<div dir="ltr">"Endurance of the Soviet Imperial Tongue: The Russian Language in Contemporary Georgia"<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Fierman, William</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wfierman@indiana.edu">wfierman@indiana.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:44 PM<br>Subject: This might also be of interest...<br>To: Harold Schiffman <<a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Talin Lindsay [mailto:<a href="mailto:talinlindsay@yahoo.com" target="_blank">talinlindsay@yahoo.com</a>]
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<b>To:</b> Talin Lindsay<br>
<b>Subject:</b> WiP: "Endurance of the Soviet Imperial Tongue: The Russian Language in Contemporary Georgia"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:12pt">CRRC, American Councils and ARISC are proud to present the 2nd talk of the<br>
Works-in-Progress Series for the Spring 2013 Season!<br>
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Timothy Blauvelt <br>
"Endurance of the Soviet Imperial Tongue: The Russian Language in Contemporary Georgia"<br>
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 6:15pm<br>
ISET/CRRC Georgia, Zandukeli St. 16, Tbilisi, GEORGIA<br>
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A summary of the author’s forthcoming article in Central Asian Survey, this project examines the role of the Russian language on the periphery of the post-Soviet space using multiple sources of data, including original matched-guise experiments, to examine
the language situation in contemporary Georgia. Among the former Soviet republics, Georgia is one in which the use of the titular language was most intensively institutionalized and that most ardently resisted Russification, and one that today for various
reasons has been most eager to escape the legacy of its Soviet past and to embed itself in the global community. In Georgia the cultural and political influence of the former imperial center has been greatly reduced, and Russian has been challenged in functional
roles by the new international lingua franca of English. The direction that the Russian language takes in a place like Georgia may be a useful bellwether for such transformations elsewhere in the post-Soviet periphery.<br>
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Timothy Blauvelt is Country Director in Georgia for American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS and is also Associate Professor of Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at Ilia State University.<br>
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For more information, please see <a href="http://www.arisc.org" target="_blank">www.arisc.org</a> or
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/481796481884356/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/481796481884356/</a><br>
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W-i-P is an ongoing academic discussion series based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that takes place at the International School of Economics (ISET) building (16 Zandukeli Street). It is co-organized by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), the American Councils
for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, and the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC). All of the talks are free and open to the public.<br>
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The purpose of the W-i-P series is to provide support and productive criticism to those researching and developing academic projects pertaining the Caucasus region.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------
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