More on folklore-related opportunities in Russia

[nataliek at UALBERTA.CA]

I got this off a non-Slavic list serve, but it seems like something that would
be of interest to SEELANGS folks, esp. in conjunction with fieldwork
possibilities in Russia.  The message that I copied from the other list serve
follows.

Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
Phone: 780-492-6810
Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/

Dear colleagues!

We inform that the Department of Medical Anthropology and Bioethics was
established at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of Russian Academy
of Sciences (Moscow, Russia). This year we are planning the first 
summer school
in Moscow on the problems of medical anthropology and bioethics.
Approximate dates of the summer school are August 25 - 27.
The work focuses will be:

1) to inform Russian ethnologists / anthropologists about the specifics and
research methods in foreign medical anthropology and bioethics

2) to inform Russian doctors and provincial medical officials (mainly
representatives of Siberian and northern regions of Russia) about the 
nature of
medical care in different countries and about the experience of combining
biomedicine, traditional and folk medicine and other ways of keeping people
healthy.

We are very interested in scientific contacts with you and we invite 
specialists
who can participate in our summer school as lectors.
Within the framework of our summer school learning of foreign 
Specialists about
various methods of medic and healing practices in contemporary Russia is
supposed. This includes original healing systems, shamanic techniques, as well
as new Russian technologies aimed at health care and preservation.

In case you are interested in our summer school you can obtain more Detailed
information at Valkharit at iea.ras.ru from the Head of the Department of Medical
Anthropology Valentina Kharitonova.

Best regards,
Elena Piterskaya, <elenasp2003 at mail.ru>
Researcher/assistant to Valentina Kharitonova, Department of Medical
Anthropology, RAS

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