CFA: Medieval Slavic Summer Institute

[Daniel Collins]

MEDIEVAL SLAVIC SUMMER INSTITUTE

The Ohio State University

June 23-July 18, 2008


The Hilandar Research Library (HRL)/Resource Center for Medieval Slavic
Studies (RCMSS) and the Department of Slavic and East European  
Languages and Literatures (DSEELL) at The Ohio State University will  
host a four-week
intensive Summer Institute for qualified graduate students in  
Columbus, Ohio, June 23-July 18, 2008.  The Medieval Slavic Summer  
Institute (MSSI) will offer: Practical Slavic Palaeography (Slavic  
814) and Readings in Church Slavonic (Slavic 812). All lectures will  
be in English.

Manuscript material on microform from the Hilandar Research Library's  
extensive holdings forms a large part of the lectures and exercises.   
Participants will also have the opportunity to work with original  
manuscripts and to conduct their own individualized research on  
manuscript collections materials found in the HRL.  Also planned is a  
program of lectures on related topics and other activities.

Applicants must be graduate students with a B.A. degree and with a  
reading knowledge of Cyrillic and of at least one Slavic language.   
Preference will be given to applicants with reading knowledge of Old  
Church Slavonic or some other pre-modern Slavic language.

The Hilandar Research Library, the largest repository of medieval  
Slavic Cyrillic texts on microform in the world, includes the  
holdings from over 100 monastic, private, museum, and library  
collections of twenty-one countries.  There are over 5,000 Cyrillic  
manuscripts on microform in the HRL, as well as over 700 Cyrillic  
early printed books from prior to 1800 on microform.  The holdings  
range from the eleventh to twentieth centuries, with a particularly  
strong collection of manuscripts from the fourteenth to sixteenth  
centuries. About half of the manuscripts are East Slavic, with much  
of the remainder South Slavic in provenience.

For further information about the HRL/RCMSS, visit its website at  
http://cmrs.osu.edu/rcmss/ - see issues of the HRL/RCMSS newsletter,  
Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage, on the HRL/RCMSS website for an account  
of MSSI 1999 (issue #6), MSSI 2001 (issue #10), MSSI 2003 (issue #14)  
and MSSI 2006 (issue #20). The OSU Slavic Department website address  
is http://slavic.osu.edu/.

For further information on eligibility, credit, housing, financial  
aid, and to obtain an application to the MSSI, please contact the HRL/ 
RCMSS at hilandar at osu.edu or Hilandar Research Library and Resource  
Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, 610 Ackerman Road,  Columbus,  
Ohio  43202-4500.


Deadline for receipt of application:  21 March 2008.

Daniel Collins, Chair
Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
400 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1340



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