Duke University Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies

04/24/2025

The Duke Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC) will host a summer workshop from JULY 11 – 13, 2025 on Teaching, Pedagogy, Research & Learning of Languages and Cultures: Multilingualism & Emerging AI.

We are pleased to call for papers by interested scholars, graduate students, and professionals on workshop-related topics and that focus on teaching/learning ANY language.

Visit our website to learn more!
https://slaviccenters.duke.edu/programs/summer-institute/summerinstitute

01/23/2025

The Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES), the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC), and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies are pleased to present:

Best Practices in Multilingualism and Proficiency Assessment

A Title VI workshop for faculty and students featuring:

Margaret Malone, Director of Assessment, ACTFL
Kira Gor, Professor of Second Language Acquisition, University of Maryland
Edna Andrews, Professor of Linguistics & Cultural Anthropology; Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University

Thursday, February 6, 2025
3:00 – 4:30 pm
249 Rubenstein Library (Carpenter Conference Room)

This workshop will include conversations about current issues in assessment and proficiency testing, research methods, and neuroimaging of multilingualism

We hope you will join us!

Parking and refreshments provided. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

01/08/2025

The Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES), the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC), and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies are pleased to present:

Totalitarianism: Myth and Reality

Dr. Ellendea Proffer Teasley

Wednesday, January 22, 2025
249 Rubenstein Library (Carpenter Board Room)
4:30 pm

Ellendea Proffer Teasley is a MacArthur fellow and author of Mikhail Bulgakov; Brodsky Among Us, and A Pictorial Biography of Vladimir Nabokov.

Refreshments served. Contact [email protected] with questions.

09/30/2024

The Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) and the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC) are pleased to present:

Reconstructing Ukraine:
An Incentive-Based Approach

Professor Charles M. Becker
Dept. of Economics, Duke University

with

Michelle Schultze, Trinity ’25 &
Eva Spektorov, Trinity ‘25

4:40 pm
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
130 Reuben-Cooke Bldg.

Refreshments served. Please contact Cathy Lewis for assistance with parking or any other questions ([email protected])

09/11/2024

The CSEEES & SEELRC are pleased to present:

Human Rights, Climate Justice, and COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan
Kate Watters, Co-founder & Executive Director, Crude Accountability
with special guest: Emin Bayramli, son of Gubad Ibadoghlu

In November of this year, COP 29, the United Nations Climate Conference, will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan. This marks the third year in a row that the event will be hosted by a government with significant fossil fuel reserves and a poor human rights record.

As Azerbaijan’s authoritarian regime cracks down on civil society, imprisoning independent journalists and civil society activists, how will this impact the upcoming climate conference, climate justice, and the rule of law?

September 23, 2024
4:30 pm
153 Rubenstein Library (Holsti Anderson Room)

Refreshments served.

Please contact Cathy Lewis ([email protected]) for assistance with parking or any other questions.

06/26/2024

Registration is open!! Please follow the link below to register and to view the preliminary program for the Summer Institute on Diversity and Equitable Teaching and Learning of Languages and Cultures: Pedagogy, Research, Curriculum, and Community Building from July 12 – 14, 2024.

We need your registration for dietary preferences (if you are in-person) or so we can send the Zoom links (if you are virtual).

All are welcome to attend, either in person or virtually—feel free to share with your colleagues!

https://slaviccenters.duke.edu/programs/summer-institute/summerinstitute

04/25/2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Duke Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC) will host a summer workshop from July 12 – 14, 2024 on Diversity and Equitable Teaching and Learning of Languages and Cultures: Pedagogy, Research, Curriculum, and Community Building. We are pleased to call for papers by interested scholars, graduate students, and professionals on workshop-related topics and that focus on teaching/learning ANY language.

Workshop topics have included, but are not limited to:
• Neuroimaging of bi- and multi-lingualism (neural correlates, resting state networks/functional connectivities)
• Teaching language and culture through film
• Language proficiency testing
• Specialized language instruction at the advanced and superior levels
• The use of technology in the language classroom
• Integrating heritage learners in the language classroom
• Addressing the needs of differently-abled students
• Using computer technologies to create pedagogical materials
• The role of grammar in proficiency-based instruction
• Popular culture and language instruction
• Web resources for language teachers
• ScribeZone: transcription and reading
• Embodied Cognition, Emotion, Identities of Language Learning
• AI, NLP, & Languages (Acquisition and Proficiencies)
• Best Practices in Proficiency Testing & Curricular Development
• Proficiency Frameworks
• Use of Social Emotional Learning and Culturally Responsive Teaching

Papers on other related topics are most welcome. Presentations should be approximately 30 minutes in length and in English. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, both on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and through Zoom. Modest financial support to defray presenters’ travel expenses for in-person participation may be available. All presenters will be invited to submit their papers for publication in SEELRC’s online peer-reviewed journal Glossos. For further information, please email Michael Newcity at [email protected].

Individuals interested in presenting a paper at the workshop should submit an abstract of approximately 200 words to Michael Newcity at [email protected] no later than May 25, 2024. Individuals will be notified whether their papers have been accepted for presentation at the workshop by May 30, 2024

To stay informed on this and other upcoming events, please email [email protected] to request being added to our email listserv! CALLS FOR PROPOSALS COMING SOON FOR the 2024 SUMMER INSTITUTE on

04/02/2024

The Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES), the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC), and the Duke Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS) are pleased to present:

Global Voices: Exploring Multilingualism in the 21st Century

April 20 - 21, 2024

A conference with themes of:

Heritage Learners
Language Learning and Emotions
Proficiency Standards, Testing, & Curricular Development
Teaching Indigenous Languages
Transformer and Translation Models in Languages of the World:
Current Trends and Future Directions



Outside speakers include:

Abelardo de la Cruz (Assistant Professor, Nahua Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Eva Dessein (Senior Lecturer, Director of French language program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Kira Gor (Professor of Second Language Acquisition, University of Maryland)
Jean-Marc Dewaele (Emeritus Professor, Birbeck, University of London)
Beth Mackey (U.S. Department of Defense, Chief program manager for language testing (retired); specialist in second language acquisition, PhD, University of Maryland)
Margaret Malone (Director of Assessment and Research, ACTFL; Adjunct Lecturer, Georgetown University)
Per Urlab (Director of Global Languages, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Duke units participating include:

Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Center for Slavic Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES)
German Studies
Global Education Office
Linguistics
Romance Studies
Slavic and Eurasian Studies

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER! https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6YyKRiuClJJkGbQ
CLICK HERE FOR PROGRAM! https://slaviccenters.duke.edu/global-voices-exploring-multilingualism-21st-century

11/09/2023

Registration link: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_23ouDO21WCwLT70

The Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES), the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC) , and the Duke Department of Economics are pleased to present:

REBUILDING UKRAINE
2023 - 2024 series

Anders Aslund to deliver lecture at Duke

"How badly has the Ukrainian economy been hurt? What can and should be done?"

Perkins Library, room 217
Thursday, November 16th
Starts at 5pm

Anders Åslund was instrumental in advising the Ukrainian government and in securing funding for and founding the Kyiv School of Economics. He has also worked in Latvia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan; has a well-followed twitter page, and has over 10,000 Google Scholar citations. Some of his books include Russia's crony capitalism (Yale, 2019) and Russia's_capitalist_revolution: why market reform succeeded and democracy failed (Peterson IIE, 2007).

He currently chairs the Friends of Ukraine Network's Reimagining Reconstruction and Recovery Task Force.

Light refreshments to be provided.
Sponsored by the Duke Economics Department and CSEEES

09/18/2023

***Please share widely with your students, faculty, and staff—all are welcome!! ***

The Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES), the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC) , and the Duke Department of Economics are pleased to present:

REBUILDING UKRAINE
2023 - 2024 series

Our next event will take place on Friday, September 22nd at 4:00 pm in 153 Rubenstein Library.

Edna Andrews, Ph.D.
Professor of Linguistics & Cultural Anthropology; Nancy & Jeffrey Marcus Professor; Director, CSEEES & SEELRC

&

Erika Weinthal, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy

Light refreshments served.
Contact [email protected] with questions.

09/11/2023

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

The Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES), the Slavic and Eurasian Language Resource Center (SEELRC), and the Duke Department of Economics are pleased to present:

REBUILDING UKRAINE
2023 - 2024 series

Our first event will take place on Wednesday, September 13th at 5:00 pm in 153 Rubenstein Library.

Charles M. Becker
Research Professor of Economics, Duke University
International Academic Advisory Board, Kyiv School of Economics

&

Ambassador Patrick Duddy
Semans International Visiting Professor, Duke Office of Global Strategy and Programs, Senior Advisor for Global Strategy

Light refreshments served.
Contact [email protected] with questions.

07/27/2023

The Ninth International Conference on theDevelopment and Assessment of Intercultural Competence: "Intercultural Learning, Global Citizenship and Peacebuilding." The event will take place in Spring 2024, with proposals due in summer, 2023.