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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gthomson at MAC.COM Sat Jun 1 08:28:52 2002 From: gthomson at MAC.COM (Greg Thomson) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 14:28:52 +0600 Subject: Conference Announcment (Eng) Message-ID: DEAR COLLEGUES! THE AL-FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY KAZAKH LANGUAGE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH CONFERENCE PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS: CONDITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES Conference date: September, 18-19, 2002. Place: 480071, Kazakhstan, Almaty -city, al-Farabi - avenue,71, KazNU, philological faculty. THE FOLOWING AREAS ARE OFFERED FOR DISCUSSION BY CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: SOCIOLINGUISTIC TOPICS � LANGUAGE SITUATIONS AND LANGUAGE POLICY � SOCIAL AND REGIONAL LANGUAGE VARIATION. � INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES � SOCIETAL BILINGUALISM � LANGUAGES IN CONTACT. � SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM PSYCHOLINGUISTIC TOPICS � NATIVE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND CHILD BILINGUISM. � SPEECH PERCEPTION AND COMPREHENTION � SPEECH PRODUCTION � MENTAL LEXICON � BILINGUISM AND MULTILINGUISM � PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM . CONFERENCE WORKING LANGUAGES: KAZAKH, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH PLEASE, ADD YOUR THESIS (1-2 PAGES) TO YOUR APPLICATION FORM . THESIS TEXT SHOULD BE PRINTED AND IN ELECTRONIC FORM( IN RTF-FORMAT: FILES SHOULD BE NAMED AFTER YOUR SURNAMES). DEADLINE: NOVEMBER, 30, 2002. E-MAIL: altyn at kaszu.kz asjan at kaszu.kz PHONE NUMBERS (3272) 47-27-97 (13-29) THE CONFERENCE MATERIALS ARE PLANNED TO BE PUBLISHED. REGISTRATION COST: $50 BY ELECTRONIC TRANSFER TO ACCOUNT NUMBER 199117351, BENEFICIARY UMATOVA, ZHANNA, BANK: KAZKOMMERTZBANK, ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN. SWIFT: KZKOKZKX; CORR/ACC. NO. 890-0223-057. CORRRESPONDING BANK: BANK OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA. SWIFT: IRVTUS3N. CHIPS: 0001. FINANCIAL CONDITIONS: ALL PAYMENTS CONNECTED WITH CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION ARE PAID BY THE PARTICIPANT. WE WELCOME YOUR INVOLVMENT! CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMETEE Sincerely yours, Umatova Zhanna ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gthomson at MAC.COM Sat Jun 1 09:12:30 2002 From: gthomson at MAC.COM (Greg Thomson) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 15:12:30 +0600 Subject: apology for wrong version Message-ID: It appears I passed on to the list a pre-edited version of the announcement for the conference on Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics: Conditions and Perspectives, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Since it is unsuitable for public posting, I am submitting the revised version. With apologies, Greg Thomson p.s. I also found that the Russian version as it came to me was not readable until I changed the transliteration, and then it was fine. (Apparently the encoding is ISO-IR-111/KOI8. I don't imagine that will cause a problem for most seelangs subscribers.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From goscilo+ at PITT.EDU Sat Jun 1 12:15:27 2002 From: goscilo+ at PITT.EDU (Helena Goscilo) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:15:27 -0400 Subject: New AATSEEL Executive Director In-Reply-To: Message-ID: To add my voice to the male duet... Jerry not only masterfully took care of any and all macro and micro "duties," but did so with unfailing grace and humor. An unmatched job, and one for which I send profound thanks, but shall be ready to substitute a bottle of champagne at next year's AATSEEL! Slava Vam, Velikii J!! Helena Goscilo > > SECOND THE MOTION!!! > > > Dear Jerry, > > No this isn't a personal note, let all of SEELANGS see this. > Thanks for a great job! You have picked wonderful convention > sites, great rates, first class hotels, you have helped initiate a sense > of cameraderie, purpose and responsibility in the selection of papers, > panels, you have kept communications between the association and its > individual members swift, to the point, and full of information. You have > been a driving force in keeping a vision of the future alive as well. > You will be missed. Again, thanks for everything, this wasn't an easy > job! > > George > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gthomson at MAC.COM Sun Jun 2 15:17:13 2002 From: gthomson at MAC.COM (Greg Thomson) Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 21:17:13 +0600 Subject: Conference Announcment (Corrected) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: DEAR COLLEAGUES! THE AL-FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY KAZAKH LANGUAGE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH CONFERENCE PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS: CONDITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES Conference date: September, 18-19, 2003. Place: 480071, Kazakhstan, Almaty -city, al-Farabi - avenue,71, KazNU, philological faculty. THE FOLLOWING AREAS ARE SUGGESTED FOR DISCUSSION BY CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: SOCIOLINGUISTIC TOPICS � LANGUAGE SITUATIONS AND LANGUAGE POLICY � SOCIAL AND REGIONAL LANGUAGE VARIATION. � INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES � SOCIETAL BILINGUALISM � LANGUAGES IN CONTACT. � SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS PSYCHOLINGUISTIC TOPICS � NATIVE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND CHILD BILINGUALISM. � SPEECH PERCEPTION AND COMPREHENSION � SPEECH PRODUCTION � MENTAL LEXICON � BILINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM � PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS . CONFERENCE WORKING LANGUAGES: KAZAKH, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH PLEASE, ADD YOUR THESIS (1-2 PAGES) TO YOUR APPLICATION FORM . THESIS TEXT SHOULD BE PRINTED AND IN ELECTRONIC FORM (IN RTF-FORMAT: FILES SHOULD BE NAMED AFTER YOUR SURNAMES). DEADLINE: NOVEMBER, 30, 2002. E-MAIL: altyn at kaszu.kz asjan at kaszu.kz PHONE NUMBERS (3272) 47-27-97 (13-29) THE CONFERENCE MATERIALS ARE PLANNED TO BE PUBLISHED. REGISTRATION COST: $50 BY ELECTRONIC TRANSFER TO ACCOUNT NUMBER 199117351, BENEFICIARY UMATOVA, ZHANNA, BANK: KAZKOMMERTZBANK, ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN. SWIFT: KZKOKZKX; CORR/ACC. NO. 890-0223-057. CORRESPONDING BANK: BANK OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA. SWIFT: IRVTUS3N. CHIPS: 0001. FINANCIAL CONDITIONS: ALL PAYMENTS CONNECTED WITH CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION ARE PAID BY THE PARTICIPANT. WE WELCOME YOUR INVOLVEMENT! CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sincerely yours, Umatova Zhanna ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From AHRJJ at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Mon Jun 3 22:20:35 2002 From: AHRJJ at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Alex Rudd) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 18:20:35 EDT Subject: SEELANGS Administrivia - (was Re: [SEELANGS] You're Paying Too Much) In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 1 Jun 2002 01:11:40 -0500 Message-ID: On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 01:11:40 -0500 said: >We will help you get the mortgage loan you want! > >Only takes 2 minutes to fill out our form. Dear SEELangers, Several of you have written me off-list inquiring into how this unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE, a.k.a. "spam") message made its way onto the SEELANGS list. Apologies for not responding to those people individually, but it's easier for me to send this message to everyone. SEELANGS is a restricted list, in that only subscribers may post. However, apparently there's a caveat to that, which is that mail originating from the LISTSERV address itself (that is, from LISTSERV at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU) is also recognized as valid, even if that address is not subscribed. Until today when this message was brought to my attention, I didn't know that. In any event, the spammer who posted this message spoofed his e-mail address, such that the message appeared to come from LISTSERV at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU, even though in reality it did not. If you're curious, by the way, just from examining the message header and doing a little on-line sleuthing, I was able to determine that the spam message distributed on SEELANGS originated in the Philippines, in all likelihood in a placed called Makati City. Although I have two names associated with that point of origin, it would be pointless to follow up further, as the Philippines have rather weak laws in this area. In any event, here's the bottom line at this point: I have closed this particular loophole and no further spam will be distributed on SEELANGS looking like it came from the LISTSERV address. *HOWEVER*, please be advised that as I currently have SEELANGS configured we *could* see another spam message like this posted to the list if the spammer successfully spoofs a subscriber's e-mail address. This is not likely to happen, but it is possible. I could change the list's configuration right now to eliminate the possibility altogether, but I'm choosing not to do that at this time and here's why. The way to close this loophole entirely is to institute a confirmation system. If you wanted to post a message to SEELANGS, you'd submit the message normally to SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU. Before distributing the message, though, LISTSERV would first send you back an e-mail message asking you to confirm that you did, in fact, submit the message. If you did, you return the confirmation and the message is distributed. If you did not (i.e., some spammer is spoofing your address), then you do not return the confirmation and the message is never distributed on the list. We may be forced to switch to that method at some point in the future, but for right now I believe the risk (and potential harm) is so low that it's just not worth the hassle of asking people to jump through that extra hoop each time they want to post. By the way, as I really have very little free time these days and am seldom able to keep up with list mail, I appreciate being alerted to this problem by those of you who wrote directly. As always, I can be reached at SEELANGS-Request at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU if something similar should happen in the future. Please be patient, though, as I may not see your message for a few days. Regards, - Alex, list owner of SEELANGS seelangs-request at listserv.cuny.edu .................................................................... Alex Rudd ahrjj at cunyvm.cuny.edu ARS KA2ZOO {Standard Disclaimer} http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From malevichsociety at HOTMAIL.COM Tue Jun 4 18:05:54 2002 From: malevichsociety at HOTMAIL.COM (The Malevich Society) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:05:54 -0400 Subject: The Malevich Society. Call for grant proposals. Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The Malevich Society is pleased to announce its first grant competition. The Malevich Society is a newly established American not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing knowledge about the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich and his work. In the belief that Malevich was a pioneer of modern art and should be better recognized for his key contributions to the history of Modernism, the Malevich Society awards grants to encourage research, writing, and other activities relating to the history and memory of Kazimir Malevich. The Society welcomes in particular applications from outstanding scholars of any nationality proposing projects that increase the understanding of Malevich and his work, or that augment historical, biographical and artistic information about Malevich and/or his artistic legacy. Application forms and instructions can be requested by telephone at 1-718-980-1805, by e-mail at malevichsociety at hotmail.com, or can be downloaded from the web-site www.malevichsociety.org Deadline: September 30, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From a-wachtel at NORTHWESTERN.EDU Tue Jun 4 19:54:51 2002 From: a-wachtel at NORTHWESTERN.EDU (andrew wachtel) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:54:51 -0500 Subject: Query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Is anyone aware of research on the subject of the "Litfond" in the Soviet Union or its counterparts in any East European country? Andrew Wachtel Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Director, Program in Comparative Literary Studies Director, Consortium for South East European Studies at Northwestern Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208-2206 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sher07 at MINDSPRING.COM Wed Jun 5 12:28:15 2002 From: sher07 at MINDSPRING.COM (Benjamin Sher) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 07:28:15 -0500 Subject: RealPlayer video -- No longer free! Message-ID: Dear friends: Just found out tonight from a good friend that the new RealPlayer called RealOne no longer broadcasts video for free. To get video, you must subscribe for $10 a month to Real Player. This is a desperation move by RealPlayer. I sympathize. Microsoft's appetite knows no bounds, and they have been doing everything in their power to crush their competitors and put them out of business, by means fair and foul, leveraging their monopoly of Windows to do this. It's no surprise, therefore, that their Windows Media Player is now the preferred media player for the majority of radio and tv stations, including most Russian stations, whether broadcasting taped clips or live. The main exception seems to be Radio Free Europe, which continues to use RealPlayer (audio only, of course). This applies to all versions of RealOne, including the Basic version. The only exception as far as the new RealOne is concerned is embedded RealPlayer, that is, sites that broadcast their RealPlayer content within an embedded screen as opposed to standalone video. A good example of what I mean is the NTV Internet-Most site at: http://internet-most.ru/ This is an example of standalone RealPlayer. If you click on the "video" link with RealOne, you will get the audio, but not the video. If you do the same with the earlier RealPlayer 8, it will play both the video and the audio. Bottom line for users: If you want your video FREE on RealPlayer, do NOT upgrade from RealPlayer 8 to RealONE. You will be constantly goaded into upgrading. Resist the temptation unless you are willing to "listen" to video or else pay the $10 per month subscription fee. If you have already upgraded to RealOne, you can restore your video by 1) UNinstalling RealOne (Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs). Then go to C:\Program Files\Real\ and delete the "Real" folder (ONLY the "REAL" folder, nothing else!). Reboot. Now, if you still have somewhere a copy of RealPlayer 8, install it. If you don't, install a "complete" copy of Netscape Communicator (latest version 4.79 or earlier versions). Netscape Communicator comes with RealPlayer 8 Basic, which is what we want.). If you have already installed Communicator, just install it over itself. No problem. It will install RealPlayer 8 Basic along with Netscape Communciator 4.79. If you no longer have Netscape Communicator, no need to despair. You can get it for free by downloading it from the Netscape's ftp site at: ftp://ftp.netscape.com Now just navigate to the right section (see below) and download the file called: cc32d479.exe (23,057 kb or around 22 meg). Here is the direct address: ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.79/windows/windows95_or_nt/complete_install/ After you install it, you will be asked to download a small file of around 200k. Say yes. Apparently, this file is necessary for the operation of RealPlayer 8. But you will need to be on your guard for the endless requests to upgrade RealPlayer 8 itself to RealOne. That is up to you, of course, but I wanted to let you know about this so that you and students can make an informed decision about this situation. NOTE: You need the full version of Netscape 4.79 (or earlier versions) to get Real Player 8 Basic). If you try to download Netscape from the Netscape site using the special 400k installer for Netscape 6, you will get the new RealOne instead of Real Player 8 Basic. Now try it on the Internet-Most address above and you will be able to both view and hear the broadcast. RealPlayer seems to have shot itself in the foot with this. Of course, there may be a compelling reason at some point in the future for upgrading to RealOne (i.e if RealPlayer survives, which now seems doubtful) and paying the monthly fee, but for the time being the FREE Real Player 8 Basic is more than good enough. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher sher07 at mindspring.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From rwallach at SKAT.USC.EDU Fri Jun 7 17:51:14 2002 From: rwallach at SKAT.USC.EDU (rwallach) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:51:14 -0700 Subject: job postings on AATSEEL web page Message-ID: A quick note - I am the new maintainer of the AATSEEL jobs web page. It's in a bit of hiatus, as I just took over, but there are some new jobs finally posted on that page, at http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/jobs/job-index.html Please send job announcements to me for posting on the above web site. Since I volunteer my extra-curricular time for this, please be patient if slight posting delays occur. Thanks, Ruth Wallach University of Southern California Los Angeles rwallach at usc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uhwm006 at SUN.RHUL.AC.UK Mon Jun 10 13:37:00 2002 From: uhwm006 at SUN.RHUL.AC.UK (Geoffrey Chew) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:37:00 +0100 Subject: CFP: Prokofiev symposium, Manchester, UK, February 2003 (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- PROKOFIEV AND 20TH-CENTURY CULTURE Manchester, Royal Northern College of Music Friday 7 - Monday 10 February 2003 Organised by the Serge Prokofiev Association and Archive at Goldsmiths College, London, in partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester - UK; and the Observatoire Musical Francais (OMF) - France, this international symposium is an integral part of the "Manchester Prokofiev 2003 Festival" (31 January - 10 February 2003). Keynote speaker: Sir Peter Ustinov GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Fifty years after Prokofiev's death, his work, life and the many worlds in which he operated are of increasing interest to performers and scholars. Although Prokofiev's best-known scores are the product of a co-operation with other art forms from literature to dance and film, there has been no systematic study of the contribution that these various forms of collaboration made to his artistic achievement as a whole. This international symposium seeks to open up this line of enquiry and we therefore invite papers from specialists in the fields of music, dance, film, theatre, literature, cultural and social history. The symposium will focus predominantly on two phases of Prokofiev's career, looking at his work and that of his associates among the Russian emigre circles in Paris, and in Soviet Russia. PAPERS We are inviting formal papers, thematic sessions, and performance-based contributions. Papers from practitioners (composers, choreographers, theatre directors, performers) as well as scholars are warmly welcomed. Papers from postgraduate students will also be given serious consideration. Areas currently under consideration as the subject of thematic sessions include: Prokofiev and opera Russia's post-Soviet interpretation of Prokofiev Prokofiev and the French school Russian artistic circles in Paris in the 1920s Prokofiev's work for children Prokofiev's associates Suggestions for other topics are welcomed. PRACTICAL DETAILS OF CONTRIBUTIONS: Languages: English; Russian and French (print-outs of abstracts to be provided in English translation). Duration: 20' for individual papers 60' for thematic sessions (3 to 4 people) 30' for performance-based papers PROPOSALS: to arrive no later than 11 July 2002 * Proposals for papers should be submitted in the form of a title followed by an abstract of no more than 200 words. * Proposals for sessions should be submitted in the form of an overall title followed by titles of individual papers, plus indications of contributors and abstracts if possible. Proposals should be sent to Noelle Mann by e-mail, NOT as attachment: n.mann at gold.ac.uk Contributors will be informed by 25 August 2002. Conference Organiser: Noelle Mann, The Serge Prokofiev Archive, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London SE14 6NW; tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7558; fax. +44 (0)20 7919 7255; n.mann at gold.ac.uk (Please use e-mail whenever possible.) Local co-ordinator: David Fanning, University of Manchester, Department of Music, Denmark Road, Manchester M15 6HY; tel: +44 (0)161 275 4987 Programme Committee: Chair: Noelle Mann (Goldsmiths College, University of London) David Fanning (University of Manchester) Rosamund Bartlett (University of Durham) Walter Zidaric (Universite de Nantes & OMF, France ) ENQUIRIES Details of accommodation, fees and registration will be announced in the autumn, along with the full programme of the symposium and the Festival. THE MANCHESTER PROKOFIEV 2003 FESTIVAL will offer a richly varied programme of concerts and public events, with the participation of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (concerts on 31 Jan, 7 and 10 Feb); the Manchester Camerata (8 Feb); The Halle Orchestra (9 Feb) and the RNCM's various performing groups (8 - 10 Feb). 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GOGOL 2002 A CONFERENCE TO MARK 150 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF NIKOLAI GOGOL to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 16-18 September, 2002 under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK PROGRAMME Monday 16 September 1.00 Lunch 2.00 Panel 1: Thematic Approaches Neil Cornwell (Bristol): The Absurd in Gogol Julian Graffy (UCL/SSEES): Gogol's Clothes Richard Peace (Bristol): Aspects of Gogolian Logic Willem Weststeijn (Amsterdam): Gogol and Illness 4.00 Tea 4.15 Panel 2: Gogol and Other Arts Birgit Beumers (Bristol): Turning and Turning Inside Out: Playful Explorations of Gogolian Texts on Stage and Screen in the 1990s Helena Goscilo (Pittsburgh): Syn/crisis in Gardens of Earthly Plights: Bosching Gogol Arnold Mcmillin (UCL/SSEES): The Petersburg Stories as set to Music by Russian Composers 5.45 Panel 3: Gogol and Modernism Justin Doherty (Trinity College Dublin): Gogol and Russian Futurism Greta Slobin (Santa Cruz): The Battle for the Modernist Gogol in the 1920s and 1930s 7.00 Dinner 8.00 Gogol Films Tuesday 17 September 8.00 Breakfast 9.00 Panel 4: Theme and Text Andrzej Dudek (Krak�w): Gogol's Vision of Culture Radosvet Kolarov (Sofia): Self-Parody in Gogol Jutta M�hrke (Keele): The Sense of An Ending in Gogol Robert Reid (Keele): Gogol: A Stoic Reading 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Panel 5: Gogol and Other Russian Writers Leon Burnett (Essex): On First Looking into Zhukovskii's Homer: Gogol and Cultural Assimilation Lyubov Kiseleva (Tartu): Gogol and Zhukovskii Michael Pursglove: Grigorovich's Gogolian hybrid: Kapellmeister Suslikov 1.00 Lunch 2.00 Panel 6: Texts Robin Aizlewood (UCL/SSEES): The man who was(n't) there: Pirogov and the representation of nothingness Nina Gourianova (Harvard): Landscape of Transformation: Metamorphosis in Gogol's Old-World Landowners Audun M�rch (Oslo): Gogol's Overcoat: Revaluing All Values Petre Petrov (Pittsburgh): Gogol's Gamblers: Lectoral and Libidinal Penetrations 4.00 Tea 4.30 Collective Analysis of the last four pages of Chapter 8 and the first six pages of Chapter 9 of Dead Souls led by Michael O'Toole (Murdoch) 6.30 Reception 7.00 Anniversary Dinner Wednesday 18 September 8.00 Breakfast 9.00 Panel 7: Cultural Questions Catriona Kelly and Andy Byford (Oxford): Remembering A Great Russian Writer: The Gogol Jubilees of 1909 and 1952 Harriet Murav (Davis): Gogol, Mendele, and the Question of Ethnic Literature Joseph Sherman (Oxford): The Non-reflecting Mirror: Gogol's Influence on Sholem Aleichem Tatiana Smoliarova (Harvard): Gogol as the Basis of Formalist Theories 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Panel 8: Gogol and Russian Culture Eric de Haard (Amsterdam): Gogol's and Tolstoi's Madmen: On the Dimensions of Intertextuality Henrietta Mondry (Canterbury, NZ): Gogol's Body, Rozanov's Gaze David Shepherd (Sheffield): Naming and Shaming: Bakhtin on Gogol and the History of the Grotesque 1.00 Lunch and Close GOGOL 2002 A CONFERENCE TO MARK 150 YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF NIKOLAI GOGOL to be held at Mansfield College, Oxford, 16-18 September, 2002 under the auspices of the Neo-Formalist Circle Organisers: Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Keele University, UK BOOKING FORM The conference will run from lunch on Monday, 16 September until lunch on Wednesday, 16 September. Please tick whatever facilities you wish and fill in the sections of name, date, etc., then return the form as soon as possible to the address below, with payment made out to �Essays in Poetics', and in any event by 9 August 2002. It would be of great assistance to us if the full amount could be paid in advance: all prices are in pounds sterling. If you have received this electronically, it may be returned in the same way, or please print a copy and send back by post: cheques will obviously have to be sent by post in any event. _____________________________________________________________________________ 13 September Lunch (10.50) . . . . . . . Tea (1.75) . . . . . . . Dinner (15.00) . . . . . . Bedroom : ensuite (42.25) . . . . . . ordinary (30.25) . . . . . . twin (per person) (28.25) . . . . . . 17 September Breakfast (7.75) . . . . . . . Coffee (1.75) . . . . . . . Lunch (10.50) . . . . . . . Tea (1.75) . . . . . . . Anniversary Dinner (includes reception & wine) (33.00) . . . . . . Bedroom : ensuite (42.25) . . . . . . ordinary (30.25) . . . . . . twin (per person) (28.25) . . . . . . 15 September Breakfast (7.75) . . . . . . . Coffee (1.75) . . . . . . . Lunch (10.50) . . . . . . . Vegetarian Meals Required . . . . . . . . . . . Conference Fee (40.00) . . . . . . (Please tick meals etc. required and please specify if vegetarian or other special requirements) NAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SIGNATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Block capitals) ADDRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Please return the completed form with payment to: Neo-Formalist Circle SOLCCA (Russian) Keele University, Keele, Staffs, ST5 5BG, UK ---------------------- Joe Andrew j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From deyrupma at SHU.EDU Mon Jun 10 17:51:35 2002 From: deyrupma at SHU.EDU (deyrupma at SHU.EDU) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:51:35 -0400 Subject: AATSEEL newsletter--February 2002 issue online Message-ID: The February 2002 issue of the AATSEEL newsletter can now be found in PDF format at the AATSEEL homepage http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/ Marta Deyrup *********************************** Marta Deyrup Assistant Professor/Librarian Seton Hall University Libraries 400 South Orange Avenue South Orange, NJ 07079 973-275-2223 http://pirate.shu.edu/~deyrupma ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Paul Flannery wrote: > Questions for SEELANGS: > > 1. Where to stay upon arrival in St. Petersburg approximately 9:00pm on > Sat, June 15th and departure approximately 7:00am on Sun, June 16th? > > 2. Will exchange shops be open to acquire currency or will cab drivers take > American dollars? > > 3. Is it permissable to simply sleep in the airport [in St. Petersburg]? Is > it safe to do so? > > 4. Generally speaking, is a credit card safe to use to purchase goods in > say, museums, shops, resturaunts, etc? > > 5. What gift[s during my layover in London], to be purchased in London, would > be sufficient yet not insulting to a Russian family of a husband, wife, and > seven year old child? > > Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Young at ACTR.ORG Mon Jun 10 21:20:39 2002 From: Young at ACTR.ORG (Billie Young) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:20:39 -0400 Subject: Job Opening Message-ID: Administrative Assistant, Field Operations Washington, DC Position Description SUMMARY: The primary role of the Administrative Assistant is to provide administrative support to the Vice President for Field Operations (VP/FO). The Administrative Assistant independently performs a broad range of tasks aimed at providing information to and on behalf of the Vice President for Field Operations. Further, the Administrative Assistant provides assistance in the overall management of the office of the Vice President for Field Operations. The Administrative Assistant reports to the Vice President for Field Operations and works in cooperation with senior staff and regional directors. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: Research · Gathers information, at the request of the Vice President for Field Operations, from a broad range of internal and external sources including: internet, archives, current files, published materials, etc.; and · Produces reports, as requested by the Vice President for Field Operations or senior staff, using computer-based spreadsheet, database, and/or text files. Finance · Prepares check requests for payments and reimbursements for expenses related to Vice President for Field Operations' office; and · Assists in the preparation of financial reporting documents for the office of the Vice President for Field Operations. External Relations · Serves as liaison with representatives of other organizations (e.g. attorneys, etc.) on the Vice President for Field Operations' behalf; · Prepares and distributes invitations, notes, responses, etc. on behalf of the Vice President for Field Operations; and · Assists in responding to requests for information from the office of the Vice President for Field Operations. Travel · Assists with travel arrangements for the Vice President for Field Operations; · Serves as liaison with hosting organization concerning logistics of Vice President for Field Operations' travel (e.g. lodging, arrival/departure, transportation, etc.); and · Obtains passport and visas. General Office Support · Assists in the scheduling of appointments for the Vice President for Field Operations; · Assists in obtaining official documents required for overseas office operations; · Places outgoing telephone calls and faxes for the Vice President for Field Operations; · Serves as the Vice President for Field Operations' liaison with office staff as needed; · Organizes and maintains office files, reports, legal documents, records, etc.; · Places orders for materials, supplies, memberships, subscriptions, etc. for the Vice President for Field Operations; · Maintains address, phone, and e-mail lists; prepares and distributes correspondence; coordinates and carries-out mailings; and · Prepares typewritten copy, proofreads, prints, and photocopies materials. Other Duties · Provides assistance to the Vice President for Field Operations with related activities involving external parties: opening bank accounts, government reports/filings, etc.; and · Performs other related duties and handles projects as requested by the Vice President for Field Operations or senior staff. QUALIFICATIONS: · Bachelor's degree · Excellent oral and written communication skills · Proficiency with word processing, spreadsheet, and database software · Strong organizational skills · Effective interpersonal skills · Russian language skills required TO APPLY: Send letter/resume and salary requirements to Administrative Assistant Field Operations Search, American Councils, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036. Fax: 202-872-9178 or 202-833-7523; www.actr.org; email: resumes at actr.org. Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer. The American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is a private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization devoted to improving education, professional training and research within and regarding the former Soviet Union (FSU). The American Councils administers academic exchange and training programs in virtually all fields; provides educational advising and academic testing services throughout the FSU; and organizes conferences and seminars in the US and abroad for its membership, exchange participants, alumni, and professional groups. The American Councils manages a budget funded from multiple sources of approximately $50M, employs a staff of more then 400, and operates offices in 12 countries of the former Soviet Union. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Young at ACTR.ORG Mon Jun 10 21:40:10 2002 From: Young at ACTR.ORG (Billie Young) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:40:10 -0400 Subject: Job Opening Message-ID: Program Assistant, Higher Education Washington, DC Position Description SUMMARY: The Higher Education Program Assistant provides administrative support to the Managing Director for Higher Education Programs. The Program Assistant provides support in the overall management of higher education programs, and has a specific portfolio of duties related to alumni programming. The Higher Education Program Assistant reports to the Managing Director for Higher Education and works in cooperation with Program Managers for the higher education and training programs. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: General Office Support · Assists in the scheduling of appointments for the Managing Director; · Assists with travel arrangements for the Managing Director (tickets, visas etc); · Organizes, produces and maintains office files, reports, legal documents, records, etc.; · Maintains address, phone, and e-mail lists; prepares and distributes correspondence; coordinates and carries out mailings; · Tracks and categorizes expenditures as requested, and prepares check requests for payments and reimbursements for expenses; · Produces documents, and proofreads, prints, and photocopies materials. Alumni Programs · Assist with data gathering and tracking of alumni of higher education programs; · Assists with compiling and producing reports on alumni activities · Provides administrative support for review of proposals for alumni grants (LIGP), reports and disbursement of grant funds. · Assists with logistics and materials for training conferences Research · Produces reports, as requested by the Director, using computer-based spreadsheet, database, and/or text files. · Gathers information, at the request of the Managing Director, from data in the participant database. Other Duties · Reads and translates Russian documents into English; translates Managing Director's correspondence into Russian upon request. · Performs other related duties and handles projects as requested by the Managing Director QUALIFICATIONS: · Bachelor's degree · Excellent oral and written communication skills · Proficiency with word processing, spreadsheet (MS Excel), and database (MS Access) software · Strong organizational skills · Effective interpersonal skills · Russian language skills required Send letter/resume and salary requirements to Program Assistant Higher Education Search, American Councils, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036. Fax: 202-872-9178 or 202-833-7523; www.actr.org; email: resumes at actr.org. Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer. The American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is a private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization devoted to improving education, professional training and research within and regarding the former Soviet Union (FSU). The American Councils administers academic exchange and training programs in virtually all fields; provides educational advising and academic testing services throughout the FSU; and organizes conferences and seminars in the US and abroad for its membership, exchange participants, alumni, and professional groups. The American Councils manages a budget funded from multiple sources of approximately $50M, employs a staff of more then 400, and operates offices in 12 countries of the former Soviet Union. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From C.Adlam at EXETER.AC.UK Tue Jun 11 15:24:24 2002 From: C.Adlam at EXETER.AC.UK (Carol Adlam) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:24:24 +0100 Subject: Lecturership in Russian Message-ID: Organisation: University of Exeter Location: South-west England Date posted: 10 Jun 2002 Deadline: 02 Jul 2002 Salary: £22522-£29709 per year SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES The following permanent vacancy has arisen within the School of Modern Languages and is available from 1st October 2002: Lecturer in Russian (Ref: 6381) Applications are invited for a lectureship in Russian. Preference will be given to candidates offering specialist research and teaching interests in Russian literature and culture of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries (particularly Russian cinema). Candidates will need to have at least near native command of written and spoken Russian, including the ability to teach through the medium of Russian and English. It is also expected that they will be able to contribute to language teaching at all levels. Candidates will also be required to have proven research interests and outstanding research potential, and to have completed or be close to completing a PhD. The initial salary will be £22,522 p.a. (scale pt 9) rising to £29,709 p.a. (scale pt 16) after 5 years. The salary scale will be under review for a cost of living award from 1st August 2002, and salary progression will be subject to satisfactory performance. The closing date for the above post is 2 July 2002. Information available from www.ex.ac.uk/jobs Equal opportunities employer UNIVERSITY of EXETER Contact: Personnel Division, University of Exeter, Northcote House, The Queen's Drive, Exeter EX4 4QJ UK. Tel 01392 661000 - Fax 01392 263122 - Email personnel at exeter.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From deyrupma at SHU.EDU Tue Jun 11 20:31:14 2002 From: deyrupma at SHU.EDU (deyrupma at SHU.EDU) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:31:14 -0400 Subject: April 2002 issue of AATSEEL newsletter now online Message-ID: The April 2002 issue of the AATSEEL Newsletter is now available as a PDF file from the AATSEEL homepage http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/ *********************************** Marta Deyrup Assistant Professor/Librarian Seton Hall University Libraries 400 South Orange Avenue South Orange, NJ 07079 973-275-2223 http://pirate.shu.edu/~deyrupma ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ad5537 at WAYNE.EDU Tue Jun 11 21:58:09 2002 From: ad5537 at WAYNE.EDU (Kenneth Brostrom) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:58:09 -0400 Subject: Fwd: DISC: Russian study visas Message-ID: Colleagues, this question comes from another list. Please reply to Mark Hambrick directly. Ken Brostrom >X-User-Info: 10.50.4.232 >Newsgroups: bit.listserv.secuss-l >Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:28:06 -0500 >Reply-To: mark.hambrick at ccaix.jsums.edu >Sender: SECUSSA Discussion List >From: Mark Hambrick >Subject: DISC: Russian study visas >To: SECUSS-L at LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU > >Hello all, >I'm curious about the visa process for students going to Russia. I've been >unable to find anything that specifically mentions "students". I've tried the >embassy and it's website but have been unsuccessful. The students will only >be in Russia for one month. Any guidance on this would be greatly >appreciated. > > > > >Mark Hambrick >Study Abroad Coordinator >Office of International Programs >Jackson State University >P.O. Box 17103 >Jackson, MS 39217-0103 >601-979-3795 >601-979-3388 (fax) >mark.hambrick at jsums.edu > >SECUSS-L Message -- Kenneth Brostrom Assoc. Prof. of Russian Dept. of German and Slavic Studies 443 Manoogian Hall Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 Telephone: (313) 577-6238 FAX (313) 577-3266 E-mail: kenneth.brostrom at wayne.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Young at ACTR.ORG Tue Jun 11 18:46:28 2002 From: Young at ACTR.ORG (Billie Young) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:46:28 -0400 Subject: Job Opening Message-ID: Program Assistant Junior Faculty Development (JFDP) - Washington, DC Position Description SUMMARY: The Junior Faculty Development Program Assistant reports to the department program manager, with primary responsibility for administrative tasks associated with the JFDP. The Program Assistant works closely with the Program Manager and Officers to coordinate and support activities associated with the administration of an eleven-month exchange program for faculty from Eurasia to engage in course development, teaching methodology and professional opportunities. The Program Assistant helps support program-related matters including host university advertising and recruitment, selection and placement of participants, participant management, as well as logistical issues connected with participant travel, orientation, housing, stipends and professional development reimbursement. RESPONSIBILITIES: Position Specific Responsibilities Responsible for administration of all elements of special JFDP Program initiatives.This includes, but is not limited to: · Assisting with the preparation and distribution of program-related materials for publicity campaign · Assisting in preparing and managing host university recruitment efforts; · Assisting with computer support services in creating, maintaining, and integrating the JFDP participant, alumni and financial databases; and · Assisting in the creation, formatting and maintenance of documents for the JFDP Web-site including materials related to financial policy matters, professional development fund, and participant profiles. Team Responsibilities · Assists in organizing and executing orientations and conferences, including arranging travel, accommodations, guest speakers, cultural events and banquets, as well as preparing and executing seminars and workshops for participants; and · Assists in the administration of participants' recruitment, selection and placement General Program Administration · Facilitates the overseas and domestic travel of program staff, consultants and JFDP participants, including correspondence with American Councils' field offices, participants, and host institutions, travel itinerary requests, preparation of informational materials, and visa processing · Provides maintenance support to JFDP participants in the U.S., including, but not limited to travel, housing, insurance matters, payment of monthly stipends and bills, professional development reimbursements, and consistent and regular correspondence; · Reviews participants' academic progress and activities, including analyzing academic plans, reports, and internship proposals; · Acts as a liaison with host institutions; · Manages dependent-request process including correspondence with American Councils' field offices, participants, and host institutions, preparation of materials and visa processing; and · Upholds the program's grant terms with respect to participants' activities and expenses during the program. QUALIFICATIONS: · Strong writing and communication skills, (Eurasian language skills preferable) · Demonstrated organizational ability · Demonstrated problem-solving skills · Ability to manage multiple priorities quickly and effectively · Ability to work independently while contributing to an overall team effort · Proven effectiveness in a cross-cultural work environment · Effective interpersonal skills · Strong computer programming and database skills TO APPLY: Send letter/resume and salary requirements to PA JFDP Search, American Councils, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036. Fax: 202-872-9178 or 202-833-7523; www.actr.org; email: resumes at actr.org. Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer. The American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is a private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization devoted to improving education, professional training and research within and regarding the former Soviet Union (FSU). The American Councils administers academic exchange and training programs in virtually all fields; provides educational advising and academic testing services throughout the FSU; and organizes conferences and seminars in the US and abroad for its membership, exchange participants, alumni, and professional groups. The American Councils manages a budget funded from multiple sources of approximately $50M, employs a staff of more then 400, and operates offices in 12 countries of the former Soviet Union. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Wed Jun 12 21:29:57 2002 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:29:57 +0200 Subject: Hebrew revivial In-Reply-To: <3D075FF8.B0666AF1@chass.utoronto.ca> Message-ID: Vitaju! Here is the article "Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the Revival of Hebrew": http://www.pravapis.org/art_hebrew1.asp (in Belarusian) http://www.pravapis.org/art_benyehuda2.asp (in English) Regards, Uladzimir -------------------------------------------------- What's your MailBox address? - http://mailbox.hu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eurasian at GLOBALSERVE.NET Thu Jun 13 02:20:21 2002 From: eurasian at GLOBALSERVE.NET (MEABOOKS) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:20:21 -0700 Subject: Free science books from the ex-USSR Message-ID: Dear friends, Some time ago we acquired over a hundred of titles on ecology, physical geography, geology and related matters from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The books were acquired to fill in a library order which was later cancelled. Dealing in books in the humanities, we have no customers that might be interested in the above subjects. We do not want to simply discard these books and are willing to send then to anyone interested provided our actual postal charges are paid. Almost all books are in Russian, published between 1960s and early 1990s. 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For the 38th Congress the number of sponsored sessions in Medieval Slavic is being increased to three: Medieval Slavic I: Texts and Textual Transmission Medieval Slavic II: Societies in Contact Medieval Slavic III: History and Culture Historically, the presence of Slavists at the Kalamazoo Congresses has been very modest. It is important that our colleagues working in the medieval cultures of Western Europe become more aware of the richness of the medieval Slavic cultures and to that end an appeal is made to all faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students in all disciplines who work in the Medieval Slavic area to submit a one-page, single-spaced abstract of a paper for presentation on one of these sessions. In addition to the opportunity to interact with medievalists working in Western Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East -- approximately 300 in all --, the Kalamazoo Congress can also serve as an occasion for Slavic Medievalists themselves to interact, to come to know one another personally, exchange notes, set up collaborative projects, and plan to increase our presence at Kalamazoo in the future. This past year, medievalists from Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia were in attendance. If the response to this call is good again this year, Slavists can look forward to these Medieval Slavic sessions every year for the foreseeable future; if we falter, we could very well lose ground, as the number of requests for sessions is huge (640 requests for the 37th Congress!). So if you are working on a Medieval Slavic topic (up to about 1600), please give very serious consideration to participating at Kalamazoo next year. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jflevin at MAIL.UCR.EDU Thu Jun 13 02:44:37 2002 From: jflevin at MAIL.UCR.EDU (jflevin at MAIL.UCR.EDU) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:44:37 -0700 Subject: Hebrew revivial In-Reply-To: <20020612212958.7623.qmail@web2.mailbox.hu> Message-ID: At 11:29 PM 6/12/2002 +0200, you wrote: "Here Jack Fellman wrote "Lithuanian village of Luzhky". This is such an unpleasant mistake! I guess that was a surprise to learn this "fact" for any reader who comes from Belarus. It is well-known that Luzhki (Ë`óæê³) is a town in northern Belarus, not some obscure "Lithuanian village". So this should've been "Belarusian town of Luzhki". The reason for this mistake is quite clear though. Belarus and Lithuania share common history, for centuries we lived together in a multiethnical and multiconfessional state, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Vilnia (Vilnius) was truly a Belarusian capital. Now, at the time of Ben-Yehuda's birth Vilnia region and the rest of Belarus was occupied by the Russian Empire and Ben-Yehuda's birth place, the town of Luzhki, according to the Russian administrative division, was a part of "Vilenskaja gubernia" (Vilnia region). It is well-known that Vilnia historically has been a Belarusian capital, but Joseph Stalin gave it to Lithuanians. Still, the town of Luzhki remained a part of Belarus, and never has been a part of modern Lithuanian state. So, whichever way you look at it, saying "Lithuanian village" is wrong. Over all, this trend makes me very upset. Simon Peres was born and grew up in Belarus (village Vishnia and town of Valozhyn), Ariel Sharon's parents come from Belarus, Ben-Yehuda grew up in Belarus (in Luzhki and Polacak), Etgar Keret's parents come from Belarus (Baranavichy), the first prime minister of Israel comes from Belarus, Marc Chagall grew up and lived in eastern Belarus (Vitebsk), many-many other imminent Jews come from our lands, but somehow this is never acknoweledged by the American writers and researchers, who just say "comes from Russia", showing their "great knowledge" of Eastern European geography and "deep respect" for other cultures! Harvard education does not seem to be of any help either" It is not clear to me who is the author of this "correction" of Jack Fellman, but some explanation is in order. All of the Jews named above are Litvaks--Lithuanian Jews. Jewish geography does not follow the most recent political divisions. It represents a Jewish cultural map. Jews are either Litvaks, Galitzianers, Pailisher, etc., and this identity does not depend on which Gentile country happens to rule over which village at any given time--such matters are mutable. I have never met a Jew who identified himself, much less his parents, as being "Belarusian". So Fellman is right. There may be a town in Northern Belarus called Luzhki, occupying the physical space where Ben Eliezar was born, but nevertheless, he--a Jew, never considered anything but a Jew when he lived there--was born in a metaphysical Jewish Lithuania. In fact, I can recall a conversation I had with a rabbi in Vilnius recently, where I referred to my own ancesters as being "real" Litvaks, because they came from Lithuanian-speaking areas, as opposed to the Litvaks living in Polish or Belarusian areas. He looked at me and repeated "real Litvaks!?" as though I had committed an ethnic slur by questioning the authenticity of Jews from places like Vitebsk or Grodno. Jules Levin (a real Litvak, grandparents from Shaky and Kovno) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU Thu Jun 13 03:47:00 2002 From: rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU (Robert A. Rothstein) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:47:00 -0400 Subject: Litvakes (was: Hebrew revival) Message-ID: I would disagree slightly with my friend Jules Levin's comment that Eliezer Ben-Yehuda "was born in a metaphysical Jewish Lithuania." He was born in the area that Yiddish-speaking Jews called "Lite" (two syllables), which should not be identified with Lithuania (at least in any recent sense, "recent" here meaning the last several hundred years). Jewish Lite corresponds roughly to the non-Ukrainian parts of the historical Grand Duchy of Lithuania, i.e., the ethnographically Lithuanian and Belarusian parts, plus some ethnographically Latvian territory. So translating "Litvak" as "Lithuanian Jew" is a misleading shorthand, as is calling Ben-Yehuda's birthplace ("Lushki" in its Yiddish spelling) a "Lithuanian village." Bob Rothstein (a 3/4 Litvak, with grandparents from Gluboke, Vidz and Loyder [Vitebsker gubernye]) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU Thu Jun 13 10:53:39 2002 From: mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Katz, Michael) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 06:53:39 -0400 Subject: Tolstoy Image Gallery Message-ID: Re: Donna Orwin's announcement concerning the Photo Gallery on the Tolstoy Society website: > I cannot refrain from quoting the first paragraph of Donald Barthelme's > wickedly funny story, "At the Tolstoy Museum:" > > "At the Tolstoy Museum we sat and wept. Paper streamers came out of our > eyes. Our gaze drifted toward the pictures. They were placed too high on > the wall. We suggested to the director that they be lowered six inches at > least. He looked unhappy but said he would see to it. The holdings of the > Tolstoy Museum consist principally of some thirty thousand pictures of > Count Leo Tolstoy." > > Michael Katz > Middlebury College > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Thu Jun 13 12:41:56 2002 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:41:56 +0200 Subject: Hebrew revivial In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020612193025.02908200@mail.ucr.edu> Message-ID: Hello Jules, 1. It's not really a correction, but a comment. 2. Belarus is one of the modern-day descendants of the Grand Duchy of Lituania (in fact some nationalists argue, the dominant descendant of the Grand Duchy). We still call ourselves "Litviny", and the Jews of our lands still carry the name "Litviaki". 3. Thus it is not a "recent political division" and the commentary should make sense for you, I presume. Thanks for your email, Uladzimir jflevin at MAIL.UCR.EDU wrote: > It is not clear to me who is the author of this "correction" of Jack > Fellman, but some explanation is in order. All of the Jews named above > are > Litvaks--Lithuanian Jews. Jewish geography does not follow the most > recent > political divisions. It represents a Jewish cultural map. Jews are > either > Litvaks, Galitzianers, Pailisher, etc., and this identity does not > depend > on which Gentile country happens to rule over which village at any given > > time--such matters are mutable. I have never met a Jew who identified > himself, much less his parents, as being "Belarusian". So Fellman is > right. There may be a town in Northern Belarus called Luzhki, occupying > > the physical space where Ben Eliezar was born, but nevertheless, he--a > Jew, > never considered anything but a Jew when he lived there--was born in a > metaphysical Jewish Lithuania. In fact, I can recall a conversation I > had > with a rabbi in Vilnius recently, where I referred to my own ancesters > as > being "real" Litvaks, because they came from Lithuanian-speaking areas, > as > opposed to the Litvaks living in Polish or Belarusian areas. He looked > at > me and repeated "real Litvaks!?" as though I had committed an ethnic > slur > by questioning the authenticity of Jews from places like Vitebsk or > Grodno. > Jules Levin (a real Litvak, grandparents from Shaky and Kovno) -------------------------------------------------- What's your MailBox address? - http://mailbox.hu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU Thu Jun 13 15:45:20 2002 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:45:20 -0700 Subject: Wilno/Vilnius In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020612193025.02908200@mail.ucr.edu> Message-ID: > Vilnia (Vilnius) was truly a Belarusian capital. ............................................ > It is well-known that Vilnia historically has been a Belarusian >capital, but Joseph Stalin gave it to Lithuanians. This is news to me. When exactly was it a Belarusian capital? When did Stalin give it to Lithuanians? I am well aware of the fact that it used to be a Polish city (with a vibrant Jewish cultural community indeed) which later became ethnically Lithuanian. We have Milosz-Venclova correspondence on the subject of the city as 20th century testimony. So when was it Belarusian? AI _____________ Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Mass. Ave. NW Washington, DC 20016 phone: (202) 885-2387 fax: (202) 885-1076 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Thu Jun 13 12:47:07 2002 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:47:07 +0200 Subject: Litvakes (was: Hebrew revival) In-Reply-To: <3D0815B4.BEEE7E73@slavic.umass.edu> Message-ID: This makes sense for me too. Thanks for your clarifications. I've never seen the term "Lite" before, and I thought that "Litviak" is just the most appropriate word and covers all of the GDL Jews. By the way, I've also been to Hlubokaje (Gluboke as you spelled it) in Vitebsk region, my grandparents come from a town just 40-minutes ride from Hlubokaje. Regards, Uladzimir "Robert A. Rothstein" wrote: >I would disagree slightly with my friend Jules Levin's comment that > Eliezer Ben-Yehuda "was born in a metaphysical Jewish Lithuania." He > was born in the area that Yiddish-speaking Jews called "Lite" (two > syllables), which should not be identified with Lithuania (at least in > any recent sense, "recent" here meaning the last several hundred > years). Jewish Lite corresponds roughly to the non-Ukrainian parts of > the historical Grand Duchy of Lithuania, i.e., the ethnographically > Lithuanian and Belarusian parts, plus some ethnographically Latvian > territory. So translating "Litvak" as "Lithuanian Jew" is a misleading > shorthand, as is calling Ben-Yehuda's birthplace ("Lushki" in its > Yiddish spelling) a "Lithuanian village." > Bob Rothstein (a 3/4 Litvak, with grandparents from Gluboke, Vidz > and Loyder [Vitebsker gubernye]) -------------------------------------------------- What's your MailBox address? - http://mailbox.hu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Thu Jun 13 12:52:07 2002 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:52:07 +0200 Subject: Vilnia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Check this out - http://www.knihi.com/pytanni/131.html (150 questions from the history of Belarus. Question number 131) Alina Israeli wrote: >> Vilnia (Vilnius) was truly a Belarusian capital. > -------------------------------------------------- What's your MailBox address? - http://mailbox.hu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU Thu Jun 13 16:54:44 2002 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:54:44 -0700 Subject: Vilnius In-Reply-To: <20020613125208.28241.qmail@web2.mailbox.hu> Message-ID: >Check this out - http://www.knihi.com/pytanni/131.html >(150 questions from the history of Belarus. Question number 131) > > >Alina Israeli wrote: > >>> Vilnia (Vilnius) was truly a Belarusian capital. #131 gives an interesting view of history. Between 1918 and 1931 Lithuania was independent. Lots of different ethnic groups could have considered Wilno/Vilnius their unofficial capital, Jews among them. (Some 20 years ago I met an old man in New Haven, Connecticut who was a tailor there but who had graduated from Wilno's yeshiva way bach when. For him it was certainly a Jewish capital.) Stalin could have taken Vilnius away, but he certainly did not give Vilnius to Lithuanian, he just left it where it was (unlike the case of Crimea, for example), part of Lithuania. Unofficial capitals are nice, but one really cannot claim it for oneself, let's take Chicago, it has more Poles than Krakow and more Lithuanians than Kaunas (or something like that), but neither group can claim it. New York could be claimed by Puerto-Ricans, Italians and a few others, which does not make it a capital of Puerto-Rico. _____________ Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Mass. Ave. NW Washington, DC 20016 phone: (202) 885-2387 fax: (202) 885-1076 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From danko.sipka at ASU.EDU Thu Jun 13 14:00:59 2002 From: danko.sipka at ASU.EDU (Danko Sipka) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:00:59 -0700 Subject: Lexical minimum lists Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, Could anyone direct me to any kind of lexical minimum lists for Russian available on-line? For example, basic 1000 vocabs for an intro Russian course. Best, Danko Sipka sipkadan at main.amu.edu.pl | Danko.Sipka at asu.edu http://main.amu.edu.pl/~sipkadan | http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From AATSEEL at COMPUSERVE.COM Thu Jun 13 21:56:15 2002 From: AATSEEL at COMPUSERVE.COM (Jerry) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:56:15 -0400 Subject: NCOLCTL: 2002 mini-grant call for proposals -- DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS 12 JULY Message-ID: The following is a courtesy cross-posting. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jflevin at MAIL.UCR.EDU Fri Jun 14 00:36:50 2002 From: jflevin at MAIL.UCR.EDU (jflevin at MAIL.UCR.EDU) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:36:50 -0700 Subject: Wilno/Vilnius In-Reply-To: Message-ID: At 08:45 AM 6/13/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > Vilnia (Vilnius) was truly a Belarusian capital. > >............................................ > > > It is well-known that Vilnia historically has been a Belarusian > >capital, but Joseph Stalin gave it to Lithuanians. > > >This is news to me. When exactly was it a Belarusian capital? When did >Stalin give it to Lithuanians? I am well aware of the fact that it used to >be a Polish city (with a vibrant Jewish cultural community indeed) which >later became ethnically Lithuanian. In 1919, at the Versailles negotiations, the status of Vilna/Wilno/Vilnius was under discussion. The largest ethnic community in the city--the Jews--sent a delegation to express its support for LITHUANIAN sovereignty over the city. The treaty of Versailles awarded Vilnius to Lithuania. (Partly as a reward for Jewish support, Lithuania in the 20's had the most self-governing Jewish community, with official parliamentary representation, in Europe.) In the meantime, a Polish army conquered that little corner, including the city, and occupied it, in violation of the treaty of Versailles. For this reason, Lithuania did not exchange diplomatic recognition with Poland until the big boys--Germany and the USSR--forced them to in 1937. There was a deadly skirmish at the border initiating this now forgotten international incident. In 1940 Stalin restored Vilnius to its legal (if the Treaty of Versailles can be said to have any legal status) owner--Lithuania. It was a devil's deal--in return bourgeois Lithuania was forced to accept USSR military bases. Funny thing, in all this history the geographic entity "Belarus" never came up... I am very familiar with Vilnius, both Soviet and free. I've met and talked to many Lithuanians, Jews, Russians, Poles who reside in the city. I think in all that time ONE taxi driver (taxis were my daily means of transportation and I always struck up conversations with the drivers) identified himself as a Belarusian. Of course, the peasants at the farmers' markets from the surrounding areas were obviously Slavic, and no doubt would be identified as Belarusian by professional Slavicists, but they considered themselves Polish if Catholic, and "Russian" if Orthodox. They called their language "prosta mova". Jules Levin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET Fri Jun 14 02:48:23 2002 From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 22:48:23 -0400 Subject: Wilno/Vilnius Message-ID: Exactly. Peasant population called themselves "tuteishiya", not sure of a name (in the absense of a political project of their own), and their language "prosta mova", as this was also a "class issue": those achiving (or aspiring to achieve) some upward social mobility had to drop, under any regime in the region of the last 200 years, their "peasant speak" as a belonging marker. It is an interesting cultural evidence that all characters, but the Polish nobility, in the books of Eliza Ozheszkova, speak that very "prosta mova". Shlomo Avineri argues correctly, in a way, that the borders of the former republics of the USSR that became independent states after 1991 reflect "the whims and fiats of old rulers and have little to do with either history or linguistic delineations". The big problem, though, is how to draw such lines "correctly," when nations, ethnic groups and states change over time their shape, name and mythology of origin, intermingle and overlap. Even bigger problem is the general basis for assigning territories to different categories of people (or the very idea of the "categories of people")... Elena Gapova, a 100% Borderlands' Mix ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: 13 June 2002 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Wilno/Vilnius > At 08:45 AM 6/13/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > > Vilnia (Vilnius) was truly a Belarusian capital. > > > >............................................ > > > > > It is well-known that Vilnia historically has been a Belarusian > > >capital, but Joseph Stalin gave it to Lithuanians. > > > > > >This is news to me. When exactly was it a Belarusian capital? When did > >Stalin give it to Lithuanians? I am well aware of the fact that it used to > >be a Polish city (with a vibrant Jewish cultural community indeed) which > >later became ethnically Lithuanian. > > In 1919, at the Versailles negotiations, the status of Vilna/Wilno/Vilnius > was under discussion. The largest ethnic community in the city--the > Jews--sent a delegation to express its support for LITHUANIAN sovereignty > over the city. The treaty of Versailles awarded Vilnius to Lithuania. > (Partly as a reward for Jewish support, Lithuania in the 20's had the most > self-governing Jewish community, with official parliamentary > representation, in Europe.) In the meantime, a Polish army conquered that > little corner, including the city, and occupied it, in violation of the > treaty of Versailles. For this reason, Lithuania did not exchange > diplomatic recognition with Poland until the big boys--Germany and the > USSR--forced them to in 1937. There was a deadly skirmish at the border > initiating this now forgotten international incident. In 1940 Stalin > restored Vilnius to its legal (if the Treaty of Versailles can be said to > have any legal status) owner--Lithuania. It was a devil's deal--in return > bourgeois Lithuania was forced to accept USSR military bases. Funny thing, > in all this history the geographic entity "Belarus" never came up... > > I am very familiar with Vilnius, both Soviet and free. I've met and talked > to many Lithuanians, Jews, Russians, Poles who reside in the city. I think > in all that time ONE taxi driver (taxis were my daily means of > transportation and I always struck up conversations with the drivers) > identified himself as a Belarusian. Of course, the peasants at the > farmers' markets from the surrounding areas were obviously Slavic, and no > doubt would be identified as Belarusian by professional Slavicists, but > they considered themselves Polish if Catholic, and "Russian" if > Orthodox. They called their language "prosta mova". > Jules Levin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET Fri Jun 14 03:16:17 2002 From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:16:17 -0400 Subject: Wilno/Vilnius Message-ID: Exactly. Peasant population called themselves "tuteishiya", not sure of a name (in the absense of a political project of their own), and their language "prosta mova", as this was also a "class issue": those achiving (or aspiring to achieve) some upward social mobility had to drop, under any regime in the region of the last 200 years, their "peasant speak" as a belonging marker. It is an interesting cultural evidence that all characters, but the Polish nobility, in the books of Eliza Ozheszkova, speak that very "prosta mova". Shlomo Avineri argues correctly, in a way, that the borders of the former republics of the USSR that became independent states after 1991 reflect "the whims and fiats of old rulers and have little to do with either history or linguistic delineations". The big problem, though, is how to draw such lines "correctly," when nations, ethnic groups and states change over time their shape, name and mythology of origin, intermingle and overlap. Even bigger problem is the general basis for assigning territories to different categories of people (or the very idea of the "categories of people")... Elena Gapova, a 100% Borderlands' Mix ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: 13 June 2002 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Wilno/Vilnius > At 08:45 AM 6/13/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > > Vilnia (Vilnius) was truly a Belarusian capital. > > > >............................................ > > > > > It is well-known that Vilnia historically has been a Belarusian > > >capital, but Joseph Stalin gave it to Lithuanians. > > > > > >This is news to me. When exactly was it a Belarusian capital? When did > >Stalin give it to Lithuanians? I am well aware of the fact that it used to > >be a Polish city (with a vibrant Jewish cultural community indeed) which > >later became ethnically Lithuanian. > > In 1919, at the Versailles negotiations, the status of Vilna/Wilno/Vilnius > was under discussion. The largest ethnic community in the city--the > Jews--sent a delegation to express its support for LITHUANIAN sovereignty > over the city. The treaty of Versailles awarded Vilnius to Lithuania. > (Partly as a reward for Jewish support, Lithuania in the 20's had the most > self-governing Jewish community, with official parliamentary > representation, in Europe.) In the meantime, a Polish army conquered that > little corner, including the city, and occupied it, in violation of the > treaty of Versailles. For this reason, Lithuania did not exchange > diplomatic recognition with Poland until the big boys--Germany and the > USSR--forced them to in 1937. There was a deadly skirmish at the border > initiating this now forgotten international incident. In 1940 Stalin > restored Vilnius to its legal (if the Treaty of Versailles can be said to > have any legal status) owner--Lithuania. It was a devil's deal--in return > bourgeois Lithuania was forced to accept USSR military bases. Funny thing, > in all this history the geographic entity "Belarus" never came up... > > I am very familiar with Vilnius, both Soviet and free. I've met and talked > to many Lithuanians, Jews, Russians, Poles who reside in the city. I think > in all that time ONE taxi driver (taxis were my daily means of > transportation and I always struck up conversations with the drivers) > identified himself as a Belarusian. Of course, the peasants at the > farmers' markets from the surrounding areas were obviously Slavic, and no > doubt would be identified as Belarusian by professional Slavicists, but > they considered themselves Polish if Catholic, and "Russian" if > Orthodox. They called their language "prosta mova". > Jules Levin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From murphydt at SLU.EDU Fri Jun 14 23:05:58 2002 From: murphydt at SLU.EDU (David T. Murphy) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:05:58 -0500 Subject: Correction Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, In my recent call for papers for the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies I wrote the following: "In addition to the opportunity to interact with medievalists working in Western Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East -- approximately 300 in all -- . . ." well, I left out a zero: it should have read "approximately 3000 in all". There are more than 3000 Medievalists at Kalamazoo each year from all over the globe. So you see the importance of Slavic Medievalists being better represented. My apologies for the goof. Best to all, Dave Murphy David T. Murphy, Ph.D., Director Office:(314) 977-7180 Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Fax: (314) 977-3704 Saint Louis University Email: cmrs at slu.edu 221 N. Grand Boulevard Home: (314) 664-6068 St. Louis, MO 63103 http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/cmrs/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kajuco at HOTMAIL.COM Sat Jun 15 15:17:42 2002 From: kajuco at HOTMAIL.COM (Katie Costello) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 16:17:42 +0100 Subject: official/police Russian documents Message-ID: I wonder if anyone can help me find, online, examples of official Russian official/police documents. I am looking for Russian equivalents of the 'reading of one's rights' (You do not have to say anything, but anything you may say...), any other declarations that have to be read out to the accused/convicted, the marriage certificate etc. This is to help me with the syllabus of the IOL diploma in interpreting. Thank you in advance. Katie Costello _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From creativeserv at ATT.NET Sat Jun 15 15:51:15 2002 From: creativeserv at ATT.NET (elana pick) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 11:51:15 -0400 Subject: official/police Russian documents In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, Try the following: http://www.lenta.ru/world/2000/06/27/miranda/_Printed.htm http://jurqa.hut.ru/all.docs/u/a/e9r6dr1i.html Hope it helps, Elana -----Original Message----- From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Katie Costello Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 11:18 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] official/police Russian documents I wonder if anyone can help me find, online, examples of official Russian official/police documents. I am looking for Russian equivalents of the 'reading of one's rights' (You do not have to say anything, but anything you may say...), any other declarations that have to be read out to the accused/convicted, the marriage certificate etc. This is to help me with the syllabus of the IOL diploma in interpreting. Thank you in advance. Katie Costello _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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To access from my faculty page, click on Ukrainian House and follow directions to the most recent updates (or view older versions, if you like). Right now the site showcases material culture from Central Ukraine. There is a digital model of a real village house in the Cherkas'ka oblast' that can be viewed as a 360 degree panorama using QuickTime. There are 3-D models of costumes from the same region. A rushnyk (ritual towel) unit will be coming soon, probably in a month, and ritual units, on the wedding, baptism, funeral should follow. Any comments or suggestions about the site are most welcome. These need to go to me rather than to the list. I am nkm at virginia.edu. Natalie Kononenko ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Tue Jun 18 09:51:25 2002 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:51:25 +0200 Subject: Litviaki that wrote in Belarusian using Hebrew alphabet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, Considering the overall interest (including some private emails that I've received), I've decided to post here one more interesting link regarding the Greatlithuanian (Belarusan) Jews and their language: http://belarus8.tripod.com/litvaki/yiddish.htm "Belarusian-Yiddish Writings" Regards, Uladzimir http://www.pravapis.org/ -------------------------------------------------- What's your MailBox address? - http://mailbox.hu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Young at ACTR.ORG Tue Jun 18 20:49:11 2002 From: Young at ACTR.ORG (Billie Young) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:49:11 -0400 Subject: Job Opening Message-ID: Program Assistant Muskie/Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship Program Washington, DC Position Description SUMMARY: The Program Assistant for the Muskie/Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship Program is an entry-level position, reporting to the Muskie Program Manager. Working in conjunction with other program assistants and program officers, the incumbent is responsible for providing administrative and logistical support to fellows throughout the academic and internship components of the program. The position also requires coordination of work with staff in field offices in the CIS. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From natalia.pylypiuk at UALBERTA.CA Wed Jun 19 16:36:31 2002 From: natalia.pylypiuk at UALBERTA.CA (Natalia Pylypiuk) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:36:31 -0600 Subject: Job Opening: Ukrainian Folklore In-Reply-To: Message-ID: UKRAINIAN FOLKLORE AND CULTURE The Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track position in Ukrainian Folklore, effective July 1, 2003, at the rank of Assistant Professor. Entry level salary for assistant professors is $45,374, currently under re-negotiation. The successful candidates will have a PhD or equivalent in Ukrainian Folklore, native or near-native proficiency in Ukrainian, demonstrated research competence, and strong teaching potential. Applicants should be capable of teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. The successful applicant will demonstrate familiarity with the diversity of contemporary folklore theory and method as well as knowledge of Ukrainian traditions including oral lore, customary lore and material culture in the 20th century and their foundations in earlier times. S/he will have expertise in one or more of the following specializations: ethnomusicology, textiles, paradigms of peasant/national/popular culture, Ukrainian cultural history, gender studies, diaspora culture, ethnographic methods, general folklore and cultural theory, archiving and internet-based resources. In addition, expertise in Canadian ethnic experience or a strong willingness to develop this expertise is essential. The successful applicant will be energetic, willing to participate with other colleagues in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies as well as the Canadian Centre for Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography. The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the broader program in Ukrainian Studies in language, literature, or linguistics. Fluency in another Slavic language, or in a Germanic or Romance language would be an asset. Applications, including resume, all university transcripts, and three letters of recommendation, should be sent directly to Dr. Donald Bruce, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies: Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Arts 200, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E6. E-mail enquiries may be directed to dolores.wohland at ualberta.ca; Tel: (780) 492-1997; Fax: (780) 492-9106. Closing date for this position: November 15, 2002. Please consult our website at www.mlcs.ca. The records arising from this competition will be managed in accordance with provisions of the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPP). The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are dedicated to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. If suitable Canadian citizens and permanent residents cannot be found, other individuals will be considered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU Wed Jun 19 18:29:29 2002 From: MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU (Nicole Monnier) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:29:29 -0500 Subject: Call for articles In-Reply-To: <3CF75F3E.25699.AB6BD9@localhost> Message-ID: Tim! Didn't know whether you're doing any theatre stuff these days . . . If you are, you might find this interesting. N. >The periodical Balagan ¯ Slavic drama, theater and cinema is calling >for articles for ist next edition >upcoming end of the year. >It is the goal of Balagan to encompass the entire historical and >geographical range of Slavic drama, >theatre and cinema. Special attention will be paid to smaller Slavic >cultures and ealrlier historical periods. >The unique profile of Balagan includes both documents from the >history of drama and theatre, as well >as articles on film. The document section includes significant >historical texts on the history and theory of >Slavic drama and theatre, most of which will be translatedinto >German as a Western language for the first >time. All documents will be supplied with commentaires. In addition, >Balagan provides a survey of the >current Situation in Slavic drama, theatre and film will be provided. >Balagan is published by Walter Koschmal (Regensburg), and Herta >Schmid (Potsdam) in co-operation >with J. Douglas Clayton (Ottawa), Jiri Holy (Prag), Magdalena >Medaric (Zagreb), Dobrochna Ratajczak >(Poznan) and others. >Balagan is published twice a year (usually in summer and winter). >The publication languages are >German and English. >The deadline for contributions for the next issue will be August 16th. >Feel free to have a look at our homepage: >http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/slavistik/slav_reihen/balagan/index.html > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Dr. Nicole Monnier Assistant Professor of Russian German & Russian Studies 450 GCB University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 phone: (573)882-3370 fax: (573)884-8456 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU Wed Jun 19 18:32:11 2002 From: MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU (Nicole Monnier) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:32:11 -0500 Subject: Apologies for mis-posting Message-ID: Seelangtsy! My apologies for the inadvertent post . . . the Missouri humidity has addled my brain. Repentantly, Nicole -- x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Dr. Nicole Monnier Assistant Professor of Russian German & Russian Studies 450 GCB University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 phone: (573)882-3370 fax: (573)884-8456 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eginzbur at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU Thu Jun 20 17:23:52 2002 From: eginzbur at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU (elizabeth ginzburg) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:23:52 -0500 Subject: JOB OPENING at U of C CEERES Message-ID: I am posting this for Richard Hellie, please direct your messages to hell at midway.uchicago.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:48:14 -0500 (CDT) From: richard hellie To: elizabeth ginzburg Subject: Title VI funding (fwd) The University of Chicago Center for East European, Russian/Eurasian Study CEERES is expecting to have considerable funds to hire people on a per course basis next year (most likely, for Winter and Spring, 2003) who are able to teach about Islamic-related subjects in our geographical area--Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Russian Federation, and Central Asia. It might even be possible to extend this to Uigurs, who are the basic population of Xinjiang. Initially it appeared as though CEERES would have funding to hire personnel to teach 4 "history courses" of Central Asia and 3 "history courses" of Bosnia (the Balkans). Subsequent discussion has expanded this from "history" to anthropology, political science, religion, and/or sociology. A notice from the Department of Education yesterday leads me to believe that CEERES might be able to pay for as many as 14 such courses, rather than the initially proposed 7. Richard Hellie Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Russian History Chair, Russian Civilization course and College program Director, East European, Russian, and Eurasian Center = CEERES Send mail to: SS Box 78, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-1587 Office: SS 204-A Phone: (773) 702-8377 FAX: (773) 702-7550 e-mail: hell at midway.uchicago.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From aantolin at BOWDOIN.EDU Thu Jun 20 20:16:38 2002 From: aantolin at BOWDOIN.EDU (Anthony F. Antolini) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:16:38 -0400 Subject: How does one suspend subscription for vacation? Message-ID: Please let me know how to suspend my subscription for a vacation period. Many thanks! Anthony Antolini Bowdoin College Music Department ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jflevin at UCRAC1.UCR.EDU Thu Jun 20 20:57:59 2002 From: jflevin at UCRAC1.UCR.EDU (Jules Levin) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:57:59 -0700 Subject: Need collegial advice In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: I turn to you for advice. I am retiring from my position at the University of California, Riverside as of this June 30. I am packing up and clearing out my office. I hope to carry on research and publications using the facilities of the UCLA libraries and departments, near where I will be living, but I have a major space problem regarding my office books and journals. My Baltic ling books I am donating to the UCLA Indo-European library, Slavic books to the UCLA Slavic dept. library, but I suspect neither facility will want my long run of SEEJ, much less LANGUAGE, and some other runs. I simply will not have the space in retirement to keep them. Here are my questions: Do such journal runs have any monetary value, either intrinsically, or as tax deductible donations to libraries? What are some ways of disposal (other than dumping in the trash) that would at least benefit the recipients, and secondarily, me (or at least not cost too much)? Any advice, suggestions, would be appreciated, off-line if you wish. Jules Levin University of California, Riverside (soon to be Emeritus, UCLA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From dgoldfar at BARNARD.EDU Thu Jun 20 21:25:32 2002 From: dgoldfar at BARNARD.EDU (David Goldfarb) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:25:32 -0400 Subject: Need collegial advice In-Reply-To: <4.1.20020620134608.00b89e70@mail.ucr.edu> Message-ID: Complete runs of _SEEJ_, _Russian Review_, _Slavic Review_, and many other journals are available electronically in the full-text searchable JSTOR database, so I suspect libraries would not be too interested. David A. Goldfarb Assistant Professor Department of Slavic Languages Barnard College Columbia University 3009 Broadway dgoldfarb at barnard.edu New York, NY 10027-6598 http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Jules Levin wrote: > Dear Colleagues: > I turn to you for advice. I am retiring from my position at the University > of California, Riverside as of this June 30. I am packing up and clearing > out my office. I hope to carry on research and publications using the > facilities of the UCLA libraries and departments, near where I will be > living, but I have a major space problem regarding my office books and > journals. My Baltic ling books I am donating to the UCLA Indo-European > library, Slavic books to the UCLA Slavic dept. library, but I suspect > neither facility will want my long run of SEEJ, much less LANGUAGE, and > some other runs. I simply will not have the space in retirement to keep > them. Here are my questions: > Do such journal runs have any monetary value, either intrinsically, or as > tax deductible donations to libraries? What are some ways of disposal > (other than dumping in the trash) that would at least benefit the > recipients, and secondarily, me (or at least not cost too much)? Any > advice, suggestions, would be appreciated, off-line if you wish. > Jules Levin > University of California, Riverside > (soon to be Emeritus, UCLA) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From AMandelker at AOL.COM Thu Jun 20 21:33:39 2002 From: AMandelker at AOL.COM (AMandelker at AOL.COM) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:33:39 EDT Subject: Need collegial advice Message-ID: You might investigate Slavic Reading Rooms in various graduate programs, who do not already have the run of the journals you mention. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gpgandolfo at IOL.IT Fri Jun 21 08:40:57 2002 From: gpgandolfo at IOL.IT (GP Gandolfo) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:40:57 +0200 Subject: ISTOR web site Message-ID: I just learned that there is a database by the name ISTOR where I could get to at least a few among the most important Slavic journals , suche as Slavic and East European language Journal, The Slavic Review and the like. Can any seelanger help me in finding it on the web? Will I be able to get to back issues and read, let's say, a whole article? Thank you so muche for your help Giampaoo Gandolfo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From K.R.Hauge at EAST.UIO.NO Fri Jun 21 09:23:12 2002 From: K.R.Hauge at EAST.UIO.NO (Kjetil =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E5?= Hauge) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:23:12 +0200 Subject: ISTOR web site In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020621103054.00a7c490@popmail.iol.it> Message-ID: > I just learned that there is a database by the name ISTOR where I could www.jstor.org -- -- Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo. Phone +47/22856710, fax +47/22854140 -- (this msg sent from home, +47/67148424, fax +1/5084372444) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kalbouss at MAC.COM Fri Jun 21 15:45:04 2002 From: kalbouss at MAC.COM (george kalbouss) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:45:04 -0700 Subject: Need collegial advice In-Reply-To: <4.1.20020620134608.00b89e70@mail.ucr.edu> Message-ID: Here is what I did with my extra books and journals, it might be of help. First of all, there are lots of undergraduate Russian houses around that would appreciate expanding their libraries. Secondly, there are many Russian undergraduate programs about in various colleges which, due to budgets, late starts in programs, etc., haven't developed extensive libraries. Third, there are lots of Community Colleges, many with Russian speaking populations, which would also appreciate these items. I followed my first impulse and donated books and journals to the college where my daughter attended. I was able to cull their library holdings and give them what they didn't have. Then, I gave a substantial amount of books to the college's Russian house. Do you have any children, grandchildren, other relatives, who attended colleges with Russian programs? What about former graduate students who are now faculty, and frequently the only ones teaching Russian? I was surprised that most libraries do not have complete runs of journals such as SEEJ or Slavic Review, and appreciate the fillers. What was left over I gave to a community college which supported us when Ohio State was trying to close down our department. The gifts are tax deductible, so you can save a little on taxes. Not being a tax lawyer I hesitate to give more advice than this, except to say that Russian books, with their limited editions, tend to go up in value, rather than down. A lot of a book's value is in the eye of the beholder, so I wouldn't be claiming huge amounts of money. Good luck George Kalbouss ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mlg at KU.EDU Fri Jun 21 13:02:39 2002 From: mlg at KU.EDU (Marc L. Greenberg) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:02:39 -0400 Subject: Denial of US visas to Russians Message-ID: Dear colleagues, In the last two weeks three students from Russia, who were to attend graduate school at the University of Kansas this fall, were denied visas at the St. Petersburg US Consulate. Two were destined for our department, one for another department. All were turned down for allegedly seeking economic advantage. This is unprecedented for us. Are other departments have similar experiences? Best regards, Marc -------------------------------------------------------- Marc L. Greenberg Chair and Professor Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Kansas - Wescoe Hall 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2133 Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA Tel. and voice-mail: (785) 864-2349 Fax: (785) 864-4298; E-mail: mlg at ku.edu http://www.ku.edu/~slavic/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From laurengl at PTWI.NET Fri Jun 21 14:34:53 2002 From: laurengl at PTWI.NET (Lauren Leighton) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:34:53 -0500 Subject: Need collegial advice In-Reply-To: <4.1.20020620134608.00b89e70@mail.ucr.edu> Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Jules Levin Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:58 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] Need collegial advice Jules: You might query interest of the Pushkin Center here at UW, probably via David Bethea at dmbethea at facstaff.wisc.edu. Dear Colleagues: I turn to you for advice. I am retiring from my position at the University of California, Riverside as of this June 30. I am packing up and clearing out my office. I hope to carry on research and publications using the facilities of the UCLA libraries and departments, near where I will be living, but I have a major space problem regarding my office books and journals. My Baltic ling books I am donating to the UCLA Indo-European library, Slavic books to the UCLA Slavic dept. library, but I suspect neither facility will want my long run of SEEJ, much less LANGUAGE, and some other runs. I simply will not have the space in retirement to keep them. Here are my questions: Do such journal runs have any monetary value, either intrinsically, or as tax deductible donations to libraries? What are some ways of disposal (other than dumping in the trash) that would at least benefit the recipients, and secondarily, me (or at least not cost too much)? Any advice, suggestions, would be appreciated, off-line if you wish. Jules Levin University of California, Riverside (soon to be Emeritus, UCLA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From julia at WETSNOW.COM Fri Jun 21 14:29:24 2002 From: julia at WETSNOW.COM (Julia Tulovsky) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:29:24 -0400 Subject: Denial of US visas to Russians Message-ID: This is exactly what happened to a friend of mine several years ago. He was lucky to have a supervisor here in the US who, in fury, called the consulate and managed to find a higher official. After their conversation my friend received a visa. In general the atmosphere in the US Consulates in Russia is very humiliating for visa applicants. They normally refuse parents to visit there children here and children to visit parents and so on. It seams to be a matter of luck to receive a US visa, since they don't seam to have precise rules and everything depends on a particular consul's opinion. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc L. Greenberg" To: Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:02 AM Subject: [SEELANGS] Denial of US visas to Russians > Dear colleagues, > In the last two weeks three students from Russia, who were to attend > graduate school at the University of Kansas this fall, were denied visas at > the St. Petersburg US Consulate. Two were destined for our department, one > for another department. All were turned down for allegedly seeking economic > advantage. This is unprecedented for us. Are other departments have similar > experiences? > Best regards, > Marc > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Marc L. Greenberg > Chair and Professor > Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures > University of Kansas - Wescoe Hall > 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2133 > Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA > Tel. and voice-mail: (785) 864-2349 > Fax: (785) 864-4298; E-mail: mlg at ku.edu > http://www.ku.edu/~slavic/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From natalia.pylypiuk at UALBERTA.CA Fri Jun 21 14:48:14 2002 From: natalia.pylypiuk at UALBERTA.CA (Natalia Pylypiuk) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 08:48:14 -0600 Subject: new closing date: Ukrainian Folklore In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Kindly note that the closing date has been extended from November 15th to the 30th. Greetings, NP ||||| UKRAINIAN FOLKLORE AND CULTURE The Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, invites applications for a tenure-track position in Ukrainian Folklore, effective July 1, 2003, at the rank of Assistant Professor. Entry level salary for assistant professors is $45,374, currently under re-negotiation. The successful candidate will have a PhD or equivalent in Ukrainian Folklore, native or near-native proficiency in Ukrainian, demonstrated research competence, and strong teaching potential. Applicants should be capable of teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. The successful applicant will demonstrate familiarity with the diversity of contemporary folklore theory and method as well as knowledge of Ukrainian traditions including oral lore, customary lore and material culture in the 20th century and their foundations in earlier times. S/he will have expertise in one or more of the following specializations: ethnomusicology, textiles, paradigms of peasant/national/popular culture, Ukrainian cultural history, gender studies, diaspora culture, ethnographic methods, general folklore and cultural theory, archiving and internet-based resources. In addition, expertise in Canadian ethnic experience or a strong willingness to develop this expertise is essential. The successful applicant will be energetic, willing to participate with other colleagues in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies as well as the Canadian Centre for Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography. The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the broader program in Ukrainian Studies in language, literature, or linguistics. Fluency in another Slavic language, or in a Germanic or Romance language would be an asset. Applications, including resume, all university transcripts, and three letters of recommendation, should be sent directly to Dr. Donald Bruce, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies: Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Arts 200, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E6. E-mail enquiries may be directed to dolores.wohland at ualberta.ca; Tel: (780) 492-1997; Fax: (780) 492-9106. Closing date for this position: November 30, 2002. Please consult our website at www.mlcs.ca. The records arising from this competition will be managed in accordance with provisions of the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPP). The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are dedicated to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. If suitable Canadian citizens and permanent residents cannot be found, other individuals will be considered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From todaro at ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU Fri Jun 21 16:00:51 2002 From: todaro at ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU (Don Todaro) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:00:51 -0500 Subject: Denial of US visas to Russians In-Reply-To: <002301c21930$0da7caa0$3400a8c0@snoopy> Message-ID: You might also try the office of your local congressional representative. I ran into a brick wall with the St. Petersburg consulate for quite awhile in 1995 until I asked my rep. to get involved. On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Julia Tulovsky wrote: > This is exactly what happened to a friend of mine several years ago. He was > lucky to have a supervisor here in the US who, in fury, called the consulate > and managed to find a higher official. After their conversation my friend > received a visa. > In general the atmosphere in the US Consulates in Russia is very humiliating > for visa applicants. They normally refuse parents to visit there children > here and children to visit parents and so on. It seams to be a matter of > luck to receive a US visa, since they don't seam to have precise rules and > everything depends on a particular consul's opinion. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marc L. Greenberg" > To: > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:02 AM > Subject: [SEELANGS] Denial of US visas to Russians > > > > Dear colleagues, > > In the last two weeks three students from Russia, who were to attend > > graduate school at the University of Kansas this fall, were denied visas > at > > the St. Petersburg US Consulate. Two were destined for our department, one > > for another department. All were turned down for allegedly seeking > economic > > advantage. This is unprecedented for us. Are other departments have > similar > > experiences? > > Best regards, > > Marc > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Marc L. Greenberg > > Chair and Professor > > Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures > > University of Kansas - Wescoe Hall > > 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2133 > > Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA > > Tel. and voice-mail: (785) 864-2349 > > Fax: (785) 864-4298; E-mail: mlg at ku.edu > > http://www.ku.edu/~slavic/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From AATSEEL at COMPUSERVE.COM Fri Jun 21 16:10:46 2002 From: AATSEEL at COMPUSERVE.COM (Jerry) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:10:46 -0400 Subject: SEEJ back issues Message-ID: Colleagues, Jules Levin has asked what might become of his back issues of SEEJ. It has been noted here that the complete run of SEEJ is now available on JSTOR, so access thereto is feasible world-wide. That doesn't mean, however, that old SEEJs should be dumped. Please pass the word that there are still libraries that occasionally write to AATSEEL about filling holes (for whatever reason) in their physical SEEJ holdings. We try to keep a minimum stock of back issues on hand for that very purpose. For most issues we have all we need; but individual issues are sometimes in short supply. We are now doing an update of our inventory, and will post here, in the next few months, a list of what we'd like to receive. Thanks, Jerry * * * * * Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin Executive Director, AATSEEL 7841 E. Camino Montaraz (NOTE NEW STREET ADDRESS) Tucson, AZ 85715-3713 Office phone/fax/messages: 520/885-2663 Cell phone: 520/661-8347 Email: AATSEEL at compuserve.com AFTER June 30, 2002, please direct all AATSEEL inquiries to: Kathleen E. Dillon Executive Director, AATSEEL P.O. Box 7039 Berkeley CA 94707-2306 Email: AATSEEL at Earthlink.net AATSEEL Home Page: 2002 conference: 27-30 December, New York, NY AATSEEL can now accept VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, AM. EXPRESS * * * * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From shevelenko at MAIL.LANCK.NET Fri Jun 21 16:11:09 2002 From: shevelenko at MAIL.LANCK.NET (Irina Shevelenko) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 20:11:09 +0400 Subject: Denial of US visas to Russians Message-ID: Dear Mr. Greenberg and others interested in this matter, Any denial of visa by an American consulate to your prospective student can and should be protested. I don't know the statistics of visa denials to students, but such things do happen. And if the university struggles, it (and its students) wins. Consuls in the consulate do everything to prevent this struggle. They tell the applicant that it makes no sense for him (her) to reapply, because s/he will be denied the visa again, etc. Please note that no laws regulate issuing of American visas to foreigners; everything is regulated by some restricted instructions and, ultimately, by how this or that individual holding the position of consul interprets them in every given case. Your students were certainly denied visas not for seeking economic advantage; they must have been denied visas because they were unable to prove they would return to Russia after the completion of their program of study. Such things are impossible to prove, which is known to all and every consul. (I mean, every proof can be declined as insufficient.) It is not illegal for any foreign student studying in the US to then stay in the US permanently (although in some cases restrictions apply), if s/he is hired by an employer who can hire foreigners (and those are numerous). Hence, denial of student visas is the only instrument of preventing those future hires. Why is this important to prevent? -- this question can be better answered by someone else. Here is what you as a university can do. Firstly, you have to win the support of your Dean's office, ideally -- your President's office. The higher the rank of the official signing your letter to the consul the better. Your letter must ask the consul to reconsider his decision etc. (it will help to note the full name of the applicant and the exact reason for visa denial as it was stated). In your letter, you may want to reverse the logic of the consul. It is not the student who chose to go to your university. It is your university which has decided to offer him (her) admission to your program; that admission was on a competitive basis, and your school wants to have its "chosen" students in place. If your program relies on those students as TAs, that should be mentioned, too. Ultimately, your letter must convey the feeling that your university will struggle for each and every student to whom the admission was offered (and who accepted it). Your letter must be addressed to: Consul, Visa Section, Consulate General of USA, St. Petersburg, etc. (I am sure your students can supply you with the complete address as well as fax number). It is better to fax it there and to mail it by some fast mail. Plus, supply your student with the copy of this letter. Why would the consul change his mind? Well, because there are things they want to avoid by all means: a flavor of scandal, publications in press, more protest letters, protest letters going to their bosses in Washington, DC. Also, please note. It is generally believed that a certain percentage of those student visa certificates are "fake" ones, i.e., are somehow (God knows how) issued to individuals who were not really admitted to any program. If you don't struggle for your student, you will support consulate's suspicion that this student's visa certificate was a "fake" one. And it is certainly not in the interests of your university. Also, consuls are testing your university by these denials. If you don't protest now, they will deny visas more. By these denials they simply want to discourage universities from offering admissions to students from certain countries (i.e., Russia). Whether they are smarter than the academic community is to be determined. In addition, please advise your students to acquire some kind of letter from some kind of employer (an academic one, preferably) that would state, that this or that employer is interested in hiring this student upon his completion of a graduate degree. This will allow the consul to pretend that he is changing his mind because of the new circumstances. They are bureaucrats before and after all! Good luck! Irina Shevelenko, St. Petersburg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From todaro at ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU Fri Jun 21 16:29:23 2002 From: todaro at ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU (Don Todaro) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:29:23 -0500 Subject: SEEJ back issues In-Reply-To: <200206211211_MC3-1-337-5E0E@compuserve.com> Message-ID: One note on JSTOR: it does have a fee structure based on the size of a library and the number and types of journals an institution or group of institutions wants access to. They also have individual subscriptions as well, but not all libraries, or individuals, would necessarily have access to the Slavic, or other, titles in JSTOR. On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Jerry wrote: > Colleagues, > > Jules Levin has asked what might become of his back issues of SEEJ. It has > been noted here that the complete run of SEEJ is now available on JSTOR, so > access thereto is feasible world-wide. > > That doesn't mean, however, that old SEEJs should be dumped. Please pass > the word that there are still libraries that occasionally write to AATSEEL > about filling holes (for whatever reason) in their physical SEEJ holdings. > We try to keep a minimum stock of back issues on hand for that very > purpose. > > For most issues we have all we need; but individual issues are sometimes in > short supply. We are now doing an update of our inventory, and will post > here, in the next few months, a list of what we'd like to receive. > > Thanks, > > Jerry > > * * * * * > Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin > Executive Director, AATSEEL > 7841 E. Camino Montaraz (NOTE NEW STREET ADDRESS) > Tucson, AZ 85715-3713 > Office phone/fax/messages: 520/885-2663 > Cell phone: 520/661-8347 > Email: AATSEEL at compuserve.com > > AFTER June 30, 2002, please direct all AATSEEL inquiries to: > Kathleen E. Dillon > Executive Director, AATSEEL > P.O. Box 7039 > Berkeley CA 94707-2306 > Email: AATSEEL at Earthlink.net > > AATSEEL Home Page: > 2002 conference: 27-30 December, New York, NY > AATSEEL can now accept VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, AM. EXPRESS > * * * * * > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From deyrupma at SHU.EDU Fri Jun 21 16:32:09 2002 From: deyrupma at SHU.EDU (deyrupma at SHU.EDU) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:32:09 -0400 Subject: SEEJ back issues Message-ID: JSTOR has different collections it makes available to libraries. Although those with a strong Slavic collection will have access to Arts and Sciences 2, which contains SEEJ, other libraries do not. The print journals are still valuable for many library collections. Marta Deyrup *********************************** Marta Deyrup Assistant Professor/Librarian Seton Hall University Libraries 400 South Orange Avenue South Orange, NJ 07079 973-275-2223 http://pirate.shu.edu/~deyrupma Jerry cc: Sent by: Slavic & Subject: [SEELANGS] SEEJ back issues East European Languages and Literature list 06/21/2002 12:10 PM Please respond to Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list Colleagues, Jules Levin has asked what might become of his back issues of SEEJ. It has been noted here that the complete run of SEEJ is now available on JSTOR, so access thereto is feasible world-wide. That doesn't mean, however, that old SEEJs should be dumped. Please pass the word that there are still libraries that occasionally write to AATSEEL about filling holes (for whatever reason) in their physical SEEJ holdings. We try to keep a minimum stock of back issues on hand for that very purpose. For most issues we have all we need; but individual issues are sometimes in short supply. We are now doing an update of our inventory, and will post here, in the next few months, a list of what we'd like to receive. Thanks, Jerry * * * * * Gerard L. (Jerry) Ervin Executive Director, AATSEEL 7841 E. Camino Montaraz (NOTE NEW STREET ADDRESS) Tucson, AZ 85715-3713 Office phone/fax/messages: 520/885-2663 Cell phone: 520/661-8347 Email: AATSEEL at compuserve.com AFTER June 30, 2002, please direct all AATSEEL inquiries to: Kathleen E. Dillon Executive Director, AATSEEL P.O. Box 7039 Berkeley CA 94707-2306 Email: AATSEEL at Earthlink.net AATSEEL Home Page: 2002 conference: 27-30 December, New York, NY AATSEEL can now accept VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER, AM. EXPRESS * * * * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Put her letter on your hard drive for easy reference. Raise hell and ask for help from people as high up as you can get. The problem is particularly bad in St Petersburg where consular offices seem to take the trouble to be insulting and/or humiliating in addition to overtly nasty and just plain wrong. It isn't just students that they are unreasonably denying visas. Also professors coming to professional meetings, and parents coming to visit children. We can complain and someone _might_ listen, while the Russian knows that any complaint can kill any chances in the future. Genevra Gerhart http://www.GenevraGerhart.com ggerhart at attbi.com 206-329-0053 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From shevelenko at MAIL.LANCK.NET Fri Jun 21 19:11:55 2002 From: shevelenko at MAIL.LANCK.NET (Irina Shevelenko) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:11:55 +0400 Subject: Denial of US visas to Russians Message-ID: I just wanted to add, that, yes, contacting your congressional rep. is a very good way to go about visa denials. But it is the step of the last hope (unless you happen to have any "higher" connections). In many cases, a letter signed by a high-ranking university official will suffice. They understand in the consulates that if the university begins the struggle, it won't give it up. That's why they put so many efforts into intimidating the applicants and telling them not to appeal. I. Sh. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mlg at KU.EDU Fri Jun 21 20:42:55 2002 From: mlg at KU.EDU (Marc L. Greenberg) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:42:55 -0400 Subject: Denial of US visas to Russians Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Thank you to all who have posted such helpful responses to my query, particularly to Ms. Shevelenko for her detailed answer with many useful suggestions. Indeed, I have engaged the College and Graduate School deans at my university, who are now working through our state senators' and representative's offices, to protest the denials. I was particularly interested to know whether the denials were of a recent and local nature, i.e., limited to St. Petersburg and/or bound for the University of Kansas. The answer seems to be that this is a longstanding problem, particularly bad in St. P., but clearly KU is not the only target. Further, I am curious to know whether there is truth to a recent rumor that Bush and Putin cut a deal to stem the brain drain from Russian to the US. If this is true, the consulates may be receiving fresh directives to deny visas at all costs, in particular the study visas that we are concerned with here. Best wishes, Marc -------------------------------------------------------- Marc L. Greenberg Chair and Professor Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Kansas - Wescoe Hall 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2133 Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA Tel. and voice-mail: (785) 864-2349 Fax: (785) 864-4298; E-mail: mlg at ku.edu http://www.ku.edu/~slavic/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From khawkins at WAM.UMD.EDU Sat Jun 22 02:14:21 2002 From: khawkins at WAM.UMD.EDU (Kevin Hawkins) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 22:14:21 -0400 Subject: Denial of US visas to Russians Message-ID: The University of Maryland, College Park, had visas denied in the summers of '99 and '00 for an upper-20s man from Moscow and in the summer of '01 for a lower-20s woman from St. Petersburg. From what I remember, she was denied a student visa twice in the same summer. Basically, they flat out told her that because she was in worst category for getting a visa -- a "young, single, and attracive female" -- and it seems they hadn't even looked at her documents from Maryland. The department managed to reach someone at the consulate for a third review, at which point she was given a visa. Following the forwarded text below is an article on this very topic from the Oct. 24, 1999, edition of the New York Times. I retrieved it through a search on Lexis-Nexis and considered posting excerpts but decided that it would be better for everyone to be able to read the whole thing. I can't speak to the rumor about a recent deal between Bush and his buddy Pootie-Poot*, but the NY Times article indicates that this trend goes back to at least August 1998. * See the May 20, 2002, edition of The Guardian ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,718575,00.html ). The NY Times, however, reported on Feb. 18, 2001, that Bush calls Putin "Ostrich Legs" ( http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/weekinreview/18MCCA.html ). Kevin Hawkins > I was particularly interested to know whether the denials were of a > recent and local nature, i.e., limited to St. Petersburg and/or bound for > the University of Kansas. The answer seems to be that this is a > longstanding problem, particularly bad in St. P., but clearly KU is not the > only target. > Further, I am curious to know whether there is truth to a recent rumor > that Bush and Putin cut a deal to stem the brain drain from Russian to the > US. If this is true, the consulates may be receiving fresh directives to > deny visas at all costs, in particular the study visas that we are > concerned with here. Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company The New York Times October 24, 1999, Sunday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section 1; Page 1; Column 1; Foreign Desk LENGTH: 1353 words HEADLINE: WARY OF ABUSES, U.S. SHARPLY CUTS VISAS FOR RUSSIANS BYLINE: By MICHAEL R. GORDON DATELINE: MOSCOW, Oct. 23 BODY: The United States Embassy in Moscow has sharply curtailed the number of visas issued to Russians, particularly students and scholars, despite Washington's avowed desire to spread Western values in Russia. About 40 percent of Russian students who sought to study in the United States using private funds were refused visas this year, about twice the rejection rate of previous years. Embassy officials suggested that students from impoverished Russia -- potentially part of the country's opinion-making elite -- will be tempted to try to settle permanently in the United States. In some cases, the reason given for refusing a visa -- that the applicant appeared to have insufficient ties, like children, to Russia -- echoed the Soviet practice of allowing citizens to travel abroad only if their loved ones stayed behind to insure the relative's return. The tightened visa policy followed the August 1998 economic collapse in Russia and is part of a broader and increasingly rancorous debate over the procedures for inviting foreign students to the United States. Applicants from South Korea and Thailand, which have also undergone economic crises, have reported increasing problems too in obtaining visas. But the visa policy has special implications for Russia, where America wants to encourage democracy and influence public opinion. The Clinton Administration has defended its policy of engaging Russia, and recently announced a vigorous campaign against what it calls the "new isolationists" in Congress. In Moscow, American Embassy officials deny that they have been overly strict. Laura Clerici, the consul general, asserted that consular officials needed to be particularly vigilant after the 1998 collapse. "Many Russians think that bureaucracy is something to be gotten around," she said in an interview. "They give us all sorts of paper that is false." But American educators and former diplomats say that the embassy has overreacted and that many worthy candidates have been cast aside. They note that the embassy's statistics do not show Russians hurrying to flee abroad after the ruble collapsed. Overall, visa applications have not increased since August 1998 -- although the number of rejections has -- and student applications have actually declined. "The visa policy is at cross-purposes with U.S. foreign policy," said Greg Guroff, the former director of an American Government office that encourages educational and cultural exchanges. "The American policy had been to expand contacts. Now the consular policy appears to be to turn down young people, particularly on private education exchanges." The visa policy has been a shock to many young Russians. Despite a general surge in anti-American sentiment -- most evident in the street protests outside the American Embassy during the Kosovo conflict -- young educated Russians are still drawn to the United States. For Russian students, there are American Government-financed exchange programs that can last for a few weeks, or for years. In 1998, 6,000 visas were granted to Russians under such programs. But Russians also attend American universities and colleges using "F" type visas, where the education is paid for by the student or other private sources or is supported by a scholarship. In 1998, 83 percent of all "F" type visas were granted during the prime student application months of June through August. This year, the acceptance rate slipped to 62 percent. Ruslan Shevdov, 27, had appeared to catch a lucky break when the small Moscow-based trading and agricultural company he joined after leaving the food service division of the Russian Army offered to send him to America at its expense to earn a degree in business administration and to perfect his English. Accepted by Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., Mr. Shevdov had hoped to begin his studies this fall. But his request for an "F" visa was rejected three times. "They said I didn't fit the student profile," Mr. Shevdov said. "Maybe they think I am too old. I tried to assure them that I plan to return. My parents live here. This is the country where I grew up. I can call my friend here at any time and he will come. How would I live there?" Embassy officials said they would not discuss individual cases. The six-member team that handles nonimmigrant visas at the Moscow consulate makes hundreds of similar decisions, often on the basis of a 5- or 10-minute interview. They try to divine if a student or scholar has an unbreakable tie to the homeland that will spur return. Interviews often amount to hurried discussions of an applicant's marriage status, family life and assets. The burden of proof that a Russian has no plans to emigrate, even legally, falls on the applicants. They may find it hard to argue that what appear to an American to be meager rewards are sufficient for a decent living in Russia. Mr. Shevdov, for instance, earns about $900 a month, a a respectable sum for a Muscovite. Scholars have also had problems. Taras Ivchenko, a 34-year-old assistant professor at Moscow University, is a specialist in Chinese linguistics who graduated from Beijing University and wrote his doctorate in Chinese. Encouraged by several American professors, he was to visit the United States to help translate a Ming dynasty manuscript. But in a 10-minute interview in May, Mr. Ivchenko was unable to secure a tourist visa. He earns $150 a month and has no substantial property. His wife, father and sister live here -- but Mr. Ivchenko said the consular officer who interviewed him suggested that his chances for a visa would be better if he had children to leave behind. "It reminded me of Soviet times," the soft-spoken Mr. Ivchenko said. "I would like to work on a project or two in the United States, but I am not interested in emigrating there. I belong here." American academics report increasing problems in obtaining visas for Russian students or faculty members. Some have campaigned successfully to secure visas; others have lost. The University of Maryland was recently left without a Russian instructor when the candidate it picked was denied a visa. Maria Lekic, director of the university's graduate program in Russian language, said the faculty had gone through a careful selection process and had never had a Russian refuse to return home when a visa expired. But the American Embassy concluded that the university salary for the Russian was too appealing compared to his modest pay at home. "For years, the Soviets would not let people leave," she said. "Now when Russia is opening up, we are behaving like Soviets." American Embassy officials insist that they need to be wary, and note that the black market price of forged visas has risen, giving credence to street talk of many Russians "jumping ship." But they also concede that there has never been a comprehensive study on whether Russian students eventually return, or emigrate. Almost half a million tuition-paying foreign students were enrolled in American institutions in the 1997-98 academic year. The tough American visa policies are driving Russian students to other countries, like Britain, which has loosened visa regulations to admit more foreign students. Certainly, Britain won in the case of Maria Ushakova, 17, daughter of a leading Russian businessman who wants to become a psychoanalyst and take over her mother's practice. Her request for a visa to attend college in Pennsylvania was repeatedly rejected. Hr family says she was told there was no point in studying in the United States since Russia had no tradition of pychoanalysis and a foreign-trained specialist would never find work at home. Her father then obtained a letter from a Russian clinic saying it would gladly hire his daughter once she finished her training. Ms. Ushakova received a visa on her fourth try. By then, however, she had missed the start of the school year in the United States. Offended, her father said, by all the refusals and worried that she might not be able to renew an American visa to finish her education, she is now studying in London. http://www.nytimes.com GRAPHIC: Chart: "BY THE NUMBERS: Closing the Door to Russians" The number of Russian's visa applications that are denied has risen sharply, including applications for those seeking to study in the United States on private funds. The graph shows number of applications for visas, requested and denied, June through August, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999. (Source: U.S. Embassy)(pg. 10) LOAD-DATE: October 24, 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gthomson at MAC.COM Sat Jun 22 12:12:05 2002 From: gthomson at MAC.COM (Greg Thomson) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 18:12:05 +0600 Subject: Mac Eudora and r Message-ID: I think I asked about this a long time ago, but got no response. Does anyone else use Eudora 5.0 on a Mac? I'm having a problem that when I cue messages in Russian, it changes all instances of lower case «„» (that is, "g"--no doubt it appears as some other character on your screen right now) to another character (in my font, Geneva Russian, it is a diamond). I suspected the culprit was the feature that "fixes" curley quotes before sending mail, and so I turned that off, but the problem remains as before. Has anyone else had this problem and solved it? Cordially, Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From glebov at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU Sun Jun 23 00:02:48 2002 From: glebov at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU (Serguei Glebov) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:02:48 -0400 Subject: Denial of US visas to Russians Message-ID: Dear friends, "Ekho Moskvy" published an interview with the American consul in Moscow, in which student visas were also discussed. According to the consul, 25% of all (not just student) applications are turned down. The address of the interview follows: http://www.echo.msk.ru/interview/5.html With best regards, Serguei Glebov, Ab Imperio editor http://aimag.knet.ru ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc L. Greenberg" To: Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:02 AM Subject: [SEELANGS] Denial of US visas to Russians > Dear colleagues, > In the last two weeks three students from Russia, who were to attend > graduate school at the University of Kansas this fall, were denied visas at > the St. Petersburg US Consulate. Two were destined for our department, one > for another department. All were turned down for allegedly seeking economic > advantage. This is unprecedented for us. Are other departments have similar > experiences? > Best regards, > Marc > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Marc L. Greenberg > Chair and Professor > Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures > University of Kansas - Wescoe Hall > 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2133 > Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA > Tel. and voice-mail: (785) 864-2349 > Fax: (785) 864-4298; E-mail: mlg at ku.edu > http://www.ku.edu/~slavic/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From shannon at UMICH.EDU Sun Jun 23 06:09:14 2002 From: shannon at UMICH.EDU (Shannon F. White) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 02:09:14 -0400 Subject: Question on two wintry words Message-ID: Hello, all! I am in search of two Russian words, and was hoping I might ask for your assistance! The words are: -The word for that specific time when the roads turn from ice to mud. -The word for frost that forms on a beard or on hair. Spasibo zaranee, Shannon ************************ Shannon F. White w. 734-647-2128 Dep't of Slavic Languages and Literatures h. 734-995-0512 3026 Modern Languages Building University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From annaplis at MAIL.RU Sun Jun 23 12:25:52 2002 From: annaplis at MAIL.RU (Anna Plisetskaya) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:25:52 +0400 Subject: Question on two wintry words Message-ID: Здравствуйте, Шеннон! > -The word for that specific time when the roads turn from ice to mud. Вообще-то похоже на Оттепель. Именно о дорогах - "слЯкоть". Еще говорят: "Дороги развезлО" - когда грязно и трудно ехать. > -The word for frost that forms on a beard or on hair. Кроме слова "сединА", в голову ничего не приходит. Легкая седина - это "прОседь". Заглавной буквой обозначаю ударную. Удачи, Аня ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU Sun Jun 23 15:38:26 2002 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 08:38:26 -0700 Subject: Question on two wintry words In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >-The word for that specific time when the roads turn from ice to mud. Time or quality of substance? The period when .... is called "rasputica". >-The word for frost that forms on a beard or on hair. You mean real frost? That would be "inej", same as on grass in early morning frost, the counterpart of the dew. Alina _____________ Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Mass. Ave. NW Washington, DC 20016 phone: (202) 885-2387 fax: (202) 885-1076 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET Sun Jun 23 12:57:07 2002 From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 08:57:07 -0400 Subject: Question on two wintry words Message-ID: Boroda zaindevela, ususally, and inei na volosah, I believe. Elena Gapova ----- Original Message ----- From: Alina Israeli To: Sent: 23 June 2002 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Question on two wintry words > >-The word for that specific time when the roads turn from ice to mud. > > Time or quality of substance? The period when .... is called "rasputica". > > >-The word for frost that forms on a beard or on hair. > > You mean real frost? That would be "inej", same as on grass in early > morning frost, the counterpart of the dew. > > Alina > > _____________ > Alina Israeli > LFS, American University > 4400 Mass. Ave. NW > Washington, DC 20016 > > phone: (202) 885-2387 > fax: (202) 885-1076 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From annaplis at MAIL.RU Mon Jun 24 09:29:29 2002 From: annaplis at MAIL.RU (Anna Plisetskaya) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:29:29 +0400 Subject: Question on two wintry words Message-ID: Esli imeetsaya v vidu iney na volosah, togda, konechno, tak. A boroda zaindevela. Rasputica - otlichnoe slovo! Libo dorogi razvezlo, libo rasputica. Anna > Boroda zaindevela, ususally, and inei na volosah, I believe. > > Elena Gapova > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From bjoseph at LING.OHIO-STATE.EDU Tue Jun 25 13:08:57 2002 From: bjoseph at LING.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Brian Joseph) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:08:57 -0400 Subject: Dates and Reminder re Macedonian Conference Message-ID: Dear Slavicist colleagues: The dates for the 5th Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies at Ohio State University next May have now been settled upon. The conference will run from THURSDAY MAY 1, 2003 - SUNDAY MAY 4, 2003. Please take note of these dates, and feel free to pass word of this conference on to anyone else you think might be interested. The announcement for the conference sent out earlier is repeated below, with the dates indicated. So far there has been a good level of interest shown by North American colleagues (and please note the broad definition of "North American" here -- by birth, citizenship, or current affiliation) though we hope for more. My thanks in advance, --Brian ****************************************************************************** * Brian D. Joseph * * Professor of Linguistics & Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of * * South Slavic Linguistics * * Editor, _Language_ * * The Ohio State University * * Columbus, Ohio USA 43210-1298 * * Phone: 614-292-4981 / Fax: 614-292-8833 * * e-mail: joseph.1 at osu.edu * ****************************************************************************** =========================== =========================== ANNOUNCING: The 5th Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies to be held THURSDAY MAY 1, 2003 - SUNDAY MAY 4, 2003, hosted by the Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. This conference brings together scholars in the humanities and social sciences from the United States, Canada and the Republic of Macedonia to report on and discuss their research on Macedonian topics. For this conference, papers are being sought primarily in linguistics but topics in literature, history, and anthropology are also of interest and are solicited. The conference proceedings will be published in some form, most likely as an issue of Ohio State University Working Papers in Slavic Studies. Featured speakers are: Zuzana Topolinska, Macedonian Academy of Sciences Horace G. Lunt, Harvard University If you are interested, and are a North American scholar (by birth, by citizenship, or by current affiliation), please send a brief expression of interest by JULY 15, 2002, with your name, affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address, and a tentative title for your proposed paper by regular mail to: Brian D. Joseph Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures 232 Cunz Hall The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio USA 43210 or, preferably, by e-mail to: joseph.1 at osu.edu. A full abstract of one page of text plus at most one extra page for data and references will be due for competitive review by September 30, 2002, to be sent to the above address (by regular mail or e-mail). A program will be announced by December 15, 2002. For answers to questions about this conference, please contact Brian Joseph at any of the above addresses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From vandusen at ACTR.ORG Tue Jun 25 13:09:47 2002 From: vandusen at ACTR.ORG (Irina VanDusen) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:09:47 -0400 Subject: Dates and Reminder re Macedonian Conference (Out of Office) Message-ID: I will be out of the office from June 25 to July 15. Please, address technical questions to Ken Petersen. For all other needs please contact Head of Publications Department Masha Lekic. kpeter at actr.org lekic at actr.org Irina Van Dusen Publications Manager ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gpgandolfo at IOL.IT Tue Jun 25 17:39:36 2002 From: gpgandolfo at IOL.IT (GP Gandolfo) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 19:39:36 +0200 Subject: Tolstoy on Chekhov Message-ID: Lev Tolstoy wrote somewhere ( or is reported to have said) that Anton Chehov reminds the art of the impressionists: from near you just see color spots, but when you move back a few steps these spots merge into a a well defined picture (or something like that). Right here and now I do not have Tostoy's works around, and cannot locate the exact source of the quotation. Can any seelanger help me? Thank you Giampaolo Gandolfo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From annaplis at MAIL.RU Tue Jun 25 18:30:29 2002 From: annaplis at MAIL.RU (Anna Plisetskaya) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 22:30:29 +0400 Subject: Tolstoy on Chekhov Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Let me use Koi-8 to quote. Еще Л. Толстой в дневнике писал о Чехове как о писателе, у которого ╚...своя особая форма... Смотришь, человек будто без всякого разбора мажет красками, какие попадаются ему под руку, и никакого будто отношения эти мазки между собой не имеют. Но отойдешь на некоторое расстояние, посмотришь, и в общем получается цельное впечатление...╩ Now we need to search Tolstoy's diaries. I'll try to find it. Best, Anna > Lev Tolstoy wrote somewhere ( or is reported to have said) that Anton > Chehov reminds the art of the impressionists: from near you just see color > spots, but when you move back a few steps these spots merge into a a well > defined picture > Giampaolo Gandolfo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Zemedelec at AOL.COM Wed Jun 26 13:00:42 2002 From: Zemedelec at AOL.COM (Leslie Farmer) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:00:42 EDT Subject: No Subject Message-ID: (reposted from soc.culture.czech-slovak) Would anyone care to risk a stab for this needle in a haystack? Subject: Re: Lookin for a song From: lubo12 at zmail.sk (lubos) Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2002 0:52 Hi everybody, > > I am looking for a slovakian song shown on german TV station VIVA > around '98 (am not exactly sure). > > I don't speak any check or slovak so I can't tell you the words, but > is was a pop-rock band, kind of a sentimental song (not too slow but > not heavy-metal :-) ), a female voice singing something like (this is > of course wrong but it might help): > > a mochno.. svoim snom... pohjanom.. te tvoi ochi plakali... serce > dam... > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From reei at INDIANA.EDU Wed Jun 26 14:40:25 2002 From: reei at INDIANA.EDU (REEI-David Ransel) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:40:25 -0500 Subject: Student Services position at Indiana University REEI Message-ID: Applications accepted through Indiana University Human Resource Services. See instructions at http://www.indiana.edu/~hrm/employment/ ADVISOR/ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR STUDENT SERVICES Russian and East European Institute (PA10) Position#: S8Y This position supports the work of the director, staff, and students of the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University. Major duties include counseling students on degree requirements, registration, and career planning; recruiting students into degree and intensive language study programs; assisting students in choosing the academic program that best suits their needs; monitoring the job market and identifying internship opportunities for students; and tracking the career paths of program alumni. Duties will also include supervision of publication of program information that is distributed in written form through departmental brochures, newsletters, and web pages. Qualifications: Master's required. Applicants should be able to work effectively with faculty, staff, and students. Applicants must have strong oral and written communication skills, be well-organized, and be computer literate. Ideal candidate will be familiar with current issues in Russia, East Central Europe, and Central Asia. Previous study of at least one area language required. Previous university administrative experience desirable. Submit cover letter describing interest in and qualifications for the position; resume; and names and phone numbers of four persons to be contacted as references along with your online application. If selected for an interview, candidates will be asked to prepare a mock oral presentation for recruitment of students to the summer intensive language workshop and provide samples of written work. Anticipated closing date Monday, July 15. --------------------------------- Russian & East European Institute Ballantine Hall 565, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Thu Jun 27 11:56:35 2002 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:56:35 +0200 Subject: Saying "Nyet" To Russian In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I find it quite doubtful that only 1 out 10 people will be able to speak Russian, but still put a copy of that article on my personal site... http://www.pravapis.org/art_no_russian.asp Regards, Uladzimir -------------------------------------------------- What's your MailBox address? - http://mailbox.hu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From asred at COMCAST.NET Thu Jun 27 11:55:24 2002 From: asred at COMCAST.NET (Steve Marder) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:55:24 -0400 Subject: Displaying Cyrillic in OE and IE under Mac OS X Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, Previously, under System 9.2.2, I was able to compose e-mail in Cyrillic using Outlook Express. I was also able to display in Cyrillic received mail written in Cyrillic. Now, under OS X, I find I am unable to display Cyrillic in either incoming or outgoing messages in Outlook Express. The rendering of incoming Russian mail is in the form of question marks. Is this unicode? How must I set up my Preferences ‹ or what other changes must be made ‹ in order for me to be able to display Cyrillic in Outlook Express under OS X? As far as the Internet Explorer browser is concerned, under OS X (10.1.5, to be exact), I am able to have the majority of Russian-language Web pages I access display Cyrillic properly ‹ with the notable exception of pages encoded in KOI-8. (Mind you, I was never successful in displaying KOI-8 Web pages under System 9.2.2 either) How must I modify my browser settings so that KOI-8 displays properly? As the above is unlikely to be of interest to the majority of Seelangers, anyone with helpful suggestions is urged to contact me off-list. Steve Marder asred at comcast.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Young at ACTR.ORG Thu Jun 27 14:18:50 2002 From: Young at ACTR.ORG (Billie Young) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:18:50 -0400 Subject: Job Opening Message-ID: Program Assistant Freedom Support Act Future Leaders Exchange Program Washington, DC Position Description SUMMARY: FSAFLEX provides for education of secondary school students from the former Soviet Union in the United States. The FSA FLEX program has over 15 grantee organizations that perform administrative duties and placement of participants in US high school and US host families. The Program Assistant provides support to the administrative component in all phases of program administration. The position responsibilities necessitate that some work be performed during non-business hours (e.g. weekends). The Program Assistant reports to the Program Manager. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: · Assist FSAFLEX DC administrative program staff, placing organizations and American Councils field offices with planning travel for all students, including the academic early return process; · Assist FSAFLEX DC administrative program staff to facilitate international travel and visa support to participant chaperones; · Serve as cultural resource to Placement Organizations and ECA; · Help to organize and facilitate participants transiting US international gateways; · Assist DC-based Program Manager and staff with various administrative tasks including clerical duties and data entry QUALIFICATIONS: · Experience with educational programs in the US; · Proficiency in spoken and written Russian (minimum); · Familiarity with a minimum of one culture of the NIS; · Experience coordinating international travel; · Demonstrated administrative, clerical and organizational skills; · BA in relevant field (e.g. language, education, area studies etc.) required. TO APPLY: Send letter/resume and salary requirements to FSAFLEX PA Search, American Councils, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036. Fax: 202-872-9178 or 202-833-7523; www.actr.org; email: resumes at actr.org. Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer. The American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is a private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization devoted to improving education, professional training and research within and regarding the former Soviet Union (FSU). The American Councils administers academic exchange and training programs in virtually all fields; provides educational advising and academic testing services throughout the FSU; and organizes conferences and seminars in the US and abroad for its membership, exchange participants, alumni, and professional groups. The American Councils manages a budget funded from multiple sources of approximately $50M, employs a staff of more then 400, and operates offices in 12 countries of the former Soviet Union. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gadassov at IFRANCE.COM Thu Jun 27 16:34:48 2002 From: gadassov at IFRANCE.COM (gadassov) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:34:48 +0200 Subject: Displaying Cyrillic in OE and IE under Mac OS X In-Reply-To: Message-ID: le 27/06/02 13:55, Steve Marder à asred at COMCAST.NET a écrit : > Dear Seelangers, > > Previously, under System 9.2.2, I was able to compose e-mail in Cyrillic > using Outlook Express. I was also able to display in Cyrillic received mail > written in Cyrillic. Now, under OS X, I find I am unable to display Cyrillic > in either incoming or outgoing messages in Outlook Express. The rendering of > incoming Russian mail is in the form of question marks. Use the application "mail", from apple, that is in your dock : it is perfect. Outlook is not convenient with OS X. For OS 8: Eudora with Eudora cyrillic tables For OS 9: Outlook express For OS X: Mail > Is this unicode? Yes it is. Georges ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eb7 at NYU.EDU Thu Jun 27 17:01:40 2002 From: eb7 at NYU.EDU (Eliot Borenstein) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:01:40 -0400 Subject: Displaying Cyrillic in OE and IE under Mac OS X In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Eudora for OS X also seems to work with Cyrillic--I haven't composed any messages on it, but I've been able to read messages sent to me. Thiis is after I downloaded CyrilliX 1.0 from www.download.com (I found it by searching for Cyrillix 1.0) and installed it. I tried Mail for OS X and was very disappointed with it for other reasons: navigating the mailbox menu is more frustrating than on Eudora (I found I kept pointing to the wrong mailbox), and the conversion function that was supposed to allow me to import all my old Eudora messages to Mail did a terrible job. Granted, there is a program somewhere on Apple's OS X website that is supposed to convert the messages perfectly, but by that point I came to the conclusion that Mail is in no way superior to Eudora (at least, not yet). There are various OS X versions of Eudora available (one with rather unobtrusive advertising, and one with no ads for some small fee), at: http://www.eudora.com/products/eudora/updater1.html Eliot Borenstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lynne_deBenedette at BROWN.EDU Thu Jun 27 17:15:51 2002 From: Lynne_deBenedette at BROWN.EDU (Lynne deBenedette) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:15:51 -0400 Subject: commercial course management software and Russian Message-ID: Many thanks to all who have written me to describe how Blackboard and WebCT have worked on their campuses. To follow up on my question to the list, here is a summary of replies: USERS Most respondents using either program were in fact using it only for courses taught in ENGLISH, and so the character-set issue did not arise. A few reported that while they were able to use the commercial software in connection with their English-lang. course, they could not use it with any course requiring Cyrillic. No one was happy with either program's in terms of courses taught in languages other than English. BLACKBOARD (Bb) Most of the respondents were on "Blackboarded" campuses. The consensus seems to be that Bb is utterly unsuited to working with other character sets, and several commented that Bb has problems with customizing generally (i.e., beyond the character-set issue). There were those who found it convenient to use with courses taught in English, and for limited functions related to language learning (posting sound files, for example)--but one does not need Bb for this. WEBCT There were fewer replies about WebCT, so I hesitate to generalize. However, it seems that there are the same sort of problems customizing the character set choices, forcing those who use the program to resort to PDF files to post class materials. As marketed by the two companies, these programs purport to allow something like "one-stop shopping" course management, meaning that in addition to posting class materials easily and coordinating available resources (videos, texts, handouts, links to internet sites, etc.), faculty can track student performance, allow student work to be posted easily, offer online assessment (quizzes, tests, etc.), run online discussion groups, maintain course email lists, allow students to have their own discussion sub-groups, and other things. The absence of control over the character set means, of course, that teachers of foreign languages would be unable to use most of these functions, which is frustrating at best. OTHER PROJECTS TO NOTE At Harvard Judith Frommer's Web-Based Foreign Language Authoring Tools for course websites in foreign languages (hers designed for French, but other languages theoretically possible). She is at frommer at fas.harvard.edu At CU-Denver Filipp Sapienza is developing his own course management software using what are called "open source" technologies (specifically, XML) ---------------------------------------------------- Lynne deBenedette Senior Lecturer in Russian / Brown University Department of Slavic Languages Box E, 20 Manning Walk Providence, RI 02912 Office hours Summer 2002 by appointment tel: 401-863-7572 OR 863-2689 (dept. office) fax: 401-863-7330 email: lynne_debenedette at brown.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kajuco at HOTMAIL.COM Thu Jun 27 17:23:36 2002 From: kajuco at HOTMAIL.COM (Katie Costello) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:23:36 +0100 Subject: Displaying IPA Message-ID: Can anyone tell me how one can access the IPA, using Word? Thank you. Katie Costello _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ggerhart at ATTBI.COM Thu Jun 27 17:37:05 2002 From: ggerhart at ATTBI.COM (Genevra Gerhart) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:37:05 -0700 Subject: Saying "Nyet" To Russian In-Reply-To: <20020627115637.17830.qmail@web2.mailbox.hu> Message-ID: I am appalled that, given the arrival of two adjacent messages, one having to do with transmitting Cyrillic and the other with the disappearance of Russian, this list so far only manages to deal with the alphabets. You might go look at: http://www.pravapis.org/art_no_russian.asp And then go back to school and prepare for another job. Genevra Gerhart http://www.GenevraGerhart.com ggerhart at attbi.com 206-329-0053 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lynne_deBenedette at BROWN.EDU Thu Jun 27 17:34:07 2002 From: Lynne_deBenedette at BROWN.EDU (Lynne deBenedette) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:34:07 -0400 Subject: commercial course management software and Russian (MORE) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Since the previous message was written, Brown seems to have decided to go with Blackboard; our Assoc. Dir of Computing and Info Services, Eileen Palenchar, reports that the Blackboard "ML" (multilanguage) version for Russian will be released in mid- 2003 or so, along with Polish. More to come on what that really means in terms of actually *getting* the thing and getting it to work... L. deB. ---------------------------------------------------- Lynne deBenedette Senior Lecturer in Russian / Brown University Department of Slavic Languages Box E, 20 Manning Walk Providence, RI 02912 Office hours Summer 2002 by appointment tel: 401-863-7572 OR 863-2689 (dept. office) fax: 401-863-7330 email: lynne_debenedette at brown.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From asred at COMCAST.NET Thu Jun 27 17:51:06 2002 From: asred at COMCAST.NET (Steve Marder) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:51:06 -0400 Subject: Displaying IPA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > Can anyone tell me how one can access the IPA, using Word? Thank you. > > Katie Costello You could go to http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/static-pa ges/Fonts.html There are several IPA fonts to choose from for Mac or PC. Download what you want and install in the usual way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From glip at VENUS.CI.UW.EDU.PL Thu Jun 27 19:29:31 2002 From: glip at VENUS.CI.UW.EDU.PL (GLiP) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:29:31 +0200 Subject: GLiP-5: 2nd CFP Message-ID: ** Apologies for multiple copies ** --- PLEASE DISTRIBUTE --- GLiP-5 GENERATIVE LINGUISTICS IN POLAND (morpho)syntactic meeting Dates: 30 November -- 1 December 2002 Location: Warszawa (Warsaw) Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw and the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences INVITED SPEAKERS: ---------------- Robert D. Borsley University of Essex Gisbert Fanselow University of Potsdam 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------- The primary aim of GLiP meetings is to bring together (i) Polish generative linguists, (ii) generative linguists working in Poland, as well as (iii) generative linguists working on Polish. We invite abstracts on any aspect of generative syntax and/or morphology in any generative approach: P&P (Minimalism, GB), HPSG, LFG, OT, etc. Talks will be organized around major syntactic topics, depending on the content of the submissions. The format of the conference is 30 min for presentation + 15 min question time. Languages of the conference are English and Polish. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: ------------------- Piotr BANSKI University of Warsaw Robert D. BORSLEY University of Essex Gisbert FANSELOW University of Potsdam Steven FRANKS Indiana University Adam PRZEPIORKOWSKI Polish Academy of Sciences Gilbert C. RAPPAPORT University of Texas at Austin Andrew SPENCER University of Essex ACCOMODATION: ------------ Accommodation will be provided at the university hotel. For details please see our web page (address below). CONFERENCE FEES (estimated): --------------- Regular: 160 PLN Student: 80 PLN DATES: ----- DEADLINE for receipt of abstracts: 4 October 2002 Notification of acceptance: 26 October 2002 Meeting: 30 November -- 1 December 2002 Deadline for submissions of papers for the proceedings volume: 31 January 2003 ABSTRACTS: --------- Should be *anonymous* (i.e., they should contain no personal data or explicit self-references) and consist of up to 700 words, together with examples and references. Because abstract forwarding to referees will be done by e-mail exclusively, the following are the possible formats of attachments, in *descending* order of preference: (Plain Text) > PDF > Postscript > (La)TeX > Word for Windows '97 We regret to say that submissions in formats other than those listed above will not be accepted. In cases when there is no need to use special (e.g., phonetic) fonts, we strongly encourage PLAIN TEXT submissions. If data involving diacritics are quoted, please omit the diacritics unless they are essential for the proper interpretation of the proposal -- in such cases, use ASCII characters to mark them in some consistent way. Should the electronic version of the abstract require special fonts, please attach them as well. (We strongly discourage this practice though, and reserve the right to ask for a resubmission in a different format.) Any (La)TeX should be self-contained, i.e., all external styles (packages) should be enclosed. Only one submission per person and one joint submission will be considered. Please note: do NOT send abstracts on diskettes. We will accept *e-mail* submissions *exclusively*. IMPORTANT: At the beginning of your email, in the plain text part of it, please supply the following information: - name, title, - title of the paper, - affiliation, - email address, - snail mail address. Unless you send the abstract as attachment, we request that you add several blank lines between the personal information and the abstract proper, to facilitate anonymous review. ADDRESSES: --------- NOTE: ONLY *E-MAIL* SUBMISSIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED Please send your abstracts to: GLiP-5 Organizing Committee For MORE INFORMATION see: http://venus.ci.uw.edu.pl/~glip/ PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION (IMPORTANT!): ------------------------------------- If you are (tentatively) interested in taking part in this workshop, please, send your email address to GLiP-5 Organizing Committee . Most future announcements, changes, etc., will be mailed only to registered prospective participants (and not to general linguistic lists). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From acball at EXECPC.COM Thu Jun 27 22:37:42 2002 From: acball at EXECPC.COM (Alan Ball) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:37:42 -0400 Subject: help choosing a selection from Russian literature Message-ID: I teach Russian history at Marquette University and am currently assembling a set of readings for students in a course to be offered next fall. For one of our discussions I would like to have the students compare two works of fiction: (1) something written after 1991 in which the author features a character who initially believes in (or at least accepts without question) the Soviet system but then becomes disillusioned with it; and (2) a relatively short story (as opposed to a novel) written in the early Soviet period that describes a character who at first accepts the tsarist system but then grows disenchanted shortly before or after 1917. I’m in good shape for the first part of this reading load (novels/stories written after 1991), but I’d be most grateful if anyone could suggest a few stories written in the early Soviet period (before World War II, or, for that matter, in the last ten or fifteen years before 1917). Best of all might be something involving eventual disillusionment with the father tsar and his government, though other variations include a character who moves from respect to contempt for such institutions as the church or the hierarchical structure of society. I need to keep the total reading load manageable for the week, so for the early-Soviet portion of the assignment I would be most interested in stories of roughly 100 pages or less. This is the heart of my problem, for if I were free to select novels, the task would be simpler. The stories, by the way, should be in English translation but do not need to be in print (in fact, I’m assuming that they won’t be). I’ll just xerox whatever looks most suitable and put it on reserve. Thank you very much for any suggestions that you may be able to offer. Alan Ball ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tessone at POLYGLUT.NET Fri Jun 28 00:53:35 2002 From: tessone at POLYGLUT.NET (Christopher Tessone) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:53:35 -0500 Subject: help choosing a selection from Russian literature Message-ID: Dear Alan, I would suggest possibly "Omon Ra" by Pelevin for the recent work, as long as it wouldn't be too lengthy. It's a novel, but relatively short. I'm certain it's available in translation. As for the short story, how about "Khanskij Ogon'" ("The Khan Fire") by Bulgakov? It's not as black-and-white as you requested, but then, when is life ever black-and-white? :-) Cheers, Chris Alan Ball wrote: > I teach Russian history at Marquette University and am currently > assembling a set of readings for students in a course to be offered next > fall. For one of our discussions I would like to have the students > compare two works of fiction: (1) something written after 1991 in which > the author features a character who initially believes in (or at least > accepts without question) the Soviet system but then becomes disillusioned > with it; and (2) a relatively short story (as opposed to a novel) written > in the early Soviet period that describes a character who at first accepts > the tsarist system but then grows disenchanted shortly before or after > 1917. > > I'm in good shape for the first part of this reading load (novels/stories > written after 1991), but I'd be most grateful if anyone could suggest a > few stories written in the early Soviet period (before World War II, or, > for that matter, in the last ten or fifteen years before 1917). Best of > all might be something involving eventual disillusionment with the father > tsar and his government, though other variations include a character who > moves from respect to contempt for such institutions as the church or the > hierarchical structure of society. > > I need to keep the total reading load manageable for the week, so for the > early-Soviet portion of the assignment I would be most interested in > stories of roughly 100 pages or less. This is the heart of my problem, > for if I were free to select novels, the task would be simpler. The > stories, by the way, should be in English translation but do not need to > be in print (in fact, I'm assuming that they won't be). I'll just xerox > whatever looks most suitable and put it on reserve. > > Thank you very much for any suggestions that you may be able to offer. > > Alan Ball > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lzaharkov at WITTENBERG.EDU Fri Jun 28 01:05:39 2002 From: lzaharkov at WITTENBERG.EDU (Lila W. Zaharkov) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:05:39 -0400 Subject: help choosing a selection from Russian literature In-Reply-To: Message-ID: At 06:37 PM 06/27/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I teach Russian history at Marquette University and am currently >assembling a set of readings for students in a course to be offered next >fall. For one of our discussions I would like to have the students >compare two works of fiction: (1) something written after 1991 in which >the author features a character who initially believes in (or at least >accepts without question) the Soviet system but then becomes disillusioned >with it; and (2) a relatively short story (as opposed to a novel) written >in the early Soviet period that describes a character who at first accepts >the tsarist system but then grows disenchanted shortly before or after >1917. > >I'm in good shape for the first part of this reading load (novels/stories >written after 1991), but I'd be most grateful if anyone could suggest a >few stories written in the early Soviet period (before World War II, or, >for that matter, in the last ten or fifteen years before 1917). Best of >all might be something involving eventual disillusionment with the father >tsar and his government, though other variations include a character who >moves from respect to contempt for such institutions as the church or the >hierarchical structure of society. > >I need to keep the total reading load manageable for the week, so for the >early-Soviet portion of the assignment I would be most interested in >stories of roughly 100 pages or less. This is the heart of my problem, >for if I were free to select novels, the task would be simpler. The >stories, by the way, should be in English translation but do not need to >be in print (in fact, I'm assuming that they won't be). I'll just xerox >whatever looks most suitable and put it on reserve. > >Thank you very much for any suggestions that you may be able to offer. > >Alan Ball > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------- The classic may be Gorky's Mother and you could show the silent film. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From a.jameson at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Fri Jun 28 12:07:38 2002 From: a.jameson at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Andrew Jameson) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 13:07:38 +0100 Subject: help choosing a selection from Russian literature Message-ID: Platonov's "Happy Moscow" dates from the 1930s, is short and does not suffer too much from being, in fact, unfinished. It chronicles the life of a young women (called "Moscow") growing up and trying to make sense of the new Soviet life where the two sexes were treated as identical. It may be of special interest for women course members and may stimulate interesting discussion. Recently published by Harvill in a new translation. Andrew Jameson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brewerm at U.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU Fri Jun 28 19:40:07 2002 From: brewerm at U.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU (Brewer, Michael) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:40:07 -0700 Subject: Attention/Help - Library Catalog Problem with Translated Cyrillic Words Message-ID: All, I am working on getting some data to send to Innovative (the maker of our catalog software/search interface at the University of Arizona Library. They are often called "Triple I" ) so that they can fix a problem I have uncovered concerning searching transliterated Cyrillic words using the Keyword search. Those of you that work at Universities that use this library catalog/search software, take note. You may want to check with your library contact to make sure they are aware of this problem and have them bring the issue up with Innovative. This may result in them more quickly addressing the problem. If your library does not use this catalog software/search system, you may not want to read the rest of my lengthy post. However, if you are a Bulgarian or Old Russian specialist, please see my request at the end of this post. The Problem: In short, the Keyword search does not recognize words that have certain diacritic marks (in Cyrillic these are the macron, left and right ligatures, the hard and soft signs, and, I think, the right hook). These diacritics do not display in the web version of the catalog, and are only visible as numbers within brackets on the MARC record, so you have to know where they would generally be. To review the Library of Congress Transliteration tables, go to http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html Because these diacritcs may be used to transliterate several other languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, non-Slavic Cyrillic languages, etc.), the problem is not be limited to Slavic. Because I am only familiar with Slavic languages, I have only been able to test these. (Other characters that the catalog may not recognize are alif, ayn, the dot below, the double dot below, the circle below and others. Check the transliteration tables for the various languages [at the end of each table] to see which diacritic marks and so called "special characters" transliteration for that language uses. The Request: Those of you have use the Innovative catalog and who have proficiency in other languages, I would encourage you to test the search system to see if the KEYWORD search is returning all relevant titles. It is difficult to do this comprehensively without also having access to a telnet version of the catalog (so that one can see the MARC record with the numeric representations of the diacritics), and it might be wise to talk to your library liaison about this. Even without access to the telnet version, however, you can still get a good sense of whether or not the catalog is searching properly. How to do it: To check the search system, think of a word, the transliterated form of which would have one of the diacritics in it, think of a title that would have that word in it and search for that title using the TITLE search (if you have trouble thinking of a title that might have the word in it, you can use WorldCat's keyword search to locate one that your library owns. The WorldCat search system does not have problems recognizing these diacritics. Using an Innovative catalog to search by KEYWORD, because of the problems I listed above, is not reliable). After you find the title in the catalog using the TITLE search, then search the same title using the KEYWORD search. If it comes up using the KEYWORD search, chances are that the KEYWORD search is recognizing the diacritic. (To be absolutely sure one must go into the telnet version of the catalog, and search for the title and view the MARC record which shows the diacritics as numbers within brackets, ex. {234}. This is necessary as catalogers may occasionally not insert these numbers or may insert the incorrect number). As I mentioned, I have already determined that the following diacritics/special characters are not recognized by Innovative's search system: Soft sign {167} (unless at the end of a word) Hard sign {183} Macron {229} Ligature, first half {235} Ligature, second half {236} I do not yet know if the following diacritics/special characters used in transliterating Cyrillic characters are recognized: Candrabindu {239} Right hook {241} For you Bulgarian and Old Russian specialists, I have two questions I need answered to help me in isolating if these diacritics are searching correctly. 1) In the Library of Congress Transliteration system for Bulgarian, one (very rarely, I suppose) comes across something called a candrabindu (sort of a breve with a dot resting in it) used along with a "U" to represent an older character (can't remember what it's called, but its the one that looks like a "zh" ? with a hat on it (and without the upper middle line). Because of my sketchy knowledge of Bulgarian, I haven't been able to come up any words (or title) that would have this character in it so that I see whether or not the search system recognizes it. Can anyone supply me with some words (or better yet, titles) that would have this letter in them? 2) Second question. A similar letter/character (the one that looks like a capital "A" with an extra, middle "leg") also occurs in older Russian texts. This character is represented in transliteration as an "E" with a "right hook." Would any of you Old Russian specialists know of any words in which this character would occur and which might be in the title of a book held in a large academic library? If you have questions about the transliteration and my weak attempts at describing it, go to Any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to get some data together to send to Innovative so that they can recognize and remedy this problem. For those unaffected by this problem, I apologize for the lengthy post. Michael Brewer Michael Brewer Slavic & German Studies Librarian Fine Arts/Humanities Team University Library, A210 1510 E. University P.O. Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 (520) 621.9919 FAX: (520) 621.9733 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From khawkins at WAM.UMD.EDU Sat Jun 29 00:43:59 2002 From: khawkins at WAM.UMD.EDU (Kevin Hawkins) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:43:59 -0400 Subject: Displaying IPA Message-ID: > Can anyone tell me how one can access the IPA, using Word? Thank you. Though IPA fonts will work fine, you can also use the IPA characters included in Unicode, the universal character set on the brink of widespread acceptance in most all software major software. If you have Office 2000 or 2002, most all the IPA symbols you should need are included in the Arial Unicode MS font. You can get to them through the "insert special characters" option on the menu. Note that diacritical marks are usually separate characters that should be inserted directly following the character to which they are "attached". You can find out about downloading Unicode fonts for Windows at http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html ( for other operating systems, see http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/index.html ). From there you can download Arial Unicode MS and many others. Kevin Hawkins ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Sat Jun 29 00:54:10 2002 From: dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:54:10 -0400 Subject: Displaying IPA In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Maybe somebody can explain what characters you are talking about. I have know idea what IPA means, and I suspect that I am not alone. Thank you. Edward Dumanis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM Sat Jun 29 01:16:57 2002 From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 21:16:57 -0400 Subject: Displaying IPA Message-ID: Kevin Hawkins wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how one can access the IPA, using Word? Thank > > you. > > Though IPA fonts will work fine, you can also use the IPA characters > included in Unicode, the universal character set on the brink of > widespread acceptance in most all software major software. If you > have Office 2000 or 2002, most all the IPA symbols you should need > are included in the Arial Unicode MS font. You can get to them > through the "insert special characters" option on the menu. Note > that diacritical marks are usually separate characters that should > be inserted directly following the character to which they are > "attached". > > You can find out about downloading Unicode fonts for Windows at > http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html (for other > operating systems, see > ). From there > you can download Arial Unicode MS and many others. The Insert | Symbol option is useful, but users should be aware of a couple of things: 1. If you only need to insert a symbol occasionally, fine, but if you need to use the IPA extensively, you will want to streamline the task. There may be keyboard drivers out there already set up -- if so, other subscribers will doubtless tell us. But let's assume for the moment that you really only need a handful of "funny letters." In that case, it is probably most practical to set up keyboard shortcuts: Insert | Symbol, select the symbol you are interested in, and click the "Shortcut Key..." button. Enter the keystroke combination you prefer, and if it is in use, Word will tell you. 2. Word has issues with searching for symbols once you have entered them. Suppose you realize that you have been entering g-caron instead of g-micron, and you want to search and replace them. Good luck! For an interesting thread discussing this issue, point your browser to . In the button bar at the top of the page, the third and fourth buttons are "previous in topic" and "next in topic." 3. I find Character Map easier to work with in terms of being able to find and actually see the characters I want (Word's little version is tiny; fortunately, it preserves the same order of characters and you can limit it to a subset just as you can with the real Character Map). But if you paste a character or a character string from Character Map into a Word 2000 document, Word will append a "Normal" paragraph mark after your pasted string. :-( But if you then select and copy the material you do want, without the paragraph mark, Word will handle that correctly. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher pbg translations, inc. 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This is an on-line resource which aims to include all doctoral (or equivalent) dissertations in Central Asian/Eurasian Studies. It has been in existence for two years and includes hundreds of dissertations, but we want to be sure that it is as complete as possible. Please help us to ensure that your information and that of your students and/or colleagues is included. We are putting together a page on the website which is devoted to highlighting the "new" people in the field, by listing their dissertations and some other key information. The list is to include those who have received PhD- equivalent degrees in the last 8 years in any field of Central Asian studies, who made significant use of materials pertaining to Central Asia in their PhD dissertation. The purposes of this resources include: * To make cutting-edge research more widely known. * To help conference organizers and journal editors to find people doing work on relevant topics. * To make the younger generation of experts better known to consumers of expertise in the media, government, international organizations, the business world, etc. * To help prospective dissertation writings to learn what topics have already been "taken" and identify viable topics for their dissertation work. * To help prospective graduate students to identify institutions which have supported PhDs on topics related to their interests. * To provide an access point to important research which is not yet published. * To help publishers find good manuscripts. * To help potential employers find good job candidates. Your assistance is requested in making this as complete and useful tool as possible. If you represent a university department or other institution, you may wish to submit information on your graduates (so that the strength of your institution shows in this list). If you know of scholars who should be included, please alert them to this, or help us to fill the gaps. Please have a look at it at, and submit information yourself and/or other scholars from your institution: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/CASWW_Diss.html If you do not have access to the web for submitting your information, please send us an email at and we will send you a form you can fill out using email. The dissertations are arranged by field and indexed by Subject, Institution, and Author, so it is a pretty good way to see how our field is developing -- and the more comprehensive it is, the better, so please contribute. Thank you very much for your cooperation! John Schoeberlein _________________________________________________________________________ Dr. John S. Schoeberlein \ Director Forum for Central Asian Studies \ Harvard University 1737 Cambridge Street \ Cambridge, MA 02138 \ USA tel.: (617) 495-4338 fax: (617) 495-8319 mailto:schoeber at fas.harvard.edu Program on Central Asia website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~centasia/ : http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww CentralAsia-L: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/CASWW_CentralAsia-L.html _________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From peitlova at TISCALINET.IT Sat Jun 29 10:03:29 2002 From: peitlova at TISCALINET.IT (Edil Legno) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 12:03:29 +0200 Subject: help choosing Message-ID: 1) I'll suggest TOKAREVA VIKTORIA,she has written a lot of short stories - really very nice and through the life of the heroes she let you realise "the mistakes"of the Soviet system. Sometimes so "funny" and foolish that one could even accept them?!Her books are available at www.bn.com - in english. And what about "Deti Arbata " - but this is a novel,not very short. Best wishes Katarìna Peitlovà,Ph.Dr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From khawkins at WAM.UMD.EDU Sat Jun 29 13:33:16 2002 From: khawkins at WAM.UMD.EDU (Kevin Hawkins) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:33:16 -0400 Subject: Displaying IPA Message-ID: > Maybe somebody can explain what characters you are talking about. > I have know idea what IPA means, and I suspect that I am not alone. It's not even a technical computer term! Just the International Phonetic Alphabet, widely used by linguists. More is available from the website of the Internatioanl Phonetic Association (also "IPA") at http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html . By the way, the IPA site provides a list of fonts with IPA glyphs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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If interested, please contact Mariana Markova: mariana99 at mail.ru , or Christina, manetti at poczta.gazeta.pl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://home.attbi.com/~lists/seelangs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From d-powelstock at UCHICAGO.EDU Sun Jun 30 16:09:26 2002 From: d-powelstock at UCHICAGO.EDU (David Powelstock) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 11:09:26 -0500 Subject: Russia/US Visa Policies Message-ID: This NY Times article may be of interest to those concerned with the visa wars: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/travel/30REP.html?tntemail1 David Powelstock ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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