From deljr at compuserve.com  Sun Aug  1 17:15:35 1999
From: deljr at compuserve.com (Don Livingston)
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 13:15:35 -0400
Subject: Vocabulary Programs
Message-ID: <SUN.1.AUG.1999.131535.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Not only is there such a program out there, it's essentially free of
charge.  It supports most of the Slavic languages, included OCS.  You may
find it on the web at:

        http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/deljr/index.htm

The on-line help features should explain everything the user needs to know.

> Date:    Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:28:24 -0500
> From:    Laura Goering <lgoering at carleton.edu>
> Subject: vocabulary programs
> 
> I would like to find a program that would allow students to 
> build their own
> vocabulary lists over the course of a semester and then take 
> randomized
> quizzes.  Is there such a program out there?


From jcurtis at ezol.com  Mon Aug  2 00:36:07 1999
From: jcurtis at ezol.com (Jim Curtis)
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 20:36:07 EDT
Subject: The Elulsaive Roman Jakoson Archive
Message-ID: <SUN.1.AUG.1999.203607.EDT.>

Hello All--
    I thanked everyone on this listserv the other day for quick responses to my inquiry about the Roman Jakobson archive.  I think it's the least I can do to update you.
    Several people said that that Jakobson archive was at MIT.  So I visited the MIT Library website. However, there were no e-mail addresses at the website and only one general information number.  However, visitors (intruders?) are sternly warned that "telephone inquiries are discouraged."  Nothing daunted, I called the only number available to me as someone who doesn't teach at Harvard of MIT.  Needless to say, no live person answered the phone and I left a message, which no one has yet returned.
    But several people also said that the Jakobson archive is at UCLA.  I even got the e-mail address of someone whom I don't known but who has a perfectly delicious name--Olga Yokoyama.  So I e-mailed Professor Yokoyama with my request for information.  She e-mailed me back and said that she didn't know where it was, but that she was forwarding my request to Brent Vine, whom I also don't know, and who is President of the Roman Jakobson Society.
(Incidentally, Sic transit gloria mundi--when I initially called the AAASS office, the person who answered had never heard of Roman Jakobson and wanted to know what field he was in.)  Brent Vine didn't know where the archive was, either, and advised me to contact Steven Rudy at NYU, who is writing a biography of Jakobson.  I visited the NYU website and was not surprised to learn that it, too, contained no e-mail addresses.  However, Professor Vine had kindly given me Professor Rudy's number.  So I called that number and...he doesn't have an answering machine.
    This is the "Stand der Forschung" at the moment.  I have enough questions that perhaps I could apply for research support in my quest, for that is what it has become, to find the archive: How many Roman Jakobson archives are there?  Is there only one?  If there is only one, why do so many people think that it's in at least three different places--MIT, UCLA, and NYU?  If there is only one, how would I find out where it is?  If there is more than one, what is the relationship between them?  Are they divided by genre, time period, or what?

Best Wishes to All,

Jim
James M. Curtis, Ph. D.
5531 Doral Drive
Wilmington, DE 19808
302/366-0545
jcurtis at ezol.com


From Subhash.Jaireth at agso.gov.au  Mon Aug  2 03:12:19 1999
From: Subhash.Jaireth at agso.gov.au (Subhash Jaireth)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:12:19 +1000
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.131219.1000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

                Dear Friends,

                I am a member of the Canberra branch of the International
PEN. The International PEN is an organisation of writers and journalists.
Its aim is to highlight cases where writers and journalists are persecuted
for expressing their ideas. Every year in Canberra we plant a tree in the
memory of writers who have died in prisons or killed for exercising their
right to freedom of speech. In Canberra there is a memorial walkway that has
trees to commemorate Ken Saro Wiva, the Nigerian writer and dramatist,
Robert Walker, an Aboriginal Australian writer who died in a Perth prison,
Four Australian journalists who were killed in East Timor. This year we are
planning to plant a tree in the memory of
*       The Russian editor of a newspaper of who was killed in her office
for exposing corruption in the government of a chess-loving President of a
Republic in Russia; and
*       Galina Staravoitova, who was murdered in St. Petersburg

                I shall be grateful if you could send me any  information
about the two women journalists. I am sorry that I don't even know the name
of the first journalist. I shall be grateful if you can send me some
references to their journalistic writing.

                Thanks


Subhash Jaireth


From dworth at ucla.edu  Mon Aug  2 04:46:23 1999
From: dworth at ucla.edu (Dean Worth)
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 21:46:23 -0700
Subject: No subject
In-Reply-To: <0B22652400E4D211829A0060B0570D9B56509C@agsomail1.agso.gov. au>
Message-ID: <SUN.1.AUG.1999.214623.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleague,
        I can't help you with information, but I would like to stay on your
mailing list. Dean Worth (Professor, UCLA)

At 01:12 PM 8/2/99 +1000, you wrote:
>                Dear Friends,
>
>                I am a member of the Canberra branch of the International
>PEN. The International PEN is an organisation of writers and journalists.
>Its aim is to highlight cases where writers and journalists are persecuted
>for expressing their ideas. Every year in Canberra we plant a tree in the
>memory of writers who have died in prisons or killed for exercising their
>right to freedom of speech. In Canberra there is a memorial walkway that has
>trees to commemorate Ken Saro Wiva, the Nigerian writer and dramatist,
>Robert Walker, an Aboriginal Australian writer who died in a Perth prison,
>Four Australian journalists who were killed in East Timor. This year we are
>planning to plant a tree in the memory of
>*       The Russian editor of a newspaper of who was killed in her office
>for exposing corruption in the government of a chess-loving President of a
>Republic in Russia; and
>*       Galina Staravoitova, who was murdered in St. Petersburg
>
>                I shall be grateful if you could send me any  information
>about the two women journalists. I am sorry that I don't even know the name
>of the first journalist. I shall be grateful if you can send me some
>references to their journalistic writing.
>
>                Thanks
>
>
>Subhash Jaireth
>


From hebaran at ibm.net  Mon Aug  2 06:02:58 1999
From: hebaran at ibm.net (Henryk Baran)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 02:02:58 -0400
Subject: The Elulsaive Roman Jakoson Archive
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.020258.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The Jakobson archive is Manuscript Collection 72 at MIT. Period. All the
rest is irrelevant.  One of the previous messages had the contact points for
Institute Archives and Special Collections; not everything is on the web
yet, thank God.
Henryk Baran
University at Albany, SUNY
hebaran at ibm.net; hbaran at cnsvax.albany.edu
hbaran at mail.fipc.ru

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Curtis <jcurtis at ezol.com>
To: <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 8:36 PM
Subject: The Elulsaive Roman Jakoson Archive


Hello All--
    I thanked everyone on this listserv the other day for quick responses to
my inquiry about the Roman Jakobson archive.  I think it's the least I can
do to update you.
    Several people said that that Jakobson archive was at MIT.  So I visited
the MIT Library website. However, there were no e-mail addresses at the
website and only one general information number.  However, visitors
(intruders?) are sternly warned that "telephone inquiries are discouraged."
Nothing daunted, I called the only number available to me as someone who
doesn't teach at Harvard of MIT.  Needless to say, no live person answered
the phone and I left a message, which no one has yet returned.
    But several people also said that the Jakobson archive is at UCLA.  I
even got the e-mail address of someone whom I don't known but who has a
perfectly delicious name--Olga Yokoyama.  So I e-mailed Professor Yokoyama
with my request for information.  She e-mailed me back and said that she
didn't know where it was, but that she was forwarding my request to Brent
Vine, whom I also don't know, and who is President of the Roman Jakobson
Society.
(Incidentally, Sic transit gloria mundi--when I initially called the AAASS
office, the person who answered had never heard of Roman Jakobson and wanted
to know what field he was in.)  Brent Vine didn't know where the archive
was, either, and advised me to contact Steven Rudy at NYU, who is writing a
biography of Jakobson.  I visited the NYU website and was not surprised to
learn that it, too, contained no e-mail addresses.  However, Professor Vine
had kindly given me Professor Rudy's number.  So I called that number
and...he doesn't have an answering machine.
    This is the "Stand der Forschung" at the moment.  I have enough
questions that perhaps I could apply for research support in my quest, for
that is what it has become, to find the archive: How many Roman Jakobson
archives are there?  Is there only one?  If there is only one, why do so
many people think that it's in at least three different places--MIT, UCLA,
and NYU?  If there is only one, how would I find out where it is?  If there
is more than one, what is the relationship between them?  Are they divided
by genre, time period, or what?

Best Wishes to All,

Jim
James M. Curtis, Ph. D.
5531 Doral Drive
Wilmington, DE 19808
302/366-0545
jcurtis at ezol.com


From E.Mikhailik at unsw.edu.au  Mon Aug  2 10:07:01 1999
From: E.Mikhailik at unsw.edu.au (Elena Mikhailik)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 20:07:01 +1000
Subject: No subject
In-Reply-To: <0B22652400E4D211829A0060B0570D9B56509C@agsomail1.agso.gov. au>
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.200701.1000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleague,

The name of the murdered journalist was Larissa Udina.  Information on her
could be found at www.yabloko.ru.  I am not sure, though, whether they have
anything in English.

Sincerely yours,

Elena Mikhailik

At 13:12 2/08/99 +1000, you wrote:
>                Dear Friends,
>
>                I am a member of the Canberra branch of the International
>PEN. The International PEN is an organisation of writers and journalists.
>Its aim is to highlight cases where writers and journalists are persecuted
>for expressing their ideas. Every year in Canberra we plant a tree in the
>memory of writers who have died in prisons or killed for exercising their
>right to freedom of speech. In Canberra there is a memorial walkway that has
>trees to commemorate Ken Saro Wiva, the Nigerian writer and dramatist,
>Robert Walker, an Aboriginal Australian writer who died in a Perth prison,
>Four Australian journalists who were killed in East Timor. This year we are
>planning to plant a tree in the memory of
>*       The Russian editor of a newspaper of who was killed in her office
>for exposing corruption in the government of a chess-loving President of a
>Republic in Russia; and
>*       Galina Staravoitova, who was murdered in St. Petersburg
>
>                I shall be grateful if you could send me any  information
>about the two women journalists. I am sorry that I don't even know the name
>of the first journalist. I shall be grateful if you can send me some
>references to their journalistic writing.
>
>                Thanks
>
>
>Subhash Jaireth
>
>
>


From Lozansky at aol.com  Mon Aug  2 14:24:07 1999
From: Lozansky at aol.com (Edward D. Lozansky)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:24:07 EDT
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.102407.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Subhash Jaireth,

I want to commend you on your noble project to honor Russian martyrs. I
suggest that you contact Russian PEN for the information on these ladies.
Their phone in Moscow is (7095)-209-4589 or (7095)-209-9867. Unfortunately I
do not have their email but I will try to get it and send it to you as soon
as I can.

Edward Lozansky
President, American University in Moscow
Lozansky at aol.com


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Mon Aug  2 17:06:16 1999
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:06:16 -0700
Subject: The Elusive Roman Jakoson Archive
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.100616.0700.>

Jim
Thanks for the precious note -- that the person at AAASS had not heard
of Roman Jakobson and asked what field he was in?
Ho, ho, ho, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha !
Perhaps more time could be spent on PR?
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

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


From KalbJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu  Mon Aug  2 17:21:53 1999
From: KalbJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu (Judith E Kalb)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:21:53 -0400
Subject: address for I.P. Foote
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.132153.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,
Do you have an email address or postal address for I.P. Foote? I'd be
grateful for any assistance you may be able to provide.
Thanks and best wishes,
Judith Kalb


Dr. Judith E. Kalb
Assistant Professor of Russian
Director of the Russian Program
Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Langs. and Lits.
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-9615
Email: KalbJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu


From ltaylor at dudley.lib.usf.edu  Mon Aug  2 19:48:00 1999
From: ltaylor at dudley.lib.usf.edu (Lisa Taylor (REF-GA))
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 15:48:00 -0400
Subject: The Elusive Roman Jakobson Archive...
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.154800.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

...is indeed at MIT.  I just did an author search in MIT's online public
access catalog and several of the results received were annotated "ARCHIVE
NO LOAN."

Hope this helps!

Lisa Taylor
ltaylor at lib.usf.edu


From gmmst11+ at pitt.edu  Mon Aug  2 19:59:40 1999
From: gmmst11+ at pitt.edu (Gerald McCausland)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 15:59:40 -0400
Subject: The Elusive Roman Jakoson Archive
In-Reply-To: <37A5D008.68B2@wolfenet.com>
Message-ID: <MON.2.AUG.1999.155940.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

--On Monday, August 02, 1999, 10:06 AM -0700 Genevra Gerhart
<ggerhart at wolfenet.com> wrote:r

> Thanks for the precious note -- that the person at AAASS had not heard
> of Roman Jakobson and asked what field he was in?
> Ho, ho, ho, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha !

This was also my initial reaction. But perhaps we should be a little more
charitable. Front-line receptionists are supposed to know how to direct you
to the information you are looking for, not necessarily to possess it
themselves. Or has the job market already reached the point where we expect
PhD's in Slavic linguistics to be applying their graduate training
answering phones in the offices of our professional associations?

Jerry.

----------------------------
Jerry McCausland
University of Pittsburgh
gmmst11+ at pitt.edu
http://www.pitt.edu/~gmmst11


From j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk  Tue Aug  3 12:51:14 1999
From: j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk (J.M. Andrew)
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:51:14 +0100
Subject: address for I.P. Foote
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990802132153.008053b0@garnet.cla.sc.edu> from "Judith
 E Kalb" at Aug 2, 99 01:21:53 pm
Message-ID: <TUE.3.AUG.1999.135114.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Paul (as he is known) Foote used to be based at Queen's College, Oxford.

Joe Andrew

>
> Dear Colleagues,
> Do you have an email address or postal address for I.P. Foote? I'd be
> grateful for any assistance you may be able to provide.
> Thanks and best wishes,
> Judith Kalb
>
>
> Dr. Judith E. Kalb
> Assistant Professor of Russian
> Director of the Russian Program
> Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Langs. and Lits.
> University of South Carolina
> Columbia, SC 29208
> Phone: (803) 777-9615
> Email: KalbJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu
>


From cn29 at columbia.edu  Tue Aug  3 14:19:03 1999
From: cn29 at columbia.edu (Catharine Nepomnyashchy)
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:19:03 -0400
Subject: URGENT!  Research Help Needed (fwd)
Message-ID: <TUE.3.AUG.1999.101903.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:53:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Eric Laney <kel1 at columbia.edu>
To: Undisclosed recipients:  ;
Subject: URGENT!  Research Help Needed (fwd)

Maybe someone can help this man!

KLaney

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 03:50:31 -0400
From: "Murphy, Gregory (SCPS)" <gmurphy at shelby.k12.ky.us>
To: "'kel1 at columbia.edu'" <kel1 at columbia.edu>
Subject: URGENT!  Research Help Needed

I am in need of some very urgent research assistance, perhaps you may even
know the answer without any research.  PLEASE read on and forward this
request to anyone you know who may be able to assist me.

My father passed away Saturday, July 31, 1999.  He was a retired minister
and spent his last few years doing mission work with the people of Russia,
Poland, and Tanzania, but his greatest love was for the people of Russia.
He had just completed the manuscript for a book entitled Russian Harvest,
which is to be published in September.  HERE IS WHERE I NEED YOUR URGENT
HELP.  TIME IS VERY CRITICAL!

My father included the following passage from Anton Chekhov in his
manuscript:  "You cannot know Moscow until you have seen it from here."  My
father's publisher must know the source of this quote.  I have looked
through every book my father owns on Russia and cannot find this quote.  The
publisher needs this reference very soon or the passage will have to be
removed from the manuscript.  We greatly desire to keep my father's text
complete.

Please, if you have any way of researching this or passing this message on
to your library or someone else, I would be eternally grateful.

Thank you very much for considering this request.


My e-mail address is:

gmurphy at shelby.k12.ky.us


From KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com  Tue Aug  3 14:46:00 1999
From: KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com (UDUT, KENNETH)
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:46:00 -0400
Subject: Microsoft Excel Macro for viewing 1 wrd at a time
Message-ID: <TUE.3.AUG.1999.104600.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I put together this quickie little macro for use with a list of
words.

I downloaded a Russian/English dictionary from somewhere online, and put it
into
Microsoft Excel, changing the font to display Cyrillic correctly, etc.

This macro displays one item at a time, pauses for a few seconds, then moves

onto the next word.  I keep it running in the upper right hand side of
my screen at work, so that I can glance up and at least get some exposure to
new words while I am working - even if I am not ready to sit down and
concentrate fully on remembering them just yet.

If it's useful, then I'm happy :)  If useless, then I'm sorry for the
bandwidth.
 Any questions about what the heck this all is, e-mail:
kenneth.udut at spcorp.com.
 I put it together solely for my own usage, but if you know a little about
visual basic in Excel, it shouldn't be a problem to use.

-Kenneth
kenneth.udut at spcorp.com


Sub shortdisplay()

'THE FOLLOWING MACRO CAN BE USED FOR ANYTHING THAT YOU WANT
'TO LOOK AT, PAUSE FOR A FEW SECONDS, THEN MOVE ON TO
'THE NEXT, AUTOMATICALLY.
'
'I AM USING IT WITH A FREEWARE RUSSIAN DICTIONARY THAT I DOWNLOADED.
'RESIZE THE EXCEL WINDOW SO THAT IT ONLY SHOWS THE RUSSIAN WORD AND
'THE ENGLISH WORD (LOCATED IN COLUMNS A AND B.  I PUT IT IN THE
'UPPER-RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE SCREEN.  THEN RUN THE MACRO.  IT WILL
'ASK YOU WHICH ROW # YOU WOULD LIKE TO START AT.  ASSUMING THAT YOUR
'DICTIONARY HAS 30000 ENTRIES, THIS CAN BE STARTING AT ROW 5000 OR
'ROW 1 OR WHEREVER.  TO STOP THE MACRO RUNNING, SIMPLY HIT ESCAPE.
'HOPE SOMEONE FINDS THIS USEFUL.      -KENNETH.UDUT at SPCORP.COM 08-01-99

Dim PauseTime, Start, Finish, TotalTime, curr_row

MyNumber = InputBox("What row # would you like to start from?", "Select
Starting
Row...")

curr_row = MyNumber

Do Until curr_row = 30000



'displays words for 8 secs

PauseTime = 8   ' Set duration in seconds
    Start = Timer   ' Set start time.
    Do While Timer < Start + PauseTime
        'DoEvents    ' Yield to other processes.

        Cells(curr_row, 1).Activate

    Loop

'UNCOMMENT IF YOU WANT THE TEXT YOU ARE TRYING TO MEMORIZE
'TO DISAPPEAR FOR A FEW SECONDS

'pauses on blank cells for 4 seconds
'
'PauseTime = 4   ' Set duration.
'    Start = Timer   ' Set start time.
'    Do While Timer < Start + PauseTime
'        'DoEvents    ' Yield to other processes.
'
'        Cells(curr_row, 3).Activate
'
'    Loop



    curr_row = curr_row + 1
    Finish = Timer  ' Set end time.
    TotalTime = Finish - Start

Loop

End Sub


From KalbJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu  Tue Aug  3 16:23:13 1999
From: KalbJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu (Judith E Kalb)
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:23:13 -0400
Subject: address for I.P. Foote
In-Reply-To: <E11Be2E-0007e3-00@owat.kis.keele.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <TUE.3.AUG.1999.122313.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Many thanks to all who have sent Professor Foote's address--much appreciated!
Judith Kalb


Dr. Judith E. Kalb
Assistant Professor of Russian
Director of the Russian Program
Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Langs. and Lits.
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-9615
Email: KalbJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Thu Aug  5 13:56:00 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 09:56:00 -0400
Subject: Bach in Ukraine
Message-ID: <THU.5.AUG.1999.095600.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The recent AP release overlooks the fact that it was the work of Drs.
Grimsted and Boriak that actually located the archive and negotiated access
to it. Here's the fuller story:

=====================================================

Bach Musical Estate Surfaces in Ukraine

The long lost musical estate of Johann Sebastian Bach's second son, Carl
Philipp Emanuel Bach, has been rediscovered in Kyiv, Ukraine, where it is
preserved as part of the music archive of the Berlin Sing-Akademie. The
Sing-Akademie's archive, with one of the world's most important collections
of 18th-century music including significant and largely unique Bach family
materials, had been evacuated from Berlin to Ullersdorf Castle, Silesia
(now Polish, Oldrzychowice Klodzkie), in 1943 during World War II, but then
disappeared. With no information available about its postwar fate, it has
been missing for over half a century and long feared destroyed.

Christoph Wolff, professor of music at Harvard University and dean of its
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, whose new biography of J. S. Bach
will appear early next year at W. W. Norton, has been following several
leads to the whereabouts of the material for more than two decades in
connection with research on the musical sources of the Bach family. Dr.
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, an associate of the Ukrainian Research Institute
at Harvard University, who directs a project on Russian and Ukrainian
archives, has been searching in Ukraine in connection with her book now in
press at Harvard, Trophies of War and Empire. The close collaboration
between Professor Wolff and Dr. Grimsted at Harvard University, together
with Professor Hennadii Boriak, Deputy Director of the Institute of
Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Studies of the Ukrainian Academy of
Sciences, led to the recent discovery. Earlier last month Professor Wolff,
Dr. Grimsted, and Barbara Wolff, music cataloger of Harvard's Houghton
Library identified and examined the Sing-Akademie collection in the Central
State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine in Kyiv.   The Berlin
Sing-Akademie, founded in 1791 by Carl Friedrich Fasch (a colleague and
friend of the younger Bach) and directed from 1800 to 1832 by Carl
Friedrich Zelter, presented a celebrated performance of Bach's St. Matthew
Passion in 1829 under the direction of Zelter's pupil, the young Felix
Mendelssohn. Its music archive contains well over 5,000 items (mostly
manuscripts) that have been preserved in excellent conditions.

Even before its wartime disappearance, as a private collection without a
professional archivist, the materials were largely inaccessible to
scholars, and its only provisionally catalogued holdings have never been
systematically studied.

The estate of C. P. E. Bach (1714-1788) which forms a central portion of
the Sing-Akademie archive includes music by his father and brothers, a
collection of works by his father's ancestors called "Old Bach Archive"
(many in copies from J. S. Bach's hand) and, most important, the bulk of
his own compositions in autograph or authorized copies, among them 20
Passions, 50 keyboard concertos, and many other vocal and instrumental
works. Most of the compositions, including all the Passions, more than two
thirds of the keyboard concertos, many chamber works, and songs are
unpublished and have never been available for performance or study. Led by
a team of scholars at Harvard University and the Bach Archive in Leipzig,
Germany, The Collected Works of C. P. E. Bach are currently being edited
under the auspices of the Packard Humanities Institute, with Christopher
Hogwood as chair of the editorial board.   In addition to important 17th-
and 18th-century manuscripts, the Sing-Akademie Library also contains
substantial holdings (in part stemming from the Bach estate) of works by
Georg Philipp Telemann (220-plus cantatas), Carl Heinrich and Johann
Gottlieb Graun (more than 150 vocal and 420-plus instrumental sources),
Johann Adolf Hasse (ca. 130 vocal and 80 instrumental sources), Franz and
Georg Benda (ca. 120 works), and compositions by many musicians from 18th-
and early 19th-century Berlin, most of them associated with the Prussian
court. Goethe's letters to Zelter, from the famous Goethe-Zelter
correspondence, also form part of the archive.

Trophy art, library books, and archives from Western Europe transferred to
the former USSR after World War II were for the most part kept in hiding
throughout the Soviet period. But since its independence, Ukraine has led
former Soviet republics in restitution efforts and signed a cultural
agreement with Germany providing for the mutual return of wartime cultural
trophies. A number of symbolic acts of restitution have taken place in
recent years, including the 1996 return to the Dresden Art Gallery of
valuable albums of drawings and lithographs found in Kyiv and the return of
three drawings to the Bremen Kunsthalle from private sources in 1997.
Ukraine has simultaneously received from the Germany some important
cultural treasures that had been seized by the Nazis during the war.

The over 5,000 music scores from the Sing-Akademie Library in Berlin
identified this summer in Kyiv undoubtedly represent the most valuable
trophy collection to have surfaced in Ukraine. The Main Archival
Administration of Ukraine and the Central State Archive-Museum of
Literature and Art are closely cooperating with the Harvard specialists and
agreed to planning a collaborative project with Harvard University and the
Packard Humanities Institute to make these uniquely important materials
available for research and performance. A catalogue of the Bachiana in the
Sing-Akademie Archive is projected as part of the Bach Repertorium series,
a research project on the music of the Bach family jointly undertaken by
the Harvard Music Department and the Leipzig Bach Archive.

It is hoped that the Academy of Music in Kyiv will be able to participate.
The project will also be closely coordinated with the Sing-Akademie of
Berlin, one of Germany's oldest continuing performing organizations, and
there is hope that the priceless musical sources will eventually be
returned to their original home.

____________________________________________________
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 john_crist at usip.org  Fri Aug  6 03:36:01 1999
From: john_crist at usip.org (John Crist)
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:36:01 EDT
Subject: fellowship announcements
Message-ID: <THU.5.AUG.1999.233601.EDT.>

Senior Fellowship

The United States Institute of Peace invites applications for the 2000-2001 Senior Fellowship competition in the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace.  The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan institution created by Congress to strengthen the nation's capacity to promote the peaceful resolution of international conflict.  Fellowships are awarded annually to scholars and practitioners from a variety of professions, including college and university faculty, journalists, diplomats, writers, educators, military officers, international negotiators and lawyers.  The Institute funds projects related to preventive diplomacy, ethnic and regional conflicts, peacekeeping and peace operations, peace settlements, post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, democratization and the rule of law, cross-cultural negotiations, U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century, and related topics.  Fellows reside at the Institute for a period of up to ten months to conduct research on their projects, consult with staff, and contribute to the ongoing work of the Institute.  Projects which demonstrate relevance to current policy debates will be highly competitive.  The fellowship award includes a stipend, an office with computer and voicemail, and a part-time research assistant.  The competition is open to citizens of all nations.  Women and members of minorities are especially encouraged to apply.  All application materials must be received in our offices by September 15, 1999.  For more information and an application form, please visit the Institute’s website at <www.usip.org>, or contact the Jennings Randolph Program, U.S. Institute of Peace, 1200 17th Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036-3011, USA, phone:  202.429.3886, fax: 202.429.6063, e-mail: jrprogram at usip.org.


Dissertation Fellowships The United States Institute of Peace invites applications for the 2000-2001 Peace Scholar dissertation fellowship competition of the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace.  The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan institution created by Congress to strengthen the nation's capacity to promote the peaceful resolution of international conflict.  The Peace Scholar program supports doctoral dissertations that explore the sources and nature of international conflict, and strategies to prevent or end conflict and to sustain peace.  Dissertations from a broad range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields are eligible.  Peace Scholars work at their universities or appropriate field research sites.  Priority will be given to projects that contribute knowledge relevant to the formulation of policy on international peace and conflict issues.  Citizens of all countries are eligible, but must be enrolled in an accredited college or university in the United States.  Applicants must have completed all requirements for the degree except the dissertation by the commencement of the award (September 1, 2000).  The dissertation fellowship award is $14,000 for one year and may be used to support writing or field research.  All application materials must be received in our offices by November 15, 1999.  For more information and an application form, please visit the Institute's website at <www.usip.org>, or contact the Jennings Randolph Program, U.S. Institute of Peace, 1200 17th Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036-3011, USA, phone:  202.429.3886, fax: 202.429.6063, e-mail: jrprogram at usip.org.


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Fri Aug  6 18:42:40 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 14:42:40 -0400
Subject: ISO of summer camp in Russia for HS student
Message-ID: <FRI.6.AUG.1999.144240.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Greetings!  I'm looking for any summer language camps for high school age
kids in Russia for next summer.  A student of mine would like to consider
this for next summer -- he'll be 17 at that time.  If you have any
suggestions, please email me directly.

Thanks!

Devin / Divan

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From Wambah at aol.com  Fri Aug  6 19:18:16 1999
From: Wambah at aol.com (Laura Kline)
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:18:16 EDT
Subject: Russian movies
Message-ID: <FRI.6.AUG.1999.151816.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear All,
Would anyone happen to know where I could get a copy of the parallel cinema
movie "Traktory"? It came out in the late 1980s/early 1990s. It is a parody
of official Soviet films, and features two tractors who fall in love.
I am also trying to find two movies/documentaries called "Ivanov" and
"Yahha." They show Grebenshchikov and Leningrad alternative youth
respectively. They are mentioned in Artem Troitsky's book on Russian rock,
"Back in the USSR."
I would be grateful for any help.
Thank you,
Laura Kline


From myadroff at indiana.edu  Mon Aug  9 05:37:08 1999
From: myadroff at indiana.edu (Michael Yadroff)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 00:37:08 -0500
Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 28 Jul 1999 to 29 Jul 1999 (#1999-189)
Message-ID: <MON.9.AUG.1999.003708.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

August 1999: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
                !!!THE BLOOMINGTON MEETING!!!
THE 9TH ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON

        FORMAL APPROACHES TO SLAVIC LINGUISTICS
Hosted by:
    Indiana University, Bloomington

When:
    February 19-20, 2000
Where:
    Bloomington, Indiana (ca. 1 hour south of Indianapolis)
Invited Speakers:
    Wayles Browne, Cornell University
    Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University
___________________________________________________

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Abstracts are invited for 30-minute presentations on topics dealing with
formal aspects of Slavic syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology and
psycholinguistics.
Send 5 copies of a ONE-PAGE ANONYMOUS abstract to:
   FASL9
   Department of Linguistics
   Memorial Hall East, Room 322
   Indiana University
   Bloomington IN 47405-7005
Please also include ONE 3x5 card with:
   1) title of paper
   2) your name
   3) address and affiliation
   4) telephone and fax numbers
   5) e-mail address
(Authors are advised to re-check examples and glosses with speakers of the
languages involved.)
Abstracts Must Be Received By NOVEMBER 22, 1999.
We hope to make a program available by DECEMBER 10, 1999.
Persons interested in attending FASL9 are invited to register their e-mail
and mailing addresses with us at:
   fasl9 at indiana.edu

Web pages will be located at: http://www.indiana.edu/~fasl9/


                         !!!PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics IX      fasl9 at indiana.edu
May 17-19, 1996                                         [tel]
1-812-855-6459/6456
Organizing Committee:                                   [fax] 1-812-855-5363
   George Fowler                                                gfowler at indiana.edu
   Steven Franks        franks at indiana.edu
   Leslie Gabriele      lgabriel at indiana.edu
   Michael Yadroff                              myadroff at indiana.edu
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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

                          !!!SPECIAL SESSIONS!!!

NOTE THE EARLY DATE THIS YEAR, PLUS THE FACT THAT FASL PROPER RUNS
ALL DAY SATURDAY AND AFTER LUNCH SUNDAY. This is because FASL9 is
being held in conjunction with a special workshop/forum on the topic:

                        Slavic Linguistics 2000:
          The Future of Slavic Linguistics in America
                               (SLING2K)

SLING2K is funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education, and will take place
all day on Friday, February 18, 2000. Participants in this event
include the following scholars:

Ronelle Alexander, Edna Andrews, John Bailyn, Christina Bethin, David Birnbaum,
Catherine Chvany, Lenore Grenoble, Charles Gribble, Laura Janda,
Maria Polinsky,
        Adam Przepiorkowski, Irina Sekerina, and Charles Townsend

The uncertain future of the field of Slavic linguistics has given
rise to a number of productive discussions in the pages of journals
such as the Journal of Slavic Linguistics and at the sessions of
meetings such as the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and
East European Languages. In the words of Olga Yokoyama, "the time has
come to take a hard look at the future of our field as an
occupation". The SLING2K workshop is designed to do just this. We are
inviting a variety of experts to submit position papers, which will
be put on the web by 15 December 1999. These are meant to serve as
springboards for discussion, rebuttal, response, and debate. Position
paper authors will summarize what they regard as the state of the
field with respect to their particular subdiscipline(s). Papers
should summarize past achievements and sketch out new directions.
Responses will be entertained on a continuing basis, until the
program is full. We hope that a realistic assessment of the viability
of Slavic linguistics in the 21st century will emerge from the
debate, and that the product of the workshop will be of considerable
use to current and future graduate students in making informed
decisions about the concentration of their academic energies.

The workshop itself will take the form of an interactive forum, where
all participants have read the position papers, and will ideally
respond to one or more of them and participate in a vigorous
give-and-take discussion and general brainstorming session. The
workshop proceedings, including the full text of all position papers,
selected responses, and edited transcripts of the discussions will be
published by Slavica Publishers (the exact schedule and format of the
volume to be shaped by the nature of the actual workshop).

Web pages will be located at: http://www.indiana.edu/~slavconf/

For further information about SLING2K contact George Fowler, as follows:

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
George Fowler                                   [Email] gfowler at indiana.edu
Dept. of Slavic Languages               [dept. tel.] 1-812-855-9906/-2608/-2624
Ballantine 502                                  [dept. fax] 1-812-855-2107
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.                   [home tel./fax] 1-317-726-1482/-1642
Indiana University                              [Slavica tel./fax]
1-812-856-4186/-4187
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103 USA  [Slavica toll-free] 1-877-SLAVICA
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+


        !!!POSTER SESSION ON SLAVIC SEMANTICS!!!

As a special one-time event intended to increase the participation of
semanticists in FASL meetings, there will be a special poster session
(up to 6 posters) on Slavic Semantics at FASL9, concurrent with the
regular Saturday poster session. Abstracts for the special session
will be separately refereed by a committee organized by Barbara
Partee. Papers from this session will not be published in the FASL9
proceedings, but can be submitted for review for a special semantics
issue of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics to be co-edited by Barbara
Partee and Wayles Browne. Please submit abstracts (same
specifications and number of copies as for normal FASL papers, and
same deadlines, notification dates, etc.) for the Special Poster
Session on Slavic Semantics to:

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Slavic Semantics Poster Session
c/o Barbara H. Partee
Department of Linguistics
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-7130
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Note: You may submit the same abstract to both the regular FASL9
program and to the special poster session; in that case, you must
indicate on a separate piece of paper attached to your abstract which
venue would be your first choice if both are accepted.

There will also be an informal luncheon meeting on Sunday Feb. 20 to
continue the discussion begun at FASL 8 of ways to facilitate the
development of Slavic semantics; all welcome. To join an informal
e-mail interest group on this topic, contact
partee at linguist.umass.edu.


From okagan at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU  Mon Aug  9 21:13:23 1999
From: okagan at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU (OLGA KAGAN)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 13:13:23 PST
Subject: SEELANGS Digest -
In-Reply-To: <199907290403.VAA10458@sparkie.humnet.ucla.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.9.AUG.1999.131323.PST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I'll be out of the country August 10-21.  Please put a temporary halt
on my subscription.

Thank you,
Olga Kagan
okagan at humnet.ucla.edu


From rakitya at mail.utexas.edu  Wed Aug 11 14:53:59 1999
From: rakitya at mail.utexas.edu (Anna Rakityanskaya)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:53:59 -0500
Subject: RUSSIAN TRANSLATORS  NEEDED IMMEDIATELY
Message-ID: <WED.11.AUG.1999.095359.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear friends,

This message may be of interest to some of you. Please reply to the
original sender.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------
Anna Rakityanskaya
University of Texas at Austin


>Return-Path: <Ivan.Podnar at trw.com>
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>Return-Path: <Ivan.Podnar at trw.com>
>Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:48:58 -0700
>From: "Ivan Podnar" <Ivan.Podnar at trw.com>

>Subject: RUSSIAN TRANSLATORS  NEEDED IMMEDIATELY
>Content-Disposition: inline
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>RUSSIAN TRANSLATORS  NEEDED IMMEDIATELY
>For The U.S. Army in the Balkans
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>TRW S&ITG (formerly BDM International)  is a US Defense contractor and has
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>RUSSIAN TRANSLATORS  NEEDED IMMEDIATELY
>
>TRW S&ITG currently has a contract with the US Army to provide linguists
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>BDM has provided linguists to support several US Military Operations in
the past. Beginning with Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990, later with
Operation Restore Hope in Somalia in 1993 and again to support United
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linguist support for US Military Operations, this time in Albania, Bosnia,
Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo and Macedonia.
>
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From elenalev at ix.netcom.com  Thu Aug 12 16:29:20 1999
From: elenalev at ix.netcom.com (Elena Levintova)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:29:20 -0700
Subject: Culture and area studies
Message-ID: <THU.12.AUG.1999.092920.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I would appreciate some help with the Internet links on how Russian culture and
area studies are taught to American students.
sPASIBO ZARANEE!


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Thu Aug 12 16:56:31 1999
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 09:56:31 -0700
Subject: Culture and area studies
Message-ID: <THU.12.AUG.1999.095631.0700.>

Elena Levintova wrote:

 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  I would appreciate some help with the Internet links on how Russian
culture and
> area studies are taught to American students.
> sPASIBO ZARANEE!
_______________
Tol'ko s bolshim trudom, uveryayu Vas!   gg
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

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


From MYounger at tracor.com  Thu Aug 12 18:14:18 1999
From: MYounger at tracor.com (Michael Younger)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:14:18 -0500
Subject: Culture and area studies
Message-ID: <THU.12.AUG.1999.131418.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I'm not sure this answers your question
specifically, but a wonderful first place to start
is Eva Easton's page:

http://eleaston.com/russian.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Elena Levintova <elenalev at ix.netcom.com>
To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 11:35 AM
Subject: Culture and area studies


>I would appreciate some help with the Internet links on how Russian culture
and
>area studies are taught to American students.
>sPASIBO ZARANEE!


From Lvisson at aol.com  Thu Aug 12 19:52:29 1999
From: Lvisson at aol.com (Lynn Visson)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:52:29 EDT
Subject: Culture and area studies
Message-ID: <THU.12.AUG.1999.155229.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Why don't you contact George Kalbouss at Ohio State University, who has
taught Russian culture courses for years and has developed very interesting
matterials on the subject:  kalbouss at osu.edu
Lynn Visson


From beyer at jaguar.middlebury.edu  Thu Aug 12 20:01:23 1999
From: beyer at jaguar.middlebury.edu (Beyer, Tom)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 16:01:23 -0400
Subject: Culture and area studies
Message-ID: <THU.12.AUG.1999.160123.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

you might look at something my students put together last semester at
Middlbebury

http://www.middlebury.edu/~beyer/courses/s99412/links.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elena Levintova [SMTP:elenalev at ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 12:29 PM
> To:   SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> Subject:      Culture and area studies
>
> I would appreciate some help with the Internet links on how Russian
> culture and
> area studies are taught to American students.
> sPASIBO ZARANEE!


From djbpitt+seelangs at pitt.edu  Thu Aug 12 22:28:26 1999
From: djbpitt+seelangs at pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 18:28:26 -0400
Subject: UCLA IE Studies, vol. 1
Message-ID: <THU.12.AUG.1999.182826.0400.DJBPITTSEELANGS@PITT.EDU>

(See below for contact and ordering information)

Announcing a collection of papers in Indo-European studies by faculty
and students of the UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies:

UCLA INDO-EUROPEAN STUDIES, Volume 1 (July, 1999)
edited by Vyacheslav V. Ivanov and Brent Vine

331 pages / $12 (including postage) [order form below] - CONTENTS:

PHONOLOGY
Greek rhiza 'root' and 'Schwa Secundum'
         Brent Vine

MORPHOLOGY
A Lexical Analysis of Simple *-r/n- Heteroclisis in Proto-Indo-European
         Jay Friedman
Latin -inare/-inari
         Brent Vine

(MORPHO)SYNTAX
Word Order Change in Umbrian: From Postpositions to Prepositions
         Christopher Wilhelm

Indo-European Syntactic Rules and Gothic Morphology
         Vyacheslav V. Ivanov

WURZELN, WORTER UND SACHEN
Aggression and Sustenance: Driving (*ag'-) and Beating (*gwhen-)
Symbiosis in (Proto-)Indo-European
         Raimo Anttila

Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and
Indo-European
         Vyacheslav V. Ivanov

An Ancient Name for the Lyre
         Vyacheslav V. Ivanov

Old Novgorodian Nevide, Russian nevidal' : Greek aide:los
         Vyacheslav V. Ivanov

A Note on the Duenos Inscription
         Brent Vine

BOOK REVIEWS
Remarks on a So-Called Encyclopedia of Language (review of David
Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, 2nd ed., 1997)
         Bengt Lofstedt

Recent Work from St. Petersburg, I (Classical and Indo-European
Linguistics, Celtic Studies)
         Brent Vine

Recent Work from St. Petersburg, II (Balkan Studies, Slavic Linguistics
and Ethnolinguistics)
         Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
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From Lozansky at aol.com  Thu Aug 12 23:09:39 1999
From: Lozansky at aol.com (Edward D. Lozansky)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:09:39 EDT
Subject: Conference in Warsaw
Message-ID: <THU.12.AUG.1999.190939.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

I finally received a preliminary program for the Warsaw Conference. If you
plan to present a paper, please find an appropriate panel which corresponds
to your theme and I will make sure that you are on this panel. If you cannot
find any panel for your presentation please let me know and I will try to put
together additional one.

Please note that participants will be staying at the University of Warsaw
Hotel @ $58 a night.

For additional information please contact

Dr. Edward Lozansky  <A HREF="Lozansky at aol.com">Lozansky at aol.com</A>
President, American University in Moscow
1800 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009

Tel. 202-986-6010
Fax 202-667-4244

<A HREF="http:www.RussiaHouse.org">http://www. RussiaHouse.org</A>


4th International Conference
Past, Present and Future of Russia
dedicated to 25th anniversary of "Kontinent" magazine
and its founder Vladimir Maximov

Warsaw, 25-27 September 1999

Friday, September 24
Arrivals, Welcoming Reception at 19.00

25 September, Saturday

FIRST PANEL: Social, economical and political changes in post-communist
Europe for the last 10 years. Tendency of development and prognosis
perspectives.

Morning session. Chairman Adam Mikhnik (Poland)

I. Introductions  of organizers  - Adam Mikhnik ("Newspaper Vyborcha",
Warsaw), Igor Vinogradov ("Kontinent" magazine, Moscow), Stanislav Ksenzhik
(Russian Center of Science and Culture in Warsaw), Lutsian Sukhanek
(Yagellonski University, Poland).

II.  Mikhail Gorbachev. Eastern Europe: New Developments.
III. Presentations:

1. Adam Mikhnik (Poland). Poland in post-communist  Eastern Europe.
2. Anthony Lim (Czech Republic). Post-communist Czechoslovakia - centrifugal
and centripetal tendencies. Comparative dynamics of development of Czech
Republic and Slovakia.
3. Andrei Sannikov (Belarus). Today's Beloras between West and East.
4. Vadim Skuratovski (Ukraine). Ukraine after USSR disintegration: internal
situation and relations with Russia.

IV. Discussion:

Evening Session. Chairman Igor Vinogradov (Moscow).

1. Aleksei Pushkov (Moscow). Post-communist Eastern Europe in context of new
geopolitical development at boundary of XX-XXI centuries.
2.  Larisa Piyasheva (Moscow). Threat of the new Russian neototalitarism -
economy and politics.
3. Yuri Kagramanov (Moscow). Russian fascism.
4. Viktor Skrunda (Poland).
5. Andrei Zubov (Moscow). Search of Russian national identity.
6. Leon Taivan (Latvia). Problem of restitution - Baltic experience.
7. Tomash Zarutskyi (Poland). Evolution of Polish political scene in
historical and international context.

II. Discussion.

26 September, Sunday.

SECOND PANEL: Religious-spiritual space of post-communist Europe. Changes,
tendencies, and perspectives.

Morning Session. Chairman George Niva (France-Switzerland).

1. Sergei Averintsev (Moscow-Vienna). Christianity and present situation
(European region).
2. Yakov Krotov (Moscow). Dynamics of transformation of religious-spiritual
space in post- soviet Eastern Europe. The basic tendencies.
3. Yuzef Tyshner (Poland). Polish catholicism of post-soviet era. Dangerof
integrism.
4. Chistyakov (Moscow). Russian-Ukranian confessional problems and conflicts.
5. Nikita Struve (Paris). Orthodox-catholic dialog in post-soviet Eastern
Europe.
6. Andrei Zdanjski (Moscow). Problem of church property in Russia: history
and present.
7. Sharon Linzey, Religion in Post-Soviet Russia

THIRD PANEL: Post-communist Europe intelligentsia. It's place in a new
historical space of it's country and in international dialogue of cultures.

Evening Session. Chairman Lutsian Sukhanek (Poland).

1. Natalia Gorbanevskaya (Paris). Era of Paris "Kontinent" - consolidation of
Eastern Europe intelligentsia.
2. Igor Vinogradov (Moscow). Moscow "Kontinent" (1992-1999) - intelligentsia
of the new Russia and the problem of so called "national idea".
3. Alla Demidova
4. Lev Anninsky
5. Lutsian Sukhanek
6. Alitsiya Volodzko


From pitcock.4 at osu.edu  Fri Aug 13 11:46:11 1999
From: pitcock.4 at osu.edu (Susan Pitcock)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 07:46:11 -0400
Subject: Position Announcement
Message-ID: <FRI.13.AUG.1999.074611.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The Ohio State University

Slavic and East European Department Chair


The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at The
Ohio State University is seeking applications for the position of
Department Chair beginning October 1st, 2000. This tenured position is open
to scholars at the Associate Professor or Full Professor rank. The
Department wants a strong and creative leader with extensive administrative
experience and a strong commitment to development, with a vision for
further expansion in pedagogy/methodology, distance learning, and culture
and heritage studies. Excluding linguistics, research specialization is
open, but we are particularly interested in candidates with a proven record
of scholarly accomplishments in the field of Russian nineteenth and
twentieth century literature and with a strong interest in culture studies.
Applicants should preferably have an interdisciplinary approach to research
and teaching. For current information on the Department, see our web-site
http://slavic.ohio-state.edu
The deadline for applications is December 15th, 1999. Applications received
thereafter will not be guaranteed full consideration. Send a letter of
application, curriculum vitae and the names, addresses and other contact
data of at least three professional references qualified to comment on
academic achievements and administrative and leadership ability to:
Professor Irene Masing-Delic, 232 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Rd, Columbus, OH
43210-1215. The Ohio State University is an Equal Opportunity /
Affirmative Action employer. Qualified women, minorities, Vietnam-era
Veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities are
encouraged to apply.


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Fri Aug 13 13:14:54 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:14:54 -0400
Subject: Job Index update
Message-ID: <FRI.13.AUG.1999.091454.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Greetings all!  Just to let you know, I am finally finding some time to
begin updating the AATSEEL Job Index again.  It will take some time, as
many jobs came in during the month or so that the server was down, and
after that I was involved in (finally!) finishing my masters (but it's
done now!!!).  There are a couple posted today, and I'll continue posting
the most recently received jobs every day or so.  Again, the site is
located at the following URL:

http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/jobs/job-index.html

Devin / Divan

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From kenneth.udut at spcorp.com  Fri Aug 13 19:29:31 1999
From: kenneth.udut at spcorp.com (Udut, Kenneth)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:29:31 -0400
Subject: FW: Redneck Sex Test
Message-ID: <FRI.13.AUG.1999.152931.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

|--> -----Original Message-----
|--> From: Carol Harris [mailto:caroleh at gate.net]
|--> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 6:11 PM
|--> To: tridge at cwnet.com; mdku02 at aol.com; appareill at aol.com;
|--> shirleyw1 at mindspring.com
|--> Subject: Fw: Redneck Sex Test
|-->
|-->
|-->
|-->
|--> ----------
|--> > From: Lisaljl at aol.com
|--> > To: caroleh at gate.net; MyQee at aol.com; MGREEN1667 at aol.com;
|--> Deputy805 at aol.com; ELEFUN4 at aol.com; JLRYBOLT at aol.com;
|--> Gettinthin at aol.com;
|--> DasBooBoo1 at aol.com; Downberg at aol.com; CRKAUPPILA at aol.com;
|--> juidig at worldnet.att.net; JRPhD2B at aol.com; CKapayi at aol.com
|--> > Subject: Redneck Sex Test
|--> > Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 12:40 PM
|--> >
|--> >
|--> >
|--> > REDNECK SEX TEST
|--> >
|--> > 1. The clitoris is a type of flower. True or False
|--> > 2. A pubic hair is a wild rabbit. True or False
|--> > 3. Spread Eagle is an extinct bird. True or False
|--> > 4. Vagina is a medical term used to describe a Heart Attack. True
|--> > or False
|--> > 5. A menstrual cycle has three wheels. True or False
|--> > 6. A G-string is part of a fiddle. True or False
|--> > 7. Semen is a term for sailors. True or False
|--> > 8. Anus is a Latin term for yearly. True or False
|--> > 9. Testicles are found on an Octopus. True or False
|--> > 10. Asphalt describes rectal problems. True or False
|--> > 11. KOTEX is a radio station in Cincinnati. True or False
|--> > 12. Masturbate is used to catch large fish. True or False
|--> > 13. Coitus is a musical instrument. True or False
|--> > 14. Fetus is a character on Gunsmoke. True or False
|--> > 15. An umbilical cord is part of a parachute. True or False
|--> > 16. A condom is a large apartment complex. True or False
|--> > 17. An orgasm is a person who accompanies a church choir. True or
|--> > False
|--> > 18. A diaphragm is a drawing in geometry. True or False
|--> > 19. A dildo is a variety of sweet pickle. True or False
|--> > 20. An erection is when Japanese people vote. True or False
|--> > 21. A lesbian is a person from the Middle East. True or False
|--> > 22. Sodomy is a special land of fast growing grass. True or False
|--> > 23. Pornography is the business of making records. True or False
|--> > 24. Genitals are people of non-Jewish origin. True or False
|--> >
|-->


From kenneth.udut at spcorp.com  Fri Aug 13 19:34:15 1999
From: kenneth.udut at spcorp.com (Udut, Kenneth)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:34:15 -0400
Subject: Yikes!!! Apologies for joke sent here!
Message-ID: <FRI.13.AUG.1999.153415.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Oy kak zhal!

Forgive me for sending that to the list!

Yow!  One of the downfalls of an
electronic address book :)

While I'm here - if anybody made it this far,

Has anybody here worked with "Language Bridge"?

I purchased it a few days ago, and am
happy with it so far (for learning Russian),
but am curious as to the thoughts of
those here on the list.

           Kenneth Udut
Kenneth.Udut at SPCORP.COM
"Voistinu CHelovek
`Etot byl Syn Bozhij!'"


From yoffe at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu  Fri Aug 13 19:46:49 1999
From: yoffe at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Mark Yoffe)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:46:49 -0400
Subject: Yikes!!! Apologies for joke sent here!
Message-ID: <FRI.13.AUG.1999.154649.0400.>

REPULSIVE!
And how dare you ask other questions when after this you must hide for
at least couple of weeks! And be silent and contemplate your
behaviour...
--
Mark Yoffe, Ph.D. Curator, International Counterculture Archive
Slavic Librarian, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
HTTP://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~yoffe
E-mail: yoffe at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu   Phone: 202 994-6303


From Lozansky at aol.com  Fri Aug 13 20:51:37 1999
From: Lozansky at aol.com (Edward D. Lozansky)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:51:37 EDT
Subject: New Russian newspaper out of Washington
Message-ID: <FRI.13.AUG.1999.165137.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to let you know that starting September 10, 99 we will be
publishing a new bi-weekly Russian newspaper "Kontinennt - USA" sponsored by
the American - Russian Association - a group which is working to promote
better US - Russian ties and Russian democratic reforms. Your articles are
welcome and they should be sent in Russian as an attached winword.doc file to
Kontinent at RussiaHouse.org.

Also I have a question. Does anyone have a reference to a study which shows
the imput in $$ made by a professional emigre to the US economy over his/her
life span?  I read somewhere that it may be around one million US$ but cannot
remember where I saw it.

Thank you.
Edward Lozansky
American University in Moscow
Lozansky at aol.ccm


From kenneth.udut at spcorp.com  Fri Aug 13 19:54:23 1999
From: kenneth.udut at spcorp.com (Udut, Kenneth)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:54:23 -0400
Subject: Yikes!!! Apologies for joke sent here!
Message-ID: <FRI.13.AUG.1999.155423.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I promise to dig a hole in my backyard,
drag out the old barbed wire and
spiked chains, and
buy two rabid Pitbulls, and do the
usual penance.

Would it be okay for me to kneel on
thumbtacks as well?  That always
makes the experience much easier
to bear.

Have a good weekend :)

-Kenneth

|--> -----Original Message-----
|--> From: Mark Yoffe [mailto:yoffe at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu]
|--> Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 3:47 PM
|--> To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
|--> Subject: Re: Yikes!!! Apologies for joke sent here!
|-->
|-->
|--> REPULSIVE!
|--> And how dare you ask other questions when after this you
|--> must hide for
|--> at least couple of weeks! And be silent and contemplate your
|--> behaviour...
|--> --
|--> Mark Yoffe, Ph.D. Curator, International Counterculture Archive
|--> Slavic Librarian, The George Washington University,
|--> Washington, D.C.
|--> HTTP://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~yoffe
|--> E-mail: yoffe at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu   Phone: 202 994-6303
|-->


From elenalev at ix.netcom.com  Sun Aug 15 20:28:36 1999
From: elenalev at ix.netcom.com (Elena Levintova)
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 13:28:36 -0700
Subject: Thanks
Message-ID: <SUN.15.AUG.1999.132836.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Thanks to everybody who sent me replies to my query about culture
studies.


From OgdenJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu  Mon Aug 16 03:56:27 1999
From: OgdenJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu (J Alexander Ogden)
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 23:56:27 -0400
Subject: firms assisting with invitations and visas
Message-ID: <SUN.15.AUG.1999.235627.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,
        Do any of you have recommendations of firms that help obtain invitations
and visas?  I'm trying to answer an inquiry from a local organization
planning business in Moscow.
Thanks and best wishes,
Alex Ogden


--------------------------------
Dr. J. Alexander Ogden
Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
Department of Germanic, Slavic & East Asian
         Languages and Literatures
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(803) 777-9615
ogden at sc.edu


From alexush at paonline.com  Mon Aug 16 05:22:02 1999
From: alexush at paonline.com (Alexander Ushakov)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:22:02 -0400
Subject: firms assisting with invitations and visas
Message-ID: <MON.16.AUG.1999.012202.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

You can find some addresses and phones here:

http://www.brama.com/travel/agencies.html

Although they are listed on an Ukrainian site, many also do business with Russia and other NIS.

Alex Ushakov

----- Original Message ----- 
From: J Alexander Ogden <OgdenJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu>
To: <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 11:56 PM
Subject: firms assisting with invitations and visas


> Dear Colleagues,
>         Do any of you have recommendations of firms that help obtain invitations
> and visas?  I'm trying to answer an inquiry from a local organization
> planning business in Moscow.
> Thanks and best wishes,
> Alex Ogden
> 
> 
> --------------------------------
> Dr. J. Alexander Ogden
> Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
> Department of Germanic, Slavic & East Asian
>          Languages and Literatures
> University of South Carolina
> Columbia, SC 29208
> (803) 777-9615
> ogden at sc.edu
> 


From Lozansky at aol.com  Mon Aug 16 13:33:56 1999
From: Lozansky at aol.com (Edward D. Lozansky)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:33:56 EDT
Subject: firms assisting with invitations and visas
Message-ID: <MON.16.AUG.1999.093356.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

You mat contact Russia House in Washington DC at 202-986-6010., Fax
202-667-4244, e-mail: Travel at RussiaHouse.org.  They specialize in organizing
large conferences in Russia and can take care of all visa & travel
arrangements.


From stermole at chass.utoronto.ca  Mon Aug 16 23:18:38 1999
From: stermole at chass.utoronto.ca (David F. Stermole)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:18:38 EDT
Subject: Society for Slovene Studies WebSite
Message-ID: <MON.16.AUG.1999.191838.EDT.>

Dear Seelangers:This is to inform you that the web site for the Society for
Slovene Studies has had an address change. It is now located on a different
computer at the University of Alberta:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ljubljan/sss.html
Please check out the listing of the Slovenian sessions at the upcoming AAASS
convention in St. Louis.
David

--
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
David F. Stermole                        voice: (416) 297-1927
25 Hoseyhill Crescent                    e-mail: stermole at chass.utoronto.ca
Scarborough, Ontario
Canada M1S 2X3


From as at ticom.kharkov.ua  Tue Aug 17 15:54:55 1999
From: as at ticom.kharkov.ua (Alex)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:54:55 +0300
Subject: Seeking a mailing list
Message-ID: <TUE.17.AUG.1999.185455.0300.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear all,

Do you know any news group or mailing list where NON-NATIVE
speakers from all over the World could communicate discussing
all sorts of things in Russian [and] using cyrillic alphabet?

Thank you

Alexander Stratienko


From kenneth.udut at spcorp.com  Tue Aug 17 16:37:48 1999
From: kenneth.udut at spcorp.com (Udut, Kenneth)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:37:48 -0400
Subject: Seeking a mailing list
Message-ID: <TUE.17.AUG.1999.123748.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

There is: RUSSIAN_LANGUAGE at eGroups.com, although it is for
learners of Russian.  But I think I've seen some posts there
in Cyrillic.

You can start your own eGroups list (I happen to be a
fan of their system - it's quick, free, and takes only
a couple of minutes.  Not as nice as LISTSERV lists,
but it's at least something to start with).

Go to: http://www.egroups.com

and check it out.  There might already be a
Russian language general list there.  [Go there,
and do a search for "russian", and see what
comes up]


           Kenneth Udut
Kenneth.Udut at SPCORP.COM
"Voistinu CHelovek
`Etot byl Syn Bozhij!'"

|--> -----Original Message-----
|--> From: Alex [mailto:as at ticom.kharkov.ua]
|--> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 11:55 AM
|--> To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
|--> Subject: Seeking a mailing list
|-->
|-->
|--> Dear all,
|-->
|--> Do you know any news group or mailing list where NON-NATIVE
|--> speakers from all over the World could communicate discussing
|--> all sorts of things in Russian [and] using cyrillic alphabet?
|-->
|--> Thank you
|-->
|--> Alexander Stratienko
|-->


From medwards at arb.ca.gov  Tue Aug 17 17:11:42 1999
From: medwards at arb.ca.gov (Mark Edwards)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:11:42 -0700
Subject: Seeking a mailing list
Message-ID: <TUE.17.AUG.1999.101142.0700.>

Go to that website by Shar.  I think he has a subdirectory of chat
groups-many have links to ru.  type chat groups.
Mark

Alex wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Do you know any news group or mailing list where NON-NATIVE
> speakers from all over the World could communicate discussing
> all sorts of things in Russian [and] using cyrillic alphabet?
>
> Thank you
>
> Alexander Stratienko


From mszoma at uol.com.br  Tue Aug 17 15:11:41 1999
From: mszoma at uol.com.br (Mykola Szoma)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:11:41 +0000
Subject: Seeking a mailing list
Message-ID: <TUE.17.AUG.1999.151141.0000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Site yevreiev St. Petersbug. List o vsemu dumaniyu cheloveka
vseho mira.
Dlia podpisky ot podpisky neobkhodimo otpravit' pis'mo  na
adres majordomo at list.glasnet.ru s komandoi "subscribe judaica"


Alex wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Do you know any news group or mailing list where NON-NATIVE
> speakers from all over the World could communicate discussing
> all sorts of things in Russian [and] using cyrillic alphabet?
>
> Thank you
>
> Alexander Stratienko

--
Mykola Szoma  - Ukrayinets' (Schoma Mykola Opanasovych)
Sociologo & Analista de Systemas Administrativos de Computador
Aprendiz dos grandes temas do Pensamento humano
E-mail:  mszoma at uol.com.br

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From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Tue Aug 17 19:00:49 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:00:49 -0400
Subject: New Book on Ukrainians and Jews from 1917 to 1920
Message-ID: <TUE.17.AUG.1999.150049.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

New Title Announcement - HURI Publications
8-17-99
=================================

A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times,
1917-1920.

Henry Abramson

With the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917, Jewish and Ukrainian political
activists worked to overcome a long history of mutual antagonism by
creating a new form of government based on the principles of Autonomism, a
political theory which attempted to address the unique problems of
multi-national states. A Ministry of Jewish Affairs was established within
the new Ukrainian National Republic, currency was printed with Yiddish as
well as Polish and Russian inscriptions alongside the Ukrainian, and other
measures were adopted to satisfy the national aspirations of Jews and other
ethnic minorities of the fledgling Ukrainian state. This bold experiment in
nationality relations, however, ended with the anarchic violence that swept
the country. Amidst civil war and foreign intervention that resulted in
unprecedented cruelty on a mass scale, roving bands attacked various
minorities, resulting in the worst massacres of Jews in Europe in almost
three hundred years. Paradoxically, some forty percent of recorded pogroms
against Jews were perpetrated by troops ostensibly loyal to the very same
government that was simultaneously extending unprecedented civil rights to
the Jewish population.
        A Prayer for the Government explores this paradox, using formerly
restricted Soviet archives, the extensive documentation of the YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research in New York City and the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, and secondary sources in Slavic and Jewish languages. It sheds
new light on the relationship between the successive Ukrainian governments
and the communal violence and discusses in depth the role of Symon
Petliura, the Ukrainian leader who was later assassinated by a Jew claiming
revenge for the pogroms. This work will be of value to all those interested
in this crucial period of Ukrainian and Jewish history, and is richly
illustrated with period photographs, explanatory maps, and graphs.

[Co-published with the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University]

280 pp., maps, illus.; ISBN 0-916458-88-1 (hardcover) $34.95; ISBN
0-916458-87-3 (softcover) $18.95


Available from:
Harvard University Press
79 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138
tel. 1-800-448-2242; fax. 1-800-962-4983
Harvard University Book Code: ABRPRA (hc), ABRPRX (pb)

INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS should contact Harvard University Press for local
sales representatives.

____________________________________________________
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 as at ticom.kharkov.ua  Tue Aug 17 21:17:41 1999
From: as at ticom.kharkov.ua (Alex)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:17:41 +0300
Subject: Seeking a mailing list
Message-ID: <WED.18.AUG.1999.001741.0300.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangs!

Thank you very much for your priceless help!

Alex


From kenneth.udut at spcorp.com  Wed Aug 18 12:46:00 1999
From: kenneth.udut at spcorp.com (Udut, Kenneth)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:46:00 -0400
Subject: Less Obscure - Not Native Speaking
Message-ID: <WED.18.AUG.1999.084600.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

One thing that has helped me in learning Russian,
has been something I heard when I started:


########

The goal is not to talk like a native speaker.
If you get that way, then that is great!

But primarily, in learning your new language,
your purpose is to make the language less obscure.

########


And so, that's it.  It's not to memorize 1,000,000
words 7 times each for maximum vocabulary acquisition
using dual word lists :)  But rather, for Russian to be
less obscure to me than it was yesterday.

It is uncovering a veil of mystery - and it is
a journey more exciting than anything of Indiana Jones.

i think this is a necessary attitude to have when
learning a language - or teaching it.

Just random thoughts - thanks for listening :)


           Kenneth Udut
Kenneth.Udut at SPCORP.COM


From flier at fas.harvard.edu  Wed Aug 18 15:06:30 1999
From: flier at fas.harvard.edu (Michael Flier)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:06:30 -0400
Subject: Harvard Job Announcement
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.04.9908171814550.19056-100000@login7.fas.harvard.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.18.AUG.1999.110630.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

                        HARVARD UNIVERSITY

                ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Entry-level position to begin September 2000 to teach various periods and
major genres in Russian literature at the undergraduate and graduate
levels.  Teaching load---4 courses per year and tutorial work.  Ph.D. (or
foreign equivalent) and native or near-native Russian and English
required.  Teaching experience highly desirable.  Five-year ladder
appointment with possible three-year extension in case of promotion to
non-tenured associate professorship in fourth year.

Three confidential letters of recommendations required.  Applicants are
requested to provide a letter of application and a detailed curriculum
vitae, including a complete bibliography. All materials should be
forwarded by 15 November 1999 to

                Prof. Michael S. Flier, Chairman,
                Russian Literature Search Committee
                Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
                Barker Center 368, 12 Quincy St.
                Cambridge, MA 02138

Will interview semifinalists at AATSEEL in Chicago.  Harvard is an
AA/EEO employer.  Applications from women and minorities are strongly
encouraged.


*******************************************************************************
                                PROF. MICHAEL S. FLIER
                                ======================
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures  OR   Dept. of Linguistics
Harvard University                              Harvard University
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street                 305 Boylston Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138                             Cambridge, MA 02138
       - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 TEL (617) 495-4065 [Slavic],  495-4054 [Linguistics],  495-7833 [HURI]
                         FAX (617) 864-2167 [home]
*******************************************************************************


From jfwhite at u.washington.edu  Wed Aug 18 15:37:49 1999
From: jfwhite at u.washington.edu (Jake White)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:37:49 -0700
Subject: Less Obscure - Not Native Speaking
Message-ID: <WED.18.AUG.1999.083749.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Kenneth,

What a delightful thought, and very true!  Thank you for sharing it -- I
think it goes for all of us in that learning whatever language or field
is/must be  lifelong learning.  The truly sad thing is when folks think they
"know it all" and lose their sense of wonder -- then learning stops dead. In
terms of SEE Langs, our particular field is so incredibly broad and
interesting -- you can devote a lifetime to studying even just one *writer*
and still not uncover all the treasures in their works!  (So few lifetimes
and so much great material......)

tx, Jake
____________________________________________________________________________
_
Jake White
Slavic and East European Acquisitions Specialist
University of Washington Libraries, Seattle
Box 352900
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----- Original Message -----
From: Udut, Kenneth <kenneth.udut at spcorp.com>
To: <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 5:46 AM
Subject: Less Obscure - Not Native Speaking


> One thing that has helped me in learning Russian,
> has been something I heard when I started:
>
>
> ########
>
> The goal is not to talk like a native speaker.
> If you get that way, then that is great!
>
> But primarily, in learning your new language,
> your purpose is to make the language less obscure.
>
> ########
>
>
> And so, that's it.  It's not to memorize 1,000,000
> words 7 times each for maximum vocabulary acquisition
> using dual word lists :)  But rather, for Russian to be
> less obscure to me than it was yesterday.
>
> It is uncovering a veil of mystery - and it is
> a journey more exciting than anything of Indiana Jones.
>
> i think this is a necessary attitude to have when
> learning a language - or teaching it.
>
> Just random thoughts - thanks for listening :)
>
>
>            Kenneth Udut
> Kenneth.Udut at SPCORP.COM
>


From kenneth.udut at spcorp.com  Thu Aug 19 14:23:32 1999
From: kenneth.udut at spcorp.com (Udut, Kenneth)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:23:32 -0400
Subject: Using one's own writings for learning language?
Message-ID: <THU.19.AUG.1999.102332.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello again :)

        Has there been any work done in learning a
language based upon the learner's own writings?

For example, I'm learning Russian.  If I were to:

1) Gather together a large sampling of e-mails that
I've written over the years, and

2) Have them translated by a competent translator into
Russian, taking into account style, humor, and
such...

3) Have the texts brought back to me, both my
original mutterings, and the Russian translations,
and studying from this?

4) Produced from these translations would be
word lists, perhaps the translator's could
record the translations on a cassette tape for
emulation...

Would this be workable situation?

The purpose of all of this, would be to help
one be able to convey what one would probably
*actually* say in the target language.
Personality.  Humor.

This wouldn't be a substitute for the standard
and non-standard learning methods out there.  But
is it something that people have done or are
doing?


I would hate to learn Russian and then have
nothing to say!



           Kenneth Udut
Kenneth.Udut at SPCORP.COM
"Voistinu CHelovek
`Etot byl Syn Bozhij!'"


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Thu Aug 19 14:30:21 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:30:21 -0400
Subject: MAU Congress in Odesa
Message-ID: <THU.19.AUG.1999.103021.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

For those of you going to MAU next week:

Kyiv is keeping us on our toes. I just confirmed the rumors that
Londonskaya is closed for repairs. The central MAU office has made sure
that there are enough rooms at other hotels so that everyone will have a
room, but if you are traveling individually and are planning to head
straight for Londonskaya once in Odessa--beware. Ways of dealing with this:

1. You can e-mail me and I will call Kyiv tomorrow with a list of names
that need to be reassigned. I will e-mail you the results.

2. You can call Kyiv directly. Call Oleksandr Petrovskyi at tel./fax
(380-44) 229-76-50.

3. You can make separate arrangements through a travel arrangement
(Petrovskyi said that the other hotels on the list are open).

4. You can just show up and go directly to Odesa University, where the
central office for the Congress will be: 24-26 Francuskii bul'var
(Humanitarian bldg.), phone is 23-64-27 for the MAU office there in Odesa
(full number for international calls: 380-482-23-64-27). They have blocks
of rooms and will put you in one place or another depending on how much you
want to spend. (Brings back memories of Kharkiv...)

Please pass on the word to anyone you know who is going.  I never received
from Kyiv a list of American and Canadian delegates; I suspect that the
majority of registrants bypassed AAUS and registered directly with Kyiv...

Best,

Robert De Lossa
Secretary-Treasurer, American Association for Ukrainian Studies

____________________________________________________
Robert De Lossa
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 jobailey at facstaff.wisc.edu  Thu Aug 19 14:35:35 1999
From: jobailey at facstaff.wisc.edu (James Bailey)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:35:35 -0500
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <THU.19.AUG.1999.093535.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

To anyone with advice,
     I've been trying to call the Russian consulate in Washington, D.C. for
nearly two weeks.  The phone is busy, no one answers, or I get Podmoskovnye
vechera.  Have they gone deaf there or is there some other reason.  Please
answer offline.
     Thanks,
     Jim Bailey
James Bailey
1102 Hathaway Dr.
Madison, WI  53711
(608) 271-3824


From Lozansky at aol.com  Thu Aug 19 15:11:56 1999
From: Lozansky at aol.com (Edward D. Lozansky)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:11:56 EDT
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <THU.19.AUG.1999.111156.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I suggest to those who have difficulties getting through to the Russian
Consulate or getting visa to contact:

Russia House
1800 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Tel. 202-986-6010, Fax 202-667-4244
E-mail: Russia at RussiaHouse.org
http://www.RussiaHouse.org

It is a reliable visa agency to Russiam, Ukraine, Belarus and other NIS

Edward Lozansky


From nkm at unix.mail.virginia.edu  Thu Aug 19 16:02:56 1999
From: nkm at unix.mail.virginia.edu (Natalie O. Kononenko)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:02:56 -0400
Subject: embassy
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19990819093535.007b3c10@facstaff.wisc.edu> from "James
 Bailey" at Aug 19, 99 09:35:35 am
Message-ID: <THU.19.AUG.1999.120256.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Jim,
        Call that passport and visa agency.  They are very nice
and they know what is up from day to day.  And they do answer
for phone.  And they don't play any sort of vechera,
podmoskovnye, podvashingtonskyie, or other.

Natasha


From nkm at unix.mail.virginia.edu  Thu Aug 19 16:11:48 1999
From: nkm at unix.mail.virginia.edu (Natalie O. Kononenko)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:11:48 -0400
Subject: embassy
In-Reply-To: <199908191602.MAA32666@node9.unix.Virginia.EDU> from "Natalie O.
 Kononenko" at Aug 19, 99 12:02:56 pm
Message-ID: <THU.19.AUG.1999.121148.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

My sincere apologies for posting what I thought was a personal
message to the news group.

Natalie Kononenko


From rrobin at gwu.edu  Thu Aug 19 19:57:51 1999
From: rrobin at gwu.edu (Richard Robin)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:57:51 -0400
Subject: Golosa audio on the web
Message-ID: <THU.19.AUG.1999.155751.0400.>

Dorogie Seelangovtsy,

Many of you who use Golosa have written me with questions about the audio
program, specifically to ask about mismatches between text and tape or missing
cassettes. I hope that those problems are behind us, because all of the Golosa
audio program is on the web available for all. Here are the details:

1.  Where to look. The URL is <http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/golosa>. Click on the
audio link for either Book 1 or Book .

2.  Technical possibilities. The files come in two flavors: RealPlayer G2 and
downloadable zipped files (for RealPlayer G2). You and your students can listen
to the RealPlayer files directly on line. Or you can download the zipped audio
files onto your hard disk. Unzip them and play them locally. Or hook up a
cassette recorder to a sound acrd and make your own cassette tapes. Or burn
them onto CDs, record them onto zip disks -- whatever.

3.  What's new in the recordings? About 10% of the material has been re-edited
or re-recorded to take care of various glitches. You'll hear some new voices
doing some redone numbers exercises and occasional remakes of short dialogs and
drills. Book 1, Unit 9 is completely fixed.

4.  Copyright information.

a. If you are using the Golosa textbooks, you may copy the audio files in any
format FOR USE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE GOLOSA TEXTBOOK.

b. If you represent an educational institution that has adopted Golosa for
classroom use, you have permission to link to the recordings. You are allowed
to mirror the Golosa audio site for use on campus. (If you do this, please make
your users aware of these copyright restrictions.) You are also permitted to
download the recordings and make copies -- either digital or analog -- for use
by all students taking courses using Golosa. For example, if you are a language
lab director serving a teacher using Golosa in the classroom, you can download
the zipped audio files and distribute them on a network. Or you can make
cassette recordings for campus wide distribution. There are no number limits.
But your users must be studying Russian with the Golosa textbook.

c. Restrictions (without which Prentice Hall would drown me in Upper Saddle
River). (1) You may not use, repackage, or distribute these recordings without
the use of the Golosa textbook. (2) You may not resell the recordings as a
package. (Some institutions charge administrative fees for use of computer,
media, or other on-line facilities. That does NOT come under the notion of
resale.) (3) If you want to mirror the Golosa audio site in either G2 or other
audio formats for distribution BEYOND the confines of your educational
institution, you CAN (in fact you are encouraged to do so) - as along as your
get my signoff first.

5. Complaints and comments. If you find discrepancies in the recordings, or if
a link doesn't work, please notify me, and I will try to fix it. One caveat:
the files play only on RealPlayer G2 (www.real.com). Older versions of
RealAudio or RealPlayer won't work.

I hope that if you use Golosa, you will find this to be a much improved way of
getting the audio program.

Regards to all,
Richard Robin

PS -- Within a month or so I hope to be able to make the Instructor's Manuals
(expanded and corrected) available for on-line distribution (by password to
Golosa instructors). More on this possibility later.
--
Richard Robin - http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~rrobin
German and Slavic Dept.
The George Washington University
WASHINGTON, DC 20052
Can read HTML mail.
~ITA@ PO-RUSSKI W L at BOJ KODIROWKE.
Chitayu po-russki v lyuboi kodirovke.


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Fri Aug 20 12:48:02 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:48:02 -0400
Subject: MAU
Message-ID: <FRI.20.AUG.1999.084802.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Fellow Ukrainianists,

What can I say? Vitaly Chernetsky (a native Odessan) alerted me early this
morning to the fact that Londonskaya _IS_ open, as is the _Krasnaya_. I
confirmed with the receptionist at Londonskaya, who greeted my retelling of
what MAU in Kyiv said yesterday with a hearty "Chto vy?" She said that as
long as you have a reservation, there will be no problem with rooms.
Krasnaya is the one under "remont," but only on its facade; otherwise it is
fully functioning. Also, note that I spoke first with another hotelier in
Odesa who told me Krasnaya was closed, Londonskaya is open. Seems only the
people actually in the buildings know what's going on.

Those who want to get back into Londonskaya, the front desk number is
380-482-22-50-19.

Best,

Rob De Lossa
Secretary-Treasurer, American Association for Ukrainian Studies


P.s. Just got a fax from MAU confirming the above and giving fresh
coordinates in Odesa: 380-482-23-64-27; oswita at paco.net. Those who wish to
be met when they arrive in Odesa should call or e-mail as soon as possible.

____________________________________________________
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 jobailey at facstaff.wisc.edu  Fri Aug 20 12:07:57 1999
From: jobailey at facstaff.wisc.edu (James Bailey)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:07:57 -0500
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <FRI.20.AUG.1999.070757.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

     Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about getting through
to the Russian Embassy in Washington.  It's nice to know that there are
other ways of doing things.  As luck would have it, the afteroon after I
sent the message I did get through.  Thank heavens for redialers.
     Jim Bailey
James Bailey
1102 Hathaway Dr.
Madison, WI  53711
(608) 271-3824


From mlszabo at hotmail.com  Fri Aug 20 15:08:10 1999
From: mlszabo at hotmail.com (Michelle L. Szabo)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:08:10 PDT
Subject: tutors in Gdynia, Poland
Message-ID: <FRI.20.AUG.1999.080810.PDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers

First of all, thanks to everyone who responded to my request for info on
Nizhny Novgorod. It has been a great help.

Now I have another request for help, this time not for me. I have a friend
working with middle school-aged kids in Gdynia, Poland. He went to Poland
about 4 years ago with no Polish language training (he had good reading
knowledge of Russian, though). He says his language skills now are such that
he can have parent-teacher conferences in Polish (though he teaches in
English), but he knows he needs a little help. He's tried 4 times to hire a
private tutor, but hasn't been happy with the "method", which apparently has
consisted mainly of grammar exercises. Grammar exercises may be what he
needs, but they aren't what he wants. Does anyone out there have any
contacts in Gdynia who have experience teaching non-native speakers of
Polish who are already speaking "fluently"? Any suggestions for texts that
would help him would be appreciated, as well.

Please respond off-list so as not to burden the others. I hope everyone is
enjoying the last few vestiges of summer. And again, thanks.

Michelle Szabo
mlszabo at hotmail.com


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From dburrous at jeffco.k12.co.us  Fri Aug 20 20:05:45 1999
From: dburrous at jeffco.k12.co.us (David Burrous)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:05:45 -0600
Subject: Free secondary textbooks
Message-ID: <FRI.20.AUG.1999.140545.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dorogiye Seelangovtsy:

Due to the fact that the Russian program at my former high school was
cancelled last year, in the spring I offered my  books to secondary
teachers of Russian who could use them, if they would pay the postage.
I was able to send books to 7 different schools.  If you were not one of
the schools that received any books, please read on:

I have found a few more books and I am offering the following books to
any private or public school on the following 2 conditions:
    1.  Your school did not receive any books from me last year.
    2.  You are willing to pay the postage.  (I send the books, you look
at the postage and send me a check.)

If you are interested in any of the following books, please give me the
following information:
    Your name
    School name, street address, city, state, zip
    Which books you could use

1.  Russian Face to Face, Level Two
2.  Beginner's Russian Reader, Pargment, NTC, 1987
3.  Russian Intermediate Reader, Mihalchenko, NTC, 1987
4.  Graded Russian Readers I-V, Marshak-Sobotka, DC Heath
5.  Pis'mov c togo sveta, Golubyov, George Morris, 1986

Thanks.

db




--
David Burrous, Coordinator of Foreign Languages &
Foreign Exchange Students
e.mail:  dburrous at jeffco.k12.co.us
Phone:  303-982-5927
Fax:  303-279-8525
Foreign Language home page:
http://204.98.1.2/isu/language/index.html
Foreign Exchange home page:
http://204.98.1.2/isu/forex/index.html
Address:  Jefferson County Public Schools
Tanglewood Resource Center
13950 West 20th Avenue
PO Box 4001
Golden, CO  80401-0001


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Sat Aug 21 03:30:52 1999
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:30:52 -0700
Subject: Free secondary textbooks
Message-ID: <FRI.20.AUG.1999.203052.0700.>

David,
Before it's too late, if it isn't already, I would like to say that I'll
miss you. It was nice to have someone out there who paid attention to
the field, and tried to do something about it. Do you think there was
anything that might have kept Russian in Jefferson schools?
S uvazheniem,
Genevra
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

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


From daf at meirionnydd.force9.co.uk  Sat Aug 21 14:13:36 1999
From: daf at meirionnydd.force9.co.uk (Daf)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 15:13:36 +0100
Subject: Using one's own writings for learning language?
Message-ID: <SAT.21.AUG.1999.151336.0100.>

Kennetth Udat wrote
>         Has there been any work done in learning a
> language based upon the learner's own writings?
Hello Kenneth
I don't know the answer to your question but it is an interesting one. I'd
like to know what the response is. I have always made use of my own
corrected past efforts whenever possible. It is really useful to find out
how one should have said what one tried to say. Some correspondents in
Russia have been and continue to be invaluable in this way. And the
computer means that one can keep original and corrected versions side by
side.
Daf  [web page-http://www.meirionnydd.force9.co.uk]


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Sat Aug 21 20:52:41 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:52:41 -0400
Subject: Less Obscure - Not Native Speaking
Message-ID: <SAT.21.AUG.1999.165241.0400.DPBROWNE@PITT.EDU>

I, too, like Kenneth's way of looking at learning Russian (and I agree,
this applies to any language).  I fully realize that I will always have my
American accent most of the time.  While I think it's important to work on
accent, my goal -- and the goal I present to my students -- is to get
meaning across when speaking and to be culturally sensitive.  This goes
much further than perpetual pronunciation practice.

Devin / Divan

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu  Sun Aug 22 00:07:42 1999
From: mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu (Emily Tall)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 20:07:42 -0400
Subject: Onegin film
Message-ID: <SAT.21.AUG.1999.200742.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I thought you all would be interested in the review of the new film of
Onegin with Ralph Fienes (of "English Patient" and "Schindler's List")
that should be opening in North America in the fall or winter. The review,
from Moskovskie novosti of June 9, 1999, says that it is not only a high
quality film but also very Russian! "Nothing of Hollywood: all-passion,
all "toska--neponiatnaia i neizbyvnaia, i vechnaia neprikaiannost' i
obrechennost' russkoi liubvi i russkoi dushi." They did point out the
absurdity of having Olga and Lenskii sing "Oi, tsvetet kalina," and that
Tatiana's name day was in the summer and that Lenskii was hunting in late
spring in a sheepskin, but otherwise, everything was fine. Indeed, says
the reporter, the filmmakers "perezhili, prozhili etu istoriiu tak, chto
zastavili nas, ironichno-doverchivikh,...oshchutit' ee kak budto tozhe
vpervye."
        I am dying to see Fienes as Onegin. What a great idea for a class
excursion--although in Buffalo it will probably appear fleetingly during
winter break...
        Emily Tall, SUNY/Buffalo


From shevelenko at hotmail.com  Sun Aug 22 10:42:22 1999
From: shevelenko at hotmail.com (Irina Shevelenko)
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 03:42:22 PDT
Subject: SUBLET NEEDED IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE FALL
Message-ID: <SUN.22.AUG.1999.034222.PDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

!!! SUBLET NEEDED IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE FALL !!!

Dear SEELangers,

A colleague of mine from the University of Tartu (Estonia), Marina
Grishakova, looks for a sublet in New York City for this fall.

Approximate dates: October 20 through December 23.
Type: small studio or room in a shared apartment w/ kitchen access.
Location: Manhattan preferred. Easy commute to NYU essential.

Please forward this message to your colleagues, students, friends who, you
believe, may help. YOUR HELP WILL BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!!

Please reply to Marina DIRECTLY at <marina2 at ut.ee>.

-- Irina Shevelenko


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From Gottscha at actr.org  Sun Aug 22 17:56:45 1999
From: Gottscha at actr.org (Kate Gottschall)
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:56:45 -0400
Subject: Job Openings at ACTR/ACCELS
Message-ID: <SUN.22.AUG.1999.135645.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

American Councils for  International Education:  ACTR/ACCELS

NOTICE OF POSITIONS OPENING
Posting Date:   8/22/99
Closing Date: Open until filled
__________________________________________________________

The American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is a
private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization
devoted to improving education, professional training and research
within and regarding the countries of the former Soviet Union.  American
Councils develops and administers educational and training programs for
U.S. and NIS government agencies, educational institutions, and
businesses; conducts in-country professional development programs for
alumni of exchange and training programs, including conferences and
workshops; serves as a forum for policymakers on U.S.-NIS relations;
recruits for and manages more than fifteen major sponsored exchange
programs with the countries of the former Soviet Union; manages
student advising centers in Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine, and Uzbekistan; administers standardized testing in the NIS for
the Educational Testing Service; and publishes textbooks and materials
for the teaching of Russian and English as foreign languages. Our
overseas staff of 250, both Americans and foreign nationals, stretches
across thirty-one cities in twelve countries of the NIS.

The American Councils  welcomes applications for current and future
positions.  We retain resumes of qualified candidates for approximately
nine months and will contact prospective candidates as suitable
positions become available.

For consideration for  employment with the American Councils, send a
letter, resume, salary requirements, and position sought ( as applicable)
to:  Human Resources, American Councils for International Education,
1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 700, Washington, DC, 20036.  Fax:
202-872-9178.  Website:  http://www.actr.org.  No phone calls, please.
__________________________________________________________

Position Title/Program:   Senior Program Manager, Higher Education
Programs

Location:   Washington, DC
__________________________________________________________

SUMMARY:
The Senior Program Manager in the American Councils division for higher
education programs coordinates the organization's efforts to implement
undergraduate and graduate education programs  in the US and the NIS.
Programs in this division include:  the Freedom Support Act
Undergraduate Program, Muskie/Freedom Support Act (FSA) Graduate
Fellowship Programs, Russian Language and Area Studies Programs,
Research Scholar Programs, and NIS Initiatives Programs.

The Senior Program Manager will oversee the work of program
managers directly responsible for specific programs, as well those
responsible for specific programmatic functions that serve all programs
in the division.  The Senior Program Manager is the higher education
division's key person responsible for all higher education programs
contract negotiation, monitoring, and reporting.  All program managers in
the division report to the Senior Program Manager for Higher Education.

The Senior Program Manager is responsible for ensuring that program
managers develop, implement, and maintain all phases of their respective
programs including:  program administration, proposal and report
preparation, financial monitoring and reporting, supervision and
coordination of staff work, data collection and maintenance, and program
funder liaison.  The Senior Program Manager is also responsible for
ensuring cultivation and maintenance of host university relations
including: host institution competitions, cost sharing negotiations, and
participant recruitment.  In conjunction with program managers in the
division and the Vice President, the Senior Program Manager is also
responsible for new program initiatives and development.

The Senior Program Manager reports to the Vice President/Director of
Programs.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Master's degree (doctorate preferred) in NIS area-related field,
education, administration, international development, or a related area,
plus minimum eight to ten years administrative experience related to
educational programs;
Russian language/area studies expertise;
Demonstrated effective budgeting, financial management, planning, and
organizational skills
Experience in international education exchange arena;
Experience as liaison with government funders (preferably U.S. Dept. of
State, U.S. Dept. of State Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs, Dept.
of Education); experience in development and negotiation of program
proposals for funding;
Demonstrated skills in organizational representation;
Strong supervisory experience and management skills;
Desired:
Overseas work experience;
Broad-based contacts in higher education;
Experience as liaison/coordinator with field-based activities

Anticipated Starting date:  late-September, 1999
________________________________________________________________________________
 ____________________________________

Position Title/Program:   Program Assistant, office of NIS Initiatives

Location:   Washington, DC
__________________________________________________________

SUMMARY:
The NIS Initiatives department is responsible for administration of student
and scholar programs funded primarily by foreign governments,
including:  the Bolashak Presidential Program, Kazak ESL Direct
Placement Program, Yeltsin Presidential Program, Kadry Presidential
Program, Kumtor Program, Uzbek Presidential Program, and programs for
independent students.

General areas of program administration applicable to most programs are
as follows:  application, testing and selection of participants;
administration of university competition for participant placement;
placement of participants; coordination of participant travel; maintenance
of participant relations; financial planning and oversight; maintenance of
relations with funding agencies; coordination/maintenance of relations
with field offices; and development of new programs.

The Program Assistant for the Office of NIS Initiatives is an entry-level
position, reporting to the Program Manager.  Working in conjunction with
two program officers, the incumbent is responsible for providing
administrative and logistical support to students throughout their
academic programs.  The position also requires coordination of work
with staff in field offices in the CIS.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree in related field
Strong writing and communication skills (English and Russian);
Demonstrated organizational ability;
Demonstrated problem-solving skills;
Ability to manage multiple priorities quickly and effectively;
Ability to work independently while contributing to an overall team effort;
Proven effectiveness in a cross-cultural work environment; and
Effective interpersonal skills

Anticipated starting date:  early- to mid-September, 1999
________________________________________________________________________________
 ____________________________________

Position Title/Program:   Internships, Various Programs

Location:   Washington, DC

__________________________________________________________

INTERNSHIP SUMMARY:
American Councils for International Education:  ACTR/ACCELS offers
paid and unpaid internship opportunities each semester to qualified
candidates.  Internship vary in duration, the nature of the projects, and
the number of hours needed for completion.  We attempt to match project
needs with the interests of the respective interns we appoint.  Potential
internship assignments are noted below.

Advancement
research information about prospective contributors;
database data entry and reporting

Conferences
field phone calls in Russian
assist in organizing and proofreading conference schedule of papers
and participant lists;
assist with conference logistical arrangements;
respond to routine questions about the program;
review and organize documents (in Russian)

Participant data/program administration
track participant/alumni data; data entry to database;
compile information from participant evaluations;
prepare participant and program files for archives;
assist with housing arrangements for participants;
conduct US educational institution research;
assist with logistical matters for participant orientations;
perform administrative tasks (filing, copying, organizing materials, etc.)

Government relations
monitor/attend congressional hearings;
identify and secure policy statements affecting international exchange
and the NIS;
review daily papers for articles of interest;
conduct selective research on foreign policy issues;
write routine government relations correspondence;
organize member mailings for action alerts;
organize and update state-by-state briefing books on ACTR activities for
members of Congress

Human Resources
assist with recruitment and appointment of employees;
prepare correspondence to employment candidates;
assist with new employee orientation preparation and execution;
assist with administration of employee benefits programs;
conduct research; prepare response to employment surveys and
reports; and
special projects related to human resources policies and procedures

Anticipated:   Fall 1999; Spring 2000.


From ccosner at DEPAUW.EDU  Mon Aug 23 03:37:49 1999
From: ccosner at DEPAUW.EDU (Chris Cosner)
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:37:49 EDT
Subject: Onegin film
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9908212001110.19254-100000@xena.acsu.buffalo.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.22.AUG.1999.233749.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

There are several reviews of the new film available on the web in English.
Here are some URLs to pass on to interested students. (Anything to drum up
enrollment!)

Reviews of the new film ONEGIN, starring Ralph Fiennes

http://us.imdb.com/Title?Eugene+Onegin+(1998)
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/3796/Ralph/rfmteo.html
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/3796/Ralph/rftelegeo.html
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/3796/Ralph/rfhreo.html

There is also a long description by Fiennes of the making of the film:
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/3796/Ralph/rfnyer99.html

___________________________________
Chris Cosner
DePauw University


From yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp  Mon Aug 23 15:59:33 1999
From: yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp (Yoshimasa Tsuji)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:59:33 +0900
Subject: dostoevskij on cd rom
Message-ID: <TUE.24.AUG.1999.005933.0900.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

a polnoe sobranie sochinenij f. dostoevskogo is
now available on  cd rom. I have just bought it in
moscow and wil try it at home in petersburg tommorrow.

cheeers,
tsuji


From chtodel at humanitas.ucsb.edu  Mon Aug 23 17:24:53 1999
From: chtodel at humanitas.ucsb.edu (Donald Barton Johnson)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:24:53 -0700
Subject: No subject
In-Reply-To: <l03110700b35638be2cb6@[137.122.174.100]>
Message-ID: <MON.23.AUG.1999.102453.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The currant SEEJ reviews a CD-ROM version of Dal's _Poslovitsy russkogo
naroda" done in Moscow at $20. Can someone advise me of a reliable source
for ordering it via e-mail?
                        Thank you,

D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA  93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618


From a.jameson at dial.pipex.com  Tue Aug 24 13:40:58 1999
From: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com (Andrew Jameson)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:40:58 +0100
Subject: Source for CD-ROM
Message-ID: <TUE.24.AUG.1999.144058.0100.>

Try Panorama of Russia
E-mail Address(es):
  mbraun at channel1.com
Cheers
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

----------
> From: Donald Barton Johnson <chtodel at humanitas.ucsb.edu>
> To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> Subject:
> Date: 23 August 1999 18:24
>
> The currant SEEJ reviews a CD-ROM version of Dal's _Poslovitsy russkogo
> naroda" done in Moscow at $20. Can someone advise me of a reliable source
> for ordering it via e-mail?
>                         Thank you,
>
> D. Barton Johnson
> Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
> Phelps Hall
> University of California at Santa Barbara
> Santa Barbara, CA  93106
> Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
> Home Phone: (805) 682-4618


From GMorsberg at aol.com  Tue Aug 24 16:36:37 1999
From: GMorsberg at aol.com (grace Morsberger)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:36:37 EDT
Subject: job announcement
Message-ID: <TUE.24.AUG.1999.123637.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The Faberge Arts Foundation is seeking a Program Officer for its Washington,
D.C. office, to start immediately.  The position is for 4-5 days a week, with
flexible hours.  Applicants for the position should have very good writing
ability, strong editing and computer skills, experience in program
development and, preferably, Russian language skills.  A background in
Russian culture and/or history or in art or art history is desirable.  The
Faberge Arts Foundation is a small, not-for-profit organization dedicated to
the restoration of St. Petersburg as a center for the decorative arts.  To
that end, FAF sponsors architectural restoration projects in St. Petersburg,
international jewelry design competitions and international art exhibitions.
FAF offers the opportunity to work with a small, congenial staff and to gain
expertise in many facets of museumship.  Salary commensurate with experience.
 Interested applicants should submit a resume and cover letter by email to
eggsfaf at aol.com or by fax at 202/331-9316 or by mail at Faberge Arts
Foundation, 910 17th St., NW, Suite 408, Washington, D.C. 20006, ATTN:
Philippa Rappoport.


From GMorsberg at aol.com  Tue Aug 24 16:44:15 1999
From: GMorsberg at aol.com (grace Morsberger)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:44:15 EDT
Subject: job announcement
Message-ID: <TUE.24.AUG.1999.124415.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The American Friends of the Russian Country Estate (A-FORCE), based in
Washington, D.C. is seeking a part-time assistant.  A-FORCE is a
not-for-profit organization devoted to restoration efforts of Russia's grand
18th- and 19th-century estates.  The position would involve maintaining
A-FORCE's mailing list and correspondence, writing and editing its biannual
newsletter, some possible translation work and other tasks as the need
arises.  The position offers the opportunity to work closely with a top
scholar in the field and to gain expertise in fundraising and development,
editing and translation.  It is a wonderful position for a student or
graduate student looking for the possiblity of adding to his or resume and
gaining useful connections in the field.  The ideal candidate should have
strong organizational, writing, editing and computer skills, some experience
as a research assistant and Russian language ability.  Salary is $10/hour.
Interested applicants should submit a resume and cover letter by email to
prsvlt at aol.com


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Tue Aug 24 17:02:02 1999
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:02:02 -0700
Subject: job announcement
Message-ID: <TUE.24.AUG.1999.100202.0700.>

Dear Grace,
Perhaps asking for volunteers would be less insulting. The gardeners
around here get $20 an hour. gg
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

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


From goscilo+ at pitt.edu  Tue Aug 24 20:59:28 1999
From: goscilo+ at pitt.edu (Helena Goscilo)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:59:28 -0400
Subject: No subject
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.990822093158.132861A-100000@DEPAUW.EDU>
Message-ID: <TUE.24.AUG.1999.165928.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Message posted on behalf of Natasha Perova, editor and publisher of GLAS:

Those teaching 20th-century Russian literature may be interested in issue
#20 of GLAS, which contains the following translations of Platonov's
prose:

1.  Three chapts. from CHEVENGUR

2.  Two excerpts from THE FOUNDATION PIT

3.  FOURTEEN LITTLE RED HUTS (play)

4.  "Among Animals and Plants" (short story)

5.  "Tales: No-Arms" (short story)

6.  "Wool over the Eyes" (short story)

7.  "The Chevengur Poems"

ISBN 5-7172-0046-3

Publisher is Ivan R. Dee; tel. 1-800-462-6420; Email: elephant at ivanrdee.co

Helena Goscilo


From ewb2 at cornell.edu  Tue Aug 24 21:33:01 1999
From: ewb2 at cornell.edu (Wayles Browne)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 17:33:01 -0400
Subject: Ukrainian pronunciation?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.990824165335.12750A-100000@unixs4.cis.pitt.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.24.AUG.1999.173301.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues,
At Cornell University, students can get a certain number of credits for
being a literate speaker of a language other than English, even
if it's a language which we don't regularly teach.
I give tests to interested students in various Slavic languages.
Part of the test involves reading a passage aloud in the language.
I get some young Ukrainian speakers from the U.S. and Canada
who pronounce soft s as in s'omyj very similar to sh as in shostyj
(perhaps even identical to it); likewise they say soft ts as in
misjatsja very much like ch as in chas. Should I consider this
to be
1) correct pronunciation of one variety of Standard Ukrainian
or
2) an accurate reproduction of the dialect pronunciation of
part of the Ukrainian speech area
or
3) the result of incomplete learning by the younger generation?
Comments and advice would be much appreciated.


Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 321, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Tue Aug 24 21:40:58 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 17:40:58 -0400
Subject: Ukrainian pronunciation?
In-Reply-To: <199908242133.RAA27019@smtp3.fas.harvard.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.24.AUG.1999.174058.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

It's Galician pronunciation from Kresy areas and very common in the U.S.
and Canadian diaspora groups (the older groups mainly came from Galicia).
Analagous to what happens in Polish dialect speech. It definitely is _not_
considered a standard feature of contemporary literary Ukrainian. It also
does not represent incomplete learning from the older generations. The ones
that don't listen to how babus'a [babush'a] says it are the ones that treat
the sibilants as sibilants (and say [babus'a])... In the dialect of the
good little boys and girls, though, you _should_ be able to hear a
difference in the pitch of the hushings in s'omyi and shostyi.

Best, Robert De Lossa


>---------------------- Information from the mail header
>-----------------------
>Sender:       "SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list"
>              <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
>Poster:       Wayles Browne <ewb2 at cornell.edu>
>Subject:      Ukrainian pronunciation?
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Dear colleagues,
>At Cornell University, students can get a certain number of credits for
>being a literate speaker of a language other than English, even
>if it's a language which we don't regularly teach.
>I give tests to interested students in various Slavic languages.
>Part of the test involves reading a passage aloud in the language.
>I get some young Ukrainian speakers from the U.S. and Canada
>who pronounce soft s as in s'omyj very similar to sh as in shostyj
>(perhaps even identical to it); likewise they say soft ts as in
>misjatsja very much like ch as in chas. Should I consider this
>to be
>1) correct pronunciation of one variety of Standard Ukrainian
>or
>2) an accurate reproduction of the dialect pronunciation of
>part of the Ukrainian speech area
>or
>3) the result of incomplete learning by the younger generation?
>Comments and advice would be much appreciated.
>
>
>Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
>Department of Linguistics
>Morrill Hall 321, Cornell University
>Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
>
>tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
>fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
>e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu


____________________________________________________
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 a.jameson at dial.pipex.com  Thu Aug 26 10:22:02 1999
From: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com (Andrew Jameson)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:22:02 +0100
Subject: Russian Regional Studies Networks
Message-ID: <THU.26.AUG.1999.112202.0100.>

#7
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999
From: "Natan M. Shklyar" <nshklyar at iews.org>
Subject: Russian Regional Studies Network
Russian Regional Studies Network

We are proud to announce that the Russian Regional Studies Network
(RRSN) is up and running on our website.  More than 50 researchers and
practitioners have already provided descriptions of their projects.  You
can see this information online at:

http://www.iews.org/rrrabout.nsf/pages/RRSN

The Russian Regional Studies Network (RRSN) is a virtual community of
specialists dedicated to the study of Russia's 89 constituent parts.
The RRSN acts as a clearinghouse of information and provides a
networking mechanism for its participants.  It is a unique opportunity
to advertise your projects to other specialists, as well as learn what
others in the field are studying and doing.

We imagine our network as a place where both scholars and practitioners
can come together to share information and resources.  This is why you
will find not only academic studies, but also projects of government
agencies and non-governmental organizations posted on our site.

You can join the RRSN by completing the "project information" form on
our website.

Natan M. Shklyar
Research Associate
EastWest Institute
700 Broadway, 2nd Floor
New York, NY  10003
Tel: +1 212 824-4115
Fax: +1 212 824-4149
Email:  nshklyar at iews.org
http://www.iews.org/

******
#6
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999
From: "NANCY POPSON" <POPSONNA at WWIC.SI.EDU>
Subject: Kennan Institute Noon Discussion, August 30, 1999

THE KENNAN INSTITUTE
FOR ADVANCED RUSSIAN STUDIES
is pleased to invite you to a noon discussion on
Center-Regional-Local

Members of the Kennan Institute's Regional Russia Working Group will
present their findings on regionalism in Russia, the effect of assymetrical
development on the transition process, and the applicability of Western
theory to the Russian case.  Several members of the Working Group will be
in attendance and will be able to answer questions about their research.

Monday, 30 August 1999
12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
Conference Room, 5th Floor
The Kennan Institute
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
The Ronald Reagan Building
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Members of the Regional Russia Working Group: James Alexander, Marjorie
Mandelstam Balzer, Michael Bradshaw, Cynthia Buckley, Andrei Degtyarev,
Vladimir Gelman, Jodi Koehn, Andrei Makarychev, Beth Mitchneck, Nicolai
Petro, Nancy Popson, Lawrence Robertson, Blair Ruble, Regina Smyth, Steven
Solnick, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Natalia Vlasova

Seating is on a first come, first served basis.  Please bring picture
identification to get through the Wilson Center's security procedures.

******
information forwarded by:
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)
E-mail: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com


From bobick at accessone.com  Thu Aug 26 18:52:45 1999
From: bobick at accessone.com (Stephen Bobick)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:52:45 -0700
Subject: Potential Ukrainian Language Courses at the UW
Message-ID: <THU.26.AUG.1999.115245.0700.>

             Learn Ukrainian at the University of Washington

    Dr. Iryna Kinyon , who taught intensive Ukrainian this summer
(UKR401,402, 403), would like to offer 401 fall quarter, 402 winter and 403
spring. This might be possible, if we can recruit enough interested students
for Slavic L & L to get funding for it. She has experience teaching Russian
at an advanced level in Kyiv in adition to teaching beginners Ukrainian here,
but she has an enthusiasm for teaching at the beginning level. You can tell
from the way she talks about her class this summer. Her summer-quarter
students have encouraged her to make available to other students the same
opportunity, that they have had.
    She doesn't expect students to have any previous knowledge of Ukrainian
(or of any Slavic language), but would also welcome students, who already know
some.
    The world is changing! People in Kyiv and the rest of the Ukraine are not
speaking Russian much any longer. There are more speakers of Ukrainian
(approximately 50 million), than of any other Slavic language, exept Russian.
If students are looking (as more of them should be) for a language not many
Americans will know, that will be useful in international commerce and
foreign relations in the first few decades of the next millenium, they could
go far worse, than choose Ukrainian. If you add to that the fact, that it
would be taught in a small class by an excellent  instructor, it should be
possible to recruit enough students to get it off the ground.
    Students, who are interested, should contact Dr. Iryna Kinyon at
irikin at aol.com and the Department of Slavic languages and literature at UW
tel. (206) 543-6848.


From uwe at rz.uni-leipzig.de  Fri Aug 27 14:41:16 1999
From: uwe at rz.uni-leipzig.de (Uwe Junghanns)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:41:16 +0200
Subject: FDSL-3 preliminary program
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.164116.0200.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Third European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-3)
University of Leipzig
1-3 December, 1999

The Preliminary Program for the Third European Conference on Formal
Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-3) is now available at the following
URL:

<http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~jungslav/fdsl/fdsl-3/fdsl-3program.html>

More information on FDSL-3 can be obtained from the conference home page at

<http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~jungslav/fdsl/fdsl-3/fdsl-3.html>

Any requests for information should be sent to

<fdsl-3 at rz.uni-leipzig.de>

(Apologies to those who already got this announcement.)


From aisrael at american.edu  Fri Aug 27 18:31:09 1999
From: aisrael at american.edu (Alina Israeli)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:31:09 -0400
Subject: FW: Question from Ukraine
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.143109.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Please reply to the sender:

> ---------------------- Forwarded message ---------------------------
>
> "Oksana A. travnikova" <oksana at TRAV.KIEV.UA> on 08/27/99
> 09:27:37 AM
>
>
> Subject:  Greetings & question from Ukraine! pls help!
>
> Greetings,
>
> could you pls help me to find e-addresses of RUSSIAN language
departments/
> faculties at your university & other universities of your country/area?
>
> The same about schools & institutes.
>
> I have not internet, I have only email, so I am not able to seek this
info
> via the web. Pls do try to help me.
>
> Do you know any mailing lists about russian language in your country or
> else?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for your help & your time.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Oksana.

*************************************************************
Alina Israeli
LFS, American University                phone:  (202) 885-2387
4400 Mass. Ave., NW                     fax:    (202) 885-1076
Washington DC 20016-8045


From salenamoffat at hotmail.com  Fri Aug 27 20:38:17 1999
From: salenamoffat at hotmail.com (Salena Moffat)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:38:17 PDT
Subject: Need help :)
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.133817.PDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Question--Will someone please email me and let me know how I might
unsubscribe from this list? Many thanks :)

Salena Moffat email: salenamoffat at hotmail.com





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From ewb2 at cornell.edu  Fri Aug 27 22:13:15 1999
From: ewb2 at cornell.edu (Wayles Browne)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:13:15 -0400
Subject: Urgent call for Slovenian English translators (forward)
Message-ID: <FRI.27.AUG.1999.181315.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Anyone interested, please reply directly to Ms. Davis.

>Status: U
>From: "Pamela Davis" <pamela at iugroup.com>
>To: <ewb2 at cornell.edu> (E Wayles Browne)
>Subject: Urgent call for Slovenian English translators
>Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:00:01 -0700
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
>X-MSMail-Priority: High
>Importance: High
>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4
>X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: ewb2 at cornell.edu
>X-Return-Path: Pamela at iugroup.com
>
>Dear Sirs:
>
>We have approximately 1,200 pages of technical material related to chemistry
>that we need to have translated from Slovenian into English.  This material
>is being used in an intellectual property case.
>
>We URGENTLY need translators, especially those with a scientific background.
>
>All translators who are interested should IMMEDIATELY submit a resume by fax
>or e-mail to (858) 451-7499 or admin at iugroup.com.  If the translators are
>employed, they should provide the name, address, and phone numbers of their
>employers.  This is because the legal team involved in the case must approve
>each translator and ascertain whether or not there is any conflict of
>interest in their working on the case.  By the way, we must have the names
>of individual translators because we are not permitted to submit the names
>of translation companies.
>
>I would very much appreciate it if you could forward this request to any
>potential organizations or institutions that might be able to help,
>specifically scientific associations.  We prefer to work with translators
>here in the US, but we will work with people overseas if necessary.
>
>We are a reputable translation company that has been in business for almost
>30 years.  Please refer to our website: www.interpretersunlimited.com, and
>feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
>
>Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Pamela Davis
>Project Manager Translations
>Interpreters Unlimited
>(800) 726-9891
>

Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 321, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Sat Aug 28 17:38:18 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:38:18 -0400
Subject: Job Index update
Message-ID: <SAT.28.AUG.1999.133818.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Just an FYI - The AATSEEL Job Index has been updated today w/6 new jobs.
Spread the word!  :-)

The location of the Job Index is the following:

http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/jobs/job-index.html


Devin / Divan

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Sun Aug 29 00:33:45 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 20:33:45 -0400
Subject: Dual citizenship in Russia (fwd)
Message-ID: <SAT.28.AUG.1999.203345.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>>From another list.  If you have any information for this woman, please
respond directly to her.

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:25:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nina Chuykova <nc1340b at american.edu>
Reply-To: civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list <civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Dual citizenship in Russia

From: Nina Chuykova <nc1340b at american.edu>

Dear friends,

I am looking for information about the dual citizenship -- Russian-US or
Russian-Canadian. Russian constitution of 1993 allows dual citizanship under
the international treaty. Does anybody know if such treaty was signed between
Russia and the United States or Russia and Canada? And if yes, where can I
find this information?

If you have any knowledge on this question, please respond to me directly:

                Nina Chuykova <nc1340b at american.edu>

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Nina


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From AATSEEL at compuserve.com  Sun Aug 29 21:33:19 1999
From: AATSEEL at compuserve.com (Jerry Ervin)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:33:19 -0400
Subject: Sale of Journal and Books
Message-ID: <SUN.29.AUG.1999.173319.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

I am posting this at the request of Alex Shane.  Please communicate with
him directly if you wish to follow up.

Thanks,

Jerry

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



Dear Colleagues in Slavic,

As a professor emeritus in the process of moving across the country, I am
in the process of downsizing my library and though that you might find some
items of interest. A list of journal holdings is appended. Seven other
lists have already been compiled by category, and I am in the process of
compiling three others. Should you want any of the lists (MS Word File),
please let me know and I will forward the files that you request by e-mail.
The books and I will be available in Albany, NY until September 19. Thank
you for your consideration.

Alex Shane      
E-Mail: ashanex at aol.com (only until September 23, 1999)
52 Hiawatha Drive
Guilderland, NY 12084
(518)-456-6732

1.  Books on Language (261 titles; complete list available in) which
include:
    Translation & Interpreting ( 12 items)
    Russian Language: Grammar and Textbooks (148 items)
    Russian Language & Literature Readers (57 items)
    Russian Language - Phonetics, Pronunciation and Stress (17 items)
    English Language (7 items)
    Language Teaching (23 items)
    Various (4 items)

2. Eighteenth Century Russian Literature (31 titles)

3. Nineteenth Century Russian Classics (28 titles)

4. Late 19th-Early 20th Century Fiction (59 titles)

5. Soviet Russian Prose (86 titles)

6. Russian Poetry (50 titles)

7. Emigre Russian Literature (150 titles, conditon poor)

8. Monographs on literary figures (423 titles, no list as yet)

9. Books on History, Memoirs, and about Literature in General (70 items, no
list as yet)

10. Books on History of Literature and Literature (313 vols., no list as
yet, many not for sale)


From kaunas4 at compuserve.com  Mon Aug 30 01:07:30 1999
From: kaunas4 at compuserve.com (richard tomback)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:07:30 -0400
Subject: assistance request
Message-ID: <SUN.29.AUG.1999.210730.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangers;
                                Request assistance for the following:
a] a reliable source for Czech language resources
b] a used copy of the following[or a xerox copy]- Horace Lunt, Grammar.of
    Old Church Slavonic   and  Charles Gribble, Mediaeval Russian Texts.

                                                        Thanks,
                                                         Richard Tomback


From Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de  Mon Aug 30 07:30:04 1999
From: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de (Bjoern Wiemer)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:30:04 +0200
Subject: imperatives, aspect, and negation
Message-ID: <MON.30.AUG.1999.093004.0200.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGSlers,

can anybody help me finding comprehensive and reliable analyses of aspect
choice with imperatives, in particular in negated ones, in South Slavic
languages? Handbooks on Croatian, Bulgarian etc. state that only ipf. verbs
can be used if the imperative falls under the scope of negation. Thus, there
would be left no meaningful choice, contrary to the Northern territory of
the Slavia. I would appreciate also if anybody could convey me bibliographic
data on analyses concerning dialects of the South Slavic languages, or even
articles etc. dealing with the historical development of aspect choice in
the above mentioned contexts, starting from the time of the first documents.
        I promise to write a "digest" if I gather enough information.

Best,
        Bjoern Wiemer.



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Dr. 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 Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de  Mon Aug 30 07:31:48 1999
From: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de (Bjoern Wiemer)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:31:48 +0200
Subject: POLYSLAV II
Message-ID: <MON.30.AUG.1999.093148.0200.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGSlers, once more -

I would like to drive your attention to the second volume of POLYSLAV, just
published at Sagner (Munich). In the attachment you will find a "leaflet"
informing about the contents (sorry, it's only in German). But I am going to
give also a table of contents below:

Diljana Atanassova      Zu einigen Besonderheiten der Perikopen des Buches
                        Richter in der Zusammensetzung der slavischen Menäen	

Tania Avgustinova       Prosodic constraints in morphosyntactic domains 	

Hauke Bartels           Zu zwei bislang wenig beachteten substantivisch-endopho-
                        rischen Verwendungen der Pronomina ýòî und òî 
                        im Russischen                                   	

Gregor Barth            Veränderungsprozesse und -tendenzen 
                        im kroatischen Wortschatz                       	

Michael Betsch  Dialogsammlungen in tschechischen und
                polnischen Grammatiken des 18. Jahrhunderts             	

Renate Blankenhorn       Zum russisch-deutschen Sprachkontakt. Funktionales
Code-Switching bei Rußlanddeutschen in Sibirien	

Joanna Blaszczak        -kolwiek Pronouns in Polish: Negative Polarity Items
                        or Free Choice Items or both?                   	

Katharina Böttger     Parallelen in Diachronie und Ontogenese russischer
Verben

Olga Burenina           Sovremennaja russkaja punktuacija: ot kodificirovannyx
                        norm k smyslu?

Doris Burkhardt         Govorjashchee lico i chasti(cy) rechi:
                        Überlegungen zu den vvodnye slova                                     	
Adam Dobaczewski        Swiatlo. Próba analizy semantycznej           	

Dorota Filar            Zmiennosc perspektywy jako wlasciwosc jezyka            

Jakob Fruchtmann        Zum Gebrauch der Lang- und Kurzform im adjektivischen
                        Prädikatsnomen der russischen Gegenwartssprache.
                        Eine Anregung                                   	

Markus Giger            Zu Lehnübersetzungen und Entlehnungen deutscher 
                        postponierbarer Präverbien im älteren Obersorbischen 	

Lucie Hasová          Dreifaches Deutsch und die Aneignung des Tschechischen.
                        Eine Sprachbiographie                                   

Mariola Jakubowicz      Zur Bedeutungsentwicklung im Bereiche 
                        des Gefühlswortschatzes                                       

Ursula Keller           Zum Zusammenhang von Markiertheit und Bedeutung:
                        russ. xudozhnik : xudozhnica                           	

Marek Lazinski          Zur Konzeption von Synonymwörterbüchern im Polnischen.
                        Beschreibung von Ähnlichkeiten oder von Unterschieden?  

Beata Lozinska          Phraseologische Wendungen biblischer Herkunft in der
gegenwärtigen polnischen Sprache              	

Elke Mann               Verführung durch Werbung. Anmerkungen zu einer
                        Werbeanzeige in den russischen Printmedien aus
                        linguistischer Perspektive                      	

Robert Marzari          Absatz und Kapitel – auf der Suche nach sinnvollen
                        textuellen Untersuchungseinheiten               	

Thomas Menzel           Zur Deklination von Maskulina mit unbelebten Denotaten
                        im Polnischen – strukturelle Implikationen und
                        diachrone Präferenzen                         	

Nadejda Moiseeva        Geschmacksterminologie im Russischen                   	

Pawel Nowak             Funkcje metafor pojeciowych
                        w wypowiedziach publicystycznych                	

Jolanta Panasiuk        Zaburzenia jezyka a komunikacja w przypadkach afazji 	

Svetlana Poljakova      Zu Gradpartikeln: Russisch – Deutsch                  

Claudia Radünzel      Newspeak-Elemente in russischen und deutschen
außenpolitischen Texten                                       

Marzena Rochon  An OT-Approach to Coronal Palatalization in Polish              

Magdalena Schmidt       Lexikalische Modalitätsausdrucksmittel
                        im Polnischen und im Deutschen                          

Anna Socka              Zum endophorischen Gebrauch von Lokaldeiktika
                        im Deutschen und Polnischen                     	

Elzbieta Solak          Imperceptywnosc – kategoria z przyszloscia?           

Jadwiga Stawnicka       Uwagi o inicjalnym rodzaju akcji
                        (na materiale przekladowym rosyjsko-niemieckim)         

Bohumil Vykypel         Zur dravänopolabischen Sozialterminologie                     
Ewa Walusiak            On some aspects of reiteration in the text      	

Björn Wiemer          The light and the heavy form of the Polish reflexive
                        pronoun and their role in diathesis             	

Vladislava Zhdanova     Koncept prichiny v russkoj kartine mira



With best regards,
Bjoern Wiemer.

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

e-mail: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de
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From Rolf.Fieguth at unifr.ch  Mon Aug 30 10:51:12 1999
From: Rolf.Fieguth at unifr.ch (Rolf Fieguth)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:51:12 +0200
Subject: Poetic sequences or cycles
Message-ID: <MON.30.AUG.1999.125112.0200.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

I need help from those who are not only concerned by Slavic Literatures:
- does anybody know who is working on 19th/early20th Century poetic cycles
or sequences in English, American, German, as well as in Ukrainian or any
other European literature?
- does anybody know where to find discussion groups similar to SEELANG in
the fields of Comparative, English and American, Romance, German and other
European language literatures?

Thanks in advance, Rolf Fieguth.
Prof. Dr. Rolf Fieguth

Universitaet Freiburg/CH
Slavisches Seminar
Route d'Englisberg 7                        Grand-Rue 12A
CH - 1763 Granges Paccot             CH - 1700 Fribourg

Tel  (026) 3007912                    Tel/Fax  (026) 32337732
Fax (026) 3009697
Rolf.Fieguth at unifr.ch


From a.jameson at dial.pipex.com  Mon Aug 30 16:36:08 1999
From: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com (Andrew Jameson)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:36:08 +0100
Subject: Poetic sequences or cycles
Message-ID: <MON.30.AUG.1999.173608.0100.>

www.mailbase.ac.uk
runs about 2,500 academic discussion lists, searchable and joinable
from the website;
links to Five or Six search engines for email discussion lists.
Best wishes
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

----------
> From: Rolf Fieguth <Rolf.Fieguth at unifr.ch>
> To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: Poetic sequences or cycles
> Date: 30 August 1999 11:51
>
> Dear SEELANGers,
>
> I need help from those who are not only concerned by Slavic Literatures:
> - does anybody know who is working on 19th/early20th Century poetic cycles
> or sequences in English, American, German, as well as in Ukrainian or any
> other European literature?
> - does anybody know where to find discussion groups similar to SEELANG in
> the fields of Comparative, English and American, Romance, German and other
> European language literatures?
>
> Thanks in advance, Rolf Fieguth.
> Prof. Dr. Rolf Fieguth
>
> Universitaet Freiburg/CH
> Slavisches Seminar
> Route d'Englisberg 7                        Grand-Rue 12A
> CH - 1763 Granges Paccot             CH - 1700 Fribourg
>
> Tel  (026) 3007912                    Tel/Fax  (026) 32337732
> Fax (026) 3009697
> Rolf.Fieguth at unifr.ch


From kenneth.udut at spcorp.com  Mon Aug 30 17:31:09 1999
From: kenneth.udut at spcorp.com (Udut, Kenneth)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:31:09 -0400
Subject: "word association", vocabulary acquisition and neural networks
Message-ID: <MON.30.AUG.1999.133109.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Question which may sound silly:

Has there ever been a study done
which takes an 'average' of
"word associations" and used this
information for teaching related
vocabulary?

Example:

I'm learning Russian, and
I would like to see the
product of a native Russian's
(or a whole bunch of native
Russians) 'word association' -
something like "happy",
"sad", "mad", "glad", "sunny",
"warm", "cold", "old", "bold",
"mold", "mildew", "fungus" might
be in English...

There might be some words
which rhyme, other words which
are opposites, other words which
are similar in meaning, some
words which are the same
amount of syllables, etc.

I'm rather pedestrian, as far
as language acquisition goes,
but I tend to be "right brained",
as they say, and am a big fan
of the neural network concept of
how the brain is mapped, and
stores information.

If anybody knows of anything
like this, I would be quite
interested.

Thoughts?  Information?

-Kenneth
kenneth.udut at spcorp.com


From lrc at mrminc.com  Mon Aug 30 19:46:19 1999
From: lrc at mrminc.com (LRC staff)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:46:19 -0400
Subject: "word association", vocabulary acquisition and neural networks
In-Reply-To: <575370C1E2FED21180480008C7916A44583122@KENMSG02>
Message-ID: <MON.30.AUG.1999.154619.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Back in the 1970s there was a dictionary called Slovar' associatyvnych norm
russkogo jazyka (or something like that). I was based on psycholinguistic
experimets on free associations. The dictionary provides the descriptive
statistics from the experiment.

Best,

Danko Sipka

>Question which may sound silly:
>
>Has there ever been a study done
>which takes an 'average' of
>"word associations" and used this
>information for teaching related
>vocabulary?
>
>Example:
>
>I'm learning Russian, and
>I would like to see the
>product of a native Russian's
>(or a whole bunch of native
>Russians) 'word association' -
>something like "happy",
>"sad", "mad", "glad", "sunny",
>"warm", "cold", "old", "bold",
>"mold", "mildew", "fungus" might
>be in English...
>
>There might be some words
>which rhyme, other words which
>are opposites, other words which
>are similar in meaning, some
>words which are the same
>amount of syllables, etc.
>
>I'm rather pedestrian, as far
>as language acquisition goes,
>but I tend to be "right brained",
>as they say, and am a big fan
>of the neural network concept of
>how the brain is mapped, and
>stores information.
>
>If anybody knows of anything
>like this, I would be quite
>interested.
>
>Thoughts?  Information?
>
>-Kenneth
>kenneth.udut at spcorp.com


Please put the adressee's name in the subject field.

Language Research Center
A Division of MRM Inc.
http://www.mrminc.com
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From vz2 at is.nyu.edu  Tue Aug 31 01:38:59 1999
From: vz2 at is.nyu.edu (Valentina Zaitseva)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:38:59 -0500
Subject: "word association", vocabulary acquisition and neural networks
Message-ID: <MON.30.AUG.1999.203859.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>Question which may sound silly:
>
>Has there ever been a study done
>which takes an 'average' of
>"word associations" and used this
>information for teaching related
>vocabulary?

-yes, there exists a dictionary (in two volumes), called
Russkii assotsiativnyi slovar'
(Assotsiativnyi tezaurus sovremennogo russkogo iazyka; editors;
Ju. N. Karaulov, Ju. A. Sorokin et al. Moscow 1994

I don't know of any teaching materials based on it, but myself found it
useful for teaching.

Good Luck,
Valenbtina Zaitseva


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Tue Aug 31 04:05:28 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:05:28 -0400
Subject: unpaid interships available
Message-ID: <TUE.31.AUG.1999.000528.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

FYI

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:15:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Reap International <reap at reapintl.com>
Reply-To: civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list <civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU>
Subject: REAP Internships in Russia, Latvia and Lithuania

Reap International, a nonprofit organization which works in Russia, Latvia
and Lithuania, is beginning work on its summer 2000 unpaid internship
program for the Lake Baikal region of Siberia and also for Latvia and
Lithuania.  The final details, including firm program costs, will be
available in early November. Interested persons are invited to make
inquiries before that date, particularly if they have specific objectives
which they wish to achieve in their internship.

In the summer of 1999, we had four interns from 1-3 months involved in
varied activities, including environmental education, assistance with
tourism development, work with orphans, English language training and work
with high school students on nature study.  We had one intern without
Russian language.  In 2000, we expect to be able to have some non-Russian
speakers as well, but these will be limited and REAP reserves the right to
decline an applicant.

At Lake Baikal we can place interns in Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude, as well as
some situations in rural Buryatia.  Baikal is the world's most unique lake
ecosystem.  It has enormous diversity of plants and animals, as well as
all three of Siberia's great ecosystems;  Boreal forest (taiga), Asian
steppe and alpine mountains.  It is also culturally diverse, with ethnic
Russians, Buryats, most other Soviet ethnics and several indigenous
peoples related to the Buryats.  Buryats are descended from Mongolians.
Religions include Russian Orthodox, Buddhism and Shamanism.

REAP has worked with a variety of local organizations and institutions for
nearly 10 years.  Our network includes the Ministries of Education,
Culture, Justice and Agriculture; our own nongovernmental partner
organizations, many scientists, educators, other nongovernmental
organizations, farmers, entrepreneurs, village administrators, school
teachers and school administrators.  Our largest program is involved in
developing rural stability in small communities in Buryatia by providing
multiple assistance to the rural schools in those villages.  Many of our
interns work with this general program, but we also will be sharing
interns with other projects.

In Latvia and Lithuania, we have partners involved with sustainable rural
development, organic farming and environmental education.

REAP will not only have interns in its own programs in 2000, but we expect
to provide other organizations with interns. The complete list of
situations will be available in November. Persons with specific needs
should contact us as early as possible in order that we can try to find a
good match.

We can also host college groups for short adventure travel, which can
include trekking, mountain climbing and kayaking.  Finally, please look
for information on REAP's Second International Green Walk, which will be
held in Buryatia. Information on this project will also be circulated in
November.

Contact:
Bill Mueller
REAP International
1427 4th Street SW
Cedar Rapids, Iowa  52404
(319) 366-4230    Fax:  366-2209
E-Mail:  REAP at reapintl.com

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From Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de  Tue Aug 31 07:26:14 1999
From: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de (Bjoern Wiemer)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:26:14 +0200
Subject: POLYSLAV II
Message-ID: <TUE.31.AUG.1999.092614.0200.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Dean Worth,

thank you very much for your messages. It doesn't matter for me via which
line you answered. Best regards,
Bjoern Wiemer.
(It's early out here, now...)


At 10:24 30.08.20 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear SEELANGS colleagues,
>        My apologies for replying to POLYSLAV via the list. It's early out west
>here, and I hadn't had my coffee. Dean Worth
>
>
>At 09:42 AM 8/30/20 -0700, you wrote:
>>Dear Colleague,
>>        Thank you for the E-mail information about POLYSLAV. Please enter a
>>subscription for me, starting with the first issue. Thank you, Prof. Dean
>>S. Worth, Dept. of Slavic Languages, University of California. Los Angeles,
>>CA 90095-1502.
>>
>>
>>At 09:31 AM 8/30/99 +0200, you wrote:
>>>Dear SEELANGSlers, once more -
>>>
>>>I would like to drive your attention to the second volume of POLYSLAV, just
>>>published at Sagner (Munich). In the attachment you will find a "leaflet"
>>>informing about the contents (sorry, it's only in German). But I am going to
>>>give also a table of contents below:
>>>
>>>Diljana Atanassova      Zu einigen Besonderheiten der Perikopen des Buches
>>>                        Richter in der Zusammensetzung der slavischen
>Menäen	
>>>
>>>Tania Avgustinova       Prosodic constraints in morphosyntactic domains 	
>>>
>>>Hauke Bartels           Zu zwei bislang wenig beachteten
>>substantivisch-endopho-
>>>                        rischen Verwendungen der Pronomina ýòî und òî 
>>>                        im Russischen                                   	
>>>
>>>Gregor Barth            Veränderungsprozesse und -tendenzen 
>>>                        im kroatischen Wortschatz                       	
>>>
>>>Michael Betsch  Dialogsammlungen in tschechischen und
>>>                polnischen Grammatiken des 18. Jahrhunderts             	
>>>
>>>Renate Blankenhorn       Zum russisch-deutschen Sprachkontakt. Funktionales
>>>Code-Switching bei Rußlanddeutschen in Sibirien	
>>>
>>>Joanna Blaszczak        -kolwiek Pronouns in Polish: Negative Polarity Items
>>>                        or Free Choice Items or both?                   	
>>>
>>>Katharina Böttger     Parallelen in Diachronie und Ontogenese russischer
>>>Verben
>>>
>>>Olga Burenina           Sovremennaja russkaja punktuacija: ot
>>kodificirovannyx
>>>                        norm k smyslu?
>>>
>>>Doris Burkhardt         Govorjashchee lico i chasti(cy) rechi:
>>>                        Überlegungen zu den vvodnye slova
>>                   	
>>>Adam Dobaczewski        Swiatlo. Próba analizy semantycznej           	
>>>
>>>Dorota Filar            Zmiennosc perspektywy jako wlasciwosc jezyka
>>     
>>>
>>>Jakob Fruchtmann        Zum Gebrauch der Lang- und Kurzform im
>adjektivischen
>>>                        Prädikatsnomen der russischen Gegenwartssprache.
>>>                        Eine Anregung                                   	
>>>
>>>Markus Giger            Zu Lehnübersetzungen und Entlehnungen deutscher 
>>>                        postponierbarer Präverbien im älteren
>>Obersorbischen 	
>>>
>>>Lucie Hasová          Dreifaches Deutsch und die Aneignung des
>Tschechischen.
>>>                        Eine Sprachbiographie
>>     
>>>
>>>Mariola Jakubowicz      Zur Bedeutungsentwicklung im Bereiche 
>>>                        des Gefühlswortschatzes
>>           
>>>
>>>Ursula Keller           Zum Zusammenhang von Markiertheit und Bedeutung:
>>>                        russ. xudozhnik : xudozhnica
>>    	
>>>
>>>Marek Lazinski          Zur Konzeption von Synonymwörterbüchern im
>>Polnischen.
>>>                        Beschreibung von Ähnlichkeiten oder von
>>Unterschieden?  
>>>
>>>Beata Lozinska          Phraseologische Wendungen biblischer Herkunft in der
>>>gegenwärtigen polnischen Sprache              	
>>>
>>>Elke Mann               Verführung durch Werbung. Anmerkungen zu einer
>>>                        Werbeanzeige in den russischen Printmedien aus
>>>                        linguistischer Perspektive                      	
>>>
>>>Robert Marzari          Absatz und Kapitel – auf der Suche nach sinnvollen
>>>                        textuellen Untersuchungseinheiten               	
>>>
>>>Thomas Menzel           Zur Deklination von Maskulina mit unbelebten
>>Denotaten
>>>                        im Polnischen – strukturelle Implikationen und
>>>                        diachrone Präferenzen                         	
>>>
>>>Nadejda Moiseeva        Geschmacksterminologie im Russischen
>>    	
>>>
>>>Pawel Nowak             Funkcje metafor pojeciowych
>>>                        w wypowiedziach publicystycznych                	
>>>
>>>Jolanta Panasiuk        Zaburzenia jezyka a komunikacja w przypadkach
>>afazji 	
>>>
>>>Svetlana Poljakova      Zu Gradpartikeln: Russisch – Deutsch
>>   
>>>
>>>Claudia Radünzel      Newspeak-Elemente in russischen und deutschen
>>>außenpolitischen Texten                                       
>>>
>>>Marzena Rochon  An OT-Approach to Coronal Palatalization in Polish
>>     
>>>
>>>Magdalena Schmidt       Lexikalische Modalitätsausdrucksmittel
>>>                        im Polnischen und im Deutschen
>>     
>>>
>>>Anna Socka              Zum endophorischen Gebrauch von Lokaldeiktika
>>>                        im Deutschen und Polnischen                     	
>>>
>>>Elzbieta Solak          Imperceptywnosc – kategoria z przyszloscia?
>>   
>>>
>>>Jadwiga Stawnicka       Uwagi o inicjalnym rodzaju akcji
>>>                        (na materiale przekladowym rosyjsko-niemieckim)
>>     
>>>
>>>Bohumil Vykypel         Zur dravänopolabischen Sozialterminologie
>>           
>>>Ewa Walusiak            On some aspects of reiteration in the text      	
>>>
>>>Björn Wiemer          The light and the heavy form of the Polish reflexive
>>>                        pronoun and their role in diathesis             	
>>>
>>>Vladislava Zhdanova     Koncept prichiny v russkoj kartine mira
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>With best regards,
>>>Bjoern Wiemer.
>>>
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>>>Dr. 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
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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
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From kenneth.udut at spcorp.com  Tue Aug 31 12:45:34 1999
From: kenneth.udut at spcorp.com (Udut, Kenneth)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:45:34 -0400
Subject: "word association",
 vocabulary acquisition and neural network s
Message-ID: <TUE.31.AUG.1999.084534.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Thank you, Danko!  I will look this book up.  [I hope I
can find it!]



           Kenneth Udut
Kenneth.Udut at SPCORP.COM

|-----Original Message-----
|From: LRC staff [mailto:lrc at mrminc.com]
|Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 3:46 PM
|To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
|Subject: Re: "word association", vocabulary acquisition and neural
|networks
|
|
|Back in the 1970s there was a dictionary called Slovar'
|associatyvnych norm
|russkogo jazyka (or something like that). I was based on
|psycholinguistic
|experimets on free associations. The dictionary provides the
|descriptive
|statistics from the experiment.
|
|Best,
|
|Danko Sipka
|
|>Question which may sound silly:
|>
|>Has there ever been a study done
|>which takes an 'average' of
|>"word associations" and used this
|>information for teaching related
|>vocabulary?
|>
|>Example:
|>
|>I'm learning Russian, and
|>I would like to see the
|>product of a native Russian's
|>(or a whole bunch of native
|>Russians) 'word association' -
|>something like "happy",
|>"sad", "mad", "glad", "sunny",
|>"warm", "cold", "old", "bold",
|>"mold", "mildew", "fungus" might
|>be in English...
|>
|>There might be some words
|>which rhyme, other words which
|>are opposites, other words which
|>are similar in meaning, some
|>words which are the same
|>amount of syllables, etc.
|>
|>I'm rather pedestrian, as far
|>as language acquisition goes,
|>but I tend to be "right brained",
|>as they say, and am a big fan
|>of the neural network concept of
|>how the brain is mapped, and
|>stores information.
|>
|>If anybody knows of anything
|>like this, I would be quite
|>interested.
|>
|>Thoughts?  Information?
|>
|>-Kenneth
|>kenneth.udut at spcorp.com
|
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