My Uni is hosting a huuuuge statewide language conference (like, so many presentations you literally cannot attend them all) and it's also going to be livestreamed AND it's free for Uni staff to attend even if we don't work in the language departments AND apparently there is a whole sub-track one day that discusses Eurovision?!?

I'M GONNA GET MY LANGUAGE NERD ON, HELL YEAH!!!

#LanguageLearning #LanguageNerd #Nerd #Hispanohablantes #SlavicStudies #LanguageAndCulture #Eurovision

Listening to @wufel and colleagues presenting their project on theaesthetics of politics in Poland. Many useful insights that may also be transferred to Czechia and Slovakia.
#ASEEES23
#AestheticsOfPolitics
#SlavicStudies
A very nice piece about how the disproportionate focus on #Russia(n) in academic #SlavicStudies (#EastEuropean Studies) has prevented Western "experts" from (fore)seeing the war in #Ukraine. https://voxukraine.org/en/why-russian-studies-in-the-west-failed-to-provide-a-clue-about-russia-and-ukraine
Why Russian studies in the West failed to provide a clue about Russia and Ukraine

The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has brought a sobering realization that, even 30 years after the fall...

#CFP

4th Symposium of the #ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World

@ Faculty of Music and Dance, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague

Deadline: 26/03/2023

https://ictmusic.org/group/ictm-study-group-music-and-dance-slavic-world/post/call-proposals-4th-symposium-ictm-study

#Ethnomusicology #Ethnochoreology #SlavicStudies #SlavonicStudies #Slavistic

Call for Proposals: 4th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World | International Council for Traditional Music

«Moscow's Invasion Of Ukraine Triggers 'Soul-Searching' At Western Universities As Scholars Rethink Russian Studies» Should the focus upon #Russia & #RussianLanguage be at the expanse of other countries & languages in the region? #Russocentric #DecolonisationEurasia #Decolonisation #SlavicStudies #Academics

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-war-ukraine-western-academia/32201630.html

Moscow's Invasion Of Ukraine Triggers 'Soul-Searching' At Western Universities As Scholars Rethink Russian...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is having a significant impact on the world of academia, pushing scholars in a field that has long focused primarily on Russia to reconsider how they study and teach the history and culture of a region spanning two continents.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty