4TH GRADUATE DOSTOEVSKIJ SUMMER PROGRAM IN ST. PETERSBURG

[Cynthia SImmons]

4th Graduate Dostoevskij Summer Program in St. Petersburg 1999
14 June - 23 July 1999

For the summer of 1999 the Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages at
Boston College is presenting its fourth graduate-level summer session on the
works and era of Dostoevskij at the Dostoevskij Museum in St. Petersburg
(Literaturno-memorial'nyj muzej F.M. Dostoevskogo) in conjunction with the
Institute of Russian Literature of the Academy of Sciences (Pushkinskij
dom).

The summer session is designed for post-AB American students with at least
three to four years of Russian-language study who are working on PhD or MA
degrees in Russian or Comparative Literature or who intend to enter such a
program.

Leading literary specialists from the Institute of Russian Literature of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg University, the Gercen
Institute, and the Dostoevskij Museum conduct the courses and seminars for
the program and provide consultation on research and dissertation topics. A
team of faculty members from American and Russian universities coordinates
the program and supervises the academic offerings.



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

Housing is arranged with Russian families, usually with the staff of the
museum.

All-inclusive cost
       Travel (BOS/JFK-StPetersburg-return, FinnAir via Helsinki), visa,
tuition (6 credits [90+ hours]) & graduate
       registration, private room & board in a Russian family, full cultural
program)
       $3925 est

Program application available at
       http://fmwww.bc.edu/sl/KP-PbgAppl.pdf
 
For additional information on the program contact:

        Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages
       Boston College / Lyons 210
       attn Prof Cynthia Simmons
       Chestnut Hill MA 02467-3804 (USA)

       voice: 617/ 552-3914
       fax: 617/ 552-2286

World-Wide Web posting at:
       http://fmwww.bc.edu/sl/kp-Dost.html

E-mail: SimmonsC at bc.edu