From mitrege at mallard.duc.auburn.edu Sun Aug 4 23:11:43 1996 From: mitrege at mallard.duc.auburn.edu (mitrege at mallard.duc.auburn.edu) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 19:11:43 EDT Subject: Russian painting question Message-ID: This is a question from someone who is not on this list. Please respond to her directly. > May I ask you a question? There is a famous painting of a young > russian women dressing for her wedding. The story which > accompanies the painting says that her sisters have poisoned the > combs which she is using in her hair. Do you know the name of > the painting or the artist? I cannot remember for the life of > me. > Heather Marley > mhmarley at pobox.com -- *************************************************************** Dr. George Mitrevski office: 334-844-6376 Foreign Languages fax: 334-844-6378 6030 Haley Center e-mail: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu Auburn University Auburn, AL 36849-5204 List of my WWW pages: http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/index.html *************************************************************** From TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU Mon Aug 5 13:11:13 1996 From: TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU (Gary H. Toops) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:11:13 CDT Subject: SORBIAN WEB SITE Message-ID: A newly founded Sorbian youth organization "Pawk" has a home page (domjaca strona) in Upper Sorbian with some links in German and English ones under construction at the following URL: http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~wb1/pawk.html Their magazine "Pawc~ina" ('Spider Web') is located at: http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~wb1/pawcina.html I had trouble connecting to these Web sites over the weekend (I received "Broken pipe" error messages), but by this (Monday) morning, there were no problems. Some pages are composed with diacritics, some not. You may have to try a couple of different fonts to get an accurate read. For the pages with diacritics, I used a font from Cassady & Greene's East European library. There is also a link for downloading musical selections from a recently released Sorbian CD. Wjele zabawy! Gary H. Toops TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU Associate Professor Ph (316) WSU-3180 (978-3180) Wichita State University Fx (316) WSU-3293 (978-3293) Wichita, Kansas 67260-0011 USA http://www.twsu.edu/~mcllwww From Robert_Lagerberg at muwayf.unimelb.edu.au Wed Aug 7 04:57:28 1996 From: Robert_Lagerberg at muwayf.unimelb.edu.au (Robert Lagerberg) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:57:28 +1000 Subject: SORBIAN WEB SITE Message-ID: RE>SORBIAN WEB SITE 3:01 pm 8/7/96 Dear Gary, Thanks for this interesting information. Would you be able to tell me the address of Cassady & Greene's East European library as I need fonts with diacritics? Many thanks. Robert Lagerberg Dept of Russian University of Melbourne robert_lagerberg at language.unimelb.edu.au From ADROZD at woodsquad.as.ua.edu Wed Aug 7 13:17:41 1996 From: ADROZD at woodsquad.as.ua.edu (Andrew M. Drozd) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:17:41 CST6CDT Subject: Transferring Cyrillic files between Mac and PC Message-ID: For those who work in a dual os environment like I do, this solution, which I learned from Patricia Jarvis, may be of help. For those who have a subscription to RusTex-L, I apologize for the multiple copies. The problem: When creating a word processing file using Cyrillic on a Mac, one cannot simply place it on a DOS disk, insert it into a PC and expect to see the Cyrillic undamaged. Even using the same program (MS Word for Mac and MS Word for Windows) is of no avail. If one saves the file as text, the Cyrillic will be undamaged, but all formatting is lost. The same problem exists when going from a PC to a Mac. The Solution: when you have created your file using Cyrillic on a Mac, save it as RTF (also known as interchange format). If you are using MS Word, the file will remain open. Go to the very first line of the file, near the very beginning of the line and look for the word "mac". Replace "mac" with "ansi" and save the document again. Put it on a DOS disk and you can call it up on a PC with all your formatting and Cyrillic text undamaged. (You may have to choose "Select All" and then choose a Cyrillic font.) The process works in reverse on a PC to Mac exchange: look for "ansi" and replace it with "mac". Caveats: this is not a perfect solution to everyone's problems. In order for this to work, you must have fonts in the same codepage on both the Mac and the PC. This is where Gavin Helf's ER fonts are of great use. If you create a document on the Mac using ERBukinistMac, you can use the PC equivalent to view and print the file on the PC. This process is good only for those who want to leave their documents in the same codepage. If you want to switch from the Mac codepage to the Windows codepage AND preserve your formatting at the same time, it won't help. But for someone who works on a Mac (like me) but has only a PC printer on which to print out, this will be of great use. Finally, I have tested this process only with Microsoft Word. Andrew M. Drozd adrozd at woodsquad.as.ua.edu Dept. of German and Russian Box 870262 University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0262 205-348-5055 From lfrumkes at wesleyan.edu Wed Aug 7 20:12:47 1996 From: lfrumkes at wesleyan.edu (Lisa A. Frumkes) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 16:12:47 -0400 Subject: Russian "hook"? Message-ID: As the beginning of the academic year lurches ever closer, a professor at one of the three post-secondary institutions I support asked me the following: Does anyone know of any materials (written, audio, video, multimedia, web-based, whatever) which could be used to "hook" students whom one is trying to "lure" towards the study of Russian? We're not looking for introductory teaching materials. Rather, we're looking for materials which might convince someone who is considering the study of Russian to actually enroll in a class. The materials probably need to be mostly English-based, but should contain enough Russian to give prospective students a flavor for the language, but not so much that they are "scared" away before even enrolling in the class. We already have the "Top Ten Reasons to Study Russian" which appeared in the AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages) Bulletin last year. We need more. Thanks for any information which you can provide. Lisa *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Lisa A. Frumkes Assistant Director, CTW Mellon Project Language Laboratory, Fisk Hall Wesleyan University 262 High Street Middletown, CT 06459 (860) 347-8791 (please leave voice mail) lfrumkes at wesleyan.edu From MLLEMILY at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu Thu Aug 8 04:57:40 1996 From: MLLEMILY at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Emily Tall) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 23:57:40 -0500 Subject: Pushkin Message-ID: Does anyone know any good Pushkin jokes? Thanks, Emily Tall mllemily at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu From schaeken at let.rug.nl Thu Aug 8 13:35:02 1996 From: schaeken at let.rug.nl (J. Schaeken) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 15:35:02 +0200 Subject: Czech CS on the Web Message-ID: The Czech Church Slavonic Prague Fragments are now available at: http://www.let.rug.nl/~schaeken/pragfrag.html The electronic edition will be incorporated in "TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialen" (http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/). Jos Schaeken *********************************************************** Dr. J. Schaeken, Slavic Department, University of Groningen P.O.B. 716, NL-9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands Tel.: + 31 50 3636065/5264945, Fax: + 31 50 3634900 Web: http://www.let.rug.nl/~schaeken/ HOME: Brinklaan 17, NL-9722 BA Groningen *********************************************************** From mur1 at columbia.edu Thu Aug 8 14:10:10 1996 From: mur1 at columbia.edu (Mallika U Ramdas) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 10:10:10 -0400 Subject: How to unsubscribe? In-Reply-To: <12DBF80361@ls1.let.rug.nl> Message-ID: Sorry for imposing this query on everyone, but I've forgotten how to unsubscribe from SEELANGS--can someone help? I'm moving at the end of Aug. and won't have access to email for a while. Thanks a lot. From jamison at owlnet.rice.edu Thu Aug 8 14:48:42 1996 From: jamison at owlnet.rice.edu (John J. Ronald) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:48:42 -0500 Subject: Polish author? (fwd) Message-ID: Thought someone on THIS list might be able to help in this cross-post query... --J. Ronald Rice University ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 16:52:43 -0700 From: Espana N. Sheriff To: Multiple recipients of list SF-LIT Subject: Polish author Got this mail today and hoped that someone on the list might know something, since it's been so useful before. ------- Forwarded Message From: Adam Jarczyk Organization: Silesian Technical University X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: espana at Catch22.COM Subject: SF&F authors I am interested if Andrzej Sapkowski (Polish fantasy writer) was ever translated to English. His first books appeared in late 80's but already he is well-renowned in Poland, and IMHO he is really great. Yours, Adam Jarczyk ------- End of Forwarded Message From mneu at loc.gov Thu Aug 8 17:02:37 1996 From: mneu at loc.gov (michael neubert) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 13:02:37 -0400 Subject: Polish author? (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hello, searching RLIN (a national database of the holdings of research libraries) and OCLC (a national database of the holdings of research and other libraries) does not show that any books by Andrzej Sapkowski in English are held by US libraries, which is a reasonably strong indication that none of his books have been translated. Regards, MN ******************************************************************** Michael Neubert Library of Congress mneu at loc.gov European Division 202 707-3706 Washington, DC 20540-4830 fax 707-8482 From paburak at summon.syr.edu Thu Aug 8 15:20:03 1996 From: paburak at summon.syr.edu (Patricia A. Burak (OIS)) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:20:03 +0500 Subject: Solzhenitsyn Message-ID: Dear SEELANGS Members: I am a new member of your list serv, altho I did utilize your broad knowledge a few months ago (an unidentified quote by the author Oe, a Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize some years ago) when I was completing my dissertation in Russian language and literature. I thank those of you who helped me identify that quote at that time. I am resuming teaching a course on Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn (LIT 227) which I designed and taught in 1991. For some reasons, I have not been teaching since that time, and others have taught the course. They (the other teachers) were unsuccessful in finding THE FIRST CIRCLE, and used other texts. I am really interested in teaching THE FIRST CIRCLE, and have met the same problem: it seems that it is completely out of print, and not even used copies are available! Does anyone have any good suggestions? I know that copying is a possibility, with the publishers official approval, but short of that? If not, I would like to hear from anyone who has taught CANCER WARD in their undergraduate classes (in English, to students who are taking the course as an Arts and Sciences course in "The Great Works", not a Russian literature student necessarily). I would like to hear from you if you have done so, and what reception the novel received among those students. My students in 1991 loved THE FIRST CIRCLE (eventually!), and I am reluctant to give up yet. I look forward to being a contributing member of this listserv! Patricia A. Burak, Director Office of International Services Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244-2380 --UAA20451.839549923/syr.edu-- Patricia A. Burak, Director Office of International Services Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244-2380 From gworthey at garnet.berkeley.edu Fri Aug 9 13:10:25 1996 From: gworthey at garnet.berkeley.edu (Glen Worthey) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 06:10:25 -0700 Subject: Pushkin Message-ID: At 11:57 PM 8/7/96 -0500, Emily Tall wrote: >Does anyone know any good Pushkin jokes? Thanks, Emily Tall > You might start with Daniil Kharms, who has a series of seven "Anekdoty iz zhizni Pushkina" and a separate "Pushkin i Gogol'" included in his most famous cycle of VERY short stories, "Sluchai." There are also a number of Pushkin anecdotes from "Psevdo-Kharms" (composed in the 1960s, I believe, in imitation of the real Kharms). The "Sluchai" cycle is available in most editions of Kharms's prose (the most available being _Polet v nebesa_, 1988); that, as well as Psevdo-Kharms, is published in a Kharms collection called _Gorlo bredit britvoiu_, which is No. 4 (1991) of the journal _Glagol_. Of course, these Pushkin anecdotes are very specific (and rather uniform) in their humor, are really not much like what you might usually call jokes about Pushkin. But they're really fun; I like them a lot. Glen From beyer at panther.middlebury.edu Fri Aug 9 16:56:50 1996 From: beyer at panther.middlebury.edu (Thomas R. Jr. Beyer) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 12:56:50 EDT Subject: Russian "hook"? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I hope to put up on the web in the next few days a page called Russia Today it will have one hundred Russian signs of familiar images such as Koka Kola , Pepsi, MakDonalds etc. I also hope to put up lots of scans of Russian artifacts-lottery tickets, theater tickets, metro maps, Russian currency, stamps, postcards, etc. Try to access this all next week or after at http://www.middlebury.edu/~beyer let me know of any reactions Tom beyer From jslindst at cc.helsinki.fi Fri Aug 9 13:40:51 1996 From: jslindst at cc.helsinki.fi (Jouko Lindstedt) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 16:40:51 +0300 Subject: Pushkin In-Reply-To: <199608091310.GAA28943@garnet.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Glen Worthey wrote: > Of course, these Pushkin anecdotes are very specific (and rather uniform) in > their humor, are really not much like what you might usually call jokes > about Pushkin. But they're really fun; I like them a lot. See also: Kurganov, Efim: Literaturnyj anekdot pushkinskoj epoxi. (Slavica Helsingiensia 15.) Helsinki 1995: Dept. of Slavonic Languages. ISBN 951-45-6890-7, ISSN 0780-3281. 278 pp. Jouko Lindstedt Slavonic and Baltic Department, University of Helsinki e-mail: Jouko.Lindstedt at Helsinki.Fi or jslindst at cc.helsinki.fi http://www.helsinki.fi/~jslindst/ From krivink at HUSC.BITNET Mon Aug 12 22:42:09 1996 From: krivink at HUSC.BITNET (Katerina Krivinkova) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 18:42:09 -0400 Subject: Free Czech Literature Textbooks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >>From my predecessor here at Cornell I have inherited an enormous number of Czech literature textbooks for high school students. I have no room for them, but I would hate having to throw them away. Some sample titles are: Ceska literatura po roce 1945, Citanka svetove literatury pro 3. rocnik strednich skol, Citanka ceske a slovenske literatury pro 3. rocnik strednich skol, Slovnik svetove literatury: autori a dila, smery, and many others. I have 4-8 copies of each title, and would happily put together a free package for anyone interested. Please reply soon before I have to send these lovely textbooks to the dump!!!! Katya From feszczak at sas.upenn.edu Mon Aug 12 22:54:20 1996 From: feszczak at sas.upenn.edu (Zenon M. Feszczak) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 18:54:20 -0400 Subject: Free Czech Literature Textbooks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >Katya Hello, Katya of the lovely name! Would any of these Czech textbooks happen to be in English? How is rainy but painfully beautiful Ithaca? Best, Zenon M. Feszczak Philosopher ex nihilo University of Pennsylvania (and a Cornell alumnus) From krivink at HUSC.BITNET Mon Aug 12 23:11:18 1996 From: krivink at HUSC.BITNET (Katerina Krivinkova) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 19:11:18 -0400 Subject: Free Czech Language Textbooks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear friends, I am also giving away Czech for Foreigners type Textbooks. I have several different titles in 7-15 copies each! Free! Katya From d-powelstock at UCHICAGO.EDU Tue Aug 13 18:55:25 1996 From: d-powelstock at UCHICAGO.EDU (David Powelstock) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:55:25 -0500 Subject: Free Czech Literature Textbooks Message-ID: Dear Katya, By the way, please save your original receipt from mailing the books and send it to me. This will make it easier to reimburse you with Departmental funds. (Otherwise, I'm stuck with the bill myself!) Thanks again! david From MPgregor at aol.com Wed Aug 14 23:37:50 1996 From: MPgregor at aol.com (Martin Gregor) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 19:37:50 -0400 Subject: Free Czech Literature Textbooks Message-ID: In a message dated 96-08-12 18:45:53 EDT, you write: >>From my predecessor here at Cornell I have inherited an enormous number of >Czech literature textbooks for high school students. I have no room for >them, but I would hate having to throw them away. Some sample titles are: >Ceska literatura po roce 1945, Citanka svetove literatury pro 3. rocnik >strednich skol, Citanka ceske a slovenske literatury pro 3. rocnik >strednich skol, Slovnik svetove literatury: autori a dila, smery, and many >others. I have 4-8 copies of each title, and would happily put together a >free package for anyone interested. Please reply soon before I have to >send these lovely textbooks to the dump!!!! >Katya I am interested in Slovnik Svetove Literatury or any encyclopedic book or dictionary. I'll reimburse you for any expenses. Thank you! Martin Gregor 3706 Manor Road, #4 Chevy Chase, MD 20815 mpgregor at aol.com From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Thu Aug 15 13:22:55 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:22:55 -0400 Subject: Opportunity to Cooperate - Education Center Zhiguli, Russia (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 96 13:21:30 EDT From: Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Opportunity to Cooperate - Education Center Zhiguli, Russia I recently received the attached profile of the Education Center Zhiguli, in Togliatti, Russia. Perhaps some members of the list would like to contact Dr. Nikolay Krainyukov, to see if there might be some avenue of academic cooperation. ***************************************************************** Opportunity to Cooperate - Education Center Zhiguli, Russia ***************************************************************** Our Education Center "Zhiguli" was created in 1994. The basic objective of Center is to give military officers who were dis- missed from the Russian Army (and members of their families) knowledge in small business management and the market economy, and to assist them in their social transition. We have more then two hundred computers, LAN, e-mail and educa- tion firms. Our students study management, marketing, banking and insurance business, controling and monitoring, accounting and financial analysis, computers, and foreign languages: English, German, French. We would be pleased to provide more information about our activi- ties, and would welcome all forms of academic cooperation in this important endeavor. ***************************************************************** Dr. Nikolay Krainyukov Tel: (7-8469) 296-901 Education Center "Zhiguli" Fax: (7-8469) 220-375 Ushakova 59 E-mail: nik at uczh.tlt.ru 445020 Togliatti, Russia ***************************************************************** From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Thu Aug 15 13:21:16 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:21:16 -0400 Subject: ACTR Positions in Russia and NIS (fwd) Message-ID: This is an old message that I just read in my mailbox. Don't know if all positions are filled or not, but it might be worth checking out. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 5 Aug 96 15:23:29 EDT From: Center for Civil Society International To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: ACTR Positions in Russia and NIS ***************************************************************** Thanks to Bryce Krug of USIA, I have recently received a nine- page listing of ACTR position vacancies, some of which may be of interest to list members in the NIS region. I have provided a short version of the announcement below. I do not know if U.S. citizenship is required for these positions. For specific infor- mation about positions, please contact Kate Gottschall directly. Her e-mail address is in this announcement. ****************************************************************** Position Vacancies American Council of Teachers of Russian American Council for Collaboration in Education and Language Study ****************************************************************** LISTING OF POSITION OPENINGS Position openings and their respective locations identified in this announcement are listed below. Direct any questions about the position or selection process to Kate Gottschall, ACTR Human Resources Manager (gottscha at actr.org). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Position: Location: ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Office Director Volgograd, Russia 2. Office Director Odessa, Ukraine 3. Program Hub Director Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 4. Program Hub Director Almaty, Kazakstan 5. Program Hub Director Kiev, Ukraine 6. Office Director Chisinau, Moldova 7. Muskie Program Officer Moscow, Russia 8. Assistant Office Director St. Petersburg, Russia 9. Country Director Yerevan, Armenia 10. Recruiter (4-months) Tbilisi, Georgia 11. Recruiter (4 months) Baku, Azerbaijan 12. Recruiter (4 months) Tashkent, Uzbekistan ----------------------------------------------------------------- In general, it appears that the minimum qualifications for posi- tions of Office Director, Program Hub Director, and Assistant Of- fice Director include: * Program administration experience; * Supervisory experience; * Fluent in Russian and/or regional languages; * Experience traveling extensively under difficult conditions; * Experience in budget management; * BA (advanced degree preferred) in a relevant field (e.g. Rus- sian language, Russian area studies, education, etc.) required; The requirements for Muskie Program Officer and Country Director are somewhat more extensive. The anticipated appointment dates range through August and September 1996. ***************************************************************** From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Thu Aug 15 13:25:48 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:25:48 -0400 Subject: a position with FSVC in Almaty (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 96 16:45:15 EDT From: Center for Civil Society International To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: a position with FSVC in Almaty (fwd) FINANCIAL SERVICES VOLUNTEER CORPS FSVC Overview and Job Description for a Regional Director, to be based in Almaty, Kazakhstan Overview of the FSVC The Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC) is a private, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote the development of sound financial institutions in countries developing market economies. FSVC accomplishes this goal by channeling voluntary, technical expertise from the US financial services community to support the economic transformation underway in Central Europe, the former Soviet Republics, and other emerging market economies. FSVC was established in 1990. Under the direction of Co-Chairmen Cyrus R. Vance and John Whitehead, FSVC is supported by gifts and grants from the US government, corporations, individuals and private foundations. FSVC and its volunteers respond to specific, specialized requests from host countries for financial sector assistance. Our volunteers are drawn from premier private and public US financial services institutions. These U.S. institutions include commercial and investment banking, insurance, accounting, legal, regulatory agencies and market institutions such as stock exchanges and clearing, settling and depository organizations. Additionally, FSVC sponsors both in-country and US-based training programs. In response to local demand, FSVC has provided technical assistance to government ministries, market institutions and private sector organizations throughout the formerly centrally planned economies of Central Europe, the republics of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. FSVC works in conjunction with, but independent of, the US government and its agencies, multi-lateral financial institutions and other assistance providers. FSVC s programs are primarily concerned with capital markets, central and commercial banking, public finance, legal structures, and government securities. Job Description In order to implement and manage its projects in Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic, FSVC seeks a Almaty-based Regional Director. The Regional Director will identify, design, and manage financial sector technical assistance focusing initially on payment systems-related projects, with guidance and support from FSVC field staff in the home office in New York City. Candidates for the position of Regional Director should have a broad practical background in and knowledge of banking, coupled with an ability to adjust to unfamiliar ideas and conditions. The work load requires a significant commitment of time and energy. Motivation, initiative, intuition, attention to detail and strong inter-personal skills are prerequisites for consideration. Given the sensitive and frequently urgent nature of FSVC's activities, the working environment is intense, involving a large number of projects that require close and constant attention. Conversational fluency in Russian is strongly desirable. The ideal candidate will recognize the unique opportunity this position provides - both the exciting nature of the work and the chance to make a contribution to the economic transformation of Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic. The salary balances the non-profit nature of FSVC with the demanding nature of the position. For consideration, pleas submit a statement of qualifications and current resume to: Peter Swiderski Program Director Financial Services Volunteer Corps 425 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10017-3909 fax: 212-983-9847 or via internet: 73407.776 at compuserve.com From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Thu Aug 15 13:34:05 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:34:05 -0400 Subject: Tech Assistance Job Opening - Moscow (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 96 16:25:25 EDT From: IREX Internet Fellows Program To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Tech Assistance Job Opening - Moscow The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) seeks a Director of Eurasia Internet Programs, based in Moscow, to manage a major Internet training and development effort in all countries of the NIS. The following are firm requirements: * Fluent Russian (4/4 or better); * US Citizenship; * Substantial NIS travel experience; * At least three years successful administration of field tech assistance, working closely with local and American trainers; * Thorough Internet grounding, incl. knowledge of LANs, modems, relevant s/w; * Supervisory experience in multinational setting; * Superior reporting/writing skills. The ideal candidate will also bring: * TCP/IP, Unix, HTML; * Satellite communications experience; * Close-hand knowledge of Russian and Eurasian higher education; * Ability to travel up to 50% time, including one month in four in the Caucasus. Send cover letter with salary requirements and CV (in ASCII or uuencoded MS Word attachment) to this address, by Monday, August 19th. No phone calls, please. From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Thu Aug 15 13:23:55 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:23:55 -0400 Subject: CEC Int'l. Partners Job Posting (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 96 18:43:23 EDT From: Center for Civil Society International To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: CEC Int'l. Partners Job Posting >From: CEC International Partners JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Program Coordinator - St Petersburg 2003 CEC International Partners, a leading proponent of professional exchanges in the arts and environment with Central/East Europe and the former Soviet Union, is seeking an articulate, energetic, highly responsible individual to manage all aspects of CEC's St. Petersburg 2003 program. The position is based in New York and is full-time. St. Petersburg 2003 organizes American support to revitalize St. Petersburg's art and culture in preparation for the city's tercentennial. The program partners Russian and American cultural managers from both governmental and private sectors for exchange of expertise and training. Responsibilities: Working closely with the Program Director, the St. Petersburg 2003 Coordinator's duties include: Coordinate all aspects of training and exchange activities; plan and implement logistics Manage daily relations with American and Russian participants; liaison with CEC St. Petersburg office Represent CEC in US and Russia, escort delegations Write reports and proposals Manage budgets and prepare financial reports Requirements: Excellent communication and organizational skills Fluency in Russian; professional and/or academic experience in Russia Three years professional experience in not-for-profit arts environment Arts management and/or exchange background highly desirable; knowledge and/or strong interest in cultural policy helpful Working knowledge of Windows 3.1, Microsoft Office, electronic mail Compensation: Competitive salary and attractive benefits, including health insurance and tuition reimbursement plan Please send resume and cover letter to: CEC International Partners Attn.: Lynn Stern, Director - St. Petersburg 2003 12 West 31st Street, 4th Floor New York, New York 10001 fax: 212/643-1996 NO PHONE CALLS e-mail: cecny at igc.apc.org From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Thu Aug 15 13:34:22 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:34:22 -0400 Subject: Position available: attorney (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 96 16:44:01 EDT From: Timothy Hanstad To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Position available: attorney Staff Attorney: Seattle-based non-profit institute providing legal and policy advice relating to issues of land tenure reform, land market development, and related rural development issues in Russia now accepting applications for a staff attorney to be stationed in Moscow, Russia to coordinate RDI's activities in Moscow. Applicants must have a J.D. degree from a U.S. law school; Russian language proficiency; three years practicing law or a graduate degree related to economic development; excellent legal research and writing skills; excellent communication skills; ability to work independently and as a team member; and a demonstrated interest in less developed countries. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Send resume and letter by August 30, 1996 to: Rural Development Institute 1100 NE Campus Parkway fx: (206) 528-5881 Seattle, WA 98105 USA rdi at u.washington.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*. From bdafelde at irex.org Thu Aug 15 19:30:09 1996 From: bdafelde at irex.org (BEATE DAFELDECKER) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:30:09 EDT Subject: job opening Message-ID: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD On-Site Representative SKOPJE, MACEDONIA The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) seeks a US citizen to serve as Program Officer in Skopje, FYR Macedonia. The Program Officer will be responsible for administering ongoing research, policy, and professional training programs as well as developing new cooperative activities in Southeastern Europe. Principle responsibilities: - to administer on-site programs for both US and foreign participants in former Yugoslav countries, as well as Albania and Bulgaria as necessary; - to structure alumni activities; - to maintain contact with local government, academic, and nonprofit communities, and the corporate sector; - to assist in the development of new initiatives in the region; and - to manage the IREX office and hire/train local staff as necessary. Applicants for this position should have: - minimum BA in a relevant field; - relevant on-site experience; - competency in one or more languages of the region; - proven ability to manage programs and budgets; - experience with computers and relevant software (word processing, dbase, spreadsheets) and electronic mail communication; and - strong organization and communication skills. Position to start October 1, 1996. Competitive salary and benefits package. Send cover letter/resume to IREX/BD, 1616 H Street, Washington, DC 20006. Or via email: irex at irex.org The International Research & Exchanges Board is a private, nonprofit organization promoting American collaboration with the academic, policy and professional communities of the NIS, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia. An Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer From Gjcnen at aol.com Fri Aug 16 20:05:01 1996 From: Gjcnen at aol.com (Nancy Novak) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:05:01 -0400 Subject: Anthology of Russian poetry? Message-ID: Hello, Seelangers. I want to include some Russian poems in the course I'm working on, but am having trouble finding what I need. For various reasons, I need an anthology of Russian poetry that has Russian on one side & English on the other. However, all I can find are either anthologies in English, or in Russian with a prose translation. Does anyone know if such an anthology even exists, & if so, where I could possibly find it? Spasibo zaranee, Nancy Novak From feszczak at sas.upenn.edu Fri Aug 16 20:18:23 1996 From: feszczak at sas.upenn.edu (Zenon M. Feszczak) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:18:23 -0400 Subject: Anthology of Russian poetry? In-Reply-To: <960816160500_386870667@emout07.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: >Hello, Seelangers. >I want to include some Russian poems in the course I'm working on, but am >having trouble finding what I need. For various reasons, I need an anthology >of Russian poetry that has Russian on one side & English on the other. >However, all I can find are either anthologies in English, or in Russian with >a prose translation. Does anyone know if such an anthology even exists, & if >so, where I could possibly find it? Spasibo zaranee, Nancy Novak > A classic is the following: Dmitri Obolensky - "The Heritage of Russian Verse" Indiana University Press As for an English-only anthology, Yevtushenko's "Silver and Steel" is unparalleled. Zenon M. Feszczak Philosopher ex nihilo From russell-valentino at uiowa.edu Sun Aug 18 02:41:52 1996 From: russell-valentino at uiowa.edu (russell s. valentino) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 22:41:52 EDT Subject: Anthology of Russian poetry? Message-ID: >However, all I can find are either anthologies in English, or in Russian with >a prose translation. *Modern Russian Poetry,* eds, Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks, has Russian text and English verse translations on facing pages. Sounds like what you're looking for. From dtpit at u.washington.edu Sat Aug 17 14:43:06 1996 From: dtpit at u.washington.edu (David Pitkethly) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 07:43:06 -0700 Subject: Free Czech Literature Textbooks In-Reply-To: <960814193750_259719642@emout13.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: i would be very interested in some of your text books, and would be DELIGHTED to pay postage costs. i know your announcement has been on the seelangs for at least a week or 2, and when i first saw it i assumed all the books would be instantly spoken for. now, perhaps, i thought i'd take a chance. i am a second year Czech student, studying very hard, mostly on my own, and go 2x a year to the Czech Republic; planning to leave again in about 10 days, and stay 3 weeks. i would appreciate any books you might have that perhaps could be something on the level i might be able to read; junior high, or high schhol level also, anu text books with exercises would be immeasurably helpful. please let me know, and perhaps we could make some arrangements so that some of your books could find a new, and helpful home ..Dekuji, Mara Pitkethly On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Martin Gregor wrote: > In a message dated 96-08-12 18:45:53 EDT, you write: > > >From my predecessor here at Cornell I have inherited an enormous number of > >Czech literature textbooks for high school students. I have no room for > >them, but I would hate having to throw them away. Some sample titles are: > >Ceska literatura po roce 1945, Citanka svetove literatury pro 3. rocnik > >strednich skol, Citanka ceske a slovenske literatury pro 3. rocnik > >strednich skol, Slovnik svetove literatury: autori a dila, smery, and many > >others. I have 4-8 copies of each title, and would happily put together a > >free package for anyone interested. Please reply soon before I have to > >send these lovely textbooks to the dump!!!! > >Katya > > I am interested in Slovnik Svetove Literatury or any encyclopedic book or > dictionary. > I'll reimburse you for any expenses. Thank you! > Martin Gregor > 3706 Manor Road, #4 > Chevy Chase, MD 20815 > mpgregor at aol.com > From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Mon Aug 19 12:47:45 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:47:45 -0400 Subject: Belarus Internet Fellowship (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 96 20:10:22 EDT From: Jane Belenky To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Belarus Internet Fellowship Internet Fellowship in Belarus The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) and USIA announce a professional fellowship opportunity to expand computer network access among scholars and non-commercial civic groups in Belarus . Qualified candidates are invited to send letters of interest and resumes. This Fellowship is one of eight Fellowships created under the US-Eurasia Internet Access and Training Program (IATP), providing year-long, full-time placements for American networking specialists wi th strong regional/language backgrounds. The mission of the Internet Fellowships is to train local networking trainers and to promote the sustainable use of computer networks among academic organizat ions, with an emphasis on connecting clusters of "alumni" of USIA-sponsored exchange programs. Requirements: *US citizenship. *Two years Internet training/support/development experience. *Professional-level Russian language ability. Knowledge of other languages of the NIS is helpful. *Significant NIS living experience. *High level of initiative and mature judgement. Proven managerial/organizational talent and ability to work with diverse communities *12 month commitment Placements beginning in fall 1996 Inquiries and letters of interest should be directed to , or faxed to: Tony Byrne or Bill Fick / Olga Galkina Senior Program Officer Program Directors IREX/Washington IREX/Moscow Fax: + 202-628-8189 Fax: + 7-095-202-44-49 This program is supported by the US Information Agency (USIA) and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Mon Aug 19 12:46:29 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:46:29 -0400 Subject: Opportunities in Ukraine (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 96 15:42:36 EDT From: Center for Civil Society International To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Opportunities in Ukraine (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 18:59:59 -0700 (PDT) >From: Eugene Lemcio Reply-To: reecas-nw at u.washington.edu To: REECA Studies in the Pacific Northwest Subject: Opportunities in Ukraine During five weeks of teaching in Ukraine this spring, I became acquainted with the Head Oncologist of Kyiv and Director of the Oncological Center there. Dr. Petro Oliynychenko and his staff are eager to welcome students and faculty for shorter or longer periods of study and service. Basic living expenses (food and lodging in private homes) will be covered. A friend of mine in Lviv is head of Halychyna Film Studios. Wasyl Bosowytch has been in the profession for over twenty years as dramatist, director, and producer. Himself a laureate, he works regularly with personnel of this calibre. He welcomes educational and professional contacts with Americans. Please let me know of your interest. Eugene E. Lemcio, Ph. D. Department of Religion College of Arts and Sciences Seattle Pacific University President, the Ukrainian American Club of WA From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Mon Aug 19 12:49:36 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:49:36 -0400 Subject: INTERNSHIP GUIDE (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 96 14:27:26 EDT From: Paul Goode To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: INTERNSHIP GUIDE Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am putting together a guide to finding internships in Central and Eastern Europe and the FSU on behalf of Oxford University's Russian and East European Studies Department. The guide will be available on the WWW and in hard copy. The most valuable sort of information that can go into such a guide comes from personal testimony, so I am hoping to hear from: (a) individuals with experience in locating internships, including method(s) of contact, type of internship (paid/unpaid, duties, etc.), how many you applied for and how long it took, and any other particulars; (b) individuals, organizations, or companies who currently offer or would like to offer internships. Please specify particulars and, at the very least, all available contact data (address, phone, fax, e-mail). If you are now or have previously employed interns, any information you could provide as to what you look for in applicants and what makes a candidate stand out would be greatly appreciated. All respondents will be referenced on request. Please indicate if you'd be willing to have your contact information made available in the guide (if no indication is given, I will not provide e-mail addresses). I am also looking for information on chambers of commerce or similar bodies. Thanks for your time. Paul Goode St. Antony's College Oxford OX2 6JF UK http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sant0168/index.html From RONDEST at vms.cis.pitt.edu Mon Aug 19 14:22:07 1996 From: RONDEST at vms.cis.pitt.edu (KAREN RONDESTVEDT) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 09:22:07 -0500 Subject: Polish lexicography book available Message-ID: I'm helping the editor distribute the following small-print-run item, rescued from the pulping of all pre-1990 books: Studia z polskiej leksykografii wspolczesnej, tom 3. Pod red. Zygmunta Saloniego. Bialystok: Dzial Wydawnictw Filii UW w Bialymstoku, 1989. 374 p. The book is primarily in Polish, but also contains a few articles in English and Russian. Authors include Andrzej Boguslawski, Aleksei Dmitrievich Shmelev, Janusz Bien, Krystyna Kallas, Dorota Kopcinska, Miroslaw Banko and Zygmunt Saloni. If you are interested in the book, please contact me at the address below for more information. PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR REQUEST TO THE LIST, i.e., don't hit the reply key. -*- Karen Rondestvedt, Slavic Bibliographer -*- University of Pittsburgh Library System -*- rondest at vms.cis.pitt.edu -*- Web: http://www.pitt.edu/~rondest/ From Gjcnen at aol.com Mon Aug 19 17:55:50 1996 From: Gjcnen at aol.com (Nancy Novak) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 13:55:50 -0400 Subject: Anthology of Russian poetry? Message-ID: Thanks to everyone who replied about the Russian poetry anthology--once again, SEELANGS comes through! Your info was extremely helpful--now instead of having no choices, I have 5 or 6 good ones! Now if I can just get my hands on one of them... Nancy Novak From snlarsen at phoenix.Princeton.EDU Mon Aug 19 17:42:48 1996 From: snlarsen at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Stephen N. Larsen) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 13:42:48 -0400 Subject: Free Czech Literature Textbooks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Sorry to reply to the entire list but I haven't the initial message with Katya's address. Katya, I am interested in the books that are the subject of this string and would be pleased to pay postage. You may contact me by e-mail at snlarsen at pucc.princeton.edu. Thank you. S. Larsen On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, David Pitkethly wrote: > i would be very interested in some of your text books, and would be > DELIGHTED to pay postage costs. i know your announcement has been on the > seelangs for at least a week or 2, and when i first saw it i assumed all > the books would be instantly spoken for. now, perhaps, i thought i'd take > a chance. i am a second year Czech student, studying very hard, mostly on > my own, and go 2x a year to the Czech Republic; planning to leave again in > about 10 days, and stay 3 weeks. i would appreciate any books you might > have that perhaps could be something on the level i might be able to read; > junior high, or high schhol level also, anu text books with exercises > would be immeasurably helpful. please let me know, and perhaps we could > make some arrangements so that some of your books could find a new, and > helpful home ..Dekuji, Mara Pitkethly > > > On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Martin Gregor wrote: > > > In a message dated 96-08-12 18:45:53 EDT, you write: > > > > >From my predecessor here at Cornell I have inherited an enormous number of > > >Czech literature textbooks for high school students. I have no room for > > >them, but I would hate having to throw them away. Some sample titles are: > > >Ceska literatura po roce 1945, Citanka svetove literatury pro 3. rocnik > > >strednich skol, Citanka ceske a slovenske literatury pro 3. rocnik > > >strednich skol, Slovnik svetove literatury: autori a dila, smery, and many > > >others. I have 4-8 copies of each title, and would happily put together a > > >free package for anyone interested. Please reply soon before I have to > > >send these lovely textbooks to the dump!!!! > > >Katya > > > > I am interested in Slovnik Svetove Literatury or any encyclopedic book or > > dictionary. > > I'll reimburse you for any expenses. Thank you! > > Martin Gregor > > 3706 Manor Road, #4 > > Chevy Chase, MD 20815 > > mpgregor at aol.com > > > From corey.9 at postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu Tue Aug 20 14:56:34 1996 From: corey.9 at postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (glenn corey) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:56:34 -0400 Subject: INVITATION TO RUSSIA Message-ID: I'm trying to arrange a trip to Moscow. I can't seem to get hold of my contacts there to get an invitation. Does anyone know how one might get an invitation and get the visa processed here? Someone told me that there are commpanies in New York that can do this. Does anyone have any information on this. Thanks . Glenn Corey From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Tue Aug 20 16:30:53 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 12:30:53 -0400 Subject: opportunities for volunteers in Moscow (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 96 18:16:49 EDT From: The Center for Curative Pedagogics To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: opportunities for volunteers in Moscow Our Center for Curative Pedagogics is a non-state charity organization dealing with handicapped children. Specialists from our Center assist children with wide range of speech and developmental problems as well as to their families. Our organization lives on charity donations and partly on its oun scientific activity. So we will always welcome volunteers who want to help us. Here we've got some kinds of activities to suggest: - household work (at the kitchen, cleaning, garden, obtaining the equipment etc.) - assistants for group and individual work with children. For this volunteers can have no special education but have will and capacity to deal with handicapped children. There are very nice staff working in our place who will warmly welcome everybody who would come to help us. You can connect us by e-mail or by fax: (095)131-0683. Sincerely, Co-director of Center for Curative Pedagogics, Anna Bitova. ------------------------------------------------------- | CivilSoc is a project of the Center for Civil | | Society International (ccsi at u.washington.edu) | | in Seattle, in association with Friends & Partners. | | For more information about civic initiatives in | | the former USSR visit CCSI's web site at: | | | | http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ccsi/ccsihome.html | ------------------------------------------------------- From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Tue Aug 20 16:30:41 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 12:30:41 -0400 Subject: Part time internship position in DC (fwd) Message-ID: THIS IS ALSO POSTED ON THE AATSEEL HOMEPAGE ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 96 17:33:05 EDT From: Kathy Kalinowski To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Part time internship position in DC The PVO/NIS Project of World Learning Inc. 1015 15th Street, NW, Suite 911, Washington, DC 20005 tel: 202-408-5420; fax: 202-898-1920 E-mail: pvonis at igc.apc.org The Private Voluntary Organizations Initiative for the New Independent States (PVO/NIS) Project of World Learning Inc. seeks an intern for the fall semester in our Washington, DC office. We are currently interviewing and would like to fill the position as soon as possible. The PVO/NIS Project, with funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), administers grants to implement humanitarian and development activities that encourage the growth of the nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and voluntarism in the former Soviet Union. The project works closely with American private voluntary organizations working in partnerships with NIS NGOs in all sectors. With the first phase of the project, the solicitation and award of grants, now complete, the project has now moved into its second and third phases, which combine on- going monitoring of projects, training, and drawing upon lessons learned to inform future NIS programming. JOB DESCRIPTION Intern, Private Voluntary Organizations=FE Initiatives for the New Independent States Project, Projects in International Development and Training, a division of World Learning Inc. Reports to: Program Associate, Information Monitoring Unit, PVO/NIS Project Location: Washington, DC General Description: The intern provides administrative support to the PVO/NIS Project. Specific Responsibilities: * Provide clerical administrative support, including working with subgrant files, word processing, preparing correspondence, sending faxes and e- mails, making photocopies, data entry, and other clerical duties as needed. * Assist with data entry and proofreading of Project database. * Assist Program Officers to prepare for Project close-out. Tasks might include (but will not be limited to) sorting and archiving files, and gathering and organizing of background materials to be used in preparation of the Project=FEs final report. * Assist Publications' Editors with proofreading, fact-checking articles, and other research as needed for the Project's quarterly newsletter and other publications. Salary and Hours: $7 per hour for 10-20 hours per week. Hours are flexible, but must be scheduled during regular office hours (between 9 a.m.-6 p.m.). No benefits will be provided. Requirements: --Proficiency in use of IBM-PC compatible computers, Windows, and Word for Windows 6.0. --Database and spreadsheet experience (Microsoft Access and Excel preferred). --Familiarity with basic office procedures (filing, answering phones, xeroxing, etc.). --Organized and detail-oriented. --Strong written and oral communication skills. --Ability to work with a variety of people and under deadlines. --Enthusiastic and willing to learn. Desired, but Not Required: --Interest in nongovernmental organizations, foreign assistance, or international development. --Knowledge of Russian. To apply, send cover letter and resume (NO CALLS PLEASE) to the attention of: Kathy Kalinowski, Program Associate PVO/NIS Project World Learning Inc. 1015 15th Street, NW, Suite 911 Washington, DC 20005 FAX: 202-898-1920 E-MAIL: kkalinowski at igc.apc.org. --------------46E6DDE27D0-- From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Tue Aug 20 17:14:18 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:14:18 -0400 Subject: Dir, Recruitment and University Relations -- Civic Education Project, (fwd) Message-ID: Position: Dir, Recruitment and University Relations Institution: Civic Education Project, New Haven Location: Connecticut *************************************************************************** Civic Education Project CEP, a non-profit international educational organization dedicated to assisting reform efforts at universities in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, through the placement of social scientists in a year-long position at universities throughout the region, seeks two highly motivated individuals to serve in its New Haven, CT office: Director of Recruitment and University Relations: Supervises all aspects of recruitment, screening, selection, and training of CEP Lecturers and Eastern Scholars, working closely with CEP staff in the region, as well as with Western universities, academic organizations, etc. Supervises small US staff. Requires Ph.D., preferably in the social sciences; excellent administrative, communication, and organizational skills; familiarity with the region; and computerliteracy. Resumes to: R. Kim; P.O. Box 205445, Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 or via fax (203/781-0265) or e-mail (RKIM at cep.yale.edu). No phone calls,please. EOE. From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 16, 1996 Categories: Other social sciences, Social sciences, Faculty and research positions. Educational administration, Administrative positions. *************************************************************************** From KER4 at PSUVM.PSU.EDU Thu Aug 22 13:15:00 1996 From: KER4 at PSUVM.PSU.EDU (Karen Robblee) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:15:00 EDT Subject: No subject Message-ID: Dear SEELANGERs: I am organizing a Roundtable on Computers in Slavic Linguistics for the AATSEEL Meeting in Washington DC, December 28-30. Are there any linguists who would be available to participate? I am particularly interested in finding someone who can discuss hardware/software packages that are useful for phonetic studies. If you have something to contribute and would like to participate, please get in touch with me off list. Sincerely, Karen Robblee ************************************************************************* Karen E. Robblee E-mail: ker4 at psu.edu Slavic and East European Languages Office: (814) 863-8963 207 Sparks Building Home: (814) 237-7046 The Pennsylvania State University Department: (814) 865-1352 University Park, PA 16802 FAX: (814) 863-5561 ************************************************************************* From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Thu Aug 22 15:16:15 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 11:16:15 -0400 Subject: Opportunity to Cooperate - Saratov Exchange Consulting Center (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 96 19:42:29 EDT From: Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Opportunity to Cooperate - Saratov Exchange Consulting Center I have received information from the Saratov Exchange Consulting Center, in Saratov, Russia. Perhaps some list members would like to contact the Center, to explore opportunities for cooperation. ***************************************************************** Opportunity to Cooperate - Saratov Exchange Consulting Center ***************************************************************** I am writing you on behalf of the Saratov Exchange Consulting Center. It was opened on the October 9th, 1995. The Center is a joint project of the Saratov Local Committee of AIESEC (Association of Students Studying Economics and Management) and Saratov Rotaract Club. It is a non-profit non-governmental public organization which was founded with the support of Eurasia foundation, city administration and Saratov Rotary Club. The primarily goals of the Exchange Consulting Center are : * distributing information about all available financial assis- tance programs, exchange programs and foreign traineeships within Saratov community; * providing assistance in obtaining application forms and infor- mation about the requirements for those interested for partici- pating in such programs; * finding employment opportunities for young specialists; * organizing educational and business seminars and conferences. Saratov is one of the biggest industrial, educational and scientific centers in the Volga region. There is a big interest in establishing international contacts and in participating in the exchange programs abroad. But unfortunately it has been difficult to obtain necessary information. Our Center is aimed to fill that gap. In its work Center has achieved the following results and took part in the following events: * contacts with many foreign and domestic organizations; * information on different exchange programs and application forms which were distributed among the Saratov students; * database containing the information about Center's visitors and students of Saratov Academy of economics; * several recruitment projects; * pre-departure orientations; * Young Farmers Exchange Program which was held with the help of Wyoming and Saratov Rotary Clubs. Four Russian young farmers went to Wyoming for 6 months; * International Traineeship Exchange Program - AIESEC exchange program; * international AIESEC Conferences in Europe; * Education Advising Workshop in Rostov-on-Don. The Center is looking for new partners and new activities now. We hope that your conference will help us in our work. Thank you for your cooperation. Aleksey Hohlov, Program Coordinator Email: ceeman at center.saratov.su August 11, 1996 ***************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------- | CivilSoc is a project of the Center for Civil | | Society International (ccsi at u.washington.edu) | | in Seattle, in association with Friends & Partners. | | For more information about civic initiatives in | | the former USSR visit CCSI's web site at: | | | | http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ccsi/ccsihome.html | ------------------------------------------------------- From mitrege at mail.auburn.edu Thu Aug 22 18:02:13 1996 From: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu (George Mitrevski) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 13:02:13 -0500 Subject: [Fwd: (no subject)] Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------236F1A35218D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please reply to this request directly to the individual. *************************************************************** Dr. George Mitrevski office: 334-844-6376 Foreign Languages fax: 334-844-6378 6030 Haley Center e-mail: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu Auburn University Auburn, AL 36849-5204 List of my WWW pages: http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/index.html *************************************************************** --------------236F1A35218D Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from ducserv.mail.auburn.edu by mallard.duc.auburn.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA07812; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 12:34:09 -0500 Received: from roxy.sfo.com by ducserv.mail.auburn.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA27142; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 12:34:06 -0500 Received: from sf-034.sfo.com (sf-034.sfo.com [207.33.216.34]) by roxy.sfo.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id KAA29968 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 10:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608221734.KAA29968 at roxy.sfo.com> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 96 17:36:03 0700 From: spitz X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu Subject: (no subject) X-URL: http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/RWT/tutorials/index.html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Can you recommend any good introductory books on aspect and imperfective and perfective verbs (general--linguistics text?)? Thanks. Spitz spitz at sfo.com --------------236F1A35218D-- From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Thu Aug 22 20:07:18 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:07:18 -0400 Subject: Funders in FSU on disk (fwd) Message-ID: --- Sender: Chris Kedzie Subject: Database of Funders in the NIS The Center for Coordination and Information at the Socio-Ecological Union has compiled a database that includes hundreds of funding organizations world-wide that are active in the FSU. They make this information availabl= e to anyone in high, low and medium technology formats, *in Russian*: a searchable WWW site http://cci.glasnet.ru ; a refence book ; and on a hypertext disk. The disk, infinitely reproducable (as long as it is not fo= r commercial purposes), may be particularly useful to organizations that seek to help nascent NGOs across the FSU that have computers but do not (yet) have access to the web. These disks can be obtained for the cost of the disk itself (or bring your own) from CCI in Moscow. address: Bogoyavlenskii 3/3, Moscow, (near Kitai Gorod) mail: Socio-Ecological Union p.o. box 211 Moscow, 121019 tel/fax: (095) 921-71-61 E-mail: fund at cci.glasnet.ru Editor's Note: The Internet site uses Cyrillic fonts for Windows. The site consists primarily of detailed profiles of American and European foundations, companies and non-governmental organizations which sponsor and fund projects in the NIS. The profiles can be accessed: * alphabetically (in both Russian and Englis), * by area of interest (e.g. environment), * types of support provided (e.g. equipment, publications), and * by countries in which foundations have offices. 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Kedzie=09=09 =09=09email: kedzie at glas.apc.org Program Officer=09=09=09=09=09tel: (095)931-9866 Ford Foundation=09=09=09=09=09fax: (095)926-5529 Moscow Office, Olympic Penta Renaissance Hotel, Olympijskij Prospect 18/1 __________________________________________________________________________ =09 ------------------------------------------------------- =09| CivilSoc is a project of the Center for Civil | =09| Society International (ccsi at u.washington.edu) | =09| in Seattle, in association with Friends & Partners. | =09| For more information about civic initiatives in | =09| the former USSR visit CCSI's web site at: | =09| | =09| http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ccsi/ccsihome.html | =09 ------------------------------------------------------- From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Fri Aug 23 17:43:08 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:43:08 -0400 Subject: Program Assistant Position Open (fwd) Message-ID: Sorry, but I won't have time to post this to the AATSEEL jobs page. :-( Not having a computer at home stinks! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 96 01:41:02 EDT From: Center for Civil Society International Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Program Assistant Position Open Position Available: Program Assistant Eurasia Program =09=09Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) ISC is a non-profit organization that promotes environmental protection, sustainable economies, and participatory decision-making at the community level in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia through training, technical assistance, and demonstration projects. ISC activities are supported by private foundations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Position Description The program assistant will be responsible for supporting project activities for the Eurasia Program, working in countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU). The projects are designed to demonstrate different aspects of community action and planning, environmental education, and institutional capacity-building. Activities will range from larger discrete tasks, such as coordinating seminars or research activities, to routine project tasks, such as monthly reporting. The program assistant=92s responsibilities will include: helping manage day to day activities for the Eurasia Program projects; maintaining communication with funders, project partners, and consultants; developing and implementing an evaluation strategies for Eurasia program projects; maintaining database programs, preparing training materials; organizing seminars in the U.S. for project partners; and follow-up on leveraging project resources through in-kind contributions or grants. QUALIFICATIONS The qualifications for this position include: work experience in environmental management or policy, preferably at the international level; project management experience; and a degree in Environmental Science or Studies, Natural Resources, International Relations, or Public Administration. The program assistant must have strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills; and should have strong research and analytical capabilities. Proficiency in computer applications (particularly e-mail), Russian, and knowledge of or experience working with government and non-governmental organizations in Eurasia will be considered a plus in considering each qualified candidate. TERMS The position is full-time (40 hours/week) and is funded for two years. The program assistant will be based in Montpelier, Vermont. Salary range: an annual salary of $25,000 - $30,000. The closing date for applications is August 30, 1996. Please send resume to Barbara Felitti, Director, Eurasia Program. ISC is an equal opportunity employer. From TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU Fri Aug 23 20:32:20 1996 From: TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU (Gary H. Toops) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:32:20 CDT Subject: Program Assistant Position Open (fwd) In-Reply-To: dpbrowne+@pitt.edu -- Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:43:08 -0400 Message-ID: Is there some reason why as a SEELangs subscriber I have to constantly receive forwarded postings from some other subscriber list? If SEELangs subscribers were interested in the list maintained by civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu, they surely could subscribe to that list on their own. Or am I missing something here? Gary H. Toops TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU Associate Professor Ph (316) WSU-3180 (978-3180) Wichita State University Fx (316) WSU-3293 (978-3293) Wichita, Kansas 67260-0011 USA http://www.twsu.edu/~mcllwww From d-powelstock at uchicago.edu Fri Aug 23 20:51:10 1996 From: d-powelstock at uchicago.edu (David Powelstock) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:51:10 -0500 Subject: Fw: Program Assistant Position Open (fwd) Message-ID: > I, for one, believe Devin Browne et al. are doing SEELANGS subscribers a > service by forwarding us news about opportunities for work in the FSU, > which do not otherwise reach us. We could, of course, subscribe to > "civilsoc," but then I suspect we would receive loads of postings about > irrelevant positions. As is, Mr. Browne does the culling for us. Here in > our Slavic Dpt., we print and post the listings forwarded to SEELANGS for > our students' perusals. If we are voting, I vote to continue this > practice. > > --David Powelstock > ---------- > > Is there some reason why as a SEELangs subscriber I have to constantly > > receive forwarded postings from some other subscriber list? If SEELangs > > subscribers were interested in the list maintained by > > civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu, they surely could subscribe to that list on > > their own. Or am I missing something here? From adrozd at woodsquad.as.ua.edu Fri Aug 23 16:20:27 1996 From: adrozd at woodsquad.as.ua.edu (Andrew M. Drozd) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 16:20:27 +0000 Subject: Fw: Program Assistant Position Open (fwd) Message-ID: On Friday, Aug. 23 David Powelstock wrote: >As is, Mr. Browne does the culling for us. Here in our Slavic > Dpt., we print and post the listings forwarded to SEELANGS for > our students' perusals. If we are voting, I vote to continue this > practice. I have to agree whole-heartedly. Browne does us a great service by culling and posting these announcements. I certainly don't have time to search for them but I gladly pass them along to our students, who do make use of them. -- Andrew M. Drozd adrozd at woodsquad.as.ua.edu Dept. of German and Russian University of Alabama From ggerhart at wolfenet.com Fri Aug 23 21:21:50 1996 From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 14:21:50 -0700 Subject: Program Assistant Position Open (fwd) Message-ID: Dear Garry, Is it not useful to remind the profession that there might be an object to learning Russian, other than Literature and Linguistics? gg -- Genevra Gerhart http://www.wolfe.net/~ggerhart/ 2134 E. Interlaken Bl. Tel. 206/329-0053 Seattle, WA 98112 ggerhart at wolfenet.com From CREES at UKANVAX.BITNET Fri Aug 23 23:30:33 1996 From: CREES at UKANVAX.BITNET (Ctr for Russian and East European Studies) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 18:30:33 -0500 Subject: Program Assistant Position Open (fwd) Message-ID: I for one am happy to receive the forwardings; I don't have time to monitor all the other lists, but I have lots of students looking for jobs. Forwardings of job announcements makes my life easier, and my students thank the forwarders. A "Warning! JOB ANNOUNCEMENT!" in the subject would allow others to delete promptly. Maria Carlson, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas From 76703.2063 at CompuServe.COM Sun Aug 25 06:16:43 1996 From: 76703.2063 at CompuServe.COM (Jerry Ervin) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 02:16:43 EDT Subject: Job announcements Message-ID: Let me add my voice to those of others who have endorsed the forwarding to SEELANGS of these job postings. A *lot* of grad students (and undergrads, I surmise) visit SEELANGS periodically to see what's up. If we want to entice them into our profession (or simply to show them that our profession is open to and interested in promoting the many possible career avenues that proficiency with Russian and the other languages with which we deal), then these postings are of great value. --Jerry Ervin Associate Prof. (Emeritus), Ohio State University From rbeard at bucknell.edu Sun Aug 25 12:29:22 1996 From: rbeard at bucknell.edu (Robert Beard) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 08:29:22 -0400 Subject: Job announcements Message-ID: Here! Here! The job postings play a large role in Bucknell's strategy for (re)building enrollments. About half our graduating class get their first jobs in Russia; some have left the USA without jobs or leads. Knowing that there are jobs which take advantage of their skills is a great comfort to students deciding whether to major or continue in graduate studies. --Bob At 02:16 AM 8/25/96 EDT, you wrote: >Let me add my voice to those of others who have endorsed the forwarding to >SEELANGS of these job postings. A *lot* of grad students (and undergrads, I >surmise) visit SEELANGS periodically to see what's up. If we want to entice >them into our profession (or simply to show them that our profession is open to >and interested in promoting the many possible career avenues that proficiency >with Russian and the other languages with which we deal), then these postings >are of great value. > >--Jerry Ervin >Associate Prof. (Emeritus), Ohio State University > > ----------------------------------------------------------- Robert Beard Bucknell University Russian & Linguistics Programs Lewisburg, PA 17837 rbeard at bucknell.edu 717-524-1336 Russian Program http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/russian Morphology on Internet http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard ----------------------------------------------------------- From TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU Sun Aug 25 16:28:21 1996 From: TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU (Gary H. Toops) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 11:28:21 CDT Subject: WHATEVER Message-ID: As so often happens on SEELangs, the discussion has gone rather far afield in a relatively short time. In the past twelve years, not one student has ever approached me about securing a job involving Russian or other Slavic language skills, nor has any administrator suggested that I duplicate the function of the university's job placement services. On occasion I may have directed one student or another to specific locations on the Internet where employment notices are regularly posted, but SEELangs has never been one of those locations. It is ironic that the same people who claim to print out and post every forwarded job announcement that appears on SEELangs also claim not to have the time to monitor one or two other subscriber lists or to direct their students to those lists. Students who are serious about finding a job are going to do their own job hunting (and not rely on "hot tips" from their Russian prof!), and it is no more incumbent upon me to provide students with reams of downloaded job announcements than it is upon me to clip want ads for my students from the classified section of the New York Times or Nezavisimaja gazeta. The word "comfort" has cropped up several times in this discussion. Yes, it is comforting to know that we in the profession have not been lying to our students when we say that we are providing them not just with knowledge, but with a marketable job skill, and that we have the periodic Slavic-related job announcement to back us up. But that was never the issue. The issue was and remains (and where are the techno-nerds screaming about "wasted bandwidth" when you need them?) whether SEELangs should replicate other, equally accessible subscriber lists and whether it should continue to be used as a dumping ground for every even remotely Slavic-related job posting by someone who himself is not even a subscriber to SEELangs. Gary H. Toops TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU Associate Professor Ph (316) WSU-3180 (978-3180) Wichita State University Fx (316) WSU-3293 (978-3293) Wichita, Kansas 67260-0011 USA http://www.twsu.edu/~mcllwww From gfowler at indiana.edu Sun Aug 25 16:47:24 1996 From: gfowler at indiana.edu (George Fowler) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 11:47:24 -0500 Subject: Job postings In-Reply-To: <199608251633.LAA03809@obslave.ucs.indiana.edu> Message-ID: Greetings! I've been following the job postings thread recently; the upshot seems to be that many people think the information is useful for the SEELangs audience, while some (Gary being the most forceful and outspoken) think it's a waste of bandwidth. The issue, of course, is that mailing lists like SEELangs force-feed all mailings to the entire subscription list, even those which may be of interest to a small percentage of the subscribers. Job postings are not the only potentially controversial material, of course; if someone posts a technical linguistic question or remark, this is likely of interest to a good percentage of the linguists, but a much lower percentage of the non-linguist subscribers (who are a pronounced majority). In this case particularly, a really appropriate solution might be to post such job announcements to the AATSEEL www page at: There is a category for job listings there, and there are even some job listings, the last posted on June 15, 1996; the job page is at: This page is maintained by Devin Browne, who has been posting these job listings to SEELangs as well. Clearly, he could post them in either place (although there has been the complication that the AATSEEL www page has migrated from one computer to another over the summer, with some disruptions in access and services; but it should be stable again very shortly, if it is not already--I'm sure this has interfered with his www postings over the summer). The question is, do most of us (= SEELangs subscribers) who are interested in job information have equivalent access to www matching email convenience? I do, but perhaps not all. I personally think that information of value to a selected minority of SEELangs subscribers ought to be posted on an "on-demand" basis, i.e., to the www page. However, I don't mind getting this sort of thing by email either. Still, we should be thinking about reorienting our expectations toward the built-in selectivity of www dissemination instead of listserv broadcasting, if not today, then in a year or so. I might mention that the AATSEEL www page has some very good stuff posted; the major problem is the lack of volunteers who are willing to get their hands dirty and look after categories of information. The people in charge are George Mitrevski (mitrege at mail.auburn.edu) and Sibelan Forrester (sforres1 at swarthmore.edu); either would be happy to welcome additional contributors to the AATSEEL www effort. (George is going to be traveling a lot this year, so Sibelan will probably have most hands-on responsibility.) If nobody is willing to go to the trouble to identify, organize, and post information, it isn't going to appear there by magic! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ George Fowler [Email] gfowler at indiana.edu Dept. of Slavic Languages [Home] 1-317-726-1482 **Try here first** Ballantine 502 [Home Fax] 1-317-726-1642 [call first] Indiana University [Office] 1-812-855-2829 [inactive in 95-96] Bloomington, IN 47405 [Dept] 1-812-855-9906/-2624/-2608 USA [Dept Fax] 1-812-855-2107 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From d-powelstock at uchicago.edu Sun Aug 25 17:35:53 1996 From: d-powelstock at uchicago.edu (David Powelstock) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 12:35:53 -0500 Subject: Our precious bandwith Message-ID: Since the majority of SEELANGers who have responded so far have spoken up in favor of the convenience of getting Devin Browne's job postings on the list, I see no reason yet to give in to one objector. Presumably the content of the list is a matter of consensus among subscribers, not the opinion of one person, however insistent. It would be good to hear others' opinions. Incidentally, I hardly think there is cause to aim abuse at Mr. Browne, whose intentions have certainly been to do a service. And most respondents so far believe he has. If we subscribers consensually decide we would rather not have the postings, we can politely ask him to stop. There is no need for vitriol. ********************************************************* *David Powelstock Phone: (312) 702-0035 * *Slavic Department FAX: (312) 702-7030 * *University of Chicago d-powelstock at uchicago.edu * *1130 E. 59th Street * *Chicago, IL 60637 * ********************************************************* From CREES at UKANVAX.BITNET Sun Aug 25 17:47:22 1996 From: CREES at UKANVAX.BITNET (Ctr for Russian and East European Studies) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 12:47:22 -0500 Subject: Our precious bandwith Message-ID: I would add to David's comment another: I personally see student advising and mentoring (and that includes talking about jobs) as part of my own job; I guess that not all colleagues do. We produce more than PhD clones, and students have many needs. If Gary's attitude is prevalent, that would account for some part of the profession's recruitment, enrollment, and attrition problems at the undergrad level. Most university job placement offices, by the way, don't care about looking for and posting the odd Slavic job -- they have too many psych and business majors to worry about before they can worry about SLL majors. Let's put our students back at the center of what we do; we wouldn't be here without them. Maria Carlson, Univ. of KS From ggerhart at wolfenet.com Sun Aug 25 17:56:51 1996 From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 10:56:51 -0700 Subject: Our precious bandwith Message-ID: It is people like you who will save the profession from itself. gg -- Genevra Gerhart http://www.wolfe.net/~ggerhart/ 2134 E. Interlaken Bl. Tel. 206/329-0053 Seattle, WA 98112 ggerhart at wolfenet.com From hbaran at ios.com Sun Aug 25 19:08:39 1996 From: hbaran at ios.com (Henryk Baran) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 15:08:39 -0400 Subject: Job postings Message-ID: George Fowler's point that information of interest to some fraction of the SEELANGS audience could be placed on and retrieved from the AATSEEL web page is well taken. However, we might bear in mind that not everyone will be moved to scan the page on a regular basis; many people don't treat Net surfing as a vital daily activity, and, hence, something with a short time fuse will likely escape them and their students. We are all more likely to pass on relevant information when it comes directly into our mailbox! Moreover, I wonder why job postings are any more of a "waste of bandwidth" than the random inquiries on words and expressions in the various languagues, or the occasional bibliographic queries, that appear on this list on a fairly regular basis. More than a few of these could be resolved by a little digging in a library, yet I haven't seen people expressing indignation when these come popping into our in-boxes. Why is something that could help students less important? =================================== Henryk Baran (201) 967-1593 (voice) (201) 967-8014 (fax) e-mail: hbaran at ios.com ---------- From MLLEMILY at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu Sun Aug 25 20:13:35 1996 From: MLLEMILY at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Emily Tall) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 15:13:35 -0500 Subject: Our precious bandwith Message-ID: I, too, would like to keep getting job postings. The availability of jobs in the field is something I include in my yearly report to the Dean. Here at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where all language programs are at risk, having information about jobs at my fingertips is really helpful. Sure, I'll point students to the web, but this way I'm current and don't have to go to the web. Emily Tall From paburak at summon.syr.edu Sun Aug 25 10:55:53 1996 From: paburak at summon.syr.edu (Patricia A. Burak (OIS)) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 15:55:53 +0500 Subject: Hello Message-ID: Dear Professor Baran: I read your posting today to SEELANGS (I"ve only recently joined this listserv), and thought that I would just say "hello." Sasha has kept me "posted", more or less, about you, in our frequent conversations. As you know, he served on my dissertation committee, and one of my most strict task-masters. Without his "push", I would be working still! Can you do me a favor? Do you have Rod Patterson's email? I sent him an email Friday, and it rejected. I thought he told me "nebesyn at aol.com". Do you have it? If so, I would be quite grateful if you would send it to me. Also, congratulations (?) on helping bring Larissa to SUNY Albany this fall. I know that Sasha is quite grateful to you as well! Hope all is well in your world, and at SUNY Albany. Best regards..Pat Patricia A. Burak, Director Office of International Services Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244-2380 From paburak at summon.syr.edu Sun Aug 25 10:59:06 1996 From: paburak at summon.syr.edu (Patricia A. Burak (OIS)) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 15:59:06 +0500 Subject: Apology Message-ID: Dear SEELANGS members: I apologize for posting a personal message to the listserv. Neglectful action, and will never be repeated! Please forgive the error. Patricia A. Burak, Director Office of International Services Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244-2380 From TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU Sun Aug 25 19:56:38 1996 From: TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU (Gary H. Toops) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 14:56:38 CDT Subject: Our precious bandwith In-Reply-To: CREES@UKANVAX -- Sun, 25 Aug 1996 12:47:22 -0500 Message-ID: > If Gary's attitude is > prevalent, that would account for some part of the profession's > recruitment, enrollment, and attrition problems at the undergrad level. Gee, and I thought that Richard Brecht's report attributed the 30%-50% *nationwide* decline in Russian enrollments to the diminished importance of Russia in the world's political and economic arenas. Funny thing: enrollments in classical Greek at Wichita State this semester are higher than those in Russian, and our classics professor hasn't used even one Greek want ad to entice students. Face it: individuals in the profession are fooling themselves if they think increased enrollments are the result of holding promises of Slavic- language-related job prospects in front of students. Russian enrollments will increase when Russia regains some of its former political and economic stature and when college administrators stop expediently allowing foreign-language students unlimited access to Spanish classes. Gary H. Toops TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU Associate Professor Ph (316) WSU-3180 (978-3180) Wichita State University Fx (316) WSU-3293 (978-3293) Wichita, Kansas 67260-0011 USA http://www.twsu.edu/~mcllwww From fjm6 at columbia.edu Sun Aug 25 21:50:37 1996 From: fjm6 at columbia.edu (Frank Joseph Miller) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 17:50:37 -0400 Subject: Our precious bandwith In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I agree 100% with Maria Carlson. It is certainly no waste of my time to read job notices, and I am thankful that someone has the consideration to forward them to us so that we who have graduate programs can forward them to our graduate students as well as to our undergraduates. I, myself, do not have the time to check various lists, and I have even less time to read such frivolous arguments. As far as language enrollments are concerned, I have found as a one-person Russian department in the past and as the person presently in charge of multi-person Russian program that good teaching by enthusiastic persons with a native or near-native command of Russian is the basis for any healthy Russian language program. Frank Miller, Chairman Dept. of Slavic Languages Columbia University From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu Mon Aug 26 11:55:17 1996 From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 06:55:17 -0500 Subject: Brecht et al.'s report Message-ID: >Gee, and I thought that Richard Brecht's report attributed the 30%-50% >*nationwide* decline in Russian enrollments to the diminished importance >of Russia in the world's political and economic arenas. Brecht et al.'s report claims that Russia remains of great importance in the world's political and economic arenas and makes no suggestion that the decline is due to any changes in Russia's status. There may be a decline in enrollments due to our students' perception of Russia as of less importance in strategic terms, and it is our job to remind students (and administrators) of the fact that Russia is as important a society (in political, economic, and cultural terms) as it was in the Soviet era. Ben Rifkin ********************************** Benjamin Rifkin Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures University of Wisconsin-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-1623; fax (608) 265-2814 e-mail: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu From SCATTONL at sysadm.suny.edu Mon Aug 26 13:36:00 1996 From: SCATTONL at sysadm.suny.edu (Linda Scatton) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:36:00 -0400 Subject: WHATEVER -Reply Message-ID: Let me add my voice to those who are grateful for the job postings. Who has the time to subscribe to all of the lists where these announcements appear? It's a great service to subscribers of SEELANGS. I'm neither a student nor professor, but a Slavist-turned-university administrator, and I find the postings useful in connection with my own professional career. Keep them coming! Linda Scatton, Assistant Provost, State University of New York, System Administration SUNY Plaza, Albany, NY 12246 From lfrumkes at wesleyan.edu Mon Aug 26 18:50:58 1996 From: lfrumkes at wesleyan.edu (Lisa A. Frumkes) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:50:58 -0400 Subject: Russian "Hook" summary Message-ID: A few weeks ago, I sent a query to SEELANGS, LCTL-T and FLTEACH asking the following: "Does anyone know of any materials (written, audio, video, multimedia, web-based, whatever) which could be used to "hook" students whom one is trying to "lure" towards the study of Russian?" I got more than two dozen responses, which I summarize here, identifying sources with their contributions; quite a few people asked for a summary, so I thought it made sense to post it to the lists as well. This is a rather lengthy document, so if you're not interested, prepare your deletion finger *now*. I hope this information is useful to some of you out there, and thanks a million to everyone who sent me suggestions! Lisa ******************************* Printed Materials Genevra Gerhart suggested her book A Russian's World (for more information, point your web browser to http://www.wolfe.net/~ggerhart/) as a hook. Rosa-Maria Moreno (Cormanick) passed on to me some cute flyers which could be posted around campus for advertising Russian courses, including an amusing version of "The top 10 reasons to study Russian." Markell R West suggested: "Maybe the book A CLOCKWORK ORANGE would appeal to some; they based their slang on Russian." Markell R West also suggested that "the magazine RUSSIAN LIFE (North American magazine) is interesting, and it has a language column which is in English but talked about some Russian words, or some Russian words as English-speakers used them." Steve Blackwell provided a "large and growing list of cognates (around two hundred)" which he is "using in an effort to break down the "fear" barrier and market Russian as an accessible, not so difficult language." He formats it with "some jazzy fonts" and warns us that "the transliteration is inconsistent; I've done this in an effort to anticipate the way the non-Russian-Speaker will most naturally read the letters." What Russian Words do You Already Know? More than you think! Below is a list of over 200 transliterated Russian words you can already easily understand. And there are many more. The spellings are slightly adjusted for ease of recognition. mama papa act kot orkestr text lampa tom stool telefon televizor brat sestra actor artist balet journal gazeta computer monetka concentratsia revolutsia communicatsia ingener biznismen narkoman militsia nos avtobus dog buldog rekomendatsia park organizatsia meeting sportsmen student shkola universitet luna auditoriia stop test repetitsia menu vodka voda kurs klass kaseta film bomba futbol basketbol hokkey badminton volleybol materiia katastrofa ocean kompetentny dama muzika guitara appetit arest advokat karikatura ataka atmosfera atlas atlet genii muzei geografiia master medik nimfa fanatik familiia elektrichestvo ekonomika huligan politika campania religiia rezultat talant disk printer portfel statuya blank opera bank produkt bluzka rukzak bootsy kepka player video polemika argument fakt implicatsia imperia imperator tsar incognito import impulse monarch pianino shtorm revolver cort treiner monument istoriya golf attraction assistent utopia aphorism budget burokrat vacuum kosmos kultura globus realia professor doktor major leitenant general maskarad karnival simvol simfonia sistema skeptik skelet deklamatsia binokl interes logika favoritizm protest oliva naturalist dektektiv jeansy taxi tabletka folklore exotica echo ceremonia cement centr mentor drifter asphalt presentatsia manager complect corpus block jungly divan balkony invalid coordinator conflikt conformism passivny passagir universal factor evangelia hallucinatsia dictator gigant motor grammatika dogma koketka pedant radical seria separatizm objectivnost ovatsia liquor analiz lift yachta jurist humor era fenomen specialist discriminatsia dissident bar cafe restoran accent academic ambitsiozny canoe maximum kapitalizm!! Video The videotape which accompanies the first lesson of _Nachalo_ might attract some students. Jerry Ervin writes: "forgive me for mentioning it--you might consider showing to that audience the videotape of the first lesson of _Nachalo_ (publ. McGraw-Hill); it shows contemporary, urban Russia and young and older Russians (not stereotyped KGB-types and peasants) with a Russian voice-over and English subtitles. We (admittedly, I am one of the authors of the textbook) think it makes a nice "hook," whether or not you decide to use that actual text. Supplementary courses: Many folks associated with the Ohio State University (Adonica A Sendelbach , Rosa-Maria Moreno (Cormanick) and Jerry Ervin) mentioned the Sampler Class Program. An article on the subject by Adonica Sendelbach appeared in the November 1995 AATSEEL Newsletter. Such sampler classes "most likely should be offered on some sort of regular basis (i.e., we have Russian 101 offered every quarter here [at Ohio State], so the sampler classes should be offered every quarter). A colleague in North Carolina said he tried it and served Ben and Jerry's White Russian ice cream as the treat!" Other outreach courses, are of course, possible and were mentioned by several people: culture, literature and history in translation, for example. Special lectures including guest lectures in linguistics or history classes, either by Russians or merely on Russian topics , might also be another idea. Human resources: Sheila M. McCarthy suggests that "recent grads who are working/studying in Russia are a good "hook" if you can get them to write a paragraph about what they are doing." At her institution, they print up this information in a departmental newsletter and post it on a bulletin board (both physical and electronic bulletin boards might be useful here). "The aim is to show that there are employment opportunities for Russian." She also mentions that "when students return from study in Russia, we have a coffee hour for all interested students." Computer-based resources: Betty Lou Leaver suggested a CD-ROM called A Touch of Russia is ready for distribution. She is not sure whether or not it is available yet, but it is apparently from Analysas Corporation. Agora Language Marketplace listed their phone number as 800-401-5664. Web-based resources Tom Beyer wrote "I hope to put up on the web in the next few days a page called Russia Today it will have one hundred Russian signs of familiar images such as Koka Kola , Pepsi, MakDonalds etc. I also hope to put up lots of scans of Russian artifacts-lottery tickets, theater tickets, metro maps, Russian currency, stamps, postcards, etc." http://www.middlebury.edu/~beyer TennesseeBob (a.k.a. Robert D. Peckham) passed along his latest set of Russian links, which I've not had the time to look at, but those who are familiar with TBob are aware of the great service he provides to language teachers in his relentless perusal of the web in search of new web sites. His list follows: Russia and the Soviet Union: RUSSIA-NET at BIBLE.ACU.EDU ("Russian and Ukranian Evangelism") RUSSIAN at ASUACAD ("Russian Language Issues")English & romanized Russian. rustex-l at UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU ("Russian TeX & Cyrillic text processing list") In Eng. RAMIT-L at MITVMA.BITNET It would be a LISTSERV list ("Russian Club at MIT Discussion List") SUEARN-L at UBVM ("Connecting the USSR to Internet") In English. FRIENDS at APRIL.IBPM.SERPUKHOV.SU ("U.S.-Russia Friends & Partners Distribution List") About WWW networking for US, Russia, & ex-USSR. INFO-RUSS at SMARTY.ECE.JHU.EDU News for Russian emigres, in Russian & Eng. Subscription requests to INFO-RUSS-REQUEST, not LISTSERV. SOVOKINFORM at DRFMC.CENG.CEA.FR CIS news, events, general information; in English & Russian. Subscription requests to BURKOV, not LISTSERV. OKAZIYA at MITVMA ("Offers/requests to carry mail/docs/etc to/from Russia") H-RUSSIA at UICVM ("H-Net Russian History list") Discussion in English. RUSHIST at CSEARN ("RusHist - Russian History Forum")Discussion in English. Russian Mailing Lists (Yamada Language Center, U of Oregon): http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/lists/russian.html E-mail Discussion Groups for people interested in Russian (CUNY): http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/langlit/pages/ruslists.htm Re: surfing the web in/for f (russian live link list): http://arachne.acs.uci.edu:1080/w3m3/flasc-l/msg00076.html [Russian Software]: http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~banerjee/russlist.html RUSAG Weekly News Updates (The Russian Agricultural ListServ): http://csde.aces.k12.ct.us/friends/science/agriculture/master.html Russian Mailing Lists (Yamada Language Center, U of Oregon): http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/lists/russian.html E-mail Discussion Groups for people interested in Russian (CUNY): http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/langlit/pages/ruslists.htm Russian Legal Server - News and Listserv: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~nikforov/news/news.html FPLEGA Subscribe to listproc at solar.rtd.utk.edu (help legal practioners and scholars, as well as businessmen and other interested people share information concerning the new Russian (plus CIS and U.S.-Russian) Laws and Regulations) REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources - Listserv Discussion Groups (The World-Wide Web Virtual Library) - tons of listservs, etc with the right addresses: http://crichton.nis.pitt.edu/~cjp/rslist.html T I L E . N E T / L I S T S - Russia: http://tile.net/lists/russia.html RUSSIAN (and some Slavic) LISTSERV WWW SITES Department of German and Russian-U. of North Carolina at Greenboro: (link-rich, worth the trip for the radio-TV sites or the 16 newspapers): http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/german.html INSTITUTIONS IN RUSSIA (WWW Virtual Library: Sociology): http://syy.oulu.fi/sos/instruss.html Russian Language Resources on the Internet: http://elaine.teleport.com/~rawdirt/russian.html Russian.html: http://www.alaska.net/~whisper/russian..html#anchor421994 Educational Projects & Programs in Russia http://aie.riis.ru/english/projects/index.html The New Russia http://www.interknowledge.com/russia/ Images of Irkutsk (Russia) http://ripley.ece.uiuc.edu/~vfridman/irkutsk2.html Faces of Russian Rock http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~bilona/rusrock/ Index of Russian Lyric (Rock) http://www.serve.com/andrey/russian/music/rock.htm RUSCOM's Audio Collection of Russian Rock (WAVE (PCM) format) http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/~kig/ruscom/waves/ Maximov's Registry of Music Resources (Russian classical and rock) http://www.maximov.com/Resources/music.html Dancing in Russia Homepage (English or Russian) http://sunny.aha.ru/~irnpaul/ Welcome to Ekskursii!: http://users.aimnet.com/~ksyrah/ekskurs/eks.html RUSSIA Homepage: http://www.asialink.com/russia.htm WIRE - Emerging Markets: Russia & the N.I.S. http://wire.co.uk/examples/finance/russia.htm English-russian russian-english dictionary (interactive form): http://www.elvis.msk.su/cgi-bin/mtrans Russian home pages http://donkey.cs.arizona.edu:1994/~paul/russia.html [Open Radio] 22 - FM 102.5 MHz (Russia): http://2x2radio.rinet.ru/ RUSSIA BED & BREAKFAST HOMESTAY: http://pomo.nbn.com/home/homestayrussia/russiahomestay.html [Russia On-line Services] - all cyrillic: http://koi.www.online.ru/rrol/rservices.xhtml Information about RUSSIA and the Former USSR: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mes/russia.html All Regions of Russia by Pictures, copyright (hundreds of photos): http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mes/russia/photo.html Statistics for "All Regions of Russia by Pictures http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mes/russia/usage/count.html Russia on the Net: http://www.ru/ FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE, MOSCOW (need to select Russian encoding): http://www.ru/fns/ RUSSIA: http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~fyodorow/russia.html Russian Studies on the Web (an alia for Russian and Slavic Departments): http://www.cs.ut.ee/~roman_l/rusweb.html or mirror http://ash.swarthmore.edu/slavic/rusweb/html Roy's Russian Resource: http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/roy1page.html Selected Russian Rock Bands http://charon.nmsu.edu/~akravtso/rus_rock.html Slavic Review (2 post-print issues): http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavrev/slavrev.html Window to Russia: http://www.kiae.su/www/wtr/ World-Wide-Web servers in Russia: http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/asia/russia/russia.html Russia On-Line: Culture and Art: http://koi.www.online.ru/emain/eart/ Univ. of Pittsburgh Russian and East European Studies http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rees.html/ REESweb: Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources-Language and Literature: http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rslang.html Info-Press (Russian-language iformation agency of America): http://www.pacificnet.net/~infopress/ Commercial Companies In Russia: http://garant.msu.ru/info/internet/commerce.html St. Petersburg Press (in English): http://www.spb.su/sppress/ ITAR-TASS Russian News Agency http://www.trib.com/NEWS/tass.html Russian Daily News: http://sunsite.oit.unc.edu/sergei/Daily/Daily.html Simbirsk Telecom http://www.stc.simbirsk.su/ Saint-Petersburg http://www.spb.su/ RUSSIAN LANGUAGE BOOKS: http://www.wor.com/books/russianb.html Other various suggestions Distributing information via posters or flyers about current events Puzzles which involve Cyrillic Film festivals Pictures of famous Russians (ballet stars, athletes, actors, musicians, etc.) Distribution of znachki or other Russian trinkets (like at freshman orientation) Lisa's idea: get a singing and/or dancing troupe together to serenade new students arriving on campus with Russian culture--once the attention of the students has been attracted, hand 'em a flyer. It takes getting a group of semi-talented people together, but I think some campuses might be able to manage it. Thanks again to everyone who made suggestions: I hope this compilation is of use to some of you! *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Lisa A. Frumkes Assistant Director, CTW Mellon Project Language Laboratory, Fisk Hall Wesleyan University 262 High Street Middletown, CT 06459 (860) 347-8791 (please leave voice mail) lfrumkes at wesleyan.edu *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* * CTW Mellon Project Home Page: * * http://www.wesleyan.edu/CTWMellon/ * *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From SCATTONL at sysadm.suny.edu Mon Aug 26 21:02:00 1996 From: SCATTONL at sysadm.suny.edu (Linda Scatton) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 17:02:00 -0400 Subject: Nagibin's most recent publications Message-ID: Does anyone know, off-hand, of reviews/criticism devoted to Jurij Nagibin's work s published during the 1990s, such as "Moja zolotaja teshcha" or his much-touted diaries? Have they been translated into English or is anyone currently working on translations? Linda Scatton SUNY System Administration From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Tue Aug 27 16:16:50 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:16:50 -0400 Subject: Job opening at Eurasia Foundation Moscow (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 96 15:34:55 EDT From: Jon at eurasia.msk.ru Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Job opening at Eurasia Foundation Moscow ********************************************************************** JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: EVALUATORS WANTED FOR THE EURASIA FOUNDATION, MOSCOW ********************************************************************** The Eurasia Foundation is a privately-managed grantmaking organization established in 1993 with a major grant from the US Agency for International Development. The Foundation fulfills a broad mandate to support programs that build democratic and free market institutions in the twelve New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. The Moscow Office of the Eurasia Foundation is currently seeking evaluators to conduct evaluations of individual grant programs. The purpose of these evaluations is to provide an objective, external analysis of the effectiveness of EF Moscow projects and to make specific recommendations for future Foundation involvement with these organizations. The position is open to American, as well as, Russian nationals and will be filled immediately. Current funding allows EF Moscow to offer $13 per hour for up to ten hours per project. The Foundation covers all travel expenses when necessary. RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Thoroughly review and familiarize oneself with individual EF Moscow grants scheduled for evaluation in all three of EF's programmatic foci: economic reform, democratic reform, and media and telecommunications. 2. Travel to project sites in regions covered by the EF Moscow office (Central Russia and Siberia, including northern Russia. . 3. Interview project principals, participants, government officials and activists in Russian; 4. Evaluate the implementation of project objectives and assess the impact of projects and the financial sustainability of organizations; 5. Write evaluation reports in English of approximately 10 pages to be reviewed by the Foundation program staff; QUALIFICATIONS: * A four-year university degree, preferably in the area of Russian studies, business, economics, international relations, political science, sociology or journalism. * An understanding of the social, political, and economic situation in Russia. * Fluency in written and spoken English and Russian is required. * Strong writing, analytical, and inductive reasoning skills. * Excellent communication/interviewing skill. * Prior project evaluation experience and work experience in the NIS is preferred. Send resume and cover letter by fax to: Melanie Peyser Regional Director Moscow Office of the Eurasia Foundation 14 Volkhonka Street, 4th floor Moscow, Russia 119842 Fax: (095) 956-1239 e-mail: melanie at eurasia.msk.ru No phone inquiries please. From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Tue Aug 27 16:37:00 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:37:00 -0400 Subject: Program Assistant Position Open (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199608232034.QAA08771@post-ofc03.srv.cis.pitt.edu> Message-ID: Well, since I'm still temporarily homeless (and will be for another month or 2) and staying with friends, I don't have a computer hooked up that I can check my email regularly. Thus, I haven't officially opened up the flood-gates of the listservs to which I belong, which I had sent NOMAIL commands to in the beginning of the summer. Therefore, I only have a minute idea of the string of postings that may or may not have been happening on SEELANGS on the job postings topic. Hopefully things have remained civilized and not too ugly (hehe). Anyway, just my 2 cents. I'm teaching in a public school. It was *very* hard for me to find this job. I tried MANY MANY venues. Made numerous connections and tracked so many leads. I always appreciated being told of a job here or there by people who wanted to help. Although I'm teaching now, there was a time long ago that I graduated with a BA in Russian and had not a clue as to what opportunities were out there for me outside of the US government. I didn't know how to look for a job then, like I do now. Back then, I would have really appreciated seeing these types of job opportunities so that I could get a feel for what really IS "out there" and what kind of experience I would need to gain to obtain those kinds of jobs. So now, even though I mostly teach French (although I'm doing a Russian exploratory class this year -- a MAJOR coup, IMHO!), I still have a special place in my heart for those undergrads and grad students about to enter the job market who are coming from a background in Russian. I love to talk to undergrads about the kinds of opportunities that are out there and discuss what kinds of things they might consider doing to prepare themselves for certain types of jobs. My hope, therefore, is to help not just students (who probably do not subscribe to this list) but also academic advisors from Slavic/Russian departments who also enjoy helping their students find professional success. Students need to know what kinds of opportunities exist out there for them and they need help in knowing how to get "real life" experience. I hope these postings contribute a little in this direction. Finally, thank you to those who send me direct messages (I did receive those) which were supportive and positive. Maybe it's for the best that I didn't see the other postings. Regardless, the jobs will keep coming, and if you're not interested, just hit that old DELETE key -- no offense taken. :-) Have a great day everybody! Devin On Fri, 23 Aug 1996 TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU wrote: > Is there some reason why as a SEELangs subscriber I have to constantly > receive forwarded postings from some other subscriber list? If SEELangs > subscribers were interested in the list maintained by > civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu, they surely could subscribe to that list on > their own. Or am I missing something here? > > Gary H. Toops TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU > Associate Professor Ph (316) WSU-3180 (978-3180) > Wichita State University Fx (316) WSU-3293 (978-3293) > Wichita, Kansas 67260-0011 USA http://www.twsu.edu/~mcllwww > From milena at bgcict.acad.bg Wed Aug 28 02:02:24 1996 From: milena at bgcict.acad.bg (Milena Slavcheva) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 22:02:24 -0400 Subject: Subject: VIRUS ALERT Message-ID: >On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Ludmil Katzarov wrote: > > Xref: torfree ab.jobs:17158 can.jobs:55533 ott.jobs:18699 qc.jobs:9445 tor.job >s:38221 > Path: torfree!news1.io.org!newsfeed.direct.ca!van.istar!west.istar!ott.istar!i >star.net!tor.istar!east.istar!news1.istar.ca!news > From: "cadastre at magi.com" > Newsgroups: ott.jobs,qc.jobs,tor.jobs,can.jobs,ab.jobs > Subject: VIRUS ALERT > Date: 18 Aug 1996 15:34:16 GMT > Organization: Cadastral Geomatics International Inc. >Message-ID: <4v7d5o$fg1 at news.istar.ca> > NNTP-Posting-Host: ts24-01.ott.istar.ca > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) > > Glen Carter wrote: > > The following information was received from Motorola Canada regarding > an Internet Virus that is reported to have serious effect on fixed > drives. > > Date: Tuesday, August 13, 1996 > > Subject: Internet Virus > > Please pass on this information to your colleagues. > There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If > you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times", DO > NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages > below. Some miscreant is sending e-mail under the title "Good Times" > nationwide, if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWNLOAD THE FILE! it > has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on > it. Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about. > > The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of major > importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently a new > computer virus has been engineered and used on AMERICA ONLINE that is > unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other more well-known > viruses such as "Stoned", "Airwolf" And "Michealangalo" pale in > comparison to the prospects of this newest creation by a warped > mentality. What makes this virus so terrifying, said the FCC, is the > fact that no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer to be > infected. It can be spread through the existing e-mail systems of the > Internet >Once a computer is infected, one of several this can happen. If the > computer contains a hard drive, that will most likely be destroyed. > If the program is not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed > in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop - which can severely damage > the processor if left running that way too long. > > Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is > happening until it is far to late. Luckily, there is one sure means > of detecting what is known as the "Good Times" virus. It always > travels to new computers the same way in a text e-mail message with > the subject line reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy, > once the file has been received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of > loading the file into the e-mail server's ASCII buffer causes the > "Good Times" mainline program to initialize and execute. > > The bottom line is: if you receive a file with the subject line "Good > Times", delete it immediately! Do not read it! Rest assured that > whose ever name was on the "From" line was surely struck by the virus. > > Once a computer is infected, one of several this can happen. If the > computer contains a hard drive, that will most likely be destroyed. > If the program is not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed > in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop - which can severely damage > the processor if left running that way too long. > > Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is > happening until it is far to late. Luckily, there is one sure means > of detecting what is known as the "Good Times" virus. It always > travels to new computers the same way in a text e-mail message with > the subject line reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy, > once the file has been received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of > loading the file into the e-mail server's ASCII buffer causes the > "Good Times" mainline program to initialize and execute. > > The bottom line is: if you receive a file with the subject line "Good > Times", delete it immediately! Do not read it! Rest assured that > whose ever name was on the "From" line was surely struck by the virus. > Warn your fiends and local system users of this newest threat to the > Internet! It could save them a lot of time and money. > > Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well? > > Subject: New and Dangerous Virus for your information....... > > DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION > > We work closely with the military and received this message from a > very reliable source in DC this morning. > > A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the Internet with the > namePKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this file is > a new version of the PKZIP software used to "Zip" (compress) files. > > DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!! If you install > or expand this file, the virus will Wipe your hard disk clean and > infect modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive > virus and there is NOT yet a way of cleaning up this one. > > -- > There are no dumb questions, only stupid mistakes. > > Policies and Procedures are for inefficient managers to hide behind. > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Cadastral Geomatics International Inc. > cadastre at magi.com > (819) 777-6054 Fax. (819) 777-6922 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > From jslindst at cc.helsinki.fi Wed Aug 28 07:35:07 1996 From: jslindst at cc.helsinki.fi (Jouko Lindstedt) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:35:07 +0300 Subject: Subject: VIRUS ALERT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The "good times virus alert" is one of the best-known HOAXES in the Internet. The "virus" is the warning message itself. Please DON'T pass it on! Jouko Lindstedt Slavonic and Baltic Department, University of Helsinki e-mail: Jouko.Lindstedt at Helsinki.Fi or jslindst at cc.helsinki.fi http://www.helsinki.fi/~jslindst/ From jkautz at u.washington.edu Wed Aug 28 10:22:48 1996 From: jkautz at u.washington.edu (Joseph Kautz) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 03:22:48 -0700 Subject: Russian Sign Language Web Site In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear SEELangers, I have started a web site dedicated to Russian Sign Language at the following URLs http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jkautz/russian.sign.video.html http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jkautz At present the site has GIF animations of kinship terms and questions words as well as a graphic of the Russian Manual Alphabet. I will be adding more material every day and would appreciate any feedback from visitors to the site. Vsego dobrogo. Joseph Kautz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph Kautz Department of Slavic Languages and Literature University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 (206)759-7663 email: jkautz at u.washington.edu http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jkautz/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From rbeard at bucknell.edu Wed Aug 28 12:59:13 1996 From: rbeard at bucknell.edu (Robert Beard) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:59:13 -0400 Subject: Subject: VIRUS ALERT Message-ID: Please, please, please, please, please stop rerouting the bogus "Good Times" virus alert. How many times do we have to get it. And stop asking what the third word in English that ends on -gry is--there are only two! From anelson at brynmawr.edu Wed Aug 28 15:53:38 1996 From: anelson at brynmawr.edu (Andrea Nelson) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 11:53:38 -0400 Subject: Job announcements Message-ID: At 02:16 AM 8/25/96 EDT, Jerry Ervin wrote: >Let me add my voice to those of others who have endorsed the forwarding to >SEELANGS of these job postings. A *lot* of grad students (and undergrads, I >surmise) visit SEELANGS periodically to see what's up. If we want to entice >them into our profession (or simply to show them that our profession is open to >and interested in promoting the many possible career avenues that proficiency >with Russian and the other languages with which we deal), then these postings >are of great value. > >--Jerry Ervin >Associate Prof. (Emeritus), Ohio State University I just wanted to comment on how good it felt to read Professor Ervin's statement that graduate students are to be "enticed" and that our profession is "open to and interested in promoting ... many possible career avenues." It is very important for young scholars to hear these kinds of statements from senior faculty as we attempt to enter what can be a gruelling and intimidating job search process which, hopefully for many of us, will lead to employment. Thank you Professor Ervin! Sincerely, Andrea Nelson (Ph.D. Candidate) Department of Russian Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 > From anelson at brynmawr.edu Wed Aug 28 16:02:23 1996 From: anelson at brynmawr.edu (Andrea Nelson) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:02:23 -0400 Subject: WHATEVER Message-ID: Dear Seelangers: I would like to respond to Gary Toops's comments, recreated below. I agree with him that the job description of most Russian professors and scholars most likely does not include "job hunting" for one's students. However, the spirit in which Professor Ervin's comments were made, in my opinion, is what it's all about. That is, being aware of the possibilities that an education in Slavic can provide an undergraduate and/or graduate student and, perhaps most importantly, encouraging the best and brightest of our students to feel welcome to strive for a place in the Russian and Slavic sectors of the academy. While it goes without saying that positions in the academy are now not as plentiful as they were in years past, we should not be discouraged from either encouraging our students in their future endeavors or honestly communicating the passion that we feel about our specialities. Sincerely, Andrea Nelson Department of Russian Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 At 11:28 AM 8/25/96 CDT, you wrote: >As so often happens on SEELangs, the discussion has gone rather far >afield in a relatively short time. > >In the past twelve years, not one student has ever approached me >about securing a job involving Russian or other Slavic language >skills, nor has any administrator suggested that I duplicate the >function of the university's job placement services. On occasion >I may have directed one student or another to specific locations >on the Internet where employment notices are regularly posted, but >SEELangs has never been one of those locations. > >It is ironic that the same people who claim to print out and post >every forwarded job announcement that appears on SEELangs also >claim not to have the time to monitor one or two other subscriber >lists or to direct their students to those lists. Students who >are serious about finding a job are going to do their own job >hunting (and not rely on "hot tips" from their Russian prof!), >and it is no more incumbent upon me to provide students with reams >of downloaded job announcements than it is upon me to clip want >ads for my students from the classified section of the New York >Times or Nezavisimaja gazeta. > >The word "comfort" has cropped up several times in this discussion. >Yes, it is comforting to know that we in the profession have not >been lying to our students when we say that we are providing them >not just with knowledge, but with a marketable job skill, and that >we have the periodic Slavic-related job announcement to back us up. > >But that was never the issue. The issue was and remains (and where >are the techno-nerds screaming about "wasted bandwidth" when you >need them?) whether SEELangs should replicate other, equally >accessible subscriber lists and whether it should continue to be >used as a dumping ground for every even remotely Slavic-related >job posting by someone who himself is not even a subscriber to >SEELangs. > > >Gary H. Toops TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU >Associate Professor Ph (316) WSU-3180 (978-3180) >Wichita State University Fx (316) WSU-3293 (978-3293) >Wichita, Kansas 67260-0011 USA http://www.twsu.edu/~mcllwww > > From krivink at HUSC.BITNET Wed Aug 28 20:32:26 1996 From: krivink at HUSC.BITNET (Katerina Krivinkova) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:32:26 -0400 Subject: Fw: Program Assistant Position Open (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199608232052.PAA04981@midway.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: Let us definitely keep the job announcements on SEELANGS. At Cornell we pass them on to our (grateful) students. Thanks, Devin! Katya From aisrael at american.edu Wed Aug 28 20:55:54 1996 From: aisrael at american.edu (Alina Israeli) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:55:54 -0400 Subject: Our precious bandwith Message-ID: >Since the majority of SEELANGers who have responded so far have spoken up >in favor of the convenience of getting Devin Browne's job postings on the >list, I see no reason yet to give in to one objector. Presumably the >content of the list is a matter of consensus among subscribers, not the >opinion of one person, however insistent. It would be good to hear others' >opinions. > >Incidentally, I hardly think there is cause to aim abuse at Mr. Browne, >whose intentions have certainly been to do a service. And most respondents >so far believe he has. If we subscribers consensually decide we would >rather not have the postings, we can politely ask him to stop. There is no >need for vitriol. > Indeed! Were the Czech free books of interest to everyone? And I personally have nothing against them either. Alina Israeli From bigjim at u.washington.edu Wed Aug 28 21:35:57 1996 From: bigjim at u.washington.edu (James Augerot) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 14:35:57 -0700 Subject: Information for all In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Please keep the information flowing. I find it very easy to skip whatever doesn't interest me and would feel deprived if I thought someone was tailoring the list in some way. I understand the feeling that someone may have after being out of town for a few weeks and coming back on line confronted with a huge number of messages on some topic of lesser personal interest, but that is the nature of the beast; most of us have the possibility of "set nomail" which would solve that problem when one is absent for a longer period. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- jim augerot slavic department box 353580 uw seattle wa 98195 e-mail: bigjim at u.washington.edu fax: 206-543-6009 tel: 206-543-6848 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From keg at violet.berkeley.edu Thu Aug 29 03:23:01 1996 From: keg at violet.berkeley.edu (keg at violet.berkeley.edu) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:23:01 -0700 Subject: Our precious bandwith In-Reply-To: <199608251736.MAA18933@midway.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: Greetings, all. I have been away from the modem for a while, and only just saw the jobs thread -- and David Powelstock's post on the fact that only one objector had posted has led me to respond. (I must warn you that I am writing this from a friend's computer, and using Pine for the first time, so please excuse me if this is more garbled than usual.) The first thing that comes to mind regarding David's comment is that thus far, we have only seen the responses of those who responded to the list. There may well be others who are against the postings (this issue has come up before, as I recall), but who chose, for their own reasons, to respond to Gary personally. This was what happened with me when I posted something a couple years ago that some found objectionable -- many people replied to the list, but many responded directly to me. Personally, I would not be sorry to see the job postings go. It is certainly true that those of us who choose not to read the job postings can simply delete them (assuming we know how to do it given the specific software...), but I agree with George that posting them to a different site would be best. While it's true that many of the jobs are relatively global (in terms of Slavic), many are limited to the US. SEELANGS has a large number of subscribers abroad, and for many (if not most) of them, the majority of job-related postings is utterly useless. My intent is not to shriek at Devin -- he has taken a large burden upon himself, and it is a useful endeavor. I am just not sure that SEELANGS is the best forum for the information. I believe at one time, someone suggested posting such job announcements all at once, weekly or so, so one delete would kill the whole bunch instead of having to delete various individual postings. My $0.02. Keith Goeringer UC Berkeley Slavic Languages & Literatures keg at violet.berkeley.edu From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Thu Aug 29 21:29:14 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 17:29:14 -0400 Subject: Job: Eurasia Foundation, Moscow (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 96 14:03:25 EDT From: Jon at eurasia.msk.ru Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Job: Eurasia Foundation, Moscow ******************************************************************* JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: PROGRAM ASSOCIATES WANTED FOR THE EURASIA FOUNDATION, MOSCOW ******************************************************************* The Eurasia Foundation is a privately-managed grantmaking organization established in 1993 with a major grant from the US Agency for International Development. The Foundation fulfills a broad mandate to support programs that build democratic and free market institutions in the twelve New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. The Moscow Regional Office funds projects in Central Russia and Siberia, including Northern Russia. The Moscow Office of the Eurasia Foundation is currently seeking one Program Associate for the Public Sector and one Program Associate for the Business Sector. Both positions are open to Russian nationals and will be filled immediately. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: FOR PROGRAM ASSOCIATES * For Business Sector PA: Review and analyze proposals for small grants aimed at the development of economic reform, including management training, business education, and the support of the small business sector. For Public Sector PA: Review and analyze proposals for small grants aimed at the development of the public (non-government) sector, democratic institution building, public administration, and legal reform. * The process of review includes writing reports in Russian and presenting the project to the Program Staff for group discussion. * Develop proposals with applicant organizations based on the recommendations of the Program Staff. This may include conducting minor market research and maintaining contact with other funding agencies working in the NIS. * Write comprehensive acceptance reports in English for proposals recommended for funding and present and defend the projects before the Foundation?s Advisory Board. * Monitor the progress of active grants. This may include conducting project site-visits. * Work closely with the Program Officers, performing necessary administrative tasks such as writing special reports or "success stories." QUALIFICATIONS: * For Business Sector PA: Degree in finance or economics; For Public Sector PA: Degree in humanitarian or social sciences. * For Business Sector PA: Background in business or economics is required. For Public Sector PA: Background in journalism, legal reform, or public policy is required. * An understanding of the social, political, and economic situation in Russia. * Fluency in written and spoken English and Russian is required. * Ability to be a team player and a responsible, independent worker. * Strong analytical, writing, and inductive reasoning skills are required. * Multi-tasking skills and strong organizational skills are necessary. * For Business Sector PA: Previous work in technical assistance programs or expertise in small business development is strongly desired, but not a requirement. For Public Sector PA: Previous work in technical assistance programs or expertise in one of the fields mentioned above is strongly desired, but not a requirement. Please specify which Program Associate position (Public Sector or Business Sector) you are applying for and send cover letter and resume by fax to: Elena Yartseva Deputy Director Moscow Office of the Eurasia Foundation 14 Volkhonka Street, 4th floor Moscow, Russia 119842 Fax: (095) 956-1239 e-mail: EYartseva at eurasia.msk.ru No phone inquiries please. From feszczak at sas.upenn.edu Sat Aug 31 03:49:36 1996 From: feszczak at sas.upenn.edu (Zenon M. Feszczak) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:49:36 -0400 Subject: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Slavic and East European Internet Message-ID: Hello, pryvit, privet, i.t.d. - I am currently in the process of writing an article on the "The Slavic and East European Internet". This article will appear in a new anthology on East-West cross-cultural themes, to be published by a major academic press. "The Slavic and East European Internet" is here taken to include all Internet sites and communications involving Slavic or East European issues or persons, within or without the borders of the relevant countries. What effects will the omnipresence of the digital ether have upon the Slavic and East European world? Themes of Particular Interest ----------------------------- - the uses and abuses of the Internet related to Slavic and East European themes - the Internet as a cross-cultural medium - the views of the East from the West and vice versa - interpretations or misinterpretations. - contacts or conflicts - communications and miscommunications - items that highlight either the East/West divide or commonalities - the potential and future of the Slavic Internet - the Internet as a source of international commerce - international diplomacy via the Internet? - the Internet as political tool - the Internet as a meta-society or just a meta-social? - the Internet as subculture or supra-culture? - the Internet as diversion or subversion? - the Internet as a method of colonization - the Internet as cultural exchange or cultural imperialism? - interesting anecdotes or historical tales on the theme of the Slavic and East European Internet - pointers to especially relevant mailing lists - Usenet newsgroups - Web sites of interest - culture shock via the Internet Any submissions along these lines would be of inestimable value. Obviously, I cannot guarantee that all submissions will find their way into the article. Please contact me directly (via the Internet, of course) if interested. Also, please specify whether or not permission is granted to include your name (or the name of persons, firms, and so on relevant to the topic) within the article. Thank you in advance. Looking forward to hearing strange and fantastic tales... but only true tales, if you please! Vs'oho najkrashchoho (all the best) - Zenon M. Feszczak Philosopher ex nihilo University of Pennsylvania