From acannon at email.unc.edu Mon Dec 2 13:27:13 1996 From: acannon at email.unc.edu (Angela Cannon) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:27:13 -0500 Subject: Prague phone book Message-ID: Does anyone know how I can get a Prague phone book, either a printed copy or access on the internet? I am interested in the "white pages", not the yellow pages. Thanks for your help. Angela Cannon University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From ewb2 at cornell.edu Mon Dec 2 18:00:19 1996 From: ewb2 at cornell.edu (Wayles Browne) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:00:19 -0500 Subject: Distance education in Slavic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: A soldier in Bosnia has written to me: "I am a graduate of the Defense Language Institute in Russian and Serbo-Croatian. I am seeking an Arts and Literature degree in Slavic languages through Regents College and need help. Can you recommend any schools that offer good courses in general or specific Slavic culture and/or literature? I need distance education type courses (correspondence courses, video courses and/or E-mail classes) to be able to complete my degree while deployed in Bosnia. I know when I return to my unit in Hawaii, we will be on field problems every month until I leave. I am here until late spring 1997." What can we recommend? Are there correspondence or distance-ed. courses in Slavic? Please reply to the list or to me: Wayles Browne, Dept. of Linguistics, Cornell University e-mail: ewb2 at cornell.edu From rdelossa at husc.harvard.edu Mon Dec 2 19:39:39 1996 From: rdelossa at husc.harvard.edu (Robert A. De Lossa) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:39:39 -0500 Subject: "Ukraine in the World" Conference in DC Message-ID: Vel'myshanovni/Mnogouvazhaemye Seelanzhane, I would like to make you aware of the following. Not really lang. or lit., but I think it will be of interest to all those interested in contemporary Ukraine. Best wishes, R. De Lossa, URI, Harvard: As part of its broader program to study developments in Ukraine over the five years of its independence, the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University will hold a conference entitled =B3Ukraine in the World=B2 in Washington, DC, on December 12-14. The conference will be devoted to Ukraine=B9s external relations and to issues of security over the period 1991-96. It is timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the national referendum on independence and the diplomatic recognition of Ukraine by the United States and other countries. The conference is held in conjunction with the Ukrainian Program of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University, and also in cooperation with the Embassy of Ukraine to the United States. Washington was selected as the venue to allow for maximum participation by representatives of the US government and its agencies, the international diplomatic community, policy analysts, and media journalists. George Washington University is the site of the conference meetings. The proceedings of the conference, together with additional commissioned articles, will be subsequently published in a separate volume. Further meetings will be held in the spring of 1997 to examine Ukraine=B9s domestic politics, the economy, society, and culture. A dinner on Thursday, December 12, at the National Press Club, will feature as keynote speaker Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, currently Counsellor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States. Dr. Brzezinski is one of the country=B9s leading experts on the former Soviet Union and its successor states. He is the initiator of the American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee which aims to strengthen informal ties between Ukraine and the US, to encourage informed debate on critical issues facing Ukraine, and to provide policy recommendations to the US and Ukrainian governments. Dr. Brzezinski will speak on =B3Ukraine=B9s Place in the Post-Communist World Order.=B2 The conference will comprise four major sessions. Each session will feature two Western scholars, who will provide an analytical treatment of the relevant topic, and a Ukrainian practitioner, who will speak about the practical experience of dealing with these issues. The first session will be devoted to =B3Ukraine and Its Neighbors,=B2 with papers on =B3Ukraine and Russia/CIS=B2 (Dr. Roman Solchanyk, RAND Corp.) and =B3Ukraine and East-Central Europe=B2 (Dr. Stephen Burant, US Department of State). The Ukrainian speaker will be the Hon. Borys Tarasiuk, Ambassador to the Benelux, and former First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine. The second session will focus on Ukraine=B9s relations with the East. The presentations will include =B3Ukraine, Turkey, and the Black Sea Region=B2 (= Dr. Duygu Sezer, Bilkent University, Ankara) and =B3Ukraine, Israel, and the Middle East=B2 (Dr. Oles Smolansky, Lehigh University). Ukraine=B9s Ambassad= or to Israel, the Hon. Oleksandr Maydannyk, will provide the Ukrainian perspective. =B3Building Bridges to the West=B2 is the subject of the third session. Dr. Olga Alexandrova (Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, Cologne) will speak on =B3Ukraine and Western Europe.=B2 The topic of =B3Ukr= aine and the United States=B2 will be treated by Dr. Sherman Garnett (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and formerly Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia). The Ukrainian discussant will be Anton Buteyko, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine. The fourth session will concentrate on =B3Military Affairs and Security Issues.=B2 Dr. John Jaworsky (University of Waterloo) will address the issue of =B3Ukraine=B9s Armed Forces and Military Policy.=B2 Dr. Stephen Larrabee = (RAND Corp.) will discuss =B3Ukraine=B9s Emerging Role in Regional and Global Security.=B2 Gen. Ihor Smehko (Director of Strategic Planning and Analysis a= t the National Security Council of Ukraine, and formerly Military Attach=E9 at the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington) will present the viewpoint from Ukraine. The luncheon speaker on December 12 will be Volodymyr Lytvyn, who will analyze the =B3Domestic Imperatives of Ukraine=B9s Foreign Policy.=B2= Invited to speak at the December 13 lunch is the Hon. William G. Miller (US Ambassador to Ukraine), who will provide =B3An American Perspective from Kyiv on US-Ukrainian Relations.=B2 On Saturday, December 14, a roundtable on =B3Ukrainian-US Relations=B2 will= be held at the Embassy of Ukraine. Ukraine=B9s Ambassador to the US, the Hon. Dr. Yuri Shcherbak, will open the discussion with a talk on: =B3The Path toward Strategic Cooperation between Ukraine and the US.=B2 The other participants will include representatives of the governments of Ukraine and the United States. A luncheon, hosted by Ambassador Shcherbak, will follow. For further information on the conference, please contact Dr. Lubomyr Hajda, Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, 1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138. Tel.: 617-495-9828 or 495-4053. Fax: 617-495-8097. The precise program follows: =09 UKRAINE=ADFIVE YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE =B3UKRAINE IN THE WORLD=B2 Conference December 12-14, 1996 Washington, DC *PROGRAM* Ukrainian Research Institute Harvard University 1583 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 tel. 617-495-4053 fax. 617-495-8097 internet: huri at fas.harvard.edu UKRAINE--FIVE YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE Ukraine in the World Conference organized by the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University in conjunction with the Ukrainian Program of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University and in cooperation with the Embassy of Ukraine to the United States December 12-14, 1996 Washington, DC Program All sessions, unless otherwise indicated, held at George Washington University, Stuart Hall, Founders (Room 103), 2013 G Street. Thursday, December 12 (morning) 9:00=AD12:00 Opening remarks: Roman Szporluk (Director, Ukrainian Research Institute) Session 1: Ukraine and Her Neighbors Chair: Zenovia Sochor (Clark University and Ukrainian Research Institute) = =09 1) =B3Ukraine and Russia/CIS=B2 Roman Solchanyk (RAND Corp.) 2) =B3Ukraine and East-Central Europe=B2 Stephen Burant (US Department of State) Discussant: Hon. Borys Tarasiuk (Ambassador of Ukraine to Benelux,formerly =46irst Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine) 12:00=AD2:00 Lunch: George Washington University Club, 800 21st Street =09 Welcoming remarks: President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, George Washington University Speaker: Volodymyr Lytvyn (Chief Aide to the President of Ukraine) =B3Domestic Imperatives of Ukraine=B9s Foreign Policy=B2 Thursday, December 12 (afternoon) 2:00=AD5:00 Session 2: New Relations with the East Chair: Muriel Atkin (George Washington University) 1) =B3Ukraine, Turkey and the Black Sea Region=B2 Duygu Sezer (Bilkent University, Ankara) =09 2) =B3Ukraine, Israel and the Middle East=B2 Oles Smolansky (Lehigh University) Discussant: Hon. Oleksandr Maydannyk (Ambassador of Ukraine to Israel) 7:30 Dinner: National Press Club, 14th & F Street Speaker: Zbigniew Brzezinski (Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States) =B3Ukraine=B9s Place in the Post-Communist World Order=B2 =46riday, December 13 (morning) 9:00=AD12:00 Session 3: Building Bridges to the West Chair: Angela Stent (Georgetown University) 1) =B3Ukraine and Western Europe=B2 Olga Alexandrova (Bundesinstitut f=FCr ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien, Cologne) 2) =B3Ukraine and the United States=B2 Sherman Garnett (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) Discussant: Anton Buteyko (First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Member of Parliament) =09 12:00=AD2:00 Lunch: George Washington University Club, 800 21st Street Speaker: Hon. William G. Miller (US Ambassador to Ukraine) =B3US-Ukrainian Relations: An American Perspective from Ukraine=B2 =46riday, December 13 (afternoon) 2:00=AD5:00 Session 4: Military Affairs and Security Issues Chair: Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone (Ukrainian Research Institute) 1) =B3Ukraine=B9s Armed Forces and Military Policy=B2 John Jaworsky (University of Waterloo, Canada) =09 2) =B3Ukraine=B9s Emerging Role in Regional/Global Security=B2 Stephen Larrabee (RAND Corp.) Discussant: Gen. Ihor Smeshko (Director of Strategic Planning and Analysis, National Security Council of Ukraine) =09 Concluding remarks: James R. Millar (Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies) Saturday, December 14 The Embassy of Ukraine, 3350 M Street 9:00=AD12:00 Roundtable Discussion: =B3Ukrainian=ADUS Relations,=B2 with the participation of representatives of the governments of Ukraine and the United States 12:00 Lunch ____________________________________________________ =46rom: Robert De Lossa Director of Publications Ukrainian Research Institute Harvard University 1583 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 USA 617-496-8768 tel. 617-495-8097 fax. "rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu" From 76703.2063 at CompuServe.COM Mon Dec 2 19:38:08 1996 From: 76703.2063 at CompuServe.COM (Jerry Ervin) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:38:08 EST Subject: Request from AATSEEL Message-ID: AATSEEL needs your help. We have received a number of requests from libraries for copies of some back issues of the _Slavic and East European Journal_. In most cases we have been able to fill these requests. But we are unable to fill requests for the following issues because we are out of them: v.36 n.1 (spring 1992) v.36 n.3 (fall 1992) v.39 n.2 (summer 1995) Often extra copies of journals are left behind when someone moves. If any SEELANGS readers find such copies of the above three issues (presently we have adequate stocks of all other issues) and could send them to AATSEEL (address below), we and a number of libraries would be most grateful. AATSEEL will reimburse postage for any of these issues received. Please share this notice with other Slavists who may not be on SEELANGS. Many, many thanks in advance. --Jerry Ervin * * * * * Gerard L. Ervin Executive Director, AATSEEL 1933 N. Fountain Park Dr. Tucson, AZ 85715 USA phone/fax: 520/885-2663 email: 76703.2063 at compuserve.com From romanov at spot.Colorado.EDU Mon Dec 2 20:02:13 1996 From: romanov at spot.Colorado.EDU (Romanov Artemi) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:02:13 -0700 Subject: Looking for a panel (AAASS, Seattle, 1997) (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:54:31 -0700 (MST) From: Romanov Artemi To: SEELANGS at CUNYUM.BITNET Subject: Looking for a panel (AAASS, Seattle, 1997) Dear colleagues, I am looking for a panel at AAASS in Seattle (1997) to present my paper: "Individualism vs. Collectivism: Changing Attitudes in Russia (Presenting the results of a sociolinguistic survey conducted in Moscow and St.Petersburg)". If you are a panel chairperson in Seattle and if you could find a room for my presentation in your panel, please let me know. Thank you very much, Artemi Romanov Assistant Professor University of Colorado at Boulder From hia5 at midway.uchicago.edu Tue Dec 3 11:19:30 1996 From: hia5 at midway.uchicago.edu (Howard I. Aronson) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 05:19:30 -0600 Subject: NSL & Caucasus Cultures Abstracts Message-ID: Abstracts for papers to be presented at the May 8-10 Non-Slavic Languages Conference, to be held at the University of Chicago, are available at: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/humanities/slavic/nsl.html Abstracts for papers to be presented at the May 10-11 Conference on the Cultures of Caucasia, to be held at the University of Chicago, are available at: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/humanities/slavic/ccpg.html For further information: hia5 at midway.uchicago.edu (Howard I. Aronson) ................................................................... Howard I. Aronson Office: 773-702-7734 Slavic Langs & Lits, Univ of Chicago Home: 773-935-7535 1130 East 59th St Slavic: 773-702-8033 Chicago, IL 60637 Fax: 773-702-7030 Please note new area code: 773- From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Tue Dec 3 01:29:13 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 20:29:13 -0500 Subject: UK schools seeks Russian partners Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 96 16:39:18 EST From: Center for Civil Society International Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: UK schools seeks Russian partners Sender: John Spencer (101555.636 at compuserve.com) Subject: School contact Hi, We are a secondary school in Hampton England UK. We have 1000 pupils aged 11 to 18. Russian is taught as an optional subject from 15 years old. We are a science based school looking for commnications with fellow institutions in Russia. Any one interested in pen pals, scientific projects anything at all ? make contact John Spencer From Wim.Coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be Tue Dec 3 15:16:45 1996 From: Wim.Coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Coudenys) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 16:16:45 +0100 Subject: Bulgakov-Ruchinsky Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, one of our students is working on the sequal to Bulgakov's Master i Margarita "Vozvrashchenie Volanda ili Novaya d'yavoliada", written by Vitaly Ruchinsky and published in Tver' in 1993 by a publisher called Rossiya-Velikobritaniya. Does anyone has further information on the author (Ruchinsky) or knows of some critics of the book? Thanks! Wim Coudenys Dr. Wim Coudenys Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Departement Oosterse en Slavische Studies Blijde Inkomststraat 21 B-3000 Leuven Belgium tel. ..32 16 324963 fax. ..32 16 324963 e-mail. Wim.Coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Tue Dec 3 15:20:00 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:20:00 -0500 Subject: NEWW NEEDS INTERNS (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 96 14:33:47 EST From: Center for Civil Society International Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: NEWW NEEDS INTERNS >From: Network of East-West Women THE NETWORK OF EAST-WEST WOMEN SEEKS INTERNS The Network of East-West Women (NEWW) is a vital communications network that links over 1,500 women's advocates in more than 30 countries in the former-Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe. Members represent all strata of society -- writers, students, journalists, parliamentarians, professors, lawyers, artists, union organizers, and feminist activists. NEWW's overarching goal is to support the formation of independent women's movements. Its primary objective is to increase the capability of women and women's NGOs to intervene effectively on policy regarding women's lives. NEWW's members have agreed to a set of common principles emphasizing the importance of women's full participation in all aspects of public life; their right to reproductive choice; and their rights to be free from discrimination, violence, racial and ethnic hatred, and censorship. NEWW coordinates projects, ad hoc committees, training workshops, consultations, conferences, and informational exchanges that reflect the programmatic areas its members have identified. At present, the program areas are: *law & policy *communication & media *employment *conflict in ex-Yugoslavia *gender scholarship *reproductive rights *violence against women *health & environment Our current projects include: NEWW On-Line is an electronic communications network that links women's NGOs in the former Soviet Union, East and Central Europe, Western Europe and the United States in an effort to maximize informational exchange, develop technical and institutional building skills, coordinate research and activist projects, and influence policy decisions. The East-East Legal Coalition (EELC) examines and monitors the legal impact of the post-communist transition on women's lives. Women's rights lawyers from fourteen countries in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe organized this legal reform, advocacy, and outreach network in an effort to articulate and enforce laws and policies that strengthen women's legislative status and sense of citizenship in their respective countries. The On-Line Legal Resource Service (OLLRS) provides women's NGOs with electronic, informational resources on a variety of topics pertinent to rule of law in FSU and CEE, including feminist legal theory, media, labor issues and violence against women. The Self-Defense Instructor Training Program provides Russian women self-defense instructors with advanced trainings to improve their physical demonstration skills, to organize self-defense workshops for women in cities and towns throughout Russia, and to empower women physically and psychologically. The "Best of the Season" Electronic Bulletin, published both electronically and in hard copy, in English and Russian, summarizes the information and discussions on NEWW's electronic conferences and is distributed quarterly by On-Line participants and via Internet. Trainings and Consultations -- NEWW provides trainings and consultations in e-mail (technical and resource oriented), NGO management (membership and constituency building), fundraising (proposal writing, locating domestic sources of funding, etc.), advocacy (how to use international activism in national work, working with government authorities), networking with other NGOs. We invite students to participate in a one- or two-semester internship to assist in the implementation of NEWW's various projects. Responsibilities include: * research and writing * general administration * outreach * communication and media * translations * project coordination To apply, please send cover letter, resume, and a letter of recommendation to: Victoria Vrana NEWW Please describe in cover letter: 1601 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 701 -- computer skills Washington, D.C. 20009 -- foreign language skills tel: (202) 265-3585 -- interest in women's issues fax: (202) 265-3508 -- how you hope to benefit E-mail: newwdc at igc.apc.org from this internship INTERNSHIP APPLICATION Full Name: ____________________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________________ City/Country: ____________________________________________________________ Phone: ____________________________________________________________ Please include a cover letter, resume and one letter of recommendation. In your cover letter, please: * Briefly describe your interest or involvement in women's issues in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; * List any computer skills; * List any foreign language skills. Send application to: Victoria Vrana NEWW 1601 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 701 Wahington, D.C. 20009 Tel: (202) 265-3585 Fax: (202) 265-3508 E-mail: newwdc at igc.apc.org From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Tue Dec 3 15:19:51 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 10:19:51 -0500 Subject: Moscow Program Officer - International Partnerships Project (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 96 13:21:01 EST From: Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Moscow Program Officer - International Partnerships Project ***************************************************************** The attached announcement regarding a Moscow position may be of interest to list members. You will note that resumes received by 30 November will receive preference. Since 30 November is not many hours away for some list members, I must apologize for my delay in posting this announcement. I have been away from my computer for the past week. ***************************************************************** Moscow Program Officer - International Partnerships Project ***************************************************************** International exchange organization, under a three-year coopera- tive agreement with USAID, funds and fosters partnerships between (a) U.S. educational institutions, professional associations, and trade organizations and (b) their counterpart organizations in the Russian Federation and Ukraine. The project's goal is to provide professional-level training, and to improve member serv- ices of the counterpart organizations. The Institutional Partnerships Project (IPP) has generated a broad range of curricula, study guides, and other training and business materials which will be made available to universities, NGOs, and professional organizations in Russia and the NIS. The Moscow IPP office is currently seeking a Program Officer to: * develop a working data-base of all materials produced and determine appropriate formats for their distribution; * identify and negotiate with dissemination sites and undertake processing and shipment of materials. The Program Officer will report to the IPP Moscow director, work closely with IPP staff, and coordinate efforts with the USAID missions in Moscow, Kyiv, and Washington DC. The Moscow-based position is to be filled immediately and will extend through calendar year 1997. Preferred qualifications: * Experience in development/distribution of training materials * Computer and data processing skills * Research-oriented background * Knowledge of the NGO community in Russia * High level of proficiency in spoken/written English and Russian * Excellent editing and organizational abilities Please send cover letter and resumes by fax or e-mail to: Fax: (7-095) 203-4311 Email: irexpart at glas.apc.org No phone calls please. Resumes received by November 30, 1996 will receive preference. ***************************************************************** From ST002958 at BROWNVM.BITNET Tue Dec 3 16:04:46 1996 From: ST002958 at BROWNVM.BITNET (Margo) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:04:46 EST Subject: refereeing Message-ID: At the risk of reopening a dead thread and painfully mixing a metaphor, I've been asked to publicly declare my support for the refereeing of AATSEEL papers and the reasons for it. Here's my story. Last year I submitted a literature paper to one panel only to regret not having submitted it to my second choice panel. The two panels ran at the same time, and the other included more and better-known panelists. Most of my potential audience either attended or spoke on the other panel, which I had to miss most of. My paper had an audience of four, three of whom were friends of mine. Refereeing won't fix the scheduling problem. However, if the papers had been refereed, perhaps I would have been grouped with some of the people on the other panel, which had 5 panelists; and just maybe the others on my poorly attended panel would have gotten a panelist who could have drawn an audience for them. Of course that's all speculation, but this year my refereed linguistics paper has been placed on a panel with well-known professors, and I expect a good audience and discussion. This makes me very nervous, but overall I find it the preferable position to be in. I also like the idea of the conference actually requiring people to read my abstract and provide me with comments. Normally I have to _ask_ people to do that. Thus, provisionally at least, I am that oxymoron, a happy graduate student. Sincerely, Margo Ballou Brown University From ggerhart at wolfenet.com Tue Dec 3 17:04:40 1996 From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 09:04:40 -0800 Subject: refereeing Message-ID: 1. Thanks for bringing it up again...that was exactly the right thing to do. Conference quality must go up. 2. You write good, like a good kid should. Keep it up. I hope someone hires you. gg -- Genevra Gerhart http://www.wolfe.net/~ggerhart/ 2134 E. Interlaken Bl. Tel. 206/329-0053 Seattle, WA 98112 ggerhart at wolfenet.com From SRogosin at aol.com Tue Dec 3 18:21:07 1996 From: SRogosin at aol.com (Serge Rogosin) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:21:07 -0500 Subject: Space walk in Russian Message-ID: Does anyone know the Russian for "space walk"? Most dictionaries give "vykhod v kosmos," but I've heard another, one-word, term used. Thanks. Serge Rogosin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 93-49 222 Street Queens Village, NY 11428 (718) 479-2881 srogosin at aol.com From SRogosin at aol.com Tue Dec 3 18:23:13 1996 From: SRogosin at aol.com (Serge Rogosin) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:23:13 -0500 Subject: Plevtiskaya recordings Message-ID: Has anyone come across any recordings by Nadezhda Plevitskaya, the famous singer who was implicated in the NKVD operation to kidnap prominent White generals living abroad? I would be grateful for any suggestions as to possible sources. I especially need the recording of "Zamelo tebia snegom Rossiia," but I'll take what I can get. Serge Rogosin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 93-49 222 Street Queens Village, NY 11428 (718) 479-2881 srogosin at aol.com From fs4a032 at rrz.uni-hamburg.de Wed Dec 4 06:04:34 1996 From: fs4a032 at rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Peter Hill) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 07:04:34 +0100 Subject: Vasil Il'oski Message-ID: Can anyone tell me whether the Macedonian dramatist Vasil Il'oski is still alive. If not, when did he die? Thank you! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Professor Dr Peter M. Hill Slavisches Seminar Universitaet Hamburg D-20146 Hamburg Tel: (49-40) 4123 2663,4809 Fax: (49-40) 4123 6144 e-mail: phill at rrz.uni-hamburg.de From CLEMINSO at ceu.hu Wed Dec 4 08:45:58 1996 From: CLEMINSO at ceu.hu (Ralph Cleminson) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:45:58 +100 Subject: 18th century Ukrainian song collection Message-ID: On Wed, 27 Nov 1996 Dieter Stern wrote: > Dorogie Seelanzhane! > Ivan Franko published in the 38th vol. of the "Zapysky Naukovoho Tovarystvo > im. Shevchenka" an article on Carpatoruthenian literature of the 17th and > 18th century. On p. 126 begins a description of a Ukrainian manuscript song > collection (containing mainly religious songs, called psalmy or kanty). > Franko names it "Kamyanskiy Bogoglasnik 1734 roku". Unfortunately I > couldn't find out, which library this manuscript belongs to. Does anyone > have an idea or even exact knowledge about the present whereabouts of this > manuscript? > I don't know about this particular MS, but Ivan Franko's archive is now fond 3 of the T.H.Shevchenko Literature Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev (used to be vul. Kirova, 4, but what the new name of the street is I don't know). This contains not only I.F.'s own papers, but also his large collection of mediaeval and early modern MSS, so it is the most likely place to start looking. Before you do, though, you should see if you can find the article in the 50-vol. Zibrannja tvoriv of I.F., published in Kiev in the 70s-80s (I think), as the notes may provide the information you're seeking. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ R.M.Cleminson, M.A., D.Phil. Dept of Mediaeval Studies, Central European University Post: H-1245 Budapest 5, P.O.B.1082 Phone: +361 327 3024 Fax: +361 327 3055 http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/ralph.htm From 76703.2063 at CompuServe.COM Wed Dec 4 21:50:15 1996 From: 76703.2063 at CompuServe.COM (Jerry Ervin) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:50:15 EST Subject: AATSEEL '97 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We've received a few calls about where/when the 1997 AATSEEL conference will be. Here's the answer: December 27-30 (as always; same dates as MLA) Toronto, Canada (same town as MLA) Marriott Eaton Centre (nice hotel; where we were in 1993) More details, including information on how to propose a panel or other presentation, will be available at AATSEEL '96 (Washington, D.C.; coming up in just a few weeks; hope to see you there). Please share this information with others who may not be on SEELANGS. Thank you, --Jerry Ervin * * * * * Gerard L. Ervin Executive Director, AATSEEL 1933 N. Fountain Park Dr. Tucson, AZ 85715 USA phone/fax: 520/885-2663 email: 76703.2063 at compuserve.com From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Thu Dec 5 00:03:20 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 19:03:20 -0500 Subject: Researching Russian Regions (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 96 14:36:47 EST From: Eric Brown Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Researching Russian Regions I am researching statistical information on the Russian regions. Specifically, I am looking for data for each region on: -level of urbanization -average age of the population -number of large cities -number of large companies in the region -most important industries I am also looking for a good map of the Russian regions. If anyone could make any suggestions where I can find all of this, I would greatly appreciate it. Eric Brown ebrown at online.ru From hart.12 at osu.edu Thu Dec 5 04:15:32 1996 From: hart.12 at osu.edu (Carol Hart) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 23:15:32 EST Subject: Call for papers - AAASS 1997 Message-ID: Dear SEELANGS readers, I am helping to put together a panel on the "Social History of the Russian Language." If you are interested in participating please send me a brief description of your project. My e-mail address is: hart.12 at osu.edu. Time is running short so please respond quickly! Best wishes, Carol Hart From Wim.Coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be Thu Dec 5 08:15:55 1996 From: Wim.Coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Coudenys) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:15:55 +0100 Subject: Russian regions Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, in answer to the request of Eric Brown concerning the Russian regions, I would like to draw your attention to a book that has recently been published in Belgium by the small publishing house BENERUS (Antwerp): RONIN Vladimir Regiony Rossii Antwerpen, Benerus, 1996 isbn 90-802681-2-7 All information on the book, which contains exactly the topics that interest Eric Brown, can be obtained from the publisher, Prof. Dr. E. Waegemans, Ballaerstraat 106, B-2018 Antwerpen, e-mail: emmanuel.waegemans at arts.kuleuven.ac.be Wim Coudenys Dr. Wim Coudenys Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Departement Oosterse en Slavische Studies Blijde Inkomststraat 21 B-3000 Leuven Belgium tel. ..32 16 324963 fax. ..32 16 324963 e-mail. Wim.Coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be From jns at coco.ihi.ku.dk Thu Dec 5 12:30:39 1996 From: jns at coco.ihi.ku.dk (Jens Noergaard Soerensen) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 13:30:39 +0100 Subject: Alphabet shifts Message-ID: Dear seelangers, I need exact information about, which nations in the former USSR have shifted from cyrillic to latin (or other?) alphabet, and when it happened. Can anybody help? Regards, Jens Norgard-Sorensen From fsciacca at itsmail1.hamilton.edu Thu Dec 5 15:35:49 1996 From: fsciacca at itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Franklin A. Sciacca) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 10:35:49 -0500 Subject: Son v ruku Message-ID: Does anyone have a sense of the origin of the expression "Son v ruku"--and what an appropriate translation would be? I have a student (emigre) who is doing a project in folklore survival-- she is interviewing people (mostly in Brighton B) and collecting superstitions, omens, dream interpretation, and the like. A most curoious collection already. I could ask her to post it to interested people. Do you have any contributions? Thanks, Frank Franklin A. Sciacca Department of German and Russian Program in Russian Studies Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323 fsciacca at hamilton.edu From russjb at timeshare.service.emory.edu Thu Dec 5 17:03:53 1996 From: russjb at timeshare.service.emory.edu (Jack Blanshei) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 12:03:53 EST Subject: Son v ruku Message-ID: >Does anyone have a sense of the origin of the expression "Son v ruku"--and >what an appropriate translation would be? I have a student (emigre) who is >doing a project in folklore survival-- she is interviewing people (mostly >in Brighton B) and collecting superstitions, omens, dream interpretation, >and the like. A most curoious collection already. I could ask her to post >it to interested people. Do you have any contributions? Lubensky's book on idioms (pg. 648) cites several examples of this expression. The offered translation is "The dream comes true," or "my (your) dream was prophetic." Jack Blanshei Department of Russian, Eurasian, and East Asian Languages and Cultures Emory University Atlanta, Ga. 30322 Tel. (404) 727-4014 Fax (404) 727-2093 From dtuller at sfgate.com Thu Dec 5 17:12:30 1996 From: dtuller at sfgate.com (David Tuller) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:12:30 -0800 Subject: gays/lesbians in Russia Message-ID: Hi--My name is David Tuller. I'm a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. Sorry for this little bit of self-promotion, but I wanted to let people know about a book of mine that Faber and Faber published a few months ago--"Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia." I have a web page with a few chapters on-line. The URL: www.sfgate.com/~dtuller/ironcloset I'm interested in doing readings/talks on campuses. I gave a paper at the recent "private life in Russia" conference at the University of Michigan about differences between American and Russian notions of sexual identity. In a couple of cases, Slavic studies departments and/or anthropology departments are hooking up with gay/lesbian campus groups to invite me to speak. Please feel free to forward this post to other lists that might be interested. Here's what Robert Conquest said about my book in his jacket blurb: "An outstanding book that brings illumination not only to its particular theme but also to our general understanding of modern Russia. It should be of great interest to a broad readership." And here's what the New Yorker said about the book in its August 12th issue: "The writer travelled to post-Communist Russia expecting to encounter brutal, Stalinist-era conditions for gay men and lesbians, and instead found a society that upended his American-bred notions of sexual categories...Tuller's observant reporting and personal experiences make for absorbing reading: the human comedy rendered in unexpected ways." Here's my own boiler-plate spiel about the book: "Cracks in the Iron Closet" is part travel memoir, part social history, part journalistic exploration. Though the book focuses primarily on lesbians and gays, I have tried to use the theme as a prism through which to explore many issues pivotal to an understanding of Russia and the former Soviet Union: strategies for survival in a totalitarian society; concepts of friendship and community; ideas about gender and family relations; the role of sex, love and passion; attitudes toward individual rights, personal responsibility and fate; relations between East and West; the notion of privacy in a society that forced everyone--not just gays--into political and ideological closets. The book is also an off-beat love story: part of it revolves around my quasi-romance with Ksyusha, a charismatic Russian lesbian who became my closest friend in Moscow. In describing how my experiences in Russia challenged my (very American) preconceptions and biases about my own gay identity, the book examines--in an entertaining and provocative fashion--controversies that have roiled the American gay and lesbian movement: How does culture influence the expression of sexual identity? What are the limits of American models of gay and lesbian identity? Is bisexuality a "closeted pose" or a genuine orientation? What "causes" homosexuality, anyway? Well, that's it. If you read down this far, thanks for your interest! Dave Tuller San Francisco Chronicle Telephone: 415-777-7132 From sforres1 at swarthmore.edu Thu Dec 5 18:06:38 1996 From: sforres1 at swarthmore.edu (Sibelan Forrester) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 13:06:38 -0500 Subject: Son v ruku Message-ID: Dear Dr. Sciacca, I don't know the meaning of "son v ruku" (I fear my gut sense is only a guess), but I would love to see any results your student wishes to share with other people. Thanks very much! Sibelan Forrester +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Sibelan Forrester + Modern Languages and Literatures + Swarthmore College + 500 College Ave. + Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + (610) 328-8162 + fax (610) 328-7769 + SFORRES1 at swarthmore.edu + http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/sforres1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From brod at isis.wu-wien.ac.at Thu Dec 5 19:07:24 1996 From: brod at isis.wu-wien.ac.at (Volodja) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 20:07:24 +0100 Subject: hello ! Message-ID: Hello, my name is Volodja Brodzinskyi. I am fom the Ukraine and I am interested in ukrainian and rusisan literature and language. Now I am working at the institute of slavic languages at the university of economics Vienna/ Austria. Volodja From bohdan at panix.com Thu Dec 5 19:44:59 1996 From: bohdan at panix.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 14:44:59 -0500 Subject: hello ! In-Reply-To: <199612051907.UAA03892@isis.wu-wien.ac.at> from "Volodja" at Dec 5, 96 08:07:24 pm Message-ID: > > Hello, my name is Volodja Brodzinskyi. > I am fom the Ukraine and I am interested in ukrainian and rusisan > literature and language. > Now I am working at the institute of slavic languages at the university of > economics Vienna/ Austria. > > Volodja > Vitayu Vas! Welcome to the list, Volodja! There are also other Ukrainian email lists available. For a full gamut, take a look at "About Email Lists" in the "About Ukraine" section located in the Ukraine FAQ Plus Project at http://www.std.com/sabre/UKRAINE.html shchyro, Bohdan Petro Rekshyns'kyi From sforres1 at swarthmore.edu Thu Dec 5 21:36:25 1996 From: sforres1 at swarthmore.edu (Sibelan Forrester) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:36:25 -0500 Subject: Casting call: pre-AATSEEL workshop, 1996 Message-ID: Mnogouvazhaemye kollegi/Stovani profesori i studenti na postdiplomskom! As it did in 1994 and 1995, the Association for Women in Slavic Studies will present a workshop on job interviewing the evening before the AATSEEL convention at the conference hotel in Washington, DC, on December 27 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. After presentations about various aspects of the interviewing process, we hope to enact a mock job interview, which will be analyzed for general edification. Anyone who intends to interview for jobs this year or in the future, or who would like to take a stroll down memory lane, is most welcome. Please pass this information along to people you know who do not subscribe to SEELANGS but could benefit from the experience. We are still looking for additional speakers or mock-interview participants. If you might be interested contact me at or the coordinates below. Comments and suggestions are always welcome. If you would like to organize this event in 1997, please do get in touch. I will be happy to pass along my own notes and comments, as well as the very useful materials gathered and created by Diane Nemec-Ignashev, who put together the first of these workshops in 1994. You need not be a member of AWSS to coordinate this meeting -- anyone concerned about the difficulties of the current job market is both eligible and qualified. Spasibo, djakuju, hvala najljepse, Sibelan Forrester Swarthmore College 500 College Ave. Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397 USA (610) 328-8162 P. S. Abjectest apologies for the message I sent to the list earlier today -- obviously, not the one I intended to send. From mitrege at mail.auburn.edu Fri Dec 6 02:10:25 1996 From: mitrege at mail.auburn.edu (George Mitrevski) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 21:10:25 -0500 Subject: Russian grammar exercises on the web Message-ID: If your students need some Russian grammar exercises on the web, please refer them to this page: http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/RWT/exercises/index.html George. *************************************************************** 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 rusinc at gramercy.ios.com Fri Dec 6 03:32:08 1996 From: rusinc at gramercy.ios.com (Robert Whittaker) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 22:32:08 -0500 Subject: Son v ruku Message-ID: >Does anyone have a sense of the origin of the expression "Son v ruku" A classical origin is in Griboedov, "Gore ot uma," at the close of Act I (scenes 8-10), where Famusov contemplates what Sofiia meant by the phrase (repeated several times). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>> ^ Robert Whittaker FAX: 1-914-328-9601 ^ ^ VOICE: 1-914-946-5833 ^ ^ E-MAIL: rusinc at gramercy.ios.com ^ ^ rwhittaker at igc.apc.org ^ ^ S-MAIL: 121 Alexander Ave. ^ ^ Hartsdale, NY 10530 ^ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From SBROUWER at let.rug.nl Fri Dec 6 11:42:42 1996 From: SBROUWER at let.rug.nl (S. Brouwer) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 12:42:42 +0100 Subject: roberts on bakhtin/jakobson Message-ID: Dear seelangers, in their book "Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics" (1990), Caryl Emerson and Gary Saul Morson mention an article called "Bakhtin and Jakobson" by Mathew Roberts, forthcoming in the Slavic and East European Journal. I cannot find that article in the SEEJ. Does anyone know whether it has indeed appeared and where? TIA, Sander Brouwer Slavic Dept. University of Groningen Postbus 716 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands tel: +31 50 3636062 fax: +31 50 3634900 e-mail: sbrouwer at let.rug.nl From roman at admin.ut.ee Fri Dec 6 14:22:26 1996 From: roman at admin.ut.ee (R_L) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 16:22:26 +0200 Subject: Son v ruku Message-ID: At 10:32 PM 12/5/96 -0500, Robert Whittaker wrote: >>Does anyone have a sense of the origin of the expression "Son v ruku" > >A classical origin is in Griboedov, "Gore ot uma," at the close of Act I >(scenes 8-10), where Famusov contemplates what Sofiia meant by the phrase >(repeated several times). No way (or I simly don't understand what is 'origin')! Griboedov only uses this proverb (ot how do we call "pogovorka"?). Roman Leibov, lecturer ******************************* Vene kirjanduse kat., Ulikooli 18-a, Tartu Ulikool, Tartu, EE2400, Estonia. Day phone: (3727)465353 ******************************* http://www.cs.ut.ee/~roman_l/ ******************************* From N.Bermel at sheffield.ac.uk Fri Dec 6 18:30:56 1996 From: N.Bermel at sheffield.ac.uk (Neil Bermel) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 13:30:56 EST Subject: roberts on bakhtin/jakobson Message-ID: > in their book "Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics" (1990), Caryl Emerson > and Gary Saul Morson mention an article called "Bakhtin and Jakobson" > by Mathew Roberts, forthcoming in the Slavic and East European > Journal. I cannot find that article in the SEEJ. Does anyone know > whether it has indeed appeared and where? TIA, > > Sander Brouwer > Slavic Dept. > University of Groningen You might try the Bakhtin Centre database here at the University of Sheffield. It's accessible via the World Wide Web and can be found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/bakhtin.html Best wishes, Neil Bermel ******************************************* Neil Bermel Sheffield University Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies Arts Tower, Western Bank Sheffield S10 2TN United Kingdom telephone 0114 282 4886 department office 0114 282 4394 fax 0114 282 4955 (from the US: 011 44 114 plus last 7 digits) n.bermel at sheffield.ac.uk From charlesg at HUMANITIES1.COHUMS.OHIO-STATE.EDU Fri Dec 6 19:11:36 1996 From: charlesg at HUMANITIES1.COHUMS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (charlesg) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 14:11:36 -0500 Subject: Refereeing Message-ID: Once more refereeing papers for AATSEEL: I've been going to AATSEEL for over thirty years (at least when I could) and although it's my favorite meeting of all the conferences, the quality of papers has always been a problem. I strongly support refereeing, although of course it should not be too harsh. Some reasonable level of quality must be assured. It's not just graduate students who have sinned; some senior scholars have made a habit of writing papers on the way to conferences, and the results have often been dreadful. Refereeing at least forces people to think out their major conclusions and materials in advance and see whether they make sense. Olga Yokoyama's piece of Nov. 6 is very well thought out, and should be read and taken seriously by all. My absence from AATSEEL the past five years has not been by choice, and the presence of refereeing will make me much more glad to be back this year (knock on wood, tfu-tfu, da chuknem na drvo, etc.) Charles Gribble Gribble.3 at osu.edu From ykripkov at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Fri Dec 6 20:16:25 1996 From: ykripkov at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Yelaina Khripkov) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 12:16:25 -0800 Subject: Looking for a AAASS panel Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I am looking for a panel at AAASS where I could present one of the following papers: 1. Social and Cultural Crisis as Reflected in Post-Soviet Thick Journals. Panel on Contemporary Russian Literature. 2. The same, but for a panel on Methods of teaching literature, with a subtitle: An Experimental course in Contemporary Russian Literature. 3. Flowers in the 19th Century Russian Poetry. Panel on 19th c. Russian Literature. 4. The Forgotten Genre: Zastol'naia pesnia by Zhukovskii, Dmitriev, Karamzin, and Pushkin. Panel on 18-19th c. Russian Literature. One of my collegues is looking for a panel to present one of the following papers: 1. Russian Idea and Its Champions in Post-Soviet Russia. Panel on Political Sciense or Philosophy. 2. From Socialism to Monarchism: Ivan Il'in in and on the Russian Revolution. Panel on Russian History. If you are a Chair of such a panel at AAASS or you know anyone who may squeeze one of these topics in a panel in the last moment, or who thinks there may be a vacant space later, please, let me know. I greatly appreciate your help. Answer directly to: ykripkov at oregon.uoregon.edu ***************************************************************************** Yelaina Kripkov tel: (541) 346-4077 work Dept. of Russian (541) 345-9122 home University of Oregon fax: (541) 346-1327 Eugene, OR 97403 ykripkov at oregon.uoregon.edu From ggerhart at wolfenet.com Fri Dec 6 20:39:46 1996 From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 12:39:46 -0800 Subject: Refereeing Message-ID: 1. I'm delighted that Chuck will be at AATSEEL, and 2. There are several major advantages to refereeing: a. The paper will be more carefully prepared, b. The papers can be sorted into logical groups c. The writer can have more time to consider the audience. (I happened upon a paper in SanDiego and was seriously concerned lest I die before I got out of there.) So when can we institute refereeing? gg -- Genevra Gerhart http://www.wolfe.net/~ggerhart/ 2134 E. Interlaken Bl. Tel. 206/329-0053 Seattle, WA 98112 ggerhart at wolfenet.com From 76703.2063 at CompuServe.COM Fri Dec 6 20:42:52 1996 From: 76703.2063 at CompuServe.COM (Jerry Ervin) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 15:42:52 EST Subject: Interviewing at AATSEEL '96 Message-ID: Interviewing rooms will be available in 2-hour time blocks, generally corresponding to panel session hours: 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. (no panels scheduled) 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. These rooms will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis on Saturday 28 December through Monday 30 December (ending at 5:15 p.m.). To reserve an interviewing room, please call or send an email or fax to the address below no later than 20 December 1996; therafter you may stop by the Conference registration desk to reserve a room. If more than two hours are needed, the hotel has day-use suites available at reasonable rates. Please call Janis Mann at the Capital Hilton (202/639-5704) for informtion or to reserve a room. --Jerry Ervin * * * * * Gerard L. Ervin Executive Director, AATSEEL 1933 N. Fountain Park Dr. Tucson, AZ 85715 USA phone/fax: 520/885-2663 email: 76703.2063 at compuserve.com From SLBAEHR at VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU Fri Dec 6 22:51:40 1996 From: SLBAEHR at VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Stephen Baehr) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 17:51:40 EST Subject: Virgina Tech Summer Russian Language Program at Moscow University Message-ID: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Five-Week Summer Program for the Study of Russian in Moscow Moscow State University May 31 - July 5, 1997 Six Semester Credits Academic Program During five weeks of their stay in Moscow, students will engage in intensive study of Russian. Classes are offered at all levels, from beginning through advanced. Students may receive up to six hours of credit for the Russian language courses. In lieu of 3 hours of language instruction, additional arrangements can be made for such courses as Russian Literature, Russian History and Russian Culture(in English or in Russian), dependent on sufficient number of students in the group. Classes will be held in the mornings, leaving the afternoons free for discovering Moscow. Excursions The program also offers three guided tours in Moscow, a three-day trip with excursions to St.Petersburg and tickets to the ballet performance in the Grand Kremlin Palace and to the famous Russian Circus. Lodging Students will live in a Moscow State University dormitory in private rooms with a bathroom, refrigerator, and television in each suite. Cost The projected cost is $2,800.This basic fee includes round-trip airfare Washington,D.C.-Moscow-Washington,D.C.; transportation from and to the airport in Moscow; room and two meals per day (breakfast and lunch); classes at Moscow State University; a monthly public transportation pass; the excursion program described above; registration fee, and visa fee. Not included is transportation to and from Washington Dulles Airport; VPI&SU tuition (in summer 1996, in-state tuition was $515 and out-of-state was $1485); and personal spending money. Dates The travel dates indicated are tentative and may vary slightly based on the availability of flights. Eligibility, Admission and Payment The Program is open to college students in good standing, high school teachers, and other qualified individuals. Application forms are due by March 10, 1997 and must be accompanied by a nonrefundable deposit of $500,and the balance is due by April 1,1997. For application forms and more information, please contact Irina Makoveeva Foreign Languages and Literatures 306 Major Williams Hall Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0225 TEL: (540) 231-7429;(540) 231-8323;(540) 231-5361 FAX: (540) 231-4812 E-MAIL: imakovee at vt.edu or slbaehr at vtvm1.cc.vt.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Baehr (slbaehr at vtvm1.cc.vt.edu) Professor of Russian Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA 24061-0225 Telephone: (540)-231-8323; FAX (540) 231-4812 From billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de Sat Dec 7 00:31:02 1996 From: billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de (Loren A. BILLINGS) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 01:31:02 +0100 Subject: Refereeing/moderation/collaboration In-Reply-To: <9611068499.AA849910419@HUMANITIES1.COHUMS.OHIO-STATE.EDU> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I was meaning to bring something up about refereeing at the annual linguists' powow at AATSEEL. I'm writing these ideas here because, alas, I won't be able to make it the States for the meeting. I also think these problems might also pertain to some of the other fields. Additionally, David Birnbaum specifically requested that such comments be posted here. I pushed hard for refereeing last year, when I was quite disappointed with several talks. What was even more upsetting was that these talks indirectly forced more than one linguistics session to be held in some time slots. This then caused me to have to choose between two talks I *did* want to attend. This parallel-scheduling also caused at least one panel I attended to have less people in the audience than the number of panelists themselves (cf. Margo Ballou's recent posting on this thread). These problems aside, however, my other proposal last year in Chicago, which I repeat now, was that refereeing shouldn't be taken to extremes: Although I think this step was direly needed, let's not go overboard on this. The main rationale for the refereeing (as Charles Gribble just posted) should be to get people working on these talks *before* Christmas. This review process is also supposed to remedy (or cull out) abstracts that--if enough referees agree--would be a waste of the audience's time. Although I agree with Olga Yokoyama's assertion that blind review increases the prestige of having a refereed talk in one's _Curriculum vitae_, and the prestige of the field as a whole, this should not be our primary goal. A case in point about blind review gone wild (which does *not* refer to the talk that Catherine Rudin, Christina Kramer and I are preparing for this year's meeting): An abstract was submitted this spring to Karen Robblee (linguistics honcho), who then distributed it to anonymous reviewers. One of the reviewers returned a comment to the effect that, despite the significantly new *descriptive* observations about a particular phenomenon in one of the three branches of Slavic, since there were no theoretical or formal proposals (yet) in the abstract it should be rejected. It is this "overboard" refereeing that should not be happening, at least not (yet) at AATSEEL. My own preference, as a generativist, is that the talks make concrete proposals about what's going on in the particular language (or in the human mind). Nonetheless, I still think that AATSEEL is a perfectly appropriate place to present good work *in progress*, which my still be in its beginning stages. My talk at the Toronto meeting in 1994, for example, grew into my dissertation the following year. The talk that Rudin, Kramer and I are to present this year grew out of talks presented by Rudin in Toronto (1994), then Rudin and Kramer in San Diego (1995), with a new author added each year as the picture became clearer what was going on. As the previous sentence suggests, I think that collaborative work should also be encouraged. This is one way for more people to be able to contribute to AATSEEL (and thereby be able to get travel funding from their employers), without forcing individuals to turn out yet another talk each year, just in order to get the dean to approve the plane ticket. From my experience, collaboration forces one (actually two or more) to express his or her ideas to someone else and defend these ideas. It allows that person to get feedback, which Margo (and I) also like about the refereeing process, but much earlier on. It also allows one with ideas, stemming from one language area, to see how those same ideas work in the other areas. My own work on _li_ (the YES/NO particle) in Russian--presented two years ago in San Diego, incidentally--got me interested in _li_ in Macedonian and Bulgarian, where I couldn't have possibly gone it alone were it not for my Balkanist co-authors. Karen, I might add, has coordinated the refereeing process admirably. Considering the newness of this whole thing, many of the start-up problems have befallen her to solve. She has, from what I can tell, handled these with dispatch. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Loren A. BILLINGS, Ph.D. (e-mail: billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de) Institut fuer Slavistik Home address: Universitaet Leipzig Augustusplatz 9 Funkenburgstr. 14 D-04109 Leipzig D-04105 Leipzig my office phone*: +49 (341) 211 8165 home phone: +49 (341) 980 7227 dept. secretary: +49 (341) 973 7450 dept. secretary: +49 (341) 973 7454 dept. fax: +49 (341) 973 7499 [* if this line is busy, try +49 (341) 211 8164, but let it ring 10 times!] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From djbpitt+ at pitt.edu Sat Dec 7 05:18:54 1996 From: djbpitt+ at pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 00:18:54 -0500 Subject: Refereeing In-Reply-To: <32A88492.5F8D@wolfenet.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Genevra Gerhart wrote: > So when can we institute refereeing? Sounds like this is as good a time as any to announce the following: Beginning with the 1997 annual meeting in Toronto, AATSEEL will undertake on a three-to-five-year trial basis a series of revisions in the organization of the conference. These revisions have been proposed, after lengthy discussion within the program committee and consultation with officers and members, as a response to long-standing problems with the quality and administration of the conference, and the history and rationale underlying them are described at length on the World Wide Web at: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/aatseel/program_structure.html Members who would like to consult this document and do not have access to the World Wide Web may request a copy by email or regular post from the Program Committee Chair (see the addresses at the bottom of this message). It should be emphasized that the proposed changes have been designed not to restrict participation in the conference (which remains open to all members who conform to the guidelines), but to help raise the overall quality of all contributions. 1. To Propose a Panel. Any member may propose a panel by submitting a panel declaration form to the appropriate division head by 15 January. Members are encouraged to propose panels on specific and cohesive themes, which will encourage the panelists to address closely-related issues. 2. To Submit a Paper. Members may submit papers in two ways: either by coordinating a submission to a specific panel with the chair of that panel (as has been the case in the past) or by submitting a paper to the conference as a whole, to be assigned to an appropriate panel during scheduling. In either case, members must submit their abstracts to the division head (not just to the panel chair) by the deadline. The opportunity to submit papers to the conference as a whole, rather than to a specific panel, means that members no longer need to find or create panels for their papers, and it also means that members will no longer be closed out of the conference because appropriate panels have either not been proposed or become filled. 3. Abstracts. All submissions must be accompanied by a one-page abstract (see the Guidelines for Preparing Abstracts, below). Abstracts must be submitted to the appropriate division head, with copies of abstracts earmarked for particular panels also sent to the appropriate panel chairs. Roundtable participants should submit a statement of how they will contribute to their panels. Please note that abstracts will be accepted only from paid-up members of AATSEEL. Non-North-American scholars and non-Slavists may apply to AATSEEL's Executive Director for exemption from the membership requirement, which will be determined on an individual basis. 4. Anonymous Peer Review of Abstracts. All abstracts will be refereed anonymously by reviewers selected by the division heads, and the criteria for refereeing are described in the Guidelines for Abstracts. All members are invited to nominate themselves or others to serve as referees by contacting the appropriate division head. Referees need not be senior scholars, but should have sufficient area knowledge and conference experience to be able to evaluate submissions according to the published guidelines. 5. Deadlines. There are two deadlines for abstracts: 15 April and 15 August. Abstracts received by 15 April and not accepted will be returned to the author with suggestions for revision, and members are invited to resubmit for the 15 August deadline. Members who do not require early notification of acceptance or the opportunity to revise and resubmit are welcome to bypass the first deadline and submit their abstracts only by mid-August. Please note that the 15 August deadline is firm, and no submissions can be accepted after that date. 6. Competition. There isn't any, and all abstracts that conform to the published guidelines are guaranteed acceptance. The purpose of peer review of conference abstracts is not to limit participation, but to encourage all members to submit work that conforms to basic professional standards. The guidelines, coupled with the revise-and-resubmit option, are designed to assist members in preparing abstracts, and members are encouraged to contact panel chairs or any member of the program committee with questions about the abstract process. 7. Multiple Participation. A member may appear on the program up to three times: once as an author of a titled paper, once as a discussant or roundtable participant, and once as a panel chair. (Secretaries, whose only function has been as designated chairs for the following year, will no longer be listed in the program.) Exceptions to the multiple participation rule are that a) participation in "publisher's forum" panels in any capacity is not counted toward a member's quota, and b) a member presenting a single-authored paper may also present a co-authored paper, as long as at least one additional co-author is not otherwise presenting a paper, and is registered and present at the conference. 8. Chairs and Secretaries. Members who submit panel declaration forms will chair those panels, and are encouraged to recruit participants, subject to the peer review process described above (refereeing is applied at the level of individual papers, rather than panels). Underfilled panels will be completed through consultation between the chair and division head, and chairs will not need to compromise their standards to save an undersubscribed panel at the last minute. Undeclared panels created to accommodate papers not submitted to a particular panel will have chairs appointed by the division heads. Beginning in 1997, members will not be permitted to give papers on panels they chair themselves; because division heads are responsible for placing all submissions appropriately, it is no longer necessary to create a panel just to have a home for one's own paper. Also beginning in 1997, as noted above, secretaries will have no official status and will not be listed in the program. 9. Abstract Book. All accepted abstracts will be collected, published, and distributed together with the program at the conference, in order to provide a permanent record of the conference and to help members decide which papers to attend. Abstracts will also be published on the World Wide Web prior to the conference. 10. Timeslots. Unless there is a specific reason for an alternative structure, all panels will be divided into four half-hour slots, allocated to either four papers or three papers plus discussion (either with or without a discussant). If there are four papers, discussion will follow each paper, and the paper plus discussion should not exceed half an hour. If there are three papers, the papers may take thirty minutes, with all discussion falling in the final half hour. If a paper finishes early, chairs will pause until the next half hour. The purpose of this division is to enable members to move between panels, knowing in advance when specific papers will begin and end. 11. Uniform oversight of program quality and structure. Division heads will work together with panel chairs to ensure that all who wish to read a paper and have submitted an acceptable abstract will be able to participate. Whenever possible, division heads will not tamper with panels that have been recruited or organized by chairs, although they will have the authority to move papers from one panel to another, in consultation with the panel chairs, as appropriate to the needs of the conference as a whole. 12. We will continue the "publisher's forum" panels introduced this year as an opportunity for authors to discuss their own textbooks. This new venue means that authors should no longer use traditional academic panels to advertise their own books; textbook-oriented research panels are very welcome, but they should be both scholarly and scrupulously non-commercial. We wish to emphasize that this new system is being implemented not in order to exclude members from participation, but to ensure that all of us can be proud to participate in a conference whose quality and professionalism will enhance both our reputation as scholars and the overall reputation of our professional association. During this trial period, members are encouraged to contact any member of the Program Committee with comments and suggestions about the new mechanisms, and about ways to improve further the quality and professionalism of our annual meetings. ________________________________________________________________________ Guidelines for Abstracts In view of the decision by the AATSEEL Executive Council and Program Committee to expand the system of anonymous peer review of abstracts for the annual meeting to all divisions, we thought it might be useful to present some general guidelines for people writing abstracts, especially those for whom the proposal of a paper to AATSEEL may be the first experience with peer review of abstracts. The goal of the review process is not to establish a principle of competition for a limited number of slots, but, rather, to ensure that all papers presented meet minimum professional standards and reflect careful preparation in advance. The peer review is intended to be as objective and inclusive as possible. Division heads, who are responsible for review procedures, will make an effort to find the widest possible representation by all segments of the membership (academic subdivision, geography, seniority, school of thought [as many PhD-granting programs as possible], and type of institution as appropriate to the discipline [PhD-granting, non-PhD-granting, etc.]). The system will apply uniformly to all conference participants. An ideal abstract, like a good paper, should identify a problem (linguistic, pedagogical, literary, historical, or cultural) that needs solving or present a hypothesis that sheds light on the interpretation of a text or body of texts. (A text need not be strictly "literary" and could include, for example, film or opera, or even painting or music.) A paper may identify a new problem and propose a solution, or may identify a complete or partial solution to an existing problem. Alternatively, a paper might indicate that a generally-held view has unrecognized shortcomings, without necessarily proposing a comprehensive analysis to replace the received wisdom. Some papers, especially in pedagogy, may provide critical descriptions and analyses of existing, innovative, or proposed methods and materials used in teaching languages and literatures. Papers in literature may propose a new analysis of a text, offer a new application of an established critical theory or theories of textual analysis or interpretation, or present a new theory of textual interpretation. It is important to state your methodology or theoretical framework clearly; a reference as brief as "relying on approach X", "applying the principles of Y", "analyzing the problem within a Z framework", or "I am approaching the problem from the point of view of A and B's theory of Q" will suffice. Naturally, the further your work has progressed, the better your abstract is likely to be. Ideally, you will summarize work that is already completed, but this is not required, or even expected. More likely, you will have the outline of your analysis in mind, but will not have worked out all the details; this is also legitimate. However, if you have merely identified a problem you would like to examine when you get a chance, on which you have not yet conducted any research, it will be difficult to represent it convincingly. The review committees will be given the authority to reject largely hypothetical papers. Abstracts should be brief and concise, presenting your hypothesis and outlining your plan for defending that hypothesis. Aim for approximately one page, including examples and short, relevant references, which should be used sparingly. The full scholarly apparatus, with footnotes and bibliography, is not necessary for an abstract. (References could include, for example, only the name of the author cited and, if necessary, the title of the work cited in parentheses.) For linguists, data and examples in non-Slavic and non-Western languages should be glossed. When submitting abstracts by e-mail, employ a clear system for Cyrillic or diacritic marks, and indicate it explicitly with the abstract. Printed abstracts must be anonymous, with a cover note including author, address, and title of paper. Headers will be removed from electronic submissions before refereeing. Receipt of e-mail submissions will be acknowledged. If you submit your abstract in other ways and would like an acknowledgement of receipt, please provide your e-mail address or enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope. E-mail submission is strongly encouraged. Fax is discouraged because of poor legibility, particularly in the case of further transmission to referees. If you submit an abstract by post or fax, the use of courier or some other monospaced font is preferred, so that printed abstracts can be scanned. ________________________________________________________________________ 1997 Program Committee PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Professor David J. Birnbaum Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 1417 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Phone: 412-624-5712 Fax: 412-624-9714 Email: djbpitt+ at pitt.edu URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/ MEMBERS AT LARGE Professor George Fowler Department of Slavic Languages Ballantine 502 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 Phone: 317-726-1482 (home; try here first); 812-855-2829 (office) Fax: 812-855-2107 Email: gfowler at indiana.edu Professor Karen Evans-Romaine Ohio University Department of Modern Languages Ellis Hall 220 Athens, OH 45701 Phone: 614-592-3728 (home), 614-593-2791 (office), 614-593-2765 (department) Fax: 614-593-0729 Email: evans-ro at oak.cats.ohiou.edu DIVISION HEADS THEORY AND SPECIAL TOPICS Professor Maria Pavlovszky 7548 Sycamore Grove Ct. Indianapolis, IN 46260-3388 Phone: 317-726-1482 (home; try here first), 317-274-0062 (dept) Fax: 317-274-2347 Email: mpavlov at iupui.edu METHODOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY Professor Benjamin Rifkin Department of Slavic Languages 1432 Van Hise Hall University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 Phone: 608-262-1623 Fax: 608-265-2814 Email: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu CULTURE, CINEMA, AND DRAMA Professor Eliot Borenstein 19 University Place #302 New York, NY 10003-4556 Phone: 212-998-8676 (work), 212-477-7198 (home) Fax: 212-995-4163 Email: borenstn at is2.nyu.edu TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN lITERATURE Professor Michael Gorham Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures 263 Dauer Hall University of Florida P.O. Box 117430 Gainesville, FL 32611-7430 Phone: 352-392-2101 Fax: 352-392-1067 E-mail: mgorham at germslav.ufl.edu LINGUISTICS Professor Karen Robblee Department of Slavic and East European Languages The Pennsylvania State University 211 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802-5201 Phone: 814-863-8963 (office); 814-237-7046 (home) Fax: 814-863-5561 Email: ker4 at psu.edu PRE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE Professor Kevin Platt Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Mason Hall, Room 201 550 N. Harvard Avenue Pomona College Claremont, CA 91711 Phone: 909-621-2337 (home), 909-621-8927 (work) Fax: 909-621-8065 Email: kplatt at pomona.edu URL: http://pages.pomona.edu/~kplatt/ ________________________________________________________________________ Professor David J. Birnbaum email: djbpitt+ at pitt.edu Department of Slavic Languages url: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/ 1417 Cathedral of Learning voice: 1-412-624-5712 University of Pittsburgh fax: 1-412-624-9714 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA From ykripkov at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Sat Dec 7 09:04:29 1996 From: ykripkov at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Yelaina Khripkov) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 01:04:29 -0800 Subject: Raising Enrollment: a new chance! Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, I have been attentively following the recent discussion about the dramatic fall of enrollment in Russian programs, but was keeping silent, "do pory, do vremeni," about the attempts of my department (Univ. of Oregon) to improve the situation in our program. I wanted to make sure that our measures work. It turned out they do. I want to share our success and hopes with everybody. If it worked for us, it may work for someone else! Last summer I received a grant for preparing a new experimental interdisciplinary course "Doing Business with Russia." The practical goal was to attract non-Russian majors to the Russian program. I intensively advertised the course in our School of Business. We had twenty students enrolled. I taught the course during this Fall term and it was a tremendous success. The results were as follows: 17 out of 20 demanded course continuation in Winter term; 2 students decided to take First year Russian; the School of Business got extremely interested and proposed to help with the marketing of the course, promising to attract 150 students if we offer a three term sequence and have the courses satisfy some general University requirements (multi-cultural, Arts and Letters, etc.). The Office of International Affairs is working now at a new grant for course preparation. After working at and teaching this course, I came to some conclusions: 1. We need to offer new courses oriented towards concrete professions in other fields: students should know exactly why they are studying Russian and how they are going to apply it. Business is the most perspective among such professions: no matter what happens in Russia, international business will develop there; 2. Russia is fascinating for people who do not know anything about it, and most of the students are like this; 3. Such course should have three main components: professional (business), cultural, and language; such structure provides a better hook. Language alone (as Business Russian, for example) does not work; 4. Students majoring in business are aggressive, adventurous, curious, and are eager to take risks (like going to Russia and trying their luck there); 5. The general university requirements must be satisfied anyway and the students would rather take courses connected to their field; 6. There are no other language programs that offer such a course; 7. Schools of Business have money and a lot of students: so make them your partners. To those who got hooked: I am making a presentation about all this at AATSEEL in Washington, DC - Panel: Russian for Business, Dec. 30, 1:00-3:00 p.m. I will tell in detail about how to advertise such a course, how to structure it, how to keep interest high, how to promote the language component, how to take the business part off the instructor's shoulders and put it on those of the students, and also about textbooks, materials and sources, etc. Come to the panel, dear colleagues, and join the discussion! ***************************************************************************** Yelaina Kripkov tel: (541) 346-4077 work Dept. of Russian (541) 345-9122 home University of Oregon fax: (541) 346-1327 Eugene, OR 97403 ykripkov at oregon.uoregon.edu From ykripkov at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Sat Dec 7 09:37:23 1996 From: ykripkov at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Yelaina Khripkov) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 01:37:23 -0800 Subject: refereeing Message-ID: >On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Genevra Gerhart wrote: >> So when can we institute refereeing? >Sounds like this is as good a time as any to announce the following. . . Bravo, David and the Committee! We are proud of you! What a relief! I am just going through the toucher of trying to create a panel for the next AAASS Conference and find a chair and discussant for it in the last moment, because this is the only way to present a paper there. Why wouldn't they follow the AATSEEL example? Yelaina Khripkov ***************************************************************************** Yelaina Kripkov tel: (541) 346-4077 work Dept. of Russian (541) 345-9122 home University of Oregon fax: (541) 346-1327 Eugene, OR 97403 ykripkov at oregon.uoregon.edu From apavkovi at laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au Sat Dec 7 13:48:00 1996 From: apavkovi at laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Aleksandar Pavkovic) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 08:48:00 EST Subject: ACADEMIC POSTS IN CROATIAN Message-ID: The following advertisment appeared in _Sydney Morning Herald_ on 7 December 1996: MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, SYDNEY (Australia) Associate Lectyuers in Slavonic Studies (Croatian) Ref. 16215+ Two positions are available. The Appointees will be required to prepare and teach Croatian language, literature and culture in both the internal and external programs as well as to develop and maintain cordial relations with the Croatian community. Applicatns must have native or near native proficiency in Croatian, together with a good command of written and spoken English. They must also hold or be working towards a higher degree in a related fireld of study and have epxerience and an active interest in language teaching. Preference will be given to applicatns with strong reserach interests in any aspect of Croatian studies. The postions will be funded by the Croatian Studies Foundation, and subject to continuing support fromthe Foundation, will be available for a fixed term of five years with the possibility of conversion to tenure. _Enquiries and further information package_: Mr L. Budak on (02) 9850 7040 (An application package MUST be obtained prior to sending your application) Salary range: Level A (Associate Lecturer ) 30,310 to 40,889 per annum. Closing date: 3 January 1997. General: Applications including full curriculum vitae and quoting the reference number, visa status, and the names and acddresses of three referes should be forwarded to the Recruitment Manager, Personnel Office, Macquarie University, NSW 2109. Applications will not be acknowledged unless specifically requested. From AHRJJ at CUNYVM.BITNET Sat Dec 7 14:41:03 1996 From: AHRJJ at CUNYVM.BITNET (Alex Rudd) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 09:41:03 EST Subject: SEELANGS Administrivia - Winter Break Message-ID: Dear SEELangers, It's getting very near the time when many subscribers to this list leave town, for the winter or for good. If you plan to be away from your account for a protracted period of time, you may not want to return to dozens of listserv mail messages in your mailbox. If this applies to you, read on for some things you can do (NOTE: you may wish to print this out for future reference): Below I list a few commands. When sending those commands, send e-mail to: LISTSERV at CUNYVM (Bitnet) or LISTSERV at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Internet) Include the command in the body of the mail (LISTSERV ignores everything in the Subject: field). - If you're graduating, losing the account you're currently using, or otherwise giving up on this list, send the following command before you go: SIGNOFF SEELANGS If you're subscribed to other listserv lists, you can leave all of them in one fell swoop by sending the following command: SIGNOFF * (NETWIDE (note the "(" before the word NETWIDE) - If you're planning to be away for awhile, whether for a couple of weeks or for the entire winter, you may want to stop receiving posts from this list yet remain subscribed to it. To do this, send the following command before you go: SET SEELANGS NOMAIL If you SET SEELANGS NOMAIL before you left, you want to send the following command when you return: SET SEELANGS MAIL This will tell the listserv that you wish to resume normal use of the list, and you will be sent copies of messages sent to the list as they are posted. (NOTE: If you're currently set to DIGEST or INDEX and you set NOMAIL, sending the SET SEELANGS MAIL command will return you to DIGEST or INDEX.) This list is archived on the LISTSERV on a monthly basis. When you return, you can catch up on what you missed by using the GET command to get a month's worth of postings (all together in a single mailing). For example: GET SEELANGS LOG9612 F=MAIL If you sent that command (at some point after Dec. 31), the LISTSERV would send you all the posts to the list which appeared in December 1996 (hence the LOG9612). Keep in mind, though, that such a file will be very long and some gateways will reject it for that very reason. It probably makes more sense to search the archives selectively for the time period you were away. Send the command GET SEELANGS SEARCH or INFO DATABASE for more information on searching the archives. As always, if you have any questions regarding LISTSERV, please send them directly to me at the address below, not to SEELANGS. If I feel the answer may be of benefit to the entire list membership, I may reply on the list. Apologies to those subscribers living on the "other" side of the equator. Just do a personal "search and replace" on the above message, replacing "winter" with "summer." :) Happy holidays to all... - Alex Rudd, list owner of SEELANGS seelangs-request at cunyvm.cuny.edu From billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de Sat Dec 7 18:21:37 1996 From: billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de (Loren A. BILLINGS) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:21:37 +0100 Subject: Book needs review Message-ID: The following was posted to the LINGUIST list recently. Apparently, no one has posted it to SEELangs. Please reply to Francesca's address, not mine. --Loren Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:52:06 +0100 From: FRAFICI at CESIT1.UNIFI.IT Subject: Definitite - Indefinite in Slavic The volume Determinatezza e Indeterminatezza nelle Lingue Slave contains articles on Definite \ Indefinite in Russian, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian, Lituanian, Bosnian (sic). The articles are in Italian, Russian, English. If you are interested for a review, ask a copy of the volume to: Francesca Fici (one of the editors), frafici at cesit1.unifi.it The title is: Determinatezza nelle lingue slave, a cura di R:Benacchio, F.Fici, L.Gebert, Padova, Unipress, 1996. Best wishes, Francesca Fici --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Loren A. BILLINGS, Ph.D. (e-mail: billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de) Institut fuer Slavistik Home address: Universitaet Leipzig Augustusplatz 9 Funkenburgstr. 14 D-04109 Leipzig D-04105 Leipzig my office phone*: +49 (341) 211 8165 home phone: +49 (341) 980 7227 dept. secretary: +49 (341) 973 7450 dept. secretary: +49 (341) 973 7454 dept. fax: +49 (341) 973 7499 [* if this line is busy, try +49 (341) 211 8164, but let it ring 10 times!] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de Sat Dec 7 18:21:42 1996 From: billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de (Loren A. BILLINGS) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 19:21:42 +0100 Subject: Bulgarian prosody Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Would any of you know tests to determine which stressed word is the prosodic host of the clitics (_s^am_, _mu_, _go_) in the following examples? That is, are these particles prosodic proclitics or prosodic enclitics? (I know that such elements need to be next to the verb syntactically; I need their prosodic properties.) a. BJAX mu go DAL b. BIX mu go DAL c. BE^se mu go DAla d. ne BI mu go DAla e. BIL s^am mu KAzal [from Hauge's _Word order of predicate clitics in Bulgarian, Oslo, 1976, pp. 38-39; stressed syllables indicated with ALL-CAPS, transliteration modified/LAB] What I'm looking for is phonetic evidence (akin to the three-level vowel-reduction facts of Russian, for example). Please reply to me (billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de) and I'll post a summary. Thanks in advance, --Loren Billings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Loren A. BILLINGS, Ph.D. (e-mail: billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de) Institut fuer Slavistik Home address: Universitaet Leipzig Augustusplatz 9 Funkenburgstr. 14 D-04109 Leipzig D-04105 Leipzig my office phone*: +49 (341) 211 8165 home phone: +49 (341) 980 7227 dept. secretary: +49 (341) 973 7450 dept. secretary: +49 (341) 973 7454 dept. fax: +49 (341) 973 7499 [* if this line is busy, try +49 (341) 211 8164, but let it ring 10 times!] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From paulkla at mail.pressenter.com Mon Dec 9 00:47:00 1996 From: paulkla at mail.pressenter.com (Paul A. Klanderud) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 18:47:00 CST Subject: SEEJ ? Message-ID: Greetings, A quick question: have other people received any issues of subsequent to Spring 1996? E.g., as in Summer and Fall, both of which have long since passed here in Wisconsin? Paul Klanderud From japontiu at midway.uchicago.edu Mon Dec 9 18:35:55 1996 From: japontiu at midway.uchicago.edu (Jason Pontius) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 12:35:55 -0600 Subject: AATSEEL Panel: Language Contact Message-ID: Given David Birnbaum's recent guidelines for panel proposals: >1. To Propose a Panel. Any member may propose a panel by submitting a >panel declaration form to the appropriate division head by 15 January. >Members are encouraged to propose panels on specific and cohesive themes, >which will encourage the panelists to address closely-related issues. >8. Chairs and Secretaries. Members who submit panel declaration forms >will chair those panels, and are encouraged to recruit participants, >subject to the peer review process described above (refereeing is >applied at the level of individual papers, rather than panels). ... it sounds like those of us who'd like to propose panels had better get on the ball. To that end, I would like to propose a panel for 1997 on issues of _language contact_ in the Slavic world. If you would like to give a paper on such a panel, or be a discussant, or simply express interest, please reply to me off-list at japontiu at midway.uchicago.edu. -- Jason Pontius ------------------------------------------------------ jason allen pontius slavic university of chicago 7 7 3 . 3 2 4 . 7 1 7 3 japontiu at midway.uchicago.edu From romanov at spot.Colorado.EDU Mon Dec 9 19:38:10 1996 From: romanov at spot.Colorado.EDU (Romanov Artemi) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 12:38:10 -0700 Subject: Looking for fourth year Russian texts Message-ID: Dear colleagues, A colleague of mine is looking for good textbooks (grammar & conversation) that could be used in her fourth year Russian course. Her students are already familiar with "Let's Talk About life", "Political Russian" and "Ogonyok". If you have experience with, or have heard of other texts for advanced students, please, send me a message. Thanks, Artemi Romanov romanov at spot.colorado.edu From djbpitt+ at pitt.edu Mon Dec 9 19:28:37 1996 From: djbpitt+ at pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:28:37 -0500 Subject: AATSEEL Panel: Language Contact In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, > >1. To Propose a Panel. Any member may propose a panel by submitting a > >panel declaration form to the appropriate division head by 15 January. > > ... > ... it sounds like those of us who'd like to propose panels had better > get on the ball. Yes and no. The bad news is that 15 January is the deadline by which I have to get the panel information to the Newsletter editors for publication in the February newsletter. You should try to get your declaration to the division head a few days before that, so that it can make its way from them to me to the newsletter. But there are at least two pieces of good news: 1) A panel declaration consists of only a panel title, an indication of which division the panel belongs in, and a chair (name, affiliation, address[es], phone[s], fax[es], and email[s]). That's it. In particular, you don't need to have your panelists lined up (this ain't the AAASS, folks!). The point of the panel declaration is that it gets published in the Newsletter before you've filled your panel, and members who read the list of declared panels then know how to get in touch with chairs to express an interest in participating. 2) I will accept panel declarations after early January, but they won't be listed in the February newsletter, which means that a lot of people won't hear about them, which defeats the purpose of a call for papers. I will, of course, put them up on the web page as they come in. If you want as many people as possible to hear about your panel and to be able to submit papers to it, you should probably aim to get your declaration in early. Cheers, David ________________________________________________________________________ Professor David J. Birnbaum email: djbpitt+ at pitt.edu Department of Slavic Languages url: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/ 1417 Cathedral of Learning voice: 1-412-624-5712 University of Pittsburgh fax: 1-412-624-9714 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA From kaiserd at U.Arizona.EDU Mon Dec 9 21:09:12 1996 From: kaiserd at U.Arizona.EDU (David W Kaiser) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:09:12 -0700 Subject: Request for Help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Does anyone have either "Kontinent" #57(1988) or "Novoe Russkoe Slovo" Sept 30, 1988? A friend of mine needs copies of the interviews with Bliznetsova, friends and fellow poets. Please respond to me & I will forward to my friend. Dave Kaiser Master's Candidate, Department of Russian and Slavic Languages University of Arizona From gfowler at indiana.edu Tue Dec 10 01:25:04 1996 From: gfowler at indiana.edu (George Fowler) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 20:25:04 -0500 Subject: FASL 6 conference announcement Message-ID: Greetings, all! I've been asked to post this call for papers for the 6th annual Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics workshop. Please send any replies directly to the organizers at the addresses within. George Fowler From gfowler at indiana.edu Tue Dec 10 01:31:41 1996 From: gfowler at indiana.edu (George Fowler) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 20:31:41 -0500 Subject: FASL 6 Announcement (take two!) Message-ID: I don't seem to be capable of doing ANYTHING right tonight! Here's the missing FASL 6 announcement; please reply to the organizers rather than to me! George Fowler ************************************************************************* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************* FASL VI Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics hosted by University of Connecticut 9-11 May 1997 Invited Speakers: Christina Bethin, SUNY Stony Brook Steven Franks, Indiana University Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut Call for Papers: Deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, 14 February 1997. Abstracts are invited for 30-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion) on topics dealing with formal aspects of Slavic syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and psycholinguistics. Send 6 copies of a ONE-PAGE ANONYMOUS abstract to the address below. No fax or e-mail submissions will be accepted. Please include ONE 3x5} card with: 1) title of paper; 2) your name; 3) address and affiliation; 4) telephone and/or fax numbers; 5) e-mail address. Communication: FASL VI Committee linqadm4 at uconnvm.uconn.edu Dept. of Linguistics (860) 486-4229 [tel.] U-145 (860) 486-0197 [fax] University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269 USA Persons interested in attending FASL VI are invited to register their e-mail and/or mailing addresses with us at the conference address above. E-mail is the preferred means of communication for all business except abstract submission, for which we require hard copy. Further conference information will be made available on the World Wide Web, at the following address: http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~wwwling/fasl6.html ************************************************************************* From roborr at aix1.uottawa.ca Tue Dec 10 06:26:40 1996 From: roborr at aix1.uottawa.ca (Robert Orr) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 01:26:40 -0500 Subject: Refereeing Message-ID: Has anyone read M.R. James' "Casting the Runes"? Which is all I have to say on the subject of refereeing. Robert From 76703.2063 at CompuServe.COM Tue Dec 10 07:09:40 1996 From: 76703.2063 at CompuServe.COM (Jerry Ervin) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 02:09:40 EST Subject: SEEJ 40,3 Message-ID: To respond to Paul Klanderud's question: No one has yet received SEEJ 40,3 (and I haven't seen it yet myself). It is being addressed next week at the printing facility in Iowa, I'm told, and it'll be mailed immediately thereafter. Given that it will hit the mails just in time for the Christmas rush, I would expect most of us will receive it in late December or early January. I hope this information is helpful. --Jerry Ervin * * * * * Gerard L. Ervin Executive Director, AATSEEL 1933 N. Fountain Park Dr. Tucson, AZ 85715 USA phone/fax: 520/885-2663 email: 76703.2063 at compuserve.com From Wim.Coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be Tue Dec 10 09:36:45 1996 From: Wim.Coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Coudenys) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:36:45 +0100 Subject: regiony Rossii Message-ID: On behalf of Prof. E. Waegemans, I would like to distribute the folder of the book on the regions of Russia, published some weeks ago in Belgium: Vladimir Ronin. REGIONS OF RUSSIA Regiony Rossii =ABRegions of Russia=BB is a book written for everybody who is interested in= =20 Russia in all the variety of its constituent parts and in a wide range of=20 aspects. Each of the book's 14 chapters covers one region, such as the=20 Northern Region, Povolzhe, the Northern Caucasus, the Urals, Western Siberia= =20 and so on, including Moscow and St.-Petersburg. The =ABsynthetic portrait=BB of each region encompasses its geographical=20 position, scenery and climate ; the historical development of the region and= =20 its role in Russia's cultural history ; the main ethnic groups among the=20 population and their languages, religions and national traditions ; the=20 economic situation, in particular forms of cooperation with foreign= partners;=20 the opportunities for tourism and the political inclination of the local=20 elites and their relations with the federal authorities in Moscow. The author collected everything (including jokes!) that, in his opinion, is= =20 most significant for and most characteristic of the different territories of= =20 the Russian Federation, and which at the same time will be of most interest= =20 to readers outside this country. The book even includes information of the= =20 presidential elections of 1996. Maps of the regions involved are attached to= =20 each chapter. =ABRegions of Russia=BB is meant primarily for people studying the Russian= =20 language. Therefore, the language used is clear and readily understandable,= =20 with difficult stresses indicated and special terms or important concepts= and=20 facts printed in italics. The result is an attractive and objectively written book which serves well= =20 both for recreational reading and as an inexhaustible book of reference for= =20 anybody interested in present-day Russia : students, translators,=20 philologists and slavists, journalists and businessmen in all countries of= =20 the world. Vladimir Ronin (=B0 1958, Moscow) is a historian and slavist. Presently, he= =20 teaches at one of the Belgian (Antwerp) institutes for interpreters. Volume : 296 pages. ISBN 90 802681 2 7 Price : 790 Bef / 43 Hfl / $ 31 Copies can be ordered directly from BENERUS Publishers (Ballaerstraat 106,= =20 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium, Fax (00) 32 3 237 80 10) by transferring the right= =20 amount an account 431 - 0616981 - 31 with reference to =ABRegiony=BB. =0C Dr. Wim Coudenys Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Departement Oosterse en Slavische Studies Blijde Inkomststraat 21 B-3000 Leuven Belgium tel. ..32 16 324963 fax. ..32 16 324963 e-mail. Wim.Coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Mon Dec 16 12:54:29 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 07:54:29 -0500 Subject: Positions in Kyiv (fwd) Message-ID: I've been off-line for over a week now, so I don't know how available this job is at this point. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 96 16:51:26 EST From: RRMoscow at aol.com Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Positions in Kyiv Major public education program in Ukraine in need of American citizens to fill senior management positions beginning January, 1997 for a one year minimum. Previous supervisory experience in a public education program in the CIS or Eastern Europe mandatory, as are strong, demonstrable English language writing skills. Also hiring for the same time period a Broadcast Media Director. Requirements include excellent scriptwriting skills, management experience and in-depth knowledge of television and radio production. Previous work experience in the CIS or other developing region essential. Effective oral Russian or Ukrainian language skills a major plus for all positions. Fax resume and cover letter immediately to (202) 466-6205 or e-mail rrmoscow at aol.com. From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Mon Dec 16 13:02:17 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:02:17 -0500 Subject: USIA Jobs Available (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 14:05:26 EST From: Center for Civil Society International Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: USIA Jobs Available (fwd) x-posted from scilist-general at sister-cities.org JOB OPENING The United States Information Agency in Washington, DC is seeking qualified candidates to fill multiple vacancies as program specialists (GS-130-9/11/12) in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of Academic Programs and Office of Citizen Exchanges. These are temporary positions funded under the Freedom Support Act. The selected candidates will serve as a professional program officers with broad responsibility for the development, management and administration of grant visitor programs in educational and cultural exchange. Officers have considerable discretion and authority, based on personal judgement, expertise and experience, in carrying out these responsibilities, but also are expected to maintain close liaison with relevant USIA elements, USIS overseas posts, program agency personnel and private organizations and individuals. Knowledge of USIA or other USG programs in Eastern and Central Europe or the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union and fluency in language of the region are desirable. For additional information, please contact Ms. Velma Chevalier at (202) 619-4677 and refer to Job Announcement Number: HRC-13-97. The closing date for this announcement is 12/18/96. From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Mon Dec 16 13:02:49 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:02:49 -0500 Subject: Ukraine - Program Administrator (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 14:29:47 EST From: Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Ukraine - Program Administrator ***************************************************************** Perhaps some list members know of qualified colleagues who might be interested in the attached position announcement. For more information about the position, or about Eurasia Foundation, please contact the e-mail address provided in the announcement. ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** Program Administrator - Ukraine Economics Education and Research Consortium ***************************************************************** The Economics Education and Research Consortium, a group of major donor organizations created to promote high-quality education and research in Russia and Ukraine, seeks a Program Administrator in its Ukraine Office. The Program Administrator will be involved in administrative management of the office, oversee academic programs according to the directions of the Program Director, coordinate with local and visiting faculty, interact with University staff, manage the program budget, prepare annual and quarterly financial reports, and procure teaching material/supplies. Minimum Requirements: BA degree in Business Administration, Economics, or Public Administration, fluency in written and spoken English, fluency in Ukrainian and/or Russian, and experience in program and/or business management in the NIS. Interested candidates should address inquiries and applications by fax, or email to: Mr. Jeff Mosser The Eurasia Foundation 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. Washington DC 20036 Fax: (202) 234-7377 Email: jmosser at eurasia.org Deadline: December 21, 1996 No phone inquiries, please. ***************************************************************** From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Mon Dec 16 12:59:40 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 07:59:40 -0500 Subject: Employment Advertisement (fwd) Message-ID: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime at docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --=====================_849843745==_ Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Content-ID: You need a viewer to read this one. I had no luck checking it out using pico, but someone out there might have better luck than me. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 17:42:25 -0500 From: ehuskey at stetson.edu To: Devin P Browne Subject: Re: Employment Advertisement Attached is a copy of our ad for a position in Russian language. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could forward it to the SEELANGS list as well as the AATSEEL page on the Web. If there are any problems with the transmission, please let me know. We'd prefer to receive inquiries through the mail or by phone, hence the omission of my e-mail address. We did a competition last year for a fellowship for Russian scholars and the e-mail correspondence became overwhelming. Many thanks again, Gene Huskey At 06:51 PM 12/4/96 -0500, you wrote: >If you send it to me I will be happy to forward it to the list (you have >to "subscribe" to the list in order to send it). If you are already >subscribed to the list, mail it to this address: > > SEELANGS at CUNYVM.BITNET > >and it will post it to the list. YOu may also want to have it posted to >the AATSEEL Jobs Page on the WWW. If so, send the job announcement to me >and I'll be happy to put it on. > >:-) > >Devin > > > >On Tue, 3 Dec 1996 ehuskey at stetson.edu wrote: > >> We have a position in Russian language to advertise and would like to place >> it on SSEELang. 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The CEU offers up to 500 fellowships to qualified candidates from the countries of these regions covering the 11,000 USD tuition, housing, travel costs and a monthly stipend. A limited number of full or partial scholarships are also avail- able to students from countries outside the CEE/FSU. Deadline for applications is February 1, 1997. For details and application materials, contact: Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego ul. Flory 9 00-586 Warszawa Poland E-mail: jpaciorek at batory.org.pl ***************************************************************** From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Mon Dec 16 13:05:42 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:05:42 -0500 Subject: Job: IREX (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 14:16:03 EST From: Center for Civil Society International Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Job: IREX >From: bdafelde at irex.org POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Program Associate, Central and Eastern European Programs International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) IREX seeks a full-time Program Associate for its Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Division. The incumbent will administer the Special Projects in Library and Information Science program, and assist with other CEE programs as needed. Responsibilities: Library and Information Science Special Projects (half-time): Organize 1997 award competition; Monitor ongoing LIS and other Special Projects. Other programs: Help administer the Social Science Curriculum Development (SSCD) project with Hungary, Poland and Romania; Correspond with program applicants, participants, university representatives, and others; Perform general administrative tasks. Requirements: LIS degree preferable, but relevant work experience may be considered in lieu of MLS; Previous experience in/with the CEE region desired; Strong organizational as well as oral and written communication skills; Good computer skills; Must have US work permit; applicants on temporary visas and/or exchange programs will not be considered. Position to start ASAP. Salary low to mid 20's with excellent benefits package. Send cover letter/resume to IREX/BD, 1616 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006. Fax: (202) 628-8189; email: beate 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. IREX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 2 Dec. 96 From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Mon Dec 16 13:20:30 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:20:30 -0500 Subject: In need of list admin assistance... Message-ID: The following message is from a SEELANGS list member. Could the list administrator out there help her out? I'm not sure how to advise her. Thanks! Devin ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 08:37:23 -0800 (PST) From: Elena Kobzeva-Herzog To: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Subject: help Devin, I probable need your help again. Once you helped me to subscribe ro SEELANGS. Everything was fine till two days ago. I stopped recieving messages. I had a few problems with my server I use for Internet. Now everything is fixed in my system exept I am not getting messages from SEELNGS. I even tried to subscribe again and here is what I did. Do you think there is a problem? If you really busy now you might know who can help me#. Thank you. Elena. Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 18:25:23 -0500 From: "L-Soft list server at The City University of NY (1.8b)" Subject: Output of your job "elenakh" To: Elena Kobzeva > subscribe seelangs The name associated with your elenakh at RCCD.CC.CA.US subscription has been changed to "Elena Kobzeva-Herzog". Summary of resource utilization ------------------------------- CPU time: 0.055 sec Device I/O: 14 Overhead CPU: 0.019 sec Paging I/O: 2 CPU model: 3090 DASD model: 3390 From djg11 at cornell.edu Tue Dec 17 02:12:15 1996 From: djg11 at cornell.edu (David J. Galloway) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:12:15 -0500 Subject: AATSEEL Intensive Language Programs Page Message-ID: The AATSEEL Intensive Language Programs Page has recently been revised throughout (address is below), and requests listings for programs in all Slavic and East European languages in the following categories: Summer Programs in the U.S. Summer Programs Abroad Semester/Year Programs Abroad We will either include a direct link to your program's web page, or include a text write up of your program, which should be sent to me as a text (.TXT) document OR in preformatted HTML at the following email address: djg11 at cornell.edu We will no longer post links to web pages AND write ups for programs, in the interest of space and readability. Links are preferred, since they give you full control over updating at your own site and require little if no regular changes to the AATSEEL page. Text write ups must clearly state the year of the program (e.g. "June 15-August 12, 1996") so that material can be removed easily when it becomes outdated. David J. Galloway Slavic Studies 236 Goldwin Smith Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 272-8350 Email: djg11 at cornell.edu AATSEEL Intensive Language Programs page: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/intensive-programs/index.html Queries: dgallo at clover.slavic.pitt.edu From fjm6 at columbia.edu Tue Dec 17 14:58:06 1996 From: fjm6 at columbia.edu (Frank J. Miller) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 09:58:06 -0500 Subject: Looking for fourth year Russian texts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Let her try Reading and Speaking about Russian Newspapers (Kagan, Lebedev & Miller, Focus, Newburyport, MA). Lifschitz and Grant have also put out a reader with Wiley, and Benjamin Rifkin has put out an advanced text called Grammar in Context (McGraw Hill). From jflevin at ucrac1.ucr.edu Wed Dec 18 23:21:00 1996 From: jflevin at ucrac1.ucr.edu (Jules Levin) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:21:00 -0500 Subject: Pol-Eng dictionaries? Message-ID: A small group of Russian students have talked me into doing a "reading Polish if you already know Russian" course, starting second week of January. I'd like to have them purchase unostentatious Pol-Eng (Eng-Pol optional) dictionaries, similar to the "Concise Polish-English dictionary" published in Warsaw in '68. Any suggestions on what to order, and where I could order c. 5 such dicts for 3 week delivery to So Calif? Thanks in advance, and a happy New Year to all my Slavicist colleagues. Jules Levin From zbarlev at mail.sdsu.edu Wed Dec 18 23:44:11 1996 From: zbarlev at mail.sdsu.edu (Zev bar-Lev) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:44:11 -0800 Subject: Pol-Eng dictionaries? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lanmgenschedit (sp?) has a convenient one. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// zev bar-Lev (prof.) dept. of linguistics & oriental languages, san diego state university, san diego CA 92182 e-mail ZBARLEV at mail.sdsu.edu tel. (619)-594-6389 fax: (619)-594-4877 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From mmbst35+ at pitt.edu Thu Dec 19 14:41:54 1996 From: mmbst35+ at pitt.edu (Michael M Brewer) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:41:54 -0500 Subject: seth graham alert! Message-ID: Seelangers, Sorry for this (mis)use of seelangs, but it does concern slavic. I need to get in touch with Seth Graham (of the University of Pittsburgh), who is currently somewhere in Spain getting married. I think that he has access to e-mail, but I have no way of finding out where he is. Are there any friends of Seth's out there who know how I could contact him? I need to get some information from him so that I can get a panel formed for an upcoming conference (and he won't be back until after the due date for the material). Send your response, of course, to me alone. Thanks mb Michael Brewer e-mail mmbst35+ at pitt.edu Department of Slavic Languages fax 1-412-624-9714 1417 Cathedral of Learning voice 1-412-661-4722 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 From ursula.doleschal at WU-WIEN.AC.AT Thu Dec 19 15:49:21 1996 From: ursula.doleschal at WU-WIEN.AC.AT (ursula.doleschal) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:49:21 +0100 Subject: Pol-Eng dictionaries? Message-ID: >Lanmgenschedit (sp?) has a convenient one. probably spelled "Langenscheidt". Vesele Vanoce! Ursula Doleschal (ursula.doleschal at wu-wien.ac.at) Institut f. Slawische Sprachen, Wirtschaftsuniv. Wien Augasse 9, 1090 Wien, Austria Tel.: ++43-1-31336 4115, Fax: ++43-1-31336 744 From MishaGMCLA at aol.com Thu Dec 19 16:11:08 1996 From: MishaGMCLA at aol.com (Misha Schutt) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:11:08 -0500 Subject: Seeking Ukrainian song text Message-ID: Forgive me if this is an old question (I haven't been reading SEELANGS digests faithfully), but does anyone have the Ukrainian text to Carol of the Bells (that is, assuming it's actually a Ukrainian carol)? Misha Schutt Burbank (Calif.) Public Library From swan+ at pitt.edu Thu Dec 19 19:27:35 1996 From: swan+ at pitt.edu (Oscar E Swan) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:27:35 -0500 Subject: Pol-Eng dictionaries? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Any of the various Stanislawski dictionaries handled by McKay Publishers in NY are good, and could probably be delivered in the required time. I like these better than the Grzebieniowski (Langenscheid) dictionary, which is also of appropirate size. Do NOT under any circumstances order Pogonowski. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Oscar E. Swan Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures 1417 Cathedral of Learning Univ. of Pittsburgh 15260 412-624-5707 swan+ at pitt.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Jules Levin wrote: > A small group of Russian students have talked me into doing a "reading > Polish if you already know Russian" course, starting second week of January. > I'd like to have them purchase unostentatious Pol-Eng (Eng-Pol optional) > dictionaries, similar to the "Concise Polish-English dictionary" published > in Warsaw in '68. Any suggestions on what to order, and where I could order > c. 5 such dicts for 3 week delivery to So Calif? > Thanks in advance, and a happy New Year to all my Slavicist colleagues. > Jules Levin > From wjcomer at UKANVAX.BITNET Thu Dec 19 22:18:34 1996 From: wjcomer at UKANVAX.BITNET (William J. Comer) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:18:34 -0600 Subject: New journal: Language Learning & Technology Message-ID: This should be of interest to people reading this list. Bill Comer University of Kansas >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:34:55 -0600 >From: Louis E Janus >Subject: New journal: Language Learning & Technology >Sender: Less Commonly Taught Language teachers >X-Sender: janus005 at maroon.tc.umn.edu >To: Multiple recipients of list LCTL-T >Reply-to: Less Commonly Taught Language teachers >MIME-version: 1.0 >Comments: To: nordic-t at tc.umn.edu, polish-t at tc.umn.edu, hindi-t at tc.umn.edu, > celtic-t at tc.umn.edu, dutch-t at tc.umn.edu > >I am posting this to all the -T listservs that the LCTL project sponsors. I >hope that many of you will be interested in reading and contributing to >this new journal. > >--Louis Janus >............................................................................... >. >................. >PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE > >We are happy to announce _Language Learning & Technology_ (LLT), a new >academic refereed journal which will be published on the World Wide Web >beginning summer 1997. The journal is sponsored by six professional >organizations and language resource centers in the United States and >Europe, and is supported by an editorial board of 30 scholars in the fields >of second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and computer-assisted >language learning. > >We invite submissions on any topic examining how language learning is >affected by the use of technology. Submissions should report on original >research or make connections between research, theory, and teaching >practice. Reviews of books, software, and other technological resources >are also invited. While we welcome strictly text-based manuscripts, we are >also inviting manuscripts which are enhanced by graphics or multimedia or >which include hypermedia links to further illustrative material. > >More details, including a listing of the sponsoring organizations and >editorial board, complete information for contributors, and free >subscription information, is available at _Language Learning & Technology_: > > http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/llt > >Mark Warschauer, Editor >markw at hawaii.edu, http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/markw >============ > > >===== >to unsubscribe from a listserv > >write to: > >listserv at tc.umn.edu > >and send the two word message (no subject or signature): > >unsub > >for example: >unsub LCTL-T > >problems? Please write Louis Janus, listowner, >lctl at umn.edu > From feszczak at sas.upenn.edu Thu Dec 19 21:31:24 1996 From: feszczak at sas.upenn.edu (Zenon M. Feszczak) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:31:24 -0500 Subject: Slavic Philosophy in Universities...? In-Reply-To: <961219111103_1854190752@emout12.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: Pryvit - Does there exist any succinct resource describing what universities feature a program, or at least a focus, in Slavic philosophy? Specifics: a graduate program, preference for Philosophy department rather than Slavic Lit or Languages department, but the latter are also of interest. Location: U.S., U.K., or West or Central Europe, with primary language of instruction as English. Thank you in advance, Zenon M. Feszczak Philosopher ex nihilo From SRogosin at aol.com Fri Dec 20 06:38:10 1996 From: SRogosin at aol.com (Serge Rogosin) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 01:38:10 -0500 Subject: abbr. for gospoda and gospod Message-ID: What are the abbreviations for gospoda and the genetive form, gospod? Serge Rogosin e-mail: SRogosin at aol.com From CLEMINSO at ceu.hu Fri Dec 20 08:03:48 1996 From: CLEMINSO at ceu.hu (Ralph Cleminson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:03:48 +100 Subject: abbr. for gospoda and gospod Message-ID: On Fri, 20 Dec 1996 Serge Rogosin wrote: > What are the abbreviations for gospoda and the genetive form, gospod? > Presuming you mean the plural of gospodin, gg. in either case. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ R.M.Cleminson, M.A., D.Phil. Dept of Mediaeval Studies, Central European University Post: H-1245 Budapest 5, P.O.B.1082 Phone: +361 327 3024 Fax: +361 327 3055 http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/ralph.htm From KEC7497 at tntech.edu Fri Dec 20 16:30:54 1996 From: KEC7497 at tntech.edu (KEVIN CHRISTIANSON) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 10:30:54 -0600 Subject: query Message-ID: Is the SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN ARTS journal defunct? My checks for subscriptions have not been cashed, and none of my letters has been responded to over the past two years. Is E.J. Czerwinski still the editor and is the journal still being published out of the Department of Germanic and Slavic at SUNY--Stony Brook? Thanks for any info or insights you might have. Kevin Christianson, Ph.D <> English Department / Box 5053 / Tennessee Tech University / Cookeville, TN 38505 "Cunning, an attribute of intelligence, is very often used to compensate for a lack of real intelligence and to defeat the greater intellectual powers of others." Giacomo Leopardi, PENSIERI, 1845. From pyz at panix.com Fri Dec 20 17:10:10 1996 From: pyz at panix.com (Max Pyziur) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 12:10:10 EST Subject: Cyrillic web writers and readers Message-ID: Greetings fellow 'net travelers and web writers I'd like to draw attention to a line which might faciliate/might confound the whole Cyrillic character set mess. First for the writers (and then for the readers): In web page headers there is a key line which will "switch" readers settings between various "Document Encoding" settings found on versions of Netscape 2 and beyond. It is located between the tags ... ... where the subject of interest is: ^^^^^^^^ By changing the underscore to koi8-r it flags the users/readers setting for their KOI8 Cyrillic Font By changing the underscore to windows-1251 it flags the users/readers setting for their CP1251 Cyrillic Font (I've tried to find the wording for the setting for ISO-8859-5 and Apple Standard Cyrillic but as yet haven't been able to. Also, there was some interest expressed in Hebrew; I've found a document which provides a comprehensive listing for the above underscored tag and the entries for Hebrew stretch out towards infinity). Now for people who use Netscape's web browser versions 2 and beyond: By going to Options/Document Encoding you'll see a whole myriad of "Encodings" ranging from "Latin1" to "User-Defined". Our subject of interest are the Cyrillic settings for KOI8-R and Win1251. To set appropriate Cyrillic fonts for these two Cyrillic fonts you'll have to repeat the following process: For the "Cyrillic KOI8-R Encoding" 1 - go to Options/General Preferences/Fonts dialogue 2 - find the encoding for Cyrillic KOI8-R 3 - select appropriate KOI8 fonts for the Proportional and Fixed font settings 4 - hit "Ok" For the "Cyrillic Encoding" (using CP1251) 1 - go to Options/General Preferences/Fonts dialogue 2 - find the encoding for Cyrillic 3 - select appropriate CP1251 fonts for the Proportional and Fixed font settings 4 - hit "Ok" * * * * * Now, with these instructions, in a perfect world web writers and web browsers (people) should be in sync. Given the above, when someone browsing (and has the appropriate settings) *automatically* text in Cyrillic should appear on the screen. Hope this helps and doesn't confuse, Vanya Z. Dorohy pyz at panix.com From jvt8902 at is3.nyu.edu Fri Dec 20 17:37:16 1996 From: jvt8902 at is3.nyu.edu (Julia Trubikhina) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 12:37:16 -0500 Subject: abbr. for gospoda and gospod Message-ID: I believe the abbreviation for gospoda and gospod is still "gg." The part that declines is the last names. Julia Trubikhina New York University From pyz at panix.com Wed Dec 18 01:57:00 1996 From: pyz at panix.com (Pan Tofli (by way of "Otets' I. Vse" )) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 19:57:00 CST Subject: (fwd) Re: Cyrillic web writers and readers Message-ID: Saw this post on s.c.u? Would someone know if MS's Internet Explorer works w/ KOI8, acting on the same sort of settings? Max Pyziur pyz at panix.com From: "Andrei Dvornik" Newsgroups: soc.culture.ukrainian,soc.culture.russian,soc.culture.soviet Subject: Re: Cyrillic web writers and readers Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 08:21:10 +1100 Organization: Progeny Pty.Ltd Can anything be done about Exploreer 3 and Russian fonts. ???? Thanks in advance for your help > pyz at panix.com (Pan Tofli) wrote in article <592033$k5m at panix.com>... > > Greetings fellow 'net travelers and web writers > > I'd like to draw attention to a line which might faciliate/might confound > the whole Cyrillic character set mess. [...] > > Vanya Z. Dorohy > pyz at panix.com > > From djg11 at cornell.edu Sun Dec 22 14:39:47 1996 From: djg11 at cornell.edu (David J. Galloway) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 09:39:47 -0500 Subject: Language Programs Page Updated Message-ID: All submissions to the Intensive Language Programs page received by 12/20 have been added. If you notice a problem with the presentation of your program, please inform me as soon as possible. A minor note: please check the page before you send information and a request to be included -- often I add material which is posted on SEELANGS or which is published in the AATSEEL Newsletter (links only), so your program might already be listed. The page will not be updated over the next two weeks; material received within that time will be uploaded the week of January 6th. Happy New Year! David J. Galloway Slavic Studies 236 Goldwin Smith Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 272-8350 Email: djg11 at cornell.edu AATSEEL Intensive Language Programs page: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/intensive-programs/index.html Queries: dgallo at clover.slavic.pitt.edu From SRogosin at aol.com Mon Dec 23 05:21:22 1996 From: SRogosin at aol.com (Serge Rogosin) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:21:22 -0500 Subject: Financial aid for CIS students Message-ID: An institute in the RF has asked me to find out about opportunities for CIS undergraduate students to receive financial aid to do undergraduate work in the US. Does anyone whether any such programs exist or whether there are any organizations, non-profit or for profit, that help prospective students locate possible resources? Any leads would be much appreciated. Serge Rogosin - - - - - - - - - - - - 93-49 222 Street Queens Village, NY 11428 (718) 479-2881 e-mail: SRogosin at aol.com From ykripkov at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Mon Dec 23 07:04:23 1996 From: ykripkov at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Yelaina Khripkov) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 23:04:23 -0800 Subject: Raising enrollment: a new chance! Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, As far as I received a lot of enthusiastic replies for my recent message, I would like to repeat my invitation for those who, for some reason, have missed it. * * * * * * * * * I have been attentively following the recent discussion about the dramatic fall of enrollment in Russian programs, but was keeping silent, "do pory, do vremeni," about the attempts of my department (Univ. of Oregon) to improve the situation in our program. I wanted to make sure that our measures work. It turned out they do. I want to share our success and hopes with everybody. If it worked for us, it may work for someone else! Last summer I received a grant for preparing a new experimental interdisciplinary course "Doing Business with Russia." The practical goal was to attract non-Russian majors to the Russian program. I intensively advertised the course in our School of Business. We had twenty students enrolled. I taught the course during this Fall term and it was a tremendous success. The results were as follows: 17 out of 20 demanded course continuation in Winter term; 2 students decided to take First year Russian; the School of Business got extremely interested and proposed to help with the marketing of the course, promising to attract 150 students if we offer a three term sequence and have the courses satisfy some general University requirements (multi-cultural, Arts and Letters, etc.). The Office of International Affairs is working now at a new grant for course preparation. After working at and teaching this course, I came to some conclusions: 1. We need to offer new courses oriented towards concrete professions in other fields: students should know exactly why they are studying Russian and how they are going to apply it. Business is the most perspective among such professions: no matter what happens in Russia, international business will develop there; 2. Russia is fascinating for people who do not know anything about it, and most of the students are like this; 3. Such course should have three main components: professional (business), cultural, and language; such structure provides a better hook. Language alone (as Business Russian, for example) does not work; 4. Students majoring in business are aggressive, adventurous, curious, and are eager to take risks (like going to Russia and trying their luck there); 5. The general university requirements must be satisfied anyway and the students would rather take courses connected to their field; 6. There are no other language programs that offer such a course; 7. Schools of Business have money and a lot of students: so make them your partners. To those who got hooked: I am making a presentation about all this at AATSEEL in Washington, DC - Panel: Russian for Business, Dec. 30, 1:00-3:00 p.m. I will tell in detail about how to advertise such a course, how to structure it, how to keep interest high, how to promote the language component, how to take the business part off the instructor's shoulders and put it on those of the students, and also about textbooks, materials and sources, etc. Come to the panel, dear colleagues, and join the discussion! ***************************************************************************** Yelaina Kripkov tel: (541) 346-4077 work Dept. of Russian (541) 345-9122 home University of Oregon fax: (541) 346-1327 Eugene, OR 97403 ykripkov at oregon.uoregon.edu From lanac at emory.edu Mon Dec 23 17:10:43 1996 From: lanac at emory.edu (Alan Cienki) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:10:43 -0500 Subject: Polish for business purposes - summary Message-ID: Several weeks ago I posted a request for information about materials to teach "business Polish". The only suggestion, which came from Oscar Swan, was to supplement other teaching materials with the Polish newsweekly _Wprost_. His suggestion for ordering information was to contact IPS Journals, ul. Okrezna 3, 02-916 Warszawa, Poland. Regards, Alan Cienki Emory University Atlanta, GA From sforres1 at swarthmore.edu Mon Dec 23 18:50:42 1996 From: sforres1 at swarthmore.edu (Sibelan Forrester) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 13:50:42 -0500 Subject: Change in venue for AWSS pre-convention workshop Message-ID: Dear friends, The AWSS-sponsored pre-convention interviewing workshop will be held the evening of December 27th (the night before the conference proper begins). Its location is listed in the program as the Caucus Room (aren't those conference hotels great?) -- but since the Caucus Room is rather small, the venue will be changed to South American B, a larger space. We will try to post signs to that effect around the hotel, but if you plan to attend the workshop please make note of the change. Hope to see many of you there, and with all best wishes for the holidays! Sibelan Forrester Modern L & L Swarthmore College From Patrick.Seriot at slav.unil.ch Tue Dec 24 08:36:10 1996 From: Patrick.Seriot at slav.unil.ch (P. Seriot) Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 09:36:10 +0100 Subject: Slavic Philosophy in Universities...? Message-ID: >Pryvit - > >Does there exist any succinct resource describing what universities feature >a program, or at least a focus, in Slavic philosophy? > >Specifics: a graduate program, preference for Philosophy department rather >than Slavic Lit or Languages department, but the latter are also of >interest. > >Location: U.S., U.K., or West or Central Europe, with primary language of >instruction as English. > >Thank you in advance, > >Zenon M. Feszczak >Philosopher ex nihilo Fribourg University (Switzerland, not Freiburg in Germany!) has an Institit de l'Europe orientale where slavic philosophy is taught. Contact : Prof. Edward SWIDERSKI Edward.Swiderski at unifr.ch Patrick SERIOT _______________________________________________________________________ |Patrick SERIOT | Bureau 5092 | courrier electronique: | |Lettres/Lang. slaves |--------------------| | |BFSH2 |Tel.41 21 692 30 01 |Patrick.Seriot at slav.unil.ch | |CH-1015 Lausanne |Fax.41 21 692 29 35 | | _____________________________________________________ _____________________ From asorokow at husc.harvard.edu Tue Dec 24 08:45:46 1996 From: asorokow at husc.harvard.edu (Andrew Sorokowski (by way of Max Pyziur )) Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:45:46 EST Subject: Linguistics Message-ID: A special issue of HARVARD UKRAINIAN STUDIES on Ukrainian Philology and Linguistics (Vol. 18 No. 1/2) has appeared, under the guest editorship of Michael S. Flier, Professor of Ukrainian Philology at Harvard. In addition to articles on timely topics like the Dative Absolute, TRbT Reflexes, and the Fourth Declension, there are essays on Oleksandr Potebnja, Ivan Vyshenskyi, and the Rus' Primary Chronicle. David Frick explores "The Uses of Authority and the Authority of Use" in early modern Rus'; Michael Flier examines the recent ATLAS UKRAINSKOJI MOVY and the history of Ukrainian dialects.Other contributors include Old Church Slavonic authority Horace G. Lunt and one of the greatest living Ukrainian scholars, George Y. Shevelov. 166 pp. $18 in North America. From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu Tue Dec 24 20:36:10 1996 From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 15:36:10 -0500 Subject: NEWW/EELC '97-'98 Legal Internship (fwd) Message-ID: Happy Holidays all! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 96 13:26:46 EST From: Center for Civil Society International Reply-To: civilsoc at solar.rtd.utk.edu To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: NEWW/EELC '97-'98 Legal Internship (fwd) >From: Network of East-West Women NETWORK OF EAST-WEST WOMEN EAST-EAST LEGAL COALITION 1997-1998 LEGAL INTERNSHIP APPLICATION FORM The Network of East-West Women, a vital communications network linking over 1,500 women's advocates in more than 30 countries in the CEE/FSU region, has created an internship for recent law graduates interested in a career incorporating women's rights activism. This internship has been developed in the context of current activities of NEWW's East-East Legal Coalition (EELC), a regional legal reform, advocacy and outreach network whose goal it is to articulate and enforce laws and policies that strengthen women's legislative status and sense of citizenship in their respective countries. The EELC program for 1997 is supported by the Open Society Institute. The goal of this EELC internship is to help bridge the gap between theory and practice by providing selected recent law school graduates from the region with the opportunity to acquire additional skills to work on women's rights in their own country. *The Internship: training and placement* The internship consists of a three-four month (Fall 1997) _intensive training experience_ with a western European or United States organization that mounts legal challenges and does policy analysis on behalf of women's rights. It is structured both to develop the professional skills and experience of the participating interns and to help strengthen the EELC generally. This training experience will be followed immediately by a _one-year placement_ in 1998 with an organization dedicated to women's rights in the intern's home country. *Stipend* The internship comes with a stipend that will cover the cost of travel to and from the internship site in western Europe or the United States and room and board expenses during the training period. One-year's support for work with a women's rights organization in the intern's home country will be negotiated. *Application* Applicants must submit the following materials (in English): * a resume; * evidence of fluency in English (such as school records or examination results); * two letters of recommendation (in English, or accompanied by English translations); * a personal statement which should include: -- particular interests within the field of women's rights. If the applicant has worked with any women's organization, that work should be described in some detail; -- a declaration that the applicant will be available to participate in the internship program beginning September 1997, and that the applicant is prepared to return home (no exceptions will be granted) to work within her country for one full year. Personal statements may also include a brief commentary about applicants' future plans and/or expectations for this experience. One copy of the complete application packet should be sent to the Network of East-West Women, EELC Internship Program, 1601 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 701, Washington, DC 20009. Another complete application packet should be sent to Ms. Emilia Piwnik, EELC Project Regional Headquarters c/o Women's Rights Center, ul. Wilcza 60, V-pietro, 00-679 Warsaw, Poland. *Deadlines* The deadline date for applications is FEBRUARY 10, 1997. Applicants are advised to inform Warsaw and Washington, DC (by email) when they have posted their application packets. The Washington email address is . The Warsaw email address is . *Selection Procedure* Applications will be reviewed by an international selection committee, which expects to have completed the selection process around the middle of March, 1997. At that time applicants will be informed of whether they have been chosen to participate in the 1997-1998 EELC Legal Internship. ***PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH OTHERS*** From billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de Tue Dec 24 22:18:08 1996 From: billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de (Loren A. BILLINGS) Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 23:18:08 +0100 Subject: Call: Formal Descr. of Slav. Langs. 2 (Potsdam '97) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The first meeting Formal Description of Slavic Languages was held at Uni-Leipzig in 1995. The next one will be at Uni-Potsdam on 20-22 Nov. 1997. Please consult the call for abstracts at the following URL: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/slavistik/formalde.htm The submission deadline is 30 May, 1997. Please do not write to me, but rather to the organizer, Prof. Dr. Peter KOSTA (pkosta at rz.uni-potsdam.de). Best, --Loren Billings From pyz at panix.com Fri Dec 27 22:37:00 1996 From: pyz at panix.com (Max Pyziur) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 16:37:00 CST Subject: Win95/NT Stuff at I'Meister-Ukr Message-ID: Greetings, For Win95/NT users: 1 - a Beta of a Ukrainian keyboard driver for KOI8 or CP1251 Cyrillic codings created by Gennady Burdeyny 2 - Ukrainian Win95 Alternative Startup-Shutdown Logos Collection assembled by "mysterious" Evgen of Austria are now available at Infomeister-Ukrainian Your friendly and easy to use web coordinate is: http://www.osc.edu/ukraine.html#COMP95NT or http://www.osc.edu/ukraina.html#COMP95NT (notice the little "a") if your computer speaks Ukrainian KOI8 Max Pyziur pyz at panix.com From stgeorge at cityline.ru Thu Dec 26 16:49:16 1996 From: stgeorge at cityline.ru (Sergey Streltsov) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 19:49:16 +0300 Subject: STGEORGE: CALL FOR SPONSOR AND PROPOSALS FOR WEB DESIGN. Message-ID: STGEORGE: CALL FOR SPONSOR AND PROPOSALS FOR WEB DESIGN. The Saint George Web Design and Hostage. I am, The Saint George Journal Editor Sergey Streltsov, accepting the orders to Web Design and Programming. My Offer: 1 Palyless hostage in domain www.art.ru and payless creating of e-mail in www.mailcity.com and mail.yahoo.com. 2 Web-design up to 30$ for page with all necessary mail-form, graphics and animation. 3 Automatic promotion of Your Web Address, Listservs, FTP, E-mails or questions in listservs and Relcom Usenet. Payless or up to 50$ monthly. For Sponsors Of The Saint George Journal Moscow Academic Literary Internet edition. The place in the Internet was payless accepted from ADT most powerful Moscow team of Web Design and Programming, the access to the Internet for work with http, ftp, and e-mail was payless accepted by most powerful Moscow Internet Service Provider Cityline.. The Edition is quite uncommercial and appears only in the Internet. Now I am, The Saint George Journal Editor Sergey Streltsov, is looking for donations or loans for the one year up from 300$ to buy scanner and soundboard with microphone for I have too much photo and others materials to publish, for example 60 pieces of Russian Caligraphy of Dmitry Avaliany and want to record interview with Oldest Moscow Men of Letters Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalcov, Victor Pheodorovich Bokov, and many, many other people important for Russian Culture and Literature. This edition, is publishing since 1995, weekly promote the all novelties its contents and World Academic Literary Calendar of its constant on-line java-based sessions "The Saint George Club" to already all listservs related to Russia and Education, and nearly in Relcom Usenet Conferences. Edition has nearly 50.000 readers monthly. The part of listserves of the promotion of The Saint George Journal. AERA at ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU NABOKV-L at UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU info-russ at smarty.ece.jhu.edu H-RUSSIA at h-net.msu.edu RAMIT-L at mitvma.mit.edu FRIENDS at solar.rtd.utk.edu H-NET at H-NET.MSU.EDU OKAZIYA at MITVMA.MIT.EDU UIREEC-L at POSTOFFICE.CSO.UIUC.EDU ruspeak-l at usc.edu russia at acpub.duke.edu rubezh at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU RU-VOICE at lists.aiesec.org sprapic at teia.ru russian-web at sovam.com russian-jews at shamash.org RU-MU-VOICE at lists.aiesec.org LEBED at MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU raibd at solar.cini.utk.edu. russrel at solar.cini.utk.edu. iprussia at sovam.com. RU-LC-SU at lists.aiesec.org RU-NU-VOICE at lists.aiesec.org RUSSIAN-WOMEN-L at MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU. dsch-l at listserv.uh.edu and others. Yours, Sergey Streltsov. The Editor of The Saint George Journal. mailto:Stgeorge at cityline.ru -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stgeorge at cityline.ru Sun Dec 29 13:37:10 1996 From: stgeorge at cityline.ru (Sergey Streltsov) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 16:37:10 +0300 Subject: =?Windows-1251?Q?STGEORGE:_HAPPY_NEW_YEAR!!!!_1998_still_now=85=85?= Message-ID: STGEORGE: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 1998 still now My congratulations with New Year, 1998 still now- the next one will be as funnie as waited- - The Nineteen Ninety Nine- oh! what a twist!? - If some goes wrong that goes from birth of Christ. This biline-verse is generously of proper Il Byronista- if You remember in Don Juan Admiral Johnson says " I bet You Moscow to ye Dollar."- This line was rhymed with "Saint George Collar", and many-many other things as Strong-Stroganoff, the famous piece of Russian cuisine - The Tea With Vodka, would be also with sugar, milk, honey and so on, but any way Tea and Vodka must be presented. Byron, Lord George, The Late, The Last, in His Youth traveled in Spain with Young Prince Stroganoff they shared play-mates, money, and hours of Idleness- so far leisure. Young Stroganoff had taught Lord Byron then to prepare two Russian things Beef-Stronganoff, the roasted fresh meat better in young wine, better to use the lambs, I love to make up such thing up from tributing this killing to Muses and Apollo, and so down to roasting in open fire in field amidst another young lambs around- The Second thing was declaring by Stroganoff as most useful heart medicine- The Strong-Stroganoff is ever popular in Russia, about this pitch of Native honor was singing Denis Vasilievich Davidoff, Alexander Sergeevich Pousskin, and about all genius of Russian Dix-Huitiemism- Atheistic Ascetic Learning that turn Vers Racinienn to Soumarokov vers, used ev'n by Great Souvorov- the difference 'tweex Racine and Soumarokov One is of the next fashion- in the time when Racinienn has sixth step in coupleted iambos and cesura after third step The Soumarokov's one has cesura after second or third and from five step to thirteen iambic syllables. So our poetry, so our poets! So our vodka, lambs and tea, that appeared in Russian before of its invasion of British Islands- if You remember Wordsworth's many lines titled usually "In waiting of Invasion", the bigger part of these verses were written after Lord Byron return from Spain, and so we have all impossible to think that Bard of Lyric (never panegyric) Ballads mentioned never Great N., The Emperor of Revolution- French Stalin as say Paris6, errs as always- but William, The Teacher- (by words of Coleridge) taught His Faithful Brits to wait invasion of Russian tea or even Vodka, what happened as all we now, very soon and blasphemous as Cossacks- "Immortal ones" as named them Lord Byron in the same Don Juan. One proverb from Native Cossacks- "All Cossacks descend from David, The King. And those who do not know it, are not Cossacks!" I am descending by father and mother from ancient Cossack families (more ancient the most of Russian noble families, people from I descend were never Russian Noblemen, pricing Noble rank in Russian of Romanov stated fashion the shame of Russian History- and Disaster of Betrayal in heart of Mother land, but all had military ranks) know many of such jockery Rules of Right Cossack. Sergey Streltsov. The Saint George Journal. Moscow. 166-9325 http://www.art.ru/stgeorge