seeking submissions of papers and presentations. Submissions are due on January 26, 2025. For more information and to submit your proposals, click here.
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ASEEES Call for Proposals
The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) will hold their 2025 conference November 20-23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The convention theme is "Memory" with an emphasis on Central Asian Studies. Proposal applications on all aspects of Central Asian Studies in all disciplines will open in January, with a deadline of March 1, 2025.
For more information on the proposals, click here. For more information about the 2025 convention, click here.
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THANK YOU, CESSI CONSORTIUM MEMBERS!
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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 members: 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 | University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Russia, East Europe, & Central Asia and Center for East Asian Studies.
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