About the Centre
The centre is an interdisciplinary academic meeting place for the study of Slavic and Eastern European languages, cultures and societies.
Research on Eastern Europe
The Centre for Slavic and Eastern European Studies opened in the spring of 2019 and functions as an interdisciplinary academic meeting place. The academic staff at the Center are specialists in language, literature, culture, history, politics, and societal issues in the Slavic and Eastern European part of the world.
We research and teach a broad spectrum of topics. These range from the use of grammatical aspect in Slavic languages and minority politics in Eastern Europe, to nationalism and contemporary politics in Russia, the Saint Petersburg myth in Russian literature and the memory heritage from the Habsburg Empire.
The academic staff at the centre possess Norway’s most extensive knowledge of Russian, Polish, Czech, and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian. These languages are spoken by more than 300 million people.
Research fields
The academic staff prioritizes the following research fields:
- Language policy
- Literary translation studies: Translation and communication of Polish literature into Norwegian
- Comparative translation studies: Translations of Polish literature and publishing conditions in Norway and other Scandinavian countries or the English-speaking world
- Ukrainian language at the interfaces: Morphosyntax, semantics, and pragmatics
- The development of nationalism and patriotism in Russia after the full-scale invasion
- Human Rights and Dissent in Authoritarian States: Belarus, Russia, and Georgia
- Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature
- Cultural history of the Habsburg Balkans and Central Europe (19th-20th century)
- South Slavic linguistic topics, including comparative perspectives that involve South Slavic languages
- Discourse analysis including South Slavic languages
PhD and postdoctoral fellowships
Doctoral projects
The Centre’s host department, ILOS, announces PhD fellowships once a year. We welcome promising doctoral projects in the research fields prioritized by the academic staff at the center.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action postdoctoral fellowships
We are also interested in hosting Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) postdoc fellows from across the world, and has the capacity to work together with a limited number of qualified researchers on applications every year.
If you are interested, you must send us a concise project idea and an academic career plan (including your key qualifications, where you see yourself in ten years, and an explanation of how a stay at our department would help you develop your qualifications) by February 1st if you wish to be considered for working with us on an application the same year.
Activities
The Centre serves as an academic meeting place and an arena for interdisciplinary communication and knowledge promotion.
This involves hosting a series of seminars where we invite staff researchers, as well as researchers from other institutions, to lecture on topics of current interest. Anyone with an interest in the major topics researched by the staff is welcome to participate in the seminars.
Staff members are frequent commentators in the national media and experienced public speakers at international and national conferences.
Contact
Postal address
Senter for slaviske og østeuropeiske studier
Institutt for litteratur, områdestudier og europeiske språk
Postboks 1003 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway