From alesta at banet.net  Tue Jun  1 19:35:51 1999
From: alesta at banet.net (A & S)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:35:51 -0400
Subject: Solzhenitsyn discussion group
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.153551.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I stumbled upon this today and thought others on the list might be
interested in learning that there is a discussion group/mailing list on the
life and work of Solzhenitsyn.  More information and an opportunity to
subscribe are to be found at
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/solzhenitsyn-l

I am not sure who operates the list and whether it is currently functioning
at all (its archives do not reflect much activity) but if more interested
parties subscribe it has the potential of becoming a lively forum on this
remarkable and important individual.

Elena Rosenberg


From cliberio at broadway.GC.cuny.edu  Tue Jun  1 21:34:01 1999
From: cliberio at broadway.GC.cuny.edu (cliberio at broadway.GC.cuny.edu)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:34:01 EDT
Subject: Quick guide to move from pre-revolution Russian to post-rev?
In-Reply-To: <199905281639.MAA28563@sp2.spcorp.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.173401.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Gerald Janecek's book "The look of Russian literature" has as an appendix
the text of the 1917 "Resolutions of the Orthographic Subcommission of the
Imperial Academy of Science" and the issue is discussed in the
introduction.

Chiara Liberio

Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature
Graduate Center-Cuny


On Fri, 28 May 1999, UDUT, KENNETH wrote:

>      Dear SEELANGers,
>
>      Can anybody provide a 'quick and dirty' guide to help one move from
>      pre-revolutionary Russian to post-revolution Russian?
>
>      In other words, the letters that were removed from Russian, what
>      letters do they become?
>
>      Which ones tend to vanish altogether?  (for example, the soft sign
>      at the end of many words - I've noticed that goes away frequently)
>
>      I'm not looking for a book to read (although if it covers this
>      information well, I may be interested), or a reference to ERIC (as
>      I do not know enough about the system for it to be any much help to
>      me), but rather, a page or two reply which explains it.
>
>      It doesn't have to be 100% accurate, or cover every given
>      circumstance, but I would imagine that the revolutionaries used a
>      simple set of guidelines, and that's what I'm interested in finding
>      out, so that I can look at a text I have that is a re-print of a
>      1908 Russian publication and be able to get some idea what they're
>      talking about.
>
>      Thank you very much!
>
>
>      -Kenneth
>      kenneth.udut at spcorp.com
>


From edraitser at sprynet.com  Tue Jun  1 21:46:48 1999
From: edraitser at sprynet.com (Emil A. Draitser)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:46:48 EDT
Subject: Request for assistance with Gorky quote
Message-ID: <TUE.1.JUN.1999.174648.EDT.>

Dear Seelangers:

I remember reading somewhere a quotation from Maxim Gorky the essence of which is that a country's level of civilization could be measured by the country's attitude to women. Can anybody tell where in Gorky's work I should start looking for this sentence? If there is anybody else who said something to the same effect, it's OK. I need this as an epigraph to my forthcoming book on gender relationship in Russia. Please answer off-list.

Have a great summer!

Emil A. Draitser,
Hunter College of CUNY
edraitser at sprynet.com


From a.jameson at dial.pipex.com  Wed Jun  2 16:16:51 1999
From: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com (Andrew Jameson)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:16:51 +0100
Subject: Request for assistance with Gorky quote
Message-ID: <WED.2.JUN.1999.171651.0100.>

Sorry to reply to the list but I thought the interest was
worth it.
The quote comes from Zhizn' Klima Samgina, part 1,
chapter 2, 1925.
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

----------
From: Emil A. Draitser <edraitser at sprynet.com>
To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Request for assistance with Gorky quote
Date: 01 June 1999 22:46

Dear Seelangers:

I remember reading somewhere a quotation from Maxim Gorky the essence of which
 is that a country's level of civilization could be
measured by the country's attitude to women. Can anybody tell where in Gorky's
 work I should start looking for this sentence? If
there is anybody else who said something to the same effect, it's OK. I need
 this as an epigraph to my forthcoming book on gender
relationship in Russia. Please answer off-list.

Have a great summer!

Emil A. Draitser,
Hunter College of CUNY
edraitser at sprynet.com
----------


From ihelfant at MAIL.COLGATE.EDU  Wed Jun  2 17:11:37 1999
From: ihelfant at MAIL.COLGATE.EDU (Ian Helfant)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:11:37 -0400
Subject: getting cash in Moscow
Message-ID: <WED.2.JUN.1999.131137.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues -- Here's a mundane question in the midst of the more
abstruse issues which normally get discussed here.  I will be leading
Colgate University's Moscow Study Group this fall and have been exploring
various possibilities for accessing in Moscow the relatively large amounts
of cash necessary to run the program.  We are able to pay our institutional
affiliates via bank transfers, but  several thousands of dollars in cash
will also be necessary.  Does anyone have a suggestion about a better way to
handle this than withdrawing money drawn from an American banking account at
the American Express office (which involves a commission of at least 2 and
as much as 5 percent) or wiring money via Western Union (at an approximately
4 percent commission).  Please respond off line to
ihelfant at mail.colgate.edu.

Thanks!
Ian Helfant
Assistant Professor of Russian
202 Lawrence Hall
Colgate University
315-228-7721 (w)
315-691-4813 (h)
315-228-7176 (fax)


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Thu Jun  3 02:53:16 1999
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 21:53:16 -0500
Subject: ACTFL OPI reminder
Message-ID: <WED.2.JUN.1999.215316.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

This is just a reminder that June 3 is the deadline to register for the
ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview workshop to be held July 22-25 at the
Russian School of Middlebury College.

For information about registering for the workshop, please contact ACTFL
directly at

(914) 963-8830

or by e-mail at goactfl at aol.com.

If you express interest by the deadline and make arrangements for payment to
follow, it might still be possible for you to register for the workshop in
Russian this summer.

With best wishes (and my promise not to mention this again!),

Ben Rifkin

        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Benjamin Rifkin, Assoc. Prof. of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI  53706
voice:  608/262-1623; fax:  608/265-2814
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


From LShipley at flagship.ru  Thu Jun  3 06:15:54 1999
From: LShipley at flagship.ru (Shipley, Linda)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:15:54 +0400
Subject: getting cash in Moscow
Message-ID: <THU.3.JUN.1999.101554.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Ian -

Since the crisis, my boyfriend and I have been using Alfa Bank ATMs to get
dollars. The locations I use are on Kutuzovsky Prospect and Old Arbat. They
take either credit cards or debit cards. They do not take a percentage out
when I use my debit card, but they do for a credit card - 2%. If you are
interested, I can check out one of the ATMs and tell you the specific types
of cards they accept.  They have worked consistently for the past year,
although there are cases when certain machines are out of dollars or out of
money all together.  I've usually been able to find at least one machine
that works.   I would recommend this as a viable option, but - as you
probably already know - you should have some back-up options, such as AmEx
or Western Union.

Best regards,

Linda Shipley

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Helfant [mailto:ihelfant at MAIL.COLGATE.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 9:12 PM
To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: getting cash in Moscow


Dear colleagues -- Here's a mundane question in the midst of the more
abstruse issues which normally get discussed here.  I will be leading
Colgate University's Moscow Study Group this fall and have been exploring
various possibilities for accessing in Moscow the relatively large amounts
of cash necessary to run the program.  We are able to pay our institutional
affiliates via bank transfers, but  several thousands of dollars in cash
will also be necessary.  Does anyone have a suggestion about a better way to
handle this than withdrawing money drawn from an American banking account at
the American Express office (which involves a commission of at least 2 and
as much as 5 percent) or wiring money via Western Union (at an approximately
4 percent commission).  Please respond off line to
ihelfant at mail.colgate.edu.

Thanks!
Ian Helfant
Assistant Professor of Russian
202 Lawrence Hall
Colgate University
315-228-7721 (w)
315-691-4813 (h)
315-228-7176 (fax)


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Thu Jun  3 11:13:47 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 07:13:47 -0400
Subject: ISO Russian magazine suggestions
Message-ID: <THU.3.JUN.1999.071347.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Can anyone suggest any useful Russian magazine subscriptions for the high
school Russian classroom?  I'm open to all topics, from the cerebral to
the silly.  Fashion mags are also helpful for current language and styles.

Thanks in advance!

Devin / Divan

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From rar at slavic.umass.edu  Thu Jun  3 12:11:09 1999
From: rar at slavic.umass.edu (ROBERT A ROTHSTEIN)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:11:09 -0400
Subject: Request for assistance with Gorky quote
Message-ID: <THU.3.JUN.1999.081109.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

While it's true that in 1925 Gorky wrote:  "Vysota kul'tury
opredeliaetsia otnosheniem k zhenshchine," in 1883 Ivan Franko
began his article "Zhinocha nevolia v rus'kykh pisniakh narodnykh" with
the following sentence:

        Koly se pravda, shcho miroiu kul'turnosti vsiakoho narodu
        mozhe sluzhyty to, iak toi narod obkhodit'sia z zhinkamy,
        to i se bezperechna pravda, shcho rus'ko-ukrains'kyi narod
        pislia sei miry pokazhet'sia vysoko kul'turnym u vidnoshenni
        do druhykh susidnikh narodiv.

Franko's formulation ("If it's true that...") suggests that he might
have been referring to an already existing aphorism, but I haven't yet
found an earlier source.
                                Bob Rothstein


From edraitse at shiva.hunter.cuny.edu  Thu Jun  3 13:37:02 1999
From: edraitse at shiva.hunter.cuny.edu (edraitse at shiva.hunter.cuny.edu)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:37:02 -0400
Subject: Request for assistance with Gorky quote
Message-ID: <THU.3.JUN.1999.093702.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Thanks to everybody who responded to my query.

Emil Draitser
Original Message:
-----------------
While it's true that in 1925 Gorky wrote:  "Vysota kul'tury
opredeliaetsia otnosheniem k zhenshchine," in 1883 Ivan Franko
began his article "Zhinocha nevolia v rus'kykh pisniakh narodnykh" with
the following sentence:

        Koly se pravda, shcho miroiu kul'turnosti vsiakoho narodu
        mozhe sluzhyty to, iak toi narod obkhodit'sia z zhinkamy,
        to i se bezperechna pravda, shcho rus'ko-ukrains'kyi narod
        pislia sei miry pokazhet'sia vysoko kul'turnym u vidnoshenni
        do druhykh susidnikh narodiv.

Franko's formulation ("If it's true that...") suggests that he might
have been referring to an already existing aphorism, but I haven't yet
found an earlier source.
                                Bob Rothstein





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From lat5 at columbia.edu  Thu Jun  3 14:51:50 1999
From: lat5 at columbia.edu (Ludmilla A. Trigos)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:51:50 -0400
Subject: getting cash in Moscow
Message-ID: <THU.3.JUN.1999.105150.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Ian,

As I recall, if you have an American Express green card and you bring a copy of
a cancelled check, you can set up an Express Cash account in order to withdraw
money from the Dialog bank ATM at the American Express office without having to
pay a service charge.  The money will be extracted directly from your checking
account.  When I was last in Moscow (in the summer of 1994), I used this method
of getting cash and found it to be very convenient.

Best regards,

Ludmilla A. Trigos
Columbia University

Ian Helfant wrote:

> Dear colleagues -- Here's a mundane question in the midst of the more
> abstruse issues which normally get discussed here.  I will be leading
> Colgate University's Moscow Study Group this fall and have been exploring
> various possibilities for accessing in Moscow the relatively large amounts
> of cash necessary to run the program.  We are able to pay our institutional
> affiliates via bank transfers, but  several thousands of dollars in cash
> will also be necessary.  Does anyone have a suggestion about a better way to
> handle this than withdrawing money drawn from an American banking account at
> the American Express office (which involves a commission of at least 2 and
> as much as 5 percent) or wiring money via Western Union (at an approximately
> 4 percent commission).  Please respond off line to
> ihelfant at mail.colgate.edu.
>
> Thanks!
> Ian Helfant
> Assistant Professor of Russian
> 202 Lawrence Hall
> Colgate University
> 315-228-7721 (w)
> 315-691-4813 (h)
> 315-228-7176 (fax)


From greenbrg at KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU  Thu Jun  3 14:58:47 1999
From: greenbrg at KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU (Marc L. Greenberg)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:58:47 -0500
Subject: Balkan Conf. Announcement
Message-ID: <THU.3.JUN.1999.095847.0500.>

Dear SEELANGers,

I would be most grateful if those of you who work in Balkan & South
Slavic studies or have colleagues and graduate students who do,
could print, post and/or pass on the attached Call for Papers for the
12th Biennial Conference on South Slavic Linguistics, Literature
and Folklore (May 4-6, 2000, Univ. of Kansas).

Thank you in advance for you assistance.

Sincerely,

Marc L. Greenberg
=================================
Marc L. Greenberg, Associate
Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Director of Graduate Studies
Dept. of Slavic Languages
2134 Wescoe Hall
University of Kansas 66045-2174
USA

Tel. (785) 864-2349 (Office + voice mail)
Tel. (785) 864-3313 (Dept. secretary)
Fax: (785) 864-4298
E-mail: m-greenberg at ukans.edu
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From goscilo+ at pitt.edu  Thu Jun  3 15:14:52 1999
From: goscilo+ at pitt.edu (Helena Goscilo)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:14:52 -0400
Subject: Request for assistance with Gorky quote
In-Reply-To: <199906031211.IAA17684@emily.oit.umass.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.3.JUN.1999.111452.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Earlier, de Tocqueville.

Helena Goscilo

> Subject: Re: Request for assistance with Gorky quote
>
> While it's true that in 1925 Gorky wrote:  "Vysota kul'tury
> opredeliaetsia otnosheniem k zhenshchine," in 1883 Ivan Franko
> began his article "Zhinocha nevolia v rus'kykh pisniakh narodnykh" with
> the following sentence:
>
>         Koly se pravda, shcho miroiu kul'turnosti vsiakoho narodu
>         mozhe sluzhyty to, iak toi narod obkhodit'sia z zhinkamy,
>         to i se bezperechna pravda, shcho rus'ko-ukrains'kyi narod
>         pislia sei miry pokazhet'sia vysoko kul'turnym u vidnoshenni
>         do druhykh susidnikh narodiv.
>
> Franko's formulation ("If it's true that...") suggests that he might
> have been referring to an already existing aphorism, but I haven't yet
> found an earlier source.
>                                 Bob Rothstein
>

________________________________________________________________
Lenka Supermenka (some days)
(Other days) Leniukha


From EggsFAF at aol.com  Thu Jun  3 15:59:33 1999
From: EggsFAF at aol.com (EggsFAF at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:59:33 EDT
Subject: Job: part-time staff assistant in DC
Message-ID: <THU.3.JUN.1999.115933.EDT.>

        The Faberge Arts Foundation (FAF) is currently seeking a graduate
student interested in Russian art and culture for a part-time position as
Staff Assistant for its Washington, DC office.  The position requires a
minimum commitment of 20 hours per week, and has the potential to continue in
the fall.  Salary is 10-12 $/hour, depending on experience.

        As FAF is a small organization, the Staff Assistant will have a rare
opportunity to be involved in the full range of the foundation's activities.

        FAF is an international non-profit organization working to revitalize
St. Petersburg, Russia as a center of the arts.  To this end, FAF promotes
historic preservation in St. Petersburg and organizes international Russian
art exhibitions.  The foundation also has an office in St. Petersburg.

        Interested and qualified candidates should fax resume and cover
letter to (202) 331-9316.  Also see our website:  www.faberge.spb.ru.


From merlin at h2.hum.huji.ac.il  Thu Jun  3 15:20:45 1999
From: merlin at h2.hum.huji.ac.il (merlin)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:20:45 +0300
Subject: a favor
Message-ID: <THU.3.JUN.1999.182045.0300.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Could anybody give the reference to the paper which treats Pasternak's
unlucky love affairs? I think the author is Zholkovsky. I saw it
recently in one of the periodicals (Novoe Lit. Obozrenie?) but could not
find any trace of it.
Thanks in advance,
Valery Merlin
<merlin at h2.hum.huji.ac.il>


From brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu  Thu Jun  3 20:39:49 1999
From: brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:39:49 -0500
Subject: Fw: DANUBE CONVENTION
Message-ID: <THU.3.JUN.1999.153949.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

> > From:
> >                 "M.Haynes" <LE1958 at wlv.ac.uk>
> >                 Thu, 20 May 1999 12:58:50 +0100
> >
> > Someone suggested to me that there an International Convention
> > protecting the Danube and that the destruction of the bridges on
> > the Serbian part which has blocked it is in violation of this. I have
> > not seen a discussion of this 'technical point' in Britain but I have
> > a vague recollection that such an agreement might have been made
> > in the nineteenth century coming out of the
> > Crimean War or Russo-Turkish War. Does any one know if there is such an
> > agreement, when it was made and whether it has any technical force
> > today?
> >
> > Mike Haynes,
> > School of Languages and European Studies,
> > University of Wolverhampton,
> > Wolverhampton,WV1 1SB
> > United Kingdom
> > 01902 322484
> > le1958 at wlv.ac.uk


> >                          Tue, 25 May 1999 00:32:24 -0400
>                    From:
>                          Lesia Chernihivska <lesia at efortress.com>

> Hello!
>
> There was a Danube Convention in olden times, but more significantly,
> there is a Danube Trade Convention, which has been in force since the
> end of WWII. Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia,
> Rumania, Bulgaria and USSR were the original signatories, but other
> nations have signed as political boundaries have changed, especially
> since the breakup of the USSR.
>
> For further information on this subject, please see the archive of the
> history list at www.infoukes.com, and check for the pertinent message
> dated:  23 May 1999.
>
> Lesia Chernihivska
> lesia at efortress.com
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Benjamin Rifkin, Assoc. Prof. of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, WI  53706
voice:  608/262-1623; fax:  608/265-2814
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


From nsm3 at columbia.edu  Thu Jun  3 22:58:38 1999
From: nsm3 at columbia.edu (nadejda sergeyevna michoustina)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:58:38 -0400
Subject: call for papers
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From renyxa at redline.ru  Fri Jun  4 14:50:26 1999
From: renyxa at redline.ru (Tver InterContact Group)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 18:50:26 +0400
Subject: The 1999 Russian Language Summer School in Tver
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.185026.0400.>

THE 1999 SUMMER SCHOOL OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES

Dates: JUNE 21 - SEPTEMBER 6, 1999
Location: TVER, RUSSIA

NEW! Apply on-line via our web page: www.volga.net. Check this site for
program information and updates in the coming weeks.

The International Institute of Russian Language and Culture and Tver
State University, with support from the Tver InterContact Group, an
independent educational and consulting organization, proudly announce
the opening of enrollment for the fifth annual Summer School of Russian
Language and Area Studies in Tver. The program features intensive
training in Russian language and area studies complemented by an
extensive excursion program, the opportunity to intern at a local
company, a unique opportunity to live with a hospitable Russian family,
and the chance to meet Russian peers. Program participants are sure to
fondly remember their visit to the heart of Russia.

In addition to the core classroom program, comprised of courses in
Russian language and communication and lectures and seminars on
literature, philosophy, history, and geography, participants will have
the opportunity to visit workshops and studios where they will study
Russian folk art, songs, and traditional dances. Weekends feature
excursions to area museums and sightseeing trips to Moscow, St.
Petersburg, and the ancient cities of Sergiev Posad, Torzhok, and
Ostashkov.

The Summer School is held in Tver, an ancient city on the Volga River.
The city is located directly between Moscow (170 km) and St. Petersburg
(600 km). The numerous and convenient transportation routes to Russia's
southern and northern capitals make Tver an ideal place to learn about
Russian culture, both that of the capitals and that of the provinces.
Tver itself, with nearly 500,000 residents, has everything necessary for
an interesting and active sojourn: museums, galleries, theaters, concert
halls, sports facilities, and night clubs.

The Summer School is open to everyone: students and teachers,
professionals and amateurs, and tourists and experts of all ages and
interests from around the world. Do not make the mistake of seeing
Russia through a tour bus window. Russia can only be understood by
living it!  The Summer School offers education, entertainment, and
memories that will last a lifetime.

Participants can also receive academic credit for the Summer School
through our partner school in the US. For more information about this or
any other aspect of the program, please contact

Dr. Marina Oborina, Academic Programs Director
Monica M. White, International Admissions Director

International Institute of Russian Language and Culture
c/o Tver InterContact Group
P. O. Box 0565, Central Post Office
Tver 170000, Russia

Tel:       +7.0822.425419 or .425439
Fax:      +7.0822.426210
E-mail: inforuss at postman.ru
             infodesk at postman.ru
             www.volga.net


From mfrazier at mail.slc.edu  Fri Jun  4 17:21:23 1999
From: mfrazier at mail.slc.edu (frazier melissa)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:21:23 -0400
Subject: Computer technology
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.990423231130.13155C-100000@unixs4.cis.pitt. edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.132123.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

We at Sarah Lawrence are beginning to plan for a new largely computer-based
language lab, and I am wondering what people at other institutions do with
computers for first and second-year Russian classes.  I do some stuff with
videos and I use "Nachalo" for first-year which comes with a CD-Rom; I also
know of some exercises on the web for "Nachalo."  Can any of you recommend
anything else?  In particular I'm interested in using programs like Aspects
(for peer-editing of writing) and Discus (for discussion groups on-line) --
but I don't know how hard it would be to get Cyrillic working with these
programs or if it would even be possible at all. Any ideas would be
welcome, and please respond to me off-line at mfrazier at mail.slc.edu.

Thank you!

Melissa Frazier


****************************
Melissa Frazier
Literature/Russian Dept.
Sarah Lawrence College
1 Mead Way
Bronxville, NY  10704
(914)395-2295
mfrazier at mail.slc.edu


From mct7 at columbia.edu  Fri Jun  4 20:18:57 1999
From: mct7 at columbia.edu (clark troy)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 16:18:57 -0400
Subject: Position available
Message-ID: <FRI.4.JUN.1999.161857.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

POSITION AVAILABLE
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE, CENTRAL EURASIA PROJECT
DATE:   JUNE 1, 1999

The Open Society Institute is a private operating and grantmaking
foundation that promotes the development of open societies around the
world.  OSI is part of an informal network of more than 30 autonomous
nonprofit foundations and otherorganizations created and funded by
 philanthropist George Soros in Central and
Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Guatemala, Haiti, and South Africa, as
well as in the United States.  In the United States, programs have been
 developed
in the areas of criminal justice, drug policy, immigration, and death and dying,
and new initiatives are under way in the areas of education and youth
 development,
reproductive health and rights, media and journalism and professional ethics in
 law
and medicine.

Working under the supervision of the Director of the Central Eurasia Project of
 the
Open Society Institute, the Program Associate will provide general
 administrative
and programmatic support and will specifically:

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES:
*       Screen and date-stamp incoming correspondence for prompt review by Director
and other project staff;
*       Prepare all outgoing project correspondence for Director;
*       Screen all incoming calls for Director and other project staff, directing
queries to the appropriate offices and/or programs;
*       Organize and maintain existing database of responses to inquiries;
*       Maintain and update existing filing system for all project documents and
create new files as required;
*       Act as a liaison between the New York office and regional offices and
consultants, including all preparation of work contracts, reimbursing expenses,
 and
coordinating travel needs;
*       Handle all travel arrangements for Director and coordinate itineraries;
*       Arrange and keep track of daily appointments and meetings for Director;
*       Schedule project meetings and other important project events and enter onto
Director's calendar;
*       Handle all local travel/accommodation arrangements and coordinate schedules
for visitors from the regional offices;
*       Prepare Travel and American Express Reports for Director and send to
Accounting Department for processing;
*       Prepare and direct any other project payments to Accounting Department for
processing;
*       Maintain employee data records for project staff;
*       Maintain and update existing Access and Rolodex databases and create new
databases as required;
*       Order publications for New York and regional offices;
*       Order office supplies for project staff as required;
*       Enter new grants into GTS (Grant Tracking System) and assist with grant
payments to grantees;
*       Enter new payments into PRS (Payment Requisition System) and assist with
administrative payments for department and regional offices
*       Assist project staff with maintenance and updating of project grant list
and seeing to it that copies of all pertinent grant documentation is copied for
 the
Grants Management Dept.

PROGRAMMATIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
*       Open Forum: assist Director in identifying speakers and topics;
*       Maintain and update mailing list for the Open Forum;
*       Research on a possible speakers for conferences and forums;
*       Conduct research on various issues in Central Asia and/or Caucasus;
*       Support Project's web site;
*       Review selected Russian and English language news sources for stories
relating to Eurasia;

REQUIREMENTS:
*       Bachelor's degree;
*       Excellent oral and written English, knowledge of Russian essential;
*       Extensive computer skills (expertise with Microsoft Word, Excel required;
experience with databases and the Internet preferred);
*       Ability to work independently and effectively manage several simultaneous
projects in a fast-paced environment;
*       High level of organization and self-motivation;
*       Attentive to detail and able to work well under pressure.

Salary:  Commensurate with experience with full benefits + 4 weeks  vacation

This is a New York-based position, and we are looking for an
employee residing in the New York metropolitan area.  Applicants from
other regions will not be reimbursed for traveling expenses incurred in
connection with interviews.

To apply, send resume, cover letter, three references, and salary requirements,
 as
soon as possible, to:

Open Society Institute
Human Resources, Code CEA/PA
400 W. 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
or fax to 212-548-4663

No telephone inquiries, please.

The Open Society Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer.


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Sat Jun  5 21:56:11 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 17:56:11 -0400
Subject: Computer technology
In-Reply-To: <199906050402.AAA14455@post-ofc01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>
Message-ID: <SAT.5.JUN.1999.175611.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I, too, would like to be able to integrate technology more into my Russian
class.  I use it more in my French classes.  What always gets in the way
is the issue of that darn cyrillic font.  I have found web pages that
could be useful but I hit yet another font that the computers at school
don't have.  And when dealing with 15-30 computers w/no support from a
systerms administrator this becomes pretty discouraging.  I would like to
request that this discussion stay in the group to see what pops up.

Devin / Divan

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


> Date:    Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:21:23 -0400
> From:    frazier melissa <mfrazier at mail.slc.edu>
> Subject: Computer technology
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> We at Sarah Lawrence are beginning to plan for a new largely computer-based
> language lab, and I am wondering what people at other institutions do with
> computers for first and second-year Russian classes.  I do some stuff with
> videos and I use "Nachalo" for first-year which comes with a CD-Rom; I also
> know of some exercises on the web for "Nachalo."  Can any of you recommend
> anything else?  In particular I'm interested in using programs like Aspects
> (for peer-editing of writing) and Discus (for discussion groups on-line) --
> but I don't know how hard it would be to get Cyrillic working with these
> programs or if it would even be possible at all. Any ideas would be
> welcome, and please respond to me off-line at mfrazier at mail.slc.edu.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Melissa Frazier
>
>
> ****************************
> Melissa Frazier
> Literature/Russian Dept.
> Sarah Lawrence College
> 1 Mead Way
> Bronxville, NY  10704
> (914)395-2295
> mfrazier at mail.slc.edu


From C.Adlam at exeter.ac.uk  Sun Jun  6 09:49:20 1999
From: C.Adlam at exeter.ac.uk (Carol Adlam)
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 10:49:20 +0100
Subject: Computer technology
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.990605175111.27255B-100000@unixs5.cis.pitt.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.6.JUN.1999.104920.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I am also investigating this and related problems with
Cyrillic - my colleagues and I at Exeter are trying to
launch a project to create our own CALL exercises for ab
initio students. The font issue seems to get in the way for
all sorts of things (particularly trying to get
multilingual support for networked keyboard drivers...).
However, if anyone is interested in creating CALL exercises
in Russian, rumour has it that Question Mark can do the
trick (otherwise we seem to be looking at non-web-based
applications such as APICALE, LACUNA). I haven't seen
Question Mark in action yet, but if anyone has, or has
advice on any other packages, please reply to
c.adlam at ex.ac.uk.

Carol Adlam
Department of Russian
University of Exeter, UK

On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 17:56:11 -0400 Devin P Browne
<dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu> wrote:

> I, too, would like to be able to integrate technology more into my Russian
> class.  I use it more in my French classes.  What always gets in the way
> is the issue of that darn cyrillic font.  I have found web pages that
> could be useful but I hit yet another font that the computers at school
> don't have.  And when dealing with 15-30 computers w/no support from a
> systerms administrator this becomes pretty discouraging.  I would like to
> request that this discussion stay in the group to see what pops up.
>
> Devin / Divan
>
> Devin P Browne
> dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu
>
>
> > Date:    Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:21:23 -0400
> > From:    frazier melissa <mfrazier at mail.slc.edu>
> > Subject: Computer technology
> >
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > We at Sarah Lawrence are beginning to plan for a new largely computer-based
> > language lab, and I am wondering what people at other institutions do with
> > computers for first and second-year Russian classes.  I do some stuff with
> > videos and I use "Nachalo" for first-year which comes with a CD-Rom; I also
> > know of some exercises on the web for "Nachalo."  Can any of you recommend
> > anything else?  In particular I'm interested in using programs like Aspects
> > (for peer-editing of writing) and Discus (for discussion groups on-line) --
> > but I don't know how hard it would be to get Cyrillic working with these
> > programs or if it would even be possible at all. Any ideas would be
> > welcome, and please respond to me off-line at mfrazier at mail.slc.edu.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Melissa Frazier
> >
> >
> > ****************************
> > Melissa Frazier
> > Literature/Russian Dept.
> > Sarah Lawrence College
> > 1 Mead Way
> > Bronxville, NY  10704
> > (914)395-2295
> > mfrazier at mail.slc.edu


From K.R.Hauge at easteur-orient.uio.no  Sun Jun  6 12:56:32 1999
From: K.R.Hauge at easteur-orient.uio.no (Kjetil Ra Hauge)
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 14:56:32 +0200
Subject: Computer technology
In-Reply-To: <SIMEON.9906061020.A@xxxxx.exeter.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <SUN.6.JUN.1999.145632.0200.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>I am also investigating this and related problems with
>Cyrillic - my colleagues and I at Exeter are trying to
>launch a project to create our own CALL exercises for ab
>initio students. The font issue seems to get in the way for
>all sorts of things (particularly trying to get
>multilingual support for networked keyboard drivers...).

In theory, this shouldn't be so hard. A properly configured browser on a PC
with Windows98 and its Cyrillic support, or a Mac with the Cyrillic
Language Kit, should be able to show web pages regardless of which of the
four major encodings (Code Page 1251, MacCyrillic, ISO 8859-5, KOI8) the
page was written in. If the character set is declared in the <HEAD> section
of HTML code (<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=windows-1251">), the browser will adjust itself automatically to
show Cyrillic. You could try one of my test pages for Bulgarian CALL:
http://www.hf.uio.no/east/bulg/mat/annot.html


However, the different browsers on the different platforms behave in weird
and mysterious ways that are understood by few people on this planet. There
is, for instance, the so-called "Netscape burp", which manifests itself in
Netscape drawing a page with a declaration like the one above, TWICE, and
the second time, it neglects to draw anything that is put into the HTML
code by Javascript. This is a major handicap, as Javascript is a powerful
language that is cross-platform and well suited for developing CALL. I have
tried to overcome the problem of keyboard drivers by laying out letters at
the bottom of the page in a keyboard pattern, so that the student can click
on the letters to enter words into the input form, but the Javascript code
gets devoured in the Netscape burp. Anything you make should be tested at
least on both the major browsers on both the major platforms to make sure
it works.

For Cyrillic pages that seem to be unreadable even on a properly configured
browser, I have found two reasons so far. One is that the page has been
made with some "WISIWYG" Web page creation program that automatically
translates high ASCII (where the Cyrillic characters are) into HTML
entities for the accented letters and symbols in the high numbers of ISO
8859-1. If you look at the HTML code for such a page, it is full of HTML
entities like "&dagger;" etc. The other reason is that the programmer of
the page has specified that the fonts to be used in displaying the pages
should be, say "Arial, Helvetica" - which would look fine on the
programmer's computer with Cyrillic Arial or Helvetica, but like alphabet
soup on a computer with Cyrillic fonts with different names. These are easy
to fix, though: just specify in your browser's preferences: "Use my fonts,
overriding page-specified fonts".


-- Kjetil Raa Hauge, U. of Oslo. Phone +47/22856710, fax +47/22854140
-- (this msg sent from home, phone +47/67148424)


From kalbj at garnet.cla.sc.edu  Mon Jun  7 04:21:19 1999
From: kalbj at garnet.cla.sc.edu (Judith E. Kalb)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 00:21:19 -0400
Subject: call for contributors
Message-ID: <MON.7.JUN.1999.002119.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,
        I am writing regarding a volume that Alexander Ogden and I are coediting
for the Dictionary of Literary Biography series called _Russian Novelists
in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky_.  Most of the entries have already
been assigned, but several remain available (a list is appended below).  We
are looking for contributors who are interested in writing these entries
and are able to do so on a six-month deadline.  Each contributor will
receive a nominal fee ($75-100, depending on length of article).
        The Dictionary of Literary Biography is a well-established series (over
200 volumes thus far) that only recently has begun to cover Russian
writers.  Three volumes on Russian literature have already been published:
_Early Modern Russian Writers_, ed. Marcus Levitt, and _Russian Literature
in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol_ (2 vols.), ed. Christine Rydel.  More
volumes on Russian literature are in the planning stages.
        Each entry consists of a bibliography of the writer's work, an essay that
places these works in the context of the writer's biography, and a selected
bibliography of secondary sources.  Word length listed below after each
author includes all three sections.
        If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please contact us
with a brief description of your scholarly background and interests.  Also,
if you know of other scholars with specializations in any of the authors
below, we'd appreciate your letting us know.  We can be reached by email at
jkalb at sc.edu (Judith Kalb) or ogden at sc.edu (Alexander Ogden).  Thank you
very much.
Best wishes,
Judith Kalb

RUSSIAN NOVELISTS IN THE AGE OF TOLSTOY AND DOSTOEVSKY
(number at end of line is word count)

Avseenko, Vasilii Grigor'evich (1842-1913) 4000
Danilevsky, Grigorii Petrovich (1829-90) 5000
Dubrovina, Ekaterina Oskarovna (b. Deikhman) (1946-1913)4000
Kliushnikov, Viktor Petrovich (1841-92) 4000
Kobiakova, Aleksandra Petrovna (1823-92) 4000
Kushchevsky, Ivan Afanas'evich (1847-76) 4000
Mamin-Sibiriak, Dmitrii Narkisovich (1852-1912) 6000
Markevich, Boleslav Mikhailovich (1822-1884) 5000
Mikhailov, Mikhail Larionovich (1829-65) 4000
Mordovtsev, Daniil Lukich (1830-1905) 5000
Omulevsky, Innokentii Vasil'evich (1836 or 1837-1883) 4000
Reshetnikov, Fëdor Mikhailovich (1841-71) 4000
Sheller, Aleksandr Konstantinovich ("A. Mikhailov")
        (1838-1900) 4000
Zasodimsky, Pavel Vladimirovich ("Vologdin") (1843-1912) 5000
Zlatovratsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1845-1911) 5000

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

Dr. Judith E. Kalb
Assistant Professor of Russian
Director of the Russian Program
Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian
  Languages and Literatures
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone (803) 777-9615
Fax (803) 777-0132
KalbJ at garnet.cla.sc.edu


From Wendy.Rosslyn at nottingham.ac.uk  Mon Jun  7 10:43:47 1999
From: Wendy.Rosslyn at nottingham.ac.uk (WENDY ROSSLYN)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:43:47 +0100
Subject: Chair/Reader in Slavonic Studies - University of Nottingham
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From renyxa at redline.ru  Mon Jun  7 11:23:37 1999
From: renyxa at redline.ru (Tver InterContact Group)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:23:37 +0400
Subject: The 1999 Professional Programs in Tver
Message-ID: <MON.7.JUN.1999.152337.0400.>

THE 1999 PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS
IN JOURNALISM, LAW, AND TRANSLATION STUDIES

Dates: August 30 - September 25, 1999
Location: Tver, Russia

The International Institute of Russian Language and Culture (IIRLC),
together with several public and private partner organizations, proudly
announce the opening of enrollment for the 1999 Professional Programs in
Journalism, Law, and Translation Studies. These programs are intended
for students of various aspects of Russian, Slavic, and social studies,
as well as professionals who would like to gain greater insight into
their fields through intensive study of current practices and
developments in Russia. Each four-week program offers participants the
opportunity to study and participate in several aspects of a vibrant
field while sharpening their language skills or learning introductory
conversational Russian. The programs also offer a unique chance to make
connections and share experiences with both Russian and foreign
colleagues.

The Journalism, Political Science, and Societal Studies Practicum:
Although it is tailored primarily for professional journalists and
political analysts, the Practicum can accommodate anyone interested in
Russian life, language, and culture. College students majoring in
Russian, journalism, political science, and sociology are encouraged to
participate. The 1999 Practicum will focus on three issues in current
Russian politics: economic change in the provinces, privatization and
its influence on Russian life, and Russia's information policy as
reflected in the media. The Practicum offers the perfect balance of
classroom instruction and field work: participants will take Russian
language classes while attending seminars in mass communications,
political science, and sociology. They will also take trips and
excursions and meet with experts, professionals, and colleagues.

The Summer School of Russian Legal Studies: Unlike most legal study
abroad programs, which emphasize study of established legal systems,
participants in the Summer School of Russian Legal Studies will observe
the birth of the rule of law, studying it as it evolves and analyzing
developments which have already occurred. The Russian legal system
offers a fascinating array of aspects for study. New laws governing the
federal executive, legislative, and judicial branches have continuously
modified the Federal Constitution, which was framed in 1993. The current
dichotomy of the Communist Party's resurgent domination in the State
Duma and the democrats' tenuous hold on the Presidency and the
Ministers' Council, with the Constitutional Court caught in the middle,
foreshadow continued changes in the months and years to come. Come and
observe the governing system as it struggles to adapt itself to the rule
of law. Attend court trials, which after 80 years are reviving the
system of trial by jury. Learn the language of law used in courts and in
international business law. This is a fascinating time, and we offer you
the chance to both study and experience it first hand.

The Russian Translation and Communication Studies Program: The third
annual Translation and Communication Studies Program will be conducted
by two of Tver's leading educational institutions: the International
Institute of Russian Language and Culture under the auspices of the Tver
InterContact Group and Tver State University. The Program is intended
for professionals and students in departments of Slavic Languages and
Studies, and offers extensive opportunities for linguistic and
professional enrichment. It includes language proficiency courses,
practical translation classes, seminars on the theory of communication
and text interpretation, and a comprehensive cultural enrichment
program.

The medium-sized city of Tver (population 500,000), located 170 km
north-west of Moscow on the main route between Moscow and St.
Petersburg, is an ideal vantage point from which to observe the social,
political, and economic processes in modern Russia. With its numerous
educational and cultural institutions, active political life,
flourishing media, and diversified industries, Tver offers the student
of contemporary Russia many opportunities for fruitful research.
Participants in the Professional Programs will learn first-hand about
topical issues in their respective fields by using Tver as a living
laboratory of current Russian professional practices.

For more information or to request an application, please contact:

Dr. Marina Oborina, Academic Programs Director
Monica M. White, International Admissions Director
International Institute of Russian Language and Culture
c/o Tver InterContact Group
P. O. Box 0565
Central Post Office
170000 Tver, Russia

Phone:   7.0822.425419 or .425439
Fax:        7.0822.426210
E-mail:   inforuss at postman.ru
        infodesk at postman.ru
web page: www.volga.net


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Mon Jun  7 16:21:55 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:21:55 -0400
Subject: Another Lost Program? (fwd)
Message-ID: <MON.7.JUN.1999.122155.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From another list.  Please direct any questions or concerns to the email
addresses below, not to me.

Devin P Browne

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 08:49:20 EDT
From: GWM8780 at aol.com
To: RusTeach at design.techpromotion.com
Subject: Another Lost Program?

Dear Listservers,

Nadia Danett, who has taught Russian at Mary Institute & Country Day
School in St. Louis for over 40 years, is retiring in a few days. Her
school has decided to drop Russian rather than replace her. However, there
may be a small wedge � if there were a good candidate with Russian and
strong credentials in another language (German?), they MIGHT reconsider.
It's also possible that letters supporting the program could be effective.
Contact: Headmaster, Mary Institute & Country Day School, 425 North Warson
Road, St. Louis, MO 63124.

George Morris


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Mon Jun  7 16:29:31 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:29:31 -0400
Subject: Computer technology
Message-ID: <MON.7.JUN.1999.122931.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Kjetil offered great suggestions, and I know these remedies are out there.
However, not everyone has the know-how or the time to learn the know-how
well enough to take care of it on their own.  And many of us are left with
no system support, so we have to figure it out on our own.  I'm pretty
handy w/a computer. but at some point I need someone there to show me
certain steps that I'm just not getting.  This becomes a huge demand on
time and energy.

What we really need is further development of both computers and software
which recognizes the many different languages that are prevelent on the
net.  Technology is a great thing, but there is still so much more we need
from it.

Devin / Divan

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu


From mittenth at fas.harvard.edu  Mon Jun  7 16:35:37 1999
From: mittenth at fas.harvard.edu (Laurel Mittenthal)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:35:37 -0400
Subject: Computer technology
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.990607122509.5879B-100000@unixs1.cis.pitt.e du>
Message-ID: <MON.7.JUN.1999.123537.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Devin,

If it would help, I have written handouts which explain how to enable your
computer (PC or Mac) to do all of the things which Kjetil described, at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mittenth/fl/how-to.html

But no solution to the Netscape problem, alas.

Regards,
Laurel Mittenthal

________________________________________________________
Laurel Mittenthal
Foreign Language Computing Specialist   mittenth at fas.harvard.edu
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mittenth/        +1.617.496.6005


At 12:29 07.06.99 -0400, you wrote:
>Kjetil offered great suggestions, and I know these remedies are out there.
>However, not everyone has the know-how or the time to learn the know-how
>well enough to take care of it on their own.  And many of us are left with
>no system support, so we have to figure it out on our own.  I'm pretty
>handy w/a computer. but at some point I need someone there to show me
>certain steps that I'm just not getting.  This becomes a huge demand on
>time and energy.
>
>What we really need is further development of both computers and software
>which recognizes the many different languages that are prevelent on the
>net.  Technology is a great thing, but there is still so much more we need
>from it.
>
>Devin / Divan
>
>Devin P Browne
>dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu
>


From tritt002 at maroon.tc.umn.edu  Mon Jun  7 17:28:16 1999
From: tritt002 at maroon.tc.umn.edu (Michael Trittipo)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:28:16 -0500
Subject: Computer technology
In-Reply-To: <v03007800b37ff802cd18@[129.240.240.111]>
Message-ID: <MON.7.JUN.1999.122816.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

At 14:56 1999/06/06 +0200, Kjetil Ra Hauge wrote:
(re a previous comment that
>>. . . [t]he font issue seems to get in the way . . ..
> . . . two reasons so far. . . . the programmer of
>the page has specified . . . the fonts to be used . . ..
>. . . to fix . . . specify . . . "Use my fonts, overriding . . ..

Good advice -- and not just for Cyrillic.



Michael Trittipo
Minneapolis, Minnesota
mailto:tritt002 at tc.umn.edu


From kstolt1 at uic.edu  Mon Jun  7 19:08:55 1999
From: kstolt1 at uic.edu (Kristine Marie Stolte)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:08:55 -0500
Subject: transl software for Rus-Eng
Message-ID: <MON.7.JUN.1999.140855.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I am a graduate research assistant involved in an epidemiologic
(population-based medical research) study with
a group of Russian investigators in Ozersk. I am interested in getting
recommendations of software programs that can translate between Russian
and English, once a document or other text is scanned into the computer.
Because of the nature of the project, it would be very beneficial to find
a program that can translate biomedical terms or at least, scientific
language. If you know of a particularly good text translator program,
especially if it includes biomedical or scientific language, I would
greatly appreciate your feedback. Please respond to my query off line. I
will post a summary list of responses in a few days. Thank you.

Kristine Stolte
kstolt1 at uic.edu


From napooka at aloha.net  Mon Jun  7 20:57:50 1999
From: napooka at aloha.net (Irene Thompson)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 10:57:50 -1000
Subject: Computer technology
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.990607122509.5879B-100000@unixs1.cis.pitt.e du>
Message-ID: <MON.7.JUN.1999.105750.1000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Before great technological strides make this discussion obsolete, a helpful
solution would be to have one repository of computer wisdom located on one
Web page. People with solution to common problems could write in and the
solution would be filed (something like a FAQ). A listserv is too
evanescent and ephemeral for this. Any takers? If not, let me know.
Irene Thompson

 At 12:29 PM 6/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Kjetil offered great suggestions, and I know these remedies are out there.
>However, not everyone has the know-how or the time to learn the know-how
>well enough to take care of it on their own.  And many of us are left with
>no system support, so we have to figure it out on our own.  I'm pretty
>handy w/a computer. but at some point I need someone there to show me
>certain steps that I'm just not getting.  This becomes a huge demand on
>time and energy.
>
>What we really need is further development of both computers and software
>which recognizes the many different languages that are prevelent on the
>net.  Technology is a great thing, but there is still so much more we need
>from it.
>
>Devin / Divan
>
>Devin P Browne
>dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu
>
>
Irene Thompson
P.O. Box 3572
Princeville, HI 96722
tel/fax (808) 826-9510
napooka at aloha.net
<http://nts.lll.hawaii.edu//IThompson>


From dmitry.khanin at gte.net  Mon Jun  7 21:26:09 1999
From: dmitry.khanin at gte.net (Dmitry Khanin)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:26:09 -0400
Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?
Message-ID: <MON.7.JUN.1999.172609.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

    I get questions from friends concerning my review of Caryl Emerson's book The First One Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin that came out in Philosophy and Literature (April 1999, vol.23, # 1), pp. 220 - 223. Some people (who have not read it yet) asked if I trashed Emerson's book. Well, I guess I did. Why? Just read the review. So, instead of explaining my arguments in zillions of private letters, I decided to simply send the review itself as an attachment to this message. Enjoy!

                                                                                Dmitry Khanin
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From Wolf.5 at osu.edu  Tue Jun  8 00:49:25 1999
From: Wolf.5 at osu.edu (William K. Wolf)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:49:25 EDT
Subject: Call for Papers
Message-ID: <MON.7.JUN.1999.204925.EDT.>

CALL FOR PAPERS

"Negotiating Cultural Upheavals: Icons, Myths, and Other Institutions of
Cultural Memory in Modern Russia, 1900-2000"

a conference to be held at
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
April 14-15, 2000

sponsored by
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
Ohio State University

Twentieth-century Russia has seen more than its share of social and cultural
upheaval resulting from wars, revolutions, the collapse of governments and
the imposition of others--events that extend from 1905 to the more recent
disintegration of the Soviet Union and Russia's reintegration in to the
global economy.  These social and political changes have inevitably affected
the course of cultural evolution, producing enormous gulfs between new and
old traditions and isolating thousands of people from their traditional
cultural environments.  Despite their magnitude, these gulfs are not
unbridgeable: in fact, various types of "bridges" have been and are being
constructed across them. The objective of this interdisciplinary conference
is to examine these bridges, their builders, and the ideas upon which they
are founded.

Interested scholars are asked to submit a one-page abstract and a short c.v.
by November 15, 1999. Submissions should be sent to (and queries should also
be directed to): Bill Wolf, East European Studies Center, 303 Oxley Hall,
1712 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1219; tel: 614-292-8770; fax:
614-292-4273; e-mail: wolf.5 at osu.edu

Article-length versions of the conference papers will be considered for
publication in a special issue of "Kritika: Explorations in Russian and
Eurasian History."
The conference organizers are Dr. Michael David-Fox, Dr. Sara Dickinson, Dr.
George Kalbouss, Dr. Irene Masing-Delic and Dr. Galina Rylkova.


From kildsig at usa.net  Tue Jun  8 10:29:57 1999
From: kildsig at usa.net (Kildsig)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 12:29:57 +0200
Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?
In-Reply-To: <001001beb12c$5dc017a0$03000004@oemcomputer>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.122957.0200.>

But it's difficult to disagree with your opinion, Dmitry ....
N.R.Kildsig
    -----Original Message-----
    From: SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Dmitry Khanin
    Sent: 7. juni 1999 23:26
    To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
    Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?


        I get questions from friends concerning my review of Caryl Emerson's
book The First One Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin that came out in
Philosophy and Literature (April 1999, vol.23, # 1), pp. 220 - 223. Some
people (who have not read it yet) asked if I trashed Emerson's book. Well, I
guess I did. Why? Just read the review. So, instead of explaining my
arguments in zillions of private letters, I decided to simply send the
review itself as an attachment to this message. Enjoy!


Dmitry Khanin


From beyer at jaguar.middlebury.edu  Tue Jun  8 12:49:34 1999
From: beyer at jaguar.middlebury.edu (Beyer, Tom)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 08:49:34 -0400
Subject: Computer technology
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.084934.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

At the top of my page devoted to courses I have three links that I think
solve most problems.
Quite frankly I grew tired of trying to keep up with each and every minor
development-and now put the burden on my students who don't seem to mind
http://www.middlebury.edu/~beyer/courses/courses.shtml
comments and suggestions for improvement would be greatly appreciated

Tom Beyer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Irene Thompson [SMTP:napooka at aloha.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 4:58 PM
> To:   SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Computer technology
>
> Before great technological strides make this discussion obsolete, a
> helpful
> solution would be to have one repository of computer wisdom located on one
> Web page. People with solution to common problems could write in and the
> solution would be filed (something like a FAQ). A listserv is too
> evanescent and ephemeral for this. Any takers? If not, let me know.
> Irene Thompson
>
>  At 12:29 PM 6/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Kjetil offered great suggestions, and I know these remedies are out
> there.
> >However, not everyone has the know-how or the time to learn the know-how
> >well enough to take care of it on their own.  And many of us are left
> with
> >no system support, so we have to figure it out on our own.  I'm pretty
> >handy w/a computer. but at some point I need someone there to show me
> >certain steps that I'm just not getting.  This becomes a huge demand on
> >time and energy.
> >
> >What we really need is further development of both computers and software
> >which recognizes the many different languages that are prevelent on the
> >net.  Technology is a great thing, but there is still so much more we
> need
> >from it.
> >
> >Devin / Divan
> >
> >Devin P Browne
> >dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu
> >
> >
> Irene Thompson
> P.O. Box 3572
> Princeville, HI 96722
> tel/fax (808) 826-9510
> napooka at aloha.net
> <http://nts.lll.hawaii.edu//IThompson>


From mittenth at fas.harvard.edu  Tue Jun  8 13:20:49 1999
From: mittenth at fas.harvard.edu (Laurel Mittenthal)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 09:20:49 -0400
Subject: Computer technology
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990607105750.007b85a0@mail.aloha.net>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.092049.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

As I mentioned yesterday, I also maintain a how-to page on this sort of stuff,
and update it fairly regularly, just because things change so fast (and
are, in
general, getting gradually less complicated). I'd be happy to work together
with someone on this (Tom Beyer - ?) or accept contributions directly, then
put
them up on a page. I've also been considering doing a branch of the WWW
Virtual
Library on computing in non-Latin-font languages; does anyone think this would
be of use?

Laurel

________________________________________________________
Laurel Mittenthal
Foreign Language Computing Specialist   mittenth at fas.harvard.edu
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mittenth/        +1.617.496.6005


At 10:57 07.06.99 -1000, you wrote:
>Before great technological strides make this discussion obsolete, a helpful
>solution would be to have one repository of computer wisdom located on one
>Web page. People with solution to common problems could write in and the
>solution would be filed (something like a FAQ). A listserv is too
>evanescent and ephemeral for this. Any takers? If not, let me know.
>Irene Thompson
>
> At 12:29 PM 6/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Kjetil offered great suggestions, and I know these remedies are out there.
>>However, not everyone has the know-how or the time to learn the know-how
>>well enough to take care of it on their own.  And many of us are left with
>>no system support, so we have to figure it out on our own.  I'm pretty
>>handy w/a computer. but at some point I need someone there to show me
>>certain steps that I'm just not getting.  This becomes a huge demand on
>>time and energy.
>>
>>What we really need is further development of both computers and software
>>which recognizes the many different languages that are prevelent on the
>>net.  Technology is a great thing, but there is still so much more we need
>>from it.
>>
>>Devin / Divan
>>
>>Devin P Browne
>>dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu
>>
>>
>Irene Thompson
>P.O. Box 3572
>Princeville, HI 96722
>tel/fax (808) 826-9510
>napooka at aloha.net
><http://nts.lll.hawaii.edu//IThompson>
>


From parthe at uhura.cc.rochester.edu  Tue Jun  8 14:17:40 1999
From: parthe at uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Kathleen Parthe)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:17:40 -0400
Subject: Nizhe vsiakoi kritiki
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.101740.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

        The subject header of Dmitry Khanin's message of June 7, with its
gleeful announcement of the trashing of another Slavist's book, surely
marks a low point in this list. That he chose as the object of his attack
Caryl Emerson, one of the most intellectually and personally generous
people in the profession, makes the tone particularly inappropriate.
Criticism is meant to examine new publications and offer professional
opinions, positive or negative. When it becomes a blood sport, we all lose.


                                Kathleen Parthe

Kathleen Parthe
Associate Professor of Russian
Director of Russian Studies
424 Lattimore Hall/MLC/Box 270082
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-0082
Phone:(716) 275-4176(O),(716) 271-8433(H)
Fax:(716) 273-1097
E-mail: parthe at uhura.cc.rochester.edu


From beyer at jaguar.middlebury.edu  Tue Jun  8 15:52:36 1999
From: beyer at jaguar.middlebury.edu (Beyer, Tom)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:52:36 -0400
Subject: Nizhe vsiakoi kritiki
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.115236.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Thank you, Kathleen, for saying it succinctly and so well. I too am
disturbed by the tone of the review and the harshness of the rhetoric. Carol
along with others preserved the memory of Bakhtin, when to do so was not a
public option in the Soviet Union.

        I seem to remember (and someone will  know the exact reference) that
Nabokov believed that reading reviews told one little about the book under
review, but could provide insight into the intelligence and character of the
reviewer. Reviews ought not to be the place for reviewers to reveal their
own brilliance; they are instead an opportunity to present a book and its
content to a potential audience.  Few books on Russian literature or
criticism can hope to sell more than few hundred copies. We do ourselves no
service when we discourage libraries, departments, colleagues or students
from purchasing a book that really does make a substantial and significant
contribution to our limited knowledge of these things Russian.

        Thomas Beyer
        Professor of Russian
        Middlebury College


> ----------
> From:         Kathleen Parthe
> Reply To:     SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list
> Sent:         Tuesday, June 8, 1999 3:17 PM
> To:   SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> Subject:      Nizhe vsiakoi kritiki
>
>         The subject header of Dmitry Khanin's message of June 7, with its
> gleeful announcement of the trashing of another Slavist's book, surely
> marks a low point in this list. That he chose as the object of his attack
> Caryl Emerson, one of the most intellectually and personally generous
> people in the profession, makes the tone particularly inappropriate.
> Criticism is meant to examine new publications and offer professional
> opinions, positive or negative. When it becomes a blood sport, we all
> lose.
>
>
>                                 Kathleen Parthe
>
> Kathleen Parthe
> Associate Professor of Russian
> Director of Russian Studies
> 424 Lattimore Hall/MLC/Box 270082
> University of Rochester
> Rochester, NY 14627-0082
> Phone:(716) 275-4176(O),(716) 271-8433(H)
> Fax:(716) 273-1097
> E-mail: parthe at uhura.cc.rochester.edu
>


From dmitry.khanin at gte.net  Tue Jun  8 16:35:47 1999
From: dmitry.khanin at gte.net (Dmitry Khanin)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 12:35:47 -0400
Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.123547.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

    It is a little funny that Kathleen Parthe of all people characterized  Caryl Emerson as "one of the most intellectually and personally generous people in the profession." Anyway, I do not share Kathleen's opinion of Caryl Emerson as a person and scholar. As I argued in the review, Emerson got so used to trashing other people's ideas that she finally had to attack Bakhtin's teaching itself based on entirely different principles. Tom Beyer wrote that "Carol along with others preserved the memory of Bakhtin when to do so was not a public option in the Soviet Union." Sure, when Bakhtin was in vogue in the West! And now when it is no longer "cool" to be a Bakhtin scholar. she "gleefully" gave a kick to her old master. This is all it is about, isn't it? I'm afraid all the (solicited) positive reviews in the world would not increase the audience for such books as Emerson's latest opus.

                                                                            Dmitry Khanin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dmitry Khanin 
  To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU 
  Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 5:26 PM
  Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?


      I get questions from friends concerning my review of Caryl Emerson's book The First One Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin that came out in Philosophy and Literature (April 1999, vol.23, # 1), pp. 220 - 223. Some people (who have not read it yet) asked if I trashed Emerson's book. Well, I guess I did. Why? Just read the review. So, instead of explaining my arguments in zillions of private letters, I decided to simply send the review itself as an attachment to this message. Enjoy!

                                                                                  Dmitry Khanin


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Tue Jun  8 17:10:04 1999
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:10:04 -0700
Subject: Computer technology
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.101004.0700.>

Dear Laurel et al:

What is needed is a person, place or thing that can stipulate exactly
the equipment, operating systems, programs, software, etc required to
send, receive and print, on and off-screen, both English and Russian (or
Cyrillic, etc).
As things are now I can't even read the Russian on my own D--- web site.
gg
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

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


From mittenth at fas.harvard.edu  Tue Jun  8 17:28:13 1999
From: mittenth at fas.harvard.edu (Laurel Mittenthal)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:28:13 -0400
Subject: Cyrillize your computer
In-Reply-To: <375D4E6C.3B5@wolfenet.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.132813.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

At 10:10 08.06.99 -0700, ggerhart at wolfenet.com wrote:
>What is needed is a person, place or thing that can stipulate exactly
>the equipment, operating systems, programs, software, etc required to
>send, receive and print, on and off-screen, both English and Russian (or
>Cyrillic, etc).

Unfortunately, I don't think this is possible, since everything changes so
fast. Probably the best thing to do is to sit down, make a list of all the
components of your current set-up, and  then look at each one to see
whether it
is Cyrillic-compatible, and if so, what if any additional steps need to be
taken to enable this compatibility. The following is a selective list of sites
with information on compatibility issues, how to set up a configuration, etc.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/paul_gorodyansky/nof_main.htm
[by far the best site I've seen on this]
http://www.siber.com/sib/russify/ms-windows/fonts/   [Russify PC]
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/rusmac/      [Russify Mac]
http://dove.net.au/~rabogna/russian/russify.htm

I will set about drawing up plans for a WWW VL branch-site on all of this,
though it may take some time for anything to appear online.

Regards,
Laurel Mittenthal


________________________________________________________
Laurel Mittenthal
Foreign Language Computing Specialist   mittenth at fas.harvard.edu
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mittenth/        +1.617.496.6005


From lightfoo at chass.utoronto.ca  Tue Jun  8 18:10:30 1999
From: lightfoo at chass.utoronto.ca (David Lightfoot)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:10:30 -0400
Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?
In-Reply-To: <001c01beb1cd$1c5b2560$03000004@oemcomputer>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.141030.0400.LIGHTFOO@CHASS.UTORONTO.CA>

Access to this list is free, and I don't want to impose rules, but I would
like to suggest that contributions remain relevant to scholarship. A
thoughtful book review is relevant, though perhaps there are better
venues.

Using the list serve to discuss personal opinions of colleagues, however,
is dubious at best. This sets a nasty tone to what should be an exchange
of ideas and a format to ask questions.

I think many seelangers will agree that there is enough back-biting in
established channels as it is.

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Dmitry Khanin wrote:

>     It is a little funny that Kathleen Parthe of all people characterized
 Caryl Emerson as "one of the most intellectually and personally generous people
 in the profession." Anyway, I do not share Kathleen's opinion of Caryl Emerson
 as a person and scholar. As I argued in the review, Emerson got so used to
 trashing other people's ideas that she finally had to attack Bakhtin's teaching
 itself based on entirely different principles. Tom Beyer wrote that "Carol
 along with others preserved the memory of Bakhtin when to do so was not a
 public option in the Soviet Union." Sure, when Bakhtin was in vogue in the
 West! And now when it is no longer "cool" to be a Bakhtin scholar. she
 "gleefully" gave a kick to her old master. This is all it is about, isn't it?
 I'm afraid all the (solicited) positive reviews in the world would not increase
 the audience for such books as Emerson's latest opus.
>
>
 Dmitry Khanin
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Dmitry Khanin
>   To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
>   Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 5:26 PM
>   Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?
>
>
>       I get questions from friends concerning my review of Caryl Emerson's
 book The First One Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin that came out in Philosophy
 and Literature (April 1999, vol.23, # 1), pp. 220 - 223. Some people (who have
 not read it yet) asked if I trashed Emerson's book. Well, I guess I did. Why?
 Just read the review. So, instead of explaining my arguments in zillions of
 private letters, I decided to simply send the review itself as an attachment to
 this message. Enjoy!
>
>
    Dmitry Khanin
>


From awachtel at casbah.acns.nwu.edu  Tue Jun  8 19:08:32 1999
From: awachtel at casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Andrew Wachtel)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:08:32 -0500
Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?
In-Reply-To: <001c01beb1cd$1c5b2560$03000004@oemcomputer>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.140832.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

It seems to me that very little thought has gone on in this discussion
about what is at stake here.  The question is not, nor should it be,
whether people have the right to dislike other people's books.  I think
that they do have that right and that there is nothing wrong with
publishing negative, even sharply negative reviews, particularly of the
work of senior scholars in the field.  Nothing terrible is going to happen
to Caryl Emerson or to me if someone trashes one of our books in public.

The question is, what are the grounds for the trashing?  In this instance,
I think that what is happening is not merely a case of one scholar
disagreeing with or disliking what another scholar has written (although
there is some of that going on).  Rather, what is coming out is the much
more disturbing fact that the more American scholars and Russian scholars
of Russian literature and culture have the chance to interact, the more
convinced each group seems to be that the work of the others, in the main,
is worthless.  While there are certainly many exceptions, Russian scholars,
overall, do not believe that Americans really understand or know Russian
culture well or deeply enough to write about it legitimately.  And American
scholars generally believe that most Russian scholars aren't well enough
attuned to or interested in how literary and cultural studies have been
practiced in this country for the past couple of decades and therefore
can't say anything interesting.

The result is a constant series of turf wars revolving around who has the
"right" to say what and why.  This, of course, is hardly what was
envisioned when the official barriers to intercultural scholarly
intercourse disappeared a decade or so.  Ideally, we would agree that each
approach has something to recommend it, and attempt to merge the best of
the two.  It would be acceptable as well to agree to disagree, and
recognize that while we may not exactly like what our colleagues are doing,
we can respect it.  The worst version is constant sniping, which simple
makes everyone look foolish.

Andrew Wachtel
Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor
Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208-2206


From AMandelker at aol.com  Wed Jun  9 01:12:34 1999
From: AMandelker at aol.com (Amy Mandelker)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:12:34 EDT
Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.211234.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

With all due respect to those who have written on this topic, I think it is
important to set the record straight in at least one particular.  Dmitry
Khanin alleges that Caryl Emerson built her career by exploiting an existing
trend in Western scholarship, insinuating that her work on Bakhtin has been
motivated throughout by an opportunistic careerism.  In fact, Caryl Emerson
is largely responsible for the fact that Western non-specialists can read
Bakhtin at all.  Early in her career, before the vogue in Bakhtin had caught
on, she devoted herself to translation work which, as most American scholars
are aware, involves some professional risk for a junior scholar (as
translations do not "count" for tenure).  Producing translations and editions
is, in any case, a somewhat thankless task, as Pushkin reminds us, carried
out by the "cart-horses of civilization."  While I agree with Andrew
Wachtel's irenic observation that critiques of scholarship are certainly
appropriate and, indeed, necessary to the profession, I would like to
interject advice given to me as a graduate student:  Professor Victor Terras
trained us to think rigorously and critique ruthlessly, but always to evince
respect for the scholar as a person and an individual.  Dmitry Khanin
attributes base personal motives to a revisionist scholarly interpretation
("now when it is no longer cool to be a Bakhtin scholar, she `gleefully' gave
a kick to her old master") without exploring in any depth the theoretical
complexities of Emerson's argument.  On a professional forum, such derogatory
and unscholarly remarks must surely be out of place.

Amy Mandelker
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
The Graduate School of the City University of New York


From goscilo+ at pitt.edu  Wed Jun  9 03:59:04 1999
From: goscilo+ at pitt.edu (Helena Goscilo)
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:59:04 -0400
Subject: Trashing aka unizhen, oskorblen, obizhen--no zria!
In-Reply-To: <571e6b4f.248f1982@aol.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.8.JUN.1999.235904.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Colleagues (both engineers of refuse/trashers and others),

Responses to reviews of one's own books, in my view, should adopt the
genre of silence.  But it's difficult to be silent regarding Dima Khanin's
"review" of Caryl's recent book.  In preparation for my own review of it
for CHOICE, I read it twice: the first time to acquaint myself with the
contents; the second time for the sheer INTELLECTUAL pleasure of it.  I
enjoyed disagreeing with chunks of it--but, then, the promise of regular
and stimulating disagreement that urges one to reassess one's own stance
regarding issues constitutes one of the chief reasons, surely, for
choosing academia as one's profession?  I found it one of the most
thought-provoking, thoroughly researched and argued books I've read in
recent years.  Paul de Man maintained that all readings are misreadings,
and my perusal of Dima's review brought home to me just how inseparable
misreading is from our perception of texts.  Quite simply, I don't
recognize the book I read in the book Dima has, in his regrettable
wording, "trashed."
Leaving aside the dispiriting questions of taste, decency, and civility, I
would like to address several points of ACCURACY, or absence thereof, in
the review and the Email message that followed.  Like Amy Mandelker, I
found the statement about Caryl's "turning against" MB once he was no
longer modish simply uninformed, for it was precisely Caryl's (and Michael
Holquist's) DIALOGIC IMAGINATION, pub. in 1981, PROBLEMS OF DOSTOEVSKY'S
POETICS, pub. in 1984, her Bakhtin-inspired BORIS GODUNOV: TRANSPOSITIONS
OF A RUSSIAN THEME, pub. in 1986, RETHINKING BAKHTIN, co-edited with Saul
Morson in 1989, and a series of articles that introduced Bakhtin to the
West and ignited an enthusiasm for some of his concepts.  But Caryl
certainly did not join the "mode" for Bakhtin and could hardly be held
responsible for the fact that some of the Western "use" of Bakthin was,
indeed, Versace-style.  In fact, several of her publications (observing
taste, decency, and civility) express regret at that development.

The review casts Caryl as an opportunistic worshipper, whereas she
rigorously wrote as an explicator, a translator in the multiple senses of
the word.  What the review presents as "apostasy" (p. 221) struck me, when
I read the book, as part of any thinking critic's evolution in thought and
appraisal regarding an author s/he has unflaggingly worked with for almost
two decades.  Is it really possible to maintain unchanged notions about
and attitudes toward a given writer for decades?  In what sense was
Bakhtin Caryl's "mentor" (221) ??? How is her book a "surprise attack" (p.
221), as opposed to a sober REassessment of her own evaluation of MB and
that of others?  (Parenthetically, I might note that the oxymoronic
[ne to slovo!]  concept of a "polyphonically executed hatchet-job" [p.
221] requires a radical redifinition of polyphony!)

Specifically: Caryl's remark that Russia "is not going 'to endorse values
that make sense to us rapidly and easily--if at all'" (p. 221) is not a
"pessimistic prognostication about Russia's future," but pertains to one
of the book's central, and most intriguing, points: Russia and the
non-Slavicist West have read Bakhtin very, very differently, and what
interests Caryl is what those differences are and what they reveal about
BOTH cultures.  The pique at a perceived offense intended to Russia in the
review results, I think, from inattentive reading (apologies, Dima, but
the study attempts to UNDERSTAND Russians' perceptions of MB, and to
contrast them with Western ones, not to denigrate them.  Here, as in her
translations, Caryl tries to move between two languages/cultures and
inform each about the other).

The review claims that the "principal merit" of the "judicious
'neutrals'" among Russian Bakhtinists "who have no ideological axes to
grind" for Caryl is "a ready display of a courteous attitude toward
renowned Western Bakhtinists" (p. 221).  In fact, this section of the book
implicitly urges dialogue between Western critics and Russian ones, and
not unreasonably regrets that Bakhtin specialists seem resistant to
dialogue.

Regarding Caryl's "borrowing" of Natasha Reed's ideas about Dostoevsky's
dialogism. I assume the review refers to Reed's 1994 dissertation, which
Caryl's article on "The Tolstoy Connection in Bakhtin" (RETHINKING
BAKHTIN) preceded by five years.  In that piece Caryl explicitly
challenges Bakhtin's "far too facile categorization of Dostoevsky as a
'polyphonic' thinker and of Tolstoy as a 'monologic' one" (p. 168).  To
read Caryl's comments about Dostoevsky in her most recent volume as
"following in others' critical footsteps" (p. 222) is to betray, perhaps,
an ignorance of some of her earlier scholarship.

There are several other points of misinformation in the review, but I
don't wish to tax the list-readers' patience by elaborating on them.
Ultimately, the review may have served a useful function by encouraging
people to read the book in question.  It is, I think, a splendid book,
wide-ranging, eloquent, highly informative, and (in my Manian misreading)
completely free of the impulse to trash Russia or any other phenomenon.
Trashing, after all, is the business of garbage-men, not academics.

Helena Goscilo


From a.jameson at dial.pipex.com  Wed Jun  9 13:29:48 1999
From: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com (Andrew Jameson)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:29:48 +0100
Subject: Fw: Bakhtin Centre Conference: Call for Papers
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.142948.0100.>

Meanwhile, in tranquil little England, we are getting on with
the job of appreciating Bakhtin and his circle.
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

----------
> From: David Shepherd <D.G.Shepherd at sheffield.ac.uk>
> To: russian-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
> Subject: Bakhtin Centre Conference: Call for Papers
> Date: 09 June 1999 10:10
>
> THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
>
> THE BAKHTIN CENTRE
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
>
> `IN THE MASTER'S ABSENCE: THE UNKNOWN BAKHTIN CIRCLE'
>
> TO BE HELD ON 7 - 9 OCTOBER 1999
>
> As its title makes clear, the conference will focus on the
> significance of the work of members of the Bakhtin Circle other
> than Bakhtin himself, thereby resisting the widespread tendency
> to underestimate the intellectual independence, scholarly
> credentials and, not least, influence on Bakhtin of Voloshinov,
> Medvedev and other members of the Circle. We aim to investigate
> and discuss the historical contexts, the scope and the impact of
> their writings, as well as to allow for the presentation of new
> archival material pertaining to their scholarly careers.
>
> Speakers will include:
>
> Dmitrii Iunov on Valentin Voloshinov;
> Iurii Medvedev on his father, Pavel Medvedev;
> Vladimir Alpatov on the Bakhtin Circle and Linguistics;
> Nikolai Nikolaev on Lev Pumpianskii;
> Brian Poole on Matvei Kagan;
> Galin Tihanov on Medvedev and Eurasianism;
> Craig Brandist on the `Disputed Texts'.
>
> Proposals are invited for additional papers (up to 40 minutes)
> in which the principal point of reference should be the work of
> any member or members of the Bakhtin Circle other than Bakhtin,
> although of course it is not expected that discussion of Bakhtin
> can or should be avoided altogether.
>
> Proposals (up to 500 words) should be sent no later than 20 June
> 1999 to one of the following:
>
> Dr Craig Brandist, AHRB Research Fellow, Bakhtin Centre,
> University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; e-mail
> c.s.brandist at sheffield.ac.uk; fax +44 (0)114 222 7416;
> Dr Galin Tihanov, Junior Research Fellow in Russian and German
> Intellectual History, Merton College, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK; e-mail
> galin.tihanov at merton.ox.ac.uk; fax +44 (0)1865 276361.
>
> Decisions will be made on proposals by 1 July 1999, and a final
> programme for the conference published by 20 July 1999.
>
> It is intended that there should be a publication arising from
> the conference.
>
> This call for papers may also be found on the Bakhtin Centre's
> Website:
>
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/homeconf.html
>
> Further information about the conference, including details
> of costs, accommodation, etc., will shortly be available from this site,
> and will also be the subject of further messages to the bakhtin-
> news e-mail list. General enquiries may be directed to
>
> Professor David Shepherd, Director, Bakhtin Centre, University
> of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; e-mail
> d.g.shepherd at sheffield.ac.uk; fax +44 (0)114 222 7416.
>
> **************************************************
> Bakhtin Centre
> University of Sheffield
> Sheffield S10 2UJ, England
> Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 7415
> Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 7400
> E-mail: Bakhtin.Centre at Sheffield.ac.uk
> URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/bakhtin.html
>
> Director: Professor David Shepherd
> AHRB Research Fellow: Dr Craig Brandist
> Honorary Research Fellows: Mr Jonathan Hall, Dr Peter Speedwell


From haneyjav at u.washington.edu  Wed Jun  9 14:16:08 1999
From: haneyjav at u.washington.edu (Jack Haney)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 07:16:08 -0700
Subject: Fw: Bakhtin Centre Conference: Call for Papers
In-Reply-To: <SEELANGS%1999060909254049@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.071608.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hurrah for the British! JV Haney, (D. Phil., Oxon.)



On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Andrew Jameson wrote:

> Meanwhile, in tranquil little England, we are getting on with
> the job of appreciating Bakhtin and his circle.
> Andrew Jameson
> Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
> Languages and Professional Development
> 1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
> Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)
>
> ----------
> > From: David Shepherd <D.G.Shepherd at sheffield.ac.uk>
> > To: russian-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
> > Subject: Bakhtin Centre Conference: Call for Papers
> > Date: 09 June 1999 10:10
> >
> > THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
> >
> > THE BAKHTIN CENTRE
> >
> > CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
> >
> > `IN THE MASTER'S ABSENCE: THE UNKNOWN BAKHTIN CIRCLE'
> >
> > TO BE HELD ON 7 - 9 OCTOBER 1999
> >
> > As its title makes clear, the conference will focus on the
> > significance of the work of members of the Bakhtin Circle other
> > than Bakhtin himself, thereby resisting the widespread tendency
> > to underestimate the intellectual independence, scholarly
> > credentials and, not least, influence on Bakhtin of Voloshinov,
> > Medvedev and other members of the Circle. We aim to investigate
> > and discuss the historical contexts, the scope and the impact of
> > their writings, as well as to allow for the presentation of new
> > archival material pertaining to their scholarly careers.
> >
> > Speakers will include:
> >
> > Dmitrii Iunov on Valentin Voloshinov;
> > Iurii Medvedev on his father, Pavel Medvedev;
> > Vladimir Alpatov on the Bakhtin Circle and Linguistics;
> > Nikolai Nikolaev on Lev Pumpianskii;
> > Brian Poole on Matvei Kagan;
> > Galin Tihanov on Medvedev and Eurasianism;
> > Craig Brandist on the `Disputed Texts'.
> >
> > Proposals are invited for additional papers (up to 40 minutes)
> > in which the principal point of reference should be the work of
> > any member or members of the Bakhtin Circle other than Bakhtin,
> > although of course it is not expected that discussion of Bakhtin
> > can or should be avoided altogether.
> >
> > Proposals (up to 500 words) should be sent no later than 20 June
> > 1999 to one of the following:
> >
> > Dr Craig Brandist, AHRB Research Fellow, Bakhtin Centre,
> > University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; e-mail
> > c.s.brandist at sheffield.ac.uk; fax +44 (0)114 222 7416;
> > Dr Galin Tihanov, Junior Research Fellow in Russian and German
> > Intellectual History, Merton College, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK; e-mail
> > galin.tihanov at merton.ox.ac.uk; fax +44 (0)1865 276361.
> >
> > Decisions will be made on proposals by 1 July 1999, and a final
> > programme for the conference published by 20 July 1999.
> >
> > It is intended that there should be a publication arising from
> > the conference.
> >
> > This call for papers may also be found on the Bakhtin Centre's
> > Website:
> >
> > http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/homeconf.html
> >
> > Further information about the conference, including details
> > of costs, accommodation, etc., will shortly be available from this site,
> > and will also be the subject of further messages to the bakhtin-
> > news e-mail list. General enquiries may be directed to
> >
> > Professor David Shepherd, Director, Bakhtin Centre, University
> > of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; e-mail
> > d.g.shepherd at sheffield.ac.uk; fax +44 (0)114 222 7416.
> >
> > **************************************************
> > Bakhtin Centre
> > University of Sheffield
> > Sheffield S10 2UJ, England
> > Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 7415
> > Tel.: +44 (0)114 222 7400
> > E-mail: Bakhtin.Centre at Sheffield.ac.uk
> > URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/bakhtin.html
> >
> > Director: Professor David Shepherd
> > AHRB Research Fellow: Dr Craig Brandist
> > Honorary Research Fellows: Mr Jonathan Hall, Dr Peter Speedwell
>


From j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk  Wed Jun  9 14:58:31 1999
From: j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk (J.M. Andrew)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:58:31 +0100
Subject: Pushkin 1999
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.155831.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

With apologies to those who hace already received this ....







9 June 1999

Dear Colleague

TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF PUSHKIN: A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE
Mansfield College, Oxford, 13-15 September, 1999

We are pleased to announce this conference.  About thirty papers will be
delivered at the conference, organised by the Neo-Formalist Circle to
celebrate the bicentenary in 1999 of the birth of Russia's national - and
greatest - writer.  These papers  will offer new readings of most of
Pushkin's key works.  At the same time they will seek to locate him both
within the later traditions of Russian literature, by means of a series of
comparative discussions, and the broader European context, with examinations
of his influence on, or parallels with non-Russian writers.  In keeping with
the traditons of the Neo-Formalist Circle, which celebrates its own more
modest, thirtieth anniversary in 2000, all the papers will be informed with
the latest thinking and approaches in literary theory and practice.

You will find with this letter a number of important things, namely:

1.      The programme, now in time/panel format.  It is likely that there
will be a few changes because of withdrawals etc, but it is likely to be
fairly close to the final version.  Those wishing to make written
submissions to the collective analysis should contact Robin Milner-Gulland
direct at School of European Studies, Arts Building, University of Sussex,
Brighton, BN1 9QN, UK.

2.      The booking form for the conference.  All prices are in pounds
sterling.  Please complete this with your requirements and return it by
email or mail as soon as possible and by Friday 6 August at the latest.
Unless it is very difficult for you to do so, we would much prefer that you
pay the full amount when booking.  Payment will obviously have to be by
mail, and cheques should be made payable to  Essays in Poetics'.

This promises to be an exciting (and busy!)  Couple of days, so we hope
you'll be able to join us.

All good wishes



Joe Andrew
Robert Reid

        TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF PUSHKIN

        A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE
        to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 13-15 September, 1999
        under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle

        Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK

        PROGRAMME

Monday 13 September

12.30   Lunch

 1.45   Panel I: Pushkin and Russian Culture

        Joe Andrew (Keele):  [She] was brought up on French novels and,
consequently, was in love': Russian Writers Reading and Writing Pushkin
        Sander Brouwer (Groningen): Love in the Russian World: Erotic and
Social Unproductivity from Pushkin to Turgenev
        Helena Goscilo (Pittsburgh):  Casting and Recasting the Caucasian
Captive
        Barbara Lonnqvist (Abo): The Pushkin Text in  Anna Karenina'

 3.45   Tea

 4.00   Panel II: Pushkin Abroad

        David Baguley (Durham): Pushkin and Merimee: the French Connection
        Neil Cornwell (Bristol): Pushkin and Henry James
        Alastair Renfrew (Strathclyde): Making a National Poet: Pushkin and
Burns

 5.45   Panel III: Literary Relationships

        Lyubov Kiseleva (Tartu): Pushkin and Shakhovskoi: the problem of
creative contacts
        Willem Weststeijn (Amsterdam): Pushkin between Classicism,
Romanticism and Realism

7.00    Dinner

8.00    Collective Analysis

        Robin Milner-Gulland (Sussex): Leads a Collective Analysis of
 Zimniaia doroga'


Tuesday 14 September

8.00    Breakfast

9.00    Panel IV: Stone Guests

        David Bethea (Wisconsin):  A Higher Audacity': How to Read Pushkin's
Dialogue with Shakespeare in  The Stone Guest'
        Andre G.F. van Holk (Groningen): Don-Juanism and Stylistic Code in
Pushkin's  The Stone Guest'
        Monica Lebron (Goldsmiths, London): French Perspectives on Pushkin's
Don Juan
        Christoph Veldhues (Bochum): Love and Death in Nabokov's  Death' and
Pushkin's  The Stone Guest'

11.00   Coffee

11.15   Panel V: Pushkin and the Poets

        Diana L. Burgin (Massachusetts): Tsvetaeva's Three Pushkins
        Valentina Polukhina (Keele):  Pushkin and Brodsky:  the Art of
Self-deprecation
        Stephanie Sandler (Amherst): Pushkin Among Contemporary Poets (Self
& Song in Sedakova)

 1.00   Lunch

 2.00   PARALLEL SESSION

        Panel VI: Pushkin and Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

        Justin Doherty (Trinity College, Dublin):  Pechal' moia svetla': The
Pushkin Contexts of Georgy Ivanov's  Raspad atoma'
        Savely Senderovich and Yelena Shvarts (Cornell): From Pushkin to
Nabokov:The Vicissitudes of One Exegetic Tradition
        Jekaterina Young (Manchester): Dovlatov's  Sanctuary' and Pushkin

        Panel VII: Verse Problematics

        J. Douglas Clayton (Ottawa): Word Order in Russian Poetry:  Evgenii
Onegin' between Poetry and Prose
        Angela Livingstone (Essex):  The Grammar of Poetry': Semantics of
Case in Poems by Pushkin
        Eric de Haard (Amsterdam): Verse Insertions in Pushkin's Prose

 3.45   Tea

 4.00   Panel VIII: Pushkin in Music

        Gabriella Hima (Debrecen, Hungary): Pushkin as Sub-text for Russian
Opera Libretti
        Arnold Mcmillin (SSEES): Gilding the Lily: Pushkin's Lyrics in the
Hands of Russian Composers

  5.15  Olga Sedakova (Moscow): Pushkin's Christian Roots

 6.30   Reception

 7.00   Anniversary Dinner

Wednesday 15 September

 8.00   Breakfast

 9.00   PARALLEL SESSION

        Panel IX: Pushkin in St Petersburg

        Robin Aizlewood (SSEES): The  Stone Guest' and the  Alter Ego':
Doubling and Redoubling Germann in  The Queen of Spades'
        Mike Kirkwood (Glasgow): Pushkin as Neo-Formalist:  Domik v Kolomne'
        Alexandra Smith (University of Canterbury, New Zealand): Revisiting
Pushkin's Poetic Image of Imperial Petersburg
        Tatiana Smoliarova (Moscow):  The Bronze Horseman' and the Tradition
of Ekphrasis

  9.00  Panel X: Interconnections ...

        Leon Burnett (Essex): Sovereign Rapture:  The Enigma of Pushkin's
Cleopatra
        Maria Langleben (Jerusalem):  A Journey to Arzrum': The Innovative
Structure and its Purpose
        Marguerite Palmer (Keele): Pushkin's Beatrice: the Process of
Beatification in  Eugene Onegin'

11.00   Coffee

11.15   Panel XI:  200 Years Have Passed': Pushkin, History and Time

        Samantha Johnson (Keele):  Pushkin at Keele: Grand Duke Michael and
Countess Torby at Keele, 1901-1910
        Robert Reid (Keele):  A Hundred Years Have Passed...': A Diltheyan
Approach to Time in Pushkin
        William Mills Todd III (Harvard): Pushkin's  Istoriia Pugacheva' and
the Experience of History

 1.00   Lunch & Close





        TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF PUSHKIN

        A BICENTENARY CONFERENCE
        to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 13-15 September, 1999
        under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle

        Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK


        BOOKING FORM

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Wednesday, 15 September.  Please tick whatever facilities you wish and fill
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If you have received this electronically, it may be returned in the same
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From dmitry.khanin at gte.net  Wed Jun  9 16:37:38 1999
From: dmitry.khanin at gte.net (Dmitry Khanin)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:37:38 -0400
Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.123738.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

    I was a little surprised today by Helena Goscillos' letter. Well, not by
the letter itself but rather by the fact that she was referring to me as
Dima. I did talk to Helena once at some party. It is entirely possible, of
course, that I introduced myself to her as Dima at that merry juncture. But
it makes no sense to call me that in this vituperative debate.
    Most Russians I know would not refer to me as Dima even if they did
adress me as Dima in an informal situation. Some Russians living abroad slip
to such short names (Sasha instead of Alexander) but I never liked it. In
Russia we use the full name (Dmitry or even more appropriately Dmitry
Mikhailovich) in official contexts and reserve short names for friends and
family. It is funny that many Western Slavists just do not get it.
Particularly Helena who likes brandishing her fluency in Russian. I remember
when I lived in Russia I got a letter from an American Slavist addressed to
Dima Mikhailovich. What a bummer!
  Now, I don't want to be tough on good Western Slavists making language
mistakes and cultural mistakes in Russian. I certainly make mistakes in
English and, really, I am well aware of it. Well, friendly American Slavists
just wouldn't let you forget it. I thought for a moment that maybe I should
also call Helena by a short but expressive Lena. Alas, Lena Goscillo just
doesn't sound right to me in a polemic. Well, maybe Caryl Emerson is right
after all and Russians are in fact "old-fashioned cultists," immersed in
their mesmerizing rituals?
    Anyway, back to "trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?"  I am
not surprised that Helena applauded Caryl Emerson's rediscovery of Bakhtin.
In Helena's book, Caryl did the right thing when she joined the jolly ranks
of happy-go-lucky postmodernists who believe that "all readings are
misreadings," all opinions should be periodically altered just for the fun
of it and the heck with consistency. Helena even implicitly argues that
Emerson's conversion is not really a conversion, and Bakhtin was never
Emerson's mentor. Simply, one day Emerson should say one thing and on the
next day quite the opposite thing and everyone will be happy, Paul de Man
more than anybody. That would really be a splendid idea, Helena, but there
is a hitch. Emerson is not really a postmodernist as of yet. Would Emerson
fully embrace the "all readings are misreadings" dogma? I beg to differ. If
you want to find a parallel for her belligerent discourse all you have to do
is to listen to Madam Albright. Well, Albright's severity is quite
appropriate in dealing with recalcitrant foes.  When Caryl Emerson applies
the same approach toward Russian scholars it strikes me as being a little
misguided.
    First, she lays down the law: laws of infinalizability jointly
discovered
    by Morson - Emerson are just as inescapable as the laws of gravity.
Second, she wants respect, respect and eshe raz respect.  Those who do not
respect will be penalized. And some people say that Russian culture is based
on authority. In fact, Russians are quite iconoclastic. I thought everyone
knew that.
    Referring back to Amy Mandelker's letter. I never said that Emerson was
opportunistic in joining the Bakhtin cult in the West. That's not the point.
The point is that her whole discourse became so antithetical to Bakhtin's
sensibilities that her latest transformation was simply  inevitable.


Dmitry Khanin

----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Mandelker <AMandelker at aol.com>
To: <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?


> With all due respect to those who have written on this topic, I think it
is
> important to set the record straight in at least one particular.  Dmitry
> Khanin alleges that Caryl Emerson built her career by exploiting an
existing
> trend in Western scholarship, insinuating that her work on Bakhtin has
been
> motivated throughout by an opportunistic careerism.  In fact, Caryl
Emerson
> is largely responsible for the fact that Western non-specialists can read
> Bakhtin at all.  Early in her career, before the vogue in Bakhtin had
caught
> on, she devoted herself to translation work which, as most American
scholars
> are aware, involves some professional risk for a junior scholar (as
> translations do not "count" for tenure).  Producing translations and
editions
> is, in any case, a somewhat thankless task, as Pushkin reminds us, carried
> out by the "cart-horses of civilization."  While I agree with Andrew
> Wachtel's irenic observation that critiques of scholarship are certainly
> appropriate and, indeed, necessary to the profession, I would like to
> interject advice given to me as a graduate student:  Professor Victor
Terras
> trained us to think rigorously and critique ruthlessly, but always to
evince
> respect for the scholar as a person and an individual.  Dmitry Khanin
> attributes base personal motives to a revisionist scholarly interpretation
> ("now when it is no longer cool to be a Bakhtin scholar, she `gleefully'
gave
> a kick to her old master") without exploring in any depth the theoretical
> complexities of Emerson's argument.  On a professional forum, such
derogatory
> and unscholarly remarks must surely be out of place.
>
> Amy Mandelker
> Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
> The Graduate School of the City University of New York


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Wed Jun  9 17:11:17 1999
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:11:17 -0700
Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.101117.0700.>

If this writing were taking place in Russia or in Russian, then one
would assume that Russian naming customs should be observed. I suspect,
however, that Mr. Khanin writes his English in the US.
Here, it is a social error to misspell a correspondent's last name.
(It is also incorrect publicly to correct another person's conduct, as I
now do.) gg
--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

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


From kildsig at usa.net  Wed Jun  9 18:06:09 1999
From: kildsig at usa.net (Kildsig)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 20:06:09 +0200
Subject: Bakhtin
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.200609.0200.>

Well, it's probably lovely that members of academic community - so careful
not to omit their affiliations and previous encounters with some "great
dudes" - attempts to provide each other with some sort of psychological
support....

The author of the book in question is only a name for quite many people, not
a person or an individual, so that book could have been written by Emer
Carylson or an entirely anonymous author for that matter.  Besides, the
importance of anybody's work should be judged by the future, we right here
and right now aren't that omnipotent to carry such a task out, even if there
is enough impudence to try to do so. And personal evaluations of one's work
should be carried out in privicy, not public.

If the author of "First 100 ..." was so concerned with the reader not
knowing Russian, then the texts (at least the ones discussed at length in
the book) should have been translated into English, French, or German.
Reading of that book leaves one with a sombre feeling that can easily be
expressed in the way Dmitry Khanin has done. The campaign "Appreciate
Emerson! Down with Khanin and others like him!" is exactly the attitude
adopted in "First 100 ...", and it's offensive, patronising towards those
who share Khanin's sceptical opinion regardless of the words chosen for
articulating it, yet are not interesting in any politicised groupings.

Finally, what has he said that's so appaling? (Sure, some parts of his
position might be understood better if exapained more thoroughly.) That
there are no career-making enterprise on-going in the Western academies?
That there are no market mechanisms forming research? Are we already at the
stage when we attempt to prove that water is dry?

Sincerely,
N. R. Kildsig


From cfwoolhiser at mail.utexas.edu  Wed Jun  9 19:51:39 1999
From: cfwoolhiser at mail.utexas.edu (curt fredric woolhiser)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:51:39 -0500
Subject: designating the Other in Bialowieza
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.145139.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers:

I am on the thesis committee of a graduate student in Geography here at the
University of Texas who is writing on the relationship between human
populations and the puszcza in eastern Poland (focusing on communities
located within or on the edge of the Bialowieza forest). She has been
living in the town of Bialowieza all year and has been trying to get a
sense of the differing attitudes to issues of conservation and regional
development among the indigenous (i.e. Belarusian-speaking Orthodox)
population and ethnic Polish scientists, eco-activists and others who have
moved to the region over the years. She indicates that the local Belarusian
speakers use two (quite derogatory) terms for non-natives: "navalac^" for
those (mostly Polish scientists) who have moved to Bialowieza from outside,
as well as "matan," which is applied to people from other Orthodox villages
in the region who have settled in Bialowieza. "Navalac^" (from "na" (on,
onto) + "valac^y" (to drag)) in the sense of "outsider", "newcomer" (also:
"mold that grows on straw") is attested in the Belarusian dialects of west
and central Belarus (Mackevic^ et al. , in "Slounik belaruskix havorak
paunoc^na-zaxodnjaj Belarusi i jaje pahranic^c^a" cite "navalac^" in the
meaning of "non-native," "outsider" from dialects in the Baranavic^y region
of southwestern Belarus; further east, in the region northeast of Minsk,
the word "navalac^" has the meaning of "riff-raff," cf. Russian
"svoloc^'"). However, I haven't been able to find any sources for the word
"matan." Are there any speakers of Belarusian (or perhaps Polish or
Ukrainian) on this list who might be familiar with this word and its
etymology?  Two possibilities that have occurred to me are the verb
"matac'," which in the Belarusian dialects of the region can also have the
meaning of "to spin yarn/to weave" and the noun "mata" (in the Bialystok
region, a woven straw mat used by peasants to cover windows and doors
during the winter to keep out the cold). Perhaps, then, "matan" would
contain a reference to the alleged backwardness of neighboring villages;
the people of Bialowieza, including the Orthodox natives, like to think of
themselves as a cut above the rest. Any other ideas?
        Thanks in advance for your replies!

Curt Woolhiser

========================================
Curt F. Woolhiser
Dept. of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
Calhoun 415
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78713-7217 USA

Tel. (512) 471-3607
Fax: (512) 471-6710
Email: cfwoolhiser at mail.utexas.edu
Slavic Department Home Page:
http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/slavic/
========================================


From aisrael at american.edu  Wed Jun  9 20:08:11 1999
From: aisrael at american.edu (Alina Israeli)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:08:11 -0400
Subject: Not only Bakhtin
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.160811.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

If I may slightly rephrase the discussion: how many people make a living
stydying the writings of those who could not support themselves by their
writings. Cvetaeva is the first who comes to mind. (Yes, I know that
Shakespeare supports even more people.)

>Finally, what has he said that's so appaling? ... That
>there are no career-making enterprise on-going in the Western academies?
>That there are no market mechanisms forming research? Are we already at the
>stage when we attempt to prove that water is dry?

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

aisrael at american.edu


From jschill at american.edu  Wed Jun  9 20:25:33 1999
From: jschill at american.edu (John Schillinger)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:25:33 -0400
Subject: RUSSIA and the US
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.162533.0400.>

In the fall I'll be teaching a Gen Ed class titled Russia and the US,
which is primarily inhabited by School if International Service-type
students who need both a political and historical background in
conjunction with cultural insights.  I used Gaddis's 1990 book--"Russia,
The Soviet Union, and the US" as the core text when I taught the course
for the first time last fall, but am looking for new ideas to provide a
"backbone" for the course that I can supplement with the history, music,
art, lit, film, etc. they need to better understand Russia and the
former Soviet Union.

I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has taught such a course with
texts that worked well, or who knows of texts that might be good
choices.  Thanks!

--
John Schillinger
Professor of Russian
Dept. of Language and Foreign Studies
American University, Washington D.C.
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW 20016
Office Ph. 202/885-2395
Office Fax 202/885-1076
HOME PHONE: 202/328-4047 (summer & weekends 540-465-2828)
HOME FAX:   202/328-4049  (summer & weekends 540-465-2965)


From kildsig at usa.net  Wed Jun  9 20:25:47 1999
From: kildsig at usa.net (Kildsig)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 22:25:47 +0200
Subject: Trashing aka unizhen, oskorblen, obizhen--no zria!
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96L.990608222428.16910A-100000@unixs5.cis.pitt.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.222547.0200.>

It would not be bad for the West aka America in this case, yet the Western
reception of Bakhtin started here, in Europe (notably, France and Italy) in
the second half of the 1960s. In the very same 1981 N.Mxller Andersen, then
a postgraduate student at MA level, the U. of Copenhagen, wrote a
dissertation on the dialogical principle. Merely two small facts .... Sorry,
if they are disappointing for some.

Sincerely,

Nomeda Vladovna (good observation, Dmitry Mikhailovich!) R.Kildsig


> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Helena Goscilo
> Sent: 9. juni 1999 05:59
> To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: Trashing aka unizhen, oskorblen, obizhen--no zria!
>
>
> found the statement about Caryl's "turning against" MB once he was no
> longer modish simply uninformed, for it was precisely Caryl's (and Michael
> Holquist's) DIALOGIC IMAGINATION, pub. in 1981, PROBLEMS OF DOSTOEVSKY'S
> POETICS, pub. in 1984, her Bakhtin-inspired BORIS GODUNOV: TRANSPOSITIONS
> OF A RUSSIAN THEME, pub. in 1986, RETHINKING BAKHTIN, co-edited with Saul
> Morson in 1989, and a series of articles that introduced Bakhtin to the
> West and ignited an enthusiasm for some of his concepts.
>
> Helena Goscilo
>


From ggerhart at wolfenet.com  Wed Jun  9 21:07:36 1999
From: ggerhart at wolfenet.com (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:07:36 -0700
Subject: Geography and movies
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.140736.0700.>

For "pure" Russian geography, unspoilt by the necessities of
storytelling and camera angle, one respondent highly recommended "The
New Russia" (1996) series from Films for the Humanities and Sciences at
Princeton, NJ. The series includes 20 minute films on the Moscow Region,
Norilsk and Life in the Arctic, Steppes of North Caucasus, the Volga
Region, the Kuzbass, and Way of Life.
However, as a reminder that there is a "where" to every conversation,
these are the films associated with a particular space, and suggested by
Seelangers.

Caspian         White Sun of the Desert
Crimea          Assa
Far East        Dersu Uzala
Karelia (North) A zori zdes  tikhiye
Moscow          Kur er,
Siberia         There lives such a lad (Shukshin), Rodnya, Sibiriada,
Proshcheniye s Materoy, Neotpravlennoye pis mo, Freeze Die Come         to Life
St Petersburg   Autumn Marathon, Window to Paris, Dostoyaniye   respubliki,
White Nights
Tver            Scarecrow

For Russian countryside: Burnt by the Sun, Don t shoot at the White
Swans, Zerkalo, Chonkin, Kurochka ryaba
For a small town: Amerikanka
For a deserted village 80 km from St Petersburg: Khlebnyy den'
For Ukraine and Kiev: Friend of the Deceased, For Zhdanov: Little Vera
For Armenia: Color of Pomegranates

Many thanks to our contributors: Karen Benko, Laura Kline, Leonid
Okneansky, Katya Hirvasaho, Tim Pogacar, Michael Younger, C. Fields, Ben
Rifkin, Lisa Little, Jennifer Ryan, and Sylvia

--
Genevra Gerhart
http://www.wolfenet.com/~ggerhart/

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


From kildsig at usa.net  Wed Jun  9 22:15:48 1999
From: kildsig at usa.net (Kildsig)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:15:48 +0200
Subject: Not only Bakhtin
In-Reply-To: <v01540b05b38440dc635b@[208.220.25.31]>
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.001548.0200.>

Oh, dear.... Let's talk money (and other people's money too) instead of
waisting our time on pondering over some idea.

An academic wandering about earning money should leave the world of learning
and studying and enter the world of business - (more) staisfaction
guaranteed. Cvetaeves could be kept as a hobby.

So what discussion?

N.R.Kildsig

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Alina Israeli
> Sent: 9. juni 1999 22:08
> To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: Re: Not only Bakhtin
>
>
> If I may slightly rephrase the discussion: how many people make a living
> stydying the writings of those who could not support themselves by their
> writings. Cvetaeva is the first who comes to mind. (Yes, I know that
> Shakespeare supports even more people.)
>
> >Finally, what has he said that's so appaling? ... That
> >there are no career-making enterprise on-going in the Western academies?
> >That there are no market mechanisms forming research? Are we
> already at the
> >stage when we attempt to prove that water is dry?
>
> **************************************************************
> Alina Israeli
> LFS, American University                phone:  (202) 885-2387
> 4400 Mass. Ave., NW                     fax:    (202) 885-1076
> Washington, DC 20016
>
> aisrael at american.edu
>


From aisrael at american.edu  Thu Jun 10 01:36:12 1999
From: aisrael at american.edu (Alina Israeli)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 21:36:12 -0400
Subject: Trashing aka unizhen, oskorblen, obizhen--no zria!
Message-ID: <WED.9.JUN.1999.213612.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>It would not be bad for the West aka America in this case, yet the Western
>reception of Bakhtin started here, in Europe (notably, France and Italy) in
>the second half of the 1960s. In the very same 1981 N.Mxller Andersen, then
>a postgraduate student at MA level, the U. of Copenhagen, wrote a
>dissertation on the dialogical principle. Merely two small facts ....

Tsvetan Todorov published his book in France in 1981: Mikhail Bakhtine : le
principe dialogique /  Paris : Seuil.

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

aisrael at american.edu


From SLBAEHR at VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU  Thu Jun 10 04:35:52 1999
From: SLBAEHR at VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Steve Baehr)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:35:52 EDT
Subject: +Tavro Kassandry+
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.003552.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

A colleague in physics recently read Aitmatov's +Tavro Kassandry+
in Japanese and wanted to know if the work has
been translated into English. I could not find the answer after a
very quick search. I wonder if anyone knows if the work has been
translated into English or is currently being translated.
Please respond off-list. Thanks.
       Steve Baehr
**********************************************************************
Stephen L. Baehr
( ---> NOTE NEW ADDRESS: slbaehr at vt.edu <--- )
Professor of Russian
Editor, +Slavic and East European Journal+
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0225
Telephone: (540)-231-8323; FAX (540) 231-4812
**********************************************************************
---> NB: Effective immediately, please use only my new address. <----
      If you use my vtvm1 address, you may get an error message.


From Agrothenyc at aol.com  Thu Jun 10 13:16:49 1999
From: Agrothenyc at aol.com (Anja Grothe)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:16:49 EDT
Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.091649.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

As a Ph.D. candidate about to enter the profession, I have been following the
recent discussion over Dmitry Khanin's review of Caryl Emerson's skeptically.
Issues of accuracy, cultural division and appropriateness with regard to the
book and its review have been eloquently discussed by senior members of the
list (and now seem to drift to topics such as address and salary). I would
like to add a more general comment.

In the very beginning of my studies I have been taught that thesis and
antithesis are essential parts of a well-crafted argument.
Development of the discipline, discoveries, progress, can in my opinion only
be made by such argument, and criticism, for which respect of a colleagues'
research and stance is a prerequisite. And while irony well used is a great
rhetorical device for adding spice to an argument, it certainly spoils its
taste when intended for personal attack only.

As a Slavist, I am inspired by enlightening, learned criticism based on
original texts (by that I mean texts in their original language). As a
Comparatist, I am also aware of the limits of linguistic proficiency and
thank those scholars like Caryl Emerson, who, via analysis AND translation
"tries(y) to move between two languages/cultures and inform each about the
other" (HG). This is essential to comparative studies, this gives other
disciplines an option to use a wide range of critical thought (how they
choose to apply it, is a different matter).

I would like to enter the profession with the conviction that it is governed
by sharp, ethical criticism and personal respect. If battles beyond the
critical argument become the focus of discussion,  and if this is the
reaction to intellectual difference and tight monetary resources in academia,
it does not appeal as a lifetime consuming occupation.
Rhetoric is a sharp tool: As much as it is needed to open packages containing
intellectual treasures, and cutting through layers of meaning/(differing)
opinion to get to what lies beneath or beyond, it can also be, wrongfully,
applied to hurt and 'trash' what is meant to blossom and grow.  I would not
choose to enter a battlefield. I'd rather 'cultivate our garden' (Candide).

Anja Grothe
City University of New York


From singleby at cep.yale.edu  Thu Jun 10 13:48:14 1999
From: singleby at cep.yale.edu (Susan Ingleby)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:48:14 EDT
Subject: Director of Faculty Recruitment Position Announcement
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.094814.EDT.>

CIVIC EDUCATION PROJECT
DIRECTOR OF FACULTY RECRUITMENT & UNIVERSITY RELATIONS

The Civic Education Project is an international private non-profit
organization that supports higher education reform in societies engaged
in political and economic transition.

CEP is accepting applications for the position of Director of Faculty
Recruitment and University Relations.  The position will be based in New
Haven, Connecticut.  The Director of Faculty Recruitment will have
responsibility for recruiting qualified lecturers for CEP's Visiting Lecturer
and Eastern Scholar programs which operate in 19 countries of Central and
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Specific responsibilities will include writing and placing new
advertisements; attending professional and academic conferences to
publicize CEP; contacting senior members of the academic community to
develop and maintain relationships to promote CEP and to look for ways to
partner with universities in cost-sharing, research, and grant-making;
screening and interviewing applicants;  organizing the placement of
visiting lecturers in host universities; managing the recruitment budget;
supervising program staff, collecting data and keeping records of
recruitment and placement efforts; and writing reports that analyze the
process.

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(doctorate strongly preferred); teaching experience (preferably in the former
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From daf at meirionnydd.force9.co.uk  Thu Jun 10 14:44:55 1999
From: daf at meirionnydd.force9.co.uk (Daf)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:44:55 +0100
Subject: Computer technology
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.154455.0100.>

>People with solution to common problems could write in and the
solution would be filed (something like a FAQ). A listserv is too
evanescent and ephemeral for this. Any takers? If not, let me know.
Irene Thompson<

Sounds a brilliant Idea. I doubt if I'd be of any use as I'm not that
technically minded; I just muddle along. But I can imagine many times when
someone or other has had to rescue me when such a storehouse of knowledge
would have been very useful.
Daf  [web page-http://www.meirionnydd.force9.co.uk]


From mfrazier at mail.slc.edu  Thu Jun 10 16:23:11 1999
From: mfrazier at mail.slc.edu (frazier melissa)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:23:11 -0400
Subject: Computer technology
In-Reply-To: <s725a9ef.086@actr.org>
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.122311.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Thank you to everyone who has responded to my query on and off-list; I have
a much better sense of what's out there in Russian and there's more than I
thought.  I'm especially happy to learn that Cyrillic fonts shouldn't pose
a problem for on-line discussion groups, etc., although I am one of those
for whom the technology is a bit hard to deal with -- so the proposed new
web page will be a great resource not just for me but for the student
assistants I'm going to hire to put everything together!

Thanks again,

Melissa Frazier




****************************
Melissa Frazier
Literature/Russian Dept.
Sarah Lawrence College
1 Mead Way
Bronxville, NY  10704
(914)395-2295
mfrazier at mail.slc.edu


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Thu Jun 10 16:29:35 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:29:35 -0400
Subject: Request for info on Azerbaijan educational system (fwd)
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.122935.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>>From another list.  If you can help this person, please contact her
directly.

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

---------- Forwarded message ----------

CCSI has received the following request from Nigar Baimova, a student at
Reading University.  List members with suggestions for Ms. Baimova should
respond directly to her, and not to CivilSoc.

                Nigar Baimova <N.Baimova at reading.ac.uk>

Dear Sir/Madam:

My name is Nigar Baimova. I am a student in Reading University in the
United Kingdom.

At the moment I am writing my dissertation on Education the System in
Azerbaijan.

I should be grateful if you could send me any data/statistics you have
about organizational Structure of Educational System in Azerbaijan.

Thank you for your assistance in advance.

Yours faithfully,

Nigar Baimova
MA in Organization, Planning and Management in Education
University of Reading
UK


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From dmitry.khanin at gte.net  Thu Jun 10 16:39:59 1999
From: dmitry.khanin at gte.net (Dmitry Khanin)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:39:59 -0400
Subject: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.123959.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Anja,

    It's great you decided to throw your support behind the "senior members
of the list." In fact, they may be in need of getting more help from their
graduate students. You are right! Irony and rhetoric can be dangerous tools.
The problem is that usage of those illicit means also measures the degree of
civilization's sophistication. I have to admit that Caryl Emerson thoroughly
enjoyed my previous ironic attacks against Western Postmodernists and
Western Marxists. She even quoted them in her book on Bakhtin I reviewed as
an example of a peculiarly Russian reaction to those Western trends.
Furthermore, she told me that she included one of those artciles in her
course taught to graduate students at Princeton (no fees to John Hopkins
University Press, I suspect, but who's counting?) In fact, Anja, you could
be reading those subversive articles next semester if you are at Princeton.
So, if I were you, I wouldn't throw out all this irony and rhetoric just
yet. Some of "the senior members of the list" may like them. Caryl Emerson
wrote to me that she "loved" my ironic articles. I am sure she is enjoying
this discussion, too. She seems to have a taste for it.


Dmitry Khanin

Irony and rhetoric that appear
----- Original Message -----
From: Anja Grothe <Agrothenyc at aol.com>
To: <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: Trashing Caryl Emerson's recent book on Bakhtin?


> As a Ph.D. candidate about to enter the profession, I have been following
the
> recent discussion over Dmitry Khanin's review of Caryl Emerson's
skeptically.
> Issues of accuracy, cultural division and appropriateness with regard to
the
> book and its review have been eloquently discussed by senior members of
the
> list (and now seem to drift to topics such as address and salary). I would
> like to add a more general comment.
>
> In the very beginning of my studies I have been taught that thesis and
> antithesis are essential parts of a well-crafted argument.
> Development of the discipline, discoveries, progress, can in my opinion
only
> be made by such argument, and criticism, for which respect of a
colleagues'
> research and stance is a prerequisite. And while irony well used is a
great
> rhetorical device for adding spice to an argument, it certainly spoils its
> taste when intended for personal attack only.
>
> As a Slavist, I am inspired by enlightening, learned criticism based on
> original texts (by that I mean texts in their original language). As a
> Comparatist, I am also aware of the limits of linguistic proficiency and
> thank those scholars like Caryl Emerson, who, via analysis AND translation
> "tries(y) to move between two languages/cultures and inform each about the
> other" (HG). This is essential to comparative studies, this gives other
> disciplines an option to use a wide range of critical thought (how they
> choose to apply it, is a different matter).
>
> I would like to enter the profession with the conviction that it is
governed
> by sharp, ethical criticism and personal respect. If battles beyond the
> critical argument become the focus of discussion,  and if this is the
> reaction to intellectual difference and tight monetary resources in
academia,
> it does not appeal as a lifetime consuming occupation.
> Rhetoric is a sharp tool: As much as it is needed to open packages
containing
> intellectual treasures, and cutting through layers of meaning/(differing)
> opinion to get to what lies beneath or beyond, it can also be, wrongfully,
> applied to hurt and 'trash' what is meant to blossom and grow.  I would
not
> choose to enter a battlefield. I'd rather 'cultivate our garden'
(Candide).
>
> Anja Grothe
> City University of New York


From jones.1281 at osu.edu  Thu Jun 10 21:51:16 1999
From: jones.1281 at osu.edu (Ben Jones)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:51:16 -0400
Subject: Teaching Position
Message-ID: <THU.10.JUN.1999.175116.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I am resigning my Russian language teaching position at an all boys Catholic
college preparatory school in Columbus, Ohio. The job opening is for the
1999-2000 school year teaching one class of twelve seniors at the
intermediate language level.  The textbook is "Nachalo. . .When in Russia".
Salary is dependent upon academic credentials and years of teaching
experience.  Maximum salary for this 9 month contract would likely not
exceed $5,500, but there is the possibility of adding a first year class for
the following year.

Please contact me if you know of anyone interested in this job opportunity.
Need to know of any interest by the end of June.

Thank you,
Natasha Jones


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Fri Jun 11 16:57:39 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:57:39 -0400
Subject: Don't you wish you had a Mac?
Message-ID: <FRI.11.JUN.1999.125739.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

A new virus--and quite serious this time for the PC World. Harvard's IT
people sent the message below. A better description of what's what is at
"http://www.symantec.com/press/1999/n990610b.html".

As far as I can tell, this virus is even more serious and destructive than
the ongoing clash o' titans over Emerson's new book.

Robert De Lossa

(Alexander Pope wrote of "damning with faint praise" in his Epistle to
Arbuthnot, while Thumper, in Bambi, reminded us--"If you can't say
something nice, don't say nuthin' at all." That's almost two hundred years
of good advice, n'est-ce pas?)

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

To all IT Contacts, Faculty and Staff,

Many of you might have heard of the Worm.ExploreZip virus on the news the
last couple of days. While we have yet to get any reports of sightings at
Harvard, please use caution in the next couple of days. The Worm.ExploreZip
virus spreads like the Melissa virus in that it takes over Microsoft
Outlook Express and uses it to send messages in your name. Even if you do
not use Outlook Express, you are still susceptible to the back end of the
virus, which acts like the CIH virus, attacking registry and boot up systems.

The actual message the virus sends reads as follows:

"Hi (recipient's name)!
I received you e-mail and shall send you a reply ASAP.
Till then, please take a look at the attached ZIP docs.
Bye"

If you receive this message, just delete it with the attachment and you
will not be infected. Still, there may be alterations made to the virus
that would make it different that what is above.

The best ways to avoid the virus:

1. Do not open attachments that you did not request from the senders
(especially .zip and .exe files, which is what the Worm.ExploreZip virus
sends).
2. Viruses are often hidden is those fun little animations that people send
each other, so even if it looks like something innocuous, it still might be
dangerous to open it.
3. Do not use Outlook Express, which always seems to be the target of
Anti-Microsoft virus authors. If you do not use OE, your computer is less
likely to spread the virus.

____________________________________________________
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 cinkhars at pol.com  Fri Jun 11 13:38:32 1999
From: cinkhars at pol.com (David Paul Brokaw)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:38:32 -0400
Subject: Ludmila Tsonchova
In-Reply-To: <001d01beb360$000df6a0$03000004@oemcomputer>
Message-ID: <FRI.11.JUN.1999.093832.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEElangers,

A friend of the Cincinnati Kharkiv Sister City Project (CKSCP) has inquired
about an artist from the former Soviet Union, Ludmila Tsonchova.  He heard
of Ms. Tsonchova-sorry, I do not know her patronymic-through a "Russian
lady," who told him that Ms. Tsonchova was a well-known artist in the former
Soviet Union.  He was also told that Ms. Tsonchova "has shown her art in
Japan and some other Eastern countries."

Can anyone tell me anything about Ms. Tsonchova.  I did briefly search for
information about her on the web, but did not find anything.

Thank you for your time and assistance,

Dave Brokaw
CKSCP


From mclellan at humanitas.ucsb.edu  Sat Jun 12 00:15:47 1999
From: mclellan at humanitas.ucsb.edu (Larry McLellan)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 17:15:47 -0700
Subject: Southern California AATSEEL
Message-ID: <FRI.11.JUN.1999.171547.0700.MCLELLAN@HUMANITAS.UCSB.EDU>

1999 Southern California AATSEEL Meeting

Saturday, June 19, 1999
UC Santa Barbara, Kerr Hall 2160
(2nd floor, Language and Learning Labs)

9:30-10:00
Coffee and refreshments (Hallway outside Kerr 2160)

10:00-11:30
Multimedia for Aiding Reading Comprehension: Program Demo & Research
Results
Dorothy Chun, UCSB

11:30-12:00
Hands-on time with the "Cyberbuch" and "Cyberteca" programs

12:00-12:30
Internet activities for 1st- and 2nd-year Russian
Katia McClain and Larry McLellan, UCSB

12:30-1:00
Web-based Multimedia Project for 2nd-year Russian
Olga Kagan, UCLA

Please contact Larry McLellan <mclellan at humanitas.ucsb.edu> for directions
or further information.


From jrouhie at pop.uky.edu  Sun Jun 13 16:22:31 1999
From: jrouhie at pop.uky.edu (J. Rouhier-Willoughby)
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:22:31 -0500
Subject: High School-College Articulation
Message-ID: <SUN.13.JUN.1999.112231.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The results of a survey on high school and college articulation in Russian
classes have been posted to the AATSEEL web page at:
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/databases/hsartic.html

The survey was conducted by the AATSEEL Public Relations subcommittee of
the AATSEEL Linguistics Committee.

If you are a teacher of high school or middle school and wish to answer the
survey, please go to the site and e-mail the survey to me at
jrouhie at pop.uky.edu

For those of you who are struggling with incorporating high school students
who have studied Russian into your college level curricula, there may be
some helpful suggestions or ideas there.

Sincerely, J. Rouhier-Willoughby

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


From tbeasley at ucla.edu  Mon Jun 14 19:13:33 1999
From: tbeasley at ucla.edu (TIMOTHY BEASLEY)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:13:33 -0700
Subject: Hill address
Message-ID: <MON.14.JUN.1999.121333.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Sorry to bother people during the summer, but I'm trying to find Peter
Hill's e-mail address, assuming he has one.  He's at Universitaet Hamburg.
Does anybody have it?

Tim Beasley
tbeasley at ucla.edu


From Wambah at aol.com  Mon Jun 14 19:49:46 1999
From: Wambah at aol.com (Laura Kline)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:49:46 EDT
Subject: Hill address
Message-ID: <MON.14.JUN.1999.154946.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Try this:
phill at rrz.uni-hamburg.de
Best,
Laura


From perlina at indiana.edu  Mon Jun 14 20:30:47 1999
From: perlina at indiana.edu (nina perlina)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:30:47 EDT
Subject: Khanins' book review
Message-ID: <MON.14.JUN.1999.163047.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Frankly it is because of my technological backwardness and insufficient
use of the website publications that I join the discussion of Professor
Khanin's review of Caryl Emerson's The First Hundred Years of Mikhail
Bakhtin  so late. As a good old friend and colleague of Caryl, a reviwer
of her last book (the volume Khanin believes he had "trashed"),  a Slavist
familiar with many of Professor Khanin's academic writings (I was asked to
examine his tenure materials and supported his candidacy with enthusiasm),
and, finally, as an emigre+ from Soviet Russia, I should have add my voice
to the ongoing exchange much earlier. But surprisingly, my belated
response wins me a position that can be described as "better later,"  for
from my standpoint I can see clearly what the entire struggle is about,
how should one characterize Professor Khanin's position in this battle,
and what stimulates his ferocious attempt at "epate les academicien"
        The battle is not about the ability/inability of  Russian scholars
to acknowledge the fact that American Slavists can "really understand or
know Russian culture well or deeply enough to write about it
legitimately," as our colleague Andrew Wachtel believes. Here, one should
admit, Professor Khanin has made his transition from the Russian to the
American shore successfully. He is familiar with the language of
postmodern pluralism and relativism. And if Caryl Emerson, in her turn,
were not to demonstrate her non-relativizing approach to Bakhtin theory,
Khanin would, probably, hesitate to "trash" her study. What Khanin renders
as invalid or "apostatic" in Emerson's book is her unwillingness to move
her research in the direction of the postmodernist simulacrum.
Paradoxically, Khanin fails to notice that his assault on Emerson's
non-relativist view of plurality makes him divert from his own pluralism.
As an old Bakhtin scholar, I can see how much stress does Khanin add to
his assured knowledge of what has become well grounded in the newest
postmodernist interpretations of Bakhtin. Khanin disagrees with Emerson
because both the bounds and the goals of her study do not fit the
parameters he has chosen as a model for his  "Bakhtin today." He fails to
see that "Emerson's 'hero' is not M. M. Bakhtin but rather his creative
answerable "I" which takes part both in the Russian and the American
contexts, yet does not dissolve in any of them" (I borrow this explanation
from my own review of her book). Emerson's reliance on the main principles
of reception theory makes her book into an interesting discussion of the
dynamic processes that are developed in the recent Bakhtin studies; with
the help of reception theory she accumulates and systematizes outside
contexts through which competent readers read and interpret Bakhtin's
works as cultural phenomena, and when Khanin charges Emersaon's
systematization with  opportunism, he bespeaks his unwillingness to read
her study within its genuine context. In a way, Khanin charges not an
individual interpretation, but the entire theoretical creed with lack of
principiality.
        True, "the first hundred years of Mikhail Bakhtin" cannot be
limited to the reception of Bakhtin's theories in the post-Soviet human
sciences of 1980's-90's, and if Khanin were to express his reservations
about the exceedingly ambitious and somewhat misleading title of Emerson's
study, I would  agree with him. To this I would add that the fundamental
reasons for Emerson's selections and omissions of individual Bakhtin
scholars and their theoretical views need more clarification. But rather
than claiming several partial reservations about Emerson's study, Khanin
boasts of "trashing" her entire work. "Trashing" (like recycling) is an
ideologically bound activity, and the utterance chosen by Khanin brings to
my mind a remnant from an old, nearly "trashed" context about trashing and
recycling: shortly before his arrest, Isaak Babel took Ilya Ehrenburg on a
stroll and showed him a factory that was built to trash books written by
"enemies of the Soviet people" and to make this "cultural recycling" of
the old worldviews useful for the spirit of the day. True, Caryl Emerson
is just a Bakhtin scholar, not a reincarnation of his spirit, but we
should not forget that many enigmatic aspects of Bakhtin studies owe their
origin to the pernicious practice of "trashing" books and their creators
in the 1930's.
Nina Perlina, Indiana University


From dmitry.khanin at gte.net  Tue Jun 15 11:03:11 1999
From: dmitry.khanin at gte.net (Dmitry Khanin)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:03:11 -0400
Subject: Trashing - a Dismal Art or a Gay Science?
Message-ID: <TUE.15.JUN.1999.070311.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

    I know, I know. Everyone thought it was over and then there is yet
another round. Well, I do feel that I have to reply to my opponents. After
all, isn't that what we are supposed to do in a truly dialogical world?
    My critics said a lot of bad things about trashing. Helena Goscilo (by
the way, I'm very sorry for misspelling her last name in a previous letter
but you have to admit it's a ... difficult one) compared me to a garbage
man. Thank you very much, Helena. I was touched. Now Nina Perlina reminds
everyone with respect to my review about "the pernicious practice of
"trashing" books and their creators in the 1930's."  Dr. De Rossa quipped at
the end of his message dedicated to a computer virus: --"If you can't say
something nice, don't say nuthin' at all." That's almost two hundred years
of good advice, n'est-ce pas?)
    Well, really I have to say a couple good words about the virtues of a
good old trashing. For starters, it is seriously underestimated in the
American Slavic studies which could explain why this realm of academic
research lags far behind all other intellectual pursuits in the US.
Nietzsche, of course, tried to create a gay science (Anja and her friends
should not be too disturbed, the word did not have sexual connotations back
then and in any case "there is nothing wrong with it"). Part of the endeavor
was beating up his academic opponents to the pulp or, simply put, trashing.
What do you think Nietzsche would say about a badly written and
self-important book like Emerson's? "Fresh Air!  Fresh Air!" Compared to
Nietzsche's innovative usage of trashing, the kind of trashing I practice
hardly deserves its name. It's time, though, to rehabilitate trashing and
make it part of the academic language. For instance, how should we call
those who pay less than $50 to AATSEEL? Academic trash?  What if you want to
imply that you already know what your opponent is implying? How about "no
trash" ? Things can also be "trash" or "untrash" (no explanations
necessary). The expansions of the "trashing" vocabulary will come naturally.
    Now a few words about Perlina's somewhat convoluted argument. With all
due respect, Ms. Perlina, it is hard to make sense of it. You can't possibly
be talking about everything at the same time. A little trashing is overdue!
Perlina writes: "What Khanin renders as invalid or "apostatic" in Emerson's
book is her unwillingness to move
her research in the direction of the postmodernist simulacrum." I'd be the
first to admit, it sounds very "trash." But what are you actually
saying?  Then you add: "non-relativist view of plurality makes him divert
from his own pluralism." And then the coda: "when Khanin charges Emersaon's
systematization with  opportunism, he bespeaks his unwillingness to read her
study within its genuine context. In a way, Khanin charges not an individual
interpretation, but the entire theoretical creed with lack of
principiality." Translated from the academic mumbo-jumbo, does it simply
mean that I did not understand Emerson's work and attacked a
well-established trend that Emerson represented? The book, in Perlina's
opinion, was not about Bakhtin (it had a misleading title) but rather about
"his creative
answerable "I" which takes part both in the Russian and the American
contexts, yet does not dissolve in any of them." Well, I don't know about
this "creative answerable I."  If that were Emerson's true hero, she was
certainly unaware of it. Do you know what I think? Nina Perlina had to write
a review of Emerson's book. Let's not go into reasons why she (or, for that
matter, Helena Goscilo) thought that she had to do that. We are all familiar
with academic politics.  However, how could Perlina possibly find anything
to praise in that hybrid of naive boasting, pedantic classification, and
high-handed criticism of Russia and the Russians (I never liked the word
"Rusophobia" but really it is quite appropriate for a characterization of
that cantankerous pamphlet).  So Ms. Perlina reinvented Emerson's book and
wrote a review of that made-up masterpiece that exists nowhere but in her
benevolent imagination. It's good enough that Perlina at least recognizes
that Emerson's book has some drawbacks: "I would add that the fundamental
reasons for Emerson's selections and omissions of individual Bakhtin
scholars and their theoretical views need more clarification." No trash!
But that's as far as she goes. If "trashing" were considered, in the spirit
of Nietzsche, as a gay science, not as a   dismal art, Slavists would not be
viewed as being decidedly the "untrash"!




----- Original Message -----
From: nina perlina <perlina at indiana.edu>
To: <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 4:30 PM
Subject: Khanins' book review


> Frankly it is because of my technological backwardness and insufficient
> use of the website publications that I join the discussion of Professor
> Khanin's review of Caryl Emerson's The First Hundred Years of Mikhail
> Bakhtin  so late. As a good old friend and colleague of Caryl, a reviwer
> of her last book (the volume Khanin believes he had "trashed"),  a Slavist
> familiar with many of Professor Khanin's academic writings (I was asked to
> examine his tenure materials and supported his candidacy with enthusiasm),
> and, finally, as an emigre+ from Soviet Russia, I should have add my voice
> to the ongoing exchange much earlier. But surprisingly, my belated
> response wins me a position that can be described as "better later,"  for
> from my standpoint I can see clearly what the entire struggle is about,
> how should one characterize Professor Khanin's position in this battle,
> and what stimulates his ferocious attempt at "epate les academicien"
>         The battle is not about the ability/inability of  Russian scholars
> to acknowledge the fact that American Slavists can "really understand or
> know Russian culture well or deeply enough to write about it
> legitimately," as our colleague Andrew Wachtel believes. Here, one should
> admit, Professor Khanin has made his transition from the Russian to the
> American shore successfully. He is familiar with the language of
> postmodern pluralism and relativism. And if Caryl Emerson, in her turn,
> were not to demonstrate her non-relativizing approach to Bakhtin theory,
> Khanin would, probably, hesitate to "trash" her study. What Khanin renders
> as invalid or "apostatic" in Emerson's book is her unwillingness to move
> her research in the direction of the postmodernist simulacrum.
> Paradoxically, Khanin fails to notice that his assault on Emerson's
> non-relativist view of plurality makes him divert from his own pluralism.
> As an old Bakhtin scholar, I can see how much stress does Khanin add to
> his assured knowledge of what has become well grounded in the newest
> postmodernist interpretations of Bakhtin. Khanin disagrees with Emerson
> because both the bounds and the goals of her study do not fit the
> parameters he has chosen as a model for his  "Bakhtin today." He fails to
> see that "Emerson's 'hero' is not M. M. Bakhtin but rather his creative
> answerable "I" which takes part both in the Russian and the American
> contexts, yet does not dissolve in any of them" (I borrow this explanation
> from my own review of her book). Emerson's reliance on the main principles
> of reception theory makes her book into an interesting discussion of the
> dynamic processes that are developed in the recent Bakhtin studies; with
> the help of reception theory she accumulates and systematizes outside
> contexts through which competent readers read and interpret Bakhtin's
> works as cultural phenomena, and when Khanin charges Emersaon's
> systematization with  opportunism, he bespeaks his unwillingness to read
> her study within its genuine context. In a way, Khanin charges not an
> individual interpretation, but the entire theoretical creed with lack of
> principiality.
>         True, "the first hundred years of Mikhail Bakhtin" cannot be
> limited to the reception of Bakhtin's theories in the post-Soviet human
> sciences of 1980's-90's, and if Khanin were to express his reservations
> about the exceedingly ambitious and somewhat misleading title of Emerson's
> study, I would  agree with him. To this I would add that the fundamental
> reasons for Emerson's selections and omissions of individual Bakhtin
> scholars and their theoretical views need more clarification. But rather
> than claiming several partial reservations about Emerson's study, Khanin
> boasts of "trashing" her entire work. "Trashing" (like recycling) is an
> ideologically bound activity, and the utterance chosen by Khanin brings to
> my mind a remnant from an old, nearly "trashed" context about trashing and
> recycling: shortly before his arrest, Isaak Babel took Ilya Ehrenburg on a
> stroll and showed him a factory that was built to trash books written by
> "enemies of the Soviet people" and to make this "cultural recycling" of
> the old worldviews useful for the spirit of the day. True, Caryl Emerson
> is just a Bakhtin scholar, not a reincarnation of his spirit, but we
> should not forget that many enigmatic aspects of Bakhtin studies owe their
> origin to the pernicious practice of "trashing" books and their creators
> in the 1930's.
> Nina Perlina, Indiana University


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From g-morson at nwu.edu  Tue Jun 15 14:20:00 1999
From: g-morson at nwu.edu (Gary Saul Morson)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:20:00 EDT
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <TUE.15.JUN.1999.102000.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Frankly, I don't think Caryl Emerson needs to be defended, and if she did,
she could do it herself.

        But there is a more important issue involved.   It is one thing to
criticize a scholar's work  on scholarly grounds -- it makes errors, its
argument is unpersuasive, there are gaps in logic, etc.    But it is quite
another to do so by alleging motives.   This form of argument is wrong not
only because a Prof. Khanin can have no idea what the motives really were,
but also, and more importantly, because even if the motives are bad, the
argument might still be right (and vice versa, for that matter). If
Einstein had the worst motives for E = mc2 or Bakhtin for describing
Dostoevsky's novels as polyphonic, that is entirely irrelevant to whether
their theories are correct.   Prof. Knanin's SEEJ letter disturbs me not
because it criticizes Caryl, but because of its mode of argument, which, I
think, is fundamentally hostile to what scholarship is all about and
therefore causes damage to the profession.   The offense is not just to
Caryl, but to all of us.

Gary Saul Morson
----------------------------------------------------------
Gary Saul Morson
Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities
Professor of Slavic Languages
Kresge Hall
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL   60208-2206.   847-491-3651
-----------------------------------------------------------


From mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu  Tue Jun 15 14:26:09 1999
From: mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu (Emily Tall)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:26:09 -0400
Subject: This whole controversy
In-Reply-To: <000b01beb71e$c52b3e40$03000004@oemcomputer>
Message-ID: <TUE.15.JUN.1999.102609.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

It seems to me that this whole discussion of Prof. Emerson's Bakhtin book
reflects two different ideas of what it means to have a
discussion/argument. The American scholars (or those who have adopted
American [academic] cultural norms) are trying to be polite,
respectful, and argue the issues. Prof. Khanin prefers a different style.
I, for one, find it distasteful. I don't learn anything from it. Excuse me
if I've misspelled anyone's
name. E. Tall


From KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com  Tue Jun 15 15:44:00 1999
From: KENNETH.UDUT at spcorp.com (UDUT, KENNETH)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:44:00 -0400
Subject: This whole controversy
Message-ID: <TUE.15.JUN.1999.114400.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

     It would seem that American scholarship treats each case as
     individual, self-referencial, and as a closed system.

     But there are other forms of scholarship which see works as more
     global, 'other'-referencial, and as an open system.


     One seems to imply the question, "How does this writing compare,
     firstly - to itself and secondly - to other texts of the same
     nature?"

     The other seems to imply the question, "How does this text affect
     what I know about the world?  What does this text bring in from the
     outside world?  How do these things that are brought in from the
     outside world relate to what I know of the world?", etc.

     One viewpoint is more individualistic, and the other is more
     holistic.

     Of course, the first system says to the second, "Why must you drag
     all of this and that into this text?".  The second system asks to
     the first, "Can't you see how these things are related?"


     But I could be wrong :)  I'm no scholar :)


     -Kenneth
     kenneth.udut at spcorp.com


From dmitry.khanin at gte.net  Wed Jun 16 01:15:30 1999
From: dmitry.khanin at gte.net (Dmitry Khanin)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:15:30 -0400
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <TUE.15.JUN.1999.211530.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

    I think professor Morson is taking things a little too far: "The offense
is not just to Caryl, but to all of us." It was certainly not my intention
to offend Professor Morson whose work I always admired. I realize now that
some of my witticisms ("the laws that Morson and Emerson have jointly
discovered are as good as the law of gravity, even better") could have
rubbed his ego the wrong way. I'm sorry about that. I thought it was funny.
I wouldn't have said it had I known it would cause so much grief. Despite
professor Morson's warning, I'm still searching for those underlying
motives. Well, it was really Belinsky who started it.
    As to Caryl Emerson's book, I believe that she transgressed the
boundaries of a strictly academic discourse and, respectively, opened
herself to an equally transgressive criticism. I thought she spoke about
Russia and the Russians in a condescending and hostile tone. When she
reported someone's gossip about Russian Bakhtinists looking for the best
bidder for Bakhtin's tapes, that was a cheap shot. The librarians whose
reputation she destroyed in passing worked all their lives collecting
information about Baktin and continue doing their work in the situation of
Russia's growing impoverishment. How do you think those people felt? I know
them and how hurt they were.
    A word about Emily Tall's remark. She wrote: "The American scholars (or
those who have adopted American [academic] cultural norms) are trying to be
polite, respectful, and argue the issues." I think that academics everywhere
try to be polite, respectful, and argue the issues. Lots of Russian scholars
probably would be as shocked by my "trashing of Emerson's book" as Ms. Tall
apparently was. On the other hand, I'm sure that at least some Americans
enjoyed my irreverent criticism. So, let's not use those devisive
definitions. I basically agree with much of what Andrew Wachtel said. There
is a lot of covert hostility between Russian (including Russian emigres) and
American Slavists.  On one occasion, a nice American professor told me at a
conference: "You know, I just hate all of you." She smiled and left.


Dmitry Khanin


----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Saul Morson <g-morson at nwu.edu>
To: <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 10:20 AM


> Frankly, I don't think Caryl Emerson needs to be defended, and if she did,
> she could do it herself.
>
>         But there is a more important issue involved.   It is one thing to
> criticize a scholar's work  on scholarly grounds -- it makes errors, its
> argument is unpersuasive, there are gaps in logic, etc.    But it is quite
> another to do so by alleging motives.   This form of argument is wrong not
> only because a Prof. Khanin can have no idea what the motives really were,
> but also, and more importantly, because even if the motives are bad, the
> argument might still be right (and vice versa, for that matter). If
> Einstein had the worst motives for E = mc2 or Bakhtin for describing
> Dostoevsky's novels as polyphonic, that is entirely irrelevant to whether
> their theories are correct.   Prof. Knanin's SEEJ letter disturbs me not
> because it criticizes Caryl, but because of its mode of argument, which, I
> think, is fundamentally hostile to what scholarship is all about and
> therefore causes damage to the profession.   The offense is not just to
> Caryl, but to all of us.
>
> Gary Saul Morson
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Gary Saul Morson
> Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities
> Professor of Slavic Languages
> Kresge Hall
> Northwestern University
> Evanston, IL   60208-2206.   847-491-3651
> -----------------------------------------------------------


From Subhash.Jaireth at agso.gov.au  Wed Jun 16 01:51:34 1999
From: Subhash.Jaireth at agso.gov.au (Subhash Jaireth)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:51:34 +1000
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <WED.16.JUN.1999.115134.1000.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I fully support Gary Morson's idea that criticism need to focus on the work
rather than the perceived, interpreted, guessed and for that matter
'constructed' motives.

Khanin began his contribution to the list with the words: "Some people (who
have not read it yet) asked if I trashed Emerson's book. Well, I guess I
did."


In reply, allow me to tell a short story (I hope it would be read as an
allegory):

A sugarcane farmer in a small village in India decided to cart his sugarcane
to a factory. He piled up the cane onto his bullock-cart, said good-bye to
his wife and set on. His little black dog decided to go with him. The day
was hot and the dog decided to walk underneath the cart protected from the
fiery sun. The journey was monotonous and boring. To keep himself busy the
dog began telling himself in his doggy voice: "Look how strong I am, I can
carry the whole cart on my back." The farmer heard the dog and laughed.


Subhash

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Gary Saul Morson [mailto:g-morson at nwu.edu]
                Sent:   Wednesday, 16 June 1999 0:20
                To:     SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
                Subject:

                Frankly, I don't think Caryl Emerson needs to be defended,
and if she did,
                she could do it herself.

                        But there is a more important issue involved.   It
is one thing to
                criticize a scholar's work  on scholarly grounds -- it makes
errors, its
                argument is unpersuasive, there are gaps in logic, etc.
But it is quite
                another to do so by alleging motives.   This form of
argument is wrong not
                only because a Prof. Khanin can have no idea what the
motives really were,
                but also, and more importantly, because even if the motives
are bad, the
                argument might still be right (and vice versa, for that
matter). If
                Einstein had the worst motives for E = mc2 or Bakhtin for
describing
                Dostoevsky's novels as polyphonic, that is entirely
irrelevant to whether
                their theories are correct.   Prof. Knanin's SEEJ letter
disturbs me not
                because it criticizes Caryl, but because of its mode of
argument, which, I
                think, is fundamentally hostile to what scholarship is all
about and
                therefore causes damage to the profession.   The offense is
not just to
                Caryl, but to all of us.

                Gary Saul Morson
                ----------------------------------------------------------
                Gary Saul Morson
                Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities
                Professor of Slavic Languages
                Kresge Hall
                Northwestern University
                Evanston, IL   60208-2206.   847-491-3651
                -----------------------------------------------------------


From dwkaiser at midway.uchicago.edu  Wed Jun 16 03:00:38 1999
From: dwkaiser at midway.uchicago.edu (David Kaiser)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:00:38 -0500
Subject: French for Reading
In-Reply-To: <0B22652400E4D211829A0060B0570D9B565059@agsomail1.agso.gov. au>
Message-ID: <TUE.15.JUN.1999.220038.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Greetings all,

Does anyone know of a good textbook for teaching oneself to read French for
research? I am not interested in spoken proficiency or any of that, just
beng able to read it well enough to understand scholarly articles. How
about German, too? I'll be working on that next summer. Thanks for
assistance.

Dave Kaiser
PhD Student, University of Chicago.
**Strength must be shielded by Grace,
And Gentleness backed by Power**


From ewb2 at cornell.edu  Wed Jun 16 12:42:12 1999
From: ewb2 at cornell.edu (Wayles Browne)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 08:42:12 -0400
Subject: French for Reading
In-Reply-To: <199906160258.VAA12214@harper.uchicago.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.16.JUN.1999.084212.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

For German, I'd suggest an old book (1950s?) called The Key to
German Translation--really nice readings interspersed with to-the-point
explanations of sentence structure.
Wayles Browne

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, David Kaiser wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> Does anyone know of a good textbook for teaching oneself to read French for
> research? I am not interested in spoken proficiency or any of that, just
> beng able to read it well enough to understand scholarly articles. How
> about German, too? I'll be working on that next summer. Thanks for
> assistance.
>
> Dave Kaiser
> PhD Student, University of Chicago.
> **Strength must be shielded by Grace,
> And Gentleness backed by Power**
>


From d-powelstock at uchicago.edu  Wed Jun 16 16:15:42 1999
From: d-powelstock at uchicago.edu (David Powelstock)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:15:42 -0400
Subject: French for Reading
In-Reply-To: <199906160258.VAA12214@harper.uchicago.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.16.JUN.1999.121542.0400.>

For German, the best I have ever seen, hands down, is Karl C. Sandberg and
John R. Wendel, _German for Reading_, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:
Prentice-Hall, 1973.  It is particularly well gauged to scholarly German.
dp


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Thu Jun 17 13:55:00 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:55:00 -0400
Subject: AAUS and DC mega conference
Message-ID: <THU.17.JUN.1999.095500.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

The organizers of the Ukrainian-American Joint Conferences in Washington,
DC next week have given a room to the American Association for Ukrainian
Studies (AAUS) for an informational meeting. I will be there to discuss the
latest news on the Odes(s)a international Ukrainian studies congress in
August and the latest news from the organization here. I also hope that any
members who are attending the conference as part of another group will
attend to discuss the upcoming elections. Finally, anyone who is interested
in joining AAUS is welcome to attend the meeting.

The meeting will take place in the main conference site (Crystal City Hyatt
Regency) in the Arlington Room from 2:30 to 4:00, on Friday, June 25. For
those who have managed to miss the publicity blitz about the joint
conferences, info can be had at http://www.brama.com/conference99/.

AAUS thanks Dr. Roman Goy for his help and support!

Cheers, Robert De Lossa

____________________________________________________
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 mittenth at fas.harvard.edu  Fri Jun 18 20:35:09 1999
From: mittenth at fas.harvard.edu (Laurel Mittenthal)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:35:09 -0400
Subject: problems printing in Cyrillic from reinstalled Word97
Message-ID: <FRI.18.JUN.1999.163509.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hi, all:

I recently reinstalled Word97 (on Windows 95). I am still able to type in
Cyrillic, and it displays nicely, but when I go to print, instead of
printing Cyrillic, I get page after page of quotation marks. Does anyone
have any suggestions as to how to fix this? I would be _so_ grateful.

Thanks very much in advance,
Laurel Mittenthal




Laurel Mittenthal
Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mittenth/   mittenth at fas.harvard.edu
(voice) +1.617.496.6005         (fax) +1.617.495.1210


From alexush at paonline.com  Fri Jun 18 21:57:49 1999
From: alexush at paonline.com (Alexander Ushakov)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:57:49 -0400
Subject: problems printing in Cyrillic from reinstalled Word97
Message-ID: <FRI.18.JUN.1999.175749.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I have the same problem when printing to Brother MFC 4350 (1998), but it can print the same text from Word 95. When I called their tech. support they were surprised the printer could print Cyrillic at all :-). I can print without problems both from Word 97 and Word 95 to Panasonic KX6500 (1996) and Exxon Stylus Color IIs (1996).

I'd like to hear any suggestions, too.

Alex Ushakov

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Laurel Mittenthal <mittenth at fas.harvard.edu>
To: <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 4:35 PM
Subject: problems printing in Cyrillic from reinstalled Word97


> Hi, all:
> 
> I recently reinstalled Word97 (on Windows 95). I am still able to type in
> Cyrillic, and it displays nicely, but when I go to print, instead of
> printing Cyrillic, I get page after page of quotation marks. Does anyone
> have any suggestions as to how to fix this? I would be _so_ grateful.
> 
> Thanks very much in advance,
> Laurel Mittenthal
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Laurel Mittenthal
> Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services
> http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mittenth/   mittenth at fas.harvard.edu
> (voice) +1.617.496.6005         (fax) +1.617.495.1210
> 


From yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp  Sat Jun 19 00:34:34 1999
From: yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp (Yoshimasa Tsuji)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:34:34 +0900
Subject: problems printing in Cyrillic from reinstalled Word97
In-Reply-To: <199906182037.QAA14723@smtp3.fas.harvard.edu> (message from
 Laurel Mittenthal on Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:35:09 -0400)
Message-ID: <SAT.19.JUN.1999.093434.0900.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hello Laurel,
If your Windows95 prints non-American characters on the screen, but
not on paper, the sole reason for it must be the wrong installation
of your printer driver. If your printer prints wrong characters,
it may be a problem of fonts or cable, but since yours prints the same thing
for pages, it is surely the problem of printer control.
  Please download the proper printer driver from the manufacturer's
home page and install it (or you may find the floppy in the package
you bought).

  If your Pansonic or Epson printers work all right, but Brother
doesn't, it is either because the printer driver for Brother has not
been installed yet or because you didn't switch to Brother printer
in the Control Panel.

  These things happen because recent printers are usually intelligent
enough to tell the computer about their identity and the computer
will automatically set up the system to send the printer-specific data.
But, it looks it is not always the way...

Cheers,
Tsuji

-----
P.S.
Compose a document all in English, set all the region so that it uses
your Cyrillic font. Having seen the changed font in the screen,
print it on your printer. If everything goes all right,
my guesses are all wrong. The point is that Cyrillic fonts have all
the American Standard characters as well.
 If I am right, the problem is not related to the fonts, but
to the printer.


From djg11 at cornell.edu  Sat Jun 19 00:43:32 1999
From: djg11 at cornell.edu (David J. Galloway)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:43:32 -0400
Subject: Pysanky in literature, folklore
Message-ID: <FRI.18.JUN.1999.204332.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangers:

I'm looking for materials in Russian or Ukrainian dealing with pysanky
(fabulates, tales, etc.)  Ideally these would be more story-like, for an
undergraduate readership, but anything would be valuable.  I'm familiar
with the small tidbits to be found in various English language
pysanky-making manuals and the more comprehensive material in the recent
"Dvadtsiat' kip pysanok" by Elyiw.  Any appearances in canonical artistic
literature (as opposed to folk genres) would also be of interest.  Please
respond directly to me at djg11 at cornell.edu rather than to the list.


***************************************************************************
David J. Galloway
Slavic Studies
236 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: (607) 255-8350
Fax:  (607) 255-1454
Email:  djg11 at cornell.edu

AATSEEL Intensive Language Programs page:
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/intensive-programs/index.html
AATSEEL Endangered Programs page:
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/endangered-programs/index.html


From mittenth at fas.harvard.edu  Sat Jun 19 13:05:10 1999
From: mittenth at fas.harvard.edu (Laurel Mittenthal)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:05:10 -0400
Subject: problems printing in Cyrillic from reinstalled Word97
In-Reply-To: <199906190034.JAA02501@tsuji.yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
Message-ID: <SAT.19.JUN.1999.090510.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Tsuji,

Thanks very much for your help! I don't have time to try it out today, but I
will definitely go re-download the printer driver from the HP site (I'm using
an HP LaserJet 6L).

        Regards
        Laurel
At 09:34 19.06.99 +0900, you wrote:
>Hello Laurel,
>If your Windows95 prints non-American characters on the screen, but
>not on paper, the sole reason for it must be the wrong installation
>of your printer driver. If your printer prints wrong characters,
>it may be a problem of fonts or cable, but since yours prints the same thing
>for pages, it is surely the problem of printer control.
>  Please download the proper printer driver from the manufacturer's
>home page and install it (or you may find the floppy in the package
>you bought).
>
>  If your Pansonic or Epson printers work all right, but Brother
>doesn't, it is either because the printer driver for Brother has not
>been installed yet or because you didn't switch to Brother printer
>in the Control Panel.
>
>  These things happen because recent printers are usually intelligent
>enough to tell the computer about their identity and the computer
>will automatically set up the system to send the printer-specific data.
>But, it looks it is not always the way...
>
>Cheers,
>Tsuji
>
>-----
>P.S.
>Compose a document all in English, set all the region so that it uses
>your Cyrillic font. Having seen the changed font in the screen,
>print it on your printer. If everything goes all right,
>my guesses are all wrong. The point is that Cyrillic fonts have all
>the American Standard characters as well.
> If I am right, the problem is not related to the fonts, but
>to the printer.
>


From AATSEEL at compuserve.com  Sat Jun 19 16:01:46 1999
From: AATSEEL at compuserve.com (AATSEEL Exec Director)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:01:46 -0400
Subject: AATSEEL '99 Membership Directory
Message-ID: <SAT.19.JUN.1999.120146.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGERS,

The AATSEEL '99 Membership Directory has been published and is in the mail
to all members.  It should be received during the week of June 21.  

(Non-members may purchase copies at $7.50 ea. (postage included) as long as
supplies last.)

*  *  *  *  *
Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin
Executive Director, American Ass'n of Teachers of 
  Slavic & E European Languages (AATSEEL)
1933 N. Fountain Park Dr., Tucson, AZ 85715 USA
Phone/fax:  520/885-2663
NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS:  AATSEEL at CompuServe.com
AATSEEL Home Page: <http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/>
1999 conference:  27-30 December, Chicago, IL
2000 conference:  27-30 December, Washington, DC
*  *  *  *  *


From wim.coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be  Sat Jun 19 08:33:32 1999
From: wim.coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Coudenys)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 10:33:32 +0200
Subject: cyrillic on printer
Message-ID: <SAT.19.JUN.1999.103332.0200.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangers,
I had the same problem when I bought my Brother HL-820. This is because the
standard westerns printer driver doesn't support cyrillic. Brother sent me
the Israeli (!) printer driver, and this works just fine, without any fuss.
Good Luck,
Dr. Wim Coudenys
Heidebergstraat 179
B-3010 Kessel-Lo
Belgium
http://onyx.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/slavic/coudenys/coudenys.htm
tel ..32 16 350967
e-mail: wim.coudenys at arts.kuleuven.ac.be


From mbraun at channel1.com  Sun Jun 20 23:59:48 1999
From: mbraun at channel1.com (Panorama of Russia)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:59:48 -0400
Subject: AATSEEL '99 Membership Directory
In-Reply-To: <199906191201_MC2-79FD-E147@compuserve.com>
Message-ID: <SUN.20.JUN.1999.195948.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

At 12:01 PM 06/19/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear SEELANGERS,
>
>The AATSEEL '99 Membership Directory has been published and is in the mail
>to all members.  It should be received during the week of June 21.
>
>(Non-members may purchase copies at $7.50 ea. (postage included) as long as
>supplies last.)
>
>*  *  *  *  *
>Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin
>Executive Director, American Ass'n of Teachers of
>  Slavic & E European Languages (AATSEEL)
>1933 N. Fountain Park Dr., Tucson, AZ 85715 USA
>Phone/fax:  520/885-2663
>NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS:  AATSEEL at CompuServe.com
>AATSEEL Home Page: <http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/>
>1999 conference:  27-30 December, Chicago, IL
>2000 conference:  27-30 December, Washington, DC
>*  *  *  *  *
>
>
Dear Mr. Ervin,
Please reserve a copy for us. We have mailed you a check.
Sincerely yours,
Michael Braun
Panorama of Russia
P.O. Box 44-1658
Somerville, MA 02144 USA
(617) 625-3635
http://www.panrus.com/


From tarn at chass.utoronto.ca  Mon Jun 21 14:04:53 1999
From: tarn at chass.utoronto.ca (Maxim Tarnawsky)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:04:53 -0400
Subject: Danylo H. Struk has died
Message-ID: <MON.21.JUN.1999.100453.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

It is with great sadness that I must announce that my dear friend and
colleague, Danylo H. Struk, professor in the Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures at the University of Toronto, Editor in Chief of the
Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Associate Director of the Canadian Institute of
Ukrainian Studies and director of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in
Western Europe, died in Munich, Germany on June 19, 1999.
He leaves behind his wife, Oksana, his mother, six children, and a sister,
to whom  I extend my sympathies and those of the members of the Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto and the
Toronto office of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
The world of Ukrainian studies is much diminished by his passing.
Vichna iomu pamiat'.


_____________________________
Maxim Tarnawsky,  tarn at chass.utoronto.ca   (Ìàêñèì Òàðíàâñüêèé)
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto,  21 Sussex Avenue.   Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1
tel: 416-978-8240;       FAX: 416-978-2672;       http://www.utoronto.ca/cius


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Mon Jun 21 14:05:16 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:05:16 -0400
Subject: Danylo Struk
Message-ID: <MON.21.JUN.1999.100516.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

It is with very great sadness that I inform you that Danylo Husar Struk
passed away Saturday while on vacation in Munich. He suffered a heart
attack and died later in the hospital. An obituary is being prepared and
will be posted as soon as possible.

We will miss him greatly and will hold his family in our thoughts and
prayers. Vichna iomu pam'iat'!

Sincerely,

Robert De Lossa

____________________________________________________
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 cef at u.washington.edu  Mon Jun 21 14:37:56 1999
From: cef at u.washington.edu (C. Fields)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:37:56 -0700
Subject: This whole controversy
In-Reply-To: <199906151914.PAA16256@sp2.spcorp.com>
Message-ID: <MON.21.JUN.1999.073756.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Thank you for taking the "you're an idiot" element out of this debate.  I
was beginning to think that I was listening in on a playground push-fight
instead of a scholarly debate--half telling teacher because "he hurt my
feelings" and the other half saying "yeah, well your feet stink too!"  Are
we grown-ups or kids.  Aren't grown-ups supposed to be able respond to
flippant criticism with something a bit more witty that "you're not
supposed to say things like that" and "that was mean you meaney!"  Are
scholarly egos to be so fragile that they can't take criticism
(deserved or undeserved) with a LEETLE bit of a sense of humor.



On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, UDUT, KENNETH wrote:

>      It would seem that American scholarship treats each case as
>      individual, self-referencial, and as a closed system.
>
>      But there are other forms of scholarship which see works as more
>      global, 'other'-referencial, and as an open system.
>
>
>      One seems to imply the question, "How does this writing compare,
>      firstly - to itself and secondly - to other texts of the same
>      nature?"
>
>      The other seems to imply the question, "How does this text affect
>      what I know about the world?  What does this text bring in from the
>      outside world?  How do these things that are brought in from the
>      outside world relate to what I know of the world?", etc.
>
>      One viewpoint is more individualistic, and the other is more
>      holistic.
>
>      Of course, the first system says to the second, "Why must you drag
>      all of this and that into this text?".  The second system asks to
>      the first, "Can't you see how these things are related?"
>
>
>      But I could be wrong :)  I'm no scholar :)
>
>
>      -Kenneth
>      kenneth.udut at spcorp.com
>


From cef at u.washington.edu  Mon Jun 21 14:40:25 1999
From: cef at u.washington.edu (C. Fields)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:40:25 -0700
Subject: This whole controversy
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.10.9906152318040.34116-100000@dante36.u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.21.JUN.1999.074025.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I apologize.  I thought I was deleting this.  I did not mean to send it.

ef


On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, C. Fields wrote:

> Thank you for taking the "you're an idiot" element out of this debate.  I
> was beginning to think that I was listening in on a playground push-fight
> instead of a scholarly debate--half telling teacher because "he hurt my
> feelings" and the other half saying "yeah, well your feet stink too!"  Are
> we grown-ups or kids.  Aren't grown-ups supposed to be able respond to
> flippant criticism with something a bit more witty that "you're not
> supposed to say things like that" and "that was mean you meaney!"  Are
> scholarly egos to be so fragile that they can't take criticism
> (deserved or undeserved) with a LEETLE bit of a sense of humor.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, UDUT, KENNETH wrote:
>
> >      It would seem that American scholarship treats each case as
> >      individual, self-referencial, and as a closed system.
> >
> >      But there are other forms of scholarship which see works as more
> >      global, 'other'-referencial, and as an open system.
> >
> >
> >      One seems to imply the question, "How does this writing compare,
> >      firstly - to itself and secondly - to other texts of the same
> >      nature?"
> >
> >      The other seems to imply the question, "How does this text affect
> >      what I know about the world?  What does this text bring in from the
> >      outside world?  How do these things that are brought in from the
> >      outside world relate to what I know of the world?", etc.
> >
> >      One viewpoint is more individualistic, and the other is more
> >      holistic.
> >
> >      Of course, the first system says to the second, "Why must you drag
> >      all of this and that into this text?".  The second system asks to
> >      the first, "Can't you see how these things are related?"
> >
> >
> >      But I could be wrong :)  I'm no scholar :)
> >
> >
> >      -Kenneth
> >      kenneth.udut at spcorp.com
> >
>


From ralph.cleminson at port.ac.uk  Tue Jun 22 11:06:46 1999
From: ralph.cleminson at port.ac.uk (Ralph Cleminson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:06:46 GMT0BST
Subject: berkovec
Message-ID: <TUE.22.JUN.1999.110646.GMT0BST.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Can anyone help with the weights and measures of mediaeval Rus'?
In the Kievan Chronicle we find, s.a.6654, that when Izjaslav
Mstislavich plundered Svjatoslav Ol'govich's property at Putivl',
vpogrebekh bylo 500 berkovezk' medu, a vina 80 korchag'.  Now,
according to all the reference books that I can find, a
berkovesk/berkovec is equal to ten puds, that is to say 400 Russian
pounds.  500 berkovec would therefore be over eighty tons, or nearly
82,000 Kg.  Did Svjatoslav really have this much honey in his cellar,
or did the berkovec not always weigh this much?

R.M.Cleminson,
Professor of Slavonic Studies,
University of Portsmouth,
Park Building,
King Henry I Street,
Portsmouth PO1 2DZ
tel. +44 1705 846143, fax: +44 1705 846040


From a.jameson at dial.pipex.com  Tue Jun 22 11:31:40 1999
From: a.jameson at dial.pipex.com (Andrew Jameson)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:31:40 +0100
Subject: berkovec
Message-ID: <TUE.22.JUN.1999.123140.0100.>

The Vasmer Etymological Dictionary has a nice little article
but still gives the value as 400 puds. The Slovar R Y-a XI-XVIIvv.
just lists and cites without comment.
Maybe the H-RUSSIA list can help? It has more historians.
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

----------
> From: Ralph Cleminson <ralph.cleminson at port.ac.uk>
> To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: berkovec
> Date: 22 June 1999 12:06
>
> Can anyone help with the weights and measures of mediaeval Rus'?
> In the Kievan Chronicle we find, s.a.6654, that when Izjaslav
> Mstislavich plundered Svjatoslav Ol'govich's property at Putivl',
> vpogrebekh bylo 500 berkovezk' medu, a vina 80 korchag'.  Now,
> according to all the reference books that I can find, a
> berkovesk/berkovec is equal to ten puds, that is to say 400 Russian
> pounds.  500 berkovec would therefore be over eighty tons, or nearly
> 82,000 Kg.  Did Svjatoslav really have this much honey in his cellar,
> or did the berkovec not always weigh this much?
>
> R.M.Cleminson,
> Professor of Slavonic Studies,
> University of Portsmouth,
> Park Building,
> King Henry I Street,
> Portsmouth PO1 2DZ
> tel. +44 1705 846143, fax: +44 1705 846040


From ShupaS at rferl.org  Tue Jun 22 11:50:03 1999
From: ShupaS at rferl.org (Siarhiej Shupa)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:50:03 +0200
Subject: berkovec
Message-ID: <TUE.22.JUN.1999.135003.0200.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

In the Great Duchy of Lithuania (the old State of Belarusians and Lithuanians,
XIII-XVIII centuries):

1 berkovec = 5 kamen's (stones) = 200 funts (pounds) = 74,96 kg

Looks like it has more sense in your context...

Siarhiej Shupa,
Praha





Andrew Jameson <a.jameson at dial.pipex.com> on 06/22/99 01:31:40 PM

Please respond to a.jameson at dial.pipex.com

To:   SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
cc:    (bcc: Siarhiej Shupa/CZ/RFERL)
Subject:  Re: berkovec




The Vasmer Etymological Dictionary has a nice little article
but still gives the value as 400 puds. The Slovar R Y-a XI-XVIIvv.
just lists and cites without comment.
Maybe the H-RUSSIA list can help? It has more historians.
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

----------
> From: Ralph Cleminson <ralph.cleminson at port.ac.uk>
> To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: berkovec
> Date: 22 June 1999 12:06
>
> Can anyone help with the weights and measures of mediaeval Rus'?
> In the Kievan Chronicle we find, s.a.6654, that when Izjaslav
> Mstislavich plundered Svjatoslav Ol'govich's property at Putivl',
> vpogrebekh bylo 500 berkovezk' medu, a vina 80 korchag'.  Now,
> according to all the reference books that I can find, a
> berkovesk/berkovec is equal to ten puds, that is to say 400 Russian
> pounds.  500 berkovec would therefore be over eighty tons, or nearly
> 82,000 Kg.  Did Svjatoslav really have this much honey in his cellar,
> or did the berkovec not always weigh this much?
>
> R.M.Cleminson,
> Professor of Slavonic Studies,
> University of Portsmouth,
> Park Building,
> King Henry I Street,
> Portsmouth PO1 2DZ
> tel. +44 1705 846143, fax: +44 1705 846040


From flier at fas.harvard.edu  Tue Jun 22 15:03:36 1999
From: flier at fas.harvard.edu (Michael Flier)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:03:36 -0400
Subject: berkovec
In-Reply-To: <95B659E7042@AU01.nwservers.iso.port.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <TUE.22.JUN.1999.110336.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Prof. Cleminson:

According to Omeljan Pritsak (_The Origins of the Old Rus' Weights and
Monetary Systems: Two Studies in Western Eurasian Metrology and
Numismatics in the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries_. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1998, pp. 58-60), the _berkovec_
equalled 10 _pud_s, i.e. weighed 163,800g or 400 great _grivenka_s.


Sincerely,

Michael Flier

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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Ralph Cleminson wrote:

> Can anyone help with the weights and measures of mediaeval Rus'?
> In the Kievan Chronicle we find, s.a.6654, that when Izjaslav
> Mstislavich plundered Svjatoslav Ol'govich's property at Putivl',
> vpogrebekh bylo 500 berkovezk' medu, a vina 80 korchag'.  Now,
> according to all the reference books that I can find, a
> berkovesk/berkovec is equal to ten puds, that is to say 400 Russian
> pounds.  500 berkovec would therefore be over eighty tons, or nearly
> 82,000 Kg.  Did Svjatoslav really have this much honey in his cellar,
> or did the berkovec not always weigh this much?
>
> R.M.Cleminson,
> Professor of Slavonic Studies,
> University of Portsmouth,
> Park Building,
> King Henry I Street,
> Portsmouth PO1 2DZ
> tel. +44 1705 846143, fax: +44 1705 846040
>


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Tue Jun 22 15:13:43 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:13:43 -0400
Subject: berkovec
In-Reply-To: <199906221008.GAA21567@smtp3.fas.harvard.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.22.JUN.1999.111343.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

You might want to have your library order Omeljan Pritsak's "The Origins
of the Old Rus' Weights and Monetary Systems" (1998, Harvard University
Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute).

There is a nifty table on p. 58 that gives one berkovec' as 10 puds and
400 great grivenkas. Therefore, one berkovec' is 163,800 g (or 163.8
kilograms) or about 360 English pounds (as you mention), which gives you
the numbers you described. I don't think the berkovec' would have varied
in the period your talking about (cf. Pritsak's various relationships of
weights at the time). However, since I'm home with a sick little one, I
went to the kitchen and measured a half gallon of maple syrup as a
surrogate for honey. It weighs 5 lbs. If our prince had barrels of
approximately 40 gallons (which I think is not unreasonable), then we
would be talking about 400 lbs per barrel, or a total of 450 barrels of
honey. The question is whether that is an unreasonable amount for a prince
to be storing in a stronghold? Maybe someone knows some princely
inventories or tributes? It was a major trading item, too, so 450 barrels
doesn't seem excessive to me...

Our books are distributed by Wiley and Sons in the UK (for HUP).

Best, Robert De Lossa


====================================
Robert De Lossa
Director of Publications
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
1583 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-8768 tel.
617-495-8097 fax.
rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu
www.sabre.org/huri/

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Ralph Cleminson wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
 -----------------------
> Sender:       "SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages & literatures list"
>               <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
> Poster:       Ralph Cleminson <ralph.cleminson at port.ac.uk>
> Organization: University of Portsmouth
> Subject:      berkovec
>
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Can anyone help with the weights and measures of mediaeval Rus'?
> In the Kievan Chronicle we find, s.a.6654, that when Izjaslav
> Mstislavich plundered Svjatoslav Ol'govich's property at Putivl',
> vpogrebekh bylo 500 berkovezk' medu, a vina 80 korchag'.  Now,
> according to all the reference books that I can find, a
> berkovesk/berkovec is equal to ten puds, that is to say 400 Russian
> pounds.  500 berkovec would therefore be over eighty tons, or nearly
> 82,000 Kg.  Did Svjatoslav really have this much honey in his cellar,
> or did the berkovec not always weigh this much?
>
> R.M.Cleminson,
> Professor of Slavonic Studies,
> University of Portsmouth,
> Park Building,
> King Henry I Street,
> Portsmouth PO1 2DZ
> tel. +44 1705 846143, fax: +44 1705 846040
>


From laura.tassoni at taylor-institution-library.oxford.ac.uk  Tue Jun 22 15:26:09 1999
From: laura.tassoni at taylor-institution-library.oxford.ac.uk (Laura Tassoni)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:26:09 +0100
Subject: HELP NEEDED - seeking YU telephone directories (fwd)
Message-ID: <TUE.22.JUN.1999.162609.0100.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:40:27 +0100 (BST)
From: Mieko Yamaguchi <m.yamaguchi at bangor.ac.uk>
To: lis-link at mailbase.ac.uk
Subject: HELP NEEDED - seeking YU telephone directories (fwd)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:48:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andras Riedlmayer <riedlmay at fas.harvard.edu>
To: Middle East Librarians Assn List <melanet-l at cornell.edu>
Subject: HELP NEEDED - seeking YU telephone directories
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.04.9906212208170.21075-100000 at login1.fas.harvard.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

        It is a rare occasion when the answer to a bibliographic query
has the potential to make a difference in the lives of tens of thousands
of people. This is such an occasion and the reason I'm posting this query
to this list. Please pass it on to potentially interested colleagues and
to other library-related lists.

        What we are urgently seeking is libraries or other institutions
that have holdings telephone directories from the former Yugoslavia,
dating from 1969 to the present.  We are especially asking colleagues
in European libraries to check their collections to see if they have
any holdings.

        These phonebooks are needed to help us complete a set of such
directories, for a project designed to assist refugees returning to Kosovo
who have been deprived of other forms of personal identification.  Our
project is described in article in this week's issue of the Chronicle
of Higher Education:  "Using Phone Books, Scholars Build a Data Base
for Resettling Kosovars," by Kelly McCollum.

        Norman Ross Publishing Inc. ( http://www.nross.com ) has
undertaken to film these phonebooks.  The entries for Kosovo are being
scanned from the microfilms and will be turned into a searchable database,
using OCR and other software.  Microfilming and preserving a series of
telephone directories for all of the former Yugoslavia will also assist
researchers in tracking demographic changes in a region that has been
radically transformed by war and "ethnic cleansing."

        We have located about 20 vols. of directories in North American
collections, but need more to complete our series.  Our hope is that
libraries we have not contacted so far (esp. in Europe) will have holdings
that can help us to fill crucial gaps. Below is a list of phone books we
have identified that we do not yet have for this project:

* 1970-1978 for all republics of the former Yugoslavia
* 1981-1982 for all republics of the former Yugoslavia
* 1985-1986 for Macedonia and Montenegro only
* 1987-1988 for all republics of the former Yugoslavia
* 1989-1990 for all the republics except Bosnia
* 1991+     for all republics of the former Yugoslavia

If you know of the location of any of the above telephone directories,
please notify, as soon as possible:

Norman Ross Publishing Inc.
330 West 58th Street
New York, NY 10019  USA
tel: 1-212-765-8200 / fax: 1-212-765-2393
e-mail <inquiry at nross.com>

        The resulting database will be of use not only in facilitating
returns of refugees who currently hold only provisional identification
documents issued by UNHCR, but may also assist in the process of
rebuilding a functioning civil society in Kosovo (in matters such as
settling the inevitable disputes about property and inheritance, and
drawing up electoral rolls for the first postwar elections).

        As you are no doubt aware, the recent crisis in the Balkans has
resulted in the exile of as many as a million people driven from their
homes in Kosovo. Before being pushed across the border most refugees
were systematically deprived of their identity documents.

        Within Kosovo, there was also widespread destruction of archives
and registry offices that held the vital statistics and property records
and other documentation of the people who had been expelled. (see the
Society of American Archivists resolution on archive destruction in Kosovo
on the SAA website).

        Hundreds of passports and other documents confiscated by Serbian
forces from expelled Kosovar Albanians were discovered last week by NATO
troops, who found them stuffed into trash bags piled on a rubbish tip.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/061499kosovo-graves.1.jpg.html
British intelligence has promised to turn over the found documents to
UNHCR for return to the owners, if they can be located.  However, tens
of thousands of people still have no documents of any kind other than
those issued by refugee agencies.

        United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata
explains the rationale behind this destruction of records in an article
published last week in the International Herald Tribune (14 June 1999)
 http://www.unhcr.ch/news/pr/ht990614.htm

       In the past two months the Yugoslav authorities have made
       a well-organized effort to erase the identity, and thus the
       residency and return rights, of Yugoslavia's ethnic Albanian
       citizens.

       And in recent days some Yugoslav officials have insisted
       that they be given a say in deciding who is allowed to return.
       The international administrators in Kosovo must ensure that
       those who were responsible for the mass expulsions are not allowed
       to reap the harvest of the inhumane policy of expulsion by being
       able to block ''undesirable'' refugees from returning.

The Yugoslav authorities have made their position chillingly clear:

      The Serb position is that any Albanian with documents, who can
      prove that he or she is a citizen of Kosovo, can return, the
      diplomat said. He noted, however, that Serb officials carefully
      destroyed the documents of many refugees as they left Kosovo.

      Asked about a demographic remaking of Kosovo, Goran Matic, a
      Serb cabinet minister, denied it. "We would like all the Albanians
      to come back," he said, "all those who can prove that they were
      citizens of Yugoslavia."
                                (New York Times, April 25, 1999)

Our hope is that UN High Commissioner Ogata's warning will be heeded by
the international authorities in Kosovo, and that refugees will face
no bureaucratic obstacles as they exercise their right of return.

We also hope that this project will make a real contribution to the
rebuilding of communities and people's lives in Kosovo.  By tracking down
these publications, and by preserving and making available the information
they contain, we will have put our skills as librarians to use in the
service of that goal.

Please feel free to contact me, or Norman Ross Inc. <norman at nross.com>
if you have any questions or need further information.

Andras J. Riedlmayer
Fine Arts Library
Harvard University
<riedlmay at fas.harvard.edu>
tel. 617-495-3372 / fax 1-617-496-4889














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From birdr at dickinson.edu  Tue Jun 22 15:35:05 1999
From: birdr at dickinson.edu (Robert Bird)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:35:05 -0400
Subject: Izdatel'stvo imeni Chekhova
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.04.9906221058080.25708-100000@login6.fas.harvard.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.22.JUN.1999.113505.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues,

Does anyone know the whereabouts of the archive of the Izdatel'stvo imeni
Chekhova, the main emigre publisher in New York in the 1950s-1960s. I
would appreciate any leads.

Thanks,
Robert Bird
Dickinson College


From klr8p at virginia.edu  Tue Jun 22 23:27:45 1999
From: klr8p at virginia.edu (Karen Ryan)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:27:45 -0700
Subject: Marina Raskin
Message-ID: <TUE.22.JUN.1999.162745.0700.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I am looking for the adress of Marina Raskin, who wrote a dissertation on
Aksenov at Purdue University in 1988.  Does anyone know of her whereabouts?

Thanks,
Karen Ryan

Chair
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
109 Cabell Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
804-924-3548/6688


From rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu  Wed Jun 23 13:38:25 1999
From: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:38:25 -0400
Subject: Contacting Wlodzimierz Mokry
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.093825.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

I would be much appreciative if someone could send me contact information
for Wlodzimierz Mokry in Krakow, Poland.

Sincerely,

Robert De Lossa

____________________________________________________
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 amhvid at irex.org  Wed Jun 23 19:02:55 1999
From: amhvid at irex.org (Anne Marie Hvid)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:02:55 -0400
Subject: Next Steps in Kosovo and Southeastern Europe: An Internet
 Symposium of Regional Perspectives
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.150255.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Next Steps in Kosovo and Southeastern Europe 
An Internet Symposium of Regional Perspectives

June 29 - July 1, 1999

IREX is pleased to announce an innovative open discussion among international
experts over the Internet considering next steps for resolving the crisis in
Kosovo and Southeastern Europe and the priorities for peace and stable
development in the region. A bulletin of recommendations and conclusions will
be published electronically at the end of the three-day discussion.

The symposium will take the form of a moderated electronic mailing list
conducted on June 29, 30, and July 1. Each of the three days the list will
receive two messages. In the morning, expert panelists from Southeastern
Europe, Russia, and the United States will be responding to a topical question
concerning priorities for the region, and their commentary will be distributed
to the list.
 
On each day of the symposium, subscribers to the list will have the opportunity
to respond to the morning message and to present their own perspective. The
third day of the event will allow for commentary on conclusions and
recommendations among panelists, discussants, and subscribers of the symposium
list. 

To join the symposium, subscribe to the symposium list by sending a message to
<majordomo at info.irex.org.> In the body of the message write: subscribe
kosovo-symposium. You can also contact Alex Gupman by e-mail at
<agupman at irex.org> and request to be put on the list. To tune into the
symposium
on the Web, go to <http://www.irex.org/programs/conferences/>. 
___________________________________________________

Agenda

June 29, Day 1
Balancing Regional Considerations of Nationalism and Regional Stability 

June 30, Day 2
What Are the Next Steps? A Discussion of Priorities

July 1, Day 3
Conclusions and Recommendations

June 29, Day 1
Balancing Regional Considerations of Nationalism and Regional Stability

Whether it be the conflict in Southeastern Europe or the dissolution of the
Soviet Union, renewed considerations of ethnic identity and national
self-determination have greatly complicated international politics. Yet, at the
same time, an ethic of multi-national cooperation has developed. The discussion
of a regional peace settlement in Kosovo and Southeastern Europe involves a
remarkably active involvement of the international community, multilateral
cooperation and supra-national integration. 

What are the critical factors that will make or break the delicate balance
between considerations of ethnic identity, national self-determination,
regional cooperation and the international community?

June 30, Day 2
What Are the Next Steps? A Discussion of Priorities

A signatory of the NATO peace agreement recently stated, “Today, a new era will
start in Kosovo
We are not interested in building a criminal society, but a
modern civil society.”

Certainly there is consensus on the importance of stable social, political, and
economic institutions and a functional infrastructure in the region. But in
discussing these priorities, what comes first and why? What is the appropriate
sequencing for building a stable civil society and functioning social,
political, and economic institutions? Can all these things be done
simultaneously? Do social and cultural considerations come before economics
and/or politics?

Featuring Guest Panelists:
* Mr. Ibrahim Gashi, Kosovo Information Center 
* Ms. Tanya L. Domi Director of Press and Public Information, OSCE Mission to
Bosnia and Herzegovina 
* Ms. Azra Alimajstorvic, Bosnian Journalist, Humphrey Fellow 
* Ambassador Philip Dimitrov of the Republic of Bulgaria 
* Mr. Roderick Mackler Department of State, Program Officer for Kosovo 
* Mr. Davor Bozinovic Croation Foreign Ministry, The Department of Neighboring
States 
* Mr. Ilir Zherka, Executive Director of the National Albanian American Council

* Ms. Ljiljana Smajlovic, Training Coordinator, IREX Serbia and Montenegro,
editor, Evropljanin 
* Rev. Irinej Dobrijevich Mission of US Religious Leaders to Belgrade, Serbian
Orthodox Church 
* Dr. Brian Shott Professor of Macedonian Politics, University of Virginia 
* Dr. Nikolai Sokov, research associate, Center for Russia and Eurasian Studies
Monterey Institute of International Studies 
* Dr. Anna Vassilieva, Associate Professor Center for East Asian Studies.
Center for Russia and Eurasian Studies Monterey Institute of International
Studies
* Ms. Zorica Maric, Montenegrin Trade Mission


From tarn at chass.utoronto.ca  Wed Jun 23 21:38:01 1999
From: tarn at chass.utoronto.ca (Maxim Tarnawsky)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:38:01 -0400
Subject: Danylo Husar Struk
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.173801.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

        PRESS RELEASE



        Professor Danylo Husar Struk, 1940–1999

        Professor Danylo Husar Struk, age 59, passed away unexpectedly and
prematurely on Saturday, 19 June 1999 in Munich, Germany during a summer
sojourn in Europe. 
        Danylo Struk was born on 5 April 1940 in L'viv. He grew up in New Jersey,
where he became an active member of the Ukrainian scouting fraternity
Burlaky. After graduating with a B.A. degree from Harvard University in
1963, he moved to Edmonton to study at the University of Alberta. There he
received his M.A. in Ukrainian literature in 1964. That year he began the
Ph.D. program in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the
University of Toronto. In 1970 he successfully defended his Ph.D.
dissertation on the Galician modernist writer Vasyl Stefanyk. From 1967 to
1999 Dr. Struk taught Ukrainian language courses and graduate and
undergraduate courses in Ukrainian literature at the University of Toronto.
He became a full professor at the University in 1981.
        In 1982 Prof. Struk succeeded Prof. George S. N. Luckyj as the managing
editor of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine project at the University of Toronto.
In 1989 he became the encyclopedia's editor in chief. That publication was
prepared in collaboration with Prof. Volodymyr Kubijovy  and other members
of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) with the financial assistance
of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), the Canadian
Foundation for Ukrainian Studies, the Government of Canada, and the
provincial governments of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia.
Five volumes of the encyclopedia were published by the University of
Toronto Press in 1984, 1988, and 1993. 
        From 1982 Prof. Struk also served as an associate director of the CIUS in
charge of its Toronto office, which houses the editorial offices of the
Encyclopedia of Ukraine, the CIUS Press, the Journal of Ukrainian Studies,
and a branch of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research.
Until his death, Prof. Struk oversaw the preparation of subsequent, still
unpublished, volumes of the encyclopedia by scholars in the West and
Ukraine. For his scholarly contributions, he was elected a full member of
the NTSh in 1988 and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine in 1992. In May 1997 he also became the president of the west
European chapter of the NTSh. From that time on he devoted much effort to
transforming the NTSh complex in Sarcelles near Paris into the principal
Ukrainian-studies centre in western Europe. 
        Prof. Struk still had great plans, particularly to continue preparing and
publishing further volumes of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine. In September
1999 he was to become the chairman of the University of Toronto's
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures for five years, and he hoped
that during his chairmanship he would be able to secure the future
existence of the Ukrainian language and literature program at that
university. With his death, Ukrainian studies at the University of Toronto,
the CIUS, and the NTSh have experienced a major loss. 
        Danylo Husar Struk will be sorely missed not only by his wife Oksana, his
mother Daria Husar, his sister—the artist Natalka Husar,
daughter—Boryslava, stepdaughter—Tetiana, his sons—Ostap and Luka,
stepsons—Andrij and Julian, daughters-in-laws—Zirka, Iryna, and Kim,
son-in-law—Andrij and granddaughter Yaryna, but also by his many friends
and colleagues in Canada, the United States, France, England, Germany,
Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, and Australia. We extend our heartfelt
condolences to all of them. Vichna iomu pam'iat! 



        On Friday, July 2, 1999 a Memorial Tribute to the late Danylo Husar Struk
will be held on the grounds of the University of Toronto, in the Chapel of
Emmanuel College, 75 Queen's Park, at 7:30 PM. The family of the deceased
invites everyone who wishes to help pay tribute to the memory of this
outstanding scholar, teacher and tireless worker for the cause of Ukrainian
scholarship. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that friends make
donations to the Danylo H. Struk Fund at the Canadian Foundation for
Ukrainian Studies, 2336A Bloor Street West, Suite 202, Toronto, Ontario,
M6S 1P3.

        In memory of Professor Danylo Husar Struk, the Canadian Institute of
Ukrainian Studies is establishing the Danylo Husar Struk Programme in
Ukrainian Literature at the Toronto office of CIUS. The programme will
eventually develop into a major centre for research and publishing in the
field of Ukrainian Literature.
        The primary aim of the Danylo Husar Struk Programme in Ukrainian
Literature is to enlarge the familiarity with Ukrainian literature in the
English speaking world. The Programme will work toward this goal by
sponsoring research, scholarly writing, translating and other activities.
It will organize workshops, public lectures and readings. It seeks to
sponsor research stays and visits to Toronto by scholars, writers and
translators. In special tribute to Professor Struk, it will organize an
annual public lecture named the Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, by a
distinguished scholar, critic or writer.

_____________________________
Maxim Tarnawsky,  tarn at chass.utoronto.ca   (Ìàêñèì Òàðíàâñüêèé)
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto,  21 Sussex Avenue.   Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1
tel: 416-978-8240;       FAX: 416-978-2672;       http://www.utoronto.ca/cius


From tarn at chass.utoronto.ca  Wed Jun 23 21:39:26 1999
From: tarn at chass.utoronto.ca (Maxim Tarnawsky)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:39:26 -0400
Subject: Ukrainian, Win-1251, Danylo Husar Struk
Message-ID: <WED.23.JUN.1999.173926.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

        Ïðåñîâå ïîâ³äîìëåííÿ


        Äàíèëî Ãóñàð Ñòðóê, 1940–1999

         ñóáîòó 19-îãî ÷åðâíÿ 1999 ð. íåñïîä³âàíî ³ ïåðåä÷àñíî, íà 59-îìó ðîö³
æèòòÿ ï³ä÷àñ ë³òíüî¿ â³äïóñòêè â Åâðîï³, ïîìåð ó Ìþíõåí³ â ͳìå÷÷èí³
ïðîôåñîð Äàíèëî Ãóñàð Ñòðóê. 
        Äàíèëî Ñòðóê íàðîäèâñÿ 5 êâ³òíÿ 1940 ð. ó Ëüâîâ³. ³í âèð³ñ ó Íþ Äæåðç³ â
ÑØÀ, äå ñòàâ àêòèâíèì ÷ëåíîì ïëàñòîâîãî êóðåíÿ Áóðëàêè. ϳñëÿ çàê³í÷åííÿ
Ãàðâàðäñüêîãî óí³âåðñèòåòó â 1963 ð. â³í ïåðå¿õàâ äî Åäìîíòîíó â Êàíàä³, äå
çäîáóâ ìà´³ñòåðñüêèé äèïëîì ç óêðà¿íñüêî¿ ë³òåðàòóðè â³ä Àëüáåðòñüêîãî
óí³âåðñèòåòó ó 1964 ð. Ó 1964 ð. â³í ïåðåñåëèâñÿ äî Òîðîíòà, äå ïðîäîâæèâ
ñòó䳿 ç³ ñëàâ³ñòèêè. Ó 1970 ð. â³í îòðèìàâ çâàííÿ äîêòîðà ô³ëîñîô³¿
Òîðîíòñüêîãî óí³âåðñèòåòó ï³ñëÿ çàõèñòó ñâ äèñåðòàö³¿ ïðî òâîð÷³ñòü
ãàëèöüêîãî ìîäåðí³ñòà Âàñèëÿ Ñòåôàíèêà. ³ä 1967 ð. äî 1999 ð. äîêòîð Ñòðóê
âèêëàäàâ êóðñè ç óêðà¿íñüêî¿ ìîâè ³ ë³òåðàòóðè ó ³ää³ë³ ñëîâ'ÿíñüêèõ ìîâ ³
ë³òåðàòóð, ç 1981 ð. ÿê çâè÷àéíèé ïðîôåñîð.
        Ó 1982 ð. Äàíèëî Ñòðóê ïåðåáðàâ ôóíêö³¿ â³äïîâ³äàëüíîãî ðåäàêòîðà
àíãëîìîâíî¿ åíöèêëîïå䳿 Óêðà¿íè ("Encyclopedia of Ukraine") â³ä çàñíîâíèêà
öüîãî ïðîºêòó, ïðîôåñîðà Þð³ÿ Ëóöüêîãî. Ó 1989 ð. â³í ñòàâ ãîëîâíèì
ðåäàêòîðîì åíöèêëîïå䳿. Åíöèêëîïåä³þ ï³äãîòîâëåíî ó ñï³âïðàö³ ç ïðîôåñîðîì
Âîëîäèìèðîì Êóá³éîâè÷åì ³ Íàóêîâèì òîâàðèñòâîì ³ìåíè Øåâ÷åíêà (ÍÒØ) ç
ô³íàíñîâîþ ï³äòðèìêîþ Êàíàäñüêîãî ³íñòèòóòó óêðà¿íñüêèõ ñòóä³é (ʲÓÑ),
Êàíàäñüêî¿ ôóíäàö³¿ óêðà¿íñüêèõ ñòóä³é, ³ óðÿä³â Êàíàäè, Ìàí³òîáè,
Ñàñêàò÷åâàíó ³ Áðèòàíñüêî¿ Êîëóì᳿. Ï'ÿòü òîì³â ïîÿâèëèñÿ ó 1984, 1988 ³
1993 ð.ð. ó Âèäàâíèöòâ³ Òîðîíòñüêîãî óí³âåðñèòåòó.
         Ç 1982 ð. ïðîôåñîð Ñòðóê òàêîæ áóâ äèðåêòîðîì Òîðîíòñüêîãî â³ää³ëåííÿ
ʲÓÑ, äå, êð³ì ðåäàêö³¿ åíöèêëîïå䳿 çíàõîäÿòüñÿ ðåäàêö³¿ âèäàâíèöòâà ʲÓÑ,
àíãëîìîâíîãî „Æóðíàëó óêðà¿íîçíàâ÷èõ ñòóä³é" ³ â³ää³ë Öåíòðó äîñë³äæåííÿ
²ñòî𳿠Óêðà¿íè ³ì. Ïåòðà ßöèêà. Äî ñâ ñìåðòè, ç ó÷àñòþ áàãàòüîõ
íàóêîâö³â â Óêðà¿í³ ³ íà Çàõîä³, ïðîôåñîð Ñòðóê ï³äãîòîâëÿâ íîâ³, ïîêèùî
íåâèäàí³ òîìè åíöèöêëîïå䳿. Çà ñâî¿ çàñëóãè, ó 1988 ð. éîãî îáðàíî ä³éñíèì
÷ëåíîì ÍÒØ, à ó 1992 ð. ³íîçåìíèì ÷ëåíîì Íàö³îíàëüíî¿ àêàäå쳿 íàóê
Óêðà¿íè. Ó òðàâí³ 1997 ð. ïðîôåñîð Ñòðóê ñòàâ òåæ ïðåçèäåíòîì ÍÒØ â
Çàõ³äí³é Åâðîï³. ³ä òîãî ÷àñó â³í äîêëàâ áàãàòî çóñèëü ùîáè ïåðåòâîðèòè
îñåðåäîê ÍÒØ â Ñàðñåë³, íåäàëåêî Ïàðèæó, â ãîëîâíèé óêðà¿íîçíàâ÷èé öåíòð â
Çàõ³äí³é Åâðîï³. 
        Ïðîôåñîð Ñòðóê ìàâ ùå âåëèê³ ïëÿíè — îñîáëèâî ïðîäîâæóâàòè ãîòóâàòè ³
âèäàâàòè äàëüø³ òîìè åíöèêëîïå䳿 Óêðà¿íè. Ó âåðåñí³ â³í ìàâ ïåðåáðàòè íà
ï'ÿòü ðîê³â ãîëîâñòâî ³ää³ëó ñëîâ'ÿíñüêèõ ìîâ ³ ë³òåðàòóð Òîðîíòñüêîãî
óí³âåðñèòåòó ³ ìàâ íàì³ð ï³ä÷àñ ñâîãî ãîëîâñòâà çàáåçïå÷èòè ìàéáóòíº êóðñ³â
óêðà¿íñüêî¿ ìîâè ³ ë³òåðàòóðè íà öüîìó óí³âåðñèòåò³. Éîãî ñìåðòü ìàòèìå
íåàáèÿê³ íàñë³äêè íå ò³ëüêè äëÿ óêðà¿íîçíàâ÷î¿ ïðîãðàìè íà Òîðîíòñüêîìó
óí³âåðñèòåò³, àëå òàêîæ äëÿ ðîáîòè ʲÓÑ ³ ÍÒØ.
        Äàíèëî Ãóñàð Ñòðóê çàëèøèâ ó ãëèáîêîìó ñìóòêó íå ò³ëüêè ñâîþ äðóæèíó
Îêñàíó, ìàìó – Äàð³þ Ãóñàð, ñåñòðó — õóäîæíèöþ Íàòàëêó Ãóñàð, äî÷êó –
Áîðèñëàâó, ïàñåðáèöþ – Òåòÿíó, ñèí³â – Îñòàïà ³ Ëóêó, ïàñåðá³â – Àíäð³ÿ ³
Þë³ÿíà, íåâ³ñòîê, dzðêó, ²ðèíó, ³ Êèì, çÿòÿ Àíäð³ÿ ³ âíó÷êó ßðèíó, àëå
òàêîæ áàãàòüîõ äðóç³â ³ êîëåã-óêðà¿í³ñò³â â Êàíàä³, Àìåðèö³, Ôðàíö³¿,
Àíã볿, ͳìå÷÷èí³, Ñëîâà÷÷èí³, Ïîëüù³, Óêðà¿í³ ³ Àâñòðà볿. 
        ³÷íà éîìó ïàì'ÿòü!


        Ó ï'ÿòíèöþ, 2 ëèïíÿ 1999 â³äáóäåòüñÿ Ïîìèíàëüíå Âøàíóâàííÿ ïîê³éíîãî
Äàíèëà Ãóñàðà Ñòðóêà, â ïðèì³ùåííÿõ Òîðîíòñüêîãî óí³âåðñèòåòó, â êàïëèö³
Åìàíþåë Êîëåäæ (Emmanuel College Chapel), ùî çíàõîäèòüñÿ ïðè 75 Queen's
Park, î ãîä. 7:30 âå÷îðîì. Ðîäèíà ïîê³éíîãî çàïðîøóº âñ³õ õòî õî÷å
âøàíóâàòè ïàì'ÿòü öüîãî çàñëóæåíîãî íàóêîâöÿ, ó÷èòåëÿ, ³ íåâòîìíîãî
ïðàö³âíèêà äëÿ äîáðà Óêðà¿íñüêî¿ íàóêè. Çàì³ñòü êâ³ò³â íà ìîãèëó ïîê³éíîãî,
ðîäèíà çàïðîøóº äðóç³â ñêëàäàòè ïîæåðòâè íà ôîíä Äàíèëà Ã. Ñòðóêà ïðè
Êàíàäñüê³é Ôóíäàö³¿ Óêðà¿íñüêèõ Ñòóä³é (CFUS, 2336A Bloor Street West,
Suite 202, Toronto, Ontario, M6S 1P3).


         ïîøàíó ïîê³éíîìó Ïðîôåñîðîâ³ Äàíèëîâ³ Ãóñàðîâ³ Ñòðóêîâ³, Êàíàäñüêèé
²íñòèòóò Óêðà¿íñüêèõ Ñòóä³é ñòâîðþº Ïðîãðàìó Óêðà¿íñüêî¿ Ë³òåðàòóðè ³ìåí³
Äàíèëà Ãóñàðà Ñòðóêà ïðè Òîðîíòñüêîìó á'þð³ ʲÓÑ-ó. Ïðîãðàìà áóäå
ðîçâèâàòèñÿ ç íàì³ðîì ñòâîðèòè ïîòóæíèé öåíòð äîñë³ä³â ³ âèäàâíè÷î¿
ä³ÿëüíîñò³ â ãàëóç³ âèâ÷åííÿ ³ ïîøèðåííÿ Óêðà¿íñüêî¿ ë³òåðàòóðè.
        Îñíîâíà ö³ëü Ïðîãðàìè Óêðà¿íñüêî¿ Ë³òåðàòóðè ³ìåí³ Äàíèëà Ãóñàðà Ñòðóêà öå
ïîøèðåííÿ çíàííÿ ïðî óêðà¿íñüêó ë³òåðàòóðó â àíãëîìîâíîìó ñâ³ò³. Ïðîãðàìà
ä³ÿòèìå â íàïðÿìêó îñÿãíåííÿ öå¿ ö³ë³ òèì, ùo ï³äòðèìóâàòèìå äîñë³äè,
íàóêîâ³ òâîðè, ïåðåêëàäè, ³ ³íøó ä³ÿëüí³ñòü. Ïðîãðàìà ñïðèÿòèìå
îðãàí³çóâàííþ ðîáî÷èõ çàéíÿòü, ïóáë³÷íèõ âèñòóï³â, ³ àâòîðñüêèõ ÷èòàíü.
Ïðîãðàìà ñòàðàòèìåòüñÿ îðãàí³çóâàòè äîñë³ä÷³ ³ òâîð÷³ ïîáóòè â Òîðîíòî
ë³òåðàòóðîçíàâö³â, ïèñüìåííèê³â, ³ ïåðåêëàäà÷³â.  ïîøàí³ äî ïîê³éíîãî
ïðîôåñîðà Ñòðóêà, Ïðîãðàìà îðãàí³çóâàòèìå ùîð³÷íèé âèêëàä â Òîðîíòî
âèçíà÷íîãî ë³òåðàòóðîçíàâöÿ, êðèòèêà, ïèñüìåííèêà, ÷è ïåðåêëàäà÷à. Öåé
âèêëàä íàçèâàòèìåòüñÿ Ìåìîð³ÿëüíèé Âèêëàä ³ì. Äàíèëà Ãóñàðà Ñòðóêà.
_____________________________
Maxim Tarnawsky,  tarn at chass.utoronto.ca   (Ìàêñèì Òàðíàâñüêèé)
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto,  21 Sussex Avenue.   Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1
tel: 416-978-8240;       FAX: 416-978-2672;       http://www.utoronto.ca/cius


From sipkadan at erols.com  Thu Jun 24 23:43:56 1999
From: sipkadan at erols.com (Danko Sipka)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:43:56 -0400
Subject: Azbukum - Serbian Language Summer School
Message-ID: <THU.24.JUN.1999.194356.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Serbian language Summer School "Azbukum" will take place from August 3
to August 13, 1999  in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. If you are interested to
attend, please contact Ms Natasa Milicevic-Dobromirov <azb at EUnet.yu> to
obtain a more detailed information about the school.

Danko Sipka


From 708072 at ican.net  Sat Jun 26 19:01:51 1999
From: 708072 at ican.net (Philip Harttrup)
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 15:01:51 -0400
Subject: unsubscribe
Message-ID: <SAT.26.JUN.1999.150151.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Please remove me from the mailing list. PH


From dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu  Sun Jun 27 11:36:09 1999
From: dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu (Devin P Browne)
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 07:36:09 -0400
Subject: paid teaching internships (fwd)
Message-ID: <SUN.27.JUN.1999.073609.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Please pass this to anyone who might be interested.

Devin

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 16:30:18 +0800
From: English <langhua at cyberec.com>
Subject: internships

Dear Sir,

RE: INTERNSHIP

We have 3 openings all year round for teaching Internships.  The
internship involves with teaching kids, students, adults.  We provide FREE
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If you know any one who is interested, please ask them to e.mail me:
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From stephen.batalden at asu.edu  Mon Jun 28 18:30:10 1999
From: stephen.batalden at asu.edu (Stephen Batalden)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:30:10 EDT
Subject: ASU Job Announcement
Message-ID: <MON.28.JUN.1999.143010.EDT.>

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS DEVELOPER/OFFICER MANAGER.  Academic Associate. The
Arizona State University Russian and East European Studies Consortium,
in collaboration with the ASU History Department, invites applications
for an academic professional appointment beginning September 1999.  Post
will be responsible for grant/contract development and administration as
well as general office management.  Master's degree in relevant field or
baccalaureate degree with minimum of two years additional training
and/or experience; relevant experience in grant/contract development and
office management (including contact with the public, recordkeeping,
word processing and spread sheets, budget management, university
financial system transactions, newsletter preparation, international
correspondence, etc.) required.  Training or experience in Russian and
East European studies desirable.  Inquiries may be made by telephone
(480/965-5779) or e-mail (idskb at asu.edu).  Review of applications begins
August 10, 1999, and continues every Tuesday and Friday thereafter until
the position is filled.  Applicants must submit a detailed letter of
application addressing the requirements of the position, a full resume,
and the addresses and phone numbers for three references to Dr. Stephen
Batalden, Chair, Academic Associate Search Committee, History
Department, P. O. Box 872501, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
85287-2501.  AA/EOE.


From Wambah at aol.com  Mon Jun 28 19:02:05 1999
From: Wambah at aol.com (Laura Kline)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 15:02:05 EDT
Subject: Lenin Library
Message-ID: <MON.28.JUN.1999.150205.EDT.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGerS,
Would anyone happen to have an e-mail/website address for the Lenin Library?
Or any experience obtaining a list of the books that a writer ordered?
Thank you.
Laura Kline


From roman at admin.ut.ee  Mon Jun 28 22:54:07 1999
From: roman at admin.ut.ee (R_L)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 01:54:07 +0300
Subject: Lenin Library
In-Reply-To: <199906282104.AAA29100@kadri.ut.ee>
Message-ID: <TUE.29.JUN.1999.015407.0300.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

At 15:02 28/06/99 EDT, you wrote:
>Dear SEELANGerS,
>Would anyone happen to have an e-mail/website address for the Lenin Library?
>Or any experience obtaining a list of the books that a writer ordered?
>Thank you.
>Laura Kline
Sure -
http://www.rsl.ru/
Btw - http://www.nlr.ru/ = Publichka.

R_L


From nnankov at indiana.edu  Tue Jun 29 01:41:09 1999
From: nnankov at indiana.edu (nikita dimitrov nankov)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:41:09 -0500
Subject: No subject
In-Reply-To: <199712080952.MAA05329@pinochet.cityline.ru>
Message-ID: <MON.28.JUN.1999.204109.0500.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,
Plase unsubscribe me from SEELANG service. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Nikita Nankov


From lmalcolm at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca  Tue Jun 29 03:58:51 1999
From: lmalcolm at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Lindsay Malcolm)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:58:51 -0600
Subject: Lenin Library
In-Reply-To: <8f336482.24a920ad@aol.com>
Message-ID: <MON.28.JUN.1999.215851.0600.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Hi. The Russian State Library (former Lenin Library) website in Russian is
at http://www.rsl.ru/, and in English is at
http://portico.bl.uk/gabriel/en/countries/russia_sl.html.
Contact info in Russian is at http://www.rsl.ru/welcome/address.htm.
Contact info in English is at
http://portico.bl.uk/gabriel/en/countries/russia_sl.html#fact. The email
addresses given are irgb at glas.apc.org and postmaster at rsl.ru.
Lindsay.

At 03:02 PM 28/06/99 EDT, you wrote:
>Dear SEELANGerS,
>Would anyone happen to have an e-mail/website address for the Lenin Library?
>Or any experience obtaining a list of the books that a writer ordered?
>Thank you.
>Laura Kline
>


From beyer at jaguar.middlebury.edu  Wed Jun 30 13:05:02 1999
From: beyer at jaguar.middlebury.edu (Beyer, Tom)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 09:05:02 -0400
Subject: request for information
Message-ID: <WED.30.JUN.1999.090502.0400.SEELANGS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

Anyone who has tips can pass them along to Dr. Amerijibi directly.


I am a professor of Georgian Language and Linguistics at Tbilisi State
University in Tbilisi, Georgia and am also the Director of the International
Center for Georgian Language, also here in Tbilisi (
www.pirveli.com/org/icgl/ <http://www.pirveli.com/org/icgl/>).  I have
written a book, the first for non linguists on learning Georgian in English.
Do you have any advice on how to seek a university press in America to
publish it?  I am interested in anything you can send: advice, names of
publishers or university presses that may be interested, names of relevant
how-to publications, or relevant links.  Now that the book is finished, I
have no idea how to proceed with getting it published.  I took your name,
more or less at random, from the Middlebury Russian Department web page,
because of the reputation of your university.  Thank you for any help you
may be able to provide.  Feel free to forward this message to anybody you
think may be able to lend a hand.

Sincerely,

Rusudan Amirejibi
Rusiko Amirejibi [rusiko at caucasus.net]