3RD GRADUATE DOSTOEVSKIJ SUMMER PROGRAM

[Cynthia Simmons]

Please post the following announcement on SEELANGS.  Thank you in
advance:

3rd Graduate Dostoevskij Summer Program in St. Petersburg
(15 June-24 July 1998)

Boston College and Indiana University are sponsoring the third
graduate-level summer session at the Dostoevskij Museum
(Literaturno-memorial'nyj muzej F. M. Dostoevskogo) in St. Petersburg
in conjunction with the Institute of Russian Literature of the Academy
of Sciences (Pushkinskij Dom).

The summer session is designed for post-AB students with at least three
to four years of Russian-language study who are working on PhD or MA
degrees in Russian or Comparative Literature 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 conduct
the courses and seminars for the program and provide consultation of
research and dissertation topics.  A team of faculty members from
American and Russian universities coordinates the program and supervises
the academic offerings.

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

Housing in private homes; this coming summer, wtih the families of the
staff of the Dostoevskij Museum.

Full transferable academic degree credit.

All-inclusive cost (travel by FinnAir via Helsinki, visa, tuition,
graduate registration, private room and board, full cultural program):
$3765 est

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

World-Wide Web posting at:

http://fmwww.bc.edu/sl/kp-Dost.html

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Cynthia Simmons
simmonsc at bc.edu
Boston College