From gianpaolo.gandolfo at FASTWEBNET.IT Thu Apr 1 13:13:08 2004 From: gianpaolo.gandolfo at FASTWEBNET.IT (Giampaolo Gandolfo) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:13:08 +0200 Subject: index of Tolstoy's characters Message-ID: I am wondering if there is somewhere an index of all the characters that appear or are mentioned in Tolstoy's War and Peace. It would be very useful as a bibliographical indication to my students (I am teaching a course on the novel). Thank you for any suggestion you may have for me. 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Thu Apr 1 14:23:45 2004 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:23:45 +0200 Subject: Children's Magazine Closed Down && Funny Czech Newspaper Gaffe Message-ID: Vitaju, SEELANGers! If you read in Belarusan: * http://www.svaboda.org/news/articles/2004/04/20040401131911.asp Yes, I'd rather send something funny on April 1, but unfortunately Belarus authorities don't give us any breaks... One of the last remaining teenage magazines in Belarusan language "Biarozka" (Little Birch) was liquidated, and all staff fired by the decree of the Ministry of Information that was issued several days ago. Now, according to the Ministry of Information of Belarus, "Biarozka" brand and publishing rights will belong to the editors of "Nastaunickaja hazeta" (Teacher's Newspaper), and it's unclear what will happen with the magazine. PS. And something a bit more cheerful - On March 30th a popular Czech newspaper "Lidove Noviny" totally screwed up the map of the new NATO members. So according to Czech journalists Belarus is already in NATO, and Estonia - is not! Here is the picture of that map - http://www.livejournal.com/users/rydel23/255070.html Regards, Uladzimir Katkouski http://www.rydel.net/ -------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Thu Apr 1 14:46:45 2004 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:46:45 +0200 Subject: Children's Magazine Closed Down && Funny Czech Newspaper Gaffe Message-ID: Vitaju, SEELANGers! If you read in Belarusan: * http://www.svaboda.org/news/articles/2004/04/20040401131911.asp Yes, I'd rather send something funny on April 1, but unfortunately Belarus authorities don't give us any breaks... One of the last remaining teenage magazines in Belarusan language "Biarozka" (Little Birch) was liquidated, and all staff fired by the decree of the Ministry of Information that was issued several days ago. Now, according to the Ministry of Information of Belarus, "Biarozka" brand and publishing rights will belong to the editors of "Nastaunickaja hazeta" (Teacher's Newspaper), and it's unclear what will happen with the magazine. PS. And something a bit more cheerful - On March 30th a popular Czech newspaper "Lidove Noviny" totally screwed up the map of the new NATO members. So according to Czech journalists Belarus is already in NATO, and Estonia is not! Here is the picture of that map - http://www.livejournal.com/users/rydel23/255070.html Regards, Uladzimir Katkouski http://www.rydel.net/ -------------------------------------------------- What\'s your MailBox address? - http://mailbox.hu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Russian enrollment at the University of Oklahoma has doubled over the course of the last two years. We have a thriving bilateral exchange (semester and academic year) with the Nevsky Institute of St. Petersburg and a growing number of majors. We hope to find a candidate who can help us to sustain and build upon the recent trend towards increased enrollment. Applicants should send a current c.v. and at least one letter of recommendation to: Dr. Emily Johnson Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics University of Oklahoma 780 Van Vleet Oval, Room 206 Norman, OK 73071 Applications will be considered as they are received. OU is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please feel free to contact me directly by phone or email for additional information on the position or our program. emilydjohnson at ou.edu (405)325-1486 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tessone at POLYGLUT.NET Thu Apr 1 19:10:20 2004 From: tessone at POLYGLUT.NET (Christopher Tessone) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:10:20 -0600 Subject: Pozner In-Reply-To: (Genevra Gerhart's message of "Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:56:16 -0800") Message-ID: >>>>> "Genevra" == Genevra Gerhart writes: Genevra> Greetings, Seelangists! Could someone tell me if there Genevra> is a regular radio or TV outlet for Vl. Pozner's views? I believe he's still the host of "Vremena" on ORT, which a number of satellite providers in the US carry. His prazdniki.ru page, http://www.prazdniki.ru/person/1/1257/ mentions a number of other programs, including radio shows, but I'm not sure how up-to-date that list is. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher A. Tessone, OBK Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois BA Student, Russian http://www.polyglut.net/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From boyle6 at EARTHLINK.NET Thu Apr 1 21:27:56 2004 From: boyle6 at EARTHLINK.NET (Eloise Boyle) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:27:56 -0800 Subject: Info on Infostudy Message-ID: Hello all, Anyone have experience with the following program in St. Petersburg? Russian Language Immersion Program I N F O S T U D Y Thanks, Eloise Eloise Boyle ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From simmonsc at BC.EDU Fri Apr 2 14:59:32 2004 From: simmonsc at BC.EDU (Cynthia Simmons) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 09:59:32 -0500 Subject: Job Message-ID: Boston College seeks fall-semester (2004) replacement for two courses in Russian/Comparative literature: "Literature and Revolution," a 20th-century Russian literature course (with undergrad and grad components), and a "Literature of the World" course with a strong Russian-literature focus. Applicants (Ph.D or ABD) should send CV and two letters of recommendation to Prof. Cynthia Simmons, Chair, Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Lyons Hall 210, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. Application deadline: April 30, 2004. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From vanya1v at YAHOO.COM Fri Apr 2 16:55:26 2004 From: vanya1v at YAHOO.COM (J.W.) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:55:26 -0500 Subject: English equivalent of "pilit'" Message-ID: Ottawa (Canada), Friday 2/4/04 11h55 EST Hullo, SEELANGers! Does anybody know of a good English equivalent of the Russian verb "пилить (на скрипке)" ["pilit' (na skripke)"], giving the impression of practising constantly on a violin in such a way that the sound tends to grate on the ears of the musician's neighbours? A computer dictionary offers "scrape", but this usage is not familiar to me -- especially in a context like "he scraped and scraped all day". I would be grateful for any suggestions. J. Woodsworth ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tabeasley at EARTHLINK.NET Fri Apr 2 17:05:00 2004 From: tabeasley at EARTHLINK.NET (Tim Beasley) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 12:05:00 -0500 Subject: English equivalent of "pilit'" In-Reply-To: <406D9AFD.775AB579@yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hi. "Saw (away)" sounds fine to me. I've used it to refer to over-pressured and under-gifted kids in the past. "He kept sawing away (on his fiddle) all day long", with "on his fiddle" being ellipted if sufficiently licensed by content. "He sawed and sawed all day" soundsliteral--I expect sawdust--and "sawed and sawed away" or "sawed away and sawed away" are both infelicitous. Tim Beasley At 11:55 AM 4/2/2004, you wrote: >Ottawa (Canada), Friday 2/4/04 11h55 EST > >Hullo, SEELANGers! > >Does anybody know of a good English equivalent of the Russian verb >"ÐÉÌÉÔØ (ÎÁ ÓËÒÉÐËÅ)" ["pilit' (na skripke)"], giving the impression of >practising constantly on a violin in such a way that the sound tends to >grate on the ears of the musician's neighbours? A computer dictionary >offers "scrape", but this usage is not familiar to me -- especially in a >context like "he scraped and scraped all day". I would be grateful for >any suggestions. > >J. Woodsworth > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM Fri Apr 2 18:28:38 2004 From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:28:38 -0500 Subject: English equivalent of "pilit'" Message-ID: Tim Beasley wrote: > "Saw (away)" sounds fine to me. I've used it to refer to over-pressured > and under-gifted kids in the past. "He kept sawing away (on his fiddle) > all day long", with "on his fiddle" being ellipted if sufficiently > licensed by content. > > "He sawed and sawed all day" soundsliteral--I expect sawdust--and "sawed > and sawed away" or "sawed away and sawed away" are both infelicitous. I would have the same reaction and offer the same advice for "scrape," though in both cases I find the version with "away" more effective for a repetitive action. In both cases, the verb denotes an activity devoid of skill or art. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher pbg translations, inc. "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals" http://pbg-translations.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From d344630 at ER.UQAM.CA Fri Apr 2 20:13:53 2004 From: d344630 at ER.UQAM.CA (Saskia) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:13:53 -0500 Subject: looking for an appartment in Moscow Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, I'm posting this on behalf of a good friend going to Russia do to some research and turn some shots for a documentary of russian art. She is looking for an appartment to rent in Moscow, clean, 2 bedrooms, inside the circle line and the nearest possible to a subway station. She will be travelling either from May 17th to 29th OR from June 23rd to July 5th. Anyone willing to rent an appartment for this period is welcome to contact me off-list (Saskia Ouaknine ) or her directly (Pascale Ferland ). Or maybe if you can refer us to someone renting appartments in Moscow at reasonnable prices, it can surely help too. Thank you in advance ! Saskia Montreal, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Fri Apr 2 22:59:18 2004 From: jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Jolanta Davis) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:59:18 -0500 Subject: Call for Nominations for 2004 AAASS Book Prizes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Call for Nominations for 2004 AAASS Book Prizes American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) invites nominations for the 2004 Book Prizes. Please note the new, W. Bruce Lincoln prize, established this year and awarded for the first published monograph or scholarly synthesis of exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia's past. To be eligible, books must have been originally published in English in 2003 in the form of a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors. The Hewett Prize, however, may be awarded for chapters of books or substantial articles. Also, the Lincoln Prize is awarded biennially and the nominations should have been published during the last two preceding years--2002 or 2003. Textbooks, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible. The AAASS Book Prizes carry a cash award and will be presented at the Awards Presentation reception during the 36th National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday, December 6, 2004. If you wish to nominate a book please ask the publisher to submit copies for consideration to the prize committee, or contact the Jolanta Davis, AAASS Publications Coordinator, jmdavis at fas.harvard.edu. For precise rules of eligibility for each prize and the mailing addresses for committee members, visit our Web site, . Deadline for nominations is May 14, 2004. AAASS/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies is awarded annually for the best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs. Only works originally published in English, outside of Poland, are eligible; the book must be a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors. Ed A. Hewett Book Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding publication on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe and their transitional successors. Only works originally published in English in the form of monographs, chapters in books, and substantial articles are eligible. Barbara Jelavich Book Prize is awarded annually for a distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history. The book must have been published in the United States; authors must be citizens or permanent residents of North America. W. Bruce Lincoln Prize is awarded biennially for a first book of exceptional scholarly merit and enduring significance for the understanding of Russia's past on any aspect of Russian history dealing with any period. The book must bear a copyright date of 2002 or 2003; must be published in English and in North America; the geographic area of study is broadly defined as the territories of the former imperial Russian state and the Soviet Union. Marshall Shulman Book Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe. The book must have been published in the United States; authors must be American scholars or residents of the U.S. Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize is awarded annually for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences. Policy analyses, however scholarly, are not considered. Jolanta M. Davis AAASS Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) 8 Story Street Cambridge, MA tel.: 617-495-0679 fax: 617-495-0680 Web site: www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From vanya1v at YAHOO.COM Sat Apr 3 17:38:42 2004 From: vanya1v at YAHOO.COM (J.W.) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 12:38:42 -0500 Subject: English equivalent of "pilit'" Message-ID: Ottawa (Canada), Saturday 3/4/04 12h35 EST Many thanks to all who responded. It seems the most literal rendition (at least in the phrase 'saw away') may be the best after all. J. Woodsworth ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Zemedelec at AOL.COM Sun Apr 4 01:08:37 2004 From: Zemedelec at AOL.COM (Leslie Farmer) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 20:08:37 EST Subject: Spitting nails in Czech Message-ID: A Czech Californian friend who has published several books in Czechia is looking to me for a Czech equivalent of "She was mad enough to spit nails." Your correspondent was referring to her redheaded mother, who probably could have produced napalm on the spot when she go mad enough. Is there one? Zuriva/ zurit jako pominuta all seem to lack the excessive, explosive quality of the US slang. Any clues? Leslie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From asred at COX.NET Sun Apr 4 18:00:42 2004 From: asred at COX.NET (Steve Marder) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:00:42 -0400 Subject: Tom Magner passed away Message-ID: It is with deep regret that I belatedly report that Thomas F. Magner, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages at Pennsylvania State University, died on March 27, 2004 at the age of 85. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From peitlova at TISCALINET.IT Mon Apr 5 09:01:23 2004 From: peitlova at TISCALINET.IT (Edil Legno) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:01:23 +0200 Subject: Spitting nails in Czech Message-ID: - silena vzteky , or - besnici seem to be enogh expressive. Katarìna Peitlovà,Ph.Dr. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leslie Farmer" To: Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 3:08 AM Subject: [SEELANGS] Spitting nails in Czech > A Czech Californian friend who has published several books in Czechia is > looking to me for a Czech equivalent of "She was mad enough to spit nails." Your > correspondent was referring to her redheaded mother, who probably could have > produced napalm on the spot when she go mad enough. Is there one? Zuriva/ > zurit jako pominuta all seem to lack the excessive, explosive quality of the US > slang. Any clues? > > > > Leslie > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From votruba+ at PITT.EDU Mon Apr 5 00:38:39 2004 From: votruba+ at PITT.EDU (Martin Votruba) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:38:39 -0400 Subject: No subject Message-ID: > "She was mad enough to spit nails." Your correspondent was referring to > her redheaded mother, who probably could have produced napalm [...] > zurit jako pominuta all seem to lack the excessive, explosive quality A fairly common and colorful comparison is ...jako san~. "like a [female] dragon" A phrase with closer imagery and a quaint, old verb that is sometimes used is ...ds~tila ohen~ a si'ru. "spewed out fire and sulphur" Martin Slovak Studies Program University of Pittsburgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Wendy.Rosslyn at NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK Mon Apr 5 12:02:00 2004 From: Wendy.Rosslyn at NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK (Wendy Rosslyn) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:02:00 +0100 Subject: Temporary Lectureship in Russian Studies, University of Nottingham, UK Message-ID: University of Nottingham School of Modern Languages Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies Lecturer in Russian Studies (Fixed-term) The successful candidate will teach modules in Russian language and literature for the Autumn Semester, 2004-5 [20 September 2004 to 21 January 2005] to replace Dr Cynthia Marsh, who will be on leave. Candidates must have an excellent command of the written and spoken language and a BA or equivalent in Russian. They must have experience of the UK Higher Education system, either as students or as a lecturer. Preference will be given to candidates who have, or have nearly completed, a PhD in Russian. Training and/or experience in teaching will be an advantage. Salary will be £22,954 per annum. This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for a period of four months. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor W Rosslyn, Head of Department, tel: 0115 951 5824 or Email: wendy.rosslyn at nottingham.ac.uk Further details and application forms are available on the WWW at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/academic.html or from the Human Resources Department, Highfield House, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD. Tel: 0115 951 3264. Fax: 0115 951 5205. Please quote ref. TW/125A. Closing date: 29 April 2004. Professor Wendy Rosslyn Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD tel: 0115 951 5829 fax: 0115 951 5834 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lsteiner at UCHICAGO.EDU Mon Apr 5 15:35:47 2004 From: lsteiner at UCHICAGO.EDU (Lina Steiner) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:35:47 -0400 Subject: "Library of Polish Literature" Message-ID: I am trying to find out who was the editor and the pub;lisher for the 15- volume encyclopaedia of post war Polish prose, which came out in the Soviet Union in 1774-77 under the title "The Library of Polish Literature." I would very much appreciate your help in locating this publication! Thank you so much. Lina ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lsteiner at UCHICAGO.EDU Mon Apr 5 15:38:54 2004 From: lsteiner at UCHICAGO.EDU (Lina Steiner) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:38:54 -0400 Subject: correction to the "Library of Polish Literature" Message-ID: There is a typo in my previous message. Of course, "Bibliotelka pol'skoi literatury" was published in 1974-77. Thank you very much for your help! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU Mon Apr 5 16:04:19 2004 From: rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU (Robert A. Rothstein) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:04:19 -0400 Subject: "Library of Polish Literature" Message-ID: WorldCat (ask your friendly neighborhood librarian if you don't know about it) lists 12 volumes from the series "Biblioteka pol'skoi literatury" published between 1974 and 1986. All were published in Moscow: seven by "Khudozhestvennaia literatura," three by "Progress" and one each by "Molodaia gvardiia" and "Iskusstvo." No series editor is listed. (There's also a 13th entry under the series title, published in Ukrainian by "Prosvita" in Lviv in 1995.) Bob Rothstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tpolowy at U.ARIZONA.EDU Mon Apr 5 17:03:41 2004 From: tpolowy at U.ARIZONA.EDU (Teresa Polowy) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:03:41 -0700 Subject: Russian Summer Camps for Children Message-ID: Hello, Does anyone know of any Russian summer camps for children anywhere in the country? I have in mind children who are native speakers (but are losing their Russian in the US) and children who are heritage speakers. Please let me know of anything you might have heard about. Teresa Polowy Associate Professor of Russia Departmental Graduate Advisor University of Arizona ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Palacgw at TULSASCHOOLS.ORG Mon Apr 5 17:07:14 2004 From: Palacgw at TULSASCHOOLS.ORG (Palace, Gwendolyn) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:07:14 -0500 Subject: Russian Summer Camps for Children Message-ID: Concordia Language Villages in Minnesota http://www.cord.edu/dept/clv/russian/index.html -----Original Message----- From: Teresa Polowy [mailto:tpolowy at U.ARIZONA.EDU] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 12:04 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian Summer Camps for Children Hello, Does anyone know of any Russian summer camps for children anywhere in the country? I have in mind children who are native speakers (but are losing their Russian in the US) and children who are heritage speakers. Please let me know of anything you might have heard about. Teresa Polowy Associate Professor of Russia Departmental Graduate Advisor University of Arizona ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From glebov at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU Mon Apr 5 17:17:35 2004 From: glebov at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU (Sergey Glebov) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:17:35 -0400 Subject: Russian Summer Camps for Children Message-ID: There is a very nice sunday school and summer camp in NJ www.school-plus.com Apart from Russian, Math and Physics they have an excellent chess program. I understand from their website that they also have locations in DC. Sergey Glebov ----- Original Message ----- From: "Teresa Polowy" To: Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 1:03 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian Summer Camps for Children Hello, Does anyone know of any Russian summer camps for children anywhere in the country? I have in mind children who are native speakers (but are losing their Russian in the US) and children who are heritage speakers. Please let me know of anything you might have heard about. Teresa Polowy Associate Professor of Russia Departmental Graduate Advisor University of Arizona ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From cn29 at COLUMBIA.EDU Mon Apr 5 18:37:02 2004 From: cn29 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Catharine Nepomnyashchy) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:37:02 -0400 Subject: Trans-Siberian Message-ID: I have a student who is hoping to take the Trans-Siberian Railway into China this summer. Do any of you have any information on travel groups? Or does any one have any recent experiences that might suggest it would be safe or risky for two young women to take this journey alone? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Cathy Catharine Nepomnyashchy Director, Harriman Institute Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian Literature and Chair, Slavic Department, Barnard College phone: (212) 854-6213 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jbennett26 at NYC.RR.COM Mon Apr 5 18:52:21 2004 From: jbennett26 at NYC.RR.COM (Jamie and Robert Hawkins) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:52:21 -0400 Subject: Trans-Siberian In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Cathy, With my recent experiences, I could only advise as to the safety of crossing Amsterdam (Avenue), i.e. I don't get out much. Your message prompted me to send you a note, though. Hope you and your family are well. I've been working quite hard on my dissertation and hope to finish in the next couple weeks. I always remember your advice: "Just get it done!" and that's what I'm doing now. I wanted to ask you if you have heard of any teaching positions or other jobs for next year. I'm taking a couple days off to look at the job market for high schools as well as universities and it's pretty bleak. Thanks in advance. Jamie P.S. The other day when you were crossing Amsterdam, I called "Hi, Cathy" but you didn't hear me. Then my kids started yelling "Hi, Cathy" and Olya heard them. It was cute that they made the connection before we did! I'd love to get them together some time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kate.holland at YALE.EDU Mon Apr 5 20:43:58 2004 From: kate.holland at YALE.EDU (Kate Holland) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:43:58 -0400 Subject: Trans-Siberian In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I went on the Trans-Siberian with another female friend when we were students in 1996-97 and it was perfectly safe. We both spoke fluent Russian; I would say that was definitely a necessity. We travelled second class, and befriended the provodnik, who only put women in our compartment. I'm not sure if that's policy or not. At that point we were fairly used to living in Russia, and so were relatively unflappable and perfectly able to understand the do's and don'ts. For instance young women travelling in small groups should avoid the dining cars, which are full of drunken lecherous middle-aged men. That means you have to buy food from the stations when the train stops, which is never usually a problem. I would definitely recommend this as a travel/cultural/life experience. The conversations we had with our fellow travellers were fascinating. Second class is definitely better from this point of view, since you get to meet all kinds of people, but it is more comfortable and safer than third class. Obviously from a linguistic and cultural point of view, this makes for a far richer experience than travelling in a group. Hope this helps, Kate Holland At 02:37 PM 4/5/2004 -0400, Catharine Nepomnyashchy wrote: >I have a student who is hoping to take the Trans-Siberian Railway into >China this summer. Do any of you have any information on travel groups? >Or does any one have any recent experiences that might suggest it would >be safe or risky for two young women to take this journey alone? Any >information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Cathy > >Catharine Nepomnyashchy >Director, Harriman Institute >Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian Literature and >Chair, Slavic Department, Barnard College >phone: (212) 854-6213 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kate Holland PhD Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, PO Box 208236, New Haven CT 06520 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kgroberg at FARGOCITY.COM Mon Apr 5 19:50:08 2004 From: kgroberg at FARGOCITY.COM (Kris Groberg) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:50:08 -0500 Subject: Russian Summer Camps for Children Message-ID: "Palace, Gwendolyn" wrote: > Concordia Language Villages in Minnesota > > http://www.cord.edu/dept/clv/russian/index.html This is my suggestion also. They are run by Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. My daughter went to Russian Camp there several years in a row and we found it excellent. Kris Groberg, Ph.D. [mailto:kgroberg at fargocity.com] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ajconova at STUDENT.GC.MARICOPA.EDU Mon Apr 5 23:53:53 2004 From: ajconova at STUDENT.GC.MARICOPA.EDU (Andrew John Conovaloff) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:53:53 -0700 Subject: Russian Summer Camps for Children In-Reply-To: <000f01c41b2f$f2ac2f80$9b44c480@russian.arizona.edu> Message-ID: In Phoenix AZ we created a Russian Childrens' Center with classes 2 days a week organized by families to help their kids retain Russian language and culture. The kids are from Russian-born immigrant famliles, American husband Russian-bride families, and American couples who adopted Russian orphans. See: http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/clubs/russian/rcc/ http://www.azrussiankids.org/ How old are your kids? Maybe you could network with other Tucson Russian families to organize a group event at least once a week, perhaps hiring one of the many young immigrants there to conduct Russian language fun programs. A better plan is to send the kids home to relatives in Russia for the entire summer. 2-3 months of immersion every year will really work. ---------------------------- On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:03:41 -0700 Teresa Polowy wrote: >Hello, >Does anyone know of any Russian summer camps for children >anywhere in the country? I have in mind children who are >native speakers (but are losing their Russian in the US) >and children who are heritage speakers. Please let me >know of anything you might have heard about. > >Teresa Polowy >Associate Professor of Russia >Departmental Graduate Advisor >University of Arizona ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Zemedelec at AOL.COM Tue Apr 6 00:18:22 2004 From: Zemedelec at AOL.COM (Leslie Farmer) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:18:22 EDT Subject: hrebicky Message-ID: Martine a Katerino, dekuji mockrat! Leslie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From AnyaG99 at AOL.COM Tue Apr 6 01:09:25 2004 From: AnyaG99 at AOL.COM (Erica Walker) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:09:25 EDT Subject: Russian Summer Camps for Children Message-ID: In a message dated 4/5/04 12:10:20 PM Central Daylight Time, Palacgw at TULSASCHOOLS.ORG writes: << Concordia Language Villages in Minnesota http://www.cord.edu/dept/clv/russian/index.html >> I must also give a shout out for CLV--I myself went for three years (although I am not a native speaker, but there were several there each time) and I found the immersion aspect of it useful for picking up and retaining the language, especially the more commonly spoken phrases. -Erica Walker ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From rkreuzer at STLAWU.EDU Tue Apr 6 02:07:22 2004 From: rkreuzer at STLAWU.EDU (Ruth Kreuzer) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 22:07:22 -0400 Subject: correction to the "Library of Polish Literature" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Seelangs Colleagues! An art historian friend of mine is asking me what I know (nothing!) about a special summer program for art historians, run by the European University at St. Petersburg and a firm called Aster Inc. Have any of you heard anything about this program or about Aster Inc? Please reply off list. rkreuzer at stlawu.edu Ruth Kreuzer St. Lawrence University P.S. The program website: http://www.eu.spb.ru/en/art/summer2004/description.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gianpaolo.gandolfo at FASTWEBNET.IT Tue Apr 6 10:13:47 2004 From: gianpaolo.gandolfo at FASTWEBNET.IT (Giampaolo Gandolfo) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:13:47 +0200 Subject: index of Tolstoy's characters Message-ID: I wish to thank all Seelangers who reponded to my query about indexes of L. Tolstoy's War and Peace characters. I got several suggestions and ideas that are proving very useful for my course. Vsem bol'shoe spasibo! 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From paulr at RISPUBS.COM Tue Apr 6 12:07:03 2004 From: paulr at RISPUBS.COM (Paul Richardson) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 08:07:03 -0400 Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 4 Apr 2004 to 5 Apr 2004 (#2004-97) In-Reply-To: <20040406000137.SM02796@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Message-ID: Our magazine, Russian Life, ran a feature on this in our Jan/Feb 04 issue, with listings. I believe all I have seen mentioned on the list were in the article. If you don't subscribe, the issue can be ordered at: http://www.russian-life.com/store/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=4929 Paul Richardson On 4/6/04 12:00 AM, "Automatic digest processor" wrote: > Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:03:41 -0700 > From: Teresa Polowy > Subject: Russian Summer Camps for Children > > Hello, > Does anyone know of any Russian summer camps for children anywhere in = > the country? I have in mind children who are native speakers (but are = > losing their Russian in the US) and children who are heritage speakers. = > Please let me know of anything you might have heard about. > > Teresa Polowy > Associate Professor of Russia > Departmental Graduate Advisor > University of Arizona ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ggerhart at COMCAST.NET Tue Apr 6 16:14:10 2004 From: ggerhart at COMCAST.NET (Genevra Gerhart) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:14:10 -0700 Subject: Russian Life subscription In-Reply-To: Message-ID: And I would like to suggest that "Russian Life" has so many useful and interesting articles that Russian teachers (and their classes) would be well served by a subscription. Genevra http://www.GenevraGerhart.com ggerhart 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From renee at ALINGA.COM Tue Apr 6 17:07:12 2004 From: renee at ALINGA.COM (Renee Stillings | Alinga) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:07:12 -0400 Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 4 Apr 2004 to 5 Apr 2004 (#2004-97) Message-ID: There is also a camp at Lake Baikal - this year two sessions - July 10 and July 20 - each for 10 days. It is run by the Leonov private school in Irkutsk. We have sent students to help teaching English there in past years and possibly a few will go this year also to work with the kids. In terms of location for camps in Russia, it is fantastic. On the "Maloye more" by Olkhon Island. While I don't know that other non-Russian kids have joined this yet, we have been told in the past it is certainly open to that possibility. Ages around 10-12 I think. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Richardson" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 8:07 AM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS Digest - 4 Apr 2004 to 5 Apr 2004 (#2004-97) > Our magazine, Russian Life, ran a feature on this in our Jan/Feb 04 issue, > with listings. I believe all I have seen mentioned on the list were in the > article. If you don't subscribe, the issue can be ordered at: > > http://www.russian-life.com/store/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=4929 > > Paul Richardson > > On 4/6/04 12:00 AM, "Automatic digest processor" > wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 10:03:41 -0700 > > From: Teresa Polowy > > Subject: Russian Summer Camps for Children > > > > Hello, > > Does anyone know of any Russian summer camps for children anywhere in = > > the country? I have in mind children who are native speakers (but are = > > losing their Russian in the US) and children who are heritage speakers. = > > Please let me know of anything you might have heard about. > > > > Teresa Polowy > > Associate Professor of Russia > > Departmental Graduate Advisor > > University of Arizona > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gillespie.20 at ND.EDU Tue Apr 6 19:35:34 2004 From: gillespie.20 at ND.EDU (Alyssa Dinega Gillespie) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:35:34 -0600 Subject: Query: teaching job in St. Petersburg? In-Reply-To: <200404060401.i3641EH2020212@osgood.cc.nd.edu> Message-ID: Dear colleagues: A student of mine (a graduating senior and dual Physics and Russian major, extremely smart and reliable, with excellent Russian language skills) is interested in spending next academic year teaching in St. Petersburg. She has compiled the following description of the ideal situation she is seeking: Location: St. Petersburg Housing: apartment or host family (expenses paid by school) Salary: $1000/semester minimum Hours: ~20-30 hrs/week Subjects qualified to teach: English language or literature, physics (in English), math (in English) Duration: Semester- or year-long position starting in Fall 2004. If you have any leads or know of any schools that would offer such a situation, please contact her directly with the relevant information. Her name is Shelece Easterday, and her email address is . Thanks in advance for your advice and help! Alyssa Dinega Gillespie University of Notre Dame ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From klinela at PROVIDE.NET Tue Apr 6 20:47:50 2004 From: klinela at PROVIDE.NET (Laura Kline) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:47:50 -0400 Subject: Percentage of Russian population which receives a higher education In-Reply-To: <00d101c41b31$e3730550$8802a8c0@sg> Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, Does anyone know where I could find recent statistics on the percentage of the Russian population which receives a higher education? I can find elementary and secondary statistics, but the higher education statistics seem to be missing from every study I have found. Thanks, Laura Kline ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brifkin at WISC.EDU Tue Apr 6 21:51:59 2004 From: brifkin at WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:51:59 -0500 Subject: World Congress / Applied Linguistics Message-ID: The World Congress of Applied Linguistics will be held for the first time in the United States in July 2005 in Madison Wisconsin at the historic Frank Lloyd Wright designed Monona Terrace Convention center. Proposals for papers are being accepted through June 1, 2004. For more details, see the website: www.aila2005.org With best wishes, Ben Rifkin ************* Benjamin Rifkin Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lyssakov at EU.SPB.RU Thu Apr 8 10:24:22 2004 From: Lyssakov at EU.SPB.RU (Pavel Lyssakov) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 14:24:22 +0400 Subject: European University-SPb application deadline Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder that April 30, 2004 is the application deadline for the International MA in Russian Studies (IMARS) program at the European University-SPb, for the academic year 2004-05. IMARS is a graduate program for students who already hold a B.A. degree or its equivalent and wish to continue their study of Russia or other successor states of the Soviet Union, while residing and doing research in Russia. Currently offered specializations are: Political Science, Sociology, History, Cultural Studies. Instruction is in English. Russian language classes are also offered. 70% of our faculty hold Western Ph.D.'s For more information please go to http://www.eu.spb.ru/en/imars/index.htm or write to Programs Director Dr. Pavel Lyssakov Dr Pavel Lyssakov Director, International Programmes and Development Faculty of Political Science and Sociology The European University at St Petersburg Phone/Fax: +7 (812) 279-44-02 Fax: +7 (812) 275-51-33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Thu Apr 8 11:56:05 2004 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:56:05 +0200 Subject: Government officials ban a lecture about Belarusan language In-Reply-To: <8068885776B5D411A8AB00E029486364F10AA3@mail.eu.spb.ru> Message-ID: * http://www.svaboda.org/news/articles/2004/04/20040407153820.asp Movaznaucu Vincuku Viacorku nia dali sustrecca z maladymi filolahami u Navapolacku, bo ulady sarvali sustrecu. Belarusan linguist Vincuk Viacorka couldn't meet with the philology students in Novapolacak because government officials banned the meeting. Kind Regards, Uladzimir Katkouski http://blog.rydel.net/ 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brifkin at WISC.EDU Thu Apr 8 13:44:02 2004 From: brifkin at WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 08:44:02 -0500 Subject: For Recruiting for Russian Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers: In our efforts to recruit for Russian classes, it may be interesting to tell students about the Russian economy's prospects. Today's report shows the Russian stock market surpassing previous records: http://www.gazeta.ru/2004/04/08/oa_117294.shtml With best wishes to all, Ben Rifkin ************* Benjamin Rifkin Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From bryon at ONLINE.RU Thu Apr 8 14:37:35 2004 From: bryon at ONLINE.RU (Bryon MacWilliams) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:37:35 -0400 Subject: Role of Language in Higher Education Message-ID: ** Please respond off-line to bryon at online.ru ** My name is Bryon MacWilliams, and I am the Russia/CIS correspondent for the U.S. weekly newspaper, The Chronicle of Higher Education. (http://chronicle.com) I am currently reporting on the role of language in higher education in each of the former Soviet republics. I thought SEELANGERs might be able to help. Generally I've been focusing on what's been happening in the republics since the early 90s -- the transitions away from/toward Russian, the reasons behind them, and the resulting difficulties/controversies. I'm interested in learning more about Soviet language policies in higher education, and how they differed -- in practice, if not in law -- from republic to republic. I'd appreciate hearing from those who have studied, or are living through, these changes. Please reply off-line to bryon at online.ru. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET Thu Apr 8 14:51:33 2004 From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:51:33 -0400 Subject: Government officials ban a lecture about Belarusan language Message-ID: To put Uladzimir's message into a context: Vincuk Viacorka is the head of the Popular Front, the main opposition organization. This is not a justification, of course, just an explanation. 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kmblasing at STUDENTS.WISC.EDU Thu Apr 8 18:00:40 2004 From: kmblasing at STUDENTS.WISC.EDU (KEITH MALCOLM MEYER-BLASING) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:00:40 -0700 Subject: AATSEEL Member News column seeks submissions! Message-ID: Greetings SEELANGers, If you or anyone you know has recently defended a dissertation, been hired, or been promoted, please let us know the details (name, achievement, affiliation) for inclusion in the upcoming AATSEEL Newsletter’s Member News Column. This column depends on your submissions, so thanks in advance for your help! Submissions sent by the April 15 deadline will be included. Please send info to Keith Meyer-Blasing kmblasing at wisc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From beth_holmgren at UNC.EDU Thu Apr 8 19:26:11 2004 From: beth_holmgren at UNC.EDU (Beth Holmgren) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:26:11 -0400 Subject: AATSEEL Member News column seeks submissions! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Professor Ivana Vuletic (UNC, Serbian/Croatian and Russian Literatures) was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in July 2003. Anne Keown (UNC, Slavic Linguistics) successfully defended her dissertation in April 2004 and has accepted a position with the NSA. On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:00:40 -0700, you wrote: >Greetings SEELANGers, > >If you or anyone you know has recently defended a dissertation, been hired, or been promoted, please let us know the details (name, achievement, affiliation) for inclusion in the upcoming AATSEEL Newsletter’s Member News Column. This column depends on your submissions, so thanks in advance for your help! Submissions sent by the April 15 deadline will be included. > >Please send info to >Keith Meyer-Blasing >kmblasing at wisc.edu > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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LINGUISTICS 9:30-10:30 Function and Topology in Spatial Conceptualization: A Cross-linguistic Analysis of "Over" "Cherez" and "Nad" Sean Flannigan, UNC-Chapel Hill On the Role of Metaphor for Understanding Abstract Concepts George Ruibinstein, Ph.D., Independent Scholar Break 10:30-10:45 CULTURE 10:45-12:15 Identity and the Market: A Study of the Post-Soviet Intelligentsia and the Russian Detective Novel Matt Kiser, College of William and Mary Mirror, Mirror on the Wall! Who's the Manliest of Them All?: Celluloid Masculinity as a Reflection of Soviet Values During the Khrushchev Thaw, 1957-64. Marko Dumancic, UNC-Chapel Hill The Soviet Union and the 1952 Olympics Jennifer L. Parks, UNC-Chapel Hill Lunch 12:15-1:00 LITERATURE 1:00-3:00 Guilty as Charged: Theatrical Show Trials in Bulgakov's MASTER AND MARGARITA Diane Caton, UNC-Chapel Hill Keywords and Methodical Principles in Studying Russian Literature Using Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" Irina Y. Barclay, Ph.D., Appalachian State University Learning Russian with Children's Poems David Turner, Appalachian State University From Vicious to Virtuous: An Aristotelian Examination of THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV Melissa A. Kotacka, UNC-Chapel Hill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jschill at AMERICAN.EDU Thu Apr 8 20:05:43 2004 From: jschill at AMERICAN.EDU (John Schillinger) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:05:43 -0400 Subject: AATSEEL Member News column seeks submissions! Message-ID: Keith- News note: I'll be retiring at the end of this semester (past AATSEEL president). John -- John Schillinger Prof. of Russian Language and Literature Dept. of Language and Foreign Studies 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20016-8045 Phone: 202/885-2395 Fax 202-885-1076 Weekend phone 540/465-2828 Fax 540/465-2965 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From wjcomer at KU.EDU Thu Apr 8 21:49:22 2004 From: wjcomer at KU.EDU (William J. Comer) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:49:22 -0500 Subject: Reminder: Abstract deadline for 2004 AATSEEL Conference Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, The Call for Papers for the 2004 AATSEEL conference in Philadelphia, PA is posted at the following site: http://www.aatseel.org/program/ We invite AATSEEL members to submit abstracts for double-blind peer review by the 15 April or 1 August deadlines. We encourage authors to submit abstracts by the first deadline, in order to have the chance to revise them, should reviewers deem that necessary. We also encourage AATSEEL members to submit declarations for new panels, and to form their own complete panels. Each abstract author must submit an abstract for peer review; however, we will have abstracts clearly meant for one panel reviewed together. We will accept panel declarations until 1 August. All abstract authors must be AATSEEL members in good standing for 2004, or have a waiver of membership approved by the Chair of the AATSEEL Program Committee, when they submit their abstracts for peer review. For information on AATSEEL membership, please follow the links from AATSEEL's homepage (http://www.aatseel.org). We hope to see you in Philadelphia. Best wishes, William J. Comer Chair, AATSEEL Program Committee -- William J. Comer Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures Director, Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center University of Kansas 1445 Jayhawk Blvd. Room 4069 Lawrence, KS 66045 Phone: 785-864-4701 Fax: 785-864-4298 Email: wjcomer at ku.edu Websites: www.ku.edu/~egarc and www.ku.edu/~russcult ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jsdrisc at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Mon Apr 12 19:10:11 2004 From: jsdrisc at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (o'drisceoil) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:10:11 -0400 Subject: Preliminary Program for "Critical Exchanges" Message-ID: Please find below the preliminary program for the upcoming conference "Critical Exchanges: Economy and Culture in the Literature of Russia." Best, James Driscoll Critical Exchanges: Economy and Culture in the Literature of Russia Northwestern University Friday, May 7, 2004 Panel: Twentieth-Century Exchanges Chair: Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern) Discussant: Gregory Freidin (Stanford) 'The Gold of Genuine Poetry': Epistolary Exchange and the Value of Peasant Words in the Kliuev-Blok Correspondence (J. Alexander Ogden, University of South Carolina) The Golden Calf and the Matter of Form (Lida Oukaderova, University of Texas) Economy of Diversions and Crimes of Substitution: Detektivy as Manuals (Serguei Oushakine, Columbia) Saturday May 8, 2004 Panel: Theory and Economic Criticism Chair: Wendy Espeland (Northwestern) Discussant: Caryl Emerson (Princeton) Economics vs. the Novel (Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern) Econoclasm: Social Scenarios and Semiotic Forms of the Quest for Impecunious Society (Kirill Postoutenko, University of Southern California) Evaluation in Aesthetics and Economy: A Heuristic Approach to Evaluative Practices (Mikhail Gronas, Dartmouth) Panel: Nineteenth-Century Exchanges (Part One) Chair: Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern) Discussant: Esther Kingston-Mann (University of Massachusetts) Nadson's Millions: Stikhomaniia, Poetry Markets, and the Commercialization of the Intelligentsia Illness Chic (Robert Wessling, Stanford) Dostoevsky's 'Ode to Joy': Forgiveness and Giving in The Brothers Karamazov (Svetlana Rukhelman, Harvard) The Value of Happiness: An Approach to the Economy of Komu na Rusi Zhit' Khorosho (Mikhail Makeev, Moscow State) Panel: Nineteenth-Century Exchanges (Part Two) Chair: Andrew Wachtel (Northwestern) Discussant: William Mills Todd III (Harvard) Disraeli and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky's Economies of Salvation (Susan McReynolds-Oddo, Northwestern) Worlds Juxtaposed: The Dream Economy of Goncharov's Oblomov (James Driscoll, Harvard) Sweet Commerce and Dead Souls: Gogol's Hidden Polemic with European 'Progress' (Russell Scott Valentino, University of Iowa) Theory-vs.-Praxis, or the Virtual Economy in M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's Gospoda Golovlyovy (Ewa Wampusyc, University of Michigan) 4:30PM Keynote Address by Mark Osteen (Loyola College Maryland) Papers submitted in absentia: State service, book market and literary reputation: Goncharov's conflictive 'habitus'" (Ulrich Schmid, University of Bern) The Hunger City: Gorod Golod (Irina Sandomirskaja, University College of South Stockholm, Sweden) Literary translation in Russia: changes in situation (Vadim Mikhailin, Saratov State University) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Alexander.Boguslawski at ROLLINS.EDU Mon Apr 12 16:56:27 2004 From: Alexander.Boguslawski at ROLLINS.EDU (Alexander Boguslawski) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:56:27 -0400 Subject: Russian visas Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, Could you recommend the most reliable and reasonable visa agency to process a visa (and an invitation) to Moscow and Petrozavodsk? Your help will be greatly appreciated. You may answer directly to aboguslawski at rollins.edu or to the list, if you think it may be of interest to other subscribers. Thank you, Alexander Boguslawski Rollins College ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU Fri Apr 9 20:24:21 2004 From: russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU (Russell Valentino) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 15:24:21 -0500 Subject: Tsvetaeva recordings Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Can anyone point me to any recordings of Marina Tsvetaeva or any good recordings of her poems by a Russian speaker? Please reply off list. Thanks. Russell Valentino ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ad5537 at WAYNE.EDU Mon Apr 12 14:22:02 2004 From: ad5537 at WAYNE.EDU (Kenneth Brostrom) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:22:02 -0400 Subject: Cosmopolitan Message-ID: -- Dear SEELANGers, Has anyone had any experience with the Novosibirsk language school COSMOPOLITAN? Any information you can give would be helpful. Please reply off-list. Thank you, Ken Brostrom Kenneth Brostrom, Assoc. Prof. of Russian Dept. of German and Slavic Studies 443 Manoogian Hall Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 email: kenneth.brostrom at wayne.edu telephone: 313-577-6238 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From adrozd at BAMA.UA.EDU Mon Apr 12 15:26:29 2004 From: adrozd at BAMA.UA.EDU (Andrew M. Drozd) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:26:29 -0500 Subject: book inquiry Message-ID: Dear SEELangers: I have been trying to find a copy of the following book: E. A. Rykhlik, Poeticheskaiia deiatel'nost' Frantsa Ladislava Chelakovskogo (Kiev, 1915). The only copy I have seen listed is at U. of Chicago library but it is reported missing. If anyone happens to know the location of another copy, please contact me. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew M. Drozd Associate Professor of Russian adrozd at bama.ua.edu Department of Modern Languages and Classics Box 870246 University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0246 tel. (205) 348-5720 fax. (205) 348-2042 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ggerhart at COMCAST.NET Mon Apr 12 20:55:53 2004 From: ggerhart at COMCAST.NET (Genevra Gerhart) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:55:53 -0700 Subject: Russian visas In-Reply-To: <407ACA3B.7020606@rollins.edu> Message-ID: Look up on the web what is required, and then send the stuff to the nearest Russian Consulate. Genevra http://www.GenevraGerhart.com ggerhart 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jschill at AMERICAN.EDU Mon Apr 12 19:48:34 2004 From: jschill at AMERICAN.EDU (John Schillinger) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:48:34 -0400 Subject: AATSEEL Member News column seeks submissions! Message-ID: My apologies for inadvertently sending to SEELANGERS a note just intended for AATSEEL Newsletter’s Member News Column! John Schillinger Dept. of Language and Foreign Studies 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20016-8045 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From nobum at GOL.COM Mon Apr 12 23:04:36 2004 From: nobum at GOL.COM (Nobukatsu Minoura) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:04:36 +0900 Subject: Xristos voskrese! In-Reply-To: <407AF292.E99CA8BB@american.edu> Message-ID: For those who practice Orthodoxy, Serdechno pozdravljaju Vas s Velikoj Pasxoj! Xristos voskrese! Voistinu voskrese! Xristos anesti! Alithos anesti! Christ is risen! Indeed he is risen! Nobukatsu Minoura ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From bryon at online.ru Tue Apr 13 01:11:59 2004 From: bryon at online.ru (Bryon) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:11:59 EDT Subject: Role of Language in Higher Education Message-ID: *** Please reply off-line to this message. *** My name is Bryon MacWilliams, and I am the Russia/CIS correspondent for the U.S. weekly newspaper, The Chronicle of Higher Education. (http://chronicle.com) I am currently reporting on the role of language in higher education in each of the former Soviet republics. I thought SEELANGERs might be able to help. Generally I've been focusing on what's been happening in the republics since the early 90s -- the transitions away from/toward Russian, the reasons behind them, and the resulting difficulties/controversies. I'm also interested in learning about Soviet language policies in higher education, and how they differed -- in practice, if not in law -- from republic to republic. I'd appreciate hearing from scholars as well as those who lived through (are living through) these changes. Please reply off-line to bryon at online.ru . Thanks, Bryon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sher07 at MINDSPRING.COM Mon Apr 12 16:00:11 2004 From: sher07 at MINDSPRING.COM (Benjamin Sher) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:00:11 -0500 Subject: Emerging Trends -- Database of contemporary Russian culture online Message-ID: Dear friends: I am happy to announce the immediate availability of a new collection of online materials related to post-Soviet Russian culture in a variety of spheres: literature, history, cinema, television, radio, theater, politics, religion, etc. Unlike other collections, this is not merely a list of URL's but an anthology of actual texts culled from the Internet, mostly in Russian. It includes also 18 audio programs (with full text transcriptions) courtesy of RFE/RL's Russian Service and several video lectures by Chulaki. Emerging Trends: http://www.websher.net/yale/rl/trends/ Please BOOKMARK the site in your browser (Add Bookmark in Netscape, Add Favorite in Internet Explorer). While this collection is not currently being updated, it is always possible that it will be updated at some point in the future. Emerging Trends is a strictly NON-COMMERCIAL project designed for the benefit of students and faculty of Russian, Russian scholars and the general public. This web site is a work-in-progress. It incorporates selections from a growing video, audio and print archive of contemporary Russian culture and serves as an integral teaching tool for a course taught at Yale by Rita Lipson entitled “Emerging Trends in Russian Culture: The Icon and the Fax.” Grateful acknowledgement is hereby made to the Yale Slavic Department for their sponsorship and support through the ITS/Library Yale Grant. Benjamin Sher -- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM Tue Apr 13 00:52:55 2004 From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:52:55 -0400 Subject: book inquiry Message-ID: Andrew M. Drozd wrote: > Dear SEELangers: > > I have been trying to find a copy of the following book: > > E. A. Rykhlik, Poeticheskaiia deiatel'nost' Frantsa Ladislava > Chelakovskogo (Kiev, 1915). > > The only copy I have seen listed is at U. of Chicago library but it is > reported missing. If anyone happens to know the location of another > copy, please contact me. No hits for this search, but here's a useful source many subscribers will want to bookmark: -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher pbg translations, inc. "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals" http://pbg-translations.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Zemedelec at AOL.COM Tue Apr 13 12:41:31 2004 From: Zemedelec at AOL.COM (Leslie Farmer) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:41:31 EDT Subject: Xristos voskrese! Message-ID: For the Maronites (Lebanon, etc.): Al-Maseeh qaam--Haqqan qaam. However (devout people may want to stop reading): A British acquaintance of mine studying Arabic spent his first six months living with a Muslim family, and learned very well--mostly by ear. As some of you know, among less-devout Muslims, "W'Allahi" (By God) has about as much religious significance as "By George," and is so used. When the British guy then went up to Shemlan, the "spy school" in the Maronite village of the same name, he went to Easter services with them, when coming out one is supposed to say to the first person one meets, "Al--Maseeh qaam!" He was the "recipient," and replied with great feeling, "W'Allahi qaam!" Leslie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From padunov+ at PITT.EDU Tue Apr 13 13:41:15 2004 From: padunov+ at PITT.EDU (Vladimir Padunov) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:41:15 -0400 Subject: Russian Film Symposium in Pittsburgh (3-8 May 2004) Message-ID: Prophets and Gain: New Russian Cinema (3-8 May 2004) Much has been written in the past decade about the crises besetting the film industry in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. These crises, however, were simply the inevitable consequence of capital's struggle to differentiate itself from money--that is, a painful transition from funding individual film projects (by the state, by Klondike capitalists, by the underworld) to the investment of funds with an expectation of generating surplus value; a transition that transformed the film industry by shifting the focus from products to profits. Even the film studios inherited from the recent Soviet past--Mosfilm, Lenfilm, Gor'kii Film Studio--were forced to allocate their now limited resources in a new way: film projects had to be packaged both in terms of their "social (or artistic) merits" and their projected ability to return capital investments to the studios. This radical development in the Russian film industry redefined the procedures in obtaining film financing and, in the process, gave birth to a new profession: the producer. Inevitably, the rise of independent producers was accompanied by the emergence of privately owned film production companies that also initially used already existing infrastructures. In particular, three private production studios have dominated the independent market in Russia and have begun to transform both the kinds of films being made and audiences' tastes: STW Film Company in St. Petersburg, established by former film director Sergei Sel'ianov in 1992; NTV-Profit Film Company in Moscow, a joint company established in 1995 linking Igor' Tolstunov's production studio Profit with Vladimir Gusinskii's NTV Television Company; and Pygmalion Productions in Moscow, established in 2001 by Sergei Chliants. This new domestic film production industry has prompted the return of Russian films to Russian movie theaters, and this, in turn, has generated a demand for better quality domestically produced films, not just by established filmmakers (whether those whose careers are identifiable with the Soviet past or by ones who emerged in the immediate post-Soviet years), but also by completely new and unknown filmmakers, as often as not young directors who have just completed their first feature film. The works of these new directors (Petr Buslov, Aleksei German, Jr., Gennadii Sidorov, Andrei Zviagintsev), the output of the new private studios (STW, NTV-Profit, and Pygmalion), and the new landscape of Russian cinema are the focus of Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium 2004 www.rusfilm.pitt.edu. _________________________________________ Vladimir Padunov Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 1433 Cathedral of Learning voice: 1-412-624-5713 University of Pittsburgh FAX: 1-412-624-9714 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 padunov at pitt.edu Russian Film Symposium http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From vinarska at YAHOO.COM Tue Apr 13 15:10:03 2004 From: vinarska at YAHOO.COM (Maryna Vinarska) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:10:03 -0700 Subject: Xristos voskrese! In-Reply-To: <000501c4215c$d1df59c0$6401a8c0@hvc.rr.com> Message-ID: Privetik! Prochest' to, chto ty napisala, na etom kompiutere ne mogu. No dogadatsia mogu. Vas obeikh tozhe s prazdnikom, s proshedshim, razumeetsia. Vozvrashchaites poskoree. Maryna. --- Mourka wrote: > ???????? ????????! > > ????????? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, > control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the > SEELANGS Web Interface at: > > http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From vinarska at YAHOO.COM Tue Apr 13 15:14:47 2004 From: vinarska at YAHOO.COM (Maryna Vinarska) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:14:47 -0700 Subject: Xristos voskrese! In-Reply-To: <000501c4215c$d1df59c0$6401a8c0@hvc.rr.com> Message-ID: Oh my God! Sorry!!! I have just realized my mistake. A friend of mine calls her daughter Mourka. I thought it was the letter from her. I actually have only question marks... SORRY!!! --- Mourka wrote: > ???????? ????????! > > ????????? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, > control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the > SEELANGS Web Interface at: > > http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Polsky at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG Tue Apr 13 21:20:59 2004 From: Polsky at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Marissa Polsky) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:20:59 -0400 Subject: A note to users of Russian Stage II Message-ID: For those who use Russian Stage II in their classroom, please read the following notice from Kendall/Hunt Publishing: Recently, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company has been made aware of a potential problem with videotapes for "Russian Stage 2:Welcome Back!" Due to a manufacturing error, some tapes may stop in the middle of Episode 17. We are making every effort to identify and correct this problem in our current stock. As we are aware that the end of the semester is fast approaching, Episodes 17-20 have been digitized and posted on line so as not to disrupt your classwork. The episodes may be found at the following URL: http://www.russnet.org/stageII/home.html. The files are in RealMedia format. A link to download the free RealPlayer is provided. We apologize for any inconvenience. For more information, please contact, Laurel A. Sutherland at (312)527-0460 or lsutherland at Kendallhunt.com. Marissa Polsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Applications Developer American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS http://www.russnet.org http://www.americancouncils.org (202) 833-7522 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From glebov at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU Wed Apr 14 16:41:12 2004 From: glebov at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU (Sergey Glebov) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:41:12 -0400 Subject: Fw: BBC news: Barbies No Pasaran! An unglamorous schoolgirl has become a feminist icon in Russia Message-ID: Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/3625213.stm Anti-Barbie becomes Russian icon An unglamorous schoolgirl has become a feminist icon in Russia after she was entered for an online beauty pageant by a friend as a prank. Alyona Pisklova - not her real surname - got at least 40,000 votes, making her the runaway favourite to represent Russia in June's Miss Universe contest. But Alyona, 15, was disqualified ahead of the finals because of her age. In a blow to convention, her supporters hit back with a website called "Say No To Barbie Dolls". She collected at least twice the votes of her nearest competitor. An English-language statement on the website says Alyona "represents a catalyst to reveal problems of our society". People who voted for Alyona voted against... products of the same type and trademark, which are made into cult objects Say No To Barbie Dolls statement "The appearance of a common, real-life girl caused an enormous wave of support" it says. "(She) submitted for the competition usual photos, made by unprofessional photographers, without make-up, with a natural smile and expression of the eyes." The statement says the vote for Alyona was "against unnatural beauties who cannot be distinguished from each other, fake emotions, smiles and gazes reflected in the lenses of professional photographers, products of the same type and trademark, popular music, cigarettes without nicotine and coffee without caffeine". Several anti-globalisation groups backed her cause, leading to criticism that they were trying to hijack the phenomenon. 'No Pasaran!' Meanwhile, articles appeared on the web claiming the unlikely candidate had received offers from political parties and other organisations. One article even claimed the campaign was the "answer to the uncontested elections of President Vladimir Putin". Ivan Zassoursky, the beauty pageant's producer, argued that the popularity of the online contest had drawn attention to Alyona. It is the largest ever internet vote in Russia Ivan Zassoursky Pageant producer "This competition has set two records," he told BBC News Online. "It is the largest ever internet vote in Russia and the first nationwide beauty pageant to be held without a jury - as far as I know, in the world." "The reason why the Alyona phenomenon arose is that it was an open choice - ordinary people could vote freely." The organisers invited Russians to chose from among 1,000 contestants using the internet and their mobile phones. Alyona refused an offer from the organisers to accompany the winner of the contest to the Miss Universe competition in Ecuador in June, apparently because of her school exams. The pageant site now features the news that she was awarded the "Viewer's Choice Award". It also includes a photo of her wearing a red t-shirt bearing the slogan: "Barbies No Pasaran!" Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/3625213.stm Published: 2004/04/14 13:56:00 GMT © BBC MMIV ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From VanDusen at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG Wed Apr 14 20:14:28 2004 From: VanDusen at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Irina VanDusen) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:14:28 -0400 Subject: Another note to users of Russian Stage II: Welcome Back! Message-ID: For those who are using or plan to use Russian Stage II in their classroom, please read the following notice from Kendall/Hunt Publishing: > > We are currently in the process of updating our entire Website, and > once > > the new site goes live, hopefully the search engine would be able to > > faciltate finding this in a much more straightforward fashion. For > the > > time being, please use the follow link to order: > > > > > http://www.kendallhunt.com/cgi-bin/pubs.cmd?product=general&searchfor=title&search_str=Welcome+Back > > > > > It should be the last listing on the page "Russian Stage 2: Welcome > > Back! Video Edition." > > > > I apologize for the current state of the Website! Please feel free > to > > contact me with any further questions. > > > > Thank you, > > Laurel Sutherland > > > > Laurel A. Sutherland > > Continuing Education Editor > > Professional Education Division > > Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company > > 500 N. Dearborn, Suite 730 > > Chicago, IL 60610 > > (312)527-0460 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mnafpakt at UMICH.EDU Thu Apr 15 13:48:06 2004 From: mnafpakt at UMICH.EDU (Margarita Nafpaktitis) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:48:06 -0400 Subject: Words Without Borders March issue on Poland Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Last month Words Without Borders published a rich issue featuring Polish literature, and here's the link for those of you who may not have come across it yet: http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/front.php?date=March+2004 Yours, Margarita Nafpaktitis ********************************************************************** http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mnafpakt/nafpaktitishome/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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ees at WWIC.SI.EDU Thu Apr 15 14:33:42 2004 From: ees at WWIC.SI.EDU (Wwc Ees) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:33:42 -0400 Subject: JSTS--Extended Deadline--Grant Opportunity Message-ID: JUNIOR SCHOLARS' TRAINING SEMINAR (JSTS) The deadline for receipt of this year's JSTS applications and supporting materials has been ***extended to May 1, 2004.*** Applicants will be notified approximately six weeks later. Background Information EES and the Committee on Eastern European Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies are soliciting applications for the sixteenth annual training seminar for junior scholars in East European studies, to be held outside of Washington, DC on the Chesapeake Bay August 13-16, 2004. All domestic transportation, accommodation and meal costs will be covered by the sponsors. Eligibility These scholarships are available to American citizens or permanent residents. Graduate students enrolled in a doctoral program at an American university who have completed all requirements for their Ph.D. except the dissertation, and scholars who received their Ph.D.s within the past year in any field of East European or Baltic studies (Russia, the Soviet successor states, and Germany are excluded) are eligible to apply. All projects should aim to highlight their potential policy relevance. Disciplines represented at JSTS 2003 included: anthropology; history; political science; Slavic languages and literatures; and sociology. Program Description JSTS successfully combines formal and informal meetings to promote a variety of intellectual exchanges. Past activities have included: - individual presentations; - constructive feedback and question and answer sessions; - one-on-one meetings for Junior Scholars with Senior Scholars; - advice regarding publishing; - discussions about the state of the profession and obtaining employment in the field; - various social activities, including the crab-fest and the annual volleyball challenge. Additional Requirements Successful applicants are expected to submit a five-page paper no later than July 1 on the sources and methodology of their report and the wider significance of their work. (In other words, what was researched, how it was researched, and what it all means.) This paper will serve as the basis for discussion at the seminar. Application Information To apply for the Junior Scholars' Training Seminar (JSTS), the applicant must submit the following: - a completed application form (please download from our website at www.wilsoncenter.org/ees); - a curriculum vitae (which must include social security number, institution where degree is expected or was received, title of doctoral dissertation and name and department of doctoral advisor); - a single page, single-spaced statement of the work you wish to discuss - either the dissertation or another project; - one letter of recommendation from Ph.D. advisor. Completed application forms should be mailed to the following address: East European Studies The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004-3027 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From polly.jones at WORCESTER.OXFORD.AC.UK Thu Apr 15 15:24:36 2004 From: polly.jones at WORCESTER.OXFORD.AC.UK (Polly Jones) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:24:36 +0100 Subject: Final registration deadline for conference on the history of Russian education, Oxford University In-Reply-To: <1080077034.4060aaea4ba74@www.mail.yale.edu> Message-ID: Dear all Please note that the final deadline to register to attend the conference 'Study, study and Study': Theories and Practices of Education in Imperial and Soviet Russia, 1861-1991' to be held at Oxford University, May 14th-May 16th, is APRIL 30th. Please visit the conference website at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~russeduc/home.htm for information regarding registration arrangements. The full program is also included below. Please contact russian.education at wolfson.ox.ac.uk with any questions. Many thanks Polly Jones -- Dr Polly Jones Junior Research Fellow Worcester College, Oxford, OX1 2HB Email: Polly.Jones at worcester.ox.ac.uk Programme Registration and Opening Address on Friday 14 May will take place in Room 2, Taylor Institution Library, St Giles, OX1 3NA. All Panels and Lectures on Saturday 15 May and Sunday 16 May will take place in the Haldane Room, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD. Friday 14 May 4:00-5:00 REGISTRATION (Room 2, Taylor Institution) 5:00-6:30 OPENING ADDRESS (Room 2, Taylor Institution) Chair: Polly Jones, Oxford Larry Holmes, University of Southern Alabama At the Back of the Class: The History of Education and the Academic Community 7:00 DINNER (Freud Restaurant) Saturday 15 May 10:00-10:30 MORNING COFFEE; REGISTRATION 10:30-12:15 PANEL 1 - CLASSROOMS AND IDENTITIES OF EMPIRE Chair: Katya Andreyev, Oxford Marina Loskutova, European University of St Petersburg Discovering Motherland: Educational Tourism and Geography in Russian Schools, 1860s-1914 Michel Tissier, Universit� Paris 1 Popularizing Law in Late Tsarist Russia: The Ambiguities of Civic Pedagogy Amol Kahlon, Oxford Schooling Russian Girls: The Possibilities and Limits of Reforming the Girls' School in the 1880s Michelle Denbeste, California-State, Fresno The Pursuit of a Degree: Educating Female Physicians in Late Imperial Russia 12:15-1:30 LUNCH 1:30-3:00 PANEL 2 - REVOLUTION AND REFORM Chair: Irina Paperno, Berkeley Ekaterina Bojilina, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales The Reform Projects of the Russian Educational System in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Vera Kaplan, Tel Aviv Dress Rehearsal for Cultural Revolution: Bolshevik Policy towards Teachers and Education in February � October 1917 Michael Kaser, Oxford Resources for Education in the Tsarist and Soviet Economies 3:00-3:30 AFTERNOON TEA 3:30-5:00 PANEL 3 - SOVIETIZING RUSSIA IN THE 1920S Chair: Judith Pallot, Oxford William Partlett, Oxford Breaching Cultural Worlds with the Village School: Educational Visions, Local Initiative, and Rural Experience at S. T. Shatsky�s Kaluga School System, 1919-1931 Alexandre Sumpf, Toulouse Political Education in the RSFSR during the 1920s: Social and Cultural Practices of the Peasant Population Elizabeth Waters, University College London About Religion or Against Religion: Tensions between Enlightenment and Propaganda in Adult Education in Soviet Russia in the 1920s 5:00-5:30 DRINKS 5:30-7:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE Chair: Andy Byford, Oxford Ben Eklof, Indiana The Culture of the Classroom (Material and Interactive) in Imperial Russia 7:00 DINNER (Buttery) Sunday 16 May 9:30-9:45 MORNING COFFEE 9:45-11:30 PANEL 4 - STALINIST SCHOOL BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR Chair: David Priestland, Oxford Lyubov Bugaeva, St Petersburg State University Cultural Transition: Soviet Education in the 1920s and 1930s E. Thomas Ewing, Virginia Tech (in absentia; paper read by Larry Holmes) Non-Russian Soviet Schools in the 1930s Sergei Kudryashov, Istochnik, Moscow & Tony Kemp-Welch, University of East Anglia Scapegoats in Soviet History: Trotsky, Stalin, Khrushchev Ann Livschiz, Stanford Gender and Citizenship in Postwar Soviet Schools 11:30-11:45 COFFEE BREAK 11:45-1:15 PANEL 5 - SCIENCE IN SOVIET EDUCATION Chair: Rosalind Marsh, Bath Karl Hall, Central European University Remedies against the Entropy of Human Thought: Physics and Iconoclasm in the Early Soviet University William Lambert, Columbia The Pedagogy of Utopia: Michurin, Lysenko, and the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature Michael Froggatt, Oxford The Ideological Struggle in the Microworld: Science in Schools under Khrushchev 1:15-2:15 LUNCH 2:15-4:00 PANEL 6 - POST-STALINISM - CHANGES AND CONTINUITIES Chair: Stephen Lovell, King's College London Jeremy Smith, CREES, Birmingham Khrushchev and the Path to Modernization through Education Laurent Coumel, Sorbonne Resistance to the 1958 Reform in Higher Education: Corporatism or Intellectual Opposition? Anatoli Rakhkochkine, Bielefeld Ideological and Educational Critique of the Western Concepts of Open Education or Informal Teaching in the Soviet Comparative Education between 1970 and 1990 John Ryder, SUNY The Role of Ideology in Late Soviet Education 4:00-4:15 AFTERNOON TEA 4:15-5:30 CONCLUDING ADDRESS Chair: Catriona Kelly, Oxford Vitaly Bezrogov, Russian Academy of Education, Moscow Mezhdu Stalinym i Khristom: Religioznaya sotsializatsiya detei v sovetskoi i post-sovetskoi Rossii (Between Stalin and Christ: The Religious Socialisation of Children in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia) (Lecture in Russian; English translation provided) -- Dr Polly Jones Junior Research Fellow Worcester College, Oxford, OX1 2HB Email: Polly.Jones at worcester.ox.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From zodyp at BELOIT.EDU Thu Apr 15 17:45:29 2004 From: zodyp at BELOIT.EDU (Patricia L. Zody) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:45:29 -0500 Subject: Summer Positions in Russian Message-ID: Senior instructors (one position) and graduate teaching assistants are needed for Beloit College's summer intensive Russian program (June 5, 2004 - August 6, 2004). In 2004, we expect to offer first- through fourth-year Russian. Each level, with enrollments ranging from 5 to 12, has one instructor and one graduate teaching assistant who share teaching and evaluation responsibilities. Instructors collaborate with each other, the language coordinator, and the CLS director on curriculum, syllabi, and instruction. Duties include classroom teaching and evaluation, and assistance with organizing cultural activities for the program. Instructors will be expected to live on campus (single occupancy), share meals with the students in the dining commons, and be available to students evenings and weekends. Minimum qualifications for senior instructors include an M.A., teaching experience preferably in an immersion environment, superior proficiency in Russian and advanced proficiency in English. An advanced degree in Russian, applied linguistics, or foreign language education is desirable. (For graduate teaching assistants, an M.A. in progress is required). Salary is competitive, and includes room and board. Employment is contingent upon new employees providing documents verifying U.S. citizenship or, for non-citizens, documents verifying legal permission to work in the United States. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and list of three references to Patricia L. Zody, Center for Language Studies, Beloit College, 700 College Street, Beloit WI 53511. You may also submit your application electronically as an attached document to cls at beloit.edu. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Review of applications will begin April 23, 2004. For more information about the summer language programs, please call 608-363-2277 or visit our Web site at http://www.beloit.edu/~cls. AA/EEO Employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jcostlow at BATES.EDU Thu Apr 15 18:51:31 2004 From: jcostlow at BATES.EDU (Jane Costlow) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:51:31 -0400 Subject: information needed Message-ID: Colleagues, Two young men in my second year Russian class are interested in finding out about volunteer opportunities in St. Petersburg this summer. Can anyone suggest a reliable base of information? Jane Costlow jcostlow at bates.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From a_strat at KHARKOV.COM Thu Apr 15 21:34:52 2004 From: a_strat at KHARKOV.COM (Alex) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:34:52 +0300 Subject: English equivalent of "pilit'" Message-ID: Дорогие Силанговцы! Прошу прощения за мою запоздалую реакцию по этому поводу. Я хотел лишь подчеркнуть, что выражение "пилить (на скрипке)" довольно необычно. Есть еще слово "пиликать", и в отличие от слова "пилить", оно имеет отношение только к музыкальному инструменту. А.П. ----- Original Message ----- From: "J.W." To: Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 7:55 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] English equivalent of "pilit'" > Ottawa (Canada), Friday 2/4/04 11h55 EST > > Hullo, SEELANGers! > > Does anybody know of a good English equivalent of the Russian verb > "пилить (на скрипке)" ["pilit' (na skripke)"], giving the impression of > practising constantly on a violin in such a way that the sound tends to > grate on the ears of the musician's neighbours? A computer dictionary > offers "scrape", but this usage is not familiar to me -- especially in a > context like "he scraped and scraped all day". I would be grateful for > any suggestions. > > J. Woodsworth ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU Thu Apr 15 22:10:16 2004 From: dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:10:16 -0400 Subject: English equivalent of "pilit'" In-Reply-To: <000301c42332$1dfbe180$28234d50@main> Message-ID: The two words have different meanings even being applied to the same musical instrument, i.e., violin. One might =pilikat'= just a few minutes, but =pilit'= implies some duration of the process. Edward Dumanis On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Alex wrote: > ������� ����������! > ����� �������� �� ��� ���������� ������� �� ����� ������. > � ����� ���� �����������, ��� ��������� "������ (�� �������)" > �������� ��������. ���� ��� ����� "��������", � � ������� �� > ����� "������", ��� ����� ��������� ������ � ������������ > �����������. > > �.�. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J.W." > To: > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 7:55 PM > Subject: [SEELANGS] English equivalent of "pilit'" > > > > Ottawa (Canada), Friday 2/4/04 11h55 EST > > > > Hullo, SEELANGers! > > > > Does anybody know of a good English equivalent of the Russian verb > > "������ (�� �������)" ["pilit' (na skripke)"], giving the impression of > > practising constantly on a violin in such a way that the sound tends to > > grate on the ears of the musician's neighbours? A computer dictionary > > offers "scrape", but this usage is not familiar to me -- especially in a > > context like "he scraped and scraped all day". I would be grateful for > > any suggestions. > > > > J. Woodsworth > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU Fri Apr 16 01:31:59 2004 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:31:59 -0700 Subject: English equivalent of "pilit'" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >The two words have different meanings even being applied to the same >musical instrument, i.e., violin. >One might =pilikat'= just a few minutes, but =pilit'= implies some >duration of the process. Not so sure about the last distinction. But mainly pilikat' may not have the negative connotation of "pilit'": Rebenok u nix takoj molodec, na skripochke pilikaet. (habitual) -- __________ 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From a_strat at KHARKOV.COM Thu Apr 15 22:18:51 2004 From: a_strat at KHARKOV.COM (Alex) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 01:18:51 +0300 Subject: book inquiry Message-ID: Hello, Paul! I tried this: > Набрал первое, что "на ум взбредет" - Tibor Deri... No matches! Тогда попробовал Adam Wisniewski-Snerg... Уже лучше... нашло "Nagi Cel" (на немецком, похоже...) И это все? Google выдал целую кучу всякой всячины! Wow! When I typed "Adam Wisniewski-Snerg" it even found my old letter to SEELANGS! Fantastic... A.P. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul B. Gallagher" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 3:52 AM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] book inquiry > Andrew M. Drozd wrote: > > > Dear SEELangers: > > > > I have been trying to find a copy of the following book: > > > > E. A. Rykhlik, Poeticheskaiia deiatel'nost' Frantsa Ladislava > > Chelakovskogo (Kiev, 1915). > > > > The only copy I have seen listed is at U. of Chicago library but it is > > reported missing. If anyone happens to know the location of another > > copy, please contact me. > > No hits for this search, but here's a useful source many subscribers > will want to bookmark: > > > > -- > War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. > -- > Paul B. Gallagher > pbg translations, inc. > "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals" > http://pbg-translations.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From msaskova-pierce1 at UNLNOTES.UNL.EDU Thu Apr 15 22:31:48 2004 From: msaskova-pierce1 at UNLNOTES.UNL.EDU (Miluse Saskova-Pierce) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:31:48 -0500 Subject: From where a Meteorology Book in Russian In-Reply-To: Message-ID: To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: Meteorology textbook Dear Seelangsters, my student, a meteorology major, is searching for an introductory book of meteorology in Russian. She found one, but does not know how to order it. If you know or you can help, or even have one such book, please, let us know. We will send a check immediately. Meteorologiia i Klimatologiia Author(s) Khromov, S.P. and M.A. Petrosiants. City Moskva Country Russia Language Russian ISBN 5-211-03072-9 Date Publication 1994 Publisher Moskovskii gos. universitet Subject Natural Sciences Meteorology Pages 520 Description First edition. Meteorologiia, Klimatologiia, i Gidrologiia Author(s) Gopchenko, E.D., et al. City Odesa Country Ukraine Language Russian ISBN - Date Publication 1999 Publisher Odesskii gidrometeorologicheskii institut Subject Natural Science Ukraine Meteorology Cover Type Paperback Pages 236 Dr. Mila Saskova-Pierce Minor Languages Section Head Department of Modern Languages University of Nebraska at Lincoln NE 68588-0315 e-mail: msaskova-pierce1 at unl.edu Tel: (402) 472 1336 Fax: (402) 472 0327 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM Thu Apr 15 23:10:53 2004 From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:10:53 -0400 Subject: book inquiry Message-ID: Alex wrote: > Hello, Paul! > > I tried this: > >> > > Набрал первое, что "на ум взбредет" - Tibor Deri... > No matches! > Тогда попробовал Adam Wisniewski-Snerg... > Уже лучше... нашло "Nagi Cel" (на немецком, похоже...) > И это все? > > Google выдал целую кучу всякой всячины! > Wow! When I typed "Adam Wisniewski-Snerg" it even > found my old letter to SEELANGS! Fantastic... > > A.P. If you want mentions of a book, or quotes from it, or reviews of it, etc., Google is certainly best. And I imagine your emails don't appear in any published books. Bookfinder's mission is to help you actually get your hands on a physical copy of an obscure book. I'm guessing they're probably better at English-language books. FWIW. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher pbg translations, inc. "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals" http://pbg-translations.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From douglas at NYU.EDU Fri Apr 16 01:36:16 2004 From: douglas at NYU.EDU (Charlotte Douglas) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:36:16 -0500 Subject: book inquiry In-Reply-To: <407F167D.6000901@pbg-translations.com> Message-ID: Can anyone recommend a website for buying old, i.e. second-hand, Russian books? A Russian Bookfinder or Addall? Say, books published in Russian from 1900 to 1940? Charlotte Douglas douglas at nyu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From glebov at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU Fri Apr 16 00:40:23 2004 From: glebov at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU (Sergey Glebov) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:40:23 -0400 Subject: book inquiry Message-ID: You can try www.ozon.ru Best regards, Sergey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlotte Douglas" To: Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] book inquiry > Can anyone recommend a website for buying old, i.e. second-hand, Russian > books? A Russian Bookfinder or Addall? Say, books published in Russian > from 1900 to 1940? > > Charlotte Douglas > douglas at nyu.edu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tsergay at COLUMBUS.RR.COM Fri Apr 16 01:26:47 2004 From: tsergay at COLUMBUS.RR.COM (Timothy D. Sergay) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:26:47 -0400 Subject: book inquiry Message-ID: I've had some success with restricting a search for older titles to Thornton's of Oxford: Try searching them for Slavic materials at: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abep/il.dll?sn=russian&ph=2&vci=274202 They respond promptly to inquiries, too: try E-MAIL: Thorntons at booknews.demon.co.uk Good luck! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlotte Douglas" To: Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] book inquiry > Can anyone recommend a website for buying old, i.e. second-hand, Russian > books? A Russian Bookfinder or Addall? Say, books published in Russian > from 1900 to 1940? > > Charlotte Douglas > douglas at nyu.edu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From DavidECrawford at CFL.RR.COM Fri Apr 16 01:47:14 2004 From: DavidECrawford at CFL.RR.COM (David E. Crawford) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:47:14 -0400 Subject: Soviet Broadcasting Message-ID: Just stumbled across a very good archive of USSR broadcast audio clips from the era of stagnation, compliments of the Nagoya DXers Circle: http://www.ndxc.org/audio/index.html The recordings are off-air, so the quality isn't great, but mostly readable. No morning exercise show however. :-( dc ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David E. Crawford Titusville, Florida United States of America 28.51N 80.83W ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From renee at ALINGA.COM Fri Apr 16 14:09:14 2004 From: renee at ALINGA.COM (Renee Stillings | Alinga) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:09:14 -0400 Subject: information needed Message-ID: Here is information about a volunteer project your students (or others) may be interested in. I know this organization well and they really are working hard to make a difference in Russia. The orphanage referenced here is in the Leningradskaya oblast, I believe. Renee *** Miramed Institute (www.miramed.org) is looking for volunteers to work on 4-8 week (July and August) programs in a rural Russian orphanage. Specifically, they are looking for: a.. ESL teachers b.. Artists c.. Social workers d.. Musicians e.. Arts/crafts instructors f.. Enterprising individuals (to help run a crafts booth) Cost for a one-month stay is $1700 and for 2 months - $2000. This includes roundtrip airfare from East or West coast (US), all domestic Russia travel, all room and board at the orphanage, and reimbursement of visa costs. To read more about this opportunity go to http://www.miramedinstitute.org/volunteer.htm. Interested candidates should contact MiraMed directly at program at miramed.org as soon as possible. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Costlow" To: Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:51 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] information needed > Colleagues, > > Two young men in my second year Russian class are interested in finding > out about volunteer opportunities in St. Petersburg this summer. Can > anyone suggest a reliable base of information? > > Jane Costlow > jcostlow at bates.edu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From val.belianine at UTORONTO.CA Fri Apr 16 20:08:59 2004 From: val.belianine at UTORONTO.CA (Valery Belyanin) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:08:59 -0700 Subject: Putin's language Message-ID: SEELANGers (or their students of Russian) may be interested in yesterday's article about the language Mr.Putin uses. http://www.utro.ru/articles/2004/04/15/298667.shtml " a lot of rude expressions " resemblance with the language of Khruschev " Russians like it Some information published earlier on this topic in English may be found here http://www.rferl.org/features/2003/02/11022003164647.asp http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/08/wruss08.xml Best. Valery Belyain Editor of www.texology.ru Author of the dictionary "Living Speech" http://www.pinkrus.ch/artikel/kyr/5-87664-027-1.htm http://individual.utoronto.ca/psyling/Library/Verbal_Behav/Liv_Speech_Intro.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lotoshko at HOTMAIL.COM Fri Apr 16 17:22:40 2004 From: lotoshko at HOTMAIL.COM (Lotoshko Yu. R.) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:22:40 +0400 Subject: English equivalent of "pilit'" Message-ID: Dazhe v privedennom primere prisutstvujet negativnaja konnotacija http://compling2.naros.ru Lotoshko Yu.R. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alina Israeli" To: Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 5:31 AM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] English equivalent of "pilit'" > >The two words have different meanings even being applied to the same > >musical instrument, i.e., violin. > >One might =pilikat'= just a few minutes, but =pilit'= implies some > >duration of the process. > > > Not so sure about the last distinction. > > But mainly pilikat' may not have the negative connotation of "pilit'": > > Rebenok u nix takoj molodec, na skripochke pilikaet. (habitual) > -- > __________ > Alina Israeli > LFS, American University > 4400 Mass. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From msaskova-pierce1 at UNLNOTES.UNL.EDU Fri Apr 16 19:34:48 2004 From: msaskova-pierce1 at UNLNOTES.UNL.EDU (Miluse Saskova-Pierce) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:34:48 -0500 Subject: book inquiry In-Reply-To: <0b0c01c42351$e2a73ab0$32b11841@homedut9lt13k3> Message-ID: Thank you! MIla Dr. Mila Saskova-Pierce Minor Languages Section Head Department of Modern Languages University of Nebraska at Lincoln NE 68588-0315 e-mail: msaskova-pierce1 at unl.edu Tel: (402) 472 1336 Fax: (402) 472 0327 "Timothy D. Sergay" Sent by: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list 04/15/04 08:26 PM Please respond to Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list To SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU cc Subject Re: [SEELANGS] book inquiry I've had some success with restricting a search for older titles to Thornton's of Oxford: Try searching them for Slavic materials at: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abep/il.dll?sn=russian&ph=2&vci=274202 They respond promptly to inquiries, too: try E-MAIL: Thorntons at booknews.demon.co.uk Good luck! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlotte Douglas" To: Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] book inquiry > Can anyone recommend a website for buying old, i.e. second-hand, Russian > books? A Russian Bookfinder or Addall? Say, books published in Russian > from 1900 to 1940? > > Charlotte Douglas > douglas at nyu.edu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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My interest in Russian emigres in film caused my eyes to alight on the title of a 1985 Soviet film, "Polevaia gvardia Mozzhukhina" (1985, dir Lonskoi, scr. Metal'nikov). Does this film have any connection with the celebrated emigre actor, Ivan Il'ich MOZZHUKHIN (Mosjoukine, 1889-1939)? Or pure coincidence in the names? Gratefully, Steven P. Hill (University of Illinois, USA). _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ __ __ _ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Vladimir.Benko at FEDU.UNIBA.SK Sat Apr 17 14:48:57 2004 From: Vladimir.Benko at FEDU.UNIBA.SK (Vladimir Benko) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:48:57 +0200 Subject: Stalinsky nabor In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Robert, > In something I am translating there is the phrase > vo vremya stalinskogo nabora ot stanka > > I assume this is a standard phrase. Could someone tell me if there is > there a standard English translation? If you follow this link: http://www.yandex.ru/yandsearch?&nl=0&stype=www&text=%f1%f2%e0%eb%e8%e d%f1%ea%e8%e9.%ed%e0%e1%ee%f0 you'll get several interesting hits. Please not that my mailer has splitted the long line -- you have to join it again to be usavble. Best regards, V Benko, 16:50 Saturday time ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lotoshko at HOTMAIL.COM Sat Apr 17 15:31:55 2004 From: lotoshko at HOTMAIL.COM (Lotoshko Yu. R.) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:31:55 +0400 Subject: Stalinsky nabor Message-ID: Eto istoriko-kultorologicheskaja vesh. Analogov v anglijskom net i ne mozhet byt' perevod - opisatel'no-tolkovatel'nyj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Chandler" To: Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 6:05 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] Stalinsky nabor > Dear all, > > In something I am translating there is the phrase > vo vremya stalinskogo nabora ot stanka > > I assume this is a standard phrase. Could someone tell me if there is there > a standard English translation? > > Thanks! > > Robert > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From boyle6 at EARTHLINK.NET Mon Apr 19 21:51:06 2004 From: boyle6 at EARTHLINK.NET (Eloise Boyle) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:51:06 -0700 Subject: Resubmitting Pedagogy abstracts Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers: Due to an unnatural disaster at my home, my office, computer and back ups have been to varying degrees destroyed. So, if you submitted a pedagogy abstract for the April round *before* April 15, can you please resubmit it to me? All abstracts sent on or after April 15 have been saved to another computer. But those sent before that are lost, at least for now. I apologize for the inconvenience. Sincerely, Eloise M. Boyle Division Head, Pedagogy AATSEEL Program Committee boyle6 at earthlink.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ki2 at NYU.EDU Sat Apr 17 08:17:13 2004 From: ki2 at NYU.EDU (Krystyna Lipinska-Illakowicz) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:17:13 +0800 Subject: Polish Group Song of the Goat in La Mama Message-ID: Hi Seelangers, I just want to let you know that a very interesting group Teatr Piesn Kozla from Poland (Song of the Goat Theatre) from Poland is performing in LaMama, New York till May 2nd. Their performance "Chronicle - A Lamentation" wonderfully integrates movement, song and ritual and captures the very origins of the theatre. Those of you who live near New York area, come to La MAma. You can call (212) 475-7710 to order tickets. Dr.Krystyna Illakowicz General Studies Progranm New York University -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jh49 at GEORGETOWN.EDU Sun Apr 18 23:07:19 2004 From: jh49 at GEORGETOWN.EDU (Joshua Hartshorne) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:07:19 -0400 Subject: New Resource for Students Message-ID: After spending a year searching for volunteer opportunities in Russia, I decided the web could use a new comprehensive list. So now there is one: http://baikal.eastsib.ru/gbt_irkutsk/Volunteer_List.html The list, which covers the CIS, is still growing steadily and accepting new listings. So I hope that not only will this be useful for your students, but that you may know organizations that would like to be on the list. Information for how to get onto the list is available on the site; alternatively, one can email gbt_irkutsk at mail.ru. -Joshua Hartshorne ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mp at MIPCO.COM Mon Apr 19 13:43:04 2004 From: mp at MIPCO.COM (mipco) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:43:04 -0500 Subject: Trips to St. Petersburg Message-ID: If anyone plans to travel to St. Petersburg by himself/herself or with a group of students, here is tested reliable person to arrange your trip. He is fluent in English, knowledgeable, punctual and honest - last two are rare qualities in Russian business people as you may have already experienced. His name is Vladimir Breido and here is what he can do for you: 1. Putting together customized activities schedule in St. Petersburg according to client's request. 2. Arranging a formal invitation for getting Russian visa. 3. Selecting appropriate accommodations and hotel reservations. 4. Meeting at the airport at the arrival and taking to the airport at departure. 5. Providing a licensed interpreter and a guide for the time of the visit and for separate activities. 6. Leasing a car with a driver. 7. Ticket reservation for entertainment events (theaters, shows, restaurants etc), and much more. You can reach Vladimir at: bvm at mail.wplus.net Have a good trip. Michael Peltsman -- M.I.P. Company P.O.B. 27484 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55427 USA http://www.mipco.com mp at mipco.com phone:763-544-5915 fax: 612-871-5733 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From monniern at MISSOURI.EDU Mon Apr 19 13:56:00 2004 From: monniern at MISSOURI.EDU (Nicole Monnier) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:56:00 -0500 Subject: HIV test for long-term (3+months) Russian visa? Message-ID: Dear SEELANGS-ers, Does anyone have recent experience with/knowledge of the HIV test requirement for long-term Russian visas? The US State Department claims that any American visitors staying 3+ months needs one, but the university with which we¹re working claims our semester study abroad students do NOT need to be tested. Needless to say, the ever-helpful Russian Embassy page is (as far as I can determine) wholly silent on the subject. Curiously, Nicole X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Dr. Nicole Monnier email: monniern at missouri.edu Assistant Professor of Russian phone: 573.882.3370 Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) fax: 573.884.8456 German & Russian Studies Dept. 415 GCB University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kpking at MTHOLYOKE.EDU Mon Apr 19 14:13:18 2004 From: kpking at MTHOLYOKE.EDU (Katerina P. King) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:13:18 -0400 Subject: New Resource for Students Message-ID: Dear Joshua, great resource, thanks for sending it! Katya King Joshua Hartshorne wrote: >After spending a year searching for volunteer opportunities in Russia, I decided the web could use a new comprehensive list. So now there is one: > >http://baikal.eastsib.ru/gbt_irkutsk/Volunteer_List.html > >The list, which covers the CIS, is still growing steadily and accepting new listings. So I hope that not only will this be useful for your students, but that you may know organizations that would like to be on the list. Information for how to get onto the list is available on the site; alternatively, one can email gbt_irkutsk at mail.ru. > >-Joshua Hartshorne > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Katerina P. King, Ph.D. Assistant Director For Fellowships and Scholarships Career Development Center Mount Holyoke College 50 College Street South Hadley, MA 01075-1456 Tel. (413)538-2080 Fax. (413)538-2081 *** There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long. - Louisa May Alcott ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From renee at ALINGA.COM Mon Apr 19 14:05:33 2004 From: renee at ALINGA.COM (Renee Stillings | Alinga) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:05:33 -0400 Subject: HIV test for long-term (3+months) Russian visa? Message-ID: The Russian consulates are requiring this for any visa more than 3 months in duration, without question. At the San Francisco and Seattle consulates they can additionally request notarized translations of the HIV test - a good reason to avoid those consulates. The university you are working with may be refering to the fact that they (the university) does not need the HIV test - as with certain types of students they also can require the HIV test- and in some St. Petersburg schools are requiring that it be taken again upon arrival. Renee Stillings SRAS www.sras.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicole Monnier" To: Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:56 AM Subject: [SEELANGS] HIV test for long-term (3+months) Russian visa? > Dear SEELANGS-ers, > > Does anyone have recent experience with/knowledge of the HIV test > requirement for long-term Russian visas? The US State Department claims that > any American visitors staying 3+ months needs one, but the university with > which we¹re working claims our semester study abroad students do NOT need to > be tested. Needless to say, the ever-helpful Russian Embassy page is (as far > as I can determine) wholly silent on the subject. > > Curiously, > > Nicole > > > X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X > > Dr. Nicole Monnier email: > monniern at missouri.edu > Assistant Professor of Russian phone: 573.882.3370 > Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) fax: 573.884.8456 > German & Russian Studies Dept. > 415 GCB > University of Missouri > Columbia, MO 65211 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brifkin at WISC.EDU Mon Apr 19 15:39:46 2004 From: brifkin at WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:39:46 -0500 Subject: experience with Ruscico Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers: Does anyone have experience with the company Ruscico? URL is http://www.ruscico.com/ Thanks for any feedback. With best wishes to all, Ben Rifkin ************* Benjamin Rifkin Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Polsky at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG Mon Apr 19 15:43:11 2004 From: Polsky at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Marissa Polsky) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:43:11 -0400 Subject: experience with Ruscico Message-ID: Ben, If you get any responses, would you let me know what they say? I have been interested in joining, but have remained somewhat skeptical. Thanks! Marissa Polsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Applications Developer American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS http://www.russnet.org http://www.americancouncils.org (202) 833-7522 >>> brifkin at WISC.EDU 04/19/04 11:39AM >>> Dear SEELANGers: Does anyone have experience with the company Ruscico? URL is http://www.ruscico.com/ Thanks for any feedback. With best wishes to all, Ben Rifkin ************* Benjamin Rifkin Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brifkin at WISC.EDU Mon Apr 19 15:54:00 2004 From: brifkin at WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:54:00 -0500 Subject: experience with Ruscico In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Will do. Just FYI we (Madison) ordered one movie to see how it will be. - Ben PS I will be ordering the Mac spellchecker for personal delivery in June (someone going to Russia.) Do you want to go in? On Apr 19, 2004, at 10:43 AM, Marissa Polsky wrote: > Ben, > > If you get any responses, would you let me know what they say? I have > been interested in joining, but have remained somewhat skeptical. > > Thanks! > > > > Marissa Polsky > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Web Applications Developer > American Councils for International Education: > ACTR/ACCELS > http://www.russnet.org > http://www.americancouncils.org > (202) 833-7522 > >>>> brifkin at WISC.EDU 04/19/04 11:39AM >>> > Dear SEELANGers: > > Does anyone have experience with the company Ruscico? > > URL is http://www.ruscico.com/ > > Thanks for any feedback. > > With best wishes to all, > > Ben Rifkin > > ************* > Benjamin Rifkin > Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison > 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive > Madison, WI 53706 USA > Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 > http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > ************* Benjamin Rifkin Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jataubman at AMHERST.EDU Mon Apr 19 16:18:40 2004 From: jataubman at AMHERST.EDU (Jane A. Taubman) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:18:40 -0400 Subject: experience with Ruscico Message-ID: I get their direct announcements, but I buy their DVD's from rbcmp3.com (or rbcvideo.com). Their prices are very good, and the service is super-- two-day UPS free delivery. Check the website for a separate page of available Ruscico DVDs. The DVD's themselves are very good quality, most with subtitles available in up to 12 languages, including Russian, a feature which makes them very useful for advanced students and heritage speakers who need to see how the words they speak and understand are actually spelled. They've got a large and still growing collection of films, mostly popular comedies and dramas from the 60's through the 80's, many films by Mikhalkov and Konchalovsky, and Ptushko "skazki", among other things. The packaging and menu, however, are in Russian, so you'd have to explain to a non-Russian-speaking projectionist or student how to use it. (it's not hard). Lately, I've seen some of the films listed, at a slightly highter price ($29 vs. under $20) at facets.org. It's possible those versions have English menus--I haven't tried any. Benjamin Rifkin wrote: > Dear SEELANGers: > > Does anyone have experience with the company Ruscico? > > URL is http://www.ruscico.com/ > > Thanks for any feedback. > > With best wishes to all, > > Ben Rifkin > > ************* > Benjamin Rifkin > Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison > 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive > Madison, WI 53706 USA > Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 > http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mdenner at STETSON.EDU Mon Apr 19 16:20:20 2004 From: mdenner at STETSON.EDU (Michael Denner) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:20:20 -0400 Subject: experience with Ruscico Message-ID: Ben! In what capacity? If you're talking about purchasing films from them, I've never ordered films directly from them (I didn't know one could until your email). I've always bought their films via RBCMP3.com, which has, in my experience, been superlative in their selection and service. (In fact, I often buy films from rbcmp3.com over eBay: http://stores.ebay.com/russianDVD-com_W0QQsspagenameZl2QQtZkm -- the prices are better.) If you're asking about the quality of the films, RUSISCO's films have always struck me as extraordinarily fine -- I always use their videos in my cinema class if Rusisco has released the film. The "extra features" are standard, but excellent. I'm looking at the Sibiriada disc: Three discs, with interviews with the director, art director, screenplay writer, composer and with the lead actor. Overdubbed in French, English (and of course you can listen to the Russian flavor, too). Subtitles in 13 languages, included Arabic, Chinese and Portuguese. The soundtrack has been remastered into Dolby. Pretty impressive -- I just listened to it. All this for under $50. (I notice that the Rusisco site has it marked as "forthcoming" -- it was released a couple of months ago.) Finally, you have to respect their turn-around -- typically less than a year (e.g., they already have Otets I syn available). I'd say that Rusisco is Russia's analogue to the American Criterion Collection. Higher praise would be harder to gather. mad ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Dr. Michael A. Denner Russian Studies Program Stetson University Campus Box 8361 DeLand, FL 32724 386.822.7381 (department) 386.822.7265 (direct line) 386.822.7380 (fax) http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner http://russianpoetry.net -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Rifkin [mailto:brifkin at WISC.EDU] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:40 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] experience with Ruscico Dear SEELANGers: Does anyone have experience with the company Ruscico? URL is http://www.ruscico.com/ Thanks for any feedback. With best wishes to all, Ben Rifkin ************* Benjamin Rifkin Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Many of the titles they've put out, like these two, have been available only rarely if at all in the past, so we've found it especially nice to have them in our library. Russell Quoting Benjamin Rifkin : > > Dear SEELANGers: > > > > Does anyone have experience with the company Ruscico? > > > > URL is http://www.ruscico.com/ > > > > Thanks for any feedback. > > > > With best wishes to all, > > > > Ben Rifkin > > > > ************* > > Benjamin Rifkin > > Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison > > 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive > > Madison, WI 53706 USA > > Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 > > http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > 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://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU Mon Apr 19 18:04:35 2004 From: russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU (Russell Valentino) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:04:35 -0500 Subject: experience with Ruscico In-Reply-To: <4083FBE0.1050709@amherst.edu> Message-ID: This is one of the odd things about their menu. The opening selection seems to be for a menu language (what language one wants to use in selection a variety of viewing options, subtitles, etc.). But as that's in Russian, one has to be able to know to pick English from the list, which, as Jane Taubman indicates, isn't hard. But you can't just give it to a non-reader of Russian and expect him/her to be able to navigate. Russell Quoting "Jane A. Taubman" : > The packaging and menu, however, are in Russian, so you'd have > to explain to a non-Russian-speaking projectionist or student how to use > it. (it's not hard). > > Benjamin Rifkin wrote: > > > Dear SEELANGers: > > > > Does anyone have experience with the company Ruscico? > > > > URL is http://www.ruscico.com/ > > > > Thanks for any feedback. > > > > With best wishes to all, > > > > Ben Rifkin > > > > ************* > > Benjamin Rifkin > > Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison > > 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive > > Madison, WI 53706 USA > > Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 > > http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU Mon Apr 19 18:13:12 2004 From: russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU (Russell Valentino) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:13:12 -0500 Subject: experience with Ruscico In-Reply-To: <0FAC95FF9D56EF4A90E0206B7B9FDB4F01F2D035@alpha.stetson.edu> Message-ID: While we're on this thread, maybe someone can answer a question one of my students asked. There is a proscription at the beginning of each Ruscico DVD forbiding its sale anywhere within the confines of the former Soviet Union (except for Russia, presumably). Does anyone know the reason for such a prohibition? Thanks. Russell Quoting Michael Denner : > Ben! > In what capacity? If you're talking about purchasing films from them, > I've never ordered films directly from them (I didn't know one could > until your email). I've always bought their films via RBCMP3.com, which > has, in my experience, been superlative in their selection and service. > (In fact, I often buy films from rbcmp3.com over eBay: > http://stores.ebay.com/russianDVD-com_W0QQsspagenameZl2QQtZkm -- the > prices are better.) > > If you're asking about the quality of the films, RUSISCO's films have > always struck me as extraordinarily fine -- I always use their videos in > my cinema class if Rusisco has released the film. > > The "extra features" are standard, but excellent. I'm looking at the > Sibiriada disc: Three discs, with interviews with the director, art > director, screenplay writer, composer and with the lead actor. > Overdubbed in French, English (and of course you can listen to the > Russian flavor, too). Subtitles in 13 languages, included Arabic, > Chinese and Portuguese. The soundtrack has been remastered into Dolby. > Pretty impressive -- I just listened to it. All this for under $50. (I > notice that the Rusisco site has it marked as "forthcoming" -- it was > released a couple of months ago.) > > Finally, you have to respect their turn-around -- typically less than a > year (e.g., they already have Otets I syn available). > > I'd say that Rusisco is Russia's analogue to the American Criterion > Collection. Higher praise would be harder to gather. > > mad > > > ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() > Dr. Michael A. Denner > Russian Studies Program > Stetson University > Campus Box 8361 > DeLand, FL 32724 > 386.822.7381 (department) > 386.822.7265 (direct line) > 386.822.7380 (fax) > http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner > http://russianpoetry.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benjamin Rifkin [mailto:brifkin at WISC.EDU] > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:40 AM > To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU > Subject: [SEELANGS] experience with Ruscico > > Dear SEELANGers: > > Does anyone have experience with the company Ruscico? > > URL is http://www.ruscico.com/ > > Thanks for any feedback. > > With best wishes to all, > > Ben Rifkin > > ************* > Benjamin Rifkin > Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison > 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive > Madison, WI 53706 USA > Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 > http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mnewcity at DUKE.EDU Mon Apr 19 18:30:04 2004 From: mnewcity at DUKE.EDU (Michael Newcity) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:30:04 -0400 Subject: experience with Ruscico In-Reply-To: <1082398392.408416b87f367@webmail2.its.uiowa.edu> Message-ID: The terms of the license granted to RUSCICO by the Russian film studios undoubtedly permits RUSCICO to copy and distribute their films in the United States and elsewhere, but not in the former USSR. The studios would want to retain that territory for themselves. Regards, Michael Newcity ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jpeschio at UMICH.EDU Mon Apr 19 18:43:53 2004 From: jpeschio at UMICH.EDU (Joseph Peschio) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:43:53 -0400 Subject: HIV test for long-term visa In-Reply-To: <200404191813.i3JIDGpF013025@threefriends.mr.itd.umich.edu> Message-ID: >The university you are working with may be refering to the fact that they >(the university) does not need the HIV test - as with certain types of >students they also can require the HIV test- and in some St. Petersburg >schools are requiring that it be taken again upon arrival. It's also possible that this has to do with the visa type. It is standard practice in some universities to set up a one-month visa which they extend up to six months once the student arrives. The reason for this, if I'm not mistaken, is that it allows them to process the invitations through their local OVIR rather than deal with the MVD, which is slower and more expensive. I got precisely such a visa through the RGGU International Office two years ago and didn't need HIV documentation to extend it. However, Russian immigration law can change at the drop of a hat (e.g. the "immigration card" system introduced last year with no provisions for foreigners already in Russia), and there is always the possibility that HIV documentation will suddenly be required to extend visas. So, better safe than sorry. ************************************************* Joseph Peschio, PhD Candidate Department of Slavic Langs & Lits University of Michigan 3040 MLB, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275 (734) 483-9422 jpeschio at umich.edu, peschio at feb-web.ru ************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brifkin at WISC.EDU Mon Apr 19 19:04:36 2004 From: brifkin at WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:04:36 -0500 Subject: apology Message-ID: My apologies / I had thought I had written only to one subscriber of SEELANGs about the spell checker for Macintosh. Thanks for your understanding that I cannot facilitate a nation-wide purchase of a software program. The program I am looking at is at the URL http://www.apple.ru/ruspell/ With apologies and best wishes, Ben Rifkin ************* Benjamin Rifkin Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From renee at ALINGA.COM Mon Apr 19 19:25:57 2004 From: renee at ALINGA.COM (Renee Stillings | Alinga) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:25:57 -0400 Subject: HIV test for long-term visa Message-ID: This type of visa "ucheba" is generally intended for long-term students - degree study for example, as it is easily extended for each year. While in some consulates this may fly as a "short-term visa" since only one month is shown (this is I think also done to limit abuse of this type of visa amongst students of some countries who might get the visa and neglect to pay for studies) the Seattle consulate did definitely recognize this type of visa as long-term and necessitating the HIV test. For a period, MGU was only issuing this type of visa (even for 1-2 month courses!) and so our students were even having to get HIV tests for short courses! But we have managed to get them to use the "stazhirovka" visa now whenever possible. Also, "ucheba" visas are entry only - meaning that the student must remember to request the exit visa a couple of weeks before departure. On more visa-related issues, it appears that the Russian Embassy in the US has come up with a new visa application form - it sort of merges the original application with the Form 95 (required for males) and adds a few more questions. At the moment, it seems that they will still accept the old formats by mail, but I suppose as some point they will refuse - or come up with yet another format. > It's also possible that this has to do with the visa type. It is standard > practice in some universities to set up a one-month visa which they extend > up to six months once the student arrives. The reason for this, if I'm not > mistaken, is that it allows them to process the invitations through their > local OVIR rather than deal with the MVD, which is slower and more > expensive. I got precisely such a visa through the RGGU International > Office two years ago and didn't need HIV documentation to extend > it. However, Russian immigration law can change at the drop of a hat (e.g. > the "immigration card" system introduced last year with no provisions for > foreigners already in Russia), and there is always the possibility that HIV > documentation will suddenly be required to extend visas. So, better safe > than sorry. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From beth_holmgren at UNC.EDU Tue Apr 20 02:22:42 2004 From: beth_holmgren at UNC.EDU (Beth Holmgren) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:22:42 -0400 Subject: AWSS Conference announcement Message-ID: The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS), with the sponsorship of the UIUC Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center,, will hold its first conference June 24-25, 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For conference program, travel, and lodging information and registration forms,see http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/srl/awss.htm Please note that EARLY REGISTRATION ends May 15th. Faculty/non-students: $50 before May 15th; $60 after May 15th. Students: $25 before May 15th; $30 after May 15th. All registration forms and fees go to: Michelle Denbeste AWSS Treasurer Department of History California State University Fresno 5340 N. Campus Drive, MS21 Fresno, CA 93740 email: mdenbest at csufresno.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ERIN.COLLOPY at TTU.EDU Tue Apr 20 03:04:24 2004 From: ERIN.COLLOPY at TTU.EDU (Collopy, Erin) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:04:24 -0500 Subject: summer workshop Message-ID: Dear Nicole, Is the AWSS conference schedule already set? Is there a possibility that the graduate student from Budapest, Diana Georgescu, could participate in the conference. What will we do about the workshop? I noticed that many have been cancelled. Yikes! What a disappointment. I would love to participate myself, but it's just not possible. _________________________________________ Erin Collopy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409-2071 Telephone: 806-742-3286 Fax: 806-742-3306 E-mail: erin.collopy at ttu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ERIN.COLLOPY at TTU.EDU Tue Apr 20 03:14:10 2004 From: ERIN.COLLOPY at TTU.EDU (Collopy, Erin) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:14:10 -0500 Subject: apology Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, I apologize for sending a personal message to the list. BTW, if anyone would like to participate in the Women in Slavic Culture and Literature workshop at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Summer Lab, June 28-July 2, please contact me at erin.collopy at ttu.edu as soon as possible. Best, Erin Collopy _________________________________________ Erin Collopy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409-2071 Telephone: 806-742-3286 Fax: 806-742-3306 E-mail: erin.collopy at ttu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From cchatte at calstatela.edu Tue Apr 20 04:09:14 2004 From: cchatte at calstatela.edu (choi chatterjee) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 00:09:14 EDT Subject: Association for Women in Slavic Studies Conference Message-ID: >From time to time I post messages to this list from people who are not subscribers yet have information of interest to SEELANGS list members. If you'd like to reply, please do so directly to the sender. This is such a post. - Alex, list owner of SEELANGS ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS), with the sponsorship of the UIUC Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center,, will hold its first conference June 24-25, 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For conference program, travel, and lodging information and registration forms,see http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/srl/awss.htm Please note that EARLY REGISTRATION ends May 15th. Faculty/non-students: $50 before May 15th; $60 after May 15th. Students: $25 before May 15th; $30 after May 15th. All registration forms and fees go to: Michelle Denbeste AWSS Treasurer Department of History California State University Fresno 5340 N. Campus Drive, MS21 Fresno, CA 93740 email: mdenbest at csufresno.edu Yours sincerely, Choi Chatterjee Associate Professor of History California State University, Los Angeles cchatte at calstatela.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From oboele at IDC.NL Tue Apr 20 07:52:07 2004 From: oboele at IDC.NL (Otto Boele) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:52:07 +0200 Subject: automatic transliteration of Russian Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, Could somebody recommend me a good, downloadable transliteration program (Russian into Latin characters)? I searched the web, but without success. Thanks. Otto Boele ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ilon at UT.EE Tue Apr 20 08:00:27 2004 From: ilon at UT.EE (Ilon Fraiman) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:00:27 +0300 Subject: automatic transliteration of Russian Message-ID: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Otto Boele" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:52 AM Subject: [SEELANGS] automatic transliteration of Russian > Dear Seelangers, > > Could somebody recommend me a good, downloadable transliteration program (Russian into Latin characters)? I searched the web, but without success. > > Thanks. > > Otto Boele http://www.translit.ru/ Ilon Fraiman http://www.ruthenia.ru staff at ruthenia.ru ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gfross at PACBELL.NET Tue Apr 20 08:53:19 2004 From: gfross at PACBELL.NET (Gordon Ross) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:53:19 -0700 Subject: experience with Ruscico In-Reply-To: <1082397409.408412e14f222@webmail2.its.uiowa.edu> Message-ID: Are the DVDs limited to a particular zone? My DVD player will player only Zone 1. Gordon Ross -----Original Message----- From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Russell Valentino Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:57 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] experience with Ruscico Ben, We've been getting the Ruscico DVDs for the past year and a half or so, 5 per month, I believe. The quality is very high, I'd say. This semester I've shown Viy and Ruslan and Liudmila to my Russian Literature in Film class. Both are well done, though the menu takes a little getting used to. Many of the titles they've put out, like these two, have been available only rarely if at all in the past, so we've found it especially nice to have them in our library. Russell Quoting Benjamin Rifkin : > > Dear SEELANGers: > > > > Does anyone have experience with the company Ruscico? > > > > URL is http://www.ruscico.com/ > > > > Thanks for any feedback. > > > > With best wishes to all, > > > > Ben Rifkin > > > > ************* > > Benjamin Rifkin > > Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison > > 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive > > Madison, WI 53706 USA > > Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 > > http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > > > > ************* > Benjamin Rifkin > Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison > 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive > Madison, WI 53706 USA > Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 > http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From senderov at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Tue Apr 20 12:04:45 2004 From: senderov at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Sasha Senderovich) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:04:45 -0500 Subject: experience with Ruscico Message-ID: Through rbcmp3.com one can choose either PAL or NTSC (North American, I can't remember whether it's Zone 1 or 2) format for RUSCICO DVDs. One can do the same on the RUSCICO website itself - they have both kinds of prints for most, if not all, films. By the way, someone asked yesterday if it is possible to order from RUSCICO directly - it is, and can be done through the website. I've done it a couple of times before I realized that there is an American-based distributor. DVDs arrive just fine, though, since they are shipped from Moscow (free of charge) they take a couple of weeks to get here. But, as many postings yesterday suggested, there is really no need to do it - rbcmp3 has most titles. All best, Sasha Senderovich Sasha Senderovich Slavic Languages and Literatures, PhD student Harvard University ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Ross" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:53 AM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] experience with Ruscico > Are the DVDs limited to a particular zone? My DVD player will player only > Zone 1. > > Gordon Ross > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list > [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Russell Valentino > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:57 AM > To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU > Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] experience with Ruscico > > Ben, > > We've been getting the Ruscico DVDs for the past year and a half or so, 5 > per > month, I believe. The quality is very high, I'd say. This semester I've > shown > Viy and Ruslan and Liudmila to my Russian Literature in Film class. Both are > well done, though the menu takes a little getting used to. Many of the > titles > they've put out, like these two, have been available only rarely if at all > in > the past, so we've found it especially nice to have them in our library. > > Russell > > Quoting Benjamin Rifkin : > > > > Dear SEELANGers: > > > > > > Does anyone have experience with the company Ruscico? > > > > > > URL is http://www.ruscico.com/ > > > > > > Thanks for any feedback. > > > > > > With best wishes to all, > > > > > > Ben Rifkin > > > > > > ************* > > > Benjamin Rifkin > > > Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison > > > 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive > > > Madison, WI 53706 USA > > > Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 > > > http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your > > > subscription > > > options, and more. 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A group of Slavists and other scholars have published a counterpoint article, arguing for the value of grammar instruction within a communicative language program. This piece has just been published in the latest issue of Foreign Language Annals (37.1). With best wishes, Ben Rifkin ************* Benjamin Rifkin Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET Tue Apr 20 13:48:02 2004 From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:48:02 -0400 Subject: Fw: "War's Unwomanly Face" published "in full" Message-ID: "U voiny ne zhenskoe litso", Moskva: Palmira, 2004; 317 pp. The famous book by the Belarusian (Russian-writing and currently living in Paris) writer Svetlana Alexievich "U voiny ne zhenskoe litso" has been finally published in full by the Moscow publishing house "Palmira". This time, the author was able to include new episodes and to "reinstall" what had been cut out by the censor, adding excerpts from conversations with the censors from her diary. The book, based on oral history (more than 500 interviews with Soviet women who were in WWII) was first published in 1985. In 1988 izdatel'stvo "Progress" published an English edition; the title was translated as "The War's Unwomanly Face" (which is not exactly what the author meant). Later, the book was translated into 20 languages and published in many countries. This is one of the most famous books on WWII. Its title has become a "krylataya fraza" in the former SU. More at: http://www.palmira.ru/Books/?about/506 Other books by Alexievich (all based on hundreds of interviews) include: Последние свидетели /The Last Witnesses (on children in WWII) Цинковые мальчики /Zinky Boys (on war in Afghanistan) Чернобыльская молитва /The Chernobyl Prayer (on Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath) - I think the English edition is titled "Chronicles of the Future". Elena Gapova ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From msaskova-pierce1 at UNLNOTES.UNL.EDU Tue Apr 20 14:41:38 2004 From: msaskova-pierce1 at UNLNOTES.UNL.EDU (Miluse Saskova-Pierce) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:41:38 -0500 Subject: DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040420104913.037da3a0@imap.fas.harvard.edu> Message-ID: The multi-system DVD players were available last year on rbcmp3.com. And they were not expensive either. Mila Dr. Mila Saskova-Pierce Minor Languages Section Head Department of Modern Languages University of Nebraska at Lincoln NE 68588-0315 e-mail: msaskova-pierce1 at unl.edu Tel: (402) 472 1336 Fax: (402) 472 0327 Jolanta Davis Sent by: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list 04/20/04 09:50 AM Please respond to Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list To SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU cc Subject [SEELANGS] DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs The discussion about Ruscico reminded me that I've been meaning to buy a DVD player on which I could watch movies purchased in Europe. But I don't even know what and where to look for it. Does anyone have any suggestions? thanks Jolanta ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From powelstock at BRANDEIS.EDU Tue Apr 20 14:43:34 2004 From: powelstock at BRANDEIS.EDU (David Powelstock) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:43:34 -0400 Subject: DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Indeed, they're selling one for $150, does PAL and NTSC, as well as all region codes. Cheers, David -----Original Message----- The multi-system DVD players were available last year on rbcmp3.com. And they were not expensive either. Mila ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From anthony.j.vanchu1 at JSC.NASA.GOV Tue Apr 20 14:45:06 2004 From: anthony.j.vanchu1 at JSC.NASA.GOV (VANCHU, ANTHONY J. (JSC-AH) (TTI)) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:45:06 -0500 Subject: DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs Message-ID: In case you don't want to deal with buying over the web and waiting, my colleagues here report finding such players at very reasonable prices at Radio Shack. Tony Vanchu Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu Director, JSC Language Education Center TechTrans International, Inc. NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX Phone: (281) 483-0644 Fax: (281) 483-4050 -----Original Message----- From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Miluse Saskova-Pierce Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:42 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs The multi-system DVD players were available last year on rbcmp3.com. And they were not expensive either. Mila Dr. Mila Saskova-Pierce Minor Languages Section Head Department of Modern Languages University of Nebraska at Lincoln NE 68588-0315 e-mail: msaskova-pierce1 at unl.edu Tel: (402) 472 1336 Fax: (402) 472 0327 Jolanta Davis Sent by: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list 04/20/04 09:50 AM Please respond to Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list To SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU cc Subject [SEELANGS] DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs The discussion about Ruscico reminded me that I've been meaning to buy a DVD player on which I could watch movies purchased in Europe. But I don't even know what and where to look for it. Does anyone have any suggestions? thanks Jolanta ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From dgoldfar at BARNARD.EDU Tue Apr 20 14:53:57 2004 From: dgoldfar at BARNARD.EDU (David Goldfarb) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:53:57 -0400 Subject: DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040420104913.037da3a0@imap.fas.harvard.edu> Message-ID: I recently purchased a Malata all-region DVD player for around $200 from Kim's Video in New York, and it's handled PAL, region-2, DVD's as well as VCD's and audio CDs from Poland with no problems, and it handles all the conversions automatically without having to deal with menus, and it produces an image in the correct aspect ratio. They had another one in stock for around $100, which the salesperson recommended at first (I think on the grounds that most people who buy an all-region player will rarely use that feature), but it turned out that that one could not in fact be relied upon to render the full image with accurate proportions, and it required going through a menu to switch regions. 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 Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Jolanta Davis wrote: > The discussion about Ruscico reminded me that I've been meaning to buy a > DVD player on which I could watch movies purchased in Europe. But I don't > even know what and where to look for it. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > thanks > Jolanta > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mdenner at STETSON.EDU Tue Apr 20 14:57:30 2004 From: mdenner at STETSON.EDU (Michael Denner) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:57:30 -0400 Subject: DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs Message-ID: Another thing to add -- every PC-based (and probably Mac-based) dvd-player I've worked with handles dvds regardless of any consideration. When in doubt, stick it in the computer, I've found. It's straightforward to connect a laptop to a projector or to a tv. Before you buy a new piece of equipment, make sure you can't use something you already have. Best, mad ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Dr. Michael A. Denner Russian Studies Program Stetson University Campus Box 8361 DeLand, FL 32724 386.822.7381 (department) 386.822.7265 (direct line) 386.822.7380 (fax) http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner http://russianpoetry.net -----Original Message----- From: David Goldfarb [mailto:dgoldfar at BARNARD.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:54 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs I recently purchased a Malata all-region DVD player for around $200 from Kim's Video in New York, and it's handled PAL, region-2, DVD's as well as VCD's and audio CDs from Poland with no problems, and it handles all the conversions automatically without having to deal with menus, and it produces an image in the correct aspect ratio. They had another one in stock for around $100, which the salesperson recommended at first (I think on the grounds that most people who buy an all-region player will rarely use that feature), but it turned out that that one could not in fact be relied upon to render the full image with accurate proportions, and it required going through a menu to switch regions. 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 Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Jolanta Davis wrote: > The discussion about Ruscico reminded me that I've been meaning to buy a > DVD player on which I could watch movies purchased in Europe. But I don't > even know what and where to look for it. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > thanks > Jolanta > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Palacgw at TULSASCHOOLS.ORG Tue Apr 20 15:00:04 2004 From: Palacgw at TULSASCHOOLS.ORG (Palace, Gwendolyn) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:00:04 -0500 Subject: DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs Message-ID: IF you need a company that will take purchase orders from educational institutions I have had great luck with www.world-import.com , rbcmp3 does not take PO's or RQ's *** This message is being delivered via property belonging to Tulsa Public Schools and is subject to monitoring. Therefore, there is no expectation of confidentiality nor privacy regarding these communications. Gwen Palace Russian Language / AP World History Booker T. Washington High School 1514 E. Zion Street Tulsa, OK 74106 -----Original Message----- From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Jolanta Davis Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:51 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs The discussion about Ruscico reminded me that I've been meaning to buy a DVD player on which I could watch movies purchased in Europe. But I don't even know what and where to look for it. Does anyone have any suggestions? thanks Jolanta ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Vanchu Director, JSC Language Education Center TechTrans International, Inc. NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX Phone: (281) 483-0644 Fax: (281) 483-4050 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tfa2001 at COLUMBIA.EDU Tue Apr 20 16:05:57 2004 From: tfa2001 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Thomas Francis Anessi) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:05:57 -0400 Subject: DVD player In-Reply-To: <200404201458.i3KEwONr016902@marionberry.cc.columbia.edu> Message-ID: I've been happy with my Daewoo DVD player, which also handles Euro current. They are cheap, and I've only had one DVD not play: a Polish "all-region" (region zero) copy of 'Ziemia Obiecana'. I don't mean to post an "advert", but here are the spec.s on the latest model: Region Free DVD Player Daewoo S980 Brand New Model 110 220 Volts * International Version: regions 1 to 6 playback * PAL / NTSC Full conversion * XY Scan * Region free dvd with built in converter * PAL / NTSC Play back * 24-bit/192 kHz LPCM audio D/A * 10-bit Video D/A Converter * Automatic Disc Type Identification * Parental Control * Remote Controller * Horizontal Resolution : Over 500 Lines DVD * Video Signal Format NTSC / PAL Thomas Anessi Columbia University Dept. of Slavic Languages ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From PAChew at LINGUIST.FREESERVE.CO.UK Wed Apr 21 03:46:15 2004 From: PAChew at LINGUIST.FREESERVE.CO.UK (Peter Chew) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:46:15 -0600 Subject: Russian curriculum Message-ID: Could someone recommend curriculum material suitable for teaching Russian in a homeschool environment to a 5-year-old? This would be his first foreign language. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brjohnson at STUDENTS.WISC.EDU Wed Apr 21 08:41:11 2004 From: brjohnson at STUDENTS.WISC.EDU (BRIAN ROBERT JOHNSON) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:41:11 +0400 Subject: DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs Message-ID: Just to add to Michael's comments: Not all the DVDs that I have been furiously buying before I return from Russia play on my laptop, but they do play on my neighbor's laptop. Some DVDs were very fussy about playing on WindowsMedia Player and none of them liked PowerDVD. My neighbor has WinDVD on her laptop and they all played without a hitch. Thus, don't be discouraged if at first a DVD doesn't play on your computer - you may just need to try a few different programs. Brian R. Johnson University of Wisconsin - Madison ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Denner Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:57 pm Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs > Another thing to add -- every PC-based (and probably Mac-based) > dvd-player I've worked with handles dvds regardless of any > consideration. When in doubt, stick it in the computer, I've found. > It's straightforward to connect a laptop to a projector or to a > tv. > > Before you buy a new piece of equipment, make sure you can't use > something you already have. > > Best, > mad > > ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() > Dr. Michael A. Denner > Russian Studies Program > Stetson University > Campus Box 8361 > DeLand, FL 32724 > 386.822.7381 (department) > 386.822.7265 (direct line) > 386.822.7380 (fax) > http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner > http://russianpoetry.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Goldfarb [dgoldfar at BARNARD.EDU] > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:54 AM > To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU > Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs > > I recently purchased a Malata all-region DVD player for around > $200 from > Kim's Video in New York, and it's handled PAL, region-2, DVD's as well > as > VCD's and audio CDs from Poland with no problems, and it handles > all the > conversions automatically without having to deal with menus, and it > produces an image in the correct aspect ratio. They had another > one in > stock for around $100, which the salesperson recommended at first (I > think > on the grounds that most people who buy an all-region player will > rarelyuse that feature), but it turned out that that one could not > in fact be > relied upon to render the full image with accurate proportions, > and it > required going through a menu to switch regions. > > 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 Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Jolanta Davis wrote: > > > The discussion about Ruscico reminded me that I've been meaning > to buy > a > > DVD player on which I could watch movies purchased in Europe. > But I > don't > > even know what and where to look for it. Does anyone have any > suggestions? > > > > thanks > > Jolanta > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > - > > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your > subscription > > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface > at: > > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > - > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brjohnson at STUDENTS.WISC.EDU Wed Apr 21 08:43:58 2004 From: brjohnson at STUDENTS.WISC.EDU (BRIAN ROBERT JOHNSON) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:43:58 +0400 Subject: DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs Message-ID: Another thought on DVD players - I know a couple of people who contacted the manufacture of their DVD player and asked if they could adjust it to play PAL DVDs and DVDs with other region codes, etc., and the manufacture gave them some code which is input through the remote control and disables all the Region functions and other obstacles. It would be well worth anyone's time to try this before purchasing a separate player. Brian R. Johnson University of Wisconsin - Madison ----- Original Message ----- From: Jolanta Davis Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:50 pm Subject: [SEELANGS] DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs > The discussion about Ruscico reminded me that I've been meaning to > buy a > DVD player on which I could watch movies purchased in Europe. But > I don't > even know what and where to look for it. Does anyone have any > suggestions? > thanks > Jolanta > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your > subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS > Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From powelstock at BRANDEIS.EDU Wed Apr 21 11:09:12 2004 From: powelstock at BRANDEIS.EDU (David Powelstock) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:09:12 -0400 Subject: DVD-players that work with PAL DVDs In-Reply-To: <8eb0318ede3a.8ede3a8eb031@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Message-ID: There is an entire website devoted to such circumventions of the players' factory programming, some of them as simple as a remote code, others much more complex. See http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdhacks. -----Original Message----- From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list Another thought on DVD players - I know a couple of people who contacted the manufacture of their DVD player and asked if they could adjust it to play PAL DVDs and DVDs with other region codes, etc., and the manufacture gave them some code which is input through the remote control and disables all the Region functions and other obstacles. It would be well worth anyone's time to try this before purchasing a separate player. Brian R. Johnson University of Wisconsin - Madison ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brifkin at WISC.EDU Wed Apr 21 12:35:52 2004 From: brifkin at WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:35:52 -0500 Subject: Discussion of Grammar in FL Education Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers: Something went amiss with my message yesterday on this topic. To clarify: The latest issue of Foreign Language Annals (37.1) includes 1) a response by a group of Slavists to an article by Wong and VanPatten on the place of drill in foreign language education 2) a response to this article by the original authors, Wong and VanPatten Sincerely, Ben Rifkin ************* Benjamin Rifkin Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Wed Apr 21 09:14:38 2004 From: mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Emily Tall) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:14:38 -0000 Subject: study abroad (SRAS) Message-ID: Hello everyone. Has anyone had any experience with the School of Russian and Asian Studies, in particular their programs in Novosibirsk in the summer or Nizhny-Novgorod during the academic year? Please reply directly to me at mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu. Thanks. Emily Tall ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jknox at BOWDOIN.EDU Wed Apr 21 16:13:24 2004 From: jknox at BOWDOIN.EDU (Jane Knox-Voina) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:13:24 -0400 Subject: Siberiada? Message-ID: Can anyone tell me where SIBERIADA was shot in Siberia? Jane Knox-Voina Russian and Film Bowdoin College ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From natalia.pylypiuk at UALBERTA.CA Thu Apr 22 03:55:28 2004 From: natalia.pylypiuk at UALBERTA.CA (Natalia Pylypiuk) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:55:28 -0600 Subject: query about transliteration In-Reply-To: <016001c426ad$8c4ef900$4200a8c0@if> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Would someone please tell me the name of the system that transliterates the Cyrillic *x* as English *h*. I have seen this practice among students from the former USSR. Being accustomed to the Library of Congress system, which renders *x* as *kh*, and to the International Standard, which renders it as *x*, I would like to understand the reasoning behind the use of *h*. Kind regards, N. Pylypiuk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From naiman at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU Thu Apr 22 04:33:55 2004 From: naiman at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU (Eric Naiman) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:33:55 -0700 Subject: query about transliteration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: "There is no k sound about it, as the usual kh transliteration unfortunately suggests to the English eye. I have used kh only in one or two cases when s precedes it (for example, skhodil, "descended"), to avoid confuseion with sh." Nabokov, "Method of Transliteration", vol 1 of Onegin trans, p.xxiii. Somewhere else -- perhaps in Nabokov-Wilson letters -- I think Nabokov justifies this choice at greater length. On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Natalia Pylypiuk wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Would someone please tell me the name of the system that transliterates > the Cyrillic *x* as English *h*. I have seen this practice among students > from the former USSR. > > Being accustomed to the Library of Congress system, which renders > *x* as *kh*, and to the International Standard, which renders it > as *x*, I would like to understand the reasoning behind the use of *h*. > > > Kind regards, > N. Pylypiuk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ggerhart at COMCAST.NET Thu Apr 22 05:54:57 2004 From: ggerhart at COMCAST.NET (Genevra Gerhart) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:54:57 -0700 Subject: query about transliteration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Ladies and gentlemen, Problem is, countries and groups within countries have seen fit to transliterate as they damn well please. Thus, the Russians, using their own standard, transliterate their "x" as our h. (Which sounds as close as an American can easily get to the Russian "x".) This, of course, discombobulates US academics who realize that only the LC (Library of Congress) system will do among civilized people. This latter group does not include linguists who use yet another system or systems that endeavor to come closer to a one-to-one correspondence between languages. Their problem is that no one else on earth uses their systems. They can be left to Heaven. If you want to communicate with the public beyond the walls of the Academy, then use the Board of Geographic Names system. Within the Academy, LC. But, by all means, please refrain from even contemplating using your own system. Communication requires that our signals remain standard ones. (We should not have to put up with "oo" for the Russian "y", for example.) The three sets of transliteration commonly used are described and shown on pp 633,634 The Russian Context. Which see, I might say. Cheers, Genevra http://www.GenevraGerhart.com ggerhart 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK Thu Apr 22 10:33:39 2004 From: J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK (John Dunn) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:33:39 +0100 Subject: query about transliteration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: In spite of being a mere linguist who could never aspire to join the ranks of the civilised peoples and moreover being prepared to expatiate to my students for half a lecture on the deficiencies of the Library of Congress scheme, I generally agree with what Genevra Gerhart says. Especially the suggestion that the linguists' system is the one used in Heaven. I was, though, once quite impressed to see the name of a Russian country music group (don't ask) transliterated as Kookoorooza. There may, however, be another answer to Natalia Pylypiuk's original question. According to the comparative table of transliteration drawn up by J.S.G. Simmons in 1970, 'h' for 'x' is included in Recommendation R9 issued by the International Standards Organisation in September 1968. I hope you all feel better for knowing that. John Dunn. >Ladies and gentlemen, > >Problem is, countries and groups within countries have seen fit to >transliterate as they damn well please. Thus, the Russians, using their own >standard, transliterate their "x" as our h. (Which sounds as close as an >American can easily get to the Russian "x".) This, of course, >discombobulates US academics who realize that only the LC (Library of >Congress) system will do among civilized people. This latter group does not >include linguists who use yet another system or systems that endeavor to >come closer to a one-to-one correspondence between languages. Their problem >is that no one else on earth uses their systems. They can be left to Heaven. > >If you want to communicate with the public beyond the walls of the Academy, >then use the Board of Geographic Names system. Within the Academy, LC. > >But, by all means, please refrain from even contemplating using your own >system. Communication requires that our signals remain standard ones. (We >should not have to put up with "oo" for the Russian "y", for example.) The >three sets of transliteration commonly used are described and shown on pp >633,634 The Russian Context. > >Which see, I might say. > >Cheers, > >Genevra > >http://www.GenevraGerhart.com > >ggerhart 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- John Dunn School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Slavonic Studies) University of Glasgow Hetherington Building Bute Gardens Glasgow G12 8RS Tel.: +44 (0)141-330-5591 Fax: +44 (0)141-330-2297 e-mail: J.Dunn at slavonic.arts.gla.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From laurengl at PTWI.NET Thu Apr 22 13:01:41 2004 From: laurengl at PTWI.NET (Lauren Leighton) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:01:41 -0500 Subject: query about transliteration In-Reply-To: Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Natalia Pylypiuk Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:55 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] query about transliteration -- 'TIS TRULY SAID, EVERY GENERATION REDISCOVERS AMERICA FOR ITSELF. BUT ONE MAY ALSO CONSULT J. THOMAS SHAW'S HANDBOOK/BROCHURE, TRANSLITERATION OF RUSSIAN (UWISC PRESS). AS FOR NABOKOV'S SYSTEM, ITS JUST PLAIN SILLY. Dear Colleagues, Would someone please tell me the name of the system that transliterates the Cyrillic *x* as English *h*. I have seen this practice among students from the former USSR. Being accustomed to the Library of Congress system, which renders *x* as *kh*, and to the International Standard, which renders it as *x*, I would like to understand the reasoning behind the use of *h*. Kind regards, N. Pylypiuk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From CUELAND at DREW.EDU Thu Apr 22 13:53:19 2004 From: CUELAND at DREW.EDU (Carol R. Ueland) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:53:19 -0400 Subject: query about transliteration Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, While we are on the subject of transliteration, can someone tell me where to find the standard systerm that most Russians use to transliterate Cyrillic into English? Many of my friends and colleagues in Russia have such difficulties with the incompatibilities of coding that we've taken to just writing in Russian using Latin letters--however I've noticed it's not either of the systems most commonly used here. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks in advance, Carol Ueland -----Original Message----- From: Natalia Pylypiuk To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:55:28 -0600 Subject: [SEELANGS] query about transliteration Dear Colleagues, Would someone please tell me the name of the system that transliterates the Cyrillic *x* as English *h*. I have seen this practice among students from the former USSR. Being accustomed to the Library of Congress system, which renders *x* as *kh*, and to the International Standard, which renders it as *x*, I would like to understand the reasoning behind the use of *h*. Kind regards, N. Pylypiuk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From maarnold at EMAIL.UNC.EDU Thu Apr 22 14:19:18 2004 From: maarnold at EMAIL.UNC.EDU (Meredith Clason) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:19:18 -0400 Subject: SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR INSTRUCTORS Message-ID: There are still a few spaces available at the Summer Institute for Instructors, hosted by the Duke-UNC Slavic and East European Language Resource Center. Apply online at www.seelrc.org. Food, fun, fellowship, and a field trip, too! Enjoy a unique learning experience in the "Southern Part of Heaven" "Slavic and East European Languages: Acquisition, Techniques, and Technologies" - a Summer Institute for instructors - will take place from July 14-23, 2004 on the campuses of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Topics include: using technology in the classroom, creating technologically enhanced pedagogical materials, teaching film and culture, and internet resources for Slavic and East European language teachers. It is our hope that you will bring ideas to share about projects that you have been working on or would like to work on using technology to enhance the teaching of our languages and cultures. There are no registration fees or tuition costs to attend the institute, and accommodations will be provided by SEELRC. However, participants must pay their own travel expenses. For more information, contact: Meredith Clason, Project Coordinator SEELRC, CB#5125, 223 E. Franklin Street Chapel Hill, NC 27599-5125 Phone: 919-962-0901 Fax: 919-962-2494 Email: meredith_clason at unc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Thu Apr 22 14:28:50 2004 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:28:50 +0100 Subject: Lars Lih Message-ID: Dear all, Can anyone give me an up-to-date email address for him? Thanks, Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brewerm at U.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Apr 22 15:51:52 2004 From: brewerm at U.LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU (Brewer, Michael) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:51:52 -0700 Subject: query about transliteration Message-ID: Carol, Though I am not certain that it will have the answer to your questions (I am not sure there is a single system that Russians uniformly use, just as there is no system that Westerners uniformly use) I do have a fairly extensive overview of transliteration and transcription on that portion of my Slavic Information Literacy site (still very much under construction and still very interested in the input/collaboration of others in the field). Hopefully this can be helpful. Please use IE to view (I hope to resolve the browser problems at a later date). Mb http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/fah/subpathpages/Russian.Slav ic/RIL/library/transcription/transcription.htm (be sure also to look at the sub pages linked from the "More Resources" section). Michael Brewer German & Slavic Studies and Media Arts Librarian University of Arizona Library, A210 1510 E. University P.O. Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Fax 520.621.9733 Voice 520.621.9919 brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu -----Original Message----- From: Carol R. Ueland [mailto:CUELAND at DREW.EDU] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:53 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] query about transliteration Dear Colleagues, While we are on the subject of transliteration, can someone tell me where to find the standard systerm that most Russians use to transliterate Cyrillic into English? Many of my friends and colleagues in Russia have such difficulties with the incompatibilities of coding that we've taken to just writing in Russian using Latin letters--however I've noticed it's not either of the systems most commonly used here. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks in advance, Carol Ueland -----Original Message----- From: Natalia Pylypiuk To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:55:28 -0600 Subject: [SEELANGS] query about transliteration Dear Colleagues, Would someone please tell me the name of the system that transliterates the Cyrillic *x* as English *h*. I have seen this practice among students from the former USSR. Being accustomed to the Library of Congress system, which renders *x* as *kh*, and to the International Standard, which renders it as *x*, I would like to understand the reasoning behind the use of *h*. Kind regards, N. Pylypiuk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM Thu Apr 22 17:19:27 2004 From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:19:27 -0400 Subject: query about transliteration Message-ID: Michael Brewer wrote: > Carol, > > Though I am not certain that it will have the answer to your > questions (I am not sure there is a single system that Russians > uniformly use, just as there is no system that Westerners uniformly > use) I do have a fairly extensive overview of transliteration and > transcription on that portion of my Slavic Information Literacy site > (still very much under construction and still very interested in the > input/collaboration of others in the field). Hopefully this can be > helpful. Please use IE to view (I hope to resolve the browser > problems at a later date). > > Mb > > > (be sure also to look at the sub pages linked from the "More > Resources" section). The transliteration system used depends largely on the author's purpose and the community to which he/she belongs. Academic Slavicists may follow one system, whereas librarians will follow another, and news editors will follow yet another, and so forth. An author submitting to a particular publication, of course, will conform to that publication's standards. Your chart at depicts three popular systems used in academia, but omits the BGN (Bureau of Geographic Names) system used in the US government, which forms the basis for most systems used in the news media and in commercial applications. However, you do mention it in passing at . In my experience, transliterations in the news media follow BGN, with the exception that known ё is represented as "yo" (E.g., "Kovalyov" instead of "Kovalev"). But then again, they do write "Khrushchev," probably more out of habit. All in all, I think we can agree the situation is a mess. FWIW, I had no difficulty viewing your pages with Netscape 7. The site is a valuable resource that I intend to read thoroughly when I get a chance. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher pbg translations, inc. "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals" http://pbg-translations.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From monniern at MISSOURI.EDU Thu Apr 22 17:30:41 2004 From: monniern at MISSOURI.EDU (Nicole Monnier) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:30:41 -0500 Subject: HIV test for long-term visa In-Reply-To: <2c6201c42644$266855a0$0200a8c0@RENEEDESK> Message-ID: Dear SEELANGS-ers MANY thanks for all of your responses regarding HIV tests. On the subject of HIV in Russia, I thought I¹d pass along this item from the UN Wire Service (from Wed, 21 April). Gratefully, Nicole Russia Not Taking HIV/AIDS Threat Seriously, Report Says While the HIV caseload in Russia has jumped from 163 in 1994 to an estimated 1 million by the end of last year, President Vladimir Putin has taken little action to tackle the epidemic, USA Today reported yesterday. Although a U.N. report in February suggested that 9 million Russians could die of AIDS by 2045, government funding is only about $4 million ‹ a budget that would pay for medicine for just 600 patients a year. Experts blame the HIV/AIDS explosion in part on Russia's marginalization of groups that have high HIV rates, such as drug addicts and commercial sex workers. As many as 80 percent of the country's HIV/AIDS cases are drug-related, but it has only 59 government centers for as many as 4 million intravenous drug users. Soviet-era prohibitions on virtually all controlled substances make substitution therapy for addicts nearly impossible and strict criminalization of drug infractions puts even more AIDS sufferers behind bars. The U.N. study found a "direct causality between the seriousness of the AIDS crisis and the degree of respect given to human rights," Marta Ruedas of the U.N. Development Program told USA Today. President Putin, meanwhile, has shown no commitment to fighting the epidemic. "Up to now, I am not sure that our president knows enough about HIV/AIDS," said Vadim Pokrovsky, Russia's top AIDS researcher. "There hasn't been a clear speech or phrase that allows us to say that our president understands HIV/AIDS problems. Only a very few times, maybe once or twice, he has mentioned it in his speeches." International organizations and foreign governments have been more forthcoming in providing HIV/AIDS assistance to Russians. Last year, the World Bank agreed to loan Russia $150 million to fight AIDS and tuberculosis, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has awarded nearly $90 million to five nongovernmental organizations in Russia. The government is drafting a new grant proposal to the fund. "It is a significant improvement for prevention," said Pokrovsky. "But, of course, it is necessary to get more money and the main source is that state budget. We need to influence our Parliament to give us more money." To that end, diplomats and AIDS experts are pursuing a two-pronged strategy ‹ trying to convince Putin of the scale of the crisis, perhaps by sounding alarms over its potential to harm the economy, and building momentum through nongovernmental organizations funded by foreign donors that are reaching out to drug addicts and other at-risk groups. Dmitry Blagovo, who runs a program in a Moscow suburb that helps addicts and provides them with clean needles, said the project has become more accepted by local police and officials since its inception. "They [local police] hassled us for about six months until they figured out we weren't going out into the streets to sell drugs," he said. "After that, they seemed to decide, 'These guys are OK.'" Faina Guskova, a government administration adviser in the industrial Moscow suburb of Mitischi, agreed that progress is being made, at least on the local level. "At first, we had problems," she said of the city's efforts to combat AIDS. "People were very reluctant to admit us to schools. The topic was forbidden, particularly if it concerned HIV infection. But now, they've become interested in it and teachers themselves ask us to come. I guess the people's psychology is changing." Officials in Mitischi have been willing to taking tough measures against HIV in part because of the suburb's longtime problems with the virus and widespread drug addiction, according to U.N. officials (Bill Nichols, USA Today, April 20). "A very big increase in drug use some years ago" in St. Petersburg, meanwhile, has contributed to that city's unusually high HIV rate, according to Alexander Tsekhanovich, president of the NGO Humanitarian Action. A joint research project conducted by Humanitarian Action and another NGO, Stellit, as well as the St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute found that 26,000 of about 260,000 Russians who are registered as HIV-positive live in St. Petersburg and that almost half of prostitutes there are infected, nearly all of whom are said to be drug users (Simone Kozuharov, St. Petersburg Times , April 20). 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 phone: 573.882.3370 Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) fax: 573.884.8456 German & Russian Studies Dept. 415 GCB University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Fri Apr 23 07:38:26 2004 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:38:26 +0000 Subject: Cyrillic and Apple Mac OSX Message-ID: Dear all, I have read previous letters on this subject, always anxiously and with little real understanding. I have just upgraded to OS X 3. I have no problems with my email programme, I can write new Cyrillic documents in Apple Works and Word for Mac. I can open previous Cyrillic documents created in Apple Works, but I CANNOT open previous Cyrillic documents created in Word for Mac; they just appear as gibberish. I use Matvey Palchuk's phonetic keyboard and a font called, in Cyrillic letters, Латынский (Latynskii). I will be very grateful indeed for any HELP! Best Wishes, Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From k.r.hauge at EAST.UIO.NO Fri Apr 23 08:11:24 2004 From: k.r.hauge at EAST.UIO.NO (Kjetil =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E5?= Hauge) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:11:24 +0200 Subject: Cyrillic and Apple Mac OSX In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >Dear all, > >I have read previous letters on this subject, always anxiously and with >little real understanding. > >I have just upgraded to OS X 3. I have no problems with my email programme, >I can write new Cyrillic documents in Apple Works and Word for Mac. I can >open previous Cyrillic documents created in Apple Works, but I CANNOT open >previous Cyrillic documents created in Word for Mac; they just appear as >gibberish. > >I use Matvey Palchuk's phonetic keyboard and a font called, in Cyrillic >letters, ãýښÌÒÍËÈ (Latynskii). With Latinskij (not Latynskij, that could be a different font) I have had better luck with TextEdit than with Word. TextEdit in Panther (OS X 10.3) reads .doc documents as well as .rtf. -- --- Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo. Tel. +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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Fri Apr 23 13:33:28 2004 From: jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Jolanta Davis) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:33:28 -0400 Subject: Too many Web sites, too little time In-Reply-To: <200404211109.i3LB95gN005642@alba.unet.brandeis.edu> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, From time to time someone suggests to the AAASS that the Association should create on its Web site a catalog of useful Slavic Web sites. As a whole, this is not a bad idea, however, there are just too many Slavic Web sites on the Internet, and changing their URLs too often, to keep track of them and to include everything. Also, how do we categorize "useful" Slavic Web sites? What may be useful to one person, may be bunch of nonsense to another. Could we have a discussion of which Slavic Web sites you find useful? I'd like to find out to which Web sites you refer often, which Web sites you recommend to your students, etc. Basically, the links that are saved on your "Slavic favorites" list and listed on your personal sites, and/or your syllabi sites. I wonder if the same Web sites will start coming up in the discussion, or whether everyone uses something different. thanks Jolanta M. Davis AAASS Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) 8 Story Street Cambridge, MA tel.: 617-495-0679 fax: 617-495-0680 Web site: www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brifkin at WISC.EDU Fri Apr 23 13:33:35 2004 From: brifkin at WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:33:35 -0500 Subject: Too many Web sites, too little time In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040423093220.039e1310@imap.fas.harvard.edu> Message-ID: A beginning: Many scholars in the area studies fields will find the AATSEEL website's internet resources page very helpful: http://www.aatseel.org/internet.html Sincerely, Ben Rifkin President of AATSEEL On Apr 23, 2004, at 8:33 AM, Jolanta Davis wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > From time to time someone suggests to the AAASS that the Association > should create on its Web site a catalog of useful Slavic Web sites. As > a > whole, this is not a bad idea, however, there are just too many Slavic > Web > sites on the Internet, and changing their URLs too often, to keep > track of > them and to include everything. Also, how do we categorize "useful" > Slavic > Web sites? What may be useful to one person, may be bunch of nonsense > to > another. Could we have a discussion of which Slavic Web sites you find > useful? I'd like to find out to which Web sites you refer often, which > Web > sites you recommend to your students, etc. Basically, the links that > are > saved on your "Slavic favorites" list and listed on your personal > sites, > and/or your syllabi sites. I wonder if the same Web sites will start > coming > up in the discussion, or whether everyone uses something different. > > thanks > > Jolanta M. Davis > AAASS Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor > > American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) > 8 Story Street > Cambridge, MA > tel.: 617-495-0679 > fax: 617-495-0680 > Web site: www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > ************* Benjamin Rifkin Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From cwoolhis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Fri Apr 23 19:22:48 2004 From: cwoolhis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Curt F. Woolhiser) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:22:48 -0400 Subject: Moscow apartment needed Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, A student of mine will be going to Moscow this summer on an internship and is looking for an apartment to share with a friend. She requested that I post the following ad to the list (if you have any information on apartment rentals in Moscow, please respond directly to her at Stanchik at fas.harvard.edu). Many thanks! Two Harvard undergraduates are looking to rent an apartment in central Moscow from mid-June through mid-August. Good neighborhood and safety are of primary concern. Will be working on Leninsky Prospect and would like to be able to walk to work. Looking to pay ~$1000/$1500 per month, however we are unsure about Moscow prices and are also looking for some suggestions as to what is reasonable. Kitchen a necessity. Please contact Katherine Stanchik at Stanchik at fas.harvard.edu. Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kthresher at RMWC.EDU Fri Apr 23 20:42:54 2004 From: kthresher at RMWC.EDU (Klawa Thresher) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:42:54 -0400 Subject: Russian Pen Pals Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Do you have suggestions for good sources to find Russian pen pals to correspond with fairly elementary students of Russian? Thank you in advance, Klawa Thresher Assistant Professor of Russian Randolph-Macon Woman's College Lynchburg, VA 24503 (434) 947-8558 (434) 947-8531 (fax) kthresher at rmwc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From d344630 at ER.UQAM.CA Sat Apr 24 01:11:15 2004 From: d344630 at ER.UQAM.CA (Saskia) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:11:15 -0400 Subject: Russian Pen Pals In-Reply-To: <8555CF0A51C81C41BA588B5714F7514D83E05D@wildcat.rmwc.edu> Message-ID: Dear Klawa, I tried twice the free etandem service and found it very effective. You can choose the age and language skill of your penpal, interests, etc. Web address: http://www.slf.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/etandem/etindex-en.html Good luck to your students, Saskia Ouaknine Montreal, Canada > De : Klawa Thresher > Répondre à : Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list > > Date : Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:42:54 -0400 > À : SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU > Objet : [SEELANGS] Russian Pen Pals > > Dear Colleagues, > > Do you have suggestions for good sources to find Russian pen pals to > correspond with fairly elementary students of Russian? > > Thank you in advance, > > Klawa Thresher > Assistant Professor of Russian > Randolph-Macon Woman's College > Lynchburg, VA 24503 > (434) 947-8558 > (434) 947-8531 (fax) > kthresher at rmwc.edu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Sat Apr 24 16:53:48 2004 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:53:48 +0200 Subject: The Sound of Belarusan Message-ID: In case you are curious how Belarusan sounds: • http://www.svaboda.org/realaudio/holas.mp3 (2.5MB) A 6-year-old girl from Belarus. Regards, Uladzimir Katkouski http://www.rydel.net/ -------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Sat Apr 24 16:56:10 2004 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:56:10 +0200 Subject: German "WeissRussland" Message-ID: If you are using the word "Weissrussland" in German, maybe you shouldn't... * http://www.pravapis.org/art_weissrussland.asp ...and start using some other word instead. Sincerely yours, Uladzimir Katkouski http://www.rydel.net/ -------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From a_strat at KHARKOV.COM Sat Apr 24 21:29:39 2004 From: a_strat at KHARKOV.COM (Alex) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 00:29:39 +0300 Subject: Russian Pen Pals Message-ID: Dear Klawa, Sorry, I am not a colleague. Just a curious person who likes SEELANGS very much. When I subscribed to this mailing list almost 7 years ago one of my first question was: "is there any international mailing list for communicating in Russian?". Seelangers are always very helpful and they suggested me some options. But I wasn't satisfied by existing lists and decided to establish a new one by myself. For a couple of years I've managed to gather some nice Russian speaking e-pals from Latin America to Japan. Sadly enough I had some personal problems and couldn't pay attention to that forum for some time. They could use the list without my assistance of course, but it seemed my guidance was crucial and without me the list faded away. Since then I never met a decent mailing list for that purpose. I asked my kids if they or their friends (their schoolmates) would like to correspond with children of the same age (and maybe interests) abroad. They expressed a deep scepticism about that idea. The world has changed! Half a century ago children were eager to have pen pals abroad but mostly had a little option... These days when a computer is in every house (and even in countryside!) and there are internet cafe on every corner, kids prefer to play online games rather than writing letters to each other! By the way, did you mean mainly e-pals or "snail mailing" too? And of what age? Aleksander, Ukraine ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Sun Apr 25 14:35:01 2004 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:35:01 +0200 Subject: The Sound of Belarusan Message-ID: * http://www.svaboda.org/realaudio/holas.mp3 (2.5MB) A 6-year-old girl. As far as I know, that's the youngest participant from the "Young Voices" program from the Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty: http://www.svaboda.org/programs/voices/2003/archive.asp Kind regards, Uladzimir Katkouski http://www.pravapis.org/ http://www.rydel.net/ -------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Sun Apr 25 14:36:14 2004 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:36:14 +0200 Subject: "Weiss-Russland" in German Message-ID: Dear colleagues, If you are using the word "Weissrussland" in German when refering to Belarus, maybe you should read this... * http://www.pravapis.org/art_weissrussland.asp ...and start using some other word instead. Kind regards, Uladzimir Katkouski http://www.pravapis.org/ http://www.rydel.net/ -------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU Sun Apr 25 14:42:50 2004 From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:42:50 +0200 Subject: Too many Web sites, too little time In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > > and/or your syllabi sites. I wonder if the same Web sites will start > > coming > > up in the discussion, or whether everyone uses something different. > > For Belarusan I would recommend: http://www.pravapis.org/ (which I made myself) http://www.slounik.org/ (great new resource with dictionaries!) http://tbm.org.by/ (Belarusan Language Society, unfortunately slow webserver) http://www.knihi.com/index-en.html (Belarusan online library) http://mova.by.ru/ (Links about Belarusan language) http://txt.knihi.com/www/padrucnik/ (Belarusan for Russian speakers) http://www.litara.net/ (Forum for Belarusan writers and literati) Kind regards, Uladzimir Katkouski http://www.rydel.net/ -------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From brifkin at WISC.EDU Sun Apr 25 22:57:23 2004 From: brifkin at WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:57:23 -0500 Subject: ACTFL OPI Workshop Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers: ACTFL, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, is sponsoring an oral proficiency interview (OPI) workshop on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley July 14-18, 2004. There will be a Russian section if there is enough enrollment. For more information about the ACTFL OPI workshop, see the ACTFL website -- www.actfl.org -- or contact Linda Kaplan at ACTFL: . With best wishes, Ben Rifkin ************* Benjamin Rifkin Professor of Slavic Languages, UW-Madison 1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA Voice (608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814 http://polyglot.lss.wisc.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From emilydjohnson at OU.EDU Mon Apr 26 14:20:07 2004 From: emilydjohnson at OU.EDU (Emily Johnson) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:20:07 -0400 Subject: Looking for short-term rentals in Moscow and St. Petersburg Message-ID: I am looking for short-term rentals in Moscow and St. Petersburg for this summer. I will be in Moscow from June 11-July 7. I plan to be in St. Petersburg from July 8-July 27. In each city I am hoping to find a modest apartment located near a metro station. It would need to be furnished with basic necessities (kitchen things, linens, basic furniture, phone) but does not need to have been brought up to a European standard. A TV, washing machine, and gas water heater would be wonderful, but they are not absolutely necessary. The apartments should be located in relatively safe areas. They do not have to be in the center. I have lived in Russia for long periods of time in the past and can provide references from previous landlords. I am traveling on an academic budget, so my funding is not unlimited. I can pay up to $1,200 in Moscow and up to $600 in Petersburg, depending on the location and condition of the apartment. Please email me off- list if you have any suggestions. emilydjohnson at ou.edu Thanks, Emily Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From aimee.m.roebuck-johnson at NASA.GOV Mon Apr 26 14:30:09 2004 From: aimee.m.roebuck-johnson at NASA.GOV (ROEBUCK-JOHNSON, AIMEE M. (JSC-AH) (NASA)) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:30:09 -0500 Subject: Idiom question Message-ID: In a April 19 article from the Associated Press about Russian-American space cooperation (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4772754 ) my student read the following But there are tensions. The Russians want more recognition from NASA for their efforts to keep the space station manned at the expense of its own space programs. "Russia is taking off its last pair of pants, while the United States and Japan are cutting down their (space) budgets," said Sergei Gorbunov, the chief spokesman for Russia's space agency. "This cannot last long." Could you please tell me whether to take off one's last pair of pants is a Russian idiom and, if so, how it would be in Russian? Thank you in advance. Aimee Roebuck-Johnson English/Russian Language Instructor English Program Administrator TechTrans International, Inc. at NASA 2101 Nasa Road 1 Houston, Texas 77058 desk: 281/483-0774 fax: 281/483-4050 aimee.m.roebuck-johnson at nasa.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Lyssakov at EU.SPB.RU Mon Apr 26 14:46:02 2004 From: Lyssakov at EU.SPB.RU (Pavel Lyssakov) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:46:02 +0400 Subject: Idiom question Message-ID: "Otdaet (snimaet s sebia) posledniuiu paru shtanov," I suppose, and I can understand what they mean, but "sniat' s sebia posledniuiu rubashku" is much more common. Pavel Lyssakov Dr Pavel Lyssakov Director, International Programmes and Development Faculty of Political Science and Sociology The European University at St Petersburg Phone/Fax: +7 (812) 279-44-02 Fax: +7 (812) 275-51-33 -----Original Message----- From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of ROEBUCK-JOHNSON, AIMEE M. (JSC-AH) (NASA) Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 6:30 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] Idiom question In a April 19 article from the Associated Press about Russian-American space cooperation (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4772754 ) my student read the following But there are tensions. The Russians want more recognition from NASA for their efforts to keep the space station manned at the expense of its own space programs. "Russia is taking off its last pair of pants, while the United States and Japan are cutting down their (space) budgets," said Sergei Gorbunov, the chief spokesman for Russia's space agency. "This cannot last long." Could you please tell me whether to take off one's last pair of pants is a Russian idiom and, if so, how it would be in Russian? Thank you in advance. Aimee Roebuck-Johnson English/Russian Language Instructor English Program Administrator TechTrans International, Inc. at NASA 2101 Nasa Road 1 Houston, Texas 77058 desk: 281/483-0774 fax: 281/483-4050 aimee.m.roebuck-johnson at nasa.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From cwoolhis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Mon Apr 26 19:11:52 2004 From: cwoolhis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Curt F. Woolhiser) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:11:52 -0400 Subject: Moscow apartment needed (update) Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, I recently posted an ad to the list from a student of mine who is looking for an apartment in Moscow to share with a friend this summer. Since it turns out that she and her roommate will be working in different parts of Moscow, they are now trying to find a "compromise" location somewhere within the Garden Ring. The following is a revised version of their ad. If you have any leads, please respond directly to Katherine Stanchik at Stanchik at fas.harvard.edu). Many thanks! Two Harvard undergraduates are looking to rent an apartment in central Moscow from mid-June through mid-August. Good neighborhood and safety are of primary concern. ÊLooking for an apartment in the "Garden Ring." Looking to pay ~$1000/$1500 per month, however we are unsure about Moscow prices and are also looking for some suggestions as to what is reasonable. Kitchen a necessity. If you have any helpful advice about life in Moscow, we would really love to hear about your experiences. ÊAny input greatly appreciated. Please contact Katherine Stanchik at Stanchik at fas.harvard.edu. Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From a_strat at KHARKOV.COM Mon Apr 26 22:36:46 2004 From: a_strat at KHARKOV.COM (Alex) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 01:36:46 +0300 Subject: Idiom question Message-ID: Кстати о штанах: в детстве бабушка мне часто говорила - "умный, как берковы штаны!" Откуда пошло это выражение, она сама не знала. Никогда больше я его не встречал. Что вы об этом думаете? А.П. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From dlwalker at U.WASHINGTON.EDU Tue Apr 27 06:46:00 2004 From: dlwalker at U.WASHINGTON.EDU (Debra Lynne Walker) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 23:46:00 -0700 Subject: Job In-Reply-To: <594A95F2-84B6-11D8-B7CA-000A957A0414@bc.edu> Message-ID: On Friday, April 2, 2004, at 06:59 AM, Cynthia Simmons wrote: > Boston College seeks fall-semester (2004) replacement for two courses > in Russian/Comparative literature: "Literature and Revolution," a > 20th-century Russian literature course (with undergrad and grad > components), and a "Literature of the World" course with a strong > Russian-literature focus. Applicants (Ph.D or ABD) should send CV and > two letters of recommendation to Prof. Cynthia Simmons, Chair, > Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Lyons Hall 210, Boston > College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. Application deadline: April 30, > 2004. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From monniern at MISSOURI.EDU Tue Apr 27 16:06:26 2004 From: monniern at MISSOURI.EDU (Nicole Monnier) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:06:26 -0500 Subject: Cheap lodgings in Prague for week in May? Message-ID: Dear all, A colleague of mine in the International Center is traveling to Prague 9-16 May, and ‹ most unfortunately ‹ the housing arrangements for her and her husband have fallen through. They¹re looking for something in the $50/night range. B&B¹s and short-term apartment rentals are most acceptable. Any recommendations on the eve of the official tourist season (1 May) and the usual hike in Prague tourist costs? Inquiringly, Nicole 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 phone: 573.882.3370 Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) fax: 573.884.8456 German & Russian Studies Dept. 415 GCB University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From uhwm006 at SUN.RHUL.AC.UK Tue Apr 27 16:21:33 2004 From: uhwm006 at SUN.RHUL.AC.UK (Geoffrey Chew) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:21:33 +0100 Subject: Cheap lodgings in Prague for week in May? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Nicole Monnier wrote: > A colleague of mine in the International Center is traveling to Prague > 9-16 May, and - most unfortunately - the housing arrangements for her > and her husband have fallen through. They¹re looking for something in > the $50/night range. B&B¹s and short-term apartment rentals are most > acceptable. Any recommendations on the eve of the official tourist > season (1 May) and the usual hike in Prague tourist costs? Try the Czech Yellow Pages at www.zlatestranky.cz and fill in "ubytování" (must have diacritics) under Kategorie and "praha" under Mesto, then follow the menu -- they have details of many hotels and pensions, some close to the centre, some reachable via the internet. There are similar Slovak Yellow Pages at www.zlatestranky.sk by the way. Geoffrey Chew Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London Internet: chew at sun.rhul.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kpking at MTHOLYOKE.EDU Tue Apr 27 16:22:04 2004 From: kpking at MTHOLYOKE.EDU (Katerina P. King) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:22:04 -0400 Subject: Cheap lodgings in Prague for week in May? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: www.A1flats.com. Very clean, convenient to public transportation, owners speak good English. I have stayed there myself and recommend it highly. Katya King Katerina P. King, Ph.D. On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Nicole Monnier wrote: > Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:06:26 -0500 > From: Nicole Monnier > Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list > > To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU > Subject: [SEELANGS] Cheap lodgings in Prague for week in May? > > Dear all, > > A colleague of mine in the International Center is traveling to Prague 9-16 > May, and � most unfortunately � the housing arrangements for her and her > husband have fallen through. They�re looking for something in the $50/night > range. B&B�s and short-term apartment rentals are most acceptable. Any > recommendations on the eve of the official tourist season (1 May) and the > usual hike in Prague tourist costs? > > Inquiringly, > > Nicole > > > 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 phone: 573.882.3370 > Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) fax: 573.884.8456 > German & Russian Studies Dept. > 415 GCB > University of Missouri > Columbia, MO 65211 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From yoffe at GWU.EDU Tue Apr 27 16:36:13 2004 From: yoffe at GWU.EDU (yoffe) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:36:13 -0400 Subject: Cheap lodgings in Budapest for week in May? Message-ID: Speaking about cheap lodging in Eastern Europe, can anyone suggest similar resources for Budapest? Thanks in advance MY >> A colleague of mine in the International Center is traveling to Prague >> 9-16 May, and - most unfortunately - the housing arrangements for her >> and her husband have fallen through. They¹re looking for something in >> the $50/night range. B&B¹s and short-term apartment rentals are most >> acceptable. Any recommendations on the eve of the official tourist >> season (1 May) and the usual hike in Prague tourist costs? > >Try the Czech Yellow Pages at www.zlatestranky.cz and fill in "ubytování" >(must have diacritics) under Kategorie and "praha" under Mesto, then >follow the menu -- they have details of many hotels and pensions, some >close to the centre, some reachable via the internet. There are similar >Slovak Yellow Pages at www.zlatestranky.sk by the way. > > Geoffrey Chew > Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London > Internet: chew at sun.rhul.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://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From shevelenko at MAIL.LANCK.NET Tue Apr 27 18:14:52 2004 From: shevelenko at MAIL.LANCK.NET (Irina Shevelenko) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:14:52 +0400 Subject: Job Announcement Message-ID: Bard College seeks to fill the postion of Assistant Program Manager of International Students to work for its program at Smolny College in St. Petersburg, Russia. Complete job description is appended below. The Assistant Program Manager is expected to be present in St. Petersburg to start work on July 1, 2004. S/He will then travel to New York for two weeks in August for training at Bard and orientation for students. Minimum requirements include BA degree, two years of appropriate work experience, fluency in Russian, and experience living in Russia. US citizen or permanent resident preferred. Please send a letter of interest, resume and names & contact info of 2-3 references to Carlton Rounds at , with a copy to Kara Seim-Walsh at . Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Irina Shevelenko, Associate Dean of International Students, Smolny College ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Job Description Assistant Program Manager of International Students The Assistant Program Manager of International Students is an employee of Bard College at Smolny College in St. Petersburg, Russia. S/He reports to the Associate Director of International Programs at Bard and works closely with the Deputy Director of International Affairs and other administrators of Smolny College. The Assistant Program Manager bears day-to-day responsibility for the academic experience, and the personal well-being and safety of North American students studying at Smolny College through Bard College. The Assistant Program Manager is also responsible for effective communication between Bard College and the Administration of Smolny College, to ensure that international students at Smolny College have all the necessary resources available to them to successfully complete their course of study and spend their time at Smolny College. This is achieved through close collaboration of the Assistant Program Manager with Smolny College▓s Associate Dean of International Students, Dean of Students, and other members of the Smolny faculty and administration. This is a year-round, full-time position. The Assistant Program Manager is expected to keep regular office hours as well as attend and coordinate weekend and evening events. The Assistant Program Manager▓s main responsibilities include: - The facilitation and coordination of visa invitations for visiting international students. - Greeting incoming students, arranging St. Petersburg orientation, and arranging airport departures and pick-ups. - Assisting visiting students with visa registration. - Meeting weekly with international students and reporting on a weekly basis to the Associate Director of International Program at Bard and the Deputy Director of International Affairs and Associate Dean of International Students at Smolny. - Coordinating a cultural program, including travel to Moscow and other sites in Russia - Placing visiting students in host families, interviewing potential host families, and widening the base of possible host families. - Facilitating site visits by interested American colleges and universities. - Coordinating students▓ health insurance and referrals. - Functioning as the Associate Director▓s contact on recruitment. - Providing administrative support for student initiatives at Smolny College. The Assistant Program Manager▓s additional responsibilities include: - Acting as a liaison between the Associate Director and Smolny Administration for special course selections. - Updating the existing student handbook for international students. - Working with the Russian Department at Bard College and with the Associate Dean of International Students to develop the Intensive Summer Program at Smolny College. - Assisting international students with their own special projects by acting as a guide and providing information about the necessary paths to take and the people with whom they should meet in order to realize their goals. - Using the special goals and projects of International Students and other Smolny and Bard resources to create a pool of service and intern opportunities for all Smolny students. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jknox at BOWDOIN.EDU Tue Apr 27 21:54:56 2004 From: jknox at BOWDOIN.EDU (Jane Knox-Voina) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:54:56 -0400 Subject: Farewell, Matyora Message-ID: Can anyone advise me as to where I might get a copy of Klimov's film Proshchai Matyora? Jane Knox-Voina Russian Bowdoin College ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From n.bermel at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK Wed Apr 28 07:41:50 2004 From: n.bermel at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK (Neil Bermel) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:41:50 +0100 Subject: Cheap lodgings in Prague for week in May? Message-ID: I've had good luck with a couple of places, which are listed on our Department's Czech link website: www.shef.ac.uk/russian/czech-links.html Most recently, I used InterActa.cz, which on relatively short notice found me a large double room with private bath in a new penzion for 1100Kc/night, and that for over the Easter period when rates are extremely high. Neil -- Neil Bermel Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN U.K. +44 (0)114 222 7405 phone +44 (0)114 222 7416 fax ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mirna.solic at UTORONTO.CA Wed Apr 28 15:53:01 2004 From: mirna.solic at UTORONTO.CA (Mirna Solic) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:53:01 -0400 Subject: croatia abroad Message-ID: Dear friends, Croatian Ministry of Science is looking for scientists abroad whose field of interest is Croatia (in all respects). They would like to establish contacts with them, and connect them mutually in order to establish communication, exchange of information, experience, cooperation, etc. If you are interested in the project please let me know. Please do send me your name and surname + field of interest. iskoni bje slovo. mirna.solic at utoronto.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kevin-konstanti.starikov at YALE.EDU Wed Apr 28 23:37:40 2004 From: kevin-konstanti.starikov at YALE.EDU (Kevin-Konstantin Starikov) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:37:40 -0400 Subject: Russian Summer Program Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, One of my students is going to Russia for two months. He would like to enroll into a language program. Frankly, I don't know which Russian program to suggest to him, but remember receiving similar inquiries on SEELANGS. If you have a recommendation, could you please e-mail konstantin.starikov at yale.edu Thank you in advance, Konstantin Starikov ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mdenner at STETSON.EDU Thu Apr 29 12:49:30 2004 From: mdenner at STETSON.EDU (Michael Denner) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:49:30 -0400 Subject: Washington Post: For Russian Women, Whiff of the Good Life Message-ID: For Russian Women, Whiff of the Good Life $5 Billion Cosmetics Industry Entices Consumers With 'Small Joys' of Luxury By Susan B. Glasser Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, April 29, 2004; Page A19 MOSCOW -- Galina Vladimirova is a believer in what she calls "the Russian cult of makeup." Tucked neatly inside her purse one recent day were her latest acquisitions of lipstick and eye shadow, her first Armani purchases. They were more than twice as expensive as any makeup she had ever bought, even for a woman who spends up to $150 a month on cosmetics. "It makes me happy every day to know they are there," she said. "It's an accessible part of the good life." In the beauty boomtown that is Moscow today, she is no exception. Just a generation removed from the time when their mothers and grandmothers resorted to the peasant trick of reddening their cheeks with beets, Russian women today spend twice as much of their income on cosmetics as Western Europeans do -- 12 percent of their entire paychecks on average, according to research firm Comcon-Pharma. Perhaps no other cosmetics market in the world is as hot as Russia's, which has quintupled in size over the past four years and is forecast by industry analysts to triple again, to $18 billion, by 2010. The "lust for beauty," as the weekly Russian business magazine Expert dubbed it, is more than a success story about what happened when consumer culture met pent-up Soviet demand. It is also very much about the identity of Russian women in economically uncertain times and how they have rejected Soviet stereotypes while refusing to embrace American-style feminism. In a country where the new archetype is the Cosmo Girl -- and where circulation of Cosmopolitan magazine is higher than in any place outside the United States -- makeup is still about liberation, about affordable luxury and about what's required to get and keep a man. "Russian beauty is beauty made natural," said Larisa Sidorova, an analyst at the Validata market research firm who conducted extensive focus groups last year on Russian women's attitude toward beauty. "Russian women differ from other women in the sense that they want miracles from cosmetics." At Arbat Prestige, an oasis of self-improvement on Lenin Prospect, the owner claims that more money is spent on makeup per square foot there than in any other cosmetics store in the world. "What can I say?" said Natasha Lutsenko, an impeccably turned-out teacher wearing a leather coat with a fluffy collar as she shopped for a birthday present for her mother. "There's a cult of femininity in Russia now." Never mind the mystifying economics of it, how a $20 tube of lipstick wouldn't seem to make sense as a mass-market proposition in a country where average salaries have only just now hit $200 a month. In this, as in so many things, Russia has taken its own path, and it definitely includes luxury lipstick, eye shadow, mascara, face creams, body lotions and other miracles in a bottle. "A Russian woman will spend all her salary on a Chanel perfume," said Anna Dycheva-Smirnov, an industry researcher. "Russian women are very particular about how they look, even if they are just going to the bakery." At a time when at least a quarter of Russians live in poverty, the country manages to spend 1.3 percent of its gross domestic product on cosmetics -- compared with an average of just 0.5 percent in Western Europe, according to a report this winter by consulting firm Ernst & Young. Researchers at Comcon-Pharma found that 76 percent of all female Russians older than 10 use makeup. The total Russian cosmetics market reached more than $5.2 billion last year -- even more, for example, than the country's consumer electronics sector. And it is continuing to grow at a rapid pace with annual increases of at least 25 percent, according to several analysts. Some sectors, such as direct sales in the Russian provinces by U.S. cosmetics firms Avon and Mary Kay, are still recording annual growth rates of 50 percent to 80 percent -- a full decade after they arrived in Russia. Homegrown products are also booming. Kalina, the leading Russian firm and maker of the Black Pearl line of face creams, reported a 73 percent rise in profits last year on sales of $157 million. Now ranking just behind France, Germany and Britain in total sales, Russia could soon become the European cosmetics capital. Arbat Prestige, a Russian company that has built the largest chain of cosmetics and perfume stores here, plans to invest $500 million in new stores just over the next two years. "Finally everybody realized what's happening here and started to pay attention to this market," said Dycheva-Smirnov, vice president of Staraya Krepost, a marketing research firm that specializes in cosmetics. "The new birth of the Russian cosmetics market is only 10 years old. It grows very fast, just like children when they are small." Vladimir Nekrasov is preparing to bet half a billion dollars on it. Nekrasov, 43, president of Arbat Prestige, forecasts that his 14 stores in Moscow will take in $250 million to $300 million this year -- up from $56 million three years ago. "Life is hard here, people are tired and they spend more money here than people in other countries on this," Nekrasov said of the "small joys" he sells in his stores. "It's a sip of oxygen for people in conditions of this dirty and exhausting city." His shops are something of a wonder in a place unaccustomed to service with a smile. Friendly consultants answer questions and offer personalized makeup advice. He stocks as many as 50,000 different items and arranges luxury products on one side of the store, more moderately priced brands on the other. Nekrasov says he offers Russian women "emotional support" and "their piece of happiness" along with the aromatherapy and cellulite-fighting potions that would have been impossible to obtain in the Soviet past. In fact, he evokes that era for customers who are nostalgic for it but who are also grateful for a choice in lipstick colors that ranges beyond pink. A well-known collector of socialist realist art from the Soviet period, Nekrasov has hung canvases from his personal collection all over his Moscow shops -- including one room in his Prospect Mira store that features World War II portraits of Stalin and the bloody battle of Stalingrad. But for many women, the voracious and seemingly unquenchable desire for makeup is all about overcoming that Soviet past. "We spend a huge amount of money on cosmetics in Russia because, first of all, it was not long ago when such variety came to Russia. So for many it feels like, 'Finally we got it!' " said Maria Taranenko, beauty editor for the Russian edition of Elle magazine. Indeed, there's hardly a woman in Moscow of a certain age who doesn't remember the opening of the first real cosmetics store here in 1989, an Estee Lauder shop still known fondly as the "Golden Rose." Many can recount how they stood in line there, or when exactly they bought their first tube of Lancome lipstick. One woman recalled placing her expensive moisturizer in a prominent place in her living room, so all who visited would see it. Natalya Arkhipova remembered the strange eye affliction that started to plague her girlfriends not long after they bought their first French mascara in the early 1990s. Their eyelashes became stiff, as if they were popping out of their heads, and they couldn't leave the house for days. All because they had no idea how to properly apply the stuff -- they had smeared their lashes with multiple coats of mascara and then refused to wash it off, because it was so expensive. "It was our first experience, no one taught us," said Arkhipova, a nutritionist. She, for one, was hooked. "I saw myself turning from an ugly duckling to a swan. Like all Russian women, I would save and save money for cosmetics." Sidorova, the pollster, said the obsession with cosmetics is "from Soviet times, when people focused on the way they are perceived by others. Russians lack confidence from that era, and lack of confidence means they do not allow themselves to be natural." In the post-Soviet era, the ideal in Russia has become more strongly feminine, according to Sidorova, who said that participants in focus groups in several cities came up with the same definition of a Russian beauty: a woman in a dress, with long blond hair, elaborate makeup and hairdo, and high heels. "We are not moving toward the unisex look like in the rest of the world, which connects to a negative attitude toward feminism," she said. "We are moving in a different direction." Not long ago, she recalled, Dove soap tested its slogan here, "You are beautiful the way you are." It was, Sidorova said, "a complete failure to Russian women. They don't believe in beauty itself. Beauty should be made." ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Dr. Michael A. Denner Russian Studies Program Stetson University Campus Box 8361 DeLand, FL 32724 386.822.7381 (department) 386.822.7265 (direct line) 386.822.7380 (fax) http://www.stetson.edu/~mdenner http://russianpoetry.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kgroberg at FARGOCITY.COM Thu Apr 29 12:15:27 2004 From: kgroberg at FARGOCITY.COM (Kris Groberg) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:15:27 -0500 Subject: Washington Post: For Russian Women, Whiff of the Good Life Message-ID: Michael Denner wrote: > For Russian Women, Whiff of the Good Life > $5 Billion Cosmetics Industry Entices Consumers With 'Small Joys' of > Luxury > By Susan B. Glasser > Washington Post Foreign Service > Thursday, April 29, 2004; Page A19 > This reminds me of my first trip to Russia in the early 1980s. I took a suitcase full of gifts from my Russian teacher to a childhood friend of hers. After much intrigue, we managed to meet and I gave over the gifts. This kind and brilliant woman went through the clothing and jewelry and books and aspirin with aplomb, but when she found the two tubes of mascara, she stood up, one in each hand, and began to cry. For some reason (it said so much about the then-absent little normalcies that we in the West enjoyed without thought) that struck me more than many other things about that remarkable first trip. -- Kris Kristi A. Groberg, Ph.D. 3021-23rd Avenue South West, Unit H Fargo, ND 58103 701.361.2773 [mailto:kgroberg at fargocity.com] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM Thu Apr 29 16:57:47 2004 From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:57:47 -0400 Subject: Washington Post: For Russian Women, Whiff of the Good Life Message-ID: Michael Denner quoted: > For Russian Women, Whiff of the Good Life > $5 Billion Cosmetics Industry Entices Consumers With 'Small Joys' of > Luxury > By Susan B. Glasser > Washington Post Foreign Service > Thursday, April 29, 2004; Page A19 A fascinating article, thank you. Just one question... > MOSCOW -- Galina Vladimirova is a believer in what she calls "the > Russian cult of makeup." Tucked neatly inside her purse one recent day > were her latest acquisitions of lipstick and eye shadow, her first > Armani purchases. They were more than twice as expensive as any makeup > she had ever bought, even for a woman who spends up to $150 a month on > cosmetics. > "It makes me happy every day to know they are there," she said. "It's an > accessible part of the good life." We often see rather mediocre or even wrong translations in the news media, and this looks like one. Does anyone else think "accessible" is supposed to be "dostupnaya (chast, storona)," and that it might be better rendered as "affordable"? -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher pbg translations, inc. "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals" http://pbg-translations.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET Thu Apr 29 17:23:43 2004 From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:23:43 -0400 Subject: Washington Post: For Russian Women, Whiff of the Good Life Message-ID: Yes, interesting: "We are not moving toward the unisex look like in the rest of the world, which connects to a negative attitude toward feminism," she said. "We are moving in a different direction." If the world did not move in that same direction, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, Clinique etc. would not generate that much profit. Consumerism (also of cosmetics) is about class formation. Two years ago NYT published a big article on Afghan women, who are now free and can enjoy cosmetics and beauty parlors, and Estee Lauder, L'Oreal and Mary Kay forgot their corporate fraud and joined forces to move there in one common impulse to introduce Afghan women to their rights. Some women cannot read or write, and for these corporations shoot videos on how to apply makeup. e.g. Beet root for cheeks that women supposedly used not so long ago reminds one of the "Doctor Zhivago" movie where noble families pass on balalaikas to their sons as family relics and symbols of familial continuity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jsdrisc at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Thu Apr 29 18:49:53 2004 From: jsdrisc at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (o'drisceoil) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:49:53 -0400 Subject: Final Program for "Critical Exchanges" Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The final program (including paper summaries) for the upcoming conference "Critical Exchanges: Economy and Culture in the Literature of Russia" is now available at: http://www.slavic.northwestern.edu/criticalexchanges James Driscoll Harvard University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU Thu Apr 29 19:53:32 2004 From: s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU (Steven Hill) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:53:32 -0500 Subject: another Dostoevskii mixup? Message-ID: I seek feedback from Dostoevskii specialists, who could perhaps help to clarify what lies behind a curious confusion in the enormous, very valuable, but sometimes mixed-up, Internet Movie Data Base ("US.IMDB.COM"). After I hear your thoughts I will submit a little correction to "IMDB." In IMDB's detailed credits from the 1981 Soviet film, "26 Days in the Life of Dostoevsky," the Polish actress Ewa Szykulska is correctly credited with the film's 3d important role, Dostoevskii's "infernal" mistress. But Szykulska's character's name is cited as "Avdotia Panaeva" [ sic ]. Yet 99.999% of other sources credit Szykulska with the role of "Polina Suslova." I'm assuming that Panaeva [1820-93] and Suslova [1840-1918] were two totally separate & distinct persons. Can any of you specialists hypothesize what might have happened? Is there any chance that at some point in her later life "Suslova" might have written under the pseudonym of "Panaeva"? Or vice versa? Or might Szykulska have played the role of "Avdotia Panaeva" in a completely different biographical film? Gratefully, Steven P Hill (Univ. of Illinois, USA). "S-HILL4 at UIUC.EDU" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From holowins at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Thu Apr 29 21:09:51 2004 From: holowins at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Tymish Holowinsky) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:09:51 -0400 Subject: Job Listing at Ukr. Res. Institute, Harvard University Message-ID: Publications Coordinator - Editor, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University is currently accepting applications for the full-time position of Publications Coordinator - Editor. Duties: Manages and edits the scholarly journal, Harvard Ukrainian Studies. Actively solicits and receives submissions. Works with prospective authors and maintains regular contact with them. Has direct contact with HURI’s Editorial Board. Conceptualizes forthcoming thematic issues for consideration by the editorial board. Sits on the editorial board and implements its decisions. In addition to duties related to HUS, works on various monograph projects as assigned by the Institute’s Manager of Publications. Reports to Institute’s Manager of Publications in matters involving administrative priorities, production time-lines, and other publication operations projects. Requirements: PhD in Slavic and East European studies; concentration in Ukrainian studies strongly preferred. Demonstrated scholarly and academic experience. Demonstrated native or near native fluency in English. Excellent knowledge of Ukrainian preferably in an editorial context. Proficiency in other Slavic languages (Russian, Polish). Translation and editing experience from Ukrainian into English a plus. Two to five years related experience in a publishing environment, preferably handling scholarly monographs or academic journal. Proven project management skills and ability to meet deadlines. Strong copy- editing and proofing skills in major manuals of style, including familiarity with CMS (15th ed.), and good transliteration skills (and knowledge both of IPA and LC romanization for various languages). Excellent organizational abilities. Excellent interpersonal and communications skills. Ability to interact flexibly and openly with a wide variety of authors and editors. Familiarity with Mac and PC desktop publishing software. Willingness to travel to academic conferences (about two /year).] Application Process: Interested individuals should send their resume and cover letter by June 30, 2004 to Harvard University, Resume Processing Center, Job Requisition # 19280, 11 Holyoke Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Individuals may also apply on-line by bringing up the job notice (Requisition # 19280) on the Harvard University employment web-site: http://atwork.harvard.edu/employment and use the on-line application feature described there. Please note that upon submitting credentials, applicants will become part of Harvard’s applicant database, and may be considered for other suitable positions at the University. Harvard University is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity. If you have any questions: Contact G. Patton Wright, Publications Manager at: gpwright at fas.harvard.edu or Tymish Holowinsky, Executive Director at: holowins at fas.harvard.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Patrick.Seriot at SLAV.UNIL.CH Fri Apr 30 10:04:43 2004 From: Patrick.Seriot at SLAV.UNIL.CH (Patrick.Seriot at SLAV.UNIL.CH) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:04:43 +0200 Subject: Too many Web sites, too little time Message-ID: Dear colleagues May I suggest you have a look at the virtual library of our Slavic web-site at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland)? You will find mostly "useful" texts from Russian and Soviet linguistics : http://www.unil.ch/slav/ling (file "TEXTS") S druzheskim privetom Patrick SERIOT -- ___Patrick SERIOT_________________________ ___Faculte des Lettres_______________________ ___Langues slaves-BFSH2-UNIL________________ ___CH-1015_LAUSANNE_____________________ ___Tel_+41_21_692_30_01_________________ ___Fax_+41_21_692_29_35_________________ ___e-mail_Patrick.Seriot at slav.unil.ch__________ ___http://www.unil.ch/slav/ling______________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From monniern at MISSOURI.EDU Fri Apr 30 13:38:58 2004 From: monniern at MISSOURI.EDU (Nicole Monnier) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:38:58 -0500 Subject: Cheap lodgings in Prague for week in May? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear SEELANGStsy, My warmest thanks to all who replied both on- and off-list with their suggestions for cheap lodging in Prague‹I was able to forward a dozen suggestions to my colleague, who was MOST delighted. (And I¹ve saved them all in hopes that I might be able to make use of them myself in the not-so-distant future.) Gratefully, Nicole 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 phone: 573.882.3370 Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) fax: 573.884.8456 German & Russian Studies Dept. 415 GCB University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From nagy at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Fri Apr 30 14:08:23 2004 From: nagy at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Zuzana Nagy) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:08:23 -0400 Subject: Cheap lodgings in Prague for week in May? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Could you share the recommendations? I get asked about this also. Thank you, Zuzana ------ Zuzana Nagy Harvard College Library Technical Services - CSS E-MAIL: nagy at fas.harvard.edu 625 Massachusetts Ave. TEL.: 617.384-7173 Cambridge, MA 02139-3301 FAX: 617.384-7170 On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Nicole Monnier wrote: > Dear SEELANGStsy, > > My warmest thanks to all who replied both on- and off-list with their > suggestions for cheap lodging in Prague‹I was able to forward a dozen > suggestions to my colleague, who was MOST delighted. (And I¹ve saved them > all in hopes that I might be able to make use of them myself in the > not-so-distant future.) > > Gratefully, > > Nicole > > 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 phone: 573.882.3370 > Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) fax: 573.884.8456 > German & Russian Studies Dept. > 415 GCB > University of Missouri > Columbia, MO 65211 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From igor_horvatus at YAHOO.COM Fri Apr 30 14:52:10 2004 From: igor_horvatus at YAHOO.COM (horvat igor) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:52:10 -0700 Subject: Course offer: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian In-Reply-To: <1083167581.408fd35da12d7@webmail.utoronto.ca> Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, a friend of mine, a very qualified linguist and experienced language teacher, is looking for a possibility to teach Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian for a few months at an institution in the USA or in Canada (the possibility of attending a conversational English course simultaneosly would be an advantage). Individual arrangements with a small group of students are also possible. Please reply off the list. Thanks a lot, Igor __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET Fri Apr 30 16:09:09 2004 From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:09:09 -0400 Subject: COMRADES, ORGANISERS OF LIFE! (Lef. 1923 . # 2) Message-ID: Dear all, I am forwarding, as a May Day greeting, an artistic manifesto published in LEF (1923); in both Russian and English (the translation into German and English was published alongside the Russian orogonal). Have fun. e.g. Леф. 1923 г. N 2 ТОВАРИЩИ - ФОРМОВЩИКИ ЖИЗНИ! Сегодня 1-го мая, рабочие мира с песней, в раскрашенные улицы выйдут миллиардной демонстрацией. Пять лет ширящихся завоеваний. Пять лет ежедневно обновляющихся и ежедневно осуществляемых лозунгов. Пять лет побед. И: - Пять лет однообразия форм праздников. Итог пятилетнего бессилия искусства. Так называемые режиссеры! Скоро ли бросите, вы и крысы, возиться с бутафорщиной сцены? Возьмите организацию действительной жизни! Станьте планировщиками шествия революции! Так называемые поэты! Бросите ли вы альбомные рулады? Поймете ли ходульность воспевания только по газетам знаемых бурь? Дайте новую "марсельезу", доведите "интернационал" до грома марша уже победившей революции! Так называемые художники! Бросьте ставить разноцветные заплатки на проеденное мышами времени. Бросьте украшать и без того не тяжелую жизнь буржуазии. Разгимнастируйте силу художников до охвата городов, до участия во всех стройках мира! Дайте земле новые цвета, новые очертания! Мы знаем - эти задачи не под силу и не в желании обособившимся "жрецам искусства", берегущим эстетические границы своих мастерских. стр. 4 1-го мая, в день демонстрации единого фронта пролетариата, мы зовем вас, формовщики мира: Ломайте границы "красоты для себя", границы художественных школок! Влейте ваши усилия в единую силищу коллектива! Мы знаем, на этот зов не отзовутся эстеты старья, заклейменные нами кличкой - "правые", эстеты возрождающие монашество келий-студий, ждущие нисхождения святого духа вдохновения. Мы зовем "левых": революционных футуристов, вынесших искусство улицам и площадям, производственников, давших вдохновению точный рассчет, приставивших к вдохновению динамо завода, конструктивистов, заменивших мистику творчества обработкой материала. Левые мира! Мы плохо знаем ваши имена, имена ваших школ, но знаем твердо - вы растете везде, где наростает революция. Мы зовем вас установить единый фронт левого искусства - "Красный Искинтерн". Товарищи! Всюду откалывайте левое искусство от правого! Ведите левым искусством в Европе, подготовку в С. С. С. Р. - укрепление революции. Держите постоянную связь с вашим штабом в Москве (Москва, Никитский бульвар 8, Журнал "ЛЕФ"). Не случаен выбор первого мая днем нашего обращения. Мы знаем, только в спайке с рабочей революцией - расцвет искусства будущего. Мы пять лет проработавшие в стране революции знаем: - Только октябрь дал новые, огромные идеи, требующие нового оформления. Только октябрь, освободивший искусство от работы на брюхастого выцилиндренного заказчика, дал фактическую свободу искусства. Долой границы стран и студий! Долой монахов правого искусства! Да здравствует единый фронт левых! Да здравствует искусство пролетарской революции! Pp. 5-6 - the German translation follows стр. 7 COMRADES, ORGANISERS OF LIFE! To-day the First of May. the Workers of World will demonstrate in their millions with songs and festivity. Five years of Victory! Five years of daily reneved and realised Slogans! Five years of Conquest. And - Five years of monotonous celebration. Five years of languishing art! So called Stage-managers! How long will you and the other rats gnaw this theatrical sham? Begin to take from real life! Begin to form victorius processions of the Revolution. So called Poets! When will you throw away your sickly lyries? Will you ever understand that to write of a storm from newspaper knowledge - Is not to write about a storm? Give us a new "Marseillaise", and let the International thunder the march of the Conquering Revolution. So called Artists! Stop color patching or moth-eaten canvasses. Stop decorating the easy life of the bourgeoisie. Exercise your artistie strength to engirdle cities until you are able to take part in the world's work. Give new colors and outlines to the world. These "small groups" have neither the strength, nor the desire to meet the problem. These "Art Priests" keep aesthetic knowledge to themselves. Between the people and themselves they have established a wall. On this day of demonstration, the First of may, when Proletarians are gathered in a United Front, we call you Organisers of the World! Break the Barrier "Beauty for Ourselves". Break the artistic "school" barriers! Add your strength to the united energy of the collective. стр. 8 We know that the aesthetics of old, branded with the name "Rights" who revive monasticism, and await inspiration from the Saints, will not answer our call! We call the Lefts, Revolutionary Futurists, who have given the streets their art, the producers who have given inspiration an accurate account. Their inspiration they took from Factory Dinamoes! Constructiveness has been substituted for mysticism. The mystery of creation has been replaced by the shaping of materials. The "Lefts" of the world. We know little of your name; the names of your schools, but this we do know, wherever revolutions begin, there you grow. We call upon you to establish a single Front of the Left Art - The Red Art International. Comrades! Sprit Left from Right Art everywhere! With Left Art prepare the European Revolution. In S. S. S. R. strengthen it. Communicate with your staff in Moscow (Journal "Lef" Nikitsky Boulevard 8, Moscow). Not by accident did we choose the First of May the day of our call. Only in conjunction with the Worker's Revolution can we see the dawn of future Art. We, who have worked for five years in a Land of Revolution know: That the October Revolution has given us great ideas which require new formations. Only the October Revolution, which freed art from Bourgeois enslavement, has given freedom to Art. Down with the boundaries of Lands and Studios! Down with the Monks of the Right Art! Long Live the Single Front of the Lefts! Long Live the Art of the Proletarian Revolution! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET Fri Apr 30 16:45:25 2004 From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:45:25 -0400 Subject: COMRADES, ORGANISERS OF LIFE! (Lef. 1923 . # 2) Message-ID: так что сказали дети про брата-2? ты им про гибель его рассказал? ----- Original Message ----- From: Elena Gapova To: Sent: 30 April 2004 12:09 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] COMRADES, ORGANISERS OF LIFE! (Lef. 1923 . # 2) > Dear all, > > I am forwarding, as a May Day greeting, an artistic manifesto published in > LEF (1923); in both Russian and English (the translation into German and > English was published alongside the Russian orogonal). > > Have fun. > e.g. > > Леф. 1923 г. N 2 > > ТОВАРИЩИ - ФОРМОВЩИКИ ЖИЗНИ! > > Сегодня 1-го мая, рабочие мира с песней, в раскрашенные улицы выйдут > миллиардной демонстрацией. > > Пять лет ширящихся завоеваний. > Пять лет ежедневно обновляющихся и ежедневно осуществляемых лозунгов. > Пять лет побед. > И: - > Пять лет однообразия форм праздников. > Итог пятилетнего бессилия искусства. > > Так называемые режиссеры! > > Скоро ли бросите, вы и крысы, возиться с бутафорщиной сцены? > Возьмите организацию действительной жизни! > Станьте планировщиками шествия революции! > > Так называемые поэты! > > Бросите ли вы альбомные рулады? > Поймете ли ходульность воспевания только по газетам знаемых бурь? > Дайте новую "марсельезу", доведите "интернационал" до грома марша уже > победившей революции! > > Так называемые художники! > > Бросьте ставить разноцветные заплатки на проеденное мышами времени. > Бросьте украшать и без того не тяжелую жизнь буржуазии. > Разгимнастируйте силу художников до охвата городов, до участия во всех > стройках мира! > Дайте земле новые цвета, новые очертания! > Мы знаем - эти задачи не под силу и не в желании обособившимся "жрецам > искусства", берегущим эстетические границы своих мастерских. > > стр. 4 > > 1-го мая, в день демонстрации единого фронта пролетариата, мы зовем > вас, формовщики мира: > Ломайте границы "красоты для себя", границы художественных школок! > Влейте ваши усилия в единую силищу коллектива! > Мы знаем, на этот зов не отзовутся эстеты старья, заклейменные нами > кличкой - "правые", эстеты возрождающие монашество келий-студий, ждущие > нисхождения святого духа вдохновения. > Мы зовем "левых": революционных футуристов, вынесших искусство улицам > и > площадям, производственников, давших вдохновению точный рассчет, > приставивших к вдохновению динамо завода, конструктивистов, заменивших > мистику творчества обработкой материала. > Левые мира! > Мы плохо знаем ваши имена, имена ваших школ, но знаем твердо - вы > растете везде, где наростает революция. > Мы зовем вас установить единый фронт левого искусства - "Красный > Искинтерн". > Товарищи! > Всюду откалывайте левое искусство от правого! > Ведите левым искусством в Европе, подготовку в С. С. С. Р. - > укрепление > революции. > Держите постоянную связь с вашим штабом в Москве (Москва, Никитский > бульвар 8, Журнал "ЛЕФ"). > Не случаен выбор первого мая днем нашего обращения. > Мы знаем, только в спайке с рабочей революцией - расцвет искусства > будущего. > Мы пять лет проработавшие в стране революции знаем: - > Только октябрь дал новые, огромные идеи, требующие нового оформления. > Только октябрь, освободивший искусство от работы на брюхастого > выцилиндренного заказчика, дал фактическую свободу искусства. > Долой границы стран и студий! > Долой монахов правого искусства! > Да здравствует единый фронт левых! > Да здравствует искусство пролетарской революции! > > Pp. 5-6 - the German translation follows > стр. 7 > > COMRADES, ORGANISERS OF LIFE! > > To-day the First of May. the Workers of World will demonstrate in > their > millions with songs and festivity. > Five years of Victory! > Five years of daily reneved and realised Slogans! > Five years of Conquest. > And - > Five years of monotonous celebration. > Five years of languishing art! > > So called Stage-managers! > How long will you and the other rats gnaw this theatrical sham? > Begin to take from real life! > Begin to form victorius processions of the Revolution. > > So called Poets! > When will you throw away your sickly lyries? > Will you ever understand that to write of a storm from newspaper > knowledge - > Is not to write about a storm? > Give us a new "Marseillaise", and let the International thunder the > march of the Conquering Revolution. > > So called Artists! > Stop color patching or moth-eaten canvasses. > Stop decorating the easy life of the bourgeoisie. > Exercise your artistie strength to engirdle cities until you are able > to take part in the world's work. > Give new colors and outlines to the world. > These "small groups" have neither the strength, nor the desire to meet > the problem. > These "Art Priests" keep aesthetic knowledge to themselves. Between > the > people and themselves they have established a wall. > On this day of demonstration, the First of may, when Proletarians are > gathered in a United Front, we call you Organisers of the World! > Break the Barrier "Beauty for Ourselves". Break the artistic "school" > barriers! > Add your strength to the united energy of the collective. > > стр. 8 > > We know that the aesthetics of old, branded with the name "Rights" who > revive monasticism, and await inspiration from the Saints, will not answer > our call! > We call the Lefts, Revolutionary Futurists, who have given the streets > their art, the producers who have given inspiration an accurate account. > Their inspiration they took from Factory Dinamoes! > Constructiveness has been substituted for mysticism. The mystery of > creation has been replaced by the shaping of materials. > The "Lefts" of the world. We know little of your name; the names of > your schools, but this we do know, wherever revolutions begin, there you > grow. > We call upon you to establish a single Front of the Left Art - The Red > Art International. > > Comrades! Sprit Left from Right Art everywhere! With Left Art prepare > the European Revolution. In S. S. S. R. strengthen it. > Communicate with your staff in Moscow (Journal "Lef" Nikitsky > Boulevard > 8, Moscow). > Not by accident did we choose the First of May the day of our call. > Only in conjunction with the Worker's Revolution can we see the dawn > of > future Art. > We, who have worked for five years in a Land of Revolution know: > That the October Revolution has given us great ideas which require new > formations. > Only the October Revolution, which freed art from Bourgeois > enslavement, has given freedom to Art. > Down with the boundaries of Lands and Studios! > Down with the Monks of the Right Art! > Long Live the Single Front of the Lefts! > Long Live the Art of the Proletarian Revolution! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.home.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://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET Fri Apr 30 16:48:11 2004 From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:48:11 -0400 Subject: COMRADES, ORGANISERS OF LIFE! (Lef. 1923 . # 2) Message-ID: I am terribly sorry; that was a personal letter. e.g. ----- Original Message ----- From: Elena Gapova To: Sent: 30 April 2004 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] COMRADES, ORGANISERS OF LIFE! (Lef. 1923 . # 2) > так что сказали дети про брата-2? > ты им про гибель его рассказал? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Elena Gapova > To: > Sent: 30 April 2004 12:09 PM > Subject: [SEELANGS] COMRADES, ORGANISERS OF LIFE! (Lef. 1923 . # 2) > > > > Dear all, > > > > I am forwarding, as a May Day greeting, an artistic manifesto published in > > LEF (1923); in both Russian and English (the translation into German and > > English was published alongside the Russian orogonal). > > > > Have fun. > > e.g. > > > > Леф. 1923 г. N 2 > > > > ТОВАРИЩИ - ФОРМОВЩИКИ ЖИЗНИ! > > > > Сегодня 1-го мая, рабочие мира с песней, в раскрашенные улицы выйдут > > миллиардной демонстрацией. > > > > Пять лет ширящихся завоеваний. > > Пять лет ежедневно обновляющихся и ежедневно осуществляемых > лозунгов. > > Пять лет побед. > > И: - > > Пять лет однообразия форм праздников. > > Итог пятилетнего бессилия искусства. > > > > Так называемые режиссеры! > > > > Скоро ли бросите, вы и крысы, возиться с бутафорщиной сцены? > > Возьмите организацию действительной жизни! > > Станьте планировщиками шествия революции! > > > > Так называемые поэты! > > > > Бросите ли вы альбомные рулады? > > Поймете ли ходульность воспевания только по газетам знаемых бурь? > > Дайте новую "марсельезу", доведите "интернационал" до грома марша > уже > > победившей революции! > > > > Так называемые художники! > > > > Бросьте ставить разноцветные заплатки на проеденное мышами времени. > > Бросьте украшать и без того не тяжелую жизнь буржуазии. > > Разгимнастируйте силу художников до охвата городов, до участия во > всех > > стройках мира! > > Дайте земле новые цвета, новые очертания! > > Мы знаем - эти задачи не под силу и не в желании обособившимся > "жрецам > > искусства", берегущим эстетические границы своих мастерских. > > > > стр. 4 > > > > 1-го мая, в день демонстрации единого фронта пролетариата, мы зовем > > вас, формовщики мира: > > Ломайте границы "красоты для себя", границы художественных школок! > > Влейте ваши усилия в единую силищу коллектива! > > Мы знаем, на этот зов не отзовутся эстеты старья, заклейменные нами > > кличкой - "правые", эстеты возрождающие монашество келий-студий, ждущие > > нисхождения святого духа вдохновения. > > Мы зовем "левых": революционных футуристов, вынесших искусство > улицам > > и > > площадям, производственников, давших вдохновению точный рассчет, > > приставивших к вдохновению динамо завода, конструктивистов, заменивших > > мистику творчества обработкой материала. > > Левые мира! > > Мы плохо знаем ваши имена, имена ваших школ, но знаем твердо - вы > > растете везде, где наростает революция. > > Мы зовем вас установить единый фронт левого искусства - "Красный > > Искинтерн". > > Товарищи! > > Всюду откалывайте левое искусство от правого! > > Ведите левым искусством в Европе, подготовку в С. С. С. Р. - > > укрепление > > революции. > > Держите постоянную связь с вашим штабом в Москве (Москва, Никитский > > бульвар 8, Журнал "ЛЕФ"). > > Не случаен выбор первого мая днем нашего обращения. > > Мы знаем, только в спайке с рабочей революцией - расцвет искусства > > будущего. > > Мы пять лет проработавшие в стране революции знаем: - > > Только октябрь дал новые, огромные идеи, требующие нового > оформления. > > Только октябрь, освободивший искусство от работы на брюхастого > > выцилиндренного заказчика, дал фактическую свободу искусства. > > Долой границы стран и студий! > > Долой монахов правого искусства! > > Да здравствует единый фронт левых! > > Да здравствует искусство пролетарской революции! > > > > Pp. 5-6 - the German translation follows > > стр. 7 > > > > COMRADES, ORGANISERS OF LIFE! > > > > To-day the First of May. the Workers of World will demonstrate in > > their > > millions with songs and festivity. > > Five years of Victory! > > Five years of daily reneved and realised Slogans! > > Five years of Conquest. > > And - > > Five years of monotonous celebration. > > Five years of languishing art! > > > > So called Stage-managers! > > How long will you and the other rats gnaw this theatrical sham? > > Begin to take from real life! > > Begin to form victorius processions of the Revolution. > > > > So called Poets! > > When will you throw away your sickly lyries? > > Will you ever understand that to write of a storm from newspaper > > knowledge - > > Is not to write about a storm? > > Give us a new "Marseillaise", and let the International thunder the > > march of the Conquering Revolution. > > > > So called Artists! > > Stop color patching or moth-eaten canvasses. > > Stop decorating the easy life of the bourgeoisie. > > Exercise your artistie strength to engirdle cities until you are > able > > to take part in the world's work. > > Give new colors and outlines to the world. > > These "small groups" have neither the strength, nor the desire to > meet > > the problem. > > These "Art Priests" keep aesthetic knowledge to themselves. Between > > the > > people and themselves they have established a wall. > > On this day of demonstration, the First of may, when Proletarians > are > > gathered in a United Front, we call you Organisers of the World! > > Break the Barrier "Beauty for Ourselves". Break the artistic > "school" > > barriers! > > Add your strength to the united energy of the collective. > > > > стр. 8 > > > > We know that the aesthetics of old, branded with the name "Rights" > who > > revive monasticism, and await inspiration from the Saints, will not > answer > > our call! > > We call the Lefts, Revolutionary Futurists, who have given the > streets > > their art, the producers who have given inspiration an accurate account. > > Their inspiration they took from Factory Dinamoes! > > Constructiveness has been substituted for mysticism. The mystery of > > creation has been replaced by the shaping of materials. > > The "Lefts" of the world. We know little of your name; the names of > > your schools, but this we do know, wherever revolutions begin, there you > > grow. > > We call upon you to establish a single Front of the Left Art - The > Red > > Art International. > > > > Comrades! Sprit Left from Right Art everywhere! With Left Art > prepare > > the European Revolution. In S. S. S. R. strengthen it. > > Communicate with your staff in Moscow (Journal "Lef" Nikitsky > > Boulevard > > 8, Moscow). > > Not by accident did we choose the First of May the day of our call. > > Only in conjunction with the Worker's Revolution can we see the dawn > > of > > future Art. > > We, who have worked for five years in a Land of Revolution know: > > That the October Revolution has given us great ideas which require > new > > formations. > > Only the October Revolution, which freed art from Bourgeois > > enslavement, has given freedom to Art. > > Down with the boundaries of Lands and Studios! > > Down with the Monks of the Right Art! > > Long Live the Single Front of the Lefts! > > Long Live the Art of the Proletarian Revolution! > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > > options, and more. 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