From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Mon Dec  1 01:54:12 1997
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:54:12 -0500
Subject: refreshing listening comprehension
In-Reply-To: <199711300511.AAA26247@post-ofc02.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.30.NOV.1997.205412.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

> Now a question is, Where and how can I find a way to expose myself to
> spoken Russian in America?  I'm thinking of the way to refresh and
> improve my listening comprehension. Since I didn't do my Russian in
> America, I have no idea of what kind of material and resources are
> available, and where. How does an average American student of the
> Russian language improve his/her listening ability outside the classroom?

Many American cities have concentrations of Russian immigrants.  New York
City has such a concentration, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh do as well.
Most of them are Jewish and I've had success finding conversation partners
by contacting my local Jewish Community Center.  I'm not Jewish, but this
was not an issue.  At least here in Pittsburgh, the JCC has typically been
pretty helpful.  You might want to call a local Jewish Community Center in
your area to see if they are dealing with any Russian immigrants.

Best of luck to you!

Devin

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Mon Dec  1 01:54:34 1997
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:54:34 -0500
Subject: Job: Kazak American Studies Center, Almaty (fwd)
Message-ID: <SUN.30.NOV.1997.205434.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

FYI

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 17:31:22 -0500
From: Center for Civil Society International <ccsi at u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list <civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Job: Kazak American Studies Center, Almaty (fwd)

For more  information  send e-mail  to Joseph Malm (kasc at kasc.kit.kz)


Joseph Malm, of the Kazak American Studies Center in Almaty,  has
forwarded the attached announcement. Perhaps some list members in
the Almaty neighborhood will be interested in the opportunity.
*****************************************************************

        Position at Kazak American Studies Center, Almaty

*****************************************************************
The KAZAK AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER, KASC, at Almaty State Univers-
ity in Kazakstan requires an assistant director for the program.
The KASC has been in existence since 1991 and has been  supported
by  the University of Kentucky and the University of New  Mexico.
The position involves coordinating activities between the  center
and other agencies, developing exchange programs, other  programs
you  would like to develop, and teaching. It is a  paid  position
(Central  Asian remuneration level) provided you  teach.  English
teachers  are always needed but you may teach other  subjects  as
well if there is a need. Russian language background very helpful
but not required.

A shared apartment and $100/month is the usual remuneration. Good
opportunity  to gain Central Asian experience! For more  informa-
tion  send e-mail  to Joseph Malm (kasc at kasc.kit.kz). Please CC a
copy to: ISCA1 at KAZNET.KZ
*****************************************************************



From kel1 at columbia.edu  Mon Dec  1 13:59:17 1997
From: kel1 at columbia.edu (Kevin Eric Laney)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 08:59:17 -0500
Subject: This Week at the Harriman
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.085917.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

December 1. The Harriman Lectures.  Katherine Verdery, "Post-Socialist
Necrophilia, or the Political Lives of Dead Bodies:   Corpses on the
Move." Casa Italiana, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 117th Street.  Time:
5:30-7:00pm.

December 2. The Harriman Lectures.  Katherine Verdery, "Post-Socialist
Necrophilia, or the Political Lives of Dead Bodies:  The Restless Bones of
Inochentie Micu." Casa Italiana, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 117th Street.
Time: 5:30-7:00pm.

December 3.  Captain Robert Timm (U.S. Army and Harriman Institute,)
"Crisis Facing the Russian Military and the Yeltsin Reform Plan."  Room
1219 IAB, 8:30-10:00am

December 3.  Miklos Derer, (Secretary General, Hungarian Atlantic
Council,) "NATO Enlargement."  Co-sponsored by the Institute on Western
Europe.  Room 1219 IAB, 12:00-2:00pm

December 4.  Milo Horinek and L. Pribyl, (Center for Study of Human
Rights,) "Roma in the Czech and Slovak Republics."  Co-sponsored by the
Center for the Study of Human Rights.  Room 1219 IAB, 12:00-2:00pm

December 4. The Harriman Lectures.  Katherine Verdery, "Post-Socialist
Necrophilia, or the Political Lives of Dead Bodies:  Re-Signifying the
Dust." Casa Italiana, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 117th Street.  Time:
5:30-7:00pm.

December 4.  Annual Holiday Party!  The Harriman Institute cordially
invites you to join us for our annual holiday celebration at the CASA
ITALIANA, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 117th St from 7:00-9:00pm.  All are
welcome!


From nyuka at Claritech.com  Mon Dec  1 16:33:39 1997
From: nyuka at Claritech.com (Kamneva, Natalia)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 11:33:39 -0500
Subject: refreshing listening comprehension
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.113339.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

1.You can find audio and video tapes "Learn Russian" in your local library.
2. There are a lot of Russian movies in Russian stores.
3. There are some Russian movies with English captions in some Blockbusters.
4. You can catch Russian radio stations by short wave receiver.

Good luck.

Natasha

-----Original Message-----
From:   Devin P Browne [SMTP:dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu]
Sent:   Sunday, November 30, 1997 8:54 PM
To:     SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject:        Re: refreshing listening comprehension

> Now a question is, Where and how can I find a way to expose myself to
> spoken Russian in America?  I'm thinking of the way to refresh and
> improve my listening comprehension. Since I didn't do my Russian in
> America, I have no idea of what kind of material and resources are
> available, and where. How does an average American student of the
> Russian language improve his/her listening ability outside the classroom?

Many American cities have concentrations of Russian immigrants.  New York
City has such a concentration, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh do as well.
Most of them are Jewish and I've had success finding conversation partners
by contacting my local Jewish Community Center.  I'm not Jewish, but this
was not an issue.  At least here in Pittsburgh, the JCC has typically been
pretty helpful.  You might want to call a local Jewish Community Center in
your area to see if they are dealing with any Russian immigrants.

Best of luck to you!

Devin

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From kel1 at columbia.edu  Mon Dec  1 17:01:36 1997
From: kel1 at columbia.edu (Kevin Eric Laney)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:01:36 -0500
Subject: New Event!
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.120136.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

December 2.  Prof. Cornelia Bodea, (Romanian Academy,) "Nicolae Iorga:
Grand Old Man of Romania."  Room 1219 IAB, 12:00-2:00pm.


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Mon Dec  1 17:19:33 1997
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 09:19:33 -0800
Subject: refreshing listening comprehension
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.091933.0800.>

Most people learning to comprehend spoken Russian need more help than is
provided by "real" Russian in movies, TV and on the radio. gg
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

2134 E. Interlaken  Bl.                 Tel. 206/329-0053
Seattle, WA  98112                      ggerhart at wolfenet.com


From jrouhie at pop.uky.edu  Mon Dec  1 13:13:41 1997
From: jrouhie at pop.uky.edu (J. Rouhier-Willoughby)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:13:41 +0100
Subject: Final Call for Papers
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.141341.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

**Final Call for Papers**

The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference will be held April 16-18 in
Lexington, KY. Panels on Slavic Linguistics, Folklore, Literatures and
Language Pedagogy are planned. We invite all interested to submit paper
proposals on these topics. Please email abstracts by December 5 to Jerry
Janecek at gjanecek at pop.uky.edu

*********************************************************
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby           telephone:  (606) 257-1756
Department of Russian and Eastern Studies      fax:  (606) 257-3743
1055 Patterson Office Tower                email:  jrouhie at pop.uky.edu
University of Kentucky           URL: http://www.uky.edu/~jrouhie/
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
*********************************************************


From goscilo+ at pitt.edu  Mon Dec  1 20:24:54 1997
From: goscilo+ at pitt.edu (Helena Goscilo)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 15:24:54 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.152454.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Colleagues,

Those who will be attending AATSEEL in Toronto before Staryi Novyi God may
wish to visit lesser divinities or larger zoos, i.e. the MLA.

Slavic panels at this year's MLA include:

1. #182.  BLOOD AND NATION (not a metasession on the profession!):
          (1:45 - 3:00, Sunday 28 Dec.: Norfolk Room at Sheraton Centre)

   1. "The Birth of a Nation in Stalinist and Thaw Film: Blood and Warrior
      in ALEKSANDR NEVSKII, DON QUIXOTE, and HAMLET," A. Prokhorov, U of
      Pittsburgh

   2. "Nation, Blood, and Identity in Milod Pavic and Emir Krusturica,"
      K.S. Ravetto, U of Ca., LA

   3. "Sacred Blood, Spilled Blood: The Cossacks in Gogol and Babel,"
      G. Rosenshield, U of Wisconsin, Madison

   4. "Rozanov, God's Body, and the Jews," H. Teplitz and A. Arkhipov,
      Stanford U

   RESPONDENT: S.L. Gilman, U of Chicago


2. #396: SEX AND DEATH
         (12:00 - 1:15, Monday 29 Dec.: Norfolk Room, Sheraton Centre)

    1. "Gogol: Funereal Eroticism and Horny Vampires," V. Todorov, U of
       Pa

    2. "De Sade and Dostoevsky: Sovereignty in Transfression," N.
       Lawrence, Stanford U

    3. "Lilith and Eve as Metapoesis in Fedor Sologub's LEGEND IN
       CREATION," C.K. Cosner, U of Illinois, Urbana

    4. "Culture beyond Pornography: Sexual Transgression in Woody
       Allen, David Cronenberg, and Valeriia Narbikova," S. Roll,
       McGill U

    RESPONDENT and Chair: H. Goscilo


3.  #630: TOTALITARIAN ART
          (10:15 - 11:30, Tuesday 30 Dec., York Room, Sheraton
           Centre)

    1. "Fear and Fiction: Official Soviet Lit. on the Soviet
       Prison Camps," D. Toleczyk, U of Va

    2. "The Body and the Machine in Soviet and German Industrial
       Posters of the 1930s," E. Prokhorova, U of Pittsburgh

    3. "Afterimages of Totaliraian Visual Culture in Germany," C.
       Scribner, Columbia U

     Chair: C.A. Cavanagh, U of Wisconsin, Madison


4.  #666: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPE
          (12:00 - 1:15, Tuesday 30 Dec., Elgin Room, Sheraton Centre)

     1. "The Trope of Displacement and Identity Construction in
        Postcolonial Ukrainian Fiction," V. Chernetsky, Columbia U

     2. "The Sweetest Poison of Enslavement: The Western Other as a
        Better Bulgarian Self," N.D. Nankov, Indiana U, Bloomington

     3. "The Road less Traveled: Tracing National Identity in Iva
        Pekarkova's Writing," P.M. Pavliscak, U of NC, Chapel Hill

     4. "Recycling the Colonial Metaphor: Croatians Go to the Congo,"
        N. Petkovic, U of Texas, Pan American

     RESPONDENT: D. Kujundzic, U of Memphis
     Chair: T.Z. Longinovic, U of Wisconsin, Madison

Apologies for absence of diacritics and consequent insults to ethnic
identities!

Helena Goscilo, also dediacriticized


From ewb2 at cornell.edu  Mon Dec  1 20:02:23 1997
From: ewb2 at cornell.edu (Wayles Browne)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 16:02:23 -0400
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.971201144502.12966A-100000@unixs3.cis.pitt.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.160223.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>Colleagues,
>
>Those who will be attending AATSEEL in Toronto before Staryi Novyi God may
>wish to visit lesser divinities or larger zoos, i.e. the MLA.
>
Oh, we won't go to Macy's any more, more, more,
There's a big fat policeman at the door, door, door,
He takes you by the collar,
and he makes you pay five dollars,
We won't go to Macy's any more, more, more.

This skiprope rhyme expresses my feelings about the MLA meeting:
they have a high registration fee and they seek to apply it even
to people who are AATSEELites and wish to attend one measly session
at MLA. AATSEEL, on the other hand, doesn't have any Swiss Guards
outside its meeting rooms. Are my comparisons overly unjust?


Wayles Browne, Assoc. Professor of Linguistics
Morrill Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 1-607-255-0712, home 1-607-273-3009, fax 1-607-255-2044 (write
FOR W.BROWNE on top)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu


From mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu  Mon Dec  1 21:40:24 1997
From: mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu (Emily Tall)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 16:40:24 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.971201144502.12966A-100000@unixs3.cis.pitt.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.164024.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Of course, to attend MLA panels one has to spend an extra $100, right?
Emily Tall


From mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu  Mon Dec  1 21:43:24 1997
From: mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu (Emily Tall)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 16:43:24 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <v03102801b0a8c72f0aa5@[132.236.21.190]>
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.164324.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I see Wayles Brown feels the same way as I do. Unless I pay $100, for
example, I can't go to the MLA book exhibit, where Ohio State is
exhibiting its individualized instruction materials which I am interested
in purchasing. I believe AATSEEL has tried to get us in without paying
that enormous sum, but without success. I should think the publishers
would be interested in having us come. Maybe we should try again. Emily
Tall


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Mon Dec  1 21:51:56 1997
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 15:51:56 -0600
Subject: languages other than Russian at AATSEEL '97
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.155156.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

I invite all those who teach "AATSEEL" languages other than Russian to
attend meetings for instructors of South Slavic languages, West Slavic
languages, and Ukrainian and Belarusian, respectively, at the 1997 AATSEEL
Conference in Toronto.  These meetings will be an excellent opportunity to
network with instructors of these Slavic and East European languages.  It
is my hope, as the head of the pedagogy division for the AATSEEL Program
Committee, that these meetings will grow into roundtables and, ultimately,
into panels.

The meetings are all scheduled for 28 December from 7 to 9 pm:

Meeting of Instructors of South Slavic Languages
Facilitator:  Christina Kramer, U. of Toronto

Meeting of Instructors of Czech and Polish
Facilitator:  Susan C. Kresin, UCLA

Meeting of Instructors of Ukrainian and Belarusian
Facilitator:  Alla Nedashkivska Adams, U. of Toronto

I invite you to attend these meetings and hope that you will find them to
be productive.

Benjamin Rifkin
Head of the Pedagogy Division
AATSEEL Program Committee



&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Benjamin Rifkin
Associate Professor of Russian
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI  53706  USA

tel. 608/262-1623
fax. 608/265-2814


From napooka at aloha.net  Mon Dec  1 12:07:44 1997
From: napooka at aloha.net (Irene Thompson)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:07:44 +0000
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971201164142.15126C-100000@joxer.acsu.buffal o.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.120744.0000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Well, if AATSEEL met with ACTFL instead of MLA, you could visit all the
software exhibits for free! And wouldn't need to go to temperature extremes
in December either!
Irene Thompson
At 04:43 PM 12/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I see Wayles Brown feels the same way as I do. Unless I pay $100, for
>example, I can't go to the MLA book exhibit, where Ohio State is
>exhibiting its individualized instruction materials which I am interested
>in purchasing. I believe AATSEEL has tried to get us in without paying
>that enormous sum, but without success. I should think the publishers
>would be interested in having us come. Maybe we should try again. Emily
>Tall
>
>
**********************************************
 Irene Thompson
P.O. Box 3572
Princeville, HI  96722
tel/fax: (808) 826-9510
e-mail: napooka at aloha.net
**********************************************


From escatton at cnsvax.albany.edu  Mon Dec  1 22:17:50 1997
From: escatton at cnsvax.albany.edu (Ernest Scatton)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 17:17:50 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971201120744.00695f3c@aloha.net>
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.171750.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

It is great to see this issue raised again. MLA's attitude is really very
rigid: you haven't lived till you've experienced a meeting at which their
rep expresses the MLA position...like or lump it. On the other
hand, proposals for AATSEEL to meet at another time...like, maybe, once
every 10 years, perhaps...haven't fared much better.

*****************************************************************************
Ernest Scatton                                                  Slavic Hum254
518-442-4224 (w)                                               UAlbany (SUNY)
518-482-4934 (h)                                                    Albany NY
518-442-4217 (fax)                                                      12222
               http://alpha1.albany.edu/~alin220/slav_dept (WWW)


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Mon Dec  1 23:49:09 1997
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 15:49:09 -0800
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.154909.0800.>

Is anybody forwarding all this to the MLA?
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

2134 E. Interlaken  Bl.                 Tel. 206/329-0053
Seattle, WA  98112                      ggerhart at wolfenet.com


From 76703.2063 at compuserve.com  Mon Dec  1 23:55:02 1997
From: 76703.2063 at compuserve.com (Jerry Ervin)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 18:55:02 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.185502.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Emily,

I have invited OSU FL Publications to exhibit at AATSEEL.  I hope they'll
consider sending their materials, even as an unattended display.  As you
point out, they won't find too many Slavic types at MLA, and they have a
*lot* of Slavic material.

Jerry

*  *  *  *  *
Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin
Executive Director, AATSEEL
1933 N. Fountain Park Dr.
Tucson, AZ 85715 USA
Phone/fax:  520/885-2663
Email:  76703.2063 at compuserve.com
AATSEEL Home Page:
<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/>
*  *  *  *  *


From 76703.2063 at compuserve.com  Mon Dec  1 23:55:00 1997
From: 76703.2063 at compuserve.com (Jerry Ervin)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 18:55:00 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.185500.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Ernie,

I tried again last year to negotiate SOME kind of agreement with MLA.  No
movement whatsoever.  I guess we'll have to content ourselves with being on
the higher plane....

Jerry

*  *  *  *  *
Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin
Executive Director, AATSEEL
1933 N. Fountain Park Dr.
Tucson, AZ 85715 USA
Phone/fax:  520/885-2663
Email:  76703.2063 at compuserve.com
AATSEEL Home Page:
<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/>
*  *  *  *  *


From 76703.2063 at compuserve.com  Mon Dec  1 23:54:50 1997
From: 76703.2063 at compuserve.com (Jerry Ervin)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 18:54:50 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.185450.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Thank you for this very helpful posting.  Let me, however, point out the
following statement that was provided AATSEEL by the MLA (since it is
problematic for at least some scholars each year):

"All [MLA] convention particpants-members and nonmembers-must pay
registration fees.  Registrants receive badges, which entitle convention
attendees to gain admittance to meetings, the job informnation center, and
the exhibit hall.  Registration fees are as follows: before 7 December
regular members, $75; graduate student and emeritus members, $30;
nonmembers, $100; graduate student and emeritus nonmembers, $45; unemployed
members and   members employed less than full time, $50.  Registration fees
after 7 December are as follows: regular members: $100; graduate student
and emeritus members, $30; nonmembers, $120; graduate student and emeritus
nonmembers, $45; unemployed members and members employed less than full
time, $50."

In other words, your AATSEEL badge will not get you into any MLA sessions
(except for the ADFL session honoring Dan Davidson).

See you in Toronto,

Jerry Ervin

*  *  *  *  *
Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin
Executive Director, AATSEEL
1933 N. Fountain Park Dr.
Tucson, AZ 85715 USA
Phone/fax:  520/885-2663
Email:  76703.2063 at compuserve.com
AATSEEL Home Page:
<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/>
*  *  *  *  *


--------------- Forwarded Message ---------------

From:   "SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list",
INTERNET:SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
To:     Jerry Ervin, 76703,2063
Date:   Mon, Dec 1, 1997, 13:41

RE:     Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!


Colleagues,

Those who will be attending AATSEEL in Toronto before Staryi Novyi God may
wish to visit lesser divinities or larger zoos, i.e. the MLA.

Slavic panels at this year's MLA include:

1. #182.  BLOOD AND NATION (not a metasession on the profession!):
          (1:45 - 3:00, Sunday 28 Dec.: Norfolk Room at Sheraton Centre)

   1. "The Birth of a Nation in Stalinist and Thaw Film: Blood and Warrior
      in ALEKSANDR NEVSKII, DON QUIXOTE, and HAMLET," A. Prokhorov, U of
      Pittsburgh

   2. "Nation, Blood, and Identity in Milod Pavic and Emir Krusturica,"
      K.S. Ravetto, U of Ca., LA

   3. "Sacred Blood, Spilled Blood: The Cossacks in Gogol and Babel,"
      G. Rosenshield, U of Wisconsin, Madison

   4. "Rozanov, God's Body, and the Jews," H. Teplitz and A. Arkhipov,
      Stanford U

   RESPONDENT: S.L. Gilman, U of Chicago


2. #396: SEX AND DEATH
         (12:00 - 1:15, Monday 29 Dec.: Norfolk Room, Sheraton Centre)

    1. "Gogol: Funereal Eroticism and Horny Vampires," V. Todorov, U of
       Pa

    2. "De Sade and Dostoevsky: Sovereignty in Transfression," N.
       Lawrence, Stanford U

    3. "Lilith and Eve as Metapoesis in Fedor Sologub's LEGEND IN
       CREATION," C.K. Cosner, U of Illinois, Urbana

    4. "Culture beyond Pornography: Sexual Transgression in Woody
       Allen, David Cronenberg, and Valeriia Narbikova," S. Roll,
       McGill U

    RESPONDENT and Chair: H. Goscilo


3.  #630: TOTALITARIAN ART
          (10:15 - 11:30, Tuesday 30 Dec., York Room, Sheraton
           Centre)

    1. "Fear and Fiction: Official Soviet Lit. on the Soviet
       Prison Camps," D. Toleczyk, U of Va

    2. "The Body and the Machine in Soviet and German Industrial
       Posters of the 1930s," E. Prokhorova, U of Pittsburgh

    3. "Afterimages of Totaliraian Visual Culture in Germany," C.
       Scribner, Columbia U

     Chair: C.A. Cavanagh, U of Wisconsin, Madison


4.  #666: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPE
          (12:00 - 1:15, Tuesday 30 Dec., Elgin Room, Sheraton Centre)

     1. "The Trope of Displacement and Identity Construction in
        Postcolonial Ukrainian Fiction," V. Chernetsky, Columbia U

     2. "The Sweetest Poison of Enslavement: The Western Other as a
        Better Bulgarian Self," N.D. Nankov, Indiana U, Bloomington

     3. "The Road less Traveled: Tracing National Identity in Iva
        Pekarkova's Writing," P.M. Pavliscak, U of NC, Chapel Hill

     4. "Recycling the Colonial Metaphor: Croatians Go to the Congo,"
        N. Petkovic, U of Texas, Pan American

     RESPONDENT: D. Kujundzic, U of Memphis
     Chair: T.Z. Longinovic, U of Wisconsin, Madison

Apologies for absence of diacritics and consequent insults to ethnic
identities!

Helena Goscilo, also dediacriticized


From richmond at oxy.edu  Tue Dec  2 01:36:27 1997
From: richmond at oxy.edu (Prof. Walter Comins-Richmond)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 17:36:27 -0800
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.971201171155.539029546B-100000@cnsvax.albany.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.173627.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I have long wondered what inferiority complex compels AATSEEL to follow
MLA around as it tours the most inhospitable cities of the winter season.
In addition, the conference has not visited the west coast since 1994,
although it is making its second visit to Toronto in five years.

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Walter Comins-Richmond
Assistant Professor                       "Everything can be filed under
Dept. of Languages and Literatures                     "miscellaneous.""
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA 90041
(213)259-2636
<richmond at oxy.edu>


From paulkla at pressenter.com  Tue Dec  2 00:58:50 1997
From: paulkla at pressenter.com (Paul Klanderud)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 18:58:50 -0600
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <199712011856_MC2-2A54-871F@compuserve.com>
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.185850.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I have a couple friends who last year had the misfortune of interviewing
for Russian positions within the friendly confines of an MLA hotel. Being
foolishly poor, they didn't register for the MLA conference--all they were
doing was going for interviews.

But . . . apparently both were outwitted: when they reached the outer
perimeter of fortress MLA, goons in dark suits, dark glasses, and dark
shirts (I can't vouch for the details of dress, but the rest is true)
threatened to turn them away unless they coughed up the obligatory
(late)-registration fee, leaving them feeling like a couple blundering
Homer Simpsons trying to crash an all-you-can-eat seafood bar.

I guess if Microsoft can get away with charging 100 dollars or so for a
sneak preview of Explorer 4.0 (simply because they are Microsoft, after
all), then the MLA can be excused shaking down a few grads for their last
dollars.

Ever ready with constructive criticism,
Paul Klanderud


From escatton at cnsvax.albany.edu  Tue Dec  2 01:47:43 1997
From: escatton at cnsvax.albany.edu (Ernest Scatton)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 20:47:43 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <199712011858_MC2-2A54-87AE@compuserve.com>
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.204743.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Jerry:

Thanks for the up-date: hope springs eternal. But...that puts us, I think,
in a very awkward position: the only justification i ever heard for
following MLA was to make it possible for AATSEEL members to to to MLA
while going to AATSEEL. But...how many are actually doing it? And, if the
number isn't significant, why are we following MLA around?

Ernie

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Ernest Scatton                                                  Slavic Hum254
518-442-4224 (w)                                               UAlbany (SUNY)
518-482-4934 (h)                                                    Albany NY
518-442-4217 (fax)                                                      12222
               http://alpha1.albany.edu/~alin220/slav_dept (WWW)


From escatton at cnsvax.albany.edu  Tue Dec  2 01:50:36 1997
From: escatton at cnsvax.albany.edu (Ernest Scatton)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 20:50:36 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971201185850.006a10e0@pop.pressenter.com>
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.205036.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

A constructive response to MLA's tactics is (1) to let your membership
lapse...or not join in the first place: you can read the publications in
the library and (2) to not attend the meeting. If you have a job opening
and you're going to interview at all at meetings, do it at AAASS or
AATSEEL.

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Ernest Scatton                                                  Slavic Hum254
518-442-4224 (w)                                               UAlbany (SUNY)
518-482-4934 (h)                                                    Albany NY
518-442-4217 (fax)                                                      12222
               http://alpha1.albany.edu/~alin220/slav_dept (WWW)


From cavins at merle.acns.nwu.edu  Tue Dec  2 02:51:33 1997
From: cavins at merle.acns.nwu.edu (Carol J Avins)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 20:51:33 -0600
Subject: faculty position
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.205133.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Northwestern University's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures has
been authorized to search for an Associate or Assistant Professor with
proven excellence in research and teaching in the areas of Russian
literature (any period) and a secondary field such as another Slavic
literature, visual arts, music, intellectual history, comparative
literature, philosophy or religion.   We will be looking for broad
interests, imagination, energy, and promise of future growth.  The
successful applicant will add breadth and depth to undergraduate and
graduate instruction, both in the Slavic department and in Comparative
Literary Studies and/or other humanities programs.
        We encourage applications from women and minority candidates.  Send full
dossier to:  Andrew Wachtel, Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2206.   For more
information e-mail:  a-wachtel at nwu.edu    DUE DATE:  March 1, 1998. AA/EOE.


From gmmst11+ at pitt.edu  Tue Dec  2 06:07:19 1997
From: gmmst11+ at pitt.edu (Gerald McCausland)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 01:07:19 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.971201204835.539024104G-100000@cnsvax.alban y.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.010719.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

At 08:50 PM 12/1/97 -0500, Ernest Scatton wrote:

>A constructive response to MLA's tactics is (1) to let your membership
>lapse...or not join in the first place: you can read the publications in
>the library and (2) to not attend the meeting. If you have a job opening
>and you're going to interview at all at meetings, do it at AAASS or
>AATSEEL.
>

Professor Scatton's first suggestion may or may not be the correct one, but
it certainly is not a *constructive* one. The lack of Slavists at the MLA
is a self-perpetuating problem; quitting guarantees our continued
marginalization.

We would do well to remember that our colleagues in the fields of English,
German, French, Spanish, Comp. Lit., lesser-taught languages, etc.
attending the MLA have all paid the registration fee as well as taken on
the same costs of transportation and lodging that we have. None of these
people can get a reduced conference fee for only attending one or two
sessions. Don't we Slavists seem to be asking for a special dispensation
from the registration fee simply because we "happen to be in the
neighborhood"? I find the MLA's refusal to work with us offensive, but not
unreasonable from their point of view.

The real problem seems to be the obscenely high fee charged by the MLA for
*all* meeting attendees. Only by remaining members do we have a voice in
the organization and the *right* to work for a change to this and other
objectionable policies. Of course, many will insist that the MLA as an
orgainization is about as reformable as the erstwhile Soviet Union and a
waste of our time and money. I'm really not sure what my answer to that is.
For me, the chance for even limited interaction with scholars in other
languages/disciplines is worth hanging in there for now.

What I am sure of is that, given the general sentiment among Slavists, it
is totally incomprehensible why any Slavic department would interview at
the MLA job center rather than at the AATSEEL hotel site.

Jerry.


------------------------
Jerry McCausland
University of Pittsburgh
gmmst11+ at pitt.edu


From dziwirek at u.washington.edu  Tue Dec  2 07:58:43 1997
From: dziwirek at u.washington.edu (K. Dziwirek)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:58:43 -0800
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <199712011856_MC2-2A54-8717@compuserve.com>
Message-ID: <MON.1.DEC.1997.235843.0800.DZIWIREK@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>

Dear colleagues,

I am so glad this discussion is starting! As a linguist I have found it of
little value to have AATSEEL meetings coincide with the MLA.

As a mom of a
amall child, I have found it very hard to justify leaving my child in the
holiday season (when his pre-school is on break and I have to make
complicated and costly arrangements, which often consist of my husband's
taking time off from his work to care for our son).

As a West Coast inhabitant,
I have found it very inconvenient to travel in the winter to the East
coast (where the meetings are typically held) and face delays caused by
the weather.

Most of us on the West Coast are also on the quarter system,
which means that our classes start right after New Year and allows us
virtually no time off between fall and winter quarter. Our classes end Dec
11th or thereabout. If we want to attend AATSEEL and have any sort of
holiday we are rushing between finishing our papers and trying to make the
holidays memorable and meaningful for our families. Then we go to AATSEEL
and then we start to teach again. This schedule has made December one of
the more hateful months for me, and lately made me give up going to
AATSEEL. Though it is one of the best platforms for Slavic linguistics and
the place to hear about most recent research that colleagues are involved
in, and to share your work, for me it is just not worth it to go thru' the
hell involved in  trying to go and present a decent paper and have a
decent holiday.

For years I thought it was just me (I am not organized enough, not
superwoman enough, etc...), but have been talking to some colleagues
recently and discovered that other people feel the same way!

So, WHY do we have the meetings in December????

If people can't afford going to the MLA anyway, and a whole
bunch of us (high-school teachers, language pedagogy specialists,
linguists of all kinds) don't benefit from going to the MLA at all????
Please, people in power, give some thought to moving the meeting time!
best wishes,
kat


************************************************************
Katarzyna Dziwirek
dziwirek at u.washington.edu
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, box 353580
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
tel. (206) 543-7691
************************************************************


From frosset at wheatonma.edu  Tue Dec  2 15:14:35 1997
From: frosset at wheatonma.edu (Francoise Rosset)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:14:35 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.101435.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
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>Poster:       Emily Tall <mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu>
>Subject:      Re: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The discussion on MLA vs. AATSEEL is not "starting."  It's been held all along.
Yes it is important to have the MLA-AATSEEL discussion again. Here are a
few more comments/gripes :

The real problem is not whether AATSEEL should "follow" MLA. I personally
think it should, because there are two very serious reasons for doing so --
slavic job interviews in multiple-language departments, and the fact that
some of us are interested in other language fields. The problem is the rigid
MLA fee position and the people someone appropriately referred to as "goons."

As far as not meeting with MLA because it is in December:
Is there ANY time that would be appropriate for all of us? -- of course not.
At least the present time means most of us are not teaching. I suspect most
colleges and universities use a semester system, and yes, that makes it in-
convenient for those on term systems. I am truly sympathetic; I just don't
see that another time would be better; it would just raise a different set
of hackles. If we did it in the summer, which might be better for those of
us with small kids, there'd be people off on research. Any other time would
fall during someone's teaching somewhere etc etc.  Both the MLA and AATSEEL
have been through this.

West Coast vs. East Coast:
We should prevail upon MLA to distribute themselves more. But to do that
we have to be members, and MLA will argue that their present system is the
most workable. I wish they had more cities in their repertoire myself --
especially WARM cities.
The last time MLA was on the West Coast (San Diego, right?) I heard a LOT
of bitching from Slavists. That time the argument I heard was that most
Slavists are living and working East of the Mississippi. I will not comment
on the validity of that argument,-- I've worked in Texas and Hawai'i -- but
I can guarantee you that I heard it over and over again. It was also, I
believe, one of the arguments used the year we did NOT follow MLA to New
Orleans.

For linguists:
If MLA is useless for Slavic linguists, as it evidently is, then certainly
there is no reason for linguists to attend MLA. But that doesn't mean we
have to split from MLA -- the issues of time and location will come up all
over again if we do, and we will have gained nothing.

Why AATSEEL should follow MLA:
First and foremost because many departments interview at MLA, especially
those departments which combine all languages. They're not being snotty,
they just don't have a separate Slavic department, and given the state of
the field our graduate students need all the interviews they can get. Of
course most *Slavic* departments interview at AATSEEL or AAASS. But what
about departments that have one or two positions in Slavic (i.e. Russian)
in a *multiple-language* department? Are we just forgetting about them? Or
are we forgetting what happens to job-seekers when we ignore the obvious?
It's bad enough graduate students have to cough up the fee for MLA. It
would be worse if they had to go to two different conventions for job
interviews.
I had to do it ages ago: I had four interviews with MLA in New Orleans,
and four with AATSEEL (Washington?). And of course I had to do all these
within the space of three days. When I got to Washington, some hapless
soul was looking for her Duke interviewers, who were interviewing in New
Orleans!!  The whole thing cost me a fortune and untold aggravation for
travelling. And all this because AATSEEL did not want to go to New Orleans.
(Such an awful place for a convention, right ...).
The bottom line is, one of the major functions of the convention is to
facilitate the job search for graduate students, and all of us untenured
and precarious folk. We should have the conventions together, unless we want
to guarantee major headaches in that area for the people who can least afford
the time or the money. (And I don't mean employed professors who are reimbur-
sed for their expenses).

My second reason is that some of us teach or have taught in two fields --
one of them non-Slavic. There simply are not enough pure Slavic jobs out
there, and we all know it. And some of us actually LIKE to go to MLA to
see what is happening in other fields. I can't see the benefits of limit-
ing our possibilities.  (That still leaves the fee)

The book exhibit is motivated by "crass financial considerations."  They
want to sell more books to more people, and they can do so better at the
MLA. AATSEEL is just a smaller market, except for those publishers who
do nothing but Slavic. (That too leaves us with the fee)

Toronto is a great city. And unlike Chicago, it knows how to handle winter:
proper and effective plowing, undergound passages everywhere, adequate and
frequent public transport galore. I'll take Toronto over Chicago anytime.
I'd prefer Tahiti, actually. (We still have that fee)

Which leaves the fee and the MLA's position towards AATSEEL members. My
suggestion would be to pressure MLA once again, but evidently that has
been tried. My only other suggestion is to borrow an MLA member's ID for
the few things you want, but that's not always possible.
There is one thing we should be honest about: the people really affected by
the double fee are graduate students looking for their interviews. The rest
of us probably get reimbursed: my employer has paid both fees when I've
paid both fees because I pointed out the problem. And while I find the
situation revolting on principle, I have not actually suffered financially
-- when I've been employed. Is there some way to address the problem for
graduate students? -- do we have any way to get them a special fee for the
interview meat market,
for example?

I realize that there are people adamantly in favor of splitting AATSEEL
from MLA. I am adamantly against it and I hope I'm not not the only one.
Moreover I would be willing to change my mind if someone came up with a
truly convincing argument -- timing and location are not it, since we'll
just bicker over those all over again. It's one thing to be incensed over
the MLA fees and the goons enforcing them. It's another thing entirely to
cut ourselves off from them.
Personally, I'd find such a move short-sighted, spiteful, and unproductive.
Our field needs to be working with other languages/lits., not away from them.
As someone put it so aptly, we are marginalized enough.

-Francoise


Francoise Rosset                          phone:  (508) 286-3696
Department of Russian                     e-mail: frosset at wheatonma.edu
Wheaton College
Norton, Massachusetts 02766


From 76703.2063 at compuserve.com  Tue Dec  2 15:32:39 1997
From: 76703.2063 at compuserve.com (Jerry Ervin)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:32:39 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.103239.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Jerry McCausland writes,

"What I am sure of is that, given the general sentiment among Slavists, it
is totally incomprehensible why any Slavic department would interview at
the MLA job center rather than at the AATSEEL hotel site."

Yes, indeed, AATSEEL has available two very nice interviewing rooms that
are available gratis.  As soon as a firm appointment has been made, just
drop me a note and I'll reserve a room for your use for that hour (or two).
 First come, first served: we hold the rooms until firm appointments have
been made, rather than taking reservations for blocks of time that may or
may not wind up being used.

And if you want to include in the interview non-AATSEEL departmental
colleagues, please do so; they will be welcome and will receive traditional
AATSEEL hospitality--without having to register for our conference
(although we do ask that the Slavists doing the interviewing or being
interviewed be AATSEEL registrants).

See you in Toronto,

Jerry Ervin

*  *  *  *  *
Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin
Executive Director, AATSEEL
1933 N. Fountain Park Dr.
Tucson, AZ 85715 USA
Phone/fax:  520/885-2663
Email:  76703.2063 at compuserve.com
AATSEEL Home Page:
<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/>
*  *  *  *  *


From mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu  Tue Dec  2 16:10:10 1997
From: mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu (Emily Tall)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:10:10 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <v01530500b0a97d59838b@[155.47.37.45]>
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.111010.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Regarding Prof. Rosset's comment about departments paying for convention
attendance: my dept. pays only when you give a paper. They pay for room
and board and never for conference regestration. E. Tall SUNY/Buffalo


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Tue Dec  2 16:57:37 1997
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:57:37 -0600
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.105737.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

And still more ... my university provides some support for one domestic
conference every OTHER year.  So, for example, even though I am an associate
professor (and my position is not "precarious"), and even though I am giving
a paper and chairing a roundtable, I will be responsible for all the
expenses associated with the trip to the conference.

Ben Rifkin



At 11:10 AM 12/2/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Regarding Prof. Rosset's comment about departments paying for convention
>attendance: my dept. pays only when you give a paper. They pay for room
>and board and never for conference regestration. E. Tall SUNY/Buffalo
>
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Benjamin Rifkin
Associate Professor of Russian
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706
voice:  608/262-1623
fax:  608/265-2814


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Tue Dec  2 17:10:09 1997
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 09:10:09 -0800
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.091009.0800.>

A suggestion:  since AATSEEL is one of the AAT's, that is, was founded
to be an association of language teachers (which is in fact what most
people do, whether or not they admit or like it), then let us meet at
the same time as ACTFL on the condition that they suspend their use of
educationese, and we suspend our panels on topics that matter to no one.
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

2134 E. Interlaken  Bl.                 Tel. 206/329-0053
Seattle, WA  98112                      ggerhart at wolfenet.com


From escatton at cnsvax.albany.edu  Tue Dec  2 17:42:28 1997
From: escatton at cnsvax.albany.edu (Ernest Scatton)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 12:42:28 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <199712021036_MC2-2A67-C02D@compuserve.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.124228.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

When I said that quitting the MLA was the most constructive thing one
could do, I was being ironic. But, the fact is: MLA has simply shown no
willingness whatsoever to negotiate/compromise. In the meantime, as many
have pointed out, many AATSEEL members are dragged to wherever MLA meets.
There are not a few Slavicists who, in fact, have given up on the AATSEEL
meeting as well because of the timing. Put aside the costs of attending
oneself and what institutions will pay: how many colleagues with children
are going (1) to be willing year after year to absorb the costs of taking
the whole family or (2) to be willing year after year to spend the time
between Christmas and New Years away? For myself, when my kids left home
and began coming back because they got a break from school or work at this
time, I started thinking twice about taking off.



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Ernest Scatton                                                  Slavic Hum254
518-442-4224 (w)                                               UAlbany (SUNY)
518-482-4934 (h)                                                    Albany NY
518-442-4217 (fax)                                                      12222
               http://alpha1.albany.edu/~alin220/slav_dept (WWW)


From aisrael at american.edu  Tue Dec  2 18:12:40 1997
From: aisrael at american.edu (Alina Israeli)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 13:12:40 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.131240.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Françoise,
Toronto happens to be on the Northen shore of the lake, while Chicago is on
the Southern, it sure helps to avoid snow squalls (as all of us who lived
on the Southern shores of the Great lakes can attest to).

>Toronto is a great city. And unlike Chicago, it knows how to handle winter:
>proper and effective plowing, undergound passages everywhere, adequate and
>frequent public transport galore. I'll take Toronto over Chicago anytime.
>I'd prefer Tahiti, actually.

That would not be bad, but the AAASS in Hawaii was nearly empty, every one
(from those northern parts) was on the beach (and made sure that got a tax
deduction for it).

Alina


From sforres1 at swarthmore.edu  Tue Dec  2 18:19:28 1997
From: sforres1 at swarthmore.edu (Sibelan Forrester)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 13:19:28 -0500
Subject: MLA on $5 per day
In-Reply-To: <v01530500b0a97d59838b@[155.47.37.45]>
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.131928.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Thanks to Francoise Rosset for a nice detailed response to this issue --
she said most of the things I wanted to say (and with economy and
elegance).  I apologize in advance to anyone who'll be angry after taking
the time to read this whole message -- just erase it now if you are
supposed to be writing your final exams!

It's true that MLA is an organization with too much attitude (power
corrupts); I understand that they have become the new top-secret
governmental espionage front in the US today, since the NSA has leaked into
public discourse.  Hence the impenetrable & multicoloned panel titles and
the well-orchestrated campaign of belittlement and mockery in the
mainstream media.  ...It's way too expensive, it's a meat market (terrible
ambient stress level and people in intimidating clothes!), and it's
offensive that our organization isn't given any special access (hell, their
hotel rates even tend to be $5 or so less per night than ours).

But for all the good reasons already mentioned, lots of people will
continue to want access to MLA -- so maybe we should share strategies on
making that access cheap?  Some of my info is dated (I paid to go to MLA
the last 2 years, for reasons already mentioned), but I hope someone will
correct me if so.

1)  I've had several job interviews at MLA hotels -- but always in the
interviewers' suite upstairs, and was never challenged on my way up.  If
the place interviewing you says they're using one of the meat-market
interviewing rooms, point out gently that this may obligate you to pay $100
just to get in.  Perhaps they'll consider meeting YOU in the handiest hotel
room occupied by one of the interviewers so that you don't have to fork
over the money.  (Would a nice letter on official stationery saying "We
understand that your attendance at this interview does not obligate you to
pay the full conference registration fee" carry any weight with the goons?
-- anyone still doubt the post-NSA theory?)

2)  It appears that MLA has a special cheap rate for first time members.
If you have reaason to expect job interviews in a given year, make sure
you've joined at that rate (it used to  be $35 for new members who were
already dissertated, I think less for grad students, rather than the usual
$75 or whatever), which will mean that you get the mailings and can really
take advantage of what the MLA offers -- the directory of members, the MLA
hotels with their sometimes slightly cheaper room rates, the program with
maps of conference sites so you don't blunder into places you don't want to
go -- and register for the conference ahead of time when it's not $100.
YES it's a drag to have to fork over the money, but at least you'll get
more than a half hour's job interview visit out of it, and unfortunately
job hunting just costs money.

3)  If you want to crash a panel, try adhering to some very distinguished
looking and prominently badged senior professor on your way in -- maybe the
goons will hesitate to harass you (worked for me once).

4)  If you just want the book exhibit, I believe that you can get a badge
just to enter that for $10.  (Maybe the price has gone up?)  Now, any
Josephine off the street can get this $10 book exhibit badge, so it's
offensive that the proud AATSEEL member has no advantage over her, but at
least it's not $100.  EVEN BETTER, if you go to the booth outside the book
exhibit accompanied by someone with an MLA conference badge, they at least
_used to_ offer a free courtesy book exhibit badge, which you simply have
to return when you leave the book exhibit.  Many many thanks to Helena
Goscilo for providing a list of people who we now know are going to MLA and
can be invited for a nice stroll through the book exhibit!  And please
offer to buy them a cup of coffee to show your appreciation.  Those of you
registered for MLA:  don't be offended, look at this as a chance to garner
lots of free cups of coffee, or even free snacks, from other book-exhibit
fans.  We'll make it worth your time.

5)  It often happens that several job hunters group together to purchase a
conference badge under a nice bigendered generic name (choose a last name
full of palatals so they won't even risk calling you by it), so they can
pass it around for the job interviews.  Or borrow your conference-hopping
professor's, if you think you can carry it off.  (How many of us are
prominent enough that the MLA crowd would bat an eye to see our name on a
30-year-old?  Maybe it would leave them thinking that we're a bunch of
precocious geniuses.)  This does require some coordination and even luck
(hope no one has interviews at the same time), and also means overcoming
the suspicion of other candidates for the same job.  That can only be a
good thing -- use your networks to find people in the same boat if there
aren't enough locally -- and (as with point 2 above) plan ahead so you
aren't trying to chase down people on Dec 26.

6)  Twice I took small children to AATSEEL (when under-2 still flew free);
if you see someone in a suit holding a small child, DO NOT make comments to
your companions about how they look like tsyganka or baba iz derevni,
because those will get back to them and will tarnish YOUR karma in the
worst kind of way.
The best conference day care I've had was paying a grad student to sit in
my room with my kid during my panel -- he was happy when I got back 2 hours
later, and she made enough (I hope!) for the nice lunch her institution
wasn't reimbursing her for.
(Is organized and no doubt pricey day care one of the benefits of going to
MLA?)

7)  Use the available mentoring resources to minimize the hassle and
expense to you!  ("What mentoring resources?"  Try for example
<http://ash.swarthmore.edu/slavic/mentors.html> -- though this year a lot
of people on that list aren't going to Toronto, and you'll have to be
careful not to pick a political scientist.)  The messages Helena's post
generated show how many of us have been burned by both the MLA stance and
the general expense and hassle of conferences that our institutions don't
support as much as we need -- and I'm sure a lot of us would love to get
even, in a small way, by helping YOU beat the system.  Even sharing a taxi
from the airport or a ride from Stateside can help a tight budget -- and
mentoring in terms of concrete advice or networking for conference
advantage is just as much mentoring as saying nice things about the third
chapter of your dissertation.

8)  I have to say that some of the things on Helena's list look fabulous --
if people who can't afford to go to MLA want to attend one or another of
those panels, why not look around for distinguished-looking senior people
(the person who taught you "French for Graduate Reading" might be
delighted) to adhere to through the fateful entry phase?  Or organize a
large party of Slavists to enter together and intimidate the goons with
sheer numbers? (nas t'my i t'my i t'my)

9)  Let me add gently, a propos of some of the preceding messages, that a
lot of us can't help having feet in both language teaching and lit crit --
because otherwise we wouldn't have jobs; and our not having jobs would NOT
help the language part of the profession, either.  It's not at all that we
don't appreciate the value of the instrumental case, or clitics, or
proficiency testing.  In fact maybe those of us who go into the MLA should
do our part by talking about those things, loudly, in the hotel hallways.
Make 'em nervous.

10)  Any conference venue in the country is going to discommode a lot of
people -- let's not be provincial & imply that having the conference in
Canada a mere four years after the last time is a bad thing.  Especially
considering passport and visa issues that I won't go into because I can
imagine what stories it might invite.


From ah69 at columbia.edu  Tue Dec  2 18:19:59 1997
From: ah69 at columbia.edu (Andrew Hicks)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 13:19:59 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.971202123418.541174833G-100000@cnsvax.albany.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.131959.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

        Although I tend to think of the MLA as the academic equivalent of
a severe cold, I'd like to put to rest fears of geographic discrimination.

        Two months ago I was discussing the Toronto-in-December issue with
a staff member of the MLA who, incidentally, is a Slavist by training.  It
turns out the number of potential convention cities is smaller than you
probably think.  First, many cities don't have enough convention space to
hold the MLA--Boston, for example, is too small.  Of those that are
sufficiently capacious, some are too expensive.
        Second, the MLA meets at a time when many people want to vacation
in a warmer locale.  Hotels make more money per vacationer than per
conventioneer, so those that can house people retail pass up the wholesale
market.  So many of you in the West and South lose out due to your
pleasant climate.

        According to my MLA mole, this leaves only about five possible
cities.  Toronto and Washington are two, and I forget the other three.
New York used to be on the list, but too many tourists come here now.


From 76703.2063 at compuserve.com  Tue Dec  2 18:34:15 1997
From: 76703.2063 at compuserve.com (Jerry Ervin)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 13:34:15 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.133415.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Two comments to the most worthy posting of Francoise Rosset to this
discussion:

1)  MLA (hence, AATSEEL) will be in San Francisco in 1998.

2)  I have been assured by the MLA that it is *not* the case that one (say,
a grad student) must register for MLA in order to be interviewed there.
Exactly what the mechanics are, I do not know.  But David Goldberg of
MLA/ADFL tells me that anyone who tells a guard (monitor, whatever the
right term is) at MLA that s/he need access only to the interview area, and
that only for a specific duration, such access will be granted.  (It
remains to be seen if that will happen.  It was supposed to be the case in
Washington last year, too.)

Speaking personally, it would seem to me that any department that plans to
interview a candidate--whether at AATSEEL or AAASS or MLA or anywhere
else--would take it upon itself to ensure that the candidate would have
ready access to the interview site, and once there be greeted hospitably
and treated professionally, not only by the interviewing committee, but
also by anyone else the interviewee might encounter (say, MLA guards or
other representatives).  And if that did not happen, I (as a department
representative trying to make a good impression on a potential candidate)
would raise the roof with the offending organization or party.

Regards,

Jerry Ervin


From emboyle at u.washington.edu  Tue Dec  2 18:47:33 1997
From: emboyle at u.washington.edu (E. Boyle)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:47:33 -0800
Subject: Meeting with ACTFL
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.104733.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I think meeting with ACTFL is a great idea, but I believe the dates of
that conference often conflict with AAASS.

Eloise

***************
Eloise M. Boyle
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Washington
Box 353580
Seattle, WA  98195

(206) 543-7580 (office)
(425) 483-4130 (home)
e-mail: emboyle at u.washington.edu


From gfowler at indiana.edu  Tue Dec  2 19:15:53 1997
From: gfowler at indiana.edu (George Fowler)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 14:15:53 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <199712021843.NAA32628@roatan.ucs.indiana.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.141553.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Jerry Ervin wrote:

>2)  I have been assured by the MLA that it is *not* the case that one (say,
>a grad student) must register for MLA in order to be interviewed there.
>Exactly what the mechanics are, I do not know.  But David Goldberg of
>MLA/ADFL tells me that anyone who tells a guard (monitor, whatever the
>right term is) at MLA that s/he need access only to the interview area, and
>that only for a specific duration, such access will be granted.

Is this anything you have in a letter, or even an email message? Perhaps
you could run off a few dozen and stash them at the Registration Desk at
AATSEEL? Then the poor grad students would be at least armed with a
slingshot when doing battle with the MLA Goliaths.

I personally like northern cities like Toronto! I don't remember it being
all that cold four years ago... And we drove back via Niagara Falls, that
was a treat. All possible AATSEEL/MLA cities have their advantages, you
just have to embrace them.

George Fowler

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Dept. of Slavic Languages          [dept. tel.] 1-812-855-9906/-2608/-2624
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From tmackey at westga.edu  Tue Dec  2 19:59:20 1997
From: tmackey at westga.edu (Theresa Mackey)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 14:59:20 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <v03110704b0a9ca223fd0@[134.68.241.104]>
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.145920.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Free access to the interview area at the MLA?  I wish!  Every year that's
the most heavily guarded area at the convention, possibly because the
organizers realize that many attend primarily (or solely) for job
interviews.  If access to the job interview/postings area is really free,
I'd also like to have that in writing, as I doubt the posted guards would
accept anything else.  Perhaps what was meant as "free" was access to
interviewer's hotel rooms, which couldn't be restricted anyway?


From napooka at aloha.net  Tue Dec  2 09:58:42 1997
From: napooka at aloha.net (Irene Thompson)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 09:58:42 +0000
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.971202123418.541174833G-100000@cnsvax.alban y.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.095842.0000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I stopped going to AATSEEL meetings not only because of the awful timing
and the Arctic venues but also because AATSEEL does not (and cannot) have
enough serious panels on Second Language Acquisition, Language Testing and
other topics which cut across languages. MLA was never an added attraction.
Irene Thompson
>When I said that quitting the MLA was the most constructive thing one
>could do, I was being ironic. But, the fact is: MLA has simply shown no
>willingness whatsoever to negotiate/compromise. In the meantime, as many
>have pointed out, many AATSEEL members are dragged to wherever MLA meets.
>There are not a few Slavicists who, in fact, have given up on the AATSEEL
>meeting as well because of the timing. Put aside the costs of attending
>oneself and what institutions will pay: how many colleagues with children
>are going (1) to be willing year after year to absorb the costs of taking
>the whole family or (2) to be willing year after year to spend the time
>between Christmas and New Years away? For myself, when my kids left home
>and began coming back because they got a break from school or work at this
>time, I started thinking twice about taking off.
>
>
>
>*****************************************************************************
>Ernest Scatton                                                  Slavic Hum254
>518-442-4224 (w)                                               UAlbany (SUNY)
>518-482-4934 (h)                                                    Albany NY
>518-442-4217 (fax)                                                      12222
>               http://alpha1.albany.edu/~alin220/slav_dept (WWW)
>
>
**********************************************
 Irene Thompson
P.O. Box 3572
Princeville, HI  96722
tel/fax: (808) 826-9510
e-mail: napooka at aloha.net
**********************************************


From Anthony.Vanchu at oberlin.edu  Tue Dec  2 20:47:43 1997
From: Anthony.Vanchu at oberlin.edu (Anthony Vanchu)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:47:43 -0400
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971202145411.18623A-100000@sun.cc.westga.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.164743.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>Free access to the interview area at the MLA?  I wish!  Every year that's
>the most heavily guarded area at the convention, possibly because the
>organizers realize that many attend primarily (or solely) for job
>interviews.  If access to the job interview/postings area is really free,
>I'd also like to have that in writing, as I doubt the posted guards would
>accept anything else.  Perhaps what was meant as "free" was access to
>interviewer's hotel rooms, which couldn't be restricted anyway?

At the San Diego AATSEEL/MLA, I had one interview in the MLA interview area
and was let through into that area with no questions asked.  Maybe I was
just lucky or looked too determined to get to my destination.


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Wed Dec  3 02:02:10 1997
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 20:02:10 -0600
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.200210.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Irene Thompson wrote (09:58 AM 12/2/97):

>I stopped going to AATSEEL meetings not only because of the awful timing
>and the Arctic venues but also because AATSEEL does not (and cannot) have
>enough serious panels on Second Language Acquisition, Language Testing and
>other topics which cut across languages. MLA was never an added attraction.

Irene Thompson is right that the MLA is not a very strong attraction with
regard to second language acquisition and pedagogy, especially as compared
to ACTFL.  With respect to AATSEEL, the Slavic field as a whole cannot
compare or compete  with the wealth of scholars and scholarship in second
language acquisition, language testing, and pedagogy that one finds in the
more commonly taught languages showcased at the annual ACTFL convention.
That being said, the Slavic field can boast some of the best scholarship in
the SLA field (for those who are not aware of this, I recommend, as an
example, the volume _Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context_,
edited by Barbara F. Freed, John Benjamins Publishing, 1995, a volume
featuring several essays by scholars working on the acquisition of Russian).

The pedagogy division of the AATSEEL Conference is healthy and growing:  the
conference provides a forum for scholarly presentations that reflect the
research interests of the profession.  There are, at present, relatively
few scholars of SLA in the Slavic field (as compared to the numbers in
French, German and Spanish); accordingly, there are relatively few Slavic
scholars working on issues of language acquisition, testing and other topics
that cut across languages.  Nonetheless, the 1997 AATSEEL Conference will
feature numerous panels, roundtables, and fora in the pedagogy division and
I hope that Slavists attending the Conference will "drop in"  to these
events to take in something of how our field is expanding.  Among the
pedagogy division events scheduled for the 1997 AATSEEL Conference:  a joint
AATSEEL/ACTR roundtable on testing in Russian (featuring representatives of
ACTR, CIEE, Brigham Young U.,  George Washington U., U. of Washington, U. of
Wisconsin, Middlebury College, SAIS, Pennsylvania State U., and the Center
for Applied Linguistics, among others), as well as 10 panels dedicated to
issues of pedagogy and second language acquisition and a dozen fora on
instructional materials including textbooks for Czech, Russian, and new
videotapes and  CD-ROMs for the teaching of Russian.  The conference will
host a meeting of secondary school teachers of Russian as well as meetings
for instructors of Slavic languages other than Russian in order to
facilitate networking for teachers of those languages.  There are
approximately 40 scholarly papers scheduled for pedagogy division panels
this year, all of which were refereed by approximately 30 referees this
year.  (The abstracts for these papers as well as a list of the referees can
be found on line at the AATSEEL web page.)  The panels for the pedagogy
division of the 1997 AATSEEL Conference are (in order of their sequence in
the conference schedule):

Content-Based Language Instruction
Attitudes of Students and Instructors toward Learning and Teaching
Empirical Research on Study Abroad
Roundtable on Testing in Russian
Technology and Language Instruction (1)
Technology and Language Instruction (2)
Problems and Solutions in Teaching Russian
Pre-College Russian
Teaching Russian Culture
Linguistics and Pedagogy
Business Russian

In addition to the panels and roundtable listed above, the pedagogy division
will feature a methodology workshop on using the internet to teach
languages, literatures, and cultures.  The workshop will be led by George
Mitrevski of Auburn University at 7-9 pm on 29 December.

The pedagogy division of the AATSEEL Conference is one of the smaller
divisions of the entire conference program, in accordance with the number of
people in the Slavic field working in these areas, but the division is
strong and growing.

It is my hope that many of you reading this message will take the time to
visit some of the pedagogy division panels, roundtables and fora while in
Toronto.  I also encourage SEELANGers  to consider submitting panel
proposals for the pedagogy division and abstracts for pedagogy panels for
the 1998 conference.

As to the cold climate of the AATSEEL conference location this year, while a
warmer destination may be preferable, the Toronto climate is  "culturally
authentic"  for those of us teaching Russian language, literature and
culture.  As a professor of Russian living in Madison, Wisconsin, who
teaches Russian,  I certainly have no right to complain about cold climates.
Nonetheless, it is my hope that all those who attend the conference will
find the atmosphere warm and inviting, despite whatever weather conditions
may be prevailing outside the hotel.

I invite you all to our conference in Toronto this December, and to the 1998
AATSEEL Conference in San Francisco in December 1998.

With best wishes,

Ben Rifkin

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Benjamin Rifkin
Associate Professor of Russian
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706
voice:  608/262-1623
fax:  608/265-2814


From napooka at aloha.net  Tue Dec  2 19:16:58 1997
From: napooka at aloha.net (Irene Thompson)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 19:16:58 +0000
Subject: Meeting with ACTFL
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95b.971202104644.63590H-100000@homer21.u.washin
 gton.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.191658.0000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

That's true. Why not meet with AAASS then? At least they have lots of
panels that are interesting. And they might give AATSEEL a better 'deal'
than the MLA.
Irene Thompson
At 10:47 AM 12/2/97 -0800, you wrote:
>I think meeting with ACTFL is a great idea, but I believe the dates of
>that conference often conflict with AAASS.
>
>Eloise
>
>***************
>Eloise M. Boyle
>Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
>University of Washington
>Box 353580
>Seattle, WA  98195
>
>(206) 543-7580 (office)
>(425) 483-4130 (home)
>e-mail: emboyle at u.washington.edu
>
>
**********************************************
 Irene Thompson
P.O. Box 3572
Princeville, HI  96722
tel/fax: (808) 826-9510
e-mail: napooka at aloha.net
**********************************************


From jkarlsen at uclink2.berkeley.edu  Wed Dec  3 05:58:15 1997
From: jkarlsen at uclink2.berkeley.edu (Jeffrey A. Karlsen)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 21:58:15 -0800
Subject: America from the Russian perspective
Message-ID: <TUE.2.DEC.1997.215815.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

For the 1920s, you might want to show clips from Lev Kuleshov's film
_Neobyknovennye prikliucheniia Mistera Vesta v strane bol'shevikov_ and
read excerpts from Marietta Shaginian's (pseud. Dzhim Dollar) serial novel
_Miss Mend_.  For the debate on American influence on Soviet film, there's
Kuleshov's classic manifesto, "Amerikanshchina," translated in _Kuleshov on
Film_.  You might also find Jeffrey Brooks' article on images of America in
the press in the 20s-30s useful, in Fitzpatrick et al., ed., _Russia in the
era of NEP_ (Bloomington, 1991).  I'm not sure if Mayakovsky's writings on
the US are translated, but of course his poems (e.g. "Brooklyn Bridge")
are.

Jeff Karlsen
UC Berkeley

>I'm trying to put together a syllabus for an interdisciplinary course on
>"America Through Russian Eyes," focusing on the 20th century.  If anyone
>has suggestions for short stories, periodicals, anekdoty, songs, films,
>visual art, etc., etc. that exemplify Russian perspectives on life and
>culture in the U.S., I'd welcome them.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Margarita Nafpaktitis
>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
>
>mnafpakt at umich.edu
>ph:  313/213-2127


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Wed Dec  3 11:34:23 1997
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 06:34:23 -0500
Subject: MLA vs ACFTL
Message-ID: <WED.3.DEC.1997.063423.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:    Genevra Gerhart <ggerhart at wolfenet.com>

"A suggestion:  since AATSEEL is one of the AAT's, that is, was founded
to be an association of language teachers (which is in fact what most
people do, whether or not they admit or like it), then let us meet at
the same time as ACTFL on the condition that they suspend their use of
educationese, and we suspend our panels on topics that matter to no one."


Maybe this is because I'm in K-12 education rather than higher ed, but
this seems like a valid point (altho I doubt ACTFL would *ever* drop the
educationese!).  I assumed that linguists had more to get from MLA than
ACTFL, but if this is not the case, why not consider the switch?

I'm curious how people feel about ACTFL and MLA as organizations -- which
benefits them more and in what way?  Again, maybe because I'm in K-12, I'm
more familiar with ACTFL than MLA, but that could be an incorrect
assumption.

Devin

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From 76703.2063 at compuserve.com  Wed Dec  3 15:30:01 1997
From: 76703.2063 at compuserve.com (Jerry Ervin)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 10:30:01 -0500
Subject: AATSEEL '97:  A sellout!
Message-ID: <WED.3.DEC.1997.103001.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Uvazhaemye SEELANGtsy:

There is good news and bad news, and it's the same news:

Yesterday (2 December) I was informed that on our peak night--Sunday, 28
December--the Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre is sold out.  This means that
all 325 sleeping rooms blocked for AATSEEL that night, as well as all the
remaining rooms in the hotel, are booked.  To my knowledge AATSEEL has
never before had a 100% sellout of its room block.

While we are delighted at what this means for AATSEEL '97 attendance, it
may work a hardship on people who've not yet made reservations.  To that
end and with the help of the Marriott, we offer the following suggestions:


        1)  Call the centralized Marriott Reservations number
(1-800-228-9290) to see if there have been any cancellations.  If not, ask
to be put on a waiting list.

        2)  Call the Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre directly
(1-416-597-9200) and ask if *they* have received any cancellations that
might not have made it into Marriott's centralized system.  If not, ask to
be put on the hotel's waiting list.

        3)  Call Tourism Toronto (1-800-363-1990) during the hours M-F
8:30-5:30, Sa 9-5, Su 9:30-5.  This computerized, centralized reservations
office can find and reserve rooms in any of the downtown hotels.  I talked
to Tourism Toronto yesterday and was assured that there are still nice
rooms in the downtown area at very reasonable rates.  (When making a
reservation, be sure to ask about room price and proximity to the Marriott,
assuming those things are important to you.)  Some of the hotels are
connected to the Marriott via Toronto's extensive underground pedestrian
mall, meaning you won't have to go out in the weather to come to sessions.

Again, while we are delighted at the popularity of AATSEEL '97, we express
our regrets in advance to those who may not be able to find accommodations
in the Marriott itself.  Forecasting conference attendance and room needs
is a fickle, inexact business--especially in view of the fact that room
block commitments must be made 10-15 months ahead of time.  Nothing in
AATSEEL's history suggested we'd encounter this situation.  A mixed
blessing, indeed.

(As always, please share this information with colleagues who may not be
SEELANGS regulars.  Thanks.)

Sincerely yours,

Jerry Ervin

*  *  *  *  *
Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin
Executive Director, AATSEEL
1933 N. Fountain Park Dr.
Tucson, AZ 85715 USA
Phone/fax:  520/885-2663
Email:  76703.2063 at compuserve.com
AATSEEL Home Page:
<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/>
*  *  *  *  *


From nkm at faraday.clas.virginia.edu  Wed Dec  3 15:27:39 1997
From: nkm at faraday.clas.virginia.edu (Natalie O. Kononenko)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 10:27:39 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym
In-Reply-To: <199712030201.UAA73156@mail1.doit.wisc.edu> from "Benjamin
 Rifkin" at Dec 2, 97 08:02:10 pm
Message-ID: <WED.3.DEC.1997.102739.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear AATSEELER's travelling to Toronto,
        I wanted to add our panel/workshop to Ben Rifkin's
list.  We will be talking about doing folklore and other field
work in the post-Soviet setting.  While not exactly a pedagogy
panel, it does contain much information useful in the
classroom and useful in structuring your courses.  We will talk
about culture -- information useful in the language classroom
and elsewhere.  We will talk about gathering data -- something
grad students should certainly learn.  All participants have
successfully conducted field work in the last several years.

Natalie Kononenko


From escatton at cnsvax.albany.edu  Wed Dec  3 16:46:10 1997
From: escatton at cnsvax.albany.edu (Ernest Scatton)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 11:46:10 -0500
Subject: job (fwd)
Message-ID: <WED.3.DEC.1997.114610.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

for interested parties.

ES

*****************************************************************************
Ernest Scatton                                                  Slavic Hum254
518-442-4224 (w)                                               UAlbany (SUNY)
518-482-4934 (h)                                                    Albany NY
518-442-4217 (fax)                                                      12222
               http://alpha1.albany.edu/~alin220/slav_dept (WWW)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 11:53:42 -0500
From: Ernest Scatton <scattone at crisny.org>
To: escatton at cnsvax.albany.edu
Subject: job

UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK * * * * *Senior Administrative Position * * * *
* Beginning Fall 1998
                            CHAIR
                             of
              recently reconrigured department
                     of modern languages
Humanities 233
Albany, New York 12222
518/442-4141
Fax:     518/442-3004

QUALIFICATIONS: Solid record of research and teaching
         Area of specialization open but with comparative focus in
 languages/linguistics/literature/cultural studies
         Administrative experience in managing programs with an
 interdisciplinary profile
SALARY:  Competitive--contingent upon budgetary approval

REPLY TO:

With cover letter and complete vita

Professor Charles Rougle
Interim Chair
Humanities 254
University at Albany
Albany, New York 12222



The University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer


From robblee.1 at osu.edu  Wed Dec  3 15:58:57 1997
From: robblee.1 at osu.edu (K E Robblee)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 11:58:57 -0400
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym
In-Reply-To: <199712030201.UAA73156@mail1.doit.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.3.DEC.1997.115857.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

There are intellectual, personal and financial reasons why some members of
AATSEEL may prefer that we meet with MLA, others with ACTFL and still
others with AAASS. As the field changes, our so do the relative needs and
the preferences of our membership. Perhaps it is time for the membership to
be polled systematically in order to determine what would benefit us as a
whole. I'm not suggesting a "majority rules" type of determination, because
I think it's quite possible that those who are in a less secure position
[e.g. grad students] would tend to benefit from one policy while senior
members of the profession would benefit from another. These are the kinds
of things that need to weighed. In the past I have thought that we should
follow MLA because it was to the advantage of our most vulnerable members.
But a colleague has pointed out to me that this year the MLA job listings
included over 130 positions for faculty with training in second language
acquisition or applied linguistics. This suggests to me that those on the
market may have benefited more if AATSEEL had met with ACTFL than with MLA.


I have been an active member of AATSEEL for over 10 years, and have heard
many discussions about where and when we should meet (including the
business meeting in Washington the year that MLA was in New Orleans!).
However, I do not recall any poll on this issue, or any other attempt to
consult with the membership in order to determine what the policy should
be. It might be that the present policy really is the best. I don't know.
But I do know a number of Slavists who would probably more gracefully
accept the inconveniences of attending AATSEEL's meeting in the middle of
the holidays if they knew that there was an informed basis and rationale to
the current policy.

That's my two cents.

With best wishes for the end of your winter quarters and semesters,
Karen Robblee




*************************************************
Karen E. Robblee, Visiting Assistant Professor
Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
(614) 292-4398 [office]
(614) 292-6733 [dept.]
(614) 688-3107 [fax]


From richmond at oxy.edu  Wed Dec  3 17:11:14 1997
From: richmond at oxy.edu (Prof. Walter Comins-Richmond)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 09:11:14 -0800
Subject: MLA on $5 per day
In-Reply-To: <v03102808b0a9af4e7e1f@[130.58.139.209]>
Message-ID: <WED.3.DEC.1997.091114.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

> 10)  Any conference venue in the country is going to discommode a lot of
> people -- let's not be provincial & imply that having the conference in
> Canada a mere four years after the last time is a bad thing.  Especially
> considering passport and visa issues that I won't go into because I can
> imagine what stories it might invite.
>

Is it "provincial" to request fairness? Toronto, San Diego, Chicago,
Wahsington DC, Toronto. Four out of five years the conference chooses a
"venue" that discommodes scholars on the West Coast. Long air travel,
time zone changes, climate changes--I'm not implying that it's a bad
thing to have the conference twice in four years in the same place
(Canada or elsewhere), I'm saying outright.


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Wed Dec  3 18:28:31 1997
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 12:28:31 -0600
Subject: location of conference
Message-ID: <WED.3.DEC.1997.122831.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Prof. Walter Comins-Richmond wrote:

>Is it "provincial" to request fairness? Toronto, San Diego, Chicago,
>Wahsington DC, Toronto. Four out of five years the conference chooses a
>"venue" that discommodes scholars on the West Coast. Long air travel,
>time zone changes, climate changes--I'm not implying that it's a bad
>thing to have the conference twice in four years in the same place
>(Canada or elsewhere), I'm saying outright.

The question of fairness is all in how you count and how you look at the
conference schedule.  Yes, four out of five years the conference is not on
the west coast according to the calculation above.  But in 1998 we'll be in
San Francisco, so that would mean that four out of six years the conference
is not on the west coast.  That would mean that the conference is on the
west coast about 33% of the time from 1993-1998.  Apparently, according to
other messages sent to this list, MLA is not able to meet in Boston or New
York because there are not enough hotels (Boston) or the hotels are more
interested in tourist trade than conventions between 12/27 and 12/30.  This
reduces the number of options in the populous Boston-Washington corridor  to
Washington.  I recall someone saying at some point that approximately 50% of
the AATSEEL membership lives and works in that corridor, but have no way of
knowing if that was or is true.  I haven't heard anything about meeting in
Philadelphia or Baltimore and assume that these cities also don't have
enough hotels to accomodate the MLA.  Perhaps it is the east coast (which
can host meetings only in Washington, DC)  that is, in fact, inconvenienced
more than the midwest (with meetings possible in both Toronto and Chicago)
and more than  the west coast (with meetings possible in both  San Diego and
San Francisco).   It is all a matter of how one looks at the question.

That being said, I recognize that colleagues from the west coast are
certainly more inconvenienced in travelling to Toronto than colleagues from
the midwest and northeast.  Perhaps most inconvenienced are those of our
colleagues who cannot go to Toronto at all due to immigration-related
restrictions on their travel into and out of the US.

The bottom line is that as long as our association is linked with MLA we
have no control over the location of our conferences.  To the best of my
knowledge, the MLA has not yet made public the location of the conference
for 1999.

Ben Rifkin

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Benjamin Rifkin
Associate Professor of Russian
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706
voice:  608/262-1623
fax:  608/265-2814


From AHRJJ at CUNYVM.BITNET  Wed Dec  3 18:34:20 1997
From: AHRJJ at CUNYVM.BITNET (Alex Rudd)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:34:20 EST
Subject: SEELANGS Administrivia - Winter Break
Message-ID: <WED.3.DEC.1997.133420.EST.>

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From richmond at oxy.edu  Wed Dec  3 18:45:43 1997
From: richmond at oxy.edu (Prof. Walter Comins-Richmond)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 10:45:43 -0800
Subject: location of conference
In-Reply-To: <199712031827.MAA31724@mail1.doit.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.3.DEC.1997.104543.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Professor Rifkin's explanation about the hotel situation certainly clears
up a lot of my questions. And yes, I do realize there are more Slavists
back East than out here.
However, his bottom line is the same: as long as we follow MLA, we have
no choice.
I agree that a poll should be taken; it seems a lot of people
have strong opinions on this subject, and it would serve AATSEEL well to
find out if there is a consensus.

*****************************************************************************
Walter Comins-Richmond
Assistant Professor                       "Everything can be filed under
Dept. of Languages and Literatures                     "miscellaneous.""
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA 90041
(213)259-2636
<richmond at oxy.edu>


From agoldenb at indiana.edu  Wed Dec  3 20:18:43 1997
From: agoldenb at indiana.edu (Amy Rachel Goldenberg)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 15:18:43 -0500
Subject: Call for abstracts (fwd)
Message-ID: <WED.3.DEC.1997.151843.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Attention Folklorists!!!!!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 00:02:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Foklore Publications Group <folkpub at indiana.edu>
To: iu_folklore at majordomo.ucs.indiana.edu
Subject: Call for abstracts



CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Trickster Press would like to invite submissions of abstracts by graduate
students and recent graduates in folklore for a new book.  It will be a
collection of essays, each on a theory or theoretical perspective
important to folklorists.  The collection will serve as a handbook of
theories useful for an understanding of the historical and current issues
in the discipline of folklore as well as a positive statement about the
ways in which folklorists use and contribute to a variety of theoretical
approaches.  The audience will be graduate students and undergraduates in
upper level folklore classes and researchers and professors/instructors
seeking overviews or preliminary bibliographies.

We are currently soliciting abstracts for essays on theoretical topics
(see list).  In its final version, each short essay (around 20 pages) will
include the following:

1)      a) A description of the main tenets and an introduction to the
        main proponents (inside and outside of folklore) of the theory.
        b) A brief discussion of existing critiques of the theory.
        c) An annotated bibliography; annotations will be brief.
2)      How can and have folklorists used this theory?  This section
        should include an abstract discussion of the ways the theory has been
        put to use over a wide range of topics, as well as specific
        examples from folklorists' research and publications.
3)      How and what have folklorists contributed to the theory? What is
        it about folklore which adds a new perspective or strengthens the
        theory?

Abstracts should be one page long and should include a brief discussion of
how you will approach the theoretical perspective with reference to each
of the three guidelines above.

We encourage submissions on the following topics.  In addition, we are
open to suggestions; if there is a topic about which you would like to
write that is not included on the list, please contact us.

POSSIBLE TOPICS
Action/practice theory, aesthetics, analytical (Jungian) psychology,
applied folklore, behaviorism and cognitive behaviorism, cognitive
science, contemporary legend theory, ethnography of speaking,
ethnopoetics, feminism, fieldwork and ethics, folk psychology
(ethnopsychology), functionalism, genre theory, hermeneutics, theories of
history (folklore as/in history), humor theory, learning theory,
linguistics, linguistic anthropology, literary theory (deconstructionism,
new criticism, new historicism), Marxism, modernism and postmodernism,
theories of mythology, narrative theory/narratology, nationalism and other
political theories, oral formulaic theory, performance theory,
phenomenology and science, poetics, theories of popular culture,
postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, public sector, rhetoric, romanticism and
localism, semiotics, sociological theories (ethnomethodology),
structuralism (syntagmatic and paradigmatic) and poststructuralism,
technology.

Please submit abstracts by January 15, 1998 (the deadline for completed
drafts will be June 15, 1998).  Submissions should be sent to:

Folklore Publications Group, Inc.
Indiana University
attn: Stephen and Lisa
504 North Fess
Bloomington, Indiana 47408

If you have questions or concerns please contact Stephen Olbrys or Lisa
Gilman at (812) 855-0426; email: folkpub at indiana.edu.

We look forward to hearing from you and receiving your submissions.

Stephen Olbrys
Lisa Gilman
Editors


From jvt8902 at is3.nyu.edu  Thu Dec  4 05:00:51 1997
From: jvt8902 at is3.nyu.edu (julia trubikhina)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 00:00:51 -0500
Subject: looking for a panel at AAASS in Florida
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.000051.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues,

I would be interested in joining in on a panel for the September 1998 AAASS
in Boca Raton with a paper on one of the following topics:
Kubrick's Lolita/Nabokov's Lolita/translation/film: problematics of
authorship; or body and rhetoric; or metaphor/metonymy tension in Lolita as
a structural key to the novel; or Nabokov's literalness and Russian/Western
translation theories; or translation--any aspect of Russian and Western
tradition and translation theories.

If interested, please reply off the list.

Julia Trubikhina
New York University


jvt8902 at is3.nyu.edu


From roborr at aix1.uottawa.ca  Thu Dec  4 06:20:04 1997
From: roborr at aix1.uottawa.ca (Robert Orr)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 01:20:04 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.971202130713.891A-100000@ciao.cc.columbia.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.012004.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Andrew Hicks wrote:

>         Although I tend to think of the MLA as the academic equivalent of
> a severe cold, I'd like to put to rest fears of geographic discriminati>
   Second, the MLA meets at a time when many people want to vacation
> in a warmer locale.  Hotels make more money per vacationer than per
> conventioneer, so those that can house people retail pass up the wholesale
> market.  So many of you in the West and South lose out due to your
> pleasant climate.
>
I suppose it all depends on your perspective.  For those of who've been
tooling around northern latitudes all our lives (and have never been
 further south than Washington (that's well into the tropics on this
side of the Atlantic; on the other side they begin at Manchester, or Minsk
further east). Toronto's quite balmy in winter, thank you.

Robert Orr


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Thu Dec  4 11:12:48 1997
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 06:12:48 -0500
Subject: ISO Russian CD-ROMs
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.061248.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Privet all!  It's ordering time for me, and I can order a few Russian
things as well this year for a change.  Can anyone recommend some good
beginning-level to low-intermediate software for my classes?  I'm
especially looking for something that will help the beginning kids with
the alphabet and such.

And, oh yes, it must be WINDOWS compatible, since Macs are almost extinct
at my school (unfortunately, IMHO).  Thanks in advance!

Devin

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From N.Bermel at sheffield.ac.uk  Thu Dec  4 12:24:55 1997
From: N.Bermel at sheffield.ac.uk (Neil Bermel)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:24:55 +0000
Subject: Russian departments in trouble
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.122455.0000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues,

I regret to report that it's time to put on your whining (or
whingeing) hats again and take up the cause.  Two more Russian
programs here in Britain are under threat, and they'll be grateful
for your letters of support.  Details of the proposed cuts are below
in a message from Professor Rosalind Marsh, the chair of BASEES (the
British Slavists' association); the addresses of the two
universities concerned are:

University of Wales
Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2RX
United Kingdom

University of Northumbria
Carlisle
Cumbria CA3 8TX
United Kingdom

More information about these universities can be found on the Web at:

www.bangor.ac.uk
www.unn.ac.uk

Thanks in advance for your support.

Neil Bermel
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
University of Sheffield

------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
Date:          Tue, 2 Dec 1997 17:03:52 +0000 (GMT)
To:            Russian-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
Subject:       Russian departments in trouble
From:          mlsrjm at bath.ac.uk
Reply-to:      R J Marsh <mlsrjm at bath.ac.uk>

I am sorry to have to tell everyone that Russian departments now under
threat of closure are the Departments at Bangor and Northumbria.

The Vice-Chancellor of Bangor is Sir Roy Evans (copy to Professor Gareth
Jones and/or Marilyn Minto), and the Vice-Chancellor of Northumbria is
Professor L.Barden (copy to Mrs Svetlana le Fleming).

It may be too late to organize an orchestrated campaign, but these
problems demonstrate yet again how individual universities are using the
underfunding of higher education in general to target Russian and East
European languages departments, which are small and vulnerable (though
often of high quality). This completely goes against the spirit of the
1995 HEFCE Report into Russian and East European Studies, which said that
Russian in 1995 was 'at about the right level'.

I hope that anyone who feels strongly will write in support of these
universities, as our own departments could be the next on the list...

I have already written on behalf of BASEES, and will probably also write
to the Higher Education Funding Councils and to the Ministers of Education
(for all the good that may do).


From djbpitt+ at pitt.edu  Thu Dec  4 14:10:43 1997
From: djbpitt+ at pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:10:43 -0500
Subject: Russian departments in trouble
In-Reply-To: <1D610B4B3F@ashopton.shef.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.091043.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

A few comments from a member of a Slavic department that emerged more or
less intact (for the moment) after being faced with the threat of serious
administrative restructuring last year:

1) The AATSEEL Vision 20/20 session this year will be devoted to ways of
dealing with administrative restructuring initiatives. This plenary
session meets from 10:45 to noon on December 29th, and will include
representatives from the University of Washington, the Ohio State
University, the University of Pittsburgh, Cornell University, and the
University of Massachusetts. Please come.

Meanwhile, if your department or program is threatened:

2) Have a strategy. Decide what sort of support you would like and what
form it should take. Do you want to go public at all? High volume of
letters? Low volume from selected prestigious addresses? Addressed to you?
Or addressed to your administrators? Commending your department for its
quality? Or protesting administrative attempts to close it? Do you want to
go to the press? If so, can you present a case that won't sound like
ivory-tower whining to the general public? If so, which press? What you
say to your student paper, your university's non-student paper, your local
paper, and the Chronicle of Higher Education should differ.

3) Internal support from other sources in your college or university may
be more important than outside support. Will your area-studies graduate
programs collapse without certain Slavic department offerings? If so, ask
your social science colleagues to put that in writing. Is your department
active in inter-departmental programs in Comparative Literature, Cultural
Studies, Film Studies, Women's Studies, or anything else? If so, ask your
colleagues to speak about the importance of your department to the broader
operations of your college or university. Will the chairs of your natural
science departments defend the importance of the humanities to a quality
university? One reason Slavic departments are easy targets is that they
look small and isolated, and administrators might think (not entirely
unreasonably, given what they know) that if something has to go,
eliminating a small and isolated department or program does the least
college-wide or university-wide damage. Show them that this isn't true
because your department or program is really much bigger than it looks,
and that its elimination threatens more than just a few faculty and a
couple of degree programs.

4) If you have an ethnic Slavic population in your area, enlist their
help. The younger generation might not flock to your classes, but the
older generation may care very much about preservation of its ethnic
heritage. This is particularly important for state schools, where the
administrators are accountable in certain respects to the local
government, which can't afford not to listen to voters.

5) If you need letters from outside, supply enough information so that
your letter writers can do some good. The two recent appeals from British
universities told us _nothing_ about their programs, their faculty, what
their graduates have gone on to do, the roles of those departments in
their universities, or anything else that would let me write a letter that
I would take seriously, let alone one that might persuade an administrator
that the threatened departments are viewed from outside as worth saving
_for specific reasons_. Administrators have told me that they discredit
outside evaluations by people in the field because we tend to circle the
wagons automatically whenever one of us is threatened. A generic letter
with no specific details about the department or program under threat will
reinforce this (not entirely unfair) administrative assumption. Don't ask
people to write ignorant letters; if you want their help, help them write
effectively.

6) If you reject specific administrative proposals, rebut them explicitly.
Don't say "we're small but of high quality" without having specific
arguments to support your assertions of quality. A dean once told me that
the university is the only place where 100% of the people think they're
above average. You have the facts and they don't; use them.

7) I'd be surprised if there were a department or program that couldn't
genuinely benefit from some restructuring. A lot of administrators push a
reallocation model, where the goal is not so much to cut costs as to take
support away from weak areas and reassign it to build on strong ones.
Their attempts to cut entire Slavic departments and programs may be
motivated by a perception that these entire departments and programs are
weak. Change the granularity by identifying the parts of your department
or program that _are_ weak, that you don't do well, or that you don't
consider very important in comparison to others. Brag about the quality of
what you genuinely do well, instead of arguing that _all_ of your
activities are first-rate (unless you can document that they are). Propose
an internal reallocation; even if you don't get to keep the reallocation,
you'll have provided the administration with a way to save some money
without taking down your entire department or program. Expect to lose
something; your goal is to save what's most important.

8) Decide whether your administration is evil, whether they are
well-intentioned but ignorant of what a healthy Slavic program should look
like, or whether they are right and your department or program really
isn't very good.  Tailor your responses accordingly. Administrators who
are trying to do the right thing but don't know how may be willing to work
toward compromises with departments that are willing to compromise.

9) Defending a department or program takes a trememdous amount of time.
Mobilize everyone, especially faculty and graduate students. If you are
deeply involved, don't expect to prepare more than perfunctorily for your
classes and don't expect to get any research done. At some point the
crisis will pass and life will go back to normal, at least for a while. If
it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

10) The preceding guidelines are general and every case is different.
Don't mechanically apply what seems to have worked at one institution to
another. There are, alas, no guarantees; a lot of cases do end in
compromise, but you could do everything right and still lose it all.

More details at Vision 20/20 in Toronto.

--David (Chair, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of
Pittsburgh)
________________________________________________________________________

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 N.Bermel at sheffield.ac.uk  Thu Dec  4 15:29:54 1997
From: N.Bermel at sheffield.ac.uk (Neil Bermel)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:29:54 +0000
Subject: Russian departments in trouble
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.152954.0000.>

Dear SEELANGers,

Guilty on both counts:  I posted the less-than-informative message
about Bangor and Northumbria; I also forwarded the message about
Exeter earlier in the year.

David Birnbaum's comments are well-taken; all three of the
public pleas for help he mentioned were written and distributed by
outsiders, not by people in the affected department, which probably
explains why they're not as informative as they could be.  I assume
the message was primarily intended to reach people who _already_ have
some familiarity with the people or programs under threat.

A question, though, for David Birnbaum:  would you mind if I
forwarded your message to RUSSIAN-STUDIES, the British Russianists
list?  It might prompt some more complete responses, and help raise
awareness of better ways to get outsiders involved effectively.

Best,

Neil


*******************************************
Neil Bermel
Sheffield University
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Arts Tower, Western Bank
Sheffield S10 2TN United Kingdom
telephone 0114 222 7405 (direct) or 7400 (dept.)
fax 0114 222 7416
(from the US: 011 44 114 plus last 7 digits)
n.bermel at sheffield.ac.uk


From mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu  Thu Dec  4 16:35:39 1997
From: mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu (Emily Tall)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:35:39 -0500
Subject: ISO Russian CD-ROMs
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.971204060950.3649A-100000@unixs1.cis.pitt.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.113539.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I'd be interested in recommendations about software (in reply to Devin
Brown's posting and would appreciate replies to him posted on the list.
Thanks. Emily Tall

On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Devin P Browne wrote:

> Privet all!  It's ordering time for me, and I can order a few Russian
> things as well this year for a change.  Can anyone recommend some good
> beginning-level to low-intermediate software for my classes?  I'm
> especially looking for something that will help the beginning kids with
> the alphabet and such.
>
> And, oh yes, it must be WINDOWS compatible, since Macs are almost extinct
> at my school (unfortunately, IMHO).  Thanks in advance!
>
> Devin
>
> Devin P Browne
> dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu
>


From djbpitt+ at pitt.edu  Thu Dec  4 16:37:37 1997
From: djbpitt+ at pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:37:37 -0500
Subject: Russian departments in trouble
In-Reply-To: <20765F51EE@ashopton.shef.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.113737.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Neil (cc SEELANGs),

> A question, though, for David Birnbaum:  would you mind if I forwarded
> your message to RUSSIAN-STUDIES, the British Russianists list?

Please feel free to redistribute the message to anyone who might be
interested. I will also put a copy up on the AATSEEL endangered
departments page.

--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 eric.laursen at m.cc.utah.edu  Thu Dec  4 17:26:01 1997
From: eric.laursen at m.cc.utah.edu (Eric Laursen)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 10:26:01 -0700
Subject: Tolstoi's Aelita
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.102601.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the film version of Tolstoi's Aelita?

                                                Thanks in advance


                                                        Eric Laursen

eric.laursen at m.cc.utah.edu


From kel1 at columbia.edu  Thu Dec  4 18:06:09 1997
From: kel1 at columbia.edu (Kevin Eric Laney)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:06:09 -0500
Subject: This Evening at the Harriman Institute
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.130609.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

December 4. The final talk of the Harriman Lectures Series.
Katherine Verdery, "Post-Socialist Necrophilia, or the Political Lives of
Dead Bodies:  Re-Signifying the Dust."

Casa Italiana, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 117th Street.
Time:  5:30-7:00pm.

December 4.  Annual Holiday Party!  The Harriman Institute cordially
invites you to join us for our annual holiday celebration at the CASA
ITALIANA, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 117th St from 7:00-9:00pm.  All are
welcome!


From sp27 at cornell.edu  Thu Dec  4 18:49:29 1997
From: sp27 at cornell.edu (Slava Paperno)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:49:29 -0500
Subject: ISO Russian CD-ROMs
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.134929.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

At 11:35 AM 12/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I'd be interested in recommendations about software (in reply to Devin
>Brown's posting and would appreciate replies to him posted on the list.
>Thanks. Emily Tall

Please take a look at the software and videotapes for learners of Russian at:

http://lexiconbridge.com

Being one of the authors and owners of the stuff, I don't feel I should say
anything more, but you will find the syllabi for the courses where these
materials are used at:

http://russian.dmll.cornell.edu/russian.web/

Slava


From napooka at aloha.net  Thu Dec  4 09:17:25 1997
From: napooka at aloha.net (Irene Thompson)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:17:25 +0000
Subject: ISO Russian CD-ROMs
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.971204060950.3649A-100000@unixs1.cis.pitt.e du>
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.091725.0000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

You can take a look at Russian software listed on:
<http://nts.lll.hawaii.edu/flmedia/text/russian.html>
Irene Thompson
At 06:12 AM 12/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Privet all!  It's ordering time for me, and I can order a few Russian
>things as well this year for a change.  Can anyone recommend some good
>beginning-level to low-intermediate software for my classes?  I'm
>especially looking for something that will help the beginning kids with
>the alphabet and such.
>
>And, oh yes, it must be WINDOWS compatible, since Macs are almost extinct
>at my school (unfortunately, IMHO).  Thanks in advance!
>
>Devin
>
>Devin P Browne
>dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu
>
>
**********************************************
 Irene Thompson
P.O. Box 3572
Princeville, HI  96722
tel/fax: (808) 826-9510
e-mail: napooka at aloha.net
**********************************************


From sapief at albany.net  Thu Dec  4 19:42:10 1997
From: sapief at albany.net (Sapief)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:42:10 -0500
Subject: Russian visual design
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.144210.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Greetings. I am looking for any work that explores how Russian
culture adopts Western technology and/or "modernism," particularly
as reflected in Russian visual design or "kitsch".  The reason for
my interest is that I want to analyze the visual layout of Russian
web sites.

Thank you.

Filipp Sapienza
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
sapief at albany.net
http://www.rpi.edu/~sapief


From kmymt at crisp.net  Thu Dec  4 20:04:59 1997
From: kmymt at crisp.net (MIYAMOTO Ken)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:04:59 -0500
Subject: Listening comprehension
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.150459.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello list members,

Several days ago, I posted a question regarding Russian listening
comprehension. Since then, I've received a lot of responses on the list
as well as personally, suggesting various appoarches. Thank you all for
your responses. I really appreciate them.

Ken M.
---------------------
MIYAMOTO Ken, or Ken C. Miyamoto
Princeton, NJ, USA
mailto:kmymt at crisp.net


From cavins at merle.acns.nwu.edu  Thu Dec  4 21:58:43 1997
From: cavins at merle.acns.nwu.edu (Carol J Avins)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:58:43 -0600
Subject: faculty position: correction
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.155843.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Please note: This announcement was posted a few days ago with a deadline of
March 1.  The correct deadline is February 15.


Northwestern University's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures has
been authorized to search for an Associate or Assistant Professor with
proven excellence in research and teaching in the areas of Russian
literature (any period) and a secondary field such as another Slavic
literature, visual arts, music, intellectual history, comparative
literature, philosophy or religion.   We will be looking for broad
interests, imagination, energy, and promise of future growth.  The
successful applicant will add breadth and depth to undergraduate and
graduate instruction, both in the Slavic department and in Comparative
Literary Studies and/or other humanities programs.
>       We encourage applications from women and minority candidates.  Send full
dossier to:  Andrew Wachtel, Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2206.   For more
information e-mail:  a-wachtel at nwu.edu    DUE DATE:  February 15, 1998. AA/EOE.
>


From CCRzoya at aol.com  Thu Dec  4 22:40:35 1997
From: CCRzoya at aol.com (CCRzoya)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 17:40:35 EST
Subject: America from the Russian perspective
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.174035.EST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Also for Americana in Russia: V. Shalamav, in _Kolyma Tales_, I think, has a
story entitled "Lend-Lease", abt American supplies in the camps.  Also,
Evtushenko and Voznesenskij both have several poems abt America, from the
1950s, I think.

Happy hunting!

Cindy Ramsey


From mkaiser at socrates.berkeley.edu  Thu Dec  4 23:54:20 1997
From: mkaiser at socrates.berkeley.edu (Mark Kaiser)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 15:54:20 -0800
Subject: ISO Russian CD-ROMs
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971204113446.463B-100000@hercules.acsu.buffa
 lo.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.155420.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

In January 1998, Prentice Hall, as part of the Golosa, 2nd edition package,
will be coming out with a CD-ROM of listening comprehension, vocabulary,
and grammar exercises. It also has a module for help with the sound system,
alphabet, and cursive writing.

As author of the CD-ROM, I will follow Slava's lead and stop here....

Mark Kaiser
UC Berkeley


From kel1 at columbia.edu  Fri Dec  5 04:47:35 1997
From: kel1 at columbia.edu (Kevin Eric Laney)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 23:47:35 -0500
Subject: Postgraduate studentships
Message-ID: <THU.4.DEC.1997.234735.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Postgraduate studentships
at the
INSTITUTE OF RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
The University of Glasgow
Scotland, UK
-------------------------------------

The Institute of Russian and East European Studies is offering for
world-wide competition up to four studentships for the academic year
1998-99 which will pay the University fees for the one-year course of
full-time study for the postgraduate degree of M.Phil in Russian and East
European Studies. Successful candidates will be required to commence their
study at the Institute in Glasgow in October 1998.

Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree or an equivalent
qualification in a social science subject. The M.Phil consists of three
taught courses and a dissertation, plus a language test. Language tuition
is provided.

Further details of the courses offered and the facilities at the Institute,
as well as application forms, may be obtained from the Institute's website
at http://www..gla.ac.uk/Acad/Russian/  or from the Secretary of the
Graduate School, University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Building, Glasgow G12
8RT. Applicants for admission to the M.Phil who wish to be considered for
the competition should indicate this in the 'Funding' section of the
application form. The deadline for submitting applications is 15 March 1998.

INSTITUTE OF RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
The University of Glasgow
29 Bute Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RS, Scotland, UK
Tel     44 141 330 5585
Fax     44 141 330 5594
E-mail  irees at socsci.gla.ac.uk

------------------------------------------


From jvt8902 at is3.nyu.edu  Fri Dec  5 05:06:26 1997
From: jvt8902 at is3.nyu.edu (julia trubikhina)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 00:06:26 -0500
Subject: Tolstoi's Aelita
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.000626.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I am pretty sure you can order it at Kamkin.
Good luck,

Julia Trubikhina
New York University


From roborr at aix1.uottawa.ca  Fri Dec  5 06:22:50 1997
From: roborr at aix1.uottawa.ca (Robert Orr)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 01:22:50 -0500
Subject: Czech dictionaries
In-Reply-To: <v01540b01b0ad058ace0d@[128.122.237.76]>
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.012250.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Seelanzcovia!

Would anyone be able to recommend any good RECENT
 Czech-English dictionaries (or Czech tolkovnye slovari) published in the
Czech Republic?

Thansk in adavnce, Robert Orr


From saulo at infonet.com.br  Fri Dec  5 08:38:02 1997
From: saulo at infonet.com.br (Saulo Menezes de Oliveira)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 06:38:02 -0200
Subject: ISO Russian CD-ROMs
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.063802.0200.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Ho can I get the CD?
                        Saulo

At 15:54 04/12/97 -0800, you wrote:
>In January 1998, Prentice Hall, as part of the Golosa, 2nd edition package,
>will be coming out with a CD-ROM of listening comprehension, vocabulary,
>and grammar exercises. It also has a module for help with the sound system,
>alphabet, and cursive writing.
>
>As author of the CD-ROM, I will follow Slava's lead and stop here....
>
>Mark Kaiser
>UC Berkeley
>


From mkaiser at socrates.berkeley.edu  Fri Dec  5 18:22:26 1997
From: mkaiser at socrates.berkeley.edu (Mark Kaiser)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:22:26 -0800
Subject: ISO Russian CD-ROMs
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19971205083802.0067bd60@infonet.com.br>
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.102226.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Saulo,
You'd need to order it through Prentice Hall. I'll try and get info for
you, but it might take a few days. I don't think it will beready until late
January in any event.
Mark

At 06:38 AM 12/5/97 -0200, you wrote:
>Ho can I get the CD?
>                        Saulo
>
>At 15:54 04/12/97 -0800, you wrote:
>>In January 1998, Prentice Hall, as part of the Golosa, 2nd edition package,
>>will be coming out with a CD-ROM of listening comprehension, vocabulary,
>>and grammar exercises. It also has a module for help with the sound system,
>>alphabet, and cursive writing.
>>
>>As author of the CD-ROM, I will follow Slava's lead and stop here....
>>
>>Mark Kaiser
>>UC Berkeley
>>
>
>


From tbeasley at ucla.edu  Fri Dec  5 18:46:25 1997
From: tbeasley at ucla.edu (Tim Beasley)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 10:46:25 -0800
Subject: Czech dictionaries
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.104625.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Servus.

>Would anyone be able to recommend any good RECENT
> Czech-English dictionaries (or Czech tolkovnye slovari) published in the
>Czech Republic?

I wouldn't highly recommend it (some of the translations are a bit, well,
quirky) and it's missing grammatical information (while providing some
clues to disambiguate translations and stylistic levels) but Josef Fronek's
dictionary "C^esko-anglicky' slovni'k, pub. by SPN has served.

Poldauf's dictionary was recommended to me when I was in Prague and Brno a
few years back, but it wasn't available anywhere.  Unless it's been
revised, it's not so recent.

Better than Fronek, but monolingual, is Academia's Slovni'k spisovne'
c^es^sky' pro s^kolu a ver^ejnost.  The second edition is out, and it's
good for a lot of things.

Fallback dictionary is the not-so-recent 4 (or 8) volume Slovni'k
spisovne'ho jazyka c^es^ske'ho and a few recent specialized tomes
(technical dictionaries, library science, "slang").

If there are better recent Czech-English dictionaries available, I'd
appreciate hearing about them!

Tim Beasley
grad student, UCLA
tbeasley at ucla.edu


>Would anyone be able to recommend any good RECENT
> Czech-English dictionaries (or Czech tolkovnye slovari) published in the
>Czech Republic?
>


From ewb2 at cornell.edu  Fri Dec  5 17:49:11 1997
From: ewb2 at cornell.edu (Wayles Browne)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 13:49:11 -0400
Subject: Czech dictionaries
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19971205104622.006a6728@pop.ben2.ucla.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.134911.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>Servus.
>
>>Would anyone be able to recommend any good RECENT
>> Czech-English dictionaries (or Czech tolkovnye slovari) published in the
>>Czech Republic?
>
One more recommendation: Janusz Siatkowski, Mieczyslaw Basaj. Slownik
czesko-polski. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, and Praha: Sta'tni'
pedagogicke' nakladatelstvi', 1991.
I reach for it a lot. It's not Czech-English, but it's very good for
grammatical information, pronunciation and phraseology.


Wayles Browne, Assoc. Professor of Linguistics
Morrill Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 1-607-255-0712, home 1-607-273-3009, fax 1-607-255-2044 (write
FOR W.BROWNE on top)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu


From ajn at quartz.geology.utoronto.ca  Fri Dec  5 19:13:47 1997
From: ajn at quartz.geology.utoronto.ca (Prof. A.J. Naldrett)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:13:47 -0500
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971202145411.18623A-100000@sun.cc.westga.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.141347.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

To All Graduate Students and Recent Ph.Ds:

Despite various perceived inconveniences associated with Toronto's
geographical location, here is something to look forward to:
        The Graduate Student Chapter of the Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures of the University of Toronto invites you to a Graduate
Student Reception during the AATSEEL '97 national conference to relax and
share our worries, jokes, thoughts and other things related to being a
graduate student in Slavic studies. Wine, Cheese and other Snacks will be
provided.
                WHEN:     December  28th,  9-11PM
                WHERE:   King Room, 2nd Floor, Marriott Hotel
The reception may be continued in the nearest pub.
We really look forward to meeting all of you.

        From the ground crew:
                                Lis Elliott,
                                Paul Haddock
                                Galya Rylkova
                                Megan Swift


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Fri Dec  5 18:46:30 1997
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:46:30 -0600
Subject: technology for teaching Slavic languages
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.124630.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

As another CD-ROM author, I can also say that my CD-ROM,

START:  An introduction to the sound and writing systems of Russian,

is designed to teach the Russian alphabet, sound and writing systems,
principles of phonetics (hard/soft pronunciation of consonants,
voicing/devoicing of consonants, reduction of unstressed vowels), and the
writing of the letters of the cursive alphabet.  The program uses digitized
sound to teach pronunciation and animation to demonstrate the writing of
the letters.  The program can be used with any first-year textbook at the
high school or college level and is set up in 11 separate lessons, each of
which can be completed in one hour or less on the computer.

The START program is available on CD-ROM only on the Macintosh platform and
will be available in time for fall 1998 classes through Focus Publishing
(800/848-7236, www.pullins.com, pullins at seacoast.com).

I am happy to answer questions about the START program by e-mail off the list.

In the meantime, I am happy to say that the START program, together with
Mark Kaiser's Ekran (a companion to Golosa), Slava Paperno's 12 Chairs and
the "Beginning Russian through Film" series, as well as Bill Comer's
"Govorit Rossiia" will all be demonstrated at a forum on instructional
materials at the 1997 AATSEEL Conference in Toronto on 29 December.  (Check
the conference program for exact time and location.)  All the authors plan
to be present at the forum personally, to demonstrate their CD-ROMs and to
answer questions about the materials they have developed.

Furthermore, there will be a workshop on using the internet to teach Slavic
languages, literatures and cultures, led by George Mitrevski of Auburn U.,
at the AATSEEL Conference, from 7-9 pm on 29 December.

With best regards,

Ben Rifkin



*****************************
Benjamin Rifkin
Associate Professor of Russian,
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction & Teacher Training
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI  53706

e-mail:  brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu
telephone:  608/262-1623, 608/262-3498
fax:  608/265-2814


From tbeasley at ucla.edu  Fri Dec  5 19:30:25 1997
From: tbeasley at ucla.edu (Tim Beasley)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:30:25 -0800
Subject: Czech dictionaries
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.113025.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>One more recommendation: Janusz Siatkowski, Mieczyslaw Basaj. Slownik
>czesko-polski. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, and Praha: Sta'tni'
>pedagogicke' nakladatelstvi', 1991.
>I reach for it a lot. It's not Czech-English, but it's very good for
>grammatical information, pronunciation and phraseology.
>

I left off my most-used Czech-other dictionary because it's Czech-Russian:
C^es^ko-russkij slovar', 1976, ed. by L.V. Kopeckij, J. Filipec, nad O.
Les^ki.  2 vols.   Again, not the most up to date, but....

Tim Beasley


From wakagi at gemini.bekkoame.or.jp  Fri Dec  5 19:49:31 1997
From: wakagi at gemini.bekkoame.or.jp (Wakagi Akatsuka)
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 04:49:31 +0900
Subject: Czech dictionaries
Message-ID: <SAT.6.DEC.1997.044931.0900.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I know two Czech-English dictionaries:

Cesko-anglicky slovnik [Czech English Dictionary]. Ivan Poldauf. 2 vydani.
Praha: Statni pedagogicke nakladatelstvi, 1986.

Anglicko-cessky cesko-anglicky slovnik. Ivan Poldauf a kol. Praha: Statni
pedagogicke nakladatelstvi, 1994.


**********

        Without other specialized ones (of literature, history, for
example), I use these dictionaries (and books) below. (The list may be
helpful to someone who looks for Czech dictionaries...) If you notice
anything missing for Czech studies, please recommend to me.

Slovnik spisovne cestiny pro skolu a verejnost. Josef Filipec a kol. 2
vydani Praha, Academia, 1994.

Slovnik spisovneho jazyka ceskeho I-VIII. Praha: Academia, 1989.

Akademicky slovnni cizich slov I-II. Vera Petrackova a Jiri Kraus za
kolektiv. Praha: Academia, 1995.

Slovnik cizich slov. Lumir Klimes Praha: Statni pedagogicke nakladatelstvi 1995.

Co v slovnicich nedajdete (Novinky v soucasne slovni zasobe). Zdenka
sochova a Bela Postolkova. Praha: Portal, 1994.

Slovnik cesky synonym. Karel Pala a Jan Vsiansky. Praha: Lidove noviny, 1994.

Velky anglicko-cesky slovnik I-IV. Karel Hais a Bretislav Hodek. 2 vydani
Praha: Academia, 1991.

Cesko-francouzsky slovnik [Dictionnaire tcheque-francais] A-Q, R-Z Vaclav
Vlasak a Stanislav Lyer. Praha: Statni pedagogicke nakladatelstvi, 1987,
1988.

Cesko-nemecky slovnik I, II. Huga Siebenscheina. 4 vydani Praha: Statni
pedagogicke nakladatelstvi, 1992.

Japonsko-cesky slovnik. Ivan Krousky a Frantisek Silar. Praha: Paseka, 1993.

**********          **********          **********

Slovnik ceske frazeologie a idiomatiky: Vyrazy slovesne A-P, R-Z Frantisek
Cermak a kol. Praha: Academia, 1994.

Slovnik ceske frazeologie a idiomatiky: Vyrazy neslovesne. Frantisek Cermak
a kol. Praha: Academia, 1988.

Slovnik ceske frazeologie a idiomatiky: Prirovnani. Frantisek Cermak a kol.
Praha: Academia, 1983.

Smirbuch jazyka ceskeho (Slovnik nekonvencni cestiny). Patrik Ourednik.
Praha: Ivo Zelezny, 1992 [Pariz 1988].

Nekolik slangovych slovniku. Jaroslav Suk. Praha: Inverze, 1993.

A Description of Spoken Prague Czech. Charles E. Townsend. Columbus, Ohio:
Slavica, 1990.

Slovnik zkratek. Praha: Encyklopedicky dum, 1994.

Kalendar, osobni jmena a krestanske svaty. Milan Salajka. Praha: Victoria, 1994.

Ilustrovana encyklopedie I-III. Praha: Encyklopedicky dum, 1995.

Strucny etymologicky slovnik jazyka ceskeho. Josef Holub a Stanislav Lyer.
2 vydani Praha: Statni pedagogicke nakladatelstvi, 1992.

***********

Thank you in advance.

Wakagi Akatsuka


From napooka at aloha.net  Fri Dec  5 12:10:57 1997
From: napooka at aloha.net (Irene Thompson)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:10:57 +0000
Subject: technology for teaching Slavic languages
In-Reply-To: <v03007803b0ada5eb8db5@[144.92.165.248]>
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.121057.0000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Ben:
Take a look at
<http://nts.lll.hawaii.edu/flmedia/languages/russian.html>
to see if I entered the information about START correctly.
Irene
At 12:46 PM 12/5/97 -0600, you wrote:
>As another CD-ROM author, I can also say that my CD-ROM,
>
>START:  An introduction to the sound and writing systems of Russian,
>
>is designed to teach the Russian alphabet, sound and writing systems,
>principles of phonetics (hard/soft pronunciation of consonants,
>voicing/devoicing of consonants, reduction of unstressed vowels), and the
>writing of the letters of the cursive alphabet.  The program uses digitized
>sound to teach pronunciation and animation to demonstrate the writing of
>the letters.  The program can be used with any first-year textbook at the
>high school or college level and is set up in 11 separate lessons, each of
>which can be completed in one hour or less on the computer.
>
>The START program is available on CD-ROM only on the Macintosh platform and
>will be available in time for fall 1998 classes through Focus Publishing
>(800/848-7236, www.pullins.com, pullins at seacoast.com).
>
>I am happy to answer questions about the START program by e-mail off the
list.
>
>In the meantime, I am happy to say that the START program, together with
>Mark Kaiser's Ekran (a companion to Golosa), Slava Paperno's 12 Chairs and
>the "Beginning Russian through Film" series, as well as Bill Comer's
>"Govorit Rossiia" will all be demonstrated at a forum on instructional
>materials at the 1997 AATSEEL Conference in Toronto on 29 December.  (Check
>the conference program for exact time and location.)  All the authors plan
>to be present at the forum personally, to demonstrate their CD-ROMs and to
>answer questions about the materials they have developed.
>
>Furthermore, there will be a workshop on using the internet to teach Slavic
>languages, literatures and cultures, led by George Mitrevski of Auburn U.,
>at the AATSEEL Conference, from 7-9 pm on 29 December.
>
>With best regards,
>
>Ben Rifkin
>
>
>
>*****************************
>Benjamin Rifkin
>Associate Professor of Russian,
>Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction & Teacher Training
>Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
>University of Wisconsin-Madison
>1432 Van Hise Hall
>1220 Linden Drive
>Madison, WI  53706
>
>e-mail:  brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu
>telephone:  608/262-1623, 608/262-3498
>fax:  608/265-2814
>
>
**********************************************
 Irene Thompson
P.O. Box 3572
Princeville, HI  96722
tel/fax: (808) 826-9510
e-mail: napooka at aloha.net
**********************************************


From Converse at sesame.demon.co.uk  Sat Dec  6 00:48:54 1997
From: Converse at sesame.demon.co.uk (John Clews)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 19:48:54 EST
Subject: Transliteration standards
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.194854.EST.>

Transliteration standards

I am the chair of the International Organization for Standardization
subcommittee responsible for transliteration (ISO/TC46/SC2:
Conversion of Written Languages). This met from 12-14 May 1997 at the
British Standards Institution in Chiswick, London, to review
international standards in this area - both already published and
under development.

It also has an email list (see below): at present Cyrillic and
Glaglolitc scripts have been under discussion.

I am interested in any participation that you or any of your
colleagues may be able to undertake, either in meetings or
electronically, given your own necessary involvment in the
multilingual use of computers.


Despite computing standards like ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode, there
will always be a need for transliteration as long as people do not
have the same level of competence in all scripts besides the script
used in their mother-tongue, and may have a need to deal with these
languages, or when they have to deal with mechanical or computerised
equipment which does not provide all the scripts of characters that
they need.

The secretary (Evangelos Melagrakis from Greece) and I intend to make
transliteration and ISO/TC46/SC2 far more visible and far more
relevant to end users than it has been in the past. To enable this,
an electronic mailing list for ISO/TC46/SC2 (tc46sc2 at elot.gr) and an
associated Web site (located at www.elot.gr/tc46sc2) has now been set
up by ELOT (the Greek national standards body). We hope this list
will attract researchers and scientists who can add useful
information which might assist in developing standards on the
Conversion of Written Languages.


Scope of transliteration work in ISO/TC46/SC2's working groups.

[WG1:] Transliteration of Cyrillic (work now combined with that of WG5)
[WG2:] Transliteration of Arabic (work now combined with that of WG11)
 WG3:  Transliteration of Hebrew
 WG4:  Transliteration of Korean
 WG5:  Transliteration of Greek, Armenian, Georgian and Cyrillic
 WG6:  Transliteration of Chinese
 WG7:  Transliteration of Japanese
 WG8:  Transliteration and computers
 WG9:  Transliteration of Thai
 WG10: Transliteration of Mongolian
 WG11: Transliteration of Perso-Arabic script
 WG12: Transliteration of Indic scripts


SCRIPTS USED IN OFFICIAL LANGUAGES WORLDWIDE, AND SOME COMMON ORIGINS

NB: if necessary, to avoid distortion, resize your viewer/printer if
the word "origins" in the above line is not at the end of a line, and
view or print with a fixed pitch font (Courier at 12 point or smaller
is suggested).

   Latin   Cyrillic                Devanagari - - - Tibetan
      \     /                   /  Gujarati
       \   / - Armenian        /   Bengali           _ Mongolian
        \ /                   /    Gurumukhi        /
       Greek - Georgian      /     Oriya        SOGDIAN    Chinese
         |                  /                   SCRIPT    /
         |                 /       Telugu                /
     PHOENICIAN         BRAHMI - - Kannada       SINITIC - Japanese
    /  SCRIPT  \        SCRIPT     Malayalam      SCRIPT \
   /     |      \          \       Tamil                  \
Hebrew   |      Arabic      \                              Korean
         |        \          \ - - Sinhala
         |                    \
         |          \          \ _ Burmese
         |                      \  Khmer
         |            \          \
      Ethiopic     Divehi         \ _ Thai
     (Ethiopia,   (Maldives)          Lao
      Eritrea)

  PHOENICIAN, BRAHMI, SOGDIAN and SINITIC scripts are no longer in
  use as such, but all other scripts listed above (used in 99% of the
  world's languages) can trace their ancestry back to these. The East
  Asian scripts listed above have a slightly more complex link:
  Chinese characters (hanzi in Chinese) still use similar shapes to
  the Sinitic characters used around 1200 BC.

  The Japanese and Korean scripts use Chinese characters (kanji in
  Japanese) together with their own phonetic script (kana in
  Japanese). Korean now often uses only the phonetic script (hangul)
  without using Chinese characters (hanja).

  Scripts not used at state level, and other historical scripts, are
  not shown above, except for the four scripts listed in capitals
  above, from which most other scripts are derived.


The tc46sc2 at elot.gr list on transliteration

There are quite a few with an interest in transliteration in library
catalogues on the list, but there are other potential users of
transliteration too.

One major advantage of email is the ability to involve far more
people in the development of a common purpose than were involved
before, to get user feedback, and expert opinion from various
sources. There are now over 270 subscribers to tc46sc2 at elot.gr, from
43 countries and territories, providing a global interest group in
this area, covering all the scripts shown above.


Subscribing to the mailing list for ISO/TC46/SC2

In order to join the list you should be actively involved in using
transliteration systems, or in developing transliteration systems,
and should be prepared to contribute to the list from time to time.

If you wish to join the list, send an email to

        majordomo at elot.gr

with this message in the body of the text:

        subscribe tc46sc2 your at email.address

(but with your real email address replacing the string
your at email.address).

To find out further commands you can use, send the command "help" as
the text of an email either to tc46sc2-request at elot.gr or to:
majordomo at elot.gr To unsubscribe, send the command "unsubscribe"
instead, omitting the "quotes" marks in both cases. This will tell
you how to obtain copies of past messages etc., and other useful
features.

Once you are subscribed, you can send messages to tc46sc2 at elot.gr and
receive messages from other members of the list. Please reply where
possible to the list as a whole, so that all can benefit: using the
Group Reply function (pressing G on some email software) is the
simplest way to achieve this.

Other members will also be interested to see who else is joining the
list, so it is useful to send a brief introduction (say, one or two
short paragraphs) to tc46sc2 at elot.gr at the outset, saying what
languages, scripts and other things you are involved in. That is the
most likely way to stimulate others to write on the subjects you are
interested in!

I look forward to seeing new participants on this list. Please feel
free to forward this to anyone else who may be interested in
transliteration standardisation issues, and to send any queries about
the list to me.

                             Yours sincerely


                     John Clews and Evangelos Melagrakis

(Chair & Secretary of ISO/TC46/SC2: Conversion of Written Languages)

--
J. Clews, SESAME, 8 Avenue Road, Harrogate, HG2 7PG, England
Email: Converse at sesame.demon.co.uk;   tel: +44 (0) 1423 888 432

E. Melagrakis, ELOT, 313 Acharnon Str., GR-111 45 Athens, Greece
Email: eem at elot.gr                           tel: +30 1 201 9890


From hart.12 at osu.edu  Sat Dec  6 01:26:14 1997
From: hart.12 at osu.edu (Carol Hart)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 20:26:14 EST
Subject: Call for Papers for AAASS 1998
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.202614.EST.>

Dear Colleagues:

                               CALL FOR PAPERS

        Seeking participants for a multidisciplinary panel
        "M.Bakhtin: Source for Scholarship Across Disciplines" for
        the AAASS 30TH National Convention in Boca Raton, Florida
        24-27 September 1998.

        Submissions from literary scholars. linguists. philosophers, or
        any other discipline are welcome.

        Deadline for submission of panel proposals is 9 December 1997. If you
        are interested in participating as a presenter or a discussant, please
        contact Carol Hart at hart.12 at osu.edu by 8 December 1997.

        Carol Hart
        Department of Slavic and East European Lang. & Lit
        232 Cunz Hall
        1841 Millikin Road
        Columbus, Ohio 43210
        hart.12 at osu.edu
        Tel.  614-292-6733
        Fax   614-688-3107


From kel1 at columbia.edu  Sat Dec  6 02:22:07 1997
From: kel1 at columbia.edu (Kevin Eric Laney)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 21:22:07 -0500
Subject: Arnold A. Saltzman Center for the Study of Constitutional
 Democracies at Columbia University (fwd)
Message-ID: <FRI.5.DEC.1997.212207.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>
> The Arnold A. Saltzman Center for the Study of Constitutional
> Democracies at Columbia University invites your participation in
> several programs during the 1998 Spring Term.  The Center, funded by
> a generous gift from Ambassador Saltzman, supports scholarship on
> political, economic, and social problems of the emerging democracies.
> Its primary task will be to bring together researchers from a broad range
> of disciplinary and area study specialties to study key issues of
> constitutionalism, challenges of economic restructuring, and dilemmas
> of distributive and retributive justice.  This new venture in the
> comparative study of emerging democracies in East Asia, Africa, Latin
> America, and the postsocialist settings of Eastern Europe and the former
> Soviet Union will be directed by David Stark, who joined the Columbia
> faculty this year in the Department of Sociology and the School of
> International and Public Affairs.
>
> The innaugural lecture for the Saltzman Center will be presented by
> Professor Guillermo O'Donnell on Thursday, February 5, 1998 at 4 pm,
> International Affairs Building, Room 1501.
>
> The Center will sponsor two ongoing seminar series during the Spring
> Term as well as occasional lectures.  If you would like to receive
> announcements about these and other events at the Center, please follow
> the instructions at the bottom of this message to make sure that you are
> on the list server for our internet mailings.
>
> Seminar series:
>
> I. The Saltzman Center will organize a seminar series on "The New
> Democracies and the Non Democracies."   What implications for the
> study of transitions to democracy are posed by those societies that
> passed through the period of the great wave of democratization with
> authoritarian institutions still in place?   What experiences in the
> emerging democracies are relevant for those who study political and
> economic reform (or resistance to such) in China, Cuba, North Korea,
> and North Africa?   Our task will be to avoid a simple "lessons of the
> new democracies for the non democracies."  Instead, the continuation of
> (or return to) authoritarian rule in parts of East Asia, South Asia,
> Africa, and the Balkans suggests that our concepts for studying
> democratization might not be consolidated.
>
> Invited speakers include:
>
> Michael McFaul, Stanford University  (Russia)
> Lisa Anderson, Dean of SIPA (Algeria)
> Laszlo Bruszt, Central European University (Hungary and the Czech Republic)
> Susan Eckstein, Boston University (Cuba), co-sponsored by the Institute of
> Latin American and Iberian Studies
>
> II.  The Saltzman Center will also organize a seminar series on
> "Business Groups and Governance."   Recent studies in organizational
> analysis and legal theory are questioning the old certainties that "the
> firm" is the key unit of economic action.  In place of the isolated,
> bounded firm, this scholarship points to networks of firms -- ranging
> from dense informal ties among small and medium enterprises in the
> dynamic industrial districts, to more formalized franchising
> arrangements, to the cohesive structures of the Japanese keiretsu, South
> Korean chaebol, and Latin American groupos economicos (as well as
> less institutionalized inter-organizational networks in Eastern Europe
> and Financial-Industrial Groups in Russia).  These economic entities
> pose challenges for how we think about governance in modern
> capitalisms especially where emerging democracies interact with
> corporate networks in the process of economic restructuring.
>
> Invited speakers include:
>
> Barry Ickes, Pennsylvania State University (Russian Financial-Industrial
>      Groups)
> Eun Mee Kim, University of Southern California (Korean chaebol)
> John Zysman, University of California-Berkeley (Production networks in
>      East Asia and Eastern Europe)

David Stark Director > 3. We have established a dedicated email list for
the Saltzman Center (saltzman-center at columbia.edu) and encourage you to
subscribe by fiollowing the directions below.

To subscribe to the othereurope email list send a message to:
        Majordomo at columbia.edu

In the body of the message, not the Subject line, type
        subscribe saltzman-center

You will receive a message from majordomo that you must reply to in order
to be added to the list.

Any problems, just let me know.

Finally, I apologize if you receive more than one copy of this message.
We are using multiple lists to publicize the Center's activities.

Kevin Hallinan
ProgramCoordinator


>


From sipkadan at hum.amu.edu.pl  Sat Dec  6 14:48:07 1997
From: sipkadan at hum.amu.edu.pl (Danko Sipka)
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 15:48:07 +0100
Subject: Slavic Languages and the Internet
Message-ID: <SAT.6.DEC.1997.154807.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I have been working on a project intended to enhance the
utilization of the Internet resources in learning/teaching
of Slavic languages. The idea is to create a sort of
decision based search engine and connect it to the local
tools.

The resources I am interested in are normally classified
according to their content or form. However, my feeling is
that it might be useful to classify it according to the
needs of their users.

Let us say that I am a student of Russian and that I want
to check the distribution of the -y and -a endings in
Nominative Plural of masculine nouns in contemporary
newspaper texts. What I need is to collect a sample of
available newspaper texts, create a reversed list of the
forms, extract from it the portions ending in -a and -y,
and then either clear it from the non-nominal forms
manually or use a program for this purpose if I have it.

The way it works now requires all this has to be done
manually, one by one, and it often takes enormous amount
of time to find what you need. Using the search engines
would also not help in this case.

Yes, it is rather difficult to predict one's needs,
but the idea is that all this can be automatized, at
least to some extent. People working in the same
area normally have similar needs.

For example, the following decision structure might
be helpful:

Level 1

I am interested in the following language(s)

                  a. Russian,
                  b....

Level 2

I need the answer: a. now,
                   b. in one week,
                   c. in one month

Level 3

My question concerns: a. language,
                      b. literature,
                      c. other

Level 4

My task is ...

At the last level all Web pages, ftp archives, newsgroups,
etc. which might contain information relevant to the query
are consulted. Some of the levels can be dealt with
simultaniously using check-boxes.

I have the following questions:

1. Are there any projects around trying to do the same thing?
2. Do you know about any papers dealing with the use of the Internet
resources in learning/teaching Slavic languages?
3. Do you have any ideas about the best way to model
the needs in the decision trees?

Please answer off-list to: sipkadan at hum.amu.edu.pl


Danko Sipka
Slavic Department
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
sipkadan at hum.amu.edu.pl
http://www.amu.edu.pl/~sipkadan/ja.htm


From ketterin at saber.udayton.edu  Sat Dec  6 13:54:21 1997
From: ketterin at saber.udayton.edu (Karen Kettering)
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 09:54:21 -0400
Subject: Call for Papers: SHERA
Message-ID: <SAT.6.DEC.1997.095421.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

[apologies for cross-posting]

SHERA (Society of Historians of East European and Russian Art and
Architecture) Call for papers:


SHERA is organizing a series of symposia on the art and architecture of
Russia and East-Central Europe.  The first symposium will have as its theme
"Russian Modernism: Methods and Meaning in the Post-Soviet era." The
organizational committee includes Wendy Salmond, Anne Odom, Alison Hilton,
and is chaired by Blair Ruble (Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center,
Washington D. C.) and Jane Sharp (Department of Art History and
Archaeology, University of Maryland College Park.  The symposium will be
held for two days in April 1999 at the University of Maryland, College Park
campus and the Woodrow Wilson Center.  Admission will be free.

 We are asking graduate students, as well as faculty/scholars/curators
interested in presenting papers to send abstracts to Jane Sharp or Blair
Ruble at the addresses given below.  The deadline for submission is June
1998. Keynote speakers will be invited.

Modernism is interpreted broadly, to include the widest possible range of
issues and media in 19th and 20th-century visual arts and architecture.

Sessions will be organized according to approach that will address as
follows :
* the legacy of Formalist and Marxist historiography, its impact on studies
of Russian modernism in Russia, East-Central Europe and the West.
* the extent to which the avant-garde defined what is understood as
(Russian) modernism; how a historiographical focus on the avant-garde
continues to shape the study of modernism in general (and for an
international community).
* how a renewed interest in social history that focuses on institutions and
audiences has affected interpretations of Russian modernist art.
* how periodization has determined meaning/value for Russian modernist art,
how redefinitions of period styles altered modernist art historiography
(and why).
* how constructions of gender (or lack of attention to this) have affected
interpretations of  modernity/modern art in Russia.
* how constructions of national identity have shaped Russian modernist art
and/or critical discourse.
* what is the significance of media bias/specialization within the study of
Russian modernism.
* how do differences in method and training, gaps in communication among
international scholars of Russian modernism affect the field in general.

Each paper must explicitly engage the problem of methodology in its
historical treatment of the subject.  The committee will also be looking
for papers that deal with the issue of the collapse of the Soviet Union and
its impact on interpretive approaches in academia as well as in museums (in
the presentation and public interpretation of objects).

The committee encourages foreign scholars to apply, as we intend to apply
for travel funding for speakers.

Jane A. Sharp
Institute for Advanced Study
Olden Lane
Princeton, NJ  08540
jsharp at ias.edu

Blair Ruble
Director
The Kennan Institute
Woodrow Wilson Center
370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW,  Suite 704
Washington, D.C.  20024-2518
wwcem124 at sivm.si.edu


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Sat Dec  6 16:25:11 1997
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 11:25:11 -0500
Subject: 2nd lang acquisition position (fwd)
Message-ID: <SAT.6.DEC.1997.112511.0500.DPBROWNE@PITT.EDU>

>>From another group....please respond directly to the contact person listed
below.....

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FORWARDED MESSAGE<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Date:    Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:45:42 -0500
From:    Leonor O'Relly <orelly at quijote.lang.usf.edu>
Subject: Position: Professor of Second Language Acquisition and/or Applied
         Linguistics

The University of South Florida invites applications for a tenure-track
assistant professor with a specialization in Second Language Acquisition
and/or Applied Linguistics.  Ph.D. in hand required in field related to
second language learning and teaching, evidence of scholarly promise and
excellence in teaching, and experience with technology-mediated
instruction. Special consideration given to candidates who are familiar
with university-based intensive English programs, have experience
preparing teachers, and who have knowledge of a second language.

Responsibilities:  Teach graduate courses primarily in research design and
language testing (also Applied Linguistics, Curriculum, SLA, and
Pedagogical Grammar) in an Applied Linguistics MA program, and in an
interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Second Language Acquisition and
Instructional Technology; engage in research, publication, and
professional affairs of organizations appropriate to the discipline;
direct student research; seek external funding for research and program
development; engage in collaborative relations with College of Education
faculty; participate in MA/Ph.D. program development and management; and
supervise interns.

Anticipated hire date begins August 1998. Send letter of application,
vita, transcripts, three letters of recommendations, and portfolio with
contents reflecting research and teaching activity (video of teaching
welcomed) by JANUARY 16, 1998 To:

        Professor Jeffra Flaitz, Chair
        Linguistics Search Committee
        Division of Languages and Linguistics
        CPR 107
        University of South Florida
        4202 E. Fowler Ave.
        Tampa, Florida 33620

USF is an EO/AA/EA employer. For disability accommodations, please call
1(813) 974-3433.


From scaife at infopro.spb.su  Sat Dec  6 21:08:33 1997
From: scaife at infopro.spb.su (John Scaife & Anne Lounsbery)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 00:08:33 +0300
Subject: Looking for Tatjana Cizevska
Message-ID: <SUN.7.DEC.1997.000833.0300.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello,

I would very much appreciate help in locating Tatjana Cizevska, who received
her PhD from Harvard in 1955 (dss. on Slovo o polku Igoreve) and taught at
the U. of Illinois in the early 1960s.  Ms. Cizevska was a friend and
correspondent of a Russian friend of mine, who is trying to  make contact
with her after many years.  Below I've attached publication information for
one of T. C.'s books, in case this will help.

Thank you very much.

--Anne Lounsbery

       AUTHOR: Cizevska, Tatjana.
         TITLE: Glossary of the Igor' tale.
     PUB. INFO: The Hague, Mouton, 1966.
   DESCRIPTION: 405 p. 25 cm.
        SERIES: Slavistic printings and reprintings, 53

      SUBJECTS: *S1 Slovo o polku Igoreve--Language--Glossaries, etc.
                *S2 Slovo o polku Igoreve--Bibliography.


From wwd at u.washington.edu  Sat Dec  6 22:23:53 1997
From: wwd at u.washington.edu (W. Derbyshire)
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 14:23:53 -0800
Subject: Ne AATSEELom edinym: SLAVIC at MLA!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971201164142.15126C-100000@joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu>
Message-ID: <SAT.6.DEC.1997.142353.0800.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Emily Tall wrote:
> I see Wayles Brown feels the same way as I do. Unless I pay $100, I
> can't go to the MLA book exhibit. I believe AATSEEL has tried to get us
> in without paying that enormous sum, but without success. Maybe we should
> try again. Emily  Tall
        Yes, Emily, you are correct. When I was President of AATSEEL in
the mid-80's I took upon myself to do battle with MLA over the issue of
trying to get them to recognize AATSEEL name tags for admittance to the
book exhibit (and Slavic sessions) during the MLA meetings. I had no luck
whatsoever. I imagine presidents since my time (and probably before my
time as well) have also tried with no success. I note that my approach to
MLA was met with no small degree of arrogance on their part.

        The issue of meeting together with MLA was also discussed
extensively during my term of office. No matter which group AATSEEL
decides to meet with, there will be problems and conflicts. Personally I
always hated the time between Xmas and New Year, and now that I am
retired, I rarely put in an appearance. Like Ernie Scatton I too enjoy
being with family at that time.  After my time as President it became a
formalized policy that AATSEEL should always meet together with MLA, the
main reason being to provide those seeking jobs better interviewing
opportunities. It becomes too expensive to attend and to be interviewed at
two different meetings, and if AATSEEL were to meet at the same time but
in a different location, those looking for jobs would have to decide which
would present the better hope for a greater number of interviews.

        A spring meeting would be too late for people seeking jobs, but
maybe it is time for AATSEEL to re-visit this question. AATSEEL might even
have to, god forbid, consider meeting with our rival organization (which
it really isn't!) AAASS. I think that their meeting time, usually the week
before Thanksgiving, has its serious drawbacks as well.

        In any event, this debate will go on as long as MLA and AATSEEL
exist.
                                        Bill Derbyshire


From roborr at aix1.uottawa.ca  Sun Dec  7 08:40:53 1997
From: roborr at aix1.uottawa.ca (Robert Orr)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 03:40:53 -0500
Subject: Czech dictionaries
In-Reply-To: <199712051953.EAA14526@soda3.bekkoame.or.jp>
Message-ID: <SUN.7.DEC.1997.034053.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Thanks very much to all Seelanzcowie for the overwhelming response, both
on and off list, regarding the Czech dictionaries.

Robert Orr


From LHFarmer at aol.com  Sun Dec  7 17:57:32 1997
From: LHFarmer at aol.com (LHFarmer)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:57:32 EST
Subject: Czech documentary
Message-ID: <SUN.7.DEC.1997.125732.EST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Someone posted this query on the Czech newsgroup:

Subject: Seeking Czech Documentary Title
From: "Gary D. & Donna L. Howland" <howland2 at snowcrest.net>
Date: Sun, Dec 7, 1997 9:30
Message-id: <348A6CC4.1809 at snowcrest.net>

Hello
Can anyone here help me with the title or any other information about a
Czech documentary film regarding glassmaking, sometime prior to 1962?
Thanks
Gary
howland2 at snowcrest.net


From mnafpakt at umich.edu  Sun Dec  7 18:34:02 1997
From: mnafpakt at umich.edu (Margarita Nafpaktitis)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 13:34:02 -0500
Subject: Russians on America
Message-ID: <SUN.7.DEC.1997.133402.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Many thanks to the Seelangers who generously shared their
suggestions on course materials for my embryonic course on "America
Through Russian Eyes."  Once the syllabus is complete, I'll submit it for
inclusion on the AATSEEL website for those of you who are interested.

Margarita Nafpaktitis
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
mnafpakt at umich.edu
213-2127


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Sun Dec  7 20:40:29 1997
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 15:40:29 -0500
Subject: Pre-viewing activities for BURNT BY THE SUN???
Message-ID: <SUN.7.DEC.1997.154029.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hi all!  I will be watching "Burnt by the Sun" in my Russian I (high
school) class soon.  Can anyone suggest a pre-viewing reading or activity
that would help them with background knowledge?

Devin

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From gfowler at indiana.edu  Sun Dec  7 21:56:14 1997
From: gfowler at indiana.edu (George Fowler)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:56:14 -0500
Subject: Looking for roommate at AATSEEL Dec. 12
Message-ID: <SUN.7.DEC.1997.165614.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Greetings! One of our graduate students, Nikita Nankov, who is not a
subscriber to the list, would like to find someone with whom he could share
a room at AATSEEL on the night of Dec. 27 only. He got shut out from making
a reservation a few days ago. Hewrites: "preferably a nonsmoker and
nonsnorter (doesn't snort)." (Probably he means non-snorer!) If anyone with
a reservation would like to cut costs the first night, PLEASE WRITE
DIRECTLY TO NIKITA at:

nnankov at indiana.edu

Thanks!

George Fowler

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Dept. of Slavic Languages          [dept. tel.] 1-812-855-9906/-2608/-2624
Ballantine 502                                  [dept. fax] 1-812-855-2107
Indiana University                   [home phone/fax] 1-317-726-1482/-1642
Bloomington, IN 47405-6616 USA    [Slavica phone/fax] 1-812-856-4186/-4187
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From napooka at aloha.net  Sun Dec  7 13:20:37 1997
From: napooka at aloha.net (Irene Thompson)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 13:20:37 +0000
Subject: Pre-viewing activities for BURNT BY THE SUN???
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.971207153851.28381A-100000@unixs3.cis.pitt. edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.7.DEC.1997.132037.0000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Our students have a very dim idea of the Stalin era. I would get them to do
a semantic network activity that would tie in conceptsrelating to the
central notions in this film. In class, have your students name ideas that
they associate with the Stalin era, add ones that you think they need and
create a semantic web on the board. That is just one idea.
Irene Thompson

**********************************************
 Irene Thompson
P.O. Box 3572
Princeville, HI  96722
tel/fax: (808) 826-9510
e-mail: napooka at aloha.net
**********************************************


From nnankov at indiana.edu  Mon Dec  8 04:02:28 1997
From: nnankov at indiana.edu (nikita dimitrov nankov)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:02:28 -0500
Subject: Roommate AATSEEL '97
In-Reply-To: <199712080343.WAA22677@cayman.ucs.indiana.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.7.DEC.1997.230228.0500.NNANKOV@INDIANA.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,
I'm looking for someone who is willing to have me as a roommate for the
night of Dec. 27 in the Marriott Centre in Toronto, the 1997 AATSEEL
conference (splitting the costs). All the places are booked, and I read a
paper on Dec. 28 early in the morning.
        I'm a graduate student, male, and prefer, if possible, a
non-smoker and non-snorer.

        Please answer to nnankov at indiana.edu

Thank you in advance.

Nikita Nankov
Indiana University, Bloomington


From SRogosin at aol.com  Mon Dec  8 05:45:13 1997
From: SRogosin at aol.com (SRogosin)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 00:45:13 EST
Subject: moscow cemetery
Message-ID: <MON.8.DEC.1997.004513.EST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Has anyone done any work with cemeteries in Moscow? Is there a way to find out
if the graves at a currently non-existent cemetery were transfered elsewhere
or just bulldozed over?  Can anyone think of a book that gives historical and
other information on Moscow cemeteries, other than about the one or two most
famous ones?

I am particularly interested in whether the graves at the Lazarevskoe
kladbishche (Mar'inkii mostorg--Sushchevskii val neighborhood) were moved
elsewhere in any organized manner.

As always, any information would be much appreciated.

All the best,
Serge Rogosin
___________
93-49 222 Street
Queens Village, NY 11428
tel. & fax (718) 479-2881
e-mail: srogosin at aol.com


From stgeorge at cityline.ru  Mon Dec  8 09:44:51 1997
From: stgeorge at cityline.ru (Sergey Streltsov)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 12:44:51 +0300
Subject: stgeorge: Russian-Easteuropean on-line conferences!
Message-ID: <MON.8.DEC.1997.124451.0300.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

stgeorge: Russian-Easteuropean on-line conferences!

You are welcome!

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Thursday
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From 76703.2063 at compuserve.com  Mon Dec  8 21:06:33 1997
From: 76703.2063 at compuserve.com (Jerry Ervin)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 16:06:33 -0500
Subject: MLA conference admission
Message-ID: <MON.8.DEC.1997.160633.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

Phyllis Franklin, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association,
has graciously offered to extend to AATSEEL '97 (Toronto) registrants
reduced-rate admissions to the MLA conference.  Her statement is as
follows:

*****

AATSEEL members who have registered for the AATSEEL convention may register
on site for the  MLA convention by paying $50.  Student members of AATSEEL
who have registered for the AATSEEL convention may register for the MLA
convention by paying $30.  They will receive badges for the MLA convention.
 AATSEEL members who want to take advantage of this arrangement should
bring proof of their registration at the AATSEEL convention.  [Your AATSEEL
conference badge will suffice. --GLE]

The MLA staff members and the aides at the registration areas will be aware
of the special arrangement for AATSEEL convention registrants.  If any
questions come up, people should get in touch with Maribeth Kraus, who can
be beeped, or me.

*****

Please help pass this information on to any of your colleagues who do not
follow SEELANGS.  I know you join me in expressing appreciation to MLA and
Dr. Franklin for this special opportunity.

See you in Toronto,

Jerry Ervin

*  *  *  *  *
Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin
Executive Director, AATSEEL
1933 N. Fountain Park Dr.
Tucson, AZ 85715 USA
Phone/fax:  520/885-2663
Email:  76703.2063 at compuserve.com
AATSEEL Home Page:
<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/>
*  *  *  *  *


From sher07 at bellsouth.net  Tue Dec  9 01:11:09 1997
From: sher07 at bellsouth.net (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 20:11:09 EST
Subject: Sasha Sokolov's Trevozhnaia Kukolka
Message-ID: <MON.8.DEC.1997.201109.EST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

May I kindly invite you to read Sasha Sokolov's electrifying prose
poem of death and resurrection, Persona Non Grata (original title:
Trevozhnaia Kukolka). It was first published in Kontinent in 1986
(#49), later printed in its entirety in Literaturnaya Gazeta in 1990,
just before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Here is the opening:

"What a pitiful blunder! Instead of being born and raised in
incomparable Buenos Aires, where people greet each other not with
'Como està Usted?' but with the neighborly 'How is the air?' to which
a man replies: 'Gracias, gracias, muy bueno,' and where the paper
boy, hands free, zooms on his bicycle through the streets,
ostentatiously reading the latest issue of Hoy without so much as a
dictionary, and where the street car conductor, an ordinary, everyday
conductor, declaims passages from Octavio Paz to his passengers;
instead of making your earthly debut among these refined, well-read
people, a citizen in the name of Jorge Borges, but hold on--- . . ."

This is a thoroughly revised edition of the text originally published
in Columbia University's TRANSLATION: A Journal of Literary
Translation (Fall, 1989, vol. 22).

You will find the rest on my web site at:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1212

You'll also find there an adaptation of Akhmatova's Requiem,
Dostoevsky's Whirlwind by Pereverzev, Chapter One and Translator's
Afterword from Vaginov's The Tower (original title: Kozlinaia
Pesn'), four contemporary Russian plays, including Balashov's A
Woman of St. Petersburg, a monodrama spanning 6 decades, and
Krasnogoroff's The Dog, a tragic allegory on genocide, plus a link
to Chertkov's The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy (text and an album of
rare photographs).

Finally, you'll also find an essay on "Russian Aspectual
Decision-Making," a philosophical and practical guide for the
understanding of what is at once an exceedingly complex yet at the
same time profoundly simple phenomenon in Russian verbal usage. Those
who wish to pursue the matter further may consult N. Thelin's Verbal
Aspect in Discourse, a monumental anthology on Russian (and
non-Russian) aspectual usage and encompassing a variety of empirical,
literary and philosophical approaches of every kind.

I welcome your comments.

Yours,

Benjamin Sher


From sher07 at bellsouth.net  Tue Dec  9 01:12:18 1997
From: sher07 at bellsouth.net (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 20:12:18 EST
Subject: Sasha Sokolov's Persona Non Grata
Message-ID: <MON.8.DEC.1997.201218.EST.>

Dear Colleagues:

All materials published on my web site, including Sasha Sokolov's
prose poem "Persona Non Grata," are available FREE to anyone and
everyone. You may download and print any article or item you wish
provided it is used for personal, non-commercial or teaching purposes
and provided full credit and copyright information is mentioned.

Permission to perform any of the plays included on the web site is
also hereby granted for FREE to any individuals or groups, provided
such productions are for non-commercial, not-for-profit purposes and
provided full credit is given and, finally, provided such individuals
or groups contact me in person by email. This would also give the
playwright and the translator (that is, yours truly) an opportunity
to advise the director on any possible changes to the text and, in
turn, to help him/her, in whatever capacity , if called upon.

My web site address is: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1212.

SPECIAL NOTE:

I would like to stress that Sher's Russian Web is a completely
NON-COMMERICAL site and is entirely independent of Sher Publishers,
a very modest commercial venture which my wife and I inaugurated
earlier this year with the publication of the first English
translation ever of Konstantin Vaginov's The Tower (Kozlinaia Pesn').

I will in the future make every effort to distinguish these two roles
by the use of separate and distinct signatures.

Thank you so much.

Yours,

Benjamin


From jgharris+ at pitt.edu  Tue Dec  9 02:13:21 1997
From: jgharris+ at pitt.edu (Jane Harris)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 21:13:21 -0500
Subject: MLA conference admission
In-Reply-To: <199712081610_MC2-2B36-89E7@compuserve.com>
Message-ID: <MON.8.DEC.1997.211321.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Jerry, That's very reasonable. How did this come about? Did some MLA spy
enter the SEELANGS debate? Cheers, Jane
x

On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Jerry Ervin wrote:

> Dear SEELANGers,
>
> Phyllis Franklin, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association,
> has graciously offered to extend to AATSEEL '97 (Toronto) registrants
> reduced-rate admissions to the MLA conference.  Her statement is as
> follows:
>
> *****
>
> AATSEEL members who have registered for the AATSEEL convention may register
> on site for the  MLA convention by paying $50.  Student members of AATSEEL
> who have registered for the AATSEEL convention may register for the MLA
> convention by paying $30.  They will receive badges for the MLA convention.
>  AATSEEL members who want to take advantage of this arrangement should
> bring proof of their registration at the AATSEEL convention.  [Your AATSEEL
> conference badge will suffice. --GLE]
>
> The MLA staff members and the aides at the registration areas will be aware
> of the special arrangement for AATSEEL convention registrants.  If any
> questions come up, people should get in touch with Maribeth Kraus, who can
> be beeped, or me.
>
> *****
>
> Please help pass this information on to any of your colleagues who do not
> follow SEELANGS.  I know you join me in expressing appreciation to MLA and
> Dr. Franklin for this special opportunity.
>
> See you in Toronto,
>
> Jerry Ervin
>
> *  *  *  *  *
> Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin
> Executive Director, AATSEEL
> 1933 N. Fountain Park Dr.
> Tucson, AZ 85715 USA
> Phone/fax:  520/885-2663
> Email:  76703.2063 at compuserve.com
> AATSEEL Home Page:
> <http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/>
> *  *  *  *  *
>
>
>


From kel1 at columbia.edu  Tue Dec  9 14:21:10 1997
From: kel1 at columbia.edu (Kevin Eric Laney)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 09:21:10 -0500
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS -- SOYUZ SYMPOSIUM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (fwd)
Message-ID: <TUE.9.DEC.1997.092110.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS -- SOYUZ SYMPOSIUM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Please forward to your center announcement lists:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Soyuz, the Research Network for Post-Communist Cultural Studies and the
Department of Anthropology at Columbia University present The Seventh
Annual Symposium on Cultural Studies of Eastern Europe and Eurasia

"OUT OF THE RUINS: CULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS IN THE SOVIET AFTERMATH"

March 27-28, 1998
Columbia University

Empires leave ruins. The title of our symposium evokes the by-now popular
image of the toppled ruins of socialist monuments to Lenin, the Worker and
the Peasant, and other emblems of Soviet cultural authority.  But the
social shards, cultural fragments and political artifacts of the former
system have now become the stuff from which new forms of the quotidian are
emerging. In such an aftermath, cultural ruination and regeneration are
appearing in unlooked-for places and unlikely guises.  Ruins are the
landscape of the uncanny. While the crumbling of states and societies that
attended the events of 1989 and 1991 led many theorists to predict an end
to history and the inevitable transition from socialist cultures to
liberal capitalist ones, post-Soviet culture has yet to experience the
predicted metamorphosis into familiar forms. The processes of ruination
and regeneration now taking place are resulting in hybrid forms, novel
articulations of the local with the global, and the collision of received
histories with their unscheduled presents. While socialist states have
exited the political stage, the many and various histories of the peoples
of the former Soviet Bloc remain, as do the subjects, knowledges and
structures that accompanied them. Out of the ruins slouch new rough
beasts.  Soyuz proposes the Seventh Annual Symposium of Cultural Studies
in Eastern Europe and Eurasia as a step in understanding the cultural
negotiation of ruins now taking place in the former Soviet Bloc.

We are interested in papers from across the disciplines that concern
cultural studies of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The proposed papers may be
up to 25 pages in length and are to be presented at the symposium in a
cultural studies of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The proposed papers may be
up to 25 pages in length and are to be presented at the symposium in a
strict 20-minute format. Preference will be given to those abstracts that
address the symposium's metaphors of cultural ruination and regeneration
and which concern cultural and/or ethnographic sensibility.

A one-page abstract and curriculum vitae can be sent to:
David Koester, Dept of Anthropology, Columbia University, NY, NY  10027.
The deadline for abstracts is January 10, 1998.  Decisions concerning
acceptance will be made by February 1st, 1998.  Regrettably, no financial
assistance will be available for participants.

Please send inquiries to David Koester at: dk24 at columbia.edu
or Cathy Wanner at: cew10 at email.psu.edu.

[Please do not respond to this message by automatic reply.]

Sponsored by the Columbia Univeristy Dept. of Anthropology, Soyuz, the
Harriman Institute of Columbia University and the Columbia Graduate
Anthropology Alumni Association.


From KEC7497 at tntech.edu  Tue Dec  9 16:09:14 1997
From: KEC7497 at tntech.edu (KEVIN CHRISTIANSON)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:09:14 -0600
Subject: Query re: WinTrans & Polish language study in Krakow
Message-ID: <TUE.9.DEC.1997.100914.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangers:
Have any of you tried the translater program for windows, which translates
Polish to English and includes a bi-directional dictionary? Is this software
still available? I'm interested in this Win Trans program as well as any
reliable bi-directional Polish/English English/Polish dictionary for use in
Windows.

I'm also interested in intensive Polish language summer programs, preferably in
Krakow. I know that U of Kansas has such a program, but it's geared for
undergrads and grad students (I am an associate prof of English with a PhD in
that field).  The program at Lublin looks to be excellent, but I'd like to
investigate other programs closer to Krakow which are of equally intensiveness.

Thank you for your help.

Kevin

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Kevin Christianson, Ph.D                <<kec7497 at tntech.edu>>
English Department / Box 5053 / Tennessee Tech University / Cookeville, TN 38505
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smierci sie nie boje / dalej niosac narecza pragnien jak spalonych roz
"Rodzicom" ("To My Parents") Krzystof Kamil Baczynski
[I do not fear death / carrying onwards my bouquet of yearnings like charred
roses." trans. Madeline G. Levine]
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Cinema Confections: SLINGBLADE, ALL THE MORNINGS OF THE WORLD, FLIRTING,
BARTON FINK, DELICATESSAN, THE LOVER, LET HIM HAVE IT, TRICOULEUR, THE
HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND, UNSTRUNG HEROES, THE FIELD, MY LIFE AS A DOG,
BELLE EPOQUE, MONA LISA.


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Fri Dec 12 02:12:54 1997
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 21:12:54 -0500
Subject: Center for Civil Society Seeks ST Moscow Housing (fwd)
Message-ID: <THU.11.DEC.1997.211254.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

FYI

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:40:13 -0500
From: Center for Civil Society International <ccsi at u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list <civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Center for Civil Society Seeks ST Moscow Housing



Center for Civil Society International seeks short-term housing for a
University of Washington graduate student to Moscow in early January in
order to carry out research for her thesis and for an updated second
edition of our Post-Soviet Handbook: A Guide to Grassroots Organizations
in the NIS.  Catriona is in her mid-twenties, personable, responsible, and
speaks Russian well.  She will be traveling outside of Moscow for some of
the time she is in Russia.

If anybody on the CivilSoc list knows of any suitable housing
possibilities for Catriona during the period Jan. 8 to March 27, please
respond as soon as possible.  References are available.

Many thanks!

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Executive Director


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From collins.232 at osu.edu  Fri Dec 12 18:38:20 1997
From: collins.232 at osu.edu (Daniel E. Collins)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:38:20 -0400
Subject: Info about Russian, Ukrainian, Polish Lit
Message-ID: <FRI.12.DEC.1997.143820.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Colleen McCallum, a graduate student in Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies here
at Ohio State, is doing research on images of Africans and
African-Americans in Yiddish literature of the 20th century.  She is
interested in the interface between Yiddish and Slavic literatures and is
interested in finding out about any Slavic literary texts of the 20th
century-particularly ones in Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish-that deal with
this issue.

Please reply to Colleen off-list at mccallum.6 at osu.edu .  Thank you very much!


Daniel E. Collins
Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
collins.232 at osu.edu


From mpetrusewicz at erols.com  Fri Dec 12 22:01:31 1997
From: mpetrusewicz at erols.com (Mary Petrusewicz)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 22:01:31 +0000
Subject: Converting Cyrillic font
Message-ID: <FRI.12.DEC.1997.220131.0000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Does anyone have experience converting Cyrillic text in Word 6.0 to
Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS?  WordPerfect uses code page 437.  In Word,
using code page 1251, I managed to convert files from WordPerfect 5.1
into Word by using WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows, which has a code page
conversion set up.  I can't get it to work in reverse for Word.  Any
suggestions?

Please respond off-line to mpetrusewicz at erols.com

Thanks, Mary


From stgeorge at cityline.ru  Sat Dec 13 12:25:36 1997
From: stgeorge at cityline.ru (Sergey Streltsov)
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 15:25:36 +0300
Subject: stgeorge:Prayer request (subject from Streltsovs owned forever on
Message-ID: <SAT.13.DEC.1997.152536.0300.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

stgeorge:Prayer request (subject from Streltsovs owned forever on and on)

Please answer to Cheryl A. Madden
Her E-Mail cmad8085 at uriacc.uri.edu

Hello!

Here's a resend of the poetic question...

The poem I am inquiring about was written by a Soviet author. It's subject
was a nurse, who served during the Great Patriotic War (WWII).  She was
described
as having long brown hair, which she wore loosely flowing around her
shoulders, while she tended her wounded patients.  They were soothed and
their pain was eased by her loveliness, as she gently cared for them.  The
poet compared her to Mother Russia, sheltering her wounded sons in her
arms.

My problem is this... Although this poem greatly impressed me, and I
thought
I had written down its title and author, etc., I cannot find the my note,
or
the poem itself Anywhere. Although I've gone through the books of Russian
poetry at the library, and inquired among my Russian and Ukrainian friends,
and on the HRUSSIA List, Russian Life Magazine internet list, etc.,  no one
else seems to recognize it!

Do you know it?  I've been trying for Years to find a copy of it again, and
my friends all want to read it too, If I ever rediscover it!  I'd
appreciate
your help in this, and please feel free to forward this message to anyone
else you think might be able to solve this puzzle!

My most significant project is the writing of a novel, which will focus
upon
the forced repatriations at the end of World War II.  I would like to
discuss this subject with any of your readers who have personal experiences
and opinions to share about this part of the history of the War.

The novel is set in Chernihiv, Ukraine.  One of the questions that arose
while writing the scenes of the German Occupation... How were the
policies/rules of Occupation presented to the local population?  What
specifically were they?  I've found a list of regulations the Germans
posted
in the Channel Islands, but I'm quite sure their policies in Ukraine and
Russia were different and doubtlessly more severe. Can any of your readers
answer this inquiry or direct me to the proper authority?  I can have
letters, etc., translated for me from Russian, Ukrainian, or German
languages, although for me, English is easier, of course.

Here are some of my poems for your consideration. Please add the
appropriate
copyright notation if you post them on the site.

Thank You
Please answer to Cheryl A. Madden
Her E-Mail cmad8085 at uriacc.uri.edu

P.S.
The poem also might have been in reference to the women in the 586th
Fighter
Regiment--the "Night Witches," of the Soviet Air Force.  That's another
part
of the war's history that I have studied.


From walkingtune at bigfoot.com  Sat Dec 13 13:41:18 1997
From: walkingtune at bigfoot.com (Junichi Miyazawa)
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 22:41:18 +0900
Subject: the English title for a Turgenev
Message-ID: <SAT.13.DEC.1997.224118.0900.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Does anyone tell me the English, standard title
for Turgenev's *Svidanie*?

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Junichi Miyazawa, Tokyo
walkingtune at bigfoot.com


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Sat Dec 13 15:00:14 1997
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 10:00:14 -0500
Subject: Attorneys Needed for work in CEE & NIS (fwd)
Message-ID: <SAT.13.DEC.1997.100014.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Interesting work stuff here for law students....

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 19:44:16 -0500
From: Center for Civil Society International <ccsi at u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list <civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Attorneys Needed for work in CEE & NIS

       CEELI Seeks Volunteer Attorneys for Work
           in Eastern Europe and Eurasia


For additional information, please respond to:

        Molly Stephenson at mstephenson at abaceeli.org.


BE A PART OF HISTORY IN THE MAKING. . .

The Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI), a public service
project of the American Bar Association, is currently seeking
experienced attorneys for the following positions:

CRIMINAL LAW LIAISONS
Three to twelve months beginning in:

Albania  (March 1998), Bulgaria (April 1998) , Georgia (May 1998),
Hungary (June 1998), Lithuania (December 1998), Russia (June 1998),
and Ukraine (As soon as possible).

* Coordinate criminal law related activities in the host country

* Organize interactive training workshops for prosecutors, judges, and
defense attorneys on topics such as the drafting and implementation of
modern criminal justice legislation, supervision of investigations,
individual rights, and jury trial procedures.


COMMERCIAL LAW LIAISONS
One year beginning in:

Albania (June 1998), Bulgaria (September 1998),
Croatia (June 1998), and Russia (June 1998)

* Coordinate commercial law related activities in the host country

* Organizing interactive training workshops on topics such as
international business joint ventures, bankruptcy, and intellectual
property


RULE OF LAW LIAISONS
One year beginning in:

Armenia (June 1998), Belarus (June 1998), Kazakhstan (As soon as
possible), Kyrgyzstan (August 1998), Georgia (August 1998), Macedonia
(July 1998), Moldova (May 1998), Romania (July 1998), Russia (March 1998),
Serbia (May 1998), Ukraine (September 1998), and Uzbekistan (June 1998)

* Coordinate CEELI rule of law related activities in the host
country

* Organize interactive training workshop on topics such as creating an
independent judiciary, drafting ethics codes, revising administrative
procedures, and developing judicial training programs; and

* Manage legal reform programs focusing on continuing legal education, law
practice management, and bar development.


CLINCIAL LEGAL SPECIALISTS

Albania for three months (February 1998),
Romania for one month (February 1998),
Bulgaria for one month (February 1998),
Ukraine three months (February 1998)

* In Albania, work with the Albanian Women's Bar Association to
develop a women's legal aid clinic.

* In Romania, help two to three law schools outside of Bucharest
develop the classroom curriculum and course materials and lay the
groundwork for clinical externship programs or live client clinics.

* In Bulgaria, assist the University of Sofia Law Faculty in
establishing a live client clinic.

* In Kyiv, and Donetsk, Ukraine, help to establish live client clinic
administration, develop classroom curriculum, and train local professors
in practical techniques for teaching lawyering skills.


WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION LEGAL SPECIALIST
Six to twelve months (Spring 1998)

* Assist women legal professionals develop voluntary women's bar
associations in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Saratov

* Provide guidance in the development of the bar associations'
organizational structures

* Develop a national association for women lawyers in Russia

* Participate in workshops concerning domestic violence, sexual
harassment, and other issues of interest to women lawyers in Russia


Although CEELI is a public service project, all participants receive a
generous benefits package which covers travel, housing, general
living, and business expenses.

CEELI considers attorneys with a minimum of three years of legal
experience or fluency on a language of the region, high level of
energy and initiative, and strong interpersonal skills.  International
experience is preferred.



For additional information, please respond to:

        Molly Stephenson at mstephenson at abaceeli.org.


From walkingtune at bigfoot.com  Sat Dec 13 22:14:58 1997
From: walkingtune at bigfoot.com (Junichi Miyazawa)
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 07:14:58 +0900
Subject: the English title for a Turgenev
Message-ID: <SUN.14.DEC.1997.071458.0900.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I received an answer:
Turgenev's "Svidanie" has always been called "The Tryst".

Thank you very much.

Regards, -- Junichi, Tokyo


From twc78 at cnsvax.albany.edu  Sun Dec 14 16:13:48 1997
From: twc78 at cnsvax.albany.edu (Toby Clyman)
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 11:13:48 -0500
Subject: Info about Russian, Ukrainian, Polish Lit
In-Reply-To: <v03007800b0b7335554ac@[128.146.34.197]>
Message-ID: <SUN.14.DEC.1997.111348.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

 Do tell  the the gradate student in Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies to
contact  Regina Grol at the Empire State College in Buffalo.
Toby Clyman (University at Albany, Slavic Department)

On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Daniel E. Collins wrote:

> Colleen McCallum, a graduate student in Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies here
> at Ohio State, is doing research on images of Africans and
> African-Americans in Yiddish literature of the 20th century.  She is
> interested in the interface between Yiddish and Slavic literatures and is
> interested in finding out about any Slavic literary texts of the 20th
> century-particularly ones in Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish-that deal with
> this issue.
>
> Please reply to Colleen off-list at mccallum.6 at osu.edu .  Thank you very much!
>
>
> Daniel E. Collins
> Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
> The Ohio State University
> collins.232 at osu.edu
>


From stgeorge at cityline.ru  Sun Dec 14 20:17:17 1997
From: stgeorge at cityline.ru (Sergey Streltsov)
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 23:17:17 +0300
Subject: stgeorge:the chat for this listserv
Message-ID: <SUN.14.DEC.1997.231717.0300.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

stgeorge:the chat for this listserv

The Saint George Club
with Its Weekly Schedule.

http://www.art.ru/stgeorge/club/

Your additions to the existing calendar of events are welcome. You can also
send Your links (if You have not place in Internet 'The Saint George
Journal' will be glad to host Yours specs and infos), and e-mails to place
them in the proper position of present calendar.

Our events is advertising in next listservs
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and abroad. Post-modernism and Soviet-Postsoviet period as New Classic
epoch in world history, its expression in WWII, The World Revolutionary
Movements, Russian and East-European Governmental, Academic, Literary and
Private links in the all world.ThursdayMoscow Literary, Cultural, Academic
world. Contemporary questions and problems. East-Europe literature and
philosophy. New poetic, prosody, theoretic questions and points of view.
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Moscow Pen-Club questions and problems.SaturdayEast-Europe Politology,
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of politic philosophy of "Lawful Power" and of The State's Constitution.
SundayRound-Table. Common interests. Professors and Students. Authors and
Publishers. Arrangement of conferences and studies- the accommodation and
other problems.



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From RSYLVESTER at CENTER.COLGATE.EDU  Mon Dec 15 16:44:56 1997
From: RSYLVESTER at CENTER.COLGATE.EDU (Richard Sylvester)
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:44:56 -0500
Subject: Kozlovsky's Dates
Message-ID: <MON.15.DEC.1997.114456.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Can anyone tell me if Ivan Kozlovsky (b. 1900) is still alive?
If not, can you tell me the year of his death? Write to me off line.
Thanks.

Dick Sylvester
rsylvester at center.colgate.edu


From RSYLVESTER at CENTER.COLGATE.EDU  Mon Dec 15 20:33:03 1997
From: RSYLVESTER at CENTER.COLGATE.EDU (Richard Sylvester)
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 15:33:03 -0500
Subject: Ivan Kozlovsky (1900-1993)
Message-ID: <MON.15.DEC.1997.153303.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

To all who wrote about my question on Kozlovsky's dates,
thank you. He died Dec 21, 1993, in Moscow. His obituary is
in the NY Times for Dec 24.

Of the old singers, after watching a Tchaikovsky special
on Bravo the other night, all I can say is
We miss you!

Dick Sylvester
rsylvester at center.colgate.edu


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Mon Dec 15 22:22:48 1997
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 16:22:48 -0600
Subject: drama/theater forum in SEEJ
Message-ID: <MON.15.DEC.1997.162248.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Call for papers for a forum
"Rethinking Slavic Drama/Theatre/Performance"
to be guest-edited by Halina Filipowicz
for the SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL.

I seek submissions from a wide variety of innovative perspectives and
comparative approaches to open up new ways of theorizing Slavic drama and to
integrate it more fully into theatre and performance studies.

However one chooses to look at the impact of critical theory on Slavic
studies, there is no doubt that theatre and drama have been either
overlooked or "de-classified" by assimilation into a generalized textual
discourse.  Yet drama has the performance specificity that offers a
possibility of theorizing otherwise.

As a starting point, the forum will consider drama as a borderline, hybrid
genre that belongs to both literature and theatre.  Some of the questions to
be examined:

How does drama reconcile a double set of conventions: those of literature
and those of theatre?  What are the conflicts and compromises, silent trysts
and illicit liaisons between the theatre text and the literary text of
drama?  How does a play act out, rather than merely script, its meanings?
How does it inscribe a potential theatre production?  How can interpretive
categories such as "the paper stage" and "interior director" open up
readings of Slavic drama that are less pure, less literature-oriented?

All articles will go through a SEEJ review process.  Deadline: 1 March 1998.

Please send inquiries and submissions to:

Halina Filipowicz
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin
1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706

e-mail:  hfilipow at facstaff.wisc.edu
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Benjamin Rifkin
Associate Professor of Russian
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706
voice:  608/262-1623
fax:  608/265-2814


From jrouhie at pop.uky.edu  Tue Dec 16 08:46:04 1997
From: jrouhie at pop.uky.edu (J. Rouhier-Willoughby)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:46:04 +0100
Subject: Increasing Enrollment Survey
Message-ID: <TUE.16.DEC.1997.094604.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The Public Relations subcommittee of the AATSEEL Linguistics Committee has
completed its survey on strategies for increasing enrollment in Slavic
language and related courses in North America. The information can be found
at the following URL:

http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/enrollments/

If you have any comments or questions regarding the information or wish to
add to the data, please email me at:

jrouhie at pop.uky.edu

Sincerely,
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Chair, Public Relations Subcommittee,
AATSEEL Linguistics Committee

*********************************************************
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby           telephone:  (606) 257-1756
Department of Russian and Eastern Studies      fax:  (606) 257-3743
1055 Patterson Office Tower                email:  jrouhie at pop.uky.edu
University of Kentucky           URL: http://www.uky.edu/~jrouhie/
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
*********************************************************


From chcloux at vtx.ch  Thu Dec 18 05:20:10 1997
From: chcloux at vtx.ch (chcloux)
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 21:20:10 -0800
Subject: Russian formalists
Message-ID: <WED.17.DEC.1997.212010.0800.>

Hi!
Does anyone know whether there is a mailing list somewhere about Russian
formalism (or at least a mailing list where it may be discussed)? The
discussion may be either in English, or in French, or in German, or,
finally, in Italian.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Christine Cloux
chcloux at vtx.ch


From chcloux at vtx.ch  Thu Dec 18 06:45:36 1997
From: chcloux at vtx.ch (chcloux)
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 22:45:36 -0800
Subject: Russian formalists
Message-ID: <WED.17.DEC.1997.224536.0800.>

Hi!
If you get the message for the second time, I'm sorry. I've had a
technical problem and I just do not know whether it reached the list all
the same.

Does anyone know of a mailing list about Russian formalists or, at
least,  a mailing list where this topic may be discussed? The list may
be either in English, in French, in German or in Italian.

Thank you!

Christine Cloux
chcloux at vtx.ch


From gfielder at U.Arizona.EDU  Thu Dec 18 05:51:34 1997
From: gfielder at U.Arizona.EDU (Grace Fielder)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 00:51:34 EST
Subject: Graduate Study at U of Arizona
Message-ID: <THU.18.DEC.1997.005134.EST.>

Graduate Study at the University of Arizona

The Russian and Slavic Languages Department at the University of Arizona at Tucson encourages students to apply for its MA program.  The Department offers a number of graduate level courses in Russian language including oral communication and stylistics, as well as advanced grammar.  Students may opt for one of several "tracks": Russian literature, Russian Linguistics, Slavic Studies (an interdisplinary track) and pedagogy.  Have a small student to teacher ratio in the classroom and the advantages of a small, congenial department.  Upon completion of the MA our students have been accepted into PhD programs such as UCLA, UChicago, USC, UNC Chapel Hill, U of Toronto, among others.  Students also have the option of completing a PhD at the University of Arizona in the Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies Program or the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program, both highly respected interdisplinary PhD programs that include faculty from the Russian and Slavic Department.  Our MA graduates have found placement in teaching positions at the high school and community college level, as well as in positions in the government and private sectors.  Some financial aid in the form of tuition waivers, fellowships, and teaching assistantships is available on a competitive basis.  
For further information contact the graduate advisor, Grace Fielder at (520) 621-7981, by e-mail at gfielder at u.arizona.edu or by writing to The Dept. of Russian and Slavic Languages, MLB 340, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Tel: 520-621-7341; Fax 520-626-4007).


From KCHRISTIANS at tntech.edu  Thu Dec 18 05:55:59 1997
From: KCHRISTIANS at tntech.edu (KEVIN CHRISTIANSON)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 00:55:59 EST
Subject: query about Polish vocab & verbs
Message-ID: <THU.18.DEC.1997.005559.EST.>

Dear Seelangers:
I can't find the word "gencjana" in any of my dictionaries: Na takie rozbite
kolona pomaga woda utleniona albo gencjana i opatrunek, oznajmia mama.

A few other questions:
1. What are the ten or so most frequently used verbs of motion, including
prefixed forms of go/come?  In his textbook CZESC, JAK SIE MASZ? Wladyslaw
Miodunka often indicates the frequency with which declensions and forms are
used, but he's not much help in this.
2. I have trouble knowing when to use ciagle and zawsze. Ciagle is translated
as "constantly" but it is used in contexts in Polish where in English we would
use "always" and I often hear ciagle used more frequently than zawsze
3. I also have trouble knowing which Polish word to use for "only" and "just."
I only wanted to say that.... I just got back from the store.... I only need
three glasses.... There are only three glasses here....Just this past Wednesday
I saw her / It was only last Wednesday when I saw her.  Just think about it!
Who's going to the concert--just / only you?  I'm the only one here.  Just when
I was leaving the house, the telephone rang. The telephone rang just now/a few
moments ago.
4. What Polish textbook is most commonly used in first year courses, and why?

Thank you very much for your help with these and past queries.

Kevin



++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Kevin Christianson, Ph.D                <<KCHRISTIANS at tntech.edu>>
English Department / Box 5053 / Tennessee Tech University / Cookeville, TN 38505
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smierci sie nie boje / dalej niosac narecza pragnien jak spalonych roz
"Rodzicom" ("To My Parents") Krzystof Kamil Baczynski
[I do not fear death / carrying onwards my bouquet of yearnings like charred
roses." trans. Madeline G. Levine]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Cinema Confections: SLINGBLADE, ALL THE MORNINGS OF THE WORLD, FLIRTING,
BARTON FINK, DELICATESSAN, THE LOVER, LET HIM HAVE IT, TRICOULEUR, THE
HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND, UNSTRUNG HEROES, THE FIELD, MY LIFE AS A DOG,
BELLE EPOQUE, MONA LISA, SEKSMISJA, BABETTE'S FEAST, ANDRE RUBLEV.


From Duda.KUL at zeus.kul.lublin.pl  Thu Dec 18 15:38:22 1997
From: Duda.KUL at zeus.kul.lublin.pl (Henryk Duda)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 15:38:22 MET-1MEST
Subject: Translation Workshop
Message-ID: <THU.18.DEC.1997.153822.MET1MEST.>

TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

In addition to language courses, which the Summer School of Polish
Language and Culture at KUL have been organizing for over 20 years, this
year, in July of 1998, the institution is going to run a workshop on
translation.  The objective of this planned meeting (of fluent speakers of
Polish and English) is a joint working  translation of chosen literary
texts and other Polish texts to English as well as an exchange of
experiences connected with translation work.  The workshop will be led by
Prof. Richard Sokolowski from the University of Ottawa (Canada), a
translator of Polish poetry into English (his translations include works
by Mikolaj Sep-Szarzynski and Tadeusz Rozewicz).
    The workshop will take place from 13 to 23 of July, and on the weekend
of 24 - 26 July its participants will have an opportunity to take part in
a trip to Krakow, organized for students of the Summer School.

Fee (including board and accommodation): 520 USD
    Meals will be provided in the refectory on campus. Workshop
participants will stay in twin-bedded rooms in a university dormitory.

The Workshop will take place on the condition that we will find a
sufficient number of people, from Poland and abroad, who are interested in
this  subject. Therefore, we would like to ask all potential participants
to contact us and, if they are willing, to offer suggestions on the
workshop program.
    You may contact us at:
                Summer School of Polish Language and Culture
                Al. Raclawickie 14
                20-950 Lublin, Polska
                tel : (+48 81) 5330226
                fax: (+48 81) 5330433
                e-mail: lato1 at zeus.kul.lublin.pl.

You may also receive information from Henryk Duda, PhD, from The Chair of
the Polish Language at the Catholic University of Lublin (e-mail:
Duda.KUL at zeus.kul.lublin.pl.).
    The detailed program of the workshop, brochure with the texts to be
worked upon during the meeting, as well as an application form will be
sent to all who are interested at the end of January 1998.

Henryk Duda


From c-cosner at students.uiuc.edu  Thu Dec 18 15:05:04 1997
From: c-cosner at students.uiuc.edu (christopher k cosner)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:05:04 -0600
Subject: bibliographic databases
Message-ID: <THU.18.DEC.1997.090504.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGStsy,
        What thoughts can you contribute about bibliographic
 computer programs, such as ProCite? Has anyone had any
 particular success or failure with a certain program? Are there
 programs better suited to Slavic languages? Is a bibliographic
 computer program really much more useful than an
 alphabetical list in a word processing document? What issues
 do you see as crucial in choosing a program?

        I'll start off. ProCite seems pretty good to me, but it is too
 pricey, certainly out of range of a graduate student. I am
 curious whether anyone uses HyperCard for this purpose.

        The "failures" I would worry about with a program would
 be: attempting to convert the citations to an appropriate format
 and finding that it simply couldn't be done without editing each
 reference (no great tragedy); finding that subject tags carefully
 entered over several months did not help to extract pertinent
 records after all; finding that your new computer system is
 simply so different that you cannot transfer the database to it.

        Other issues I have thought of in choosing a program are:
 use of mixed fonts; convertibility to and from other formats;
 price--what is reasonable?; ease of data entry; web integration
 (can you easily insert a URL, and will the tag stay "hot," i.e.,
 can you click on it and go into your web browser and directly
 to the site); and does the average humanities scholar even need
 a toy like this?

        Any comments will be appreciated, before or after the
 holidays.

Chris Cosner
c-cosner at uiuc.edu



Sincerely,


Chris Cosner

c-cosner at uiuc.edu
___________________________________________________
Journals Production Liaison and Advertising Manager

       University of Illinois Press: (217) 244-6488
                       UI Press fax: (217) 244-8082
___________________________________________________


From sapief at albany.net  Thu Dec 18 15:37:12 1997
From: sapief at albany.net (Sapief)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 10:37:12 -0500
Subject: bibliographic databases
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971218090333.6174B-100000@ux9.cso.uiuc.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.18.DEC.1997.103712.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello. I have dealt with the issues you are concerned with.
I offer my 2c advice on the matter:


> Dear SEELANGStsy,
>  programs better suited to Slavic languages? Is a bibliographic
>  computer program really much more useful than an
>  alphabetical list in a word processing document? What issues
>  do you see as crucial in choosing a program?

If you are willing to do some basic (not BASIC) programming, a
one-time investment in a database program (such as Paradox or
Access for Windows) will pay off in the long run. I developed a
paradox shell to handle Cyrillic and English citations four years
ago.  When web sites started to become more prevalent, I simply
amended my paradox code to handle the new format and to keep
links "hot." I didn't have to pay upgrade costs and/or
be saddled with an inadequate program. My code also transliterates KOI8 to
Library of Congress format.  At some point, I may include this
shell for free download off my website (provided there would be
sufficient demand).

Whatever you decide, I also recommend you find a program that will
permit you to embed and/or search through notes that you have taken
on a particular article or book.  It is best if these notes are in
a word processing format (mine for example are in WordPerfect 8).
That way, you can take advantage of the powerful editing features of
a word processor.  The only hitch is the legwork you need to do
to write macros and/or DDE code to handle search and find capabilities.

Best of luck in your research.

Filipp Sapienza
Doctoral Candidate
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
sapief at rpi.edu
www.rpi.edu/~sapief


From N.Bermel at sheffield.ac.uk  Thu Dec 18 17:18:41 1997
From: N.Bermel at sheffield.ac.uk (Neil Bermel)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 17:18:41 +0000
Subject: (Fwd) Re: query about Polish vocab & verbs
Message-ID: <THU.18.DEC.1997.171841.0000.>

Here are some answers to Dr Christianson's queries, from a colleague
here at Sheffield.

Neil Bermel

------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
From:          "N.Gotteri" <N.Gotteri at sheffield.ac.uk>
To:            n.bermel at sheffield.ac.uk
Date:          Thu, 18 Dec 1997 17:15:49 +0000
Subject:       Re: query about Polish vocab & verbs
Priority:      normal

> > I can't find the word "gencjana" in any of my dictionaries: Na takie rozbite
> > kolona pomaga woda utleniona albo gencjana i opatrunek, oznajmia mama.

Gentian or gentian violet.  It's in PWN's S-lownik wyraz'ow obcych.

> > 2. I have trouble knowing when to use ciagle and zawsze. Ciagle is
 translated
> > as "constantly" but it is used in contexts in Polish where in English we
 would
> > use "always" and I often hear ciagle used more frequently than zawsze

Ci,agle is often used where English would use 'still'.  The same
might be said of w dalszym ci'agu.

> > 3. I also have trouble knowing which Polish word to use for "only" and
 "just."

Only (exclusively, no more than): tylko.
Only just a moment ago, only (no further along the road than):
dopiero (dopiero co)

Nigel Gotteri
*******************************************
Neil Bermel
Sheffield University
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
Arts Tower, Western Bank
Sheffield S10 2TN United Kingdom
telephone 0114 222 7405 (direct) or 7400 (dept.)
fax 0114 222 7416
(from the US: 011 44 114 plus last 7 digits)
n.bermel at sheffield.ac.uk


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Fri Dec 19 02:42:17 1997
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 21:42:17 EST
Subject: New book on Kelles-Krauz
Message-ID: <THU.18.DEC.1997.214217.EST.>

New Title Announcement

Publications Office
Ukrainian Research Institute
Harvard University
1583 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
617-495-3692
fax. 617-495-8097
e-mail huri at fas.harvard.edu

Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe:
A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872­1905)
Timothy D. Snyder

Timothy Snyder forges a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism
and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of
Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of
this century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna,
Kelles-Krauz influenced or infuriated most of the leaders of the various
socialist movements of Central Europe and France. His central ideas
ultimately were not accepted by the socialist mainstream at the time of his
death. However, ninety years later, we see that they anticipated  late
twentieth-century understanding on the importance of nationalism as a
social force and the parameters of socialism in political theory and
praxis. Kelles-Krauz was one of the only theoreticians of his age to
advocate Ukrainian and Jewish national rights as being equivalent to, for
example, Polish national rights and he correctly saw the struggle for
national sovereignty as being central to future events in Europe.
Specialists will welcome this first major monograph in English devoted to
Kelles-Krauz. Students will also find helpful biographical guides, maps,
and personal photographs of Kelles-Krauz, his colleagues, and his family.

1997. 351  pp. 3 maps. 7 b&w photographs. ISBN 0-916458-84-9. $18.00.
Softcover.
Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies.


Available from:
Harvard University Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138;
1-800-448-2242; fax. 1-800-962-4983
Harvard University Press Book Code: SNYNAT

____________________________________________________
Robert De Lossa
Director of Publications
Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-8768; fax. 617-495-8097
reply to: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu
http://www.sabre.org/huri


From fsciacca at hamilton.edu  Fri Dec 19 18:58:42 1997
From: fsciacca at hamilton.edu (Franklin Sciacca)
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:58:42 -0400
Subject: Orthodox list
Message-ID: <FRI.19.DEC.1997.145842.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Does anyone know the address of the Orthodox list?  (The Arizona address I
have no longer works.)  Thanks.
Please reply to fsciacca at hamilton.edu

Frank


From uzs8cw at uni-bonn.de  Mon Dec 22 09:51:55 1997
From: uzs8cw at uni-bonn.de (Dieter Stern)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 04:51:55 -0500
Subject: Orthodox list
Message-ID: <MON.22.DEC.1997.045155.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>Does anyone know the address of the Orthodox list?  (The Arizona address I
>have no longer works.)  Thanks.
>Please reply to fsciacca at hamilton.edu
>
>Frank

To all those who know the address of this Orthodox list, please don't send
your information off-list to Mr. Frank Sciacca alone, because I, and
perhaps others, want to know the address too. Besides, I would like to
know, if there is anything like a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic list.

Thanks

Dieter Stern


From chcloux at vtx.ch  Mon Dec 22 21:20:50 1997
From: chcloux at vtx.ch (chcloux)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 13:20:50 -0800
Subject: Orthodox list
Message-ID: <MON.22.DEC.1997.132050.0800.>

Hi!
I have replied off-list, sorry. Here is the information again, then.
The orthodox list is located at orthodox at listserv.indiana.edu

Best wishes to all of you for Christmas and new year!

Christine Cloux
chcloux at vtx.ch


From lake at slavic.umass.edu  Mon Dec 22 16:24:24 1997
From: lake at slavic.umass.edu (Joseph Lake)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 11:24:24 -0500
Subject: Greek Catholic list
Message-ID: <MON.22.DEC.1997.112424.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dieter Stern asks whether there is a Greek Catholic list. There certainly
is, a very good and active one. I have just an old address, which I will
send below. If it no longer works, perhaps someone will correct me.

The list is (or was):
   cineast

at an address:

 listserv at catinfo.cts.com

Anyone who subscribes to the other list mentioned, the Orthodox list from
Indiana, should be prepared for what often tends to be a highly polemical,
tendentious,  preaching tone, often quite vehemently anti Catholic.  At
least that is how it was when  I last looked at it some time ago.

Joseph Lake
Slavic and East European Studies, 437 Herter Hall

University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
413-545-5696 (work)
413-549-5726 (home)

Lake at slavic.umass.edu


From lake at slavic.umass.edu  Mon Dec 22 16:25:36 1997
From: lake at slavic.umass.edu (Joseph Lake)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 11:25:36 -0500
Subject: Greek Catholic list
Message-ID: <MON.22.DEC.1997.112536.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dieter Stern asks whether there is a Greek Catholic list. There  is, a very
good and active one. I have just an old address, which I will send below.
If it no longer works, perhaps someone will correct me.

The list is (or was):
   cineast

at an address:

 listserv at catinfo.cts.com


Joseph Lake
Slavic and East European Studies, 437 Herter Hall

University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
413-545-5696 (work)
413-549-5726 (home)

Lake at slavic.umass.edu


From ludwig1 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu  Mon Dec 22 17:27:54 1997
From: ludwig1 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (ludwig jonathan)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:27:54 -0500
Subject: Pre-AATSEEL Interview Workshop
Message-ID: <MON.22.DEC.1997.122754.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Greetings. For those of you who will be arriving at AATSEEL late afternoon
on the 27th (and who are interviewing for jobs this year, or want some
information on the process), I would like to remind you of the
pre-conference Interview Workshop, which will run from 7-9 pm in the Bay
room of the conference hotel (Marriott Eaton Center). The first hour will
consist of brief discussions on topics such as the value of knowing
current technology for the job search, putting together a teaching
portfolio, and the conference/campus interview. This will be followed by
one or two brief mock-interviews.

Questions about the workshop, which is free of charge and open to all, can
be directed to me at ludwig1 at uiuc.edu through December 26. Please do not
submit them to the list.

Best wishes, safe journeys, and I hope to see many of you there.

Jonathan Ludwig
Russian Language Program Coordinator
University of Illinois


From sforres1 at swarthmore.edu  Mon Dec 22 20:09:22 1997
From: sforres1 at swarthmore.edu (Sibelan Forrester)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 15:09:22 -0500
Subject: Update:  Books for Review in SEEJ
Message-ID: <MON.22.DEC.1997.150922.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

As you finish that last fine sanding & varnishing of your AATSEEL
conference paper, or sit down in stupefied relief after picking up the last
packet of finals, or else snicker at the thought of how you are NOT a
lemming trapped in the seasonal vagaries of the academic calendar --

-- take a moment to check out the new books available for review in the
Slavic and East European Journal, on the redoubtable AATSEEL web page,
<http://clover.slavic/pitt.edu/~aatseel/>, or go straight to the source at
<http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/AATSEEL/seej-reviews.html>.

Thanks as always to SEEJ Book Review Editor Marcus Levitt for making this
list available!

and wishing you all a great conference (or not) --

Sibelan Forrester
Swarthmore College


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Wed Dec 24 00:34:18 1997
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 19:34:18 -0500
Subject: Int'l City Management Assn. Position Open (fwd)
Message-ID: <TUE.23.DEC.1997.193418.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 19:11:50 -0500
From: Center for Civil Society International <ccsi at u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list <civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Int'l City Management Assn. Position Open (fwd)


This announcement X-posted from EE-JOBS list.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 97 13:22:54 -0500
From: msmith at icma.org
To: ee-jobs at cep.yale.edu
Subject: Int'l City Management Assn. Position Open

************************************************************************
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION FOR CENTRAL AND
EASTERN EUROPE AND NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES REGION OPEN
*************************************************************************

The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) is seeking to
fill one to two research assistant (RA) positions to support its
international programs in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly
Independent States.  RAs are required to perform a variety of
administrative tasks including filing, copying, editing, report
distribution, field office support, and short term consultant
mobilization.  RAs are also expected to research and obtain documents
relevant to project management/field operations and update databases for
tracking and monitoring project information.

Minimum requirements for this position include: B.A. in International
Relations or a related social science; 1 year of relevant work experience;
excellent organizational, written/oral communication, and computer skills
(including proficiency in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, and
Internet software packages); and the ability to prioritize among multiple
tasks and work well under pressure.  RA positions last from six months to
one year.  Fluency (oral and written) in a CEE/NIS language is not
required but, strongly preferred.

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume before January
15, 1998 to:

Michele R. Smith
ENI Project Coordinator
ICMA
777 N. Capitol St., NE
Washington DC 20002-4201
e-mail: msmith at icma.org
fax: (202) 962-3681.


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ICMA has completed over 300 international activities and developed a
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From klr8p at virginia.edu  Wed Dec 24 05:15:47 1997
From: klr8p at virginia.edu (karen ryan-hayes)
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 00:15:47 -0500
Subject: Job Announcement
Message-ID: <WED.24.DEC.1997.001547.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

asdf


From ejakab at fas.harvard.edu  Wed Dec 24 19:32:43 1997
From: ejakab at fas.harvard.edu (Edit Jakab)
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 14:32:43 EST
Subject: room to share in Toronto
Message-ID: <WED.24.DEC.1997.143243.EST.>

If any non-smoking female is interested in sharing a room in Toronto
Marriott Eaton Centre, she can reply to me off-list.  I have a room with
two twin beds reserved for 3 nights (Dec. 27-30). -Edit


From vac10 at columbia.edu  Wed Dec 24 20:48:10 1997
From: vac10 at columbia.edu (Vitaly A. Chernetsky)
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 15:48:10 -0500
Subject: Toronto
Message-ID: <WED.24.DEC.1997.154810.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

I would like to encourage those of you who will be attending the AATSEEL
convention in Toronto also to attend the Slavic-themed panels at the MLA,
at the Sheraton Centre, a mere couple of blocks from the Marriott. There
are seven of them this year:

(Myth)Representations of Bosnia and the Bosnian Crisis (Dec. 28, 8:30
a.m., Norfolk Room)

Blood and Nation (Dec. 28, 1:45 p.m., Norfolk)

Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary East European and Post-Soviet
Culture: Prospects for a Dialogue (Dec. 29, 10:15 a.m., City Hall Room)

Sex and Death (Dec. 29, 12 noon, Norfolk)

Baltic Postcolonial Literature: Self and Other (Dec. 29, 7:15 p.m.,
Kenora Room)

Totalitarian Art (Dec. 30, 10:15 a.m., York Room)

Postcolonial Literatures of East Central Europe (Dec. 30, 12 noon, Elgin
Room)

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes,
Vitaly Chernetsky

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Vitaly A. Chernetsky                    tel. (212) 854-5580 (office)
Assistant Professor                                854-3941 (dept.)
Department of Slavic Languages          fax  (212) 854-5009
708 Hamilton Hall                       e-mail: vac10 at columbia.edu
Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
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From Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de  Mon Dec 29 12:38:32 1997
From: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de (Bjoern Wiemer)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 13:38:32 +0100
Subject: Slavic vs. Slavonic
Message-ID: <MON.29.DEC.1997.133832.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello,

I am a German scholar dealing with Slavonic (Slavic??) languages and would
be anxious to know whether there are any obliging terminological norms as to
how we should name the languages of our investigations in press. Is it
'Slavonic' or 'Slavic'? Is this a question of personal preferences or are
there meaningful distinctions that have to be borne in mind when using these
adjectives?
        Sometimes I have the feeling that the latter is used rather with
respect to ethnic groups (prehistorical tribes, nations etc.), whereas the
former seems to be preferred for naming the language(s). Am I correct?
        The same, mutatis mutandis, concerns the name of people dealing with
these languages: are we 'Slavists' or 'Slavicists'?

        I should be grateful for competent comments on this topic and shall
be willing to deliver a summary of respective replies.

        And - by the way - Happy New Year!

Bjoern Wiemer.


#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#

Bjoern Wiemer
Universitaet Konstanz
Philosophische Fakultaet / FG Sprachwissenschaft - Slavistik
Postfach 55 60 - D 179
D- 78457 Konstanz

e-mail: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de
tel.: 07531 / 88- 2582
fax:  07531 / 88- 4007
                - 2741

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From billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de  Sun Dec 28 17:48:26 1997
From: billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de (Loren A. BILLINGS)
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 11:48:26 -0600
Subject: Slavistik vs. Slawistik (was: Slavic vs. Slavonic)
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19971229123832.006b2488@popserver.uni-konstanz.de>
Message-ID: <SUN.28.DEC.1997.114826.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>I am a German scholar dealing with Slavonic (Slavic??) languages and would
>be anxious to know whether there are any obliging terminological norms as to
>how we should name the languages of our investigations in press. Is it
>'Slavonic' or 'Slavic'? Is this a question of personal preferences or are
>there meaningful distinctions that have to be borne in mind when using these
>adjectives?

_Slavonic_ is generally used in Britain, while _Slavic_ is used in America.
(One notable exception:  OCS is generally Old Church _Slavonic_ in the
States.  A word in Russian that is not E.Sl., but from liturgical, S.Sl.
influence, is called a _Slavonicism_ in the United States.)

In the German-speaking world, there is an (albeit orthographic) distinction
between _Slawistik_ (roughly speaking, in Austria and East Germany) and
_Slavistik_ (used elsewhere).  Predictably, this distinction has become
functionalized.  With German unification, some places, such as my own
current affiliation (for two more days) in the former East Germany, use
_Slavistik_; I've heard of some places where the institute's name is
spelled one way while the name of a publication there is spelled the other
way.


From Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de  Tue Dec 30 09:00:56 1997
From: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de (Bjoern Wiemer)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 10:00:56 +0100
Subject: Slavistik vs. Slawistik (was: Slavic vs. Slavonic)
Message-ID: <TUE.30.DEC.1997.100056.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Whoever answered my letter thank you. But I don't understand by a
"functionalized distinction" between 'SlaVistik' and 'SlaWistik'. There are,
to my knowledge, no differences on the content level of the way you spell
the word in German. It is rather a matter of tradition and, consequently,
lazyness. I am from the Western part of Germany and would write only
SlaVistik (as you say); but this use is also strengthened by the fact that
when translitering Cyrillic characters into Latin ones, V is used, not W.

>In the German-speaking world, there is an (albeit orthographic) distinction
>between _Slawistik_ (roughly speaking, in Austria and East Germany) and
>_Slavistik_ (used elsewhere).  Predictably, this distinction has become
>functionalized.  With German unification, some places, such as my own
>current affiliation (for two more days) in the former East Germany, use
>_Slavistik_; I've heard of some places where the institute's name is
>spelled one way while the name of a publication there is spelled the other
>way.
>


With kind regards,
Bjoern Wiemer.



#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#+#

Bjoern Wiemer
Universitaet Konstanz
Philosophische Fakultaet / FG Sprachwissenschaft - Slavistik
Postfach 55 60 - D 179
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From billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de  Mon Dec 29 14:28:23 1997
From: billings at rz.uni-leipzig.de (Loren A. BILLINGS)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 08:28:23 -0600
Subject: Slavistik/Slawistik as shibboleth
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19971230090056.006e12e8@popserver.uni-konstanz.de>
Message-ID: <MON.29.DEC.1997.082823.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Bjoern Wiemer wrote the following:

>Whoever answered my letter thank you. But I don't understand by a
>"functionalized distinction" between 'SlaVistik' and 'SlaWistik'. There are,
>to my knowledge, no differences on the content level of the way you spell
>the word in German. It is rather a matter of tradition and, consequently,
>lazyness. I am from the Western part of Germany and would write only
>SlaVistik (as you say); but this use is also strengthened by the fact that
>when translitering Cyrillic characters into Latin ones, V is used, not W.

Before that, I had written he following:

>>In the German-speaking world, there is an (albeit orthographic) distinction
>>between _Slawistik_ (roughly speaking, in Austria and East Germany) and
>>_Slavistik_ (used elsewhere).  Predictably, this distinction has become
>>functionalized.  With German unification, some places, such as my own
>>current affiliation (for two more days) in the former East Germany, use
>>_Slavistik_; I've heard of some places where the institute's name is
>>spelled one way while the name of a publication there is spelled the other
>>way.

I agree that there is complete homophony between the two spellings.  The
distinction between _Slavic_ and _Slavonic_ in English is more real
linguistically.  Still, the choice between _Slavistik_ and _Slawistik_
(specifically in the _Neue L"ande_) functions as a shibboleth of sorts, in
the sense that the writer is inevitably identified with a particular camp
by his/her choice.  That's all I wished to point out.

Happy new year!  --Loren Billings


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Tue Dec 30 18:25:08 1997
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 13:25:08 -0500
Subject: Soros Supplementary Grants Program, 1998-99 (fwd)
Message-ID: <TUE.30.DEC.1997.132508.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

FYI

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 21:37:01 -0500
From: Center for Civil Society International <ccsi at u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list <civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Soros Supplementary Grants Program, 1998-99

From: "Dennis McConnell, Maine Business School" <mac at MAINE.MAINE.EDU>


I have recently received the attached announcement. CEE/NIS  list
members may want to bring this grant program to the attention  of
their  students.  If  I understand  the  announcement  correctly,
grants  are provided for students from the Baltics,  Central  and
East Europe, Russia, and Central Asia who wish to continue  their
education  in neighboring countries. Please direct  inquiries  to
the contact provided at the end of the announcement.
*****************************************************************
           Soros Supplementary Grants Program 1998-99
  Social Sciences, Humanities, Fine and Performing Arts Fields
                      Academic Year 1998-99
*****************************************************************
Program  description:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The program was created to assist students studying in the  coun-
tries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and
Mongolia.   The goal is to support cross-cultural,  intraregional
student mobility as part of the Open Society Institute's  overall
efforts to strengthen the academic network within and among these
countries.

This  program offers grants to students of the  social  sciences,
humanities,  and  fine and performing arts who have  already  ar-
ranged  for  part  of the costs of their  study  to  be  covered.
Awards are offered for one academic year only and will be granted
in amounts ranging form $1,000 to $5,000.

Awards  are  available to undergraduates (except for 0  year  and
first  year students) and post-graduates enrolled  at  recognized
institutes  of higher education outside of their home country  or
permanent residence, and in one of the countries listed below.

Participating countries are as follows (no exceptions):

Albania,  Armenia,  Azerbaijan, Belarus,  Bosnia  &  Herzegovina,
Bulgaria,  Croatia,  Czech Republic, Estonia,  Georgia,  Hungary,
Kazakstan,  Kyrgyzstan,  Latvia, Lithuania,  Macedonia,  Moldova,
Mongolia,  Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia,  Tajikis-
tan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.

Applicants for support for studies in Western Europe, the  United
States,  or  in any other country not listed above  will  not  be
considered. Applicants from any county not listed above will also
NOT be considered.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Eligibility:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Interested applicants must meet the following criteria:

* be enrolled in social sciences, humanities or fine and perform-
  ing  arts  degree program at a recognized institute  of  higher
  education of the countries listed above;
* be  a  citizen, or permanent resident, of a  different  country
  listed above;
* have  an  outstanding record of academic achievement  shown  by
  transcripts and references;
* have  proof of appropriate language skills for the  country  in
  which they are studying;
* demonstrate  commitment  to return to their home  country  upon
  completion of their degree;
* have proof of other sources of support.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Selection  Criteria:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
All  applicants meeting the eligibility criteria will be  consid-
ered.  Selection will be based on the academic merit of  the  ap-
plicant  as well as of the proposed study, the applicant's  goals
as  expressed in the written essays, and the completeness of  the
application  (especially the validity of the proof of other  sup-
port).
-----------------------------------------------------------------
How to apply:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Complete  an application form in English or in your  native  lan-
guage  with  a full certified English  translation.   Submit  the
original  application form with all supporting documents  to  the
local Soros Foundation scholarships office in your home  country,
in the country where you study, or to the following address:

                     Open Society Institute
                  Network Scholarship Programs
                         Oktober 6. u.12
                     1051 Budapest, Hungary

For  further  information and/or a free application  form  please
apply at:
                       Natasha Pozdnyakova
                      Tel: (7-095) 928-0926
                      Fax: (7-095) 288-9512
                      E-mail: pozdn at osi.ru
Postal Address:
                      107078 Russia, Moscow
                     B. Kozlovsky per. 13/17
                  Network Scholarships Program
                     Open Society Institute
*****************************************************************


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Tue Dec 30 18:26:18 1997
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 13:26:18 -0500
Subject: Moscow Times now online (fwd)
Message-ID: <TUE.30.DEC.1997.132618.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

One other FYI

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 21:52:23 -0500
From: Center for Civil Society International <ccsi at u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list <civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Moscow Times now online

                                    x-post from FSUmedia


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                 www.moscowtimes.ru

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In marketing the site, The Moscow Times has tried to
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As a result, the site is divided into some free services and
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Free services available to all users include access to short
introductions of all the stories that appear in the paper, the
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Access to the rest of the web site will be restricted. Only
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From jronald at Bayou.UH.EDU  Wed Dec 31 04:13:20 1997
From: jronald at Bayou.UH.EDU (John J Ronald)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 22:13:20 -0600
Subject: Slavistik/Slawistik as shibboleth
In-Reply-To: <v03102801b0cd61d1f458@[128.2.188.62]>
Message-ID: <TUE.30.DEC.1997.221320.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Loren A. BILLINGS wrote:

> Bjoern Wiemer wrote the following:
>
> > I am from the Western part of Germany and would write only
> >SlaVistik (as you say); but this use is also strengthened by the fact that
> >when translitering Cyrillic characters into Latin ones, V is used, not W.
>
> Before that, I had written he following:
>
> >>In the German-speaking world, there is an (albeit orthographic) distinction
> >>between _Slawistik_ (roughly speaking, in Austria and East Germany) and
> >>_Slavistik_ (used elsewhere).  Predictably, this distinction has become
> >>functionalized.  With German unification, some places, such as my own
> >>current affiliation (for two more days) in the former East Germany, use
> >>_Slavistik_; I've heard of some places where the institute's name is
> >>spelled one way while the name of a publication there is spelled the other
> >>way.

I am not a German but an American with an MA in German
Studies who nonetheless studied Russian as an academic
minor and who has always been interested in Slavic Literature,
especially the Czechs.  In writing about Slavic stuff in
German I always say >>Slawistik<<, but only out of a desire
to emphasize the German (And POLISH) usage of >>W<< as being equivalent
to english >>V<< and German >>V<< being more correctly
associated with english >>F<<.  However, in at the end of
words, I tend to retain the latin >>V<< usage, since
linguistically this is more of an >>F<< sound in
German....for example: Rostov anstatt Rostow, oder
Romanov anstatt Romanow.  In ENglish this is often
rendered not with >>V<< but rather with >FF<.  Smirnoff Vodka,
for example.

> I agree that there is complete homophony between the two spellings.  The
> distinction between _Slavic_ and _Slavonic_ in English is more real
> linguistically.

As an ignorant Germanist, could you please explain to me
(via private e-mail, so as not to bore the rest of
SEELANGS) the difference?

>  Still, the choice between _Slavistik_ and _Slawistik_
> (specifically in the _Neue L"ande_)

(In den NEUEN LAENDER, by the way)

> functions as a shibboleth of sorts, in
> the sense that the writer is inevitably identified with a particular camp
> by his/her choice.  That's all I wished to point out.

Again, could you please expain this?  I confess
total ignorance on this point and desire enlightentment...

--John Ronald
Rice University
Dept.  of German & Slavic Studies