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To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
From: Simmons-SL on Wed, Mar 26, 1997 4:32 PM

Dear Colleagues:

Please bring the following information to the attention of graduate students
and seniors for whom it may be of interest:

GRADUATE DOSTOEVSKIJ SUMMER PROGRAM

ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 16-JULY 25


Sponsored by Boston College, Indiana University, and the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, the  program is designed for post-AB American students with
at least three years of Russian-language study who are working on PhD or MA
degress in Russian or Comparative Literature, Russian History, or other
related fields, or who intend to enter such a program.

Leading literary specialists from the Institute of Russian Literature of the
Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkinskij Dom), St. Petersburg University, the
Gercen Institute, and the Dostoevskij Museum will conduct courses and seminars
and will provide consultation on research and dissertation topics.  The
sponsoring American institutions will coordinate the program and supervise the
academic offerings.

All course in the program are conducted in Russian.  Assistants from the
Dostoevskij Museum will work one-on-one with students to help them adjust to
Russian academic life and to access and utilize the collections and archives
at the Museum, the Pushkinskij Dom, and the Saltykov-Shchedrin Library.

  Housing in private homes, with a cultural program focusing on Dostoevskij

  Full transferable academic degree credit

         All inclusive cost (travel, tuition for two courses & graduate
  registration, room & full board, cultural program): $3590 est.


For further information contact: Prof. Cynthia Simmons, Dept. of Slavic and
Eastern Languages, Lyons Hall 210, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
02167-3804; simmonsc at bc.edu Or call 617/552-3914