From mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU Thu Jan 1 01:13:04 2009 From: mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Katz, Michael) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:13:04 -0500 Subject: query Message-ID: Dear colleagues: A happy new year to all. A student of mine (who does not read Russian) has asked me to post the following inquiry: "How did American Transcendental philosophy (especially Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau) influence the writings of Leo Tolstoy? I want to understand what gave birth to American Transcendentalism and how those ideas were adopted and modified by Tolstoy." Please forward any suggestions to me. Thanks very much. Michael Katz Middlebury College mkatz at middlebury.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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The conference will be titled: World Folk Heritage: Past, Present, and Perspective Directions of Research Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to: 1) The history of intercultural interaction in folk and ballad art 2) Presentation of national varieties of cultural values, characteristic for particular nations, rooted in tradition, contemporarily undergoing transformations that result from current processes 3) Common universal values of traditional folk cultures as a basis for communication and cooperation in the sphere of culture 4) The art of the ballad in world folk heritage: plots, types, poetic forms. Abstracts of up to 300 words together with requests for technical equipment should be submitted by February 28, 2009 to Prof. Morozov at _morozoff_ at tut.by. Give author's address, affiliation, contact details and a brief CV. Prof. Morozov is also the contact person for more information although I can probably answer some of your questions. 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 josephine.vonzitzewitz at SJC.OX.AC.UK Fri Jan 2 14:07:47 2009 From: josephine.vonzitzewitz at SJC.OX.AC.UK (Josephine Vonzitzewitz) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:07:47 +0000 Subject: CFP: 7th Annual V.V. Iofe Biographic Readings, 20-22 April, St Petersburg Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From jpf3 at UCHICAGO.EDU Fri Jan 2 15:52:29 2009 From: jpf3 at UCHICAGO.EDU (June Farris) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:52:29 -0600 Subject: Tolstoi & Thoreau In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Professor Katz, To get your student started: Catlin, George. "Individuals and Anarchists: Count Leo Tolstoy." In: The Story of Political Philosophers. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1939, pp. 422-25. (parallels between Tolstoy & Thoreau) Krzyzynowski, Jerzy R. "Thoreau in Russia." In: Thoreau Abroad: Twelve Bibliographical Essays. Hamden, Ct: Shoe String Press, 1971, pp. 133-40.[Tostoy's positive reaction to "On Civil Disobedience") Manning, Clarence: "Thoreau and Tolstoy." In: New England Quarterly 16, 2 (1943): 234-43. Pokrovsky, Nikita. "Thoreau's Walden in the Global Community." In: Concord Saunterer 12-13 (2004-2005): 51-55. (about Tolstoi & Thoreau) Pyarelal, Nair. Thoreau, Tolstoy and Gandhi. New Delhi: Oxford, 1958. 20-. Schwartzman, Jack. "Thoreau: Tolstoy and Civil Disobedience." In: Thoreau's World and Ours: A Natural Legacy. Edited by E. A. Schofield and R. C. Baron. Golden, CO: North American, 1993, pp. 18-34. In addition, if your student does a WorldCat keyword search using the terms Thoreau and Tolsto* and then limits by language (English), he/she will get 83 matches of books in English which have essays on Tolstoi and Thoreau. Most will not discuss both together, but some might--I didn't have the time to go through all 83 entries. Note that I used Tolsto* to account for spelling variants in English (Tolstoy and Tolstoi). Hope this helps. June Farris _________________ June Pachuta Farris Bibliographer for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Room 263 Regenstein Library 1100 E. 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 jpf3 at uchicago.edu 1-773-702-8456 (phone) 1-773-702-6623 (fax) -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Katz, Michael Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 7:13 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] query Dear colleagues: A happy new year to all. A student of mine (who does not read Russian) has asked me to post the following inquiry: "How did American Transcendental philosophy (especially Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau) influence the writings of Leo Tolstoy? I want to understand what gave birth to American Transcendentalism and how those ideas were adopted and modified by Tolstoy." Please forward any suggestions to me. Thanks very much. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kbalter at GMAIL.COM Sat Jan 3 18:32:20 2009 From: kbalter at GMAIL.COM (Katya Balter) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:32:20 -0800 Subject: Tarkovsky panel for AAASS 2009 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, In honor of the thirty year anniversary of 'Stalker', I'd like to organize a Tarkovsky/20th C film panel for AAASS next year. I'm looking for two more papers, a chair and discussants. I would also not be averse to widening the scope of the panel to Soviet sci-fi film, film theory, film adaptations, etc., so if you have a paper in one of those areas and are interested in presenting, write to me off list. Best wishes, Katya Balter UC Berkeley, Slavic kbalter at gmail.com / kbalter at berkeley.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 brunson at BERKELEY.EDU Sat Jan 3 21:02:26 2009 From: brunson at BERKELEY.EDU (brunson at BERKELEY.EDU) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 13:02:26 -0800 Subject: Tarkovsky panel for AAASS 2009 In-Reply-To: <835C1E8F85224FF08F851CFE0C064B76@LENOVOF2FBD2E7> Message-ID: Ura! Your first seelangs post! Pozdravliaiu! > Dear Colleagues, > > > > In honor of the thirty year anniversary of 'Stalker', I'd like to organize > a > Tarkovsky/20th C film panel for AAASS next year. I'm looking for two more > papers, a chair and discussants. I would also not be averse to widening > the > scope of the panel to Soviet sci-fi film, film theory, film adaptations, > etc., so if you have a paper in one of those areas and are interested in > presenting, write to me off list. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Katya Balter > > UC Berkeley, Slavic > > kbalter at gmail.com / kbalter at berkeley.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 trubikhina at AOL.COM Sun Jan 4 13:43:40 2009 From: trubikhina at AOL.COM (trubikhina at AOL.COM) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 08:43:40 -0500 Subject: Tarkovsky panel for AAASS 2009 In-Reply-To: <835C1E8F85224FF08F851CFE0C064B76@LENOVOF2FBD2E7> Message-ID: Katya, I would like to participate in your Tarkovsky panel (either as a panelist or discussant). Part of my dissertation was`on film adaption as`translation and we organized a round table on Tarkovsky in 2006 in Washington.  I am coming back to New York on Jan. 7 and it would be easier for me to deal with the logistics then (I'm now in Russia and my  internet access is problematic). Please` let me know if you are interested. Julia Trubikhina New York University -----Original Message----- From: Katya Balter To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Sent: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 9:32 pm Subject: [SEELANGS] Tarkovsky panel for AAASS 2009 Dear Colleagues, In honor of the thirty year anniversary of 'Stalker', I'd like to organize a Tarkovsky/20th C film panel for AAASS next year. I'm looking for two more papers, a chair and discussants. I would also not be averse to widening the scope of the panel to Soviet sci-fi film, film theory, film adaptations, etc., so if you have a paper in one of those areas and are interested in presenting, write to me off list. Best wishes, Katya Balter UC Berkeley, Slavic kbalter at gmail.com / kbalter at berkeley.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Maria Basom Professor of Russian Modern Languages University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0504 (319) 266-9056 maria.basom at cfu.net maria.basom at uni.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 anyse1 at MAC.COM Mon Jan 5 07:03:57 2009 From: anyse1 at MAC.COM (Anyse Joslin) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:03:57 -0800 Subject: Looking or where to find more copies of . . . . In-Reply-To: Message-ID: [Note: all Russian used is encoded as "Cyrillic (Windows)"] Hello all. I am searching for more copies of the following book: Брызгунова, И. А. Звуки и интонация русской речи: Лингафоний курс для иностранцев. Bryzgunova, I. A. Zvuki i intonatsiya russkoyi rechi: Lingafoniyi kurs inostrantsev. I have the complete set of vinyl records that I have also digitized onto CD's and listed by each lesson number. I would like to work with a few others here in Sacramento with this book and audio set and would like to make sure that Ms. Bryzgunova also gets her fair share of royalties and such as I do not want to photocopy the book for others and rip her off. Any help or direction to obtaining a few copies of this bok would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much. Anyse Anyse Joslin 9515 Kellingworth Court Sacramento, CA 95827 anyse1 at mac.com SKYPE: anyse1 916 364.1743 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 kris.vanheuckelom at ARTS.KULEUVEN.AC.BE Mon Jan 5 12:41:16 2009 From: kris.vanheuckelom at ARTS.KULEUVEN.AC.BE (Kris Van Heuckelom) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:41:16 +0100 Subject: Second CfP: Slowacki and Norwid Today (Amsterdam, November 2009) Message-ID: International Conference Slowacki and Norwid Today. Tradition, Heritage, Modernity Conference organised by the Chair of Slavic Literature at the University of Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Research Unit of Slavonic and East European Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven and the Department of Slavonic and East European Studies at Ghent University Amsterdam, 27-28 November 2009 http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/slavic/SlowackiNorwid/ One and a quarter of a century have past since the Polish poet Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883) died in a rest house for former Polish insurgents at the periphery of Paris. Next year (2009) will be the second centenary of the birth of Juliusz Slowacki (1809-1849), one of the Polish "national bards" (wieszcze). Both poets, after an initial period of oblivion, have left their mark on the development of Polish literature. The mystical inspirations of the mature Slowacki were of great importance for the first phase of Polish modernism, the so-called school of Mloda Polska, even when the reception of his poetry was often superficial, merely aesthetical, not taking into account the hermetic sources of his worldview and overlooking its metaphysical purpose. Norwid was rediscovered at the beginning of the twentieth century, but his real poetic achievement was not immediately appreciated by the poets of Mloda Polska (perhaps with the exception of the critic Stanislaw Brzozowski). His highly intellectual oeuvre, pervaded by existential irony and attempting to objectify personal experience, became a revelation for poets and writers who combated the excessive (from their point of view) subjectivism of Mloda Polska. Yet, if we take the concept of perspective (already tentatively developed by Norwid, many years before Nietzsche came up with the same notion) seriously, it turns out that also our present point of view could (must?) be a misinterpretation (particularly when we accept that the idea of referential truth has ceased to be relevant). We are interested in papers that show the differing and changing presences of Slowacki and Norwid in nineteenth and twentieth century Polish (but also "foreign") literature. Their significance for the literary process could be approached from different (but interconnected) points of view: Intertextuality This approach is not limited to the presence of both authors as "persons", but should pay particular attention to their role as inventors of certain poetical devices and motives [.]. The matter becomes even more complicated when such a misinterpretation (or, in the words of Anglo-Saxon literary criticism: "strong reading") appears to be the starting point of fresh intertextual games [.], or - on the contrary - when a certain device or point of view that could be discovered in tradition is taken for a new invention, because the image of tradition had previously been reduced or falsified (it is really astonishing that Gombrowicz, whose concept of "form" seems very akin to Norwid's consciousness that man bears the "stigma" of milieu, hardly mentions him in his "Diary" - and when he does mention him, Norwid is treated as an example of "pure existence"; his poetics and worldview seem to have been irrelevant to Gombrowicz). Constructing New Lines of Tradition A second interesting approach would be an investigation in the mechanisms by which literary critics (who, more often than not, were poets in their own right) "discovered" parallel developments and contrasts in other European literatures that, having become part of literary tradition in a more general sense, also caused modifications in the image of Polish literary tradition, affecting the status of Slowacki and/or Norwid. Archetypal Structures of Being Lastly, the contrast between the poetics and worldview of these two romantic Polish poets could be an incitement for reflection on certain larger (existential) structures in which man appears to be "embedded", e.g. "myth", "exile" or "history", and that retain their significance for modern literature. Call for Papers (full version) Practical Information Presentations should be in English or Polish. Each paper will be allowed twenty minutes. The deadline for proposals is January 15, 2009. One page abstracts are expected by February 15, 2009. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by April 2009. Papers accepted for the conference have to be submitted one month in advance in order to allow discussants to prepare their contribution. Confirmed speakers include: Kazimierz Braun (US) Adam Czerniawski (UK) Maria Delaperrière (France) Rolf Fieguth (Switzerland) Aleksander Fiut (Poland) Mieczyslaw Inglot (Poland) Dorota Walczak-Delanois (Belgium) Arent van Nieukerken, Kris Van Heuckelom, Dieter De Bruyn Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.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 aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU Mon Jan 5 16:45:36 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:45:36 -0500 Subject: Looking or where to find more copies of . . . . In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Here (there are several copies): http://used.addall.com/SuperRare/submitRare.cgi? author=Bryzgunova&title=&keyword=&isbn=&order=TITLE&ordering=ASC&dispCur r=USD&binding=Any +Binding&min=&max=&timeout=20&match=Y&store=Abebooks&store=AbebooksDE&st ore=AbebooksFR&store=AbebooksUK&store=Alibris&store=Amazon&store=AmazonC A&store=AmazonUK&store=AmazonDE&store=AmazonFR&store=Antiqbook&store=Bib lio&store=Biblion&store=Bibliophile&store=Bibliopoly&store=Booksandcolle ctibles&store=Half&store=ILAB&store=LivreRareBook&store=Powells&store=St randbooks&store=ZVAB On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:03 AM, Anyse Joslin wrote: > [Note: all Russian used is encoded as "Cyrillic (Windows)"] > > Hello all. > > I am searching for more copies of the following book: > > Брызгунова, И. А. Звуки и интонация русской речи: Лингафоний курс > для иностранцев. > > Bryzgunova, I. A. Zvuki i intonatsiya russkoyi rechi: Lingafoniyi > kurs inostrantsev. > > I have the complete set of vinyl records that I have also digitized > onto CD's and listed by each lesson number. I would like to work > with a few others here in Sacramento with this book and audio set > and would like to make sure that Ms. Bryzgunova also gets her fair > share of royalties and such as I do not want to photocopy the book > for others and rip her off. > > Any help or direction to obtaining a few copies of this bok would > be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you so much. > > Anyse > > Anyse Joslin > 9515 Kellingworth Court > Sacramento, CA 95827 > anyse1 at mac.com > SKYPE: anyse1 > 916 364.1743 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 anyse1 at MAC.COM Mon Jan 5 17:21:09 2009 From: anyse1 at MAC.COM (Anyse Joslin) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:21:09 -0800 Subject: Looking or where to find more copies of . . . . In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Alina, Thank you very much. These copies of Bryzgunova are the same one listed over and over in different book selling lists. $31.50 is a little too steep for just one copy. Thank you so much. Anyse Anyse Joslin 9515 Kellingworth Court Sacramento, CA 95827 anyse1 at mac.com SKYPE: anyse1 916 364.1743 On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Alina Israeli wrote: Here (there are several copies): http://used.addall.com/SuperRare/submitRare.cgi?author=Bryzgunova&title=&keyword=&isbn=&order=TITLE&ordering=ASC&dispCurr=USD&binding=Any+Binding&min=&max=&timeout=20&match=Y&store=Abebooks&store=AbebooksDE&store=AbebooksFR&store=AbebooksUK&store=Alibris&store=Amazon&store=AmazonCA&store=AmazonUK&store=AmazonDE&store=AmazonFR&store=Antiqbook&store=Biblio&store=Biblion&store=Bibliophile&store=Bibliopoly&store=Booksandcollectibles&store=Half&store=ILAB&store=LivreRareBook&store=Powells&store=Strandbooks&store=ZVAB On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:03 AM, Anyse Joslin wrote: > [Note: all Russian used is encoded as "Cyrillic (Windows)"] > > Hello all. > > I am searching for more copies of the following book: > > Брызгунова, И. А. Звуки и интонация русской речи: Лингафоний курс > для иностранцев. > > Bryzgunova, I. A. Zvuki i intonatsiya russkoyi rechi: Lingafoniyi > kurs inostrantsev. > > I have the complete set of vinyl records that I have also digitized > onto CD's and listed by each lesson number. I would like to work > with a few others here in Sacramento with this book and audio set > and would like to make sure that Ms. Bryzgunova also gets her fair > share of royalties and such as I do not want to photocopy the book > for others and rip her off. > > Any help or direction to obtaining a few copies of this bok would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thank you so much. > > Anyse > > Anyse Joslin > 9515 Kellingworth Court > Sacramento, CA 95827 > anyse1 at mac.com > SKYPE: anyse1 > 916 364.1743 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 Judywermuth at CS.COM Mon Jan 5 18:17:37 2009 From: Judywermuth at CS.COM (Judywermuth at CS.COM) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:17:37 EST Subject: AAASS-09 - Inviting writers, poets, and journalists from Eastern Europe Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We are organizing a panel with authors from Eastern Europe. The title of the panel is "Modes of Dissident Self-Expression and the Concept of Authorship under Communism." If you have experience as a writer, a poet, or a journalist under communism and you are interested in participating in this panel, please respond off list to jmw82 at columbia.edu. Best wishes for the year 2009. Judith Wermuth-Atkinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ariann.stern-gottschalk at ASU.EDU Mon Jan 5 22:53:27 2009 From: ariann.stern-gottschalk at ASU.EDU (Ariann Stern) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:53:27 -0600 Subject: Job Announcement Message-ID: The Arizona State University Critical Languages Institute seeks to appoint a faculty associate to teach intensive Advanced Russian during the summer 2009 session of the Critical Languages Institute in Tempe, Arizona. Candidates must have a Master’s degree in Russian language or a closely related field; possess native or near-native proficiency in both Russian and English; and demonstrate the ability to teach an intensive advanced course in the Russian language. Preferred candidates will be at least ABD, have experience teaching Russian to non-Russian speakers and will be able to lead cultural programming with a diverse group of CLI students. The successful candidate will teach Russian four hours daily for eight weeks and will be called upon to contribute to the institute cultural programming. Deadline for completed applications: January 20, 2009. Applications received by that date will have first priority. If not filled applications will be reviewed weekly thereafter until the search is closed. Application package must include a detailed letter of interest stating qualifications and teaching experience; a CV; and a list of three references. Materials should be sent to Advanced Russian Search Committee, Critical Languages Institute, PO Box 874202, Tempe, AZ, 85287-4202 or they may be sent electronically to cli at asu.edu. Background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Please see ASU's complete non-discrimination statement at: https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 lora at UCI.EDU Mon Jan 5 22:56:14 2009 From: lora at UCI.EDU (lora at UCI.EDU) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:56:14 -0800 Subject: AAASS 09 PANEL "Watching and Writing the Cinema Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, A colleague and I are putting together a panel for AAASS 2009 called "Watching and Writing the Cinema.” As you can tell by the title the panel is open for interpretation, but we are hoping to find one more person who is working on the nexus of writing about and for film in pre-Revolutionary and early Soviet film. We currently have one paper on women writing about and for the cinema in pre-Revolutionary Russia and one paper on writing about and for early Soviet animation. Please contact Lora Mjolsness (lora at uci.edu) off list if you are interested in presenting a paper on this panel. Lora Mjolsness ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mhbeissi at PRINCETON.EDU Mon Jan 5 23:24:54 2009 From: mhbeissi at PRINCETON.EDU (Margaret Beissinger) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:24:54 -0500 Subject: CFP: Message-ID: 4th Biennial Conference of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies GENDER, CITIZENSHIP, AND EMPIRE The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio April 16-18, 2009 Call for Papers/Panels In an increasingly globalized world, the meaning of citizenship has become ever more fluid. Post-socialist countries in particular have seen great transformations in the rights individuals claim and in the obligations expected of them. The changing nature of citizenship in the post-Cold War world has also prompted those who look at the past to reconsider what it meant to be the subject (and sometimes citizen) of imperial lands (Russian, Soviet, Ottoman, or Habsburg) in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Gender is central to understanding definitions of citizenship and subjecthood during the imperial period(s) as well as to understanding the shifting definitions of citizenship in the post-Soviet period. While issues of gender have been visible in the arts, they have yet to be fully explored by historians and social scientists. Thus the aim of the conference is to stimulate further investigation and discussion of the relationship between gender and the overarching structures and practices (political, social, economic, and cultural) of the empires and post-imperial states of this region. AWSS invites scholars of all disciplines (Slavic/Eurasian/East European studies, including anthropology, art, film, history, library science, literature, music, political science, popular culture, sociology, and any aspect of women's studies) who are working on themes related to gender, citizenship, and empire in Eastern Europe and Eurasia to submit their abstracts electronically to Professor Margaret Beissinger, Princeton University, mhbeissi at Princeton.edu , who will distribute them to a multi-disciplinary conference selection committee. All proposals are due January 15, 2009. Applicants will be notified about their participation in mid-February. Proposals for panels/papers must include: • A 150-word abstract for each paper • A one-page c.v. for each participant Proposals for workshops must include a brief description of the topic and, if possible, should attach a list of possible presenters/facilitators. In 2009, the AWSS Conference will be held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Midwest Slavic Association on the campus of The Ohio State University. Margaret H. Beissinger Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures 238 East Pyne Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 office: 609-258-3874 department: 609-258-4726 home: 609-497-3415 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mhbeissi at PRINCETON.EDU Tue Jan 6 04:10:30 2009 From: mhbeissi at PRINCETON.EDU (Margaret Beissinger) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:10:30 -0500 Subject: CFP: 4th Biennial Conference of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies,GENDER, CITIZENSHIP, AND EMPIRE Message-ID: 4th Biennial Conference of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies GENDER, CITIZENSHIP, AND EMPIRE The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio April 16-18, 2009 Call for Papers/Panels In an increasingly globalized world, the meaning of citizenship has become ever more fluid. Post-socialist countries in particular have seen great transformations in the rights individuals claim and in the obligations expected of them. The changing nature of citizenship in the post-Cold War world has also prompted those who look at the past to reconsider what it meant to be the subject (and sometimes citizen) of imperial lands (Russian, Soviet, Ottoman, or Habsburg) in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Gender is central to understanding definitions of citizenship and subjecthood during the imperial period(s) as well as to understanding the shifting definitions of citizenship in the post-Soviet period. While issues of gender have been visible in the arts, they have yet to be fully explored by historians and social scientists. Thus the aim of the conference is to stimulate further investigation and discussion of the relationship between gender and the overarching structures and practices (political, social, economic, and cultural) of the empires and post-imperial states of this region. AWSS invites scholars of all disciplines (Slavic/Eurasian/East European studies, including anthropology, art, film, history, library science, literature, music, political science, popular culture, sociology, and any aspect of women's studies) who are working on themes related to gender, citizenship, and empire in Eastern Europe and Eurasia to submit their abstracts electronically to Professor Margaret Beissinger, Princeton University, mhbeissi at Princeton.edu , who will distribute them to a multi-disciplinary conference selection committee. All proposals are due January 15, 2009. Applicants will be notified about their participation in mid-February. Proposals for panels/papers must include: • A 150-word abstract for each paper • A one-page c.v. for each participant Proposals for workshops must include a brief description of the topic and, if possible, should attach a list of possible presenters/facilitators. In 2009, the AWSS Conference will be held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Midwest Slavic Association on the campus of The Ohio State University. Margaret H. Beissinger Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures 238 East Pyne Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 office: 609-258-3874 department: 609-258-4726 home: 609-497-3415 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Raymond.Detrez at UGENT.BE Tue Jan 6 12:28:32 2009 From: Raymond.Detrez at UGENT.BE (Raymond Detrez) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:28:32 +0100 Subject: job announcement Message-ID: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy - a full-time vacancy as Professor in the rank of Lecturer (docent) or Professor in the rank of Senior Lecturer (hoofddocent) in the field of Old Church Slavonic Philology and cultural history of the Slavic Middle Ages. The faculty of Arts and Philosophy has a vacancy for a professorship, starting from October 1, 2009. It concerns a position as full-time Professor in the rank of Lecturer (docent) or Professor in the rank of Senior Lecturer (hoofddocent) in the Department of Slavonic en East-European studies, charged with academic teaching (in Dutch), scientific research and carrying out scientific duties in the field of Old Church Slavonic Philology and cultural history of the Slavic Middle Ages. Profile: · on the day of application, candidates should hold a PhD or a degree recognized as equivalent, with a doctoral thesis in the field of study concerned; · candidates are required to have research experience in the field of study concerned, proved by contributions to national and international conferences and by recent publications in national and international peer reviewed journals and/or books; · assets: - knowledge of ancient Greek; - knowledge of one or more modern Slavic languages; - having proved experience in international mobility, amongst others through participation in research programs at research institutions not linked to the university where the highest degree was obtained; · candidates are required to possess the necessary didactic, organizational and communicative skill for teaching at an academic level. The candidates are requested to submit: - the necessary attestations of competence (copies of degrees); - an outline (of max. 1500 words) explaining their views on academic teaching, research and service in relation to this vacancy. Selection procedure: 1. candidates will be short-listed on the basis of their curriculum vitae bibliography and the outline; 2. short-listed applicants will be invited for an interview, on the basis of which the final selection will be made. More detailed information on this vacancy can be obtained at prof. Raymond Detrez (phone: +32 (9) 264 38 48, e-mail raymond.detrez at ugent.be. In principle this full-time position will lead to a tenured position. However, in the case of a first appointment as professor, the Board of Governors of Ghent University may decide to appoint the candidate for a maximum period of three years, after which he/she may be eligible for tenure following a positive evaluation. As teaching at Ghent University is mostly in Dutch, such evaluation may include the acquired ability to teach in Dutch. Depending on the specific profile of the selected candidate, the rank of Senior Lecturer or Lecturer will be granted. Applications must be sent in duplicate by registered mail to the rector of Ghent University, Rectorate building, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 25, 9000 Ghent, using the specific application forms Autonomous Academic Staff ("ZAP"), including the necessary attestations of competence (copies of degrees), the 4th of Feburary, 2009 at the latest. The application forms for Autonomous Academic Staff (ZAP) · can be obtained at Ghent University, Department of Personnel and Organization, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 25, 9000 Gent. · can be requested by phone: +32 (0) 9 264 31 29 or + 32 (0) 9 264 31 30. · can be downloaded from the internet: http://www.ugent.be/nl/werken/aanwerving/formulieren/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 slivkin at OU.EDU Tue Jan 6 17:32:03 2009 From: slivkin at OU.EDU (Slivkin, Yevgeniy A.) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:32:03 -0600 Subject: AAASS-09 - Inviting writers, poets, and journalists from Eastern Europe In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Judith Wermuth-Atkinson: I lived in Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg) till 1993. My first book of poetry came out in the Soviet Union in 1988. If you wish you could find information about me in google.ru I would be interested in participating in your panel. Thank you. Sincerely, Yevgeny Slivkin, Ph.D. Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics University of Oklahoma 780 Van Vleet-Oval, Kaufman Hall, room 2006 ph. 405 321-2879 slivkin at ou.edu ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Judywermuth at CS.COM [Judywermuth at CS.COM] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:17 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] AAASS-09 - Inviting writers, poets, and journalists from Eastern Europe Dear Colleagues, We are organizing a panel with authors from Eastern Europe. The title of the panel is "Modes of Dissident Self-Expression and the Concept of Authorship under Communism." If you have experience as a writer, a poet, or a journalist under communism and you are interested in participating in this panel, please respond off list to jmw82 at columbia.edu. Best wishes for the year 2009. Judith Wermuth-Atkinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 eric.laursen at M.CC.UTAH.EDU Tue Jan 6 19:35:01 2009 From: eric.laursen at M.CC.UTAH.EDU (eric r laursen) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:35:01 -0700 Subject: Request from Poli Sci student Message-ID: I recently received this e-mail from a grad student in poli sci (see below). Any suggestions? --Eric Laursen My name is David Jackson, I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Philosophy Department at the U. My dissertation topic deals in part with Russia, and the Poli Sci department referred me to you with my request for a recommendation of a book on Russia's current political situation. The question I will address is whether Russia currently qualifies as a democracy. I do appreciate your attention in this matter. Cheers, David Jackson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.hacking at UTAH.EDU Tue Jan 6 19:39:14 2009 From: j.hacking at UTAH.EDU (Jane Hacking) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:39:14 -0700 Subject: Request from Poli Sci student In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I got it too and sent it to Todd.... On 1/6/09 12:35 PM, "eric r laursen" wrote: > I recently received this e-mail from a grad student in poli sci (see below). > Any suggestions? --Eric Laursen > > My name is David Jackson, I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Philosophy Department > at the U. My dissertation topic deals in part with Russia, and the Poli Sci > department referred me to you with my request for a recommendation of a book > on Russia's current political situation. The question I will address is > whether Russia currently qualifies as a democracy. > > I do appreciate your attention in this matter. > > Cheers, > David Jackson > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 kris.vanheuckelom at ARTS.KULEUVEN.AC.BE Tue Jan 6 19:41:38 2009 From: kris.vanheuckelom at ARTS.KULEUVEN.AC.BE (Kris Van Heuckelom) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:41:38 +0100 Subject: CfP: Conference on Marian Pankowski Message-ID: International Conference Pan(K)opticum Exploring the Writings of Marian Pankowski The Polish Studies sections at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ghent University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven are pleased to announce an international conference in honor of Marian Pankowski. The conference will take place at the ULB campus in Brussels, November 13-14, 2009. http://www.ulb.ac.be/philo/slavistique/pankopticum.html Conférence internationale consacrée à l'oeuvre de Marian Pankowski 13 et 14 novembre 2009 ULB (Bruxelles) Miedzynarodowa konferencja powiecona twórczosci Mariana Pankowskiego 13 i 14 listopada 2009 roku ULB (Bruksela) International conference on the work of Marian Pankowski November 13-14, 2009 ULB (Brussels) Marian Pankowski was born on November 9, 1919, in Sanok, a small Carpathian town inhabited by Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians. His philological education at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. Having joined the Polish army, Pankowski was arrested in 1942 for his involvement in the local resistance movement. He was first sent to Auschwitz and afterwards to several other concentration camps. At the end of the war, he was liberated from the Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen and transferred to Belgium, where he continued his education and obtained a PhD in Slavic Philology (with a dissertation on Boleslaw Lesmian). After his nomination as Professor at the ULB he started teaching Polish language and literature and began making a name as the author of short stories, novels, poems, and theatrical plays. At the occasion of Pankowski's 90th birthday, we invite scholars to reflect on the complexity, richness, and diversity of Pankowski's writings. For the purpose of the conference, Pankowski's oeuvre is symbolically dismantled into the following set of research themes: Marian Pankowski between languages Marian Pankowski beyond norms Marian Pankowski above genres The first field of research entails considerations of Pankowski's sumptuous language, the translations he authored as well as editions of his writings in other languages and related issues of translingual interpretation and literary translation. The second research theme links up with Pankowski's extraordinary biography and the fact that his writings tend to escape established norms, codifications, and classifications. Issues that may arise here include: the position Pankowski's works take up in Poland and abroad, his status of being both a Polish and a Belgian writer / a domestic and an émigré writer, and Pankowski's peculiar way of writing about delicate issues such as Polishness, homosexuality, camp life, ... The third thematic cluster deals with the generic diversity of Pankowski's writings (poetry, prose, theater), the mixture of literary forms (essay, story, novel) as well as the usage of stylistic tricks (innovation, concetto, stylization, pastiche). Proposals (together with a 250-word abstract) are expected by March 15, 2009. Presentations are supposed to be in Polish or French. Contact: Dieter De Bruyn (UGent) : dieter.debruyn at ugent.be Kris Van Heuckelom (KULeuven) : kris.vanheuckelom at arts.kuleuven.be Dorota Walczak (ULB) : dwalczak at ulb.ac.be Jeremy Lambert (ULB, Lille 3) : jeremy.lambert at ulb.ac.be Katia Vandenborre (ULB) : katia.vandenborre at ulb.ac.be Pan(K)opticum - Panorama de l'oeuvre de Marian Pankowski Marian Pankowski est né le 9 novembre 1919 à Sanok, dans les Carpates polonaises. Fils d'un métallurgiste, il a passé son enfance dans sa petite ville natale, une petite bourgade habitée par des Polonais, des Juifs et des Ukrainiens. La guerre interrompit ses études de philologie à l'Université de Cracovie. Il prit part aux combats de l'armée polonaise. Arrêté en 1942 pour faits de résistance, il fut envoyé à Auschwitz. Transféré dans différents camps, la Libération le trouva à Bergen-Belsen, d'où il rejoindra Bruxelles. Il y poursuivit ses études et y défendit sa thèse de doctorat, consacrée à l'ouvre de Boleslaw Lesmian. Devenu professeur, il a enseigné la littérature et la langue polonaise à l'ULB, publiant parallèlement des recueils de poèmes, des récits, des romans et des pièces de théâtre. Le nonantième anniversaire de Marian Pankowski sera l'occasion de se pencher sur une ouvre littéraire complexe, riche et plurielle, que nous proposons d'étudier symboliquement au travers de trois domaines de recherche : Marian Pankowski parmi les langues Marian Pankowski par-delà les normes Marian Pankowski par-deçà les genres Le premier des thèmes proposés invite à l'étude de la langue prise dans un sens large : la richesse linguistique de l'écrivain, ses propres traductions d'auteurs, les traductions des ouvres de Marian Pankowski dans d'autres langues, mais aussi les problèmes d'interprétation ou de traductologie qui leur sont liés. Le deuxième domaine d'étude fait référence tant à la biographie peu banale de Marian Pankowski qu'à l'originalité de ses écrits, qui transgressent et les normes et les codes. Il sera ici possible d'envisager la place de l'ouvre de Marian Pankowski en Pologne et au-delà des frontières, mais aussi d'évaluer le statut d'un écrivain à la fois polonais et belge, national et émigré. Cette thématique offrira également l'occasion de tenter d'ébaucher ces phénomènes qui échappent à toute classification et à toute taxinomie, s'agissant par exemple des façons d'aborder l'homosexualité par écrit ou encore l'expérience de la polonité, de l'intimité, de l'autre, sans oublier celle du camp de concentration. Le dernier des thèmes met l'accent sur la diversité des genres dans l'écriture de Marian Pankowski (poésie, prose, théâtre), le mélange des formes génériques (l'essai, la nouvelle, le roman) et des procédés stylistiques (l'innovation, le concept, la stylisation, le pastiche). Nous vous prions de bien vouloir nous faire parvenir vos propositions de communication ainsi qu'un bref résumé avant le 15 mars 2009. Les langues de la conférence et des communications seront le français et le polonais. Pan(K)opticum - o perspektywach pisarstwa Mariana Pankowskiego Marian Pankowski urodzil sie 9 listopada 1919 roku w Sanoku, w polskich Karpatach. Dziecinstwo spedzil w malym miasteczku zamieszkalym przez Polaków, Zydów i Ukrainców. Wojna przerwala jego studia filologiczne na Uniwersytecie Jagiellonskim. Podczas wojny Marian Pankowski walczy w szeregach polskiej armii. Zatrzymany w 1942 roku za udzial w ruchu oporu, zostaje zeslany do Oswiecimia, a nastepnie do innych obozów koncentracyjnych. Koniec wojny zastaje go w obozie w Bergen-Belsen, skad po wyzwoleniu, trafia do Brukseli, gdzie kontunuuje swoje studia i broni pracy doktorskiej poswieconej twórczosci Boleslawa Lesmiana. Nastepnie jako profesor ULB naucza jezyka polskiego i polskiej literatury, a jednoczesnie pisze i publikuje zbiory poezji, opowiadania, powiesci i sztuki teatralne. W dziewiecdziesiate urodziny pisarza, proponowana jest refleksja nad dzielem literackim zlozonym, bogatym i róznorodnym, ujetym symbolicznie w trzy obszary badawcze: Marian Pankowski pomiedzy jezykami Marian Pankowski poza norma Marian Pankowski ponad gatunkami Pierwszy z proponowanych tematów jako przedmiot badan obiera zywiol arcybogatego jezyka twórcy, a takze jego autorskie tlumaczenia oraz przeklady dziel Mariana Pankowskiego na inne jezyki i zwiazana z tymi zagadnieniami problematyke interpretacji i translatologii. Kolejny obszar zainteresowania wyznacza nietuzinkowa biografia Pankowskiego i wymykanie sie jego dziela literackiego normom i kodyfikacjom. Tu bedzie mozna rozprawiac o miejscu pisarstwa Pankowskiego w Polsce i poza jej granicami, o statusie - pisarza polskiego i belgijskiego, krajowego i emigracyjnego. Znajdzie sie tutaj takze miejsce na próbe opisu zjawisk, które wymykaja sie klasyfikacji i zaszufladkowaniu, jak np. sposób pisania o homoseksualizmie, o przezywaniu polskosci, swojskosci, innosci, czy takze o doswiadczeniu obozu koncentracyjnego. Ostatni z proponowanych tematów akcentuje róznorodnosc rodzajowa pisarstwa Mariana Pankowskiego (poezja, proza, dramat), gatunkowe mieszanie form (esej, opowiadanie, powiesc) i chwytów stylistycznych (innowacja, koncept, stylizacja, pastisz). Propozycje tematów referatów wraz z abstraktem prosimy przesylac do 15 marca 2009 roku. Jezykami konferencji i przedstawianych referatów beda jezyk polski i jezyk francuski. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 schucks at U.WASHINGTON.EDU Tue Jan 6 20:29:08 2009 From: schucks at U.WASHINGTON.EDU (schucks at U.WASHINGTON.EDU) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:29:08 -0800 Subject: AAASS panel chair and discussant needed Message-ID: Dear SEELANGS: We are seeking a chair and discussant for the following panel on contemporary Russian film at the 2009 AAASS: "Russia at the Cinematic Margins" The three papers that will compose the panel are: - Russian Cinema doing 'Once Upon a Time': The Western goes to the Russian Province - Living at the Border. The Making of the Documentary film "Trulishka" (2005) - Viewing the Underground: I. Voloshin's film "Nirvana" (2008) Please reply off list Emily Schuckman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 fjp2106 at COLUMBIA.EDU Tue Jan 6 21:14:12 2009 From: fjp2106 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Francisco Picon) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:14:12 -0500 Subject: Nabokov panel for 2009 AAASS conference In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: I am looking for a third participant for a Nabokov panel for the 2009 AAASS conference. The two titles that we have are: "The book is dazzlingly brilliant? but': The Critical Reception of Vladimir Nabokov?s The Gift," by Yuri Leving and "Nabokov's Ritual of Resurrection: The EO Commentator as Historical Thinker" by myself. If you are interested, please reply with an abstract off-list. Thank you, Francisco Picon -- Francisco Picon PhD Student Department of Slavic Languages Columbia University 708 Hamilton Hall 1130 Amsterdam Avenue MC 2839 New York, NY 10027 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Tue Jan 6 21:47:53 2009 From: yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Furman, Yelena) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:47:53 -0800 Subject: contemporary Russian fiction Message-ID: Dear list members, As usual, I am appealing to your collective wisdom. I am putting together my syllabus for an undergraduate course (i.e., readings in English) on Russian fiction from glasnost' to the present (including Petrushevskaia, Pelevin, Ulitskaia, possibly Makanin, Narbikova). I am writing to ask for your suggestions for readings (novels or short stories) for the later part of the course, roughly from the mid/late 1990s to now. And if anyone feels like sharing their own teaching experiences with any of the texts - what worked, what didn't, etc.- I'd love to hear about that too. Please reply off-list: yfurman at humnet.ucla.edu Many thanks in advance, and happy New Year! - Yelena Furman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 rp537 at COLUMBIA.EDU Tue Jan 6 21:50:23 2009 From: rp537 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Rebecca Pyatkevich) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:50:23 -0500 Subject: Nabokov panel for 2009 AAASS conference In-Reply-To: <20090106161412.3e7egmvsgsgksw48@cubmail.cc.columbia.edu> Message-ID: Paco, you know that you can't give two papers, right? Quoting Francisco Picon : > Dear Colleagues: > > I am looking for a third participant for a Nabokov panel for the 2009 > AAASS conference. The two titles that we have are: > > "The book is dazzlingly brilliant? but': The Critical Reception of > Vladimir Nabokov?s The Gift," by Yuri Leving > > and > > "Nabokov's Ritual of Resurrection: The EO Commentator as Historical > Thinker" by myself. > > If you are interested, please reply with an abstract off-list. > > Thank you, > > Francisco Picon > > > -- > Francisco Picon > PhD Student > Department of Slavic Languages > Columbia University > 708 Hamilton Hall > 1130 Amsterdam Avenue > MC 2839 > New York, NY 10027 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 mlsvetka at YAHOO.COM Tue Jan 6 22:02:13 2009 From: mlsvetka at YAHOO.COM (Svetlana Malykhina) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:02:13 -0800 Subject: AAASS panel Message-ID: Dear SEELANGS, We are trying to assemble a panel to propose for AAASS 2009 which would address approaches to analysis of contemporary Russian data in cross-linguistic perspective, with focus on pragmatic functions and semantic nuances of language-specific concepts in different text types. Two talks for this panel are entitled “New-coined aphorisms and old-fashioned euphemisms in the Russian current media discourse” (Svitlana Malykhina) and “The concept of 'TRUTH' in the Russian language” (Valentina Apresjan). We are looking for the third participant, a chair and a discussant. Please forward this information to anyone interested. If you would like to join us, please respond off-list. Svitlana Malykhina ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 dshembel at YAHOO.COM Wed Jan 7 09:43:17 2009 From: dshembel at YAHOO.COM (Daria Shembel) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 03:43:17 -0600 Subject: AAASS 2009: Visionary Film and New Media Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, We are putting together a panel on the dialogue between the "old" and the "new" media (the internet, video games, DVDs, VR) exploring the issues of digital media expansion through a wide range of earlier cinematic forms. We would like to make a special emphasis on the new media appropriation of "visual," oneiric cinema, exploring, among others, the work of Tarkovsky, Sokurov and Paradjanov. Please contact me asap at dshembel at yahoo.com if you are interested in joining this panel. Thank you, Sincerely, Daria Shembel U of Southern California ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 elizabethskomp at HOTMAIL.COM Wed Jan 7 16:19:46 2009 From: elizabethskomp at HOTMAIL.COM (Elizabeth Skomp) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:19:46 -0500 Subject: Chair needed for AAASS panel on motherhood Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, Our proposed AAASS panel on representations of motherhood in twentieth-century Russian prose still lacks a chair. If you are interested and available, please respond off-list to eskomp at sewanee.edu. Spasibo zaranee, Elizabeth Skomp -- Elizabeth Skomp, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of RussianSewanee: The University of the South735 University AvenueSewanee, TN 37383Phone: 931.598.1254E-mail: eskomp at sewanee.edu _________________________________________________________________ Windows LiveTM: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_012009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mcarlson at KU.EDU Wed Jan 7 17:09:26 2009 From: mcarlson at KU.EDU (Maria Carlson) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:09:26 -0600 Subject: Book of Veles In-Reply-To: Message-ID: For the 2009 AAASS meeting in Boston, we are organizing a panel on "Reading the Book of Veles." We need one more panelist interested in contemporary Slavic neo-paganism (any aspect) and a discussant. If you are interested in being a panelist, please contact me directly with your concept. Ditto if you would enjoy being the discussant for this panel. Maria Carlson Professor & Associate Chair Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures 2139 Wescoe Hall University of Kansas 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard Work: 785-864-2350 Lawrence, KS 66045-7590 Fax: 785-864-4298 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 rossen.djagalov at YALE.EDU Wed Jan 7 19:09:05 2009 From: rossen.djagalov at YALE.EDU (Rossen Djagalov) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:09:05 -0600 Subject: AAASS panel on socialist internationalism Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We are looking for one final presenter to join five of us, thereby completing two interdisciplinary panels on socialist internationalism at the 2009 AAASS conference (Boston, November 12-15, 2009). Because the term we are working with is so vague, some explanation is in order about how we envisage our discussion. Marx and Engels believed that the working class, while national in character, was capable of uniting across borders for the pursuit of common goals, in actions such as international strikes and revolutions and through organizations (the First or Second Internationals). In the twentieth century, a certain territorialization of socialism occurred. Following the Bolshevik revolution, in the eyes of many leftists wordwide, the USSR came to function as the realization of socialism. With the gradual exhaustion of the Soviet “revolutionary” symbolic capital by the mid-1950s, China, and in a looser sense, the Third World project, too, laid their claims to some of these international leftist solidarities. Competing with these major geographical foci of the world Left, there were other transnational leftist ideologies (say, Trotskyism) or spontaneous movement outbursts (say, 1968 in Prague or Paris). In the 1970s, with the wordwide left decidedly disunited, globalization decidedly replaced socialist internationalism as the most well-articulated and visible form of transnational imaginary. While these large-scale shifts could be easily traced, the much more challenging task of accounting for the constantly evolving web of competing transnational and national loyalties within the life of individual leftists remains to be done. When real experience with foreign people or culture was lacking—as was most often the case—representations took its place. Indeed, literature, visual and musical culture not only record but also shape cultural consumers’ understanding of the foreign. Thus, cultural producers played an essential role in the construction of the transnational imagined communities of the left, not only through explicit political statements and participation but also through the aesthetic ideologies of their works, which provided shared texts for those communities. One of the inherent difficulties of studying these communities is that they span cultural producers from both capitalist and socialist regimes, sometimes in exile. The complexity of such location multiplies the possible scenarios and spawns a series of fascinating questions: what does it mean, for example, to be a leftist cultural producer/consumer in Central/Eastern Europe, especially in the last decades of state socialism? We hope that such panels would gather a group of students of literature, film, art, music, anthropology, sociology, and history to discuss not only concrete instances of socialist internationalism based on their individual research but also work towards a broader and bolder theoretization of socialist internationalism. If interested, please, write to rossen.djagalov at yale.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 merril25 at CAL.MSU.EDU Wed Jan 7 22:06:23 2009 From: merril25 at CAL.MSU.EDU (Merrill, Jason) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:06:23 -0500 Subject: AAASS panel on Symbolism Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, I am hoping to organize a panel for AAASS in Boston on Russian Symbolism. If you would like to present a paper, Chair, or serve as Discussant, please contact me at merril25 at msu.edu. Spasibo zaranee! Jason Merrill Associate Professor of Russian Dept. of Linguistics and Languages Michigan State University A-643 Wells Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Wed Jan 7 23:41:40 2009 From: yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Furman, Yelena) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:41:40 -0800 Subject: FW: [SEELANGS] contemporary Russian fiction Message-ID: Dear all, Since a number of you asked that I post the responses to my query to the list, here's what I have thus far, and an ogromnoe spasibo to all who gave the suggestions (and Ben, who sent the syllabus!): First, a source for contemporary translated texts that got the most mentions: Glas: New Russian Writing http://www.glas.msk.su/ Someone else mentioned a Russian literary site that lists its picks for contemporary fiction (as well as poetry and non-fiction) http://www.openspace.ru/literature/projects/122/details/7202/page1/ - however, this won't tell you whether these texts been translated into English. Specific titles that some of you suggested, both early and late post-Soviet: Pelevin: Yellow Arrow, Ontology of Childhood, Werewolf Problem in Central Russia (to this I would add Omon Ra, which my students always love). Viktor Erofeev: "Life with an Idiot" Sorokin: A Business Proposition, Four Stout Hearts Andrei Volos, Hurramabad Vladimir Makanin: "Prisoner from the Caucasus" Not surprisingly, a lot of women writers: Petrushevskaia, The Time: Night Vasilenko, Shamara Ulitskaia: Angel; Funeral Party; Medea and her Children Tolstaia. The Slynx - several people suggested this one (although, in all fairness, I must say that I could barely finish it myself, so I'm not sure I want to put my poor students through this! Apologies to all the Tolstaia fans out there.) Nina Gabrielian: "Master of the Grass" Dina Rubina: "On Upper Maslovka" Anastasiia Gosteva: "Closed Americas" One of you said "When it appears in English, Slavnikova's _2017_ ( Marian Schwartz is doing a translation)" and also her "Krylov's Childhood" Other suggestions for "other" texts: Akunin, Marinina, Robski THANK YOU TO ALL! Best, Lena ________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Furman, Yelena Sent: Tue 1/6/2009 1:47 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] contemporary Russian fiction Dear list members, As usual, I am appealing to your collective wisdom. I am putting together my syllabus for an undergraduate course (i.e., readings in English) on Russian fiction from glasnost' to the present (including Petrushevskaia, Pelevin, Ulitskaia, possibly Makanin, Narbikova). I am writing to ask for your suggestions for readings (novels or short stories) for the later part of the course, roughly from the mid/late 1990s to now. And if anyone feels like sharing their own teaching experiences with any of the texts - what worked, what didn't, etc.- I'd love to hear about that too. Please reply off-list: yfurman at humnet.ucla.edu Many thanks in advance, and happy New Year! - Yelena Furman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Slivkin, Ph.D. Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics University of Oklahoma 206 Kaufman Hall ph. 405 321-2879 slivkin at ou.edu ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason [merril25 at CAL.MSU.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:06 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] AAASS panel on Symbolism Dear Seelangers, I am hoping to organize a panel for AAASS in Boston on Russian Symbolism. If you would like to present a paper, Chair, or serve as Discussant, please contact me at merril25 at msu.edu. Spasibo zaranee! Jason Merrill Associate Professor of Russian Dept. of Linguistics and Languages Michigan State University A-643 Wells Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is pleased to announce its 3 major professional development events this year . . . * 1st International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC), March 12-14, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii (pre-registration deadline - January 31) * 2009 NFLRC Online Summer Institute for Non-native Teachers of Chinese & Japanese, June 22-July 3, 2009 (apply now - limited space, rolling admissions) * Language Learning in Computer Mediated Communities (LLCMC) Conference, October 11-13, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii (Call for Proposals deadline - March 1) plus, CULTURA: Web-based Intercultural Exchanges Pre-conference event, October 10-11, Honolulu, Hawaii For more information, see below: 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION & CONSERVATION (ICLDC): Supporting Small Languages Together March 12-14, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/icldc09/ It has been a decade since Himmelmann's article on language documentation appeared and focused the field into thinking in terms of creating a lasting record of a language that could be used by speakers as well as by academics. This conference aims to assess what has been achieved in the past decade and what the practice of language documentation within linguistics has been and can be. It has become apparent that there is too much for a linguist alone to achieve and that language documentation requires collaboration. This conference will focus on the theme of collaboration in language documentation and revitalization and will include sessions on interdisciplinary topics. Plenary speakers include: Nikolaus Himmelmann (University of Munster), Leanne Hinton (UC Berkeley), Paul Newman (Indiana University), & Phil Cash Cash (University of Arizona) There will also be an optional opportunity to visit Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawai'i, in an extension of the conference that will focus on the Hawaiian language revitalization program, March 16th-17th. Conference pre-registration deadline: January 31, 2009 2009 NFLRC ONLINE SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR NON-NATIVE TEACHERS OF CHINESE & JAPANESE June 22-July 3, 2009 http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si09w/ This workshop serves as an online professional development opportunity for non-native-speaking teachers of Chinese and Japanese language at the K-16 level, with a focus on teachers in underserved areas. As part of our mission to serve the development and enhancement of Asian language in the United States, the University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center will offer 2 concurrent two-week intensive language courses in Chinese and Japanese. The intensive courses, delivered entirely free of charge over the World Wide Web using a tested and proven pedagogic model, focus on the development and/or maintenance of communicative language skills at the Advanced level, with strong emphasis on written communication meeting high standards of literacy. Space is limited, so submit your online application form today! (NOTE: For interested Chinese teachers, there is a special additional opportunity to travel to Hawaii after the online workshop for intensive hands-on teacher training in the STARTalk Sports and Language Immersion Camp [planned for July 6-31, 2009] at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu. Pending the approval of funding for the 2009 STARTalk Hawaii Sports and Language Immersion Camp, Chinese teachers successfully completing the online summer institute will be eligible for up to $800 travel defrayment for the STARTalk Hawaii camp.) LANGUAGE LEARNING IN COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNITIES (LLCMC) CONFERENCE October 11-13, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/llcmc/ Once, computers were seen as thinking machines or electronic tutors. Now the computer has become one of many devices that people use to form virtual communities of all kinds. In the field of language education, computer mediated communication (CMC) enables students to interact with one another free of space and time constraints and to participate in communities of learning with their counterparts in the target culture. The Language Learning in Computer Mediated Communities (LLCMC) Conference explores the use of computers as a medium of communication in language learning communities. Conference highlights * Keynote talk by Dr. Gilberte Furstenberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Special colloquium showcasing online cultural exchanges based at the University of Hawaii * Optional pre-conference event - CULTURA: Web-based Intercultural Exchanges (October 10-11) We welcome your session proposal submissions in this exciting area. Use our convenient online submission form - deadline March 1, 2009. ************************************************************************* N National Foreign Language Resource Center F University of Hawai'i L 1859 East-West Road, #106 R Honolulu HI 96822 C voice: (808) 956-9424, fax: (808) 956-5983 email: nflrc at hawaii.edu VISIT OUR WEBSITE! http://nflrc.hawaii.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 Adrienne_Harris at BAYLOR.EDU Thu Jan 8 02:14:12 2009 From: Adrienne_Harris at BAYLOR.EDU (Boggess, Adrienne H.) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:14:12 -0600 Subject: AAASS panel on Stalinism, construction of heroes, myths Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, We are organizing a panel entitled "(Re)writing the Stalinist Hero" and are looking for one more panelist and a discussant. If you are interested in participating in our panel, please contact me off-list at Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu. Thank you, Adrienne M. Harris, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Modern Foreign Languages Baylor 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 djloewen at BINGHAMTON.EDU Thu Jan 8 03:17:58 2009 From: djloewen at BINGHAMTON.EDU (Donald Loewen) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:17:58 -0500 Subject: AAASS panel: "Presenting the Poet: Life-Writing and Creation/Re-creation" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Greetings. This panel will be linked to the conference's theme of "Reading and Writing Lives" with a focus that could encompass issues of autobiography or biography. (Does a theme tie-in lead to better time slots? That would be a bonus :-) ) Preference will be given to proposals that address issues related to the poet's "role" in a particular time and place: how does the biographer/autobiographer deal with literary/social/cultural paradigms and expectations? If you are interested in presenting a paper on this topic, or in serving as chair or discussant, please contact me off-list at . All the best, Don -- Donald Loewen Associate Professor of Russian Chair, Dept. of German and Russian Studies Binghamton University (SUNY) PO Box 6000 Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jan 8 06:48:56 2009 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:48:56 +0000 Subject: FW: [SEELANGS] contemporary Russian fiction In-Reply-To: <31C1DA6A7615F74EAE7A4262334C447F01F73431@hermes.humnet.ucla.edu> Message-ID: Dear all, I'd like to add Yuri Buida. He is well translated by Oliver Ready, and some of the stories in Prusskie Nevesti are very fine indeed. I included one story in the anthology I did for Penguin Classics, 'Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida'. I admire him for being able to write with real emotional depth, while incorporating all the devices of post-modernism. Best Wishes, Robert > Dear all, > Since a number of you asked that I post the responses to my query to the list, > here's what I have thus far, and an ogromnoe spasibo to all who gave the > suggestions (and Ben, who sent the syllabus!): > > First, a source for contemporary translated texts that got the most mentions: > Glas: New Russian Writing http://www.glas.msk.su/ > > > > Someone else mentioned a Russian literary site that lists its picks for > contemporary fiction (as well as poetry and non-fiction) > > http://www.openspace.ru/literature/projects/122/details/7202/page1/ - however, > this won't tell you whether these texts been translated into English. > > > > > > Specific titles that some of you suggested, both early and late post-Soviet: > > > > Pelevin: Yellow Arrow, Ontology of Childhood, Werewolf Problem in Central > Russia (to this I would add Omon Ra, which my students always love). > > > > Viktor Erofeev: "Life with an Idiot" > > > Sorokin: A Business Proposition, Four Stout Hearts > > > > Andrei Volos, Hurramabad > > > > Vladimir Makanin: "Prisoner from the Caucasus" > > > > > Not surprisingly, a lot of women writers: > > > > Petrushevskaia, The Time: Night > > > > Vasilenko, Shamara > > > > Ulitskaia: Angel; Funeral Party; Medea and her Children > > > Tolstaia. The Slynx - several people suggested this one (although, in all > fairness, I must say that I could barely finish it myself, so I'm not sure I > want to put my poor students through this! Apologies to all the Tolstaia fans > out there.) > > > > Nina Gabrielian: "Master of the Grass" > > > > Dina Rubina: "On Upper Maslovka" > > > > Anastasiia Gosteva: "Closed Americas" > > > > One of you said "When it appears in English, Slavnikova's _2017_ ( Marian > Schwartz is doing a translation)" and also her "Krylov's Childhood" > > > > > > Other suggestions for "other" texts: Akunin, Marinina, Robski > > > > THANK YOU TO ALL! > Best, Lena > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on > behalf of Furman, Yelena > Sent: Tue 1/6/2009 1:47 PM > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu > Subject: [SEELANGS] contemporary Russian fiction > > > > Dear list members, > As usual, I am appealing to your collective wisdom. I am putting together my > syllabus for an undergraduate course (i.e., readings in English) on Russian > fiction from glasnost' to the present (including Petrushevskaia, Pelevin, > Ulitskaia, possibly Makanin, Narbikova). I am writing to ask for your > suggestions for readings (novels or short stories) for the later part of the > course, roughly from the mid/late 1990s to now. And if anyone feels like > sharing their own teaching experiences with any of the texts - what worked, > what didn't, etc.- I'd love to hear about that too. Please reply off-list: > yfurman at humnet.ucla.edu > Many thanks in advance, and happy New Year! > - Yelena Furman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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Best wishes, - Rachel Platonov ***************************** Dr Rachel S Platonov Lecturer in Russian Studies School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures University of Manchester Samuel Alexander Building Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL +44 (0)161 275 3135 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Thu Jan 8 15:46:27 2009 From: gillespie.20 at ND.EDU (Alyssa Gillespie) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:46:27 -0500 Subject: Pushkin Conference Jan. 9-11, University of Notre Dame Message-ID: Dear colleagues: I would like to bring to your attention the working conference "Alexander Pushkin and Russian National Identity: Taboo Texts, Topics, Interpretations" which is taking place on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana this Friday through Sunday (January 9-11). The complete program is available at http://www.nd.edu/~grl/taboopushkin . Registration for the conference is limited, but if anyone is interested in further information, please feel free to contact me. Best wishes and happy new year to all, Alyssa Gillespie Associate Professor of Russian 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 yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Thu Jan 8 20:13:34 2009 From: yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Furman, Yelena) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:13:34 -0800 Subject: another suggestion for contemporary Russian fiction Message-ID: Dear all, They keep coming, which is wonderful. Thank you to all. Here's another one I received: Petr Aleshkovsky - the GLAS translation of Skunk: A Life (Zhizneopisanie Khor'ka). Best, Lena ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 RUSSIANLIFE.NET Fri Jan 9 11:03:36 2009 From: paulr at RUSSIANLIFE.NET (Paul Richardson) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 06:03:36 -0500 Subject: Fiction suggestions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Yelena (and others): May I humbly recommend our quarterly journal, Chtenia, which I believe is the only regularly published journal of Russian fiction in English translation. Each issue features 10-12 fresh translations of Russian fiction and non-fiction, all centered around a chosen theme. The majority of the selections are fiction and are a good mix of contemporary and classic writers. So we have Slavnikova alongside Gogol, Sorokin alongside Tolstoy... A good way for students to get a taste of a wide swath of literature and then follow up on someone they discover there. To see past tables of contents or to subscribe or order back issues, go to: http://www.chtenia.com Thanks, Paul Richardson On Jan 9, 2009, at 1:00 AM, SEELANGS automatic digest system wrote: >> Dear list members, >> As usual, I am appealing to your collective wisdom. I am putting >> together my >> syllabus for an undergraduate course (i.e., readings in English) on >> Russian >> fiction from glasnost' to the present (including Petrushevskaia, >> Pelevin, >> Ulitskaia, possibly Makanin, Narbikova). I am writing to ask for >> your >> suggestions for readings (novels or short stories) for the later >> part of the >> course, roughly from the mid/late 1990s to now. And if anyone >> feels like >> sharing their own teaching experiences with any of the texts - what >> worked, >> what didn't, etc.- I'd love to hear about that too. Please reply >> off-list: >> yfurman at humnet.ucla.edu >> Many thanks in advance, and happy New Year! >> - Yelena Furman > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Kirsti.Ekonen at UTA.FI Fri Jan 9 13:10:38 2009 From: Kirsti.Ekonen at UTA.FI (Kirsti Ekonen) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:10:38 +0200 Subject: AAASS panel on Symbolism In-Reply-To: <649DF7A559E6C54B85E6104D146C6EC20259A1A0@folio.cal.msu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Jason Merril, I would like to participate in the panel on Russian Symbolism at the next AAASS conference. I will defend my doctoral dissertation on Russian Symbolist women?s writing in next March at the University of Tampere, Finland. The title of the dissertation is ?Tvorec, sub?ekt, zhenschina: strategii zhenskogo pis?ma v russkom simvolizme? and it shows the careers of five symbolist women writers (Zinaida Gippius, Liudmila Vil?kina, Poliksena Solov?eva, Nina Petrovsjaja and Lidiia Zinov?eva-Annibal) from the new angle. In the first part of the work I define the significance (?functions?) of the category of femininity in the Symbolist aesthetics. The second part of the work is devoted to the analysis how the central aesthetic and philosophical concept of femininity was understood, treated and reformulated in the work of the above named women writers. On the ground of this research I would like to propose some possible topics for the panel on Symbolism: -The functions of the category of femininity in the aesthetic discourse of Russian Symbolism. -The construction of creative subjectivity in Russian Symbolism. -Zinaida Gippius ? a feminist? -Nina Petrovskaia ? a symbol of decadence. -Lidiia Zinov?eva-Annibal ? Russian Diotima. With kind regards from Finland, Kirsti Ekonen Quoting "Merrill, Jason" : > Dear Seelangers, > > I am hoping to organize a panel for AAASS in Boston on Russian > Symbolism. If you would like to present a paper, Chair, or serve as > Discussant, please contact me at merril25 at msu.edu. Spasibo zaranee! > > Jason Merrill > Associate Professor of Russian > Dept. of Linguistics and Languages > Michigan State University > A-643 Wells Hall > East Lansing, MI 48824 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU Fri Jan 9 14:17:43 2009 From: pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU (David Powelstock) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 09:17:43 -0500 Subject: Fiction suggestions In-Reply-To: <85DF3520-CBC2-4259-A86F-8371AEE012BC@russianlife.net> Message-ID: Paul's post reminded me of the marvelous online journal "Words Without Borders," specializing in translations of literature from around the world. (www.wordswithoutborders.org) If you go to the section on Europe, sorted by country, you'll find dozens of contemporary Russian titles, as well as many translations from other Slavic literatures. (http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?sec=Europe&order=Country) They also have all kinds of other resources, historical, biographical, cultural, as well as a growing body of lesson plans and study guides. Cheers, David Powelstock -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Richardson Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 6:04 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Fiction suggestions Yelena (and others): May I humbly recommend our quarterly journal, Chtenia, which I believe is the only regularly published journal of Russian fiction in English translation. Each issue features 10-12 fresh translations of Russian fiction and non-fiction, all centered around a chosen theme. The majority of the selections are fiction and are a good mix of contemporary and classic writers. So we have Slavnikova alongside Gogol, Sorokin alongside Tolstoy... A good way for students to get a taste of a wide swath of literature and then follow up on someone they discover there. To see past tables of contents or to subscribe or order back issues, go to: http://www.chtenia.com Thanks, Paul Richardson On Jan 9, 2009, at 1:00 AM, SEELANGS automatic digest system wrote: >> Dear list members, >> As usual, I am appealing to your collective wisdom. I am putting >> together my >> syllabus for an undergraduate course (i.e., readings in English) on >> Russian >> fiction from glasnost' to the present (including Petrushevskaia, >> Pelevin, >> Ulitskaia, possibly Makanin, Narbikova). I am writing to ask for >> your >> suggestions for readings (novels or short stories) for the later >> part of the >> course, roughly from the mid/late 1990s to now. And if anyone >> feels like >> sharing their own teaching experiences with any of the texts - what >> worked, >> what didn't, etc.- I'd love to hear about that too. Please reply >> off-list: >> yfurman at humnet.ucla.edu >> Many thanks in advance, and happy New Year! >> - Yelena Furman > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 anne_hruska at YAHOO.COM Fri Jan 9 17:48:46 2009 From: anne_hruska at YAHOO.COM (Anne Hruska) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 09:48:46 -0800 Subject: AAASS panel: Family and the 19th Century Novel Message-ID: Dear all, We have two panelists and are looking for a third. The papers so far: Anna Aberman (Princeton University): "A Breach in the Kinship Network: Rethinking Family in Anna Karenina" Anne Hruska (Stanford University): "Chernyshevsky and the Children Problem" Would anyone care to make a third? Cheers, AH ________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 dassia2 at GMAIL.COM Fri Jan 9 18:28:56 2009 From: dassia2 at GMAIL.COM (Dassia Posner) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:28:56 -0500 Subject: AAASS panel on Russian migr art and performance Message-ID: Hello all, I would like to propose a panel for next November's AAASS conference. I am looking for two panelists (I will be the third), a chair, and a respondent. The theme will be autobiography and cultural identity as expressed in Russian émigré visual and performing arts. The title of my paper is "Mapping an Émigré Community: Boris Chaliapin's Theatrical Portraiture." Please respond to me offlist. I look forward to hearing from you! Dassia -- Dassia Posner Postdoctoral Fellow Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 dposner at fas.harvard.edu dassia2 at gmail.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 yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Fri Jan 9 19:16:28 2009 From: yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Furman, Yelena) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:16:28 -0800 Subject: Fiction suggestions Message-ID: Dear David and Paul, Thank you both. Best, Lena ________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of David Powelstock Sent: Fri 1/9/2009 6:17 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Fiction suggestions Paul's post reminded me of the marvelous online journal "Words Without Borders," specializing in translations of literature from around the world. (www.wordswithoutborders.org) If you go to the section on Europe, sorted by country, you'll find dozens of contemporary Russian titles, as well as many translations from other Slavic literatures. (http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?sec=Europe&order=Country) They also have all kinds of other resources, historical, biographical, cultural, as well as a growing body of lesson plans and study guides. Cheers, David Powelstock -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Richardson Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 6:04 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Fiction suggestions Yelena (and others): May I humbly recommend our quarterly journal, Chtenia, which I believe is the only regularly published journal of Russian fiction in English translation. Each issue features 10-12 fresh translations of Russian fiction and non-fiction, all centered around a chosen theme. The majority of the selections are fiction and are a good mix of contemporary and classic writers. So we have Slavnikova alongside Gogol, Sorokin alongside Tolstoy... A good way for students to get a taste of a wide swath of literature and then follow up on someone they discover there. To see past tables of contents or to subscribe or order back issues, go to: http://www.chtenia.com Thanks, Paul Richardson On Jan 9, 2009, at 1:00 AM, SEELANGS automatic digest system wrote: >> Dear list members, >> As usual, I am appealing to your collective wisdom. I am putting >> together my >> syllabus for an undergraduate course (i.e., readings in English) on >> Russian >> fiction from glasnost' to the present (including Petrushevskaia, >> Pelevin, >> Ulitskaia, possibly Makanin, Narbikova). I am writing to ask for >> your >> suggestions for readings (novels or short stories) for the later >> part of the >> course, roughly from the mid/late 1990s to now. And if anyone >> feels like >> sharing their own teaching experiences with any of the texts - what >> worked, >> what didn't, etc.- I'd love to hear about that too. Please reply >> off-list: >> yfurman at humnet.ucla.edu >> Many thanks in advance, and happy New Year! >> - Yelena Furman > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 tdolack at UOREGON.EDU Fri Jan 9 20:30:02 2009 From: tdolack at UOREGON.EDU (Tom Dolack) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:30:02 -0800 Subject: Fiction suggestions - contemporary poetry In-Reply-To: <003401c97265$099828c0$1cc87a40$@edu> Message-ID: Happy New Year to the list! Speaking of contemporary literature and online journals, on behalf of the editor Peter Golub, I would like to draw everybody's attention to the latest issue of Jacket (http://jacketmagazine.com/36/index.shtml) which features a very sizable anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation, including work by Nina Iskrenko, Polina Barskova, Anna Gorenko, Peter Popov, Lev Rubinstein and Maria Stepanova among many others. Not to get into Oscar acceptance speech mode and not to slight any individual, but the anthology is the product of too many hands, particularly those of the translators, to list here, but thanks and appreciation go out to all involved. The issue is not complete yet and will be added to over the next month or two (an advantage of online publishing), so please check back in the near future as well. Best wishes to the list, Tom Dolack Comparative Literature/REESC University of Oregon David Powelstock wrote: > Paul's post reminded me of the marvelous online journal "Words Without > Borders," specializing in translations of literature from around the world. > (www.wordswithoutborders.org) If you go to the section on Europe, sorted by > country, you'll find dozens of contemporary Russian titles, as well as many > translations from other Slavic literatures. > (http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?sec=Europe&order=Country) They also > have all kinds of other resources, historical, biographical, cultural, as > well as a growing body of lesson plans and study guides. > > Cheers, > David Powelstock > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 fjp2106 at COLUMBIA.EDU Fri Jan 9 20:36:03 2009 From: fjp2106 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Francisco Picon) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:36:03 -0500 Subject: Nabokov Panel Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, My apologies for bombarding the listserv. I am trying to get together a panel on Nabokov for the 2009 AAASS convention. I need at least one more panelist, a chair, and a discussant. Below are the titles for the papers that we have as of now: "The book is dazzlingly brilliant? but': The Critical Reception of Vladimir Nabokov?s The Gift" by Professor Yuri Leving and "Nabokov's Ritual of Ressurection: The EO Commentator as historical thinker" by myself. If you are interested, please respond (with an abstract if applicable) off-list Thank you, Francisco Picon -- Francisco Picon PhD Student Department of Slavic Languages Columbia University 708 Hamilton Hall 1130 Amsterdam Avenue MC 2839 New York, NY 10027 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU Fri Jan 9 20:48:21 2009 From: mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Katz, Michael) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:48:21 -0500 Subject: AAASS panel: Family and the 19th Century Novel In-Reply-To: <522831.70379.qm@web45201.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear Anna: This is very tempting. I have worked on the theme of children and the family in Sholem Aleichem's "Tevye the Dairyman" cycle of stories (1895-1914) and compared his treatment to Vladimir Jabotinsky's Odessa novel "The Five," written in 1936, but set at the end of the 19th and very beginning of the 20th century. Would you be willing to consider my work for inclusion on your panel? Michael Katz C.V. Starr Professor of Russian and East European Studies Middlebury College On 1/9/09 12:48 PM, "Anne Hruska" wrote: Dear all, We have two panelists and are looking for a third. The papers so far: Anna Aberman (Princeton University): "A Breach in the Kinship Network: Rethinking Family in Anna Karenina" Anne Hruska (Stanford University): "Chernyshevsky and the Children Problem" Would anyone care to make a third? Cheers, AH ________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 zipk81 at UCHICAGO.EDU Fri Jan 9 22:59:56 2009 From: zipk81 at UCHICAGO.EDU (Kathryn Duda) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:59:56 -0600 Subject: AAASS Panel Message-ID: To those who would be interested, I am looking to put a panel together for AAASS 2009. I interested in looking at memories of childhood and trauma, with authors, such as Ivan Klima and Yuri Trifonov. I have one panel member already from my home institution who is interested in Danilo Kis and David Albahari. But we are looking for interested parties from other institutions. As we are all aware there is not much time left, but if you feel you can add to the dialogue in terms of a paper, chair or discussant, please contact me. As you can see our interests are open in terms of geographical areas of focus, but in addition, any time period or media which may be applicable, we would be very excited to work with you. Thank you for your interest, Kathryn Duda ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 katy_sosnak at BERKELEY.EDU Sat Jan 10 00:32:09 2009 From: katy_sosnak at BERKELEY.EDU (Katy Sosnak) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:32:09 -0600 Subject: AAASS Panel on "Illustrating Trauma": Participants Needed Message-ID: Dear all, I am co-organizing a panel on illustration, visualizing trauma and adaptation for this year’s AAASS. We currently have two papers (one is titled "Dostoevsky’s Modern Illustrators: 'Prestuplenie i nakazanie' as 1950s Popaganda," and the other is on Euphrosinia Kersnovskaia and visualizing the trauma of the Gulag experience), but are lacking a third, as well as a chair and (a) discussant(s). If any of you would be interested in participating on this panel, please contact either me (katy_sosnak at berkeley.edu) or Kat Hill Reischl (hillk at uchicago.edu) off-list. Thanks and all the best, Katy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Jan 10 03:09:00 2009 From: zodyp at BELOIT.EDU (Patricia Zody) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:09:00 -1000 Subject: ACTR's National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I invite you and your students to participate in the 10th Annual ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest. We had an outstanding contest in 2008 with 723 participants representing 50 universities and colleges. In recognition of the tenth anniversary of the essay contest, I have set a personal goal of having 1,000 students write essays this year. I hope that you will help me meet this challenge. We would also like to see an increase in the number of participants competing in levels three and four of the contest, not to mention the heritage-learner levels. Participation in the Russian Essay Contest is an excellent way -to have your students compete nationwide with their peers -to raise the visibility of your Russian program -to compete in a fun, field-wide event. The contest is for students at all levels of Russian (1st through 4th-year), and there are categories for heritage learners. If you should have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. The deadline for registering your students is January 30, 2009. Sincerely, Patricia Zody NPSREC Chairperson *********************************************************************** 10th ANNUAL ACTR NATIONAL POST-SECONDARY RUSSIAN ESSAY CONTEST Students taking Russian in accredited colleges and universities are invited to participate in the ninth annual National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest sponsored by the American Council of Teachers of Russian. All students must pay a registration fee according to the following schedule: Students whose teacher is an ACTR member - $5.00 per registration Students whose teacher is not an ACTR member - $7.50 per registration Students may not register themselves, but can only be registered by a teacher. To register your students, please send a registration form (below) and one check made out to "ACTR" to Patricia Zody, Center for Language Studies, Beloit College, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI 53511. All registrations must be received by January 30, 2009. Registrations received after the deadline will not be accepted. When registering your students, please consult the criteria below to select the appropriate level. Teachers whose students are participating in the contest will receive directions and the essay topic in late January 2009. Students will write their essays between Feb. 2 and Feb. 16, 2009 at a time selected by the instructor at each institution. Students should not receive the essay topic until the time scheduled to write the essay. Judges will review the essays in March 2009 and winners will be announced by April 15, 2009. Please note that students cannot use any books or notes and may not work together. Essays must be written legibly in blue or black ink. The time limit for writing the essays will be one hour. The essays must be written in blue or black ink on lined paper provided by teachers. Pencil is not acceptable (as it won't photocopy). After the students write the essay, teachers will make four photocopies of each essay as per the directions and then send the originals and three photocopies to Patricia Zody within 48 hours of the test date. All essays will be evaluated anonymously: no essay will be identifiable by the name or institution of the student who wrote it. Gold, silver, bronze and honorable mention ribbon awards (certificates) will be presented for the best essays at each level. Here are sample essay topics from previous contests: “What Is Your Dream?” “An Important or Funny Thing Happened When” “A Person (Real or Fictional) Who Is Important to Me and Why?” “My Life Changed When” “My Favorite Place” “When I Relax” “Write a letter to a figure from Russian history or a hero (heroine) from Russian literature./ Napishite pis'mo istoricheskomu litsu ili geroiu russkoi literatury.” “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” (Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.), Anna Karenina, Lev Tolstoy All categories and levels of students use the same essay topic. Teachers may not substitute students for those registered by the deadline. No refunds are available for students who don't show up for the essay contest. Essays will be ranked according to levels as follows: Category 1: Non-Heritage Learners (those learners who do not and did not ever speak Russian in the home. Please take the time to calculate the number of hours that your students have studied Russian to place them in the proper category.) Level One: students who at the time of the essay contest will have had fewer than 100 contact hours of instruction in Russian (whether in college alone or in college and high school). (Please note that heritage learners of any Slavic language, including Russian, are not allowed to participate in this level and category of the contest.) Level Two: students who at the time of the essay contest will have had more than 100 contact hours, but fewer than 250 contact hours of instruction. (This is mostly students in second-year Russian.) Level Three: students who will have had more than 250 contact hours, but fewer than 400 contact hours of instruction. (This is mostly students in third or fourth-year Russian.) Level Four: students who will have had more than 400 contact hours of instruction. (This is mostly students in fourth-year or fifth-year Russian.) Category 2: Heritage Learners Heritage Learners (1) - students who speak Russian with their families and who have NOT attended school in Russia or the former Soviet Union and have to learn reading and writing skills after emigration. Heritage Learners (2): students who speak Russian with their families and who have attended school for fewer than 5 years in Russia or the former Soviet Union and may have had to relearn reading and writing skills after emigration. Heritage Learners (3): students who speak Russian with their families and who have attended school for 5 or more years in Russia or the former Soviet Union and have not had to relearn reading and writing skills after emigration. Judges will evaluate essays according to content (the ability to express ideas in Russian and communicate information about the topic) and length, lexicon, syntax, structure (grammatical and orthographic accuracy), and originality or creativity. Awards will be announced in the ACTR Letter and Web site, and the AATSEEL Web site. The best gold ribbon essays will be published in the ACTR Letter. Teachers with questions about the essay contest should contact: Patricia L. Zody Director, Center for Language Studies Beloit College 700 College Street Beloit, WI 53511 (608)363-2277 cls at beloit.edu REGISTRATION FORM FOR NATIONAL POST-SECONDARY RUSSIAN ESSAY CONTEST Name of Institution: Name of Instructor: Address: E-Mail Address: Telephone: Fax: List of Participants: 1) Name, 2) Category, and 3) Level Send to Patricia Zody, Center for Language Studies, Beloit College, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI 53511 before January 30, 2009. Official registration forms can also be found in the Winter 2008 ACTR Letter. If you would like to receive a registration form by mail or electronically, please contact me at zodyp at beloit.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 k-bowers at NORTHWESTERN.EDU Sat Jan 10 05:40:44 2009 From: k-bowers at NORTHWESTERN.EDU (Katherine Bowers) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 23:40:44 -0600 Subject: Seeking a discussant and a 3rd paper for a AAASS panel Message-ID: Dear all, A colleague and I are putting together a panel for the 2009 conference in Boston focusing on the following topic: "The Function of 'Writing Lives' Within Modernist Autobiographical Discourse" We are looking for a discussant and a 3rd paper. Our papers are on Tsvetaeva and Rozanov. If you are interested in participating as a panelist or as a discussant, please reply off list to katia at u.northwestern.edu. Thank you! Katia Bowers -- Katherine A. Bowers Doctoral Candidate, Slavic Department Assistant Master, Willard Residential College Northwestern 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 lilya at ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Jan 10 09:40:24 2009 From: lilya at ILLINOIS.EDU (Lilya Kaganovsky) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:40:24 +0100 Subject: AAASS Panel on Russian "New Wave Cinema": Participants Needed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear SEELANGS readers, Susan Larsen and I are looking for participants for a panel on "New Wave" cinema for next year's AAASS. The papers can be comparative (considering the New Wave, Neo Realism, new German cinema, etc.) or on individual films, filmmakers, and the like. Our current line-up includes a paper on Larissa Shepitko's "Wings" and one on Marlen Khutsiev's "July Rain." Please let me know if you would be interested in being a presenter, a discussant, or chair. Please reply off-list to: lilya at illinois.edu -Lilya * * * * * * * * Lilya Kaganovsky, Associate Professor University of Illinois Program in Comparative Literature & World Literature Department of Slavic Languages and Literature Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory Unit for Cinema Studies 217-333-6157 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 lora at UCI.EDU Sat Jan 10 21:52:18 2009 From: lora at UCI.EDU (lora at UCI.EDU) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:52:18 -0800 Subject: Discussant and Chair needed for AAASS Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am putting together a panel for AAASS 2009 called "Watching and Writing the Cinema" and I am looking for a chair and a discussant. We currently have one paper on women writing about and for the cinema in pre-Revolutionary Russia, one paper on writing about and for early Soviet animation and one paper on the inter-cultural adaptation of Chekhov's text in film. Please contact Lora Mjolsness (lora at uci.edu) off list if you are able to help us. Thank you, Lora -- Lora Wheeler Mjolsness, PhD Program in Russian Studies University of California, Irvine 112 HOB2 Irvine, CA 92697 lora at uci.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 lgoering at CARLETON.EDU Sun Jan 11 15:22:59 2009 From: lgoering at CARLETON.EDU (Laura Goering) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:22:59 -0600 Subject: Translation question In-Reply-To: <1151569022.157063761231687236849.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I'm wondering if there is a standard English translation for the "Общественный совет по социальной рекламе" (St. Petersburg). If not, I would be grateful for suggestions. Thank you, Laura -- Laura Goering Professor of Russian Department of German and Russian Carleton College Northfield, MN 55057 (507) 222-4125 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 birgitbeumers at YAHOO.CO.UK Sun Jan 11 15:40:04 2009 From: birgitbeumers at YAHOO.CO.UK (Birgit Beumers) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:40:04 +0000 Subject: TOC: KinoKultura 23 Message-ID: KinoKultura is proud to present its first issue, # 23: January 2009 with articles on and reviews of recent Russian and Central Asian films. The editor would also like to introduce the journal's new team of co-editors: Anthony Anemone, Seth Graham, David MacFadyen, Rimgaila Salys, and Christina Stojanova and thank them for their support!  Here is the content for Issue 23: Articles Maria Belodubrovskaya: Understanding the Magic: Special Effects in Ladislas Starewitch's L'Horloge magique Larisa Maliukova: The State of the Art: Russian Animation Today Evgenii Margolit: The Image of Germans in Russian Cultural Space Festival Reports: Birgit Beumers: New Voices and Old Images: Eurasia 2008 Gulbara Tolomushova: Dushanbe Flights to Googoosh's Songs: Didor 2008 Film Reviews Aleksandr Atanesian’s Montana by Svetlana Dragayeva-Turovska Roman Balaian’s Birds of Paradise (Ukraine) by Andrey Shcherbenok Andrei Eshpai’s The Event by Christine Engel Oleg Fomin’s Gentlemen Officers by Olga Rudich Farid Gumbatov’s Caucasia (Azerbaijan/Russia) by Julie Christensen Julia Kolesnik’s Lower Caledonia by Eva Binder Andrei Kudinenko’s The Joke by Joshua First Aleksandr Rogozhkin’s The Game by Jasmijn van Gorp Petr Todorovskii’s Riorita by Denise Youngblood Documentaries, Animation and Television Serials Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov’s The Mother (documentary) by Greg Dolgopolov Vitalii Manskii’s Virginity (documentary) by Irina Liubarskaia Valeri Ugarov’s Babka Ezhka ... (animation) by Jeremy Morris Arkadii Kordon’s House on the Embankment (TV) by Peter Rollberg Central Asian Cinema Temur Birnazarov’s The Route of Hope (Kyrgyzstan) by Tom Welsford Guka Omarova’s Baksy—The Native Dancer (Kazakhstan) by Robert Bird Danyar Salamat’s Together with Father (Kazakhstan) by Michael Rouland Marat Sarulu’s Song of Southern Seas (Kazakhstan/Russia) by Seth Graham Eurasia Shorts reviewed by the Young Critics'Jury: Anton Sidorenko on Adil'khan Erzhanov's Bakhytzhamal (Kazakhstan) Aliya Moldalieva on Talgat Bektursunov's 113th! (Kazakhstan) Zeinet Turarbekkyzy on Serik Ibraim's The Thief (Kazakhstan) Please note our email address: info at kinokultura.com Best wishes for 2009 Birgit Beumers Dr Birgit Beumers Department of Russian Studies University of Bristol 17 Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1TE United Kingdom Tel +44 117 928 7596 Editor, www.kinokultura.com Editor, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM Sun Jan 11 16:26:42 2009 From: anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM (Anne Fisher) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:26:42 -0500 Subject: books about books?` Message-ID: Hello SEELANGers, Another listserv I'm on has compiled a list of books about books - not scholarship on book history/bibliography/textology/etc., but fiction and historical fiction about books, printing, rare editions, etc. And memoirs, but think Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran," not Smirnov-Sokol'skii's "Rasskazy o knigakh." I heard the familiar names - Eco, Calvino, Borges - and many new ones, including the authors of popular fiction: mysteries, Dan Brown-esque "thrillers," etc. Not one Russian name in the bunch. "Pale Fire" came immediately to mind, but it's so meta it's arguably a different category. Other than that I drew a blank. Can anyone suggest Russian fiction (historical fiction, popular fiction) about books? I can't believe the "samyi chitaiushchii narod v mire" would let me down on this... Thank you, Annie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 pashuk at KNOLOGY.NET Sun Jan 11 16:28:22 2009 From: pashuk at KNOLOGY.NET (Oleg Pashuk) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:28:22 -0500 Subject: Translation question Message-ID: Maybe, something like that: Public Council for Social advertising Oleg Pashuk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Goering" To: Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 10:22 AM Subject: [SEELANGS] Translation question Dear colleagues, I'm wondering if there is a standard English translation for the "Общественный совет по социальной рекламе" (St. Petersburg). If not, I would be grateful for suggestions. Thank you, Laura -- Laura Goering Professor of Russian Department of German and Russian Carleton College Northfield, MN 55057 (507) 222-4125 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1886 - Release Date: 1/10/2009 6:01 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 tbuzina at YANDEX.RU Sun Jan 11 17:04:15 2009 From: tbuzina at YANDEX.RU (Tatyana Buzina) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:04:15 +0300 Subject: books about books?` In-Reply-To: <8c568bdf0901110826o511ba590l70b81dd776ca9731@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hello, from the more recent ones: Ada Links "Irga v Grissone" and Lev Gursky "Est', gospodin president." The first one is more about literature in general, the second is about searching for a manuscript by Paracelsus. Would any of these qualify? Regards, Tatyana 11.01.09, 19:26, "Anne Fisher" : > Hello SEELANGers, > Another listserv I'm on has compiled a list of books about books - not > scholarship on book history/bibliography/textology/etc., but fiction and > historical fiction about books, printing, rare editions, etc. And memoirs, > but think Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran," not Smirnov-Sokol'skii's > "Rasskazy o knigakh." > I heard the familiar names - Eco, Calvino, Borges - and many new ones, > including the authors of popular fiction: mysteries, Dan Brown-esque > "thrillers," etc. > Not one Russian name in the bunch. "Pale Fire" came immediately to mind, but > it's so meta it's arguably a different category. Other than that I drew a > blank. > Can anyone suggest Russian fiction (historical fiction, popular fiction) > about books? I can't believe the "samyi chitaiushchii narod v mire" would > let me down on this... > Thank you, > Annie > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Зал славы: все победители конкурсов на Яндекс.Фотках http://fotki.yandex.ru/contests.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU Sun Jan 11 17:24:48 2009 From: pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU (David Powelstock) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:24:48 -0500 Subject: books about books?` In-Reply-To: <60381231693455@webmail12.yandex.ru> Message-ID: I'm not sure I understand the criteria, but *Master and Margarita* certainly represents "samyi chitaiushchii narod" well. Cheers, David David Powelstock ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 vbesproz at UMICH.EDU Sun Jan 11 17:28:56 2009 From: vbesproz at UMICH.EDU (Vadim Besprozvany) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:28:56 -0500 Subject: books about books?` In-Reply-To: <8c568bdf0901110826o511ba590l70b81dd776ca9731@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Annie, Here is what I believe to be a "staple" among the "books about books": Ishtvan Rat-Veg (Hungarian author). Komediia knigi. (available on lib.ru) Best, VB Quoting Anne Fisher : > Hello SEELANGers, > Another listserv I'm on has compiled a list of books about books - not > scholarship on book history/bibliography/textology/etc., but fiction and > historical fiction about books, printing, rare editions, etc. And memoirs, > but think Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran," not Smirnov-Sokol'skii's > "Rasskazy o knigakh." > > I heard the familiar names - Eco, Calvino, Borges - and many new ones, > including the authors of popular fiction: mysteries, Dan Brown-esque > "thrillers," etc. > > Not one Russian name in the bunch. "Pale Fire" came immediately to mind, but > it's so meta it's arguably a different category. Other than that I drew a > blank. > > Can anyone suggest Russian fiction (historical fiction, popular fiction) > about books? I can't believe the "samyi chitaiushchii narod v mire" would > let me down on this... > > Thank you, > > Annie > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 stuart.goldberg at MODLANGS.GATECH.EDU Sun Jan 11 17:52:43 2009 From: stuart.goldberg at MODLANGS.GATECH.EDU (Stuart Goldberg) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:52:43 -0500 Subject: books about books?` In-Reply-To: <8c568bdf0901110826o511ba590l70b81dd776ca9731@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Tolstaya's Kys' is manifestly a book about books. Dar? Best, Stuart Anne Fisher wrote: > Hello SEELANGers, > Another listserv I'm on has compiled a list of books about books - not > scholarship on book history/bibliography/textology/etc., but fiction and > historical fiction about books, printing, rare editions, etc. And memoirs, > but think Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran," not Smirnov-Sokol'skii's > "Rasskazy o knigakh." > > I heard the familiar names - Eco, Calvino, Borges - and many new ones, > including the authors of popular fiction: mysteries, Dan Brown-esque > "thrillers," etc. > > Not one Russian name in the bunch. "Pale Fire" came immediately to mind, but > it's so meta it's arguably a different category. Other than that I drew a > blank. > > Can anyone suggest Russian fiction (historical fiction, popular fiction) > about books? I can't believe the "samyi chitaiushchii narod v mire" would > let me down on this... > > Thank you, > > Annie > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU Sun Jan 11 19:01:57 2009 From: frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU (Francoise Rosset) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:01:57 -0500 Subject: Translation question In-Reply-To: <1647287637.157063951231687379407.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> Message-ID: On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:22:59 -0600 Laura Goering wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I'm wondering if there is a standard English translation for the >"Общественный совет по социальной рекламе" (St. Petersburg). If not, >I would be grateful for suggestions. The American term for the ads is PSA "public service announcement" and the British term is PSI "Public service information." There is no central council in the US, esp. since de-regulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_service_announcement ... so you may have to make one up, and use an article in front of it to make clear it is a prototype and not an actual organization: _A National Administration for PSAs_ would be an American-sounding concoction. I think. -FR Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor Chair, Russian and Russian Studies Coordinator, German and Russian Wheaton College Norton, Massachusetts 02766 Office: (508) 285-3696 FAX: (508) 286-3640 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM Sun Jan 11 19:09:01 2009 From: anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM (Anne Fisher) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:09:01 -0500 Subject: books about books?` In-Reply-To: <496A31EB.4060006@modlangs.gatech.edu> Message-ID: Thanks to all for their suggestions of "books about books," especially from contemporary popular fiction. Tatyana, the Links and Gursky novels are great leads. Do you know if there is a whole contemporary sub-genre of "bibliomystery" in Russian as there is in English (for examples see http://www.librarything.com/tag/bibliomystery)? I wasn't thinking of Master and Margarita simply because for me that story is more about the act of writing a book, i.e. about authorship and creativity, than about a book per se (but I know that this is a very debatable point). Right now I'm thinking about stories dealing with the consumers of books - would there a Russian version of A. S. Byatt's "Possession" out there (hmm, which poets' illicit love affair is left to discover, even fictionally)? Or, if we want to talk about the production side of things, there is Michelle Lovric's "The Floating Book," a titillating story of love and lust and printing, set in immediately-post-Gutenberg Venice (although it's often more romance novel than it is historical fiction). Any racy historical fiction about Ivan Fyodorov out there? I don't see him attracting quite the female attention that Lovric's printer does, but he did have a lot of adventure in his life. Or even something like Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief" (young adult historical fiction in which German girl helps Jew hide from SS, she steals books for him to read, he teaches her to read and makes her a handmade book, etc. One of the only books I've read narrated by Death.) Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" is also a great story of an entire publishing industry, but I'm not sure what the closest Soviet or Russian pop culture industry equivalent could even be... At any rate, these are some of the books about books that are out there in English. Thanks for your suggestions of Russian books on books. Annie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 bshayevich at GMAIL.COM Sun Jan 11 19:15:50 2009 From: bshayevich at GMAIL.COM (bela shayevich) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:15:50 -0500 Subject: Translation question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Indeed, it seems there is no standard way of putting it. I would suggest something like The Public Service Advertising Council--which is something like the Ad Council active in America. On 1/11/09, Francoise Rosset wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:22:59 -0600 > Laura Goering wrote: >> Dear colleagues, >> >> I'm wondering if there is a standard English translation for the >>"Общественный совет по социальной рекламе" (St. Petersburg). If not, >>I would be grateful for suggestions. > > The American term for the ads is PSA "public service announcement" and > the British term is PSI "Public service information." > > There is no central council in the US, esp. since de-regulation: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_service_announcement > > ... so you may have to make one up, and use an article in front of it > to make clear it is a prototype and not an actual organization: _A > National Administration for PSAs_ would be an American-sounding > concoction. I think. > -FR > > > Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor > Chair, Russian and Russian Studies > Coordinator, German and Russian > Wheaton College > Norton, Massachusetts 02766 > Office: (508) 285-3696 > FAX: (508) 286-3640 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ellenseelangs at GMAIL.COM Mon Jan 12 09:51:17 2009 From: ellenseelangs at GMAIL.COM (Ellen Rutten) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:51:17 +0100 Subject: books about books?` In-Reply-To: <8c568bdf0901111109qf2a2f5bu1bf68733abe48671@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: how about turgenev's good old faust - if you're looking for books on consumers of books? yours, ellen Ellen Rutten University of Cambridge Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages Slavonic Department Sidgwick Avenue UK-Cambridge CB3 9DA www.ellenrutten.nl On 1/11/09, Anne Fisher wrote: > Thanks to all for their suggestions of "books about books," especially from > contemporary popular fiction. > Tatyana, the Links and Gursky novels are great leads. Do you know if there > is a whole contemporary sub-genre of "bibliomystery" in Russian as there is > in English (for examples see http://www.librarything.com/tag/bibliomystery)? > I wasn't thinking of Master and Margarita simply because for me that story > is more about the act of writing a book, i.e. about authorship and > creativity, than about a book per se (but I know that this is a very > debatable point). > > Right now I'm thinking about stories dealing with the consumers of books - > would there a Russian version of A. S. Byatt's "Possession" out there (hmm, > which poets' illicit love affair is left to discover, even fictionally)? > > Or, if we want to talk about the production side of things, there is > Michelle Lovric's "The Floating Book," a titillating story of love and lust > and printing, set in immediately-post-Gutenberg Venice (although it's often > more romance novel than it is historical fiction). Any racy historical > fiction about Ivan Fyodorov out there? I don't see him attracting quite the > female attention that Lovric's printer does, but he did have a lot of > adventure in his life. > > Or even something like Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief" (young adult > historical fiction in which German girl helps Jew hide from SS, she steals > books for him to read, he teaches her to read and makes her a handmade book, > etc. One of the only books I've read narrated by Death.) > > Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" is also a > great story of an entire publishing industry, but I'm not sure what the > closest Soviet or Russian pop culture industry equivalent could even be... > > At any rate, these are some of the books about books that are out there in > English. Thanks for your suggestions of Russian books on books. > > Annie > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 gianpaolo.gandolfo at FASTWEBNET.IT Sat Jan 10 18:00:02 2009 From: gianpaolo.gandolfo at FASTWEBNET.IT (Giampaolo Gandolfo) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:00:02 +0100 Subject: Russian acronyms Message-ID: Does any seelanger know of a good website where one could find a comprehensive dictionary of Russian acronyms? I always have problems with acronyms whenever I read modern Russian political literature. Thank uou! Sincerely Giampaolo Gandolfo -- Io utilizzo la versione gratuita di SPAMfighter. Siamo una comunità di 5,8 milioni di utenti che combattono lo spam. Sino ad ora ha rimosso 174 mail spam. Gli utenti paganti non hanno questo messaggio nelle loro email . Prova gratuitamente SPAMfighter qui:http://www.spamfighter.com/lit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Jan 12 11:39:18 2009 From: asred at COX.NET (Steve Marder) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:39:18 -0500 Subject: Russian acronyms In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > Does any seelanger know of a good website where one could find a comprehensive dictionary of Russian acronyms? > I always have problems with acronyms whenever I read modern Russian political literature. > Thank uou! http://www.sokr.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 J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK Mon Jan 12 13:51:59 2009 From: J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK (John Dunn) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:51:59 +0100 Subject: Translation question Message-ID: I would suggest: The Public Council (or perhaps Committee) for the Promotion of Non-Commercial Advertising. A site devoted to социальная реклама () claims that: Строго говоря, термин социальная реклама, являющийся дословным переводом с английского public advertising, используется только в России [Strogo govorja, termin social'naja reklama, javljajushchijsja doslovnym perevodom s anglijskogo public advertising, ispol'zuetsja tol'ko v Rossii]. In fact, neither part of that statement appears to be true: if the phrase is borrowed, a much more likely source is the Italian pubblicità sociale, for which there are over 4 million hits on google.it. As I understand it, the concept differs from (though may be extended to include) what I would call public information announcements. Since the main aim of the Sovet appears to be (the web-site is currently inaccessible) the promotion of social'naja reklama, I have reflected that in the my proffered translation. John Dunn. -----Original Message----- From: bela shayevich To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:15:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Translation question Indeed, it seems there is no standard way of putting it. I would suggest something like The Public Service Advertising Council--which is something like the Ad Council active in America. On 1/11/09, Francoise Rosset wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:22:59 -0600 > Laura Goering wrote: >> Dear colleagues, >> >> I'm wondering if there is a standard English translation for the >>"Общественный совет по социальной рекламе" (St. Petersburg). If not, >>I would be grateful for suggestions. > > The American term for the ads is PSA "public service announcement" and > the British term is PSI "Public service information." > > There is no central council in the US, esp. since de-regulation: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_service_announcement > > ... so you may have to make one up, and use an article in front of it > to make clear it is a prototype and not an actual organization: _A > National Administration for PSAs_ would be an American-sounding > concoction. I think. > -FR > > > Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor > Chair, Russian and Russian Studies > Coordinator, German and Russian > Wheaton College > Norton, Massachusetts 02766 > Office: (508) 285-3696 > FAX: (508) 286-3640 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Dunn Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies) University of Glasgow, Scotland Address: Via Carolina Coronedi Berti 6 40137 Bologna Italy Tel.: +39 051/1889 8661 e-mail: J.Dunn at slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk johnanthony.dunn at fastwebnet.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 maberdy at GMAIL.COM Mon Jan 12 14:39:31 2009 From: maberdy at GMAIL.COM (Michele A. Berdy) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:39:31 +0300 Subject: Translation question Message-ID: I wrote Prof Goering privately, but I thought I'd chime in publicly. This is a case when experience in the field and knowledge of the circumstances make translation easier. The sovet is a non-governmental group that reviews public service materials -- broadly defined -- and passes judgment on their cultural appropriateness. Actually, they consider more than public service announcements and materials; they seem to look at books, commercial advertising and much more. They don't produce public service messages or materials, nor do they promote them. They review materials and declare them ethical or unethical. It is really a watch-dog organization, guarding public morals against inappropriate anti-AIDS and other public service messages. I'd call it the Citizens' Council on Public Service Announcements. In American English, социальная реклама is a public service announcement, although it can also refer to public service advertising as a whole. (That can also be called social or cause marketing in English.) In any case, the name of the group is something of a misnomer, since its mandate seems broader than one would guess from what it's called. Awhile back I wrote an article on communication words for translators (translating E>R), since it's such a minefield. If anyone's interested, it can be found at www.thinkaloud.ru Cheers MAB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 schuckmane at MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU Mon Jan 12 14:37:35 2009 From: schuckmane at MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU (Emily E. Schuckman) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:37:35 -0500 Subject: AAASS Chair needed Message-ID: Dear SEELANGS: We are looking for a chair for the panel: "Russia at the Cinematic Margins" The three papers that will compose the panel are: - Russian Cinema doing 'Once Upon a Time': The Western goes to the Russian Province - Living at the Border. The Making of the Documentary film "Trulishka" (2005) - Viewing the Underground: I. Voloshin's film "Nirvana" (2008) Please reply off list Emily Schuckman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Jan 12 15:01:51 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:01:51 -0500 Subject: Russian acronyms In-Reply-To: <20090112063918.LMDQL.385315.imail@eastrmwml38> Message-ID: Also http://www.ets.ru/udict-abbrbig-e.htm On Jan 12, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Steve Marder wrote: >> Does any seelanger know of a good website where one could find >> a comprehensive dictionary of Russian acronyms? >> I always have problems with acronyms whenever I read modern >> Russian political literature. >> Thank uou! > > > http://www.sokr.ru/ > > Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU Mon Jan 12 15:01:57 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:01:57 -0500 Subject: Russian acronyms In-Reply-To: <20090112063918.LMDQL.385315.imail@eastrmwml38> Message-ID: On Jan 12, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Steve Marder wrote: >> Does any seelanger know of a good website where one could find >> a comprehensive dictionary of Russian acronyms? >> I always have problems with acronyms whenever I read modern >> Russian political literature. >> Thank uou! > > > http://www.sokr.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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 gianpaolo.gandolfo at FASTWEBNET.IT Mon Jan 12 16:06:28 2009 From: gianpaolo.gandolfo at FASTWEBNET.IT (Giampaolo Gandolfo) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:06:28 +0100 Subject: Russian acronyms Message-ID: The site www.akr.ru seems to be just what I needed and was looking for. Thanks to the seelangers who so promptly and clearly helped me out with their suggestions. Sincerely Giampaolo Gandolfo -- Io utilizzo la versione gratuita di SPAMfighter. Siamo una comunità di 5,8 milioni di utenti che combattono lo spam. Sino ad ora ha rimosso 174 mail spam. Gli utenti paganti non hanno questo messaggio nelle loro email . Prova gratuitamente SPAMfighter qui:http://www.spamfighter.com/lit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 tbuzina at YANDEX.RU Mon Jan 12 16:57:02 2009 From: tbuzina at YANDEX.RU (Tatyana Buzina) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:57:02 +0300 Subject: books about books?` In-Reply-To: <8c568bdf0901111109qf2a2f5bu1bf68733abe48671@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Anne, 616 titles tagged bibliomystery is a nice count! I cannot claim to be an expert in today's Russian mystery writing, so even though I cannot rake up even a tenth of that number it doesn't really mean anything. Although I found some more detective stories centered around books. Maybe this sub-genre does exist. For instance, Oleg Suvorov. Neblagodarnye potomki. I haven't read it but it appears to start off with Dostoevsky's stolen manuscript. There are probably more books which could qualify as a sort of "fan fiction," playing with characters from other books. Aside from Akunin, the same Suvorov wrote a book "Zaveshchanie bezumnogo filosofa" which, again, starts off with the murder of Prince Myshkin and features Alyosha Karamazov as a terrorist. I am sure there are many more books of this kind, I just cannot think of other titles right away. Best regards, Tatyana > Thanks to all for their suggestions of "books about books," especially from > contemporary popular fiction. > Tatyana, the Links and Gursky novels are great leads. Do you know if there > is a whole contemporary sub-genre of "bibliomystery" in Russian as there is > in English (for examples see http://www.librarything.com/tag/bibliomystery)? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Jan 12 17:05:15 2009 From: gianpaolo.gandolfo at FASTWEBNET.IT (Giampaolo Gandolfo) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:05:15 +0100 Subject: Fw: [SEELANGS] Russian acronyms Message-ID: Of course, it was my oversight (in a hurry). Thank you. Sincerely Giampaolo Gandolfo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Riley, Maureen Ms CIV USA TRADOC" To: "Giampaolo Gandolfo" Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 5:15 PM Subject: RE: [SEELANGS] Russian acronyms An interesting site that, unfortunately, has nothing to do with acronyms. I suspect you meant http://www.sokr.ru/ Maureen Riley Defense Language Institute--Washington -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Giampaolo Gandolfo Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:06 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian acronyms The site www.akr.ru seems to be just what I needed and was looking for. Thanks to the seelangers who so promptly and clearly helped me out with their suggestions. Sincerely Giampaolo Gandolfo -- Io utilizzo la versione gratuita di SPAMfighter. Siamo una comunità di 5,8 milioni di utenti che combattono lo spam. Sino ad ora ha rimosso 174 mail spam. Gli utenti paganti non hanno questo messaggio nelle loro email . 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Mon Jan 12 18:44:27 2009 From: yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Furman, Yelena) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:44:27 -0800 Subject: books about books?` Message-ID: Dear Annie (and everyone), I know this isn't Russian, but Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude is most definitely a (beautiful) book about books. Best, Lena ________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Anne Fisher Sent: Sun 1/11/2009 11:09 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] books about books?` Thanks to all for their suggestions of "books about books," especially from contemporary popular fiction. Tatyana, the Links and Gursky novels are great leads. Do you know if there is a whole contemporary sub-genre of "bibliomystery" in Russian as there is in English (for examples see http://www.librarything.com/tag/bibliomystery)? I wasn't thinking of Master and Margarita simply because for me that story is more about the act of writing a book, i.e. about authorship and creativity, than about a book per se (but I know that this is a very debatable point). Right now I'm thinking about stories dealing with the consumers of books - would there a Russian version of A. S. Byatt's "Possession" out there (hmm, which poets' illicit love affair is left to discover, even fictionally)? Or, if we want to talk about the production side of things, there is Michelle Lovric's "The Floating Book," a titillating story of love and lust and printing, set in immediately-post-Gutenberg Venice (although it's often more romance novel than it is historical fiction). Any racy historical fiction about Ivan Fyodorov out there? I don't see him attracting quite the female attention that Lovric's printer does, but he did have a lot of adventure in his life. Or even something like Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief" (young adult historical fiction in which German girl helps Jew hide from SS, she steals books for him to read, he teaches her to read and makes her a handmade book, etc. One of the only books I've read narrated by Death.) Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" is also a great story of an entire publishing industry, but I'm not sure what the closest Soviet or Russian pop culture industry equivalent could even be... At any rate, these are some of the books about books that are out there in English. Thanks for your suggestions of Russian books on books. Annie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 greniers at GEORGETOWN.EDU Mon Jan 12 19:55:03 2009 From: greniers at GEORGETOWN.EDU (greniers at GEORGETOWN.EDU) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:55:03 -0500 Subject: books about books?` In-Reply-To: <31C1DA6A7615F74EAE7A4262334C447F01F7343F@hermes.humnet.ucla.edu> Message-ID: Annie, I don't know if this fits your description, but Veniamin Kaverin's "Ispolnenie zhelanii" tells a story of a young literary scholar decoding the 10th chapter of Evgenii Onegin. Best, Svetlana Grenier ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Tue Jan 13 15:26:57 2009 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:26:57 +0000 Subject: Platonov and God Message-ID: Dear all, This line is from his play Sharmanka: O, Gospodi, Gospodi, khot¹ by ty byl, chto li! This is not easy to translate. What I would particularly like help with is the Œchto li¹. The sentence could end with Œbyl!¹ What does the Œchto li¹ add to it? Vsego dobrogo, 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 vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 13 15:34:27 2009 From: vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM (Valery Belyanin) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:34:27 -0500 Subject: books about books?` In-Reply-To: <8c568bdf0901110826o511ba590l70b81dd776ca9731@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Anne Fisher wrote: > Hello SEELANGers, > Another listserv I'm on has compiled a list of books about books - I was greatly impressed by Пьецух В. «Новая московская философия». Сюжет повести «Новая московская философия» очень схож с сюжетом романа Ф.М.Достоевского «Преступление и наказание». http://bank.orenipk.ru/Text/t37_20_12.htm I have remembered about this when I read news from Russia http://kp.ru/daily/24225/426787/ it is titles В России "Раскольниковы" опять убивают старух-процентщиц it is a bit lengthy, but I think it may be interesting for you. readers' consumer society? :-( -- С наилучшими пожеланиями, Валерий Белянин Valeri Belianine / Valery Belyanin From meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU Tue Jan 13 15:58:27 2009 From: meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU (Olga Meerson) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:58:27 -0500 Subject: Platonov and God In-Reply-To: Message-ID: "I wish You at least were there somewhere--or something!" cf. the longer note I sent you off list. o ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 peitlovakatarina at TISCALI.IT Tue Jan 13 16:13:04 2009 From: peitlovakatarina at TISCALI.IT (Peitlova Katarina) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:13:04 +0100 Subject: TRANSLATION HELP Message-ID: Italian birth certificate is issued in STAMP FREE PAPER Rilasciato in CARTA LIBERA . How could I translate it in RUSSIAN? spravka bez marki??? Thanks to all for help. Katarina Peitlova-Tocci,PhDr. Italia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK Tue Jan 13 16:46:44 2009 From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:46:44 +0000 Subject: Platonov and God In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Robert, I would be tempted to translate this phrase -"O, Gospodi, Gospodi, khot¹ by ty byl, chto li!" - as "Dear, dear Lord! If only you were around...". The repetition in Platonov's sentence creates an effective rhytmical flow, I think. "Chto li" is used to emphasise the notion of wishful thinking ... it also sounds colloqual and mimicks the spoken language rather well. All best, Sasha Smith > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Tue Jan 13 16:59:52 2009 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:59:52 +0000 Subject: Platonov and God In-Reply-To: <20090113105827.ABU40910@mstore-prod-2.pdc.uis.georgetown.edu> Message-ID: Dear Olga, Sasha and all, I like the lameness of the last part of Olga's "I wish You at least were there somewhere--or something!" But I prefer "O Lord, Lord, if only you were there somewhere--or something!" Another possibility, probably not quite so good: ŒO Lord, Lord, if only you really were, or something!¹ The 'really' may be justified by the fact that 'byl' carries far more emphasis than 'were'. Or: ŒO Lord, Lord, if only you were there, or something!¹ I'm less keen on Sasha's "Dear, dear Lord! If only you were around...". It sounds a bit too much as if the speaker is himself trying to be funny. Platonov, of course, may want one of our responses to be laughter, but the speaker certainly doesn't. O, Gospodi, Gospodi, khot¹ by ty byl, chto li! R. > "I wish You at least were there somewhere--or something!" > cf. the longer note I sent you off list. > o > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 peitlovakatarina at TISCALI.IT Tue Jan 13 17:52:49 2009 From: peitlovakatarina at TISCALI.IT (Peitlova Katarina) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:52:49 +0100 Subject: spravka Message-ID: Dear Olia and John, thank you very much for your help. I go for John's text - I had it already that way. Best wishes, Katarina ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mbalina at IWU.EDU Tue Jan 13 18:41:47 2009 From: mbalina at IWU.EDU (Professor Marina Balina) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:41:47 -0600 Subject: Czech Language Study Advice? Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I am looking for some advice. One of my students (a graduating senior) received a scholarship from the Rotary Club to study in Slovakia (at least, that was our original plan). After numerous contacts with several Slovak Universities, we realized that none of them wants to meet the scholarship requirement of 20 hours of language study a week. It was extremely disappointing. Studying in Russia was an alternative for the student (he has had three semesters of Russian), but he would like to explore opportunities to study in Czech Republic. Does anybody know of a program there that would offer 20 hours per week of language instruction? I would be very grateful for your help, we are under a lot of time pressure. Thank you, Marina Balina ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 tritt002 at TC.UMN.EDU Tue Jan 13 19:00:09 2009 From: tritt002 at TC.UMN.EDU (Mike Trittipo) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:00:09 -0600 Subject: Czech Language Study Advice? In-Reply-To: <5397119.1231872107586.JavaMail.mbalina@iwu.edu> Message-ID: On Jan 13 2009, Professor Marina Balina wrote: >... [Sk options gone,] he would like to explore opportunities to >study in Czech Republic. Does anybody know of a program there that >would offer 20 hours per week of language instruction? If you mean in Czech, then in the summer, sure. Programs in Prague, Brno, and Olomouc at a minimum of something like 30 hours a week for four weeks. In the spring term, I only know of a two-week late January-early February program in Brno at 25 hours per week of intensive Czech. Info here: http://www.phil.muni.cz/kabcest/en/two-week-february.php With any luck, other list members will know of something longer. Good luck! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Tue Jan 13 19:20:49 2009 From: dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:20:49 -0500 Subject: Platonov and God In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I like Olga's suggestion as well but "chto li" is not "chto-to." "Chto li" means "I('d) really hope!" Sincerely, Edward Dumanis On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Robert Chandler wrote: > Dear Olga, Sasha and all, > > I like the lameness of the last part of Olga's > "I wish You at least were there somewhere--or something!" > But I prefer > "O Lord, Lord, if only you were there somewhere--or something!" > > Another possibility, probably not quite so good: > ŒO Lord, Lord, if only you really were, or something!¹ > The 'really' may be justified by the fact that 'byl' carries far more > emphasis than 'were'. > > Or: ŒO Lord, Lord, if only you were there, or something!¹ > > I'm less keen on Sasha's "Dear, dear Lord! If only you were > around...". It sounds a bit too much as if the speaker is himself trying to > be funny. Platonov, of course, may want one of our responses to be > laughter, but the speaker certainly doesn't. > > O, Gospodi, Gospodi, khot¹ by ty byl, chto li! > > R. > > >> "I wish You at least were there somewhere--or something!" >> cf. the longer note I sent you off list. >> o >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 pankova+ at PITT.EDU Tue Jan 13 21:21:09 2009 From: pankova+ at PITT.EDU (pankova+ at PITT.EDU) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:21:09 -0500 Subject: Czech Language Study Advice? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I would certainly check below. No pun intended, but the list of courses of Czech not in Czech (i.e. "Czech for foreigners") at Charles University seems promising. http://www.cuni.cz/UK-1151.html It might also be of interest that, as long as students take their courses in the Czech language, higher education in the Czech Republic is still more or less free. For comparison: 1st Medical Faculty (Charles U), courses taken in English = $10,000 per annum; same faculty, courses taken in Czech = almost nothing. "Study Czech - it pays off"! [For instance, during the Summer Language Institute at the U of Pittsburgh] All the best, Lenka > On Jan 13 2009, Professor Marina Balina wrote: >>... [Sk options gone,] he would like to explore opportunities to study in Czech Republic. Does anybody know of a program there that would offer 20 hours per week of language instruction? > > If you mean in Czech, then in the summer, sure. Programs in Prague, Brno, > and Olomouc at a minimum of something like 30 hours a week for four weeks. > In the spring term, I only know of a two-week late January-early February > program in Brno at 25 hours per week of intensive Czech. Info here: http://www.phil.muni.cz/kabcest/en/two-week-february.php With any luck, other list members will know of something longer. Good luck! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 allibazzer at MAC.COM Tue Jan 13 21:49:19 2009 From: allibazzer at MAC.COM (Allison Pultz) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:49:19 -0800 Subject: Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, It is with great pleasure that I invite you to attend the performance "Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry" (Wednesday, February 4) and the symposium and roundtable, "The Book as Such in the Russian Avant-Garde" (Thursday, February 5) to be held at The Getty Center in Los Angeles. The events are held in conjunction with the Getty Research Institute exhibition "Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910 - 1917", curated by Nancy Perloff with Allison Pultz. For further information about the exhibition, performance, symposium and its speakers, please visit our website at http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/tango_with_cows/events.html Best regards, Allison Pultz *************************************************** PERFORMANCE Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry Wednesday February 4, 2009 Reception and Gallery Viewing: 5:00 - 6:45 p.m., GRI Exhibition Gallery Performance: 7:00 - 8:45 p.m., Museum Lecture Hall This event provides a rare opportunity to hear both dramatic readings by the Russian scholar Oleg Minin of Russian Futurist zaum’ (“beyonsense”) and performances by Christian Bök and Steve McCaffery of their own contemporary sound poetry. Gerald Janecek, an expert on twentieth-century Russian avant-garde poetry, will introduce the evening. By invoking the revolutionary zaum’ poetry of the Russian avant-garde - as exemplified by the great poets Velimir Khlebnikov and Alexei Kruchenykh - this evening's performance explores the link between early sound experiments and what came to be known, in the post-Word War II era, as sound poetry--a movement very much alive today. SYMPOSIUM and ROUNDTABLE The Book as Such in the Russian Avant-Garde Thursday, February 5, 2009 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Museum Lecture Hall Talks and a roundtable address the graphic techniques, the newly invented poetic language called zaum' ("beyonsense"), and the visual and literary tensions between parodic humor and apocalypse, the primitive and the urban, the sacred and the profane. Speakers will consider the early reception and the influence of the Russian avant-garde book on visual poetry and the aesthetics of book production in the later decades of the twentieth century. For more information on the performance, symposium, roundtable, and its speakers please visit our website www.getty.edu and search for Tango with Cows or follow this link: www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/tango_with_cows/events.html NOTE: Admission to both events are free. Please make a reservation by visiting www.getty.edu/research or by calling (310) 440-7300. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU Tue Jan 13 21:49:35 2009 From: meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU (Olga Meerson) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:49:35 -0500 Subject: Platonov and God In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The reason I suggested "--or something" has NOTHING ro do with the fact that, in and of itself, as found in dictionaries, chto li does not mean chto-to, and "something" would be translated as chto-to only. The "or" in "or something" changes the meaning of this something completely. There is something (pardon!!!) bothering me about the "there". "If only you were THERE" sounds too openly philosophical for Platonov--like "is only you existed", while "xot' by ty byl" is not the same as "xot' by ty sushchestvoval". The "byl" here almost creates a notion that God's being/ existence itself depends on this prayerful petition. Perhaps the "at least" is what gives that meaning of the Russian "chtoby Ty byl"? o ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 tportice at PRINCETON.EDU Tue Jan 13 22:19:28 2009 From: tportice at PRINCETON.EDU (Timothy J Portice (tportice@Princeton.EDU)) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:19:28 -0500 Subject: CFP Pushkin/Anti-Pushkin (2nd posting) Message-ID: CFP: Pushkin/Anti-Pushkin (Princeton University, April 17-18, 2009) The graduate student conference “Pushkin/Anti-Pushkin” is accepting abstracts for papers. The conference, which will take place at Princeton University on April 18th, aims to look at Pushkin’s legacy within Russian literature and criticism, as well as in other, less-explored contexts and fields (music, film, history, Central European literature, etc.). As Tynianov once remarked, “Every generation in literature battles against Pushkin, enrolls him in their ranks . . . or, having started out doing the former, ends up doing the latter.” Given the multi-faceted nature of Pushkin's influence, proposals of an interdisciplinary nature are particularly encouraged. Conference Format The goal of the conference is to provide graduate students with the chance to present their work to senior scholars in the field and to receive as much constructive feedback as possible. To this effect, all papers will be made available prior to the conference through the conference web site. Each presenter will be given 5-10 minutes to introduce his or her paper, followed by commentary by the panel discussant, and open discussion. Discussants We are happy to announce that the following scholars will be serving as panel discussants: Boris Gasparov (Columbia University) William Mills Todd III (Harvard University) Michael Wachtel (Princeton University) There will also be a fourth panel with the discussant TBA. Submission Details Please submit abstracts (500 words or less) to tportice[at]princeton.edu. In addition, please include a cover sheet including a brief bio, departmental affiliation, name, email, and the title of your proposed paper. The deadline for submissions is ***January 31, 2009***. All participants will be notified of acceptance by February 15th. All conference participants will have travel expenses reimbursed from the conference budget, and lodging will be provided for the nights of the 17th and 18th. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 bojanows at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU Tue Jan 13 22:25:07 2009 From: bojanows at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU (Edyta Bojanowska) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:25:07 -0500 Subject: Petrushevskaia's "Dama s sobakami" - English transl. Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, I am trying to locate an English translation of Liudmila Petrushevskaia's "Dama s sobakami" ("Lady with Dogs"), which is part of her Requiems cycle. If you have any advice, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you! Please feel free to contact me offline at bojanows at rci.rutgers.edu. Edyta Bojanowska -- Edyta Bojanowska Assistant Professor Dept. of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures Dept. of Comparative Literature Rutgers University 195 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 phone: (732) 932-7201 fax: (732) 932-1111 http://german.rutgers.edu/faculty/profiles/bojanowska.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 kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Tue Jan 13 22:45:23 2009 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:45:23 +0000 Subject: Platonov and God In-Reply-To: <20090113164935.ABU63826@mstore-prod-2.pdc.uis.georgetown.edu> Message-ID: Dear all, Yes, I agree with Olga here. Introducing 'there' weakens the meaning. It becomes possible to understand it as a matter of whether or not God is in some particular place, rather than whether or not he IS. Platonov often uses 'byl', 'yest'', etc, in this very bare way, as in this exchange from Kotlovan: 'Зачем же он был?' 'Не быть он боялся.' I think we should settle for O Lord, Lord, if only you really were, or something!' Thanks to all of you! R. > The reason I suggested "--or something" has NOTHING ro do with the fact that, > in and of itself, as found in dictionaries, chto li does not mean chto-to, and > "something" would be translated as chto-to only. The "or" in "or something" > changes the meaning of this something completely. > > There is something (pardon!!!) bothering me about the "there". "If only you > were THERE" sounds too openly philosophical for Platonov--like "is only you > existed", while "xot' by ty byl" is not the same as "xot' by ty > sushchestvoval". The "byl" here almost creates a notion that God's being/ > existence itself depends on this prayerful petition. Perhaps the "at least" is > what gives that meaning of the Russian "chtoby Ty byl"? > o > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 mike.trittipo at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 13 22:50:26 2009 From: mike.trittipo at GMAIL.COM (Mike Trittipo) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:50:26 -0600 Subject: Czech Language Study Advice? In-Reply-To: <2563.136.142.133.20.1231881669.squirrel@webmail.pitt.edu> Message-ID: On a whim near the end of this day, I did a quick search for the originally sought object: intensive (20-hour/week) classes in Slovak. What about this one? http://www.uninova.sk/cjop/src/s_intenzivne_kurzy.php (in Slovak) which via the English-language flag links to this page: http://www.uninova.sk/cjop/src/slovak_course_en.php (in English), which has a link to this more detailed description of dates and program: http://www.uninova.sk/cjop/pdf/Intensive%20Slovak%20language%20Courses%202009_1.pdf which has three to five months worth of 4 lessons a day, i.e. 20 lessons per week, each lesson being technically 45 minutes in duration, but in lots of places that counts for "an hour." If the student's original preference was for Slovak, not Russian or Czech, that looks like a decent option. The deadline for non-EU is past, but a little jaw-boning ought to get that straight, since the EU deadline is still well within reach. Another one might be http://www.ujop.sk/blade/index.php?c=131&programme-c---intensive-slovak-language-course-(1-term) but the dates are a bit odd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU Wed Jan 14 00:08:41 2009 From: meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU (Olga Meerson) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:08:41 -0500 Subject: Platonov and God In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Re: O Lord, Lord, if only you really were, or something!' O Robertjan, no "at least"? :( But perhaps, with the "only" and the rest, it does not fit in... Pity... But you always win in these fights. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mshrage at INDIANA.EDU Wed Jan 14 00:37:13 2009 From: mshrage at INDIANA.EDU (Shrager, Miriam) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:37:13 -0500 Subject: Platonov and God Message-ID: Dear Robert, I am not a specialist on Platonov, but I just wanted to point out that the end of the phrase "chto li" can indicate some frustration. So, if the translation was in a spoken language context, I would have translated it as: "O Lord, Lord, if only you were there, damn it!" Of course this might be inappropriate for Platonov's translation. Best wishes, -Miriam Shrager Indiana University, Bloomington ----------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:45:23 +0000 From: Robert Chandler Subject: Re: Platonov and God Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:26:57 +0000 From: Robert Chandler Subject: Platonov and God Dear all, This line is from his play Sharmanka: O, Gospodi, Gospodi, khot=B9 by ty byl, chto li! This is not easy to translate. What I would particularly like help with is the =8Cchto li=B9. The sentence could end with =8Cbyl!=B9 What does the =8Cchto li=B9 add to it? Vsego dobrogo, Robert Dear all, Yes, I agree with Olga here. Introducing 'there' weakens the meaning. It becomes possible to understand it as a matter of whether or not God is in some particular place, rather than whether or not he IS. Platonov often uses 'byl', 'yest'', etc, in this very bare way, as in this exchange from Kotlovan: 'Çà÷åì æå îí áûë?' 'Íå áûòü îí áîÿëñÿ.' I think we should settle for O Lord, Lord, if only you really were, or something!' O, Gospodi, Gospodi, khot=B9 by ty byl, chto li! Thanks to all of you! R. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ilievaa at UCHICAGO.EDU Wed Jan 14 01:45:49 2009 From: ilievaa at UCHICAGO.EDU (angelina ilieva) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:45:49 -0600 Subject: CFP: Fourth Biennial Conference of the Southeast European Studies Association (SEESA) Message-ID: Call For Papers: Fourth Biennial Conference of the Southeast European Studies Association (SEESA) Continuing upon the success of previous SEESA conferences, the fourth biennial SEESA conference will be hosted by the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) on 29-31 May 2009. The Organizing Committee is now accepting proposals for papers that treat some aspect of the Southeast European region, including the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Greece, Moldova, and Turkey. All disciplines are welcome, including but not restricted to, anthropology, cultural studies, education, film studies, art history, folklore, history, language, literature, linguistics, political science, and sociology. Papers will be 20 minutes in length, with an additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Potential presenters should submit paper proposals by sending a title and a one-page abstract of the proposed paper, together with the author’s name, address, and contact information (phone and e-mail). The deadline for submitting all proposals is 19 January 2009. The program will be announced in late February 2009. Please address all questions to Elisabeth Elliott (eelliott at northwestern.edu). Titles, abstracts, and contact information may be sent by e-mail to eelliott at northwestern.edu, by fax to 847-467-2596 in care of Elisabeth Elliott or to the address below. Submissions by e- mail are preferred. Elisabeth Elliott Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Northwestern University 1860 Campus Drive, Crowe #4-130 Evanston, IL 60208-2163 Andrea Sims Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures The Ohio State University 400 Hagerty Hall 1775 College Road Columbus, OH 43210 Angelina Ilieva Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Chicago 1115 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ILLINOIS.EDU Wed Jan 14 05:55:13 2009 From: s-hill4 at ILLINOIS.EDU (Prof Steven P Hill) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:55:13 -0600 Subject: Platonov translation puzzle (cont.) Message-ID: Dear colleagues and Prof Chandler: If Platonov's final phrase were being rendered by a tweedy old British Edwardian translator, vintage 1900-1920 (think actor Nigel Bruce), I wonder whether he'd express "chto li" as the uncertain interrogative "Eh what?" Happy New Year to all, Steven P Hill, University of Illinois. __________________________________________________________________ Date: Tue 13 Jan 23:29:37 CST 2009 From: Subject: Re: GETPOST SEELANGS To: "Steven P. Hill" Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:26:57 +0000 From: Robert Chandler Subject: Platonov and God Dear all, This line is from his play Sharmanka: O, Gospodi, Gospodi, khot¹ by ty byl, chto li! This is not easy to translate. What I would particularly like help with is the Œchto li¹. The sentence could end with Œbyl!¹ What does the Œchto li¹ add to it? Vsego dobrogo, Robert [Chandler]. ____________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Jan 14 05:59:59 2009 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:59:59 +0000 Subject: Platonov and God In-Reply-To: <20090113193713.lsfin9x6zososwgs@webmail.iu.edu> Message-ID: Thanks very much for this! R. > Dear Robert, > > I am not a specialist on Platonov, but I just wanted to point out that > the end of the phrase "chto li" can indicate some frustration. So, if > the translation was in a spoken language context, I would have > translated it as: > "O Lord, Lord, if only you were there, damn it!" > > Of course this might be inappropriate for Platonov's translation. > > Best wishes, > -Miriam Shrager > Indiana University, Bloomington > > > ----------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:45:23 +0000 > From: Robert Chandler > Subject: Re: Platonov and God > > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:26:57 +0000 > From: Robert Chandler > Subject: Platonov and God > > Dear all, > > This line is from his play Sharmanka: > > O, Gospodi, Gospodi, khot=B9 by ty byl, chto li! > > This is not easy to translate. What I would particularly like help with is > the =8Cchto li=B9. The sentence could end with =8Cbyl!=B9 What does > the =8Cchto li=B9 > add to it? > > Vsego dobrogo, > > Robert > > > > Dear all, > > Yes, I agree with Olga here. Introducing 'there' weakens the meaning. It > becomes possible to understand it as a matter of whether or not God is in > some particular place, rather than whether or not he IS. > > Platonov often uses 'byl', 'yest'', etc, in this very bare way, as in this > exchange from Kotlovan: > 'Çà÷åì æå îí áûë?' > 'Íå áûòü îí áîÿëñÿ.' > > I think we should settle for > O Lord, Lord, if only you really were, or something!' > O, Gospodi, Gospodi, khot=B9 by ty byl, chto li! > > Thanks to all of you! > > R. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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John Dunn Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies) University of Glasgow, Scotland Address: Via Carolina Coronedi Berti 6 40137 Bologna Italy Tel.: +39 051/1889 8661 e-mail: J.Dunn at slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk johnanthony.dunn at fastwebnet.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU Wed Jan 14 15:32:53 2009 From: pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU (David Powelstock) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:32:53 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <1231932612.543a74fcJ.Dunn@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk> Message-ID: This is brilliant. Lenin is currently out-shaming Trotsky, but it's close! The comments are extremely enlightening. One person faults Putin for failing to (re)erect a monument to Dzerzhinsky (who himself only has 8 shame votes). So much more entertaining and filled with the unexpected than nameofrussia. I regret that they missed the opportunity to name the site shameofrussia.com. Happy new year to all, David David Powelstock Asst. Prof. of Russian, East European and Comparative Literature Undergraduate Advising Head, Russian Language and Literature Chair, Program in Russian and East European Studies GRALL, MS 024 Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02454-9110 -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Dunn Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:30 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] Pozor Rossii Those who followed the furore surrounding the TV/Internet project 'Имя России' [Imja Rossii] may also be interested in its 'mirror image' Позор России [Pozor Rossii]: www.badnameofrussia.ru I won't spoil the fum by saying who is currently leading the poll, but there is perhaps a thesis to be written on the fact that at the time of writing Ksenija Sobchak is in sixth position, one place behind Stalin, but one ahead of Lenin. John Dunn. John Dunn Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies) University of Glasgow, Scotland Address: Via Carolina Coronedi Berti 6 40137 Bologna Italy Tel.: +39 051/1889 8661 e-mail: J.Dunn at slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk johnanthony.dunn at fastwebnet.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 kirsty.mccluskey at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 14 15:36:40 2009 From: kirsty.mccluskey at GMAIL.COM (Kirsty McCluskey) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:36:40 -0300 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <005b01c9765d$5e38b2e0$1aaa18a0$@edu> Message-ID: It is indeed brilliant. As a Trotsky specialist I'm horribly amused by their description. Лейба Давидович Бронштейн. Деятель международного кoммуниcтичecкoгo революционного движения, практик и теоретик марксизма. Собирался пожертвовать Россией ради Мировой Революции. Ненавидел русских. Happy New Year! Kirsty McCluskey On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:32 PM, David Powelstock wrote: > This is brilliant. Lenin is currently out-shaming Trotsky, but it's close! > The comments are extremely enlightening. One person faults Putin for failing > to (re)erect a monument to Dzerzhinsky (who himself only has 8 shame votes). > So much more entertaining and filled with the unexpected than nameofrussia. > I regret that they missed the opportunity to name the site > shameofrussia.com. > > Happy new year to all, > David > > David Powelstock > Asst. Prof. of Russian, East European and Comparative Literature > Undergraduate Advising Head, Russian Language and Literature > Chair, Program in Russian and East European Studies > GRALL, MS 024 > Brandeis University > Waltham, MA 02454-9110 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list > [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Dunn > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:30 AM > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu > Subject: [SEELANGS] Pozor Rossii > > Those who followed the furore surrounding the TV/Internet project 'Имя > России' [Imja Rossii] may also be interested in its 'mirror image' Позор > России [Pozor Rossii]: > > www.badnameofrussia.ru > > I won't spoil the fum by saying who is currently leading the poll, but > there is perhaps a thesis to be written on the fact that at the time of > writing Ksenija Sobchak is in sixth position, one place behind Stalin, but > one ahead of Lenin. > > John Dunn. > > John Dunn > Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies) > University of Glasgow, Scotland > > Address: > Via Carolina Coronedi Berti 6 > 40137 Bologna > Italy > Tel.: +39 051/1889 8661 > e-mail: J.Dunn at slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk > johnanthony.dunn at fastwebnet.it > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Vulpes Libris A collective of bibliophiles writing about books http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com http://kirstyjane.wordpress.com From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU Wed Jan 14 15:45:16 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:45:16 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <1231932612.543a74fcJ.Dunn@slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk> Message-ID: Considering that Novodvorskaya is ahead of Dzerzhinsky, this has as much value as its counterpart with the mythical Alexander Nevsky as winner. On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:30 AM, John Dunn wrote: > Those who followed the furore surrounding the TV/Internet project > 'Имя России' [Imja Rossii] may also be interested in its 'mirror > image' Позор России [Pozor Rossii]: > > www.badnameofrussia.ru > > I won't spoil the fum by saying who is currently leading the poll, > but there is perhaps a thesis to be written on the fact that at the > time of writing Ksenija Sobchak is in sixth position, one place > behind Stalin, but one ahead of Lenin. > Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 ericson at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG Wed Jan 14 18:01:00 2009 From: ericson at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Brita Ericson) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:01:00 -0600 Subject: Summer Fellowships for Russian Teachers Message-ID: Apply online now for American Councils 2009 Summer Russian Language Teachers Program! American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is pleased to announce fellowship opportunities for the 2009 Summer Russian Language Teachers Program at Moscow State University. Between fifteen and twenty finalists will be selected to receive program funding from the U.S. Department of Education under the Fulbright-Hays Act. All program expenses (less an initial program deposit and domestic travel to and from Washington, D.C.) will be paid for these participants. Applications for the Summer 2009 program are due March 1st. American Councils has recently launched an online application which can be found on the Summer Russian Language Teachers Program page at: http://www.americancouncils.org. Applications are also available for download on this site. This is a six-week program in Russian language, culture, and foreign language pedagogy for teachers or teachers-in-training. Applicants must be either graduate students preparing for a career in Russian-language education or current teachers of Russian at the university, secondary school, or elementary school level. Applications from K-12 teachers of Russian are especially encouraged. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Fellowships typically provide: *Tuition and fees at Moscow State University; *Housing with a Russian host family or in the Moscow State University dormitory; *Roundtrip, international airfare from Washington, D.C. to Moscow; *Pre-departure orientation in Washington. D.C.; *Russian visa; *Living stipend; *Medical insurance; and *Ten graduate hours of credit from Bryn Mawr College. Application Deadline: March 1, 2009 http://www.americancouncils.org/programs.php?program_id=NzM= For more information and an application contact: Russian and Eurasian Outbound Programs American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS 1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 833-7522 Email: outbound at americancouncils.org Website: www.americancouncils.org www.acrussiaabroad.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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_shevchuk at YAHOO.COM Wed Jan 14 18:40:32 2009 From: n_shevchuk at YAHOO.COM (Nina Shevchuk) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:40:32 -0800 Subject: AAASS panel on socialist internationalism Message-ID: Rossen, great to hear from you and hope your break was nice and relaxing. Your panels sound absolutely fascinating, and I am terribly sorry that I do not happen to have a brilliant contribution to offer. Unless, as I think of it now, you could accommodate a presentation on perception of Whitman as a internationalist/socialist poet in the circa-revolutionary days? If not, it's no big deal, but if you still need a body, let me know and we can bounce around some ideas. Best to you and yours! Nina Find my work in Chtenia: The Journal of Russian Literature in Translation http://www.russianlife.net/chtenia/index.cfm ________________________________ From: Rossen Djagalov To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 1:09:05 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] AAASS panel on socialist internationalism Dear Colleagues, We are looking for one final presenter to join five of us, thereby completing two interdisciplinary panels on socialist internationalism at the 2009 AAASS conference (Boston, November 12-15, 2009). Because the term we are working with is so vague, some explanation is in order about how we envisage our discussion. Marx and Engels believed that the working class, while national in character, was capable of uniting across borders for the pursuit of common goals, in actions such as international strikes and revolutions and through organizations (the First or Second Internationals). In the twentieth century, a certain territorialization of socialism occurred. Following the Bolshevik revolution, in the eyes of many leftists wordwide, the USSR came to function as the realization of socialism. With the gradual exhaustion of the Soviet “revolutionary” symbolic capital by the mid-1950s, China, and in a looser sense, the Third World project, too, laid their claims to some of these international leftist solidarities. Competing with these major geographical foci of the world Left, there were other transnational leftist ideologies (say, Trotskyism) or spontaneous movement outbursts (say, 1968 in Prague or Paris). In the 1970s, with the wordwide left decidedly disunited, globalization decidedly replaced socialist internationalism as the most well-articulated and visible form of transnational imaginary. While these large-scale shifts could be easily traced, the much more challenging task of accounting for the constantly evolving web of competing transnational and national loyalties within the life of individual leftists remains to be done. When real experience with foreign people or culture was lacking—as was most often the case—representations took its place. Indeed, literature, visual and musical culture not only record but also shape cultural consumers’ understanding of the foreign. Thus, cultural producers played an essential role in the construction of the transnational imagined communities of the left, not only through explicit political statements and participation but also through the aesthetic ideologies of their works, which provided shared texts for those communities. One of the inherent difficulties of studying these communities is that they span cultural producers from both capitalist and socialist regimes, sometimes in exile. The complexity of such location multiplies the possible scenarios and spawns a series of fascinating questions: what does it mean, for example, to be a leftist cultural producer/consumer in Central/Eastern Europe, especially in the last decades of state socialism? We hope that such panels would gather a group of students of literature, film, art, music, anthropology, sociology, and history to discuss not only concrete instances of socialist internationalism based on their individual research but also work towards a broader and bolder theoretization of socialist internationalism. If interested, please, write to rossen.djagalov at yale.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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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_shevchuk at YAHOO.COM Wed Jan 14 18:44:16 2009 From: n_shevchuk at YAHOO.COM (Nina Shevchuk) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:44:16 -0800 Subject: Apologies to the list Message-ID: Apparently, I have finally committed the sin of posting a personal message to the list. Many apologies. Nina Shevchuk-Murray ________________________________ From: Rossen Djagalov To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 1:09:05 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] AAASS panel on socialist internationalism Dear Colleagues, We are looking for one final presenter to join five of us, thereby completing two interdisciplinary panels on socialist internationalism at the 2009 AAASS conference (Boston, November 12-15, 2009). Because the term we are working with is so vague, some explanation is in order about how we envisage our discussion. Marx and Engels believed that the working class, while national in character, was capable of uniting across borders for the pursuit of common goals, in actions such as international strikes and revolutions and through organizations (the First or Second Internationals). In the twentieth century, a certain territorialization of socialism occurred. Following the Bolshevik revolution, in the eyes of many leftists wordwide, the USSR came to function as the realization of socialism. With the gradual exhaustion of the Soviet “revolutionary” symbolic capital by the mid-1950s, China, and in a looser sense, the Third World project, too, laid their claims to some of these international leftist solidarities. Competing with these major geographical foci of the world Left, there were other transnational leftist ideologies (say, Trotskyism) or spontaneous movement outbursts (say, 1968 in Prague or Paris). In the 1970s, with the wordwide left decidedly disunited, globalization decidedly replaced socialist internationalism as the most well-articulated and visible form of transnational imaginary. While these large-scale shifts could be easily traced, the much more challenging task of accounting for the constantly evolving web of competing transnational and national loyalties within the life of individual leftists remains to be done. When real experience with foreign people or culture was lacking—as was most often the case—representations took its place. Indeed, literature, visual and musical culture not only record but also shape cultural consumers’ understanding of the foreign. Thus, cultural producers played an essential role in the construction of the transnational imagined communities of the left, not only through explicit political statements and participation but also through the aesthetic ideologies of their works, which provided shared texts for those communities. One of the inherent difficulties of studying these communities is that they span cultural producers from both capitalist and socialist regimes, sometimes in exile. The complexity of such location multiplies the possible scenarios and spawns a series of fascinating questions: what does it mean, for example, to be a leftist cultural producer/consumer in Central/Eastern Europe, especially in the last decades of state socialism? We hope that such panels would gather a group of students of literature, film, art, music, anthropology, sociology, and history to discuss not only concrete instances of socialist internationalism based on their individual research but also work towards a broader and bolder theoretization of socialist internationalism. If interested, please, write to rossen.djagalov at yale.edu. Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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The presenters are Natalia Kovaliova (UofAlberta) "Reincarnating Wozzeck: Adaptation, Interpretation, Translation" Nina Murray-Shevchuk (independent scholar) "A Russian, A Frenchman, And an Englishman are Stranded on a Desert Island: Narrative Analysis and Translatability of Humor" Roman Ivashkiv (UofAlberta) "Translating Playfulness in Postcolonial/Postmodernist Contexts: Yuri Andrukhovych's Moscoviada and Vitaly Chernetsky's Translation" If you are interested, please, get back to me as soon as possible at roman.ivashkiv at ualberta.ca Thank you very much, Roman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mikhail.gronas at DARTMOUTH.EDU Thu Jan 15 04:15:14 2009 From: mikhail.gronas at DARTMOUTH.EDU (Mikhail Gronas) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:15:14 -0500 Subject: Last minute call -- Pushkin's Politics/Politics of Pushkin Panel? In-Reply-To: <0197EEEC-2358-446E-AE0F-BAC0E3D03B9F@uoregon.edu> Message-ID: Hi, Katya, I may be interested in giving a paper on digital approaches to Pushkin ( in particular, my project on visualizations of his social networks). However, such a presentation would only make sense if there is a computer projection available. Do you know if they supply projectors and screens? Best, Mikhail soial network On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Katya Hokanson wrote: > Dear All, > > A belated call to ask if anyone is interested in forming a panel on > Pushkin's politics and the politics of Pushkin -- I would like to > give a paper, probably on later poems/works, and would need two more > papers, a chair and a discussant. > > Let me know if you are interested, you can reach me at hokanson at uoregon.edu > . > > Katya Hokanson > University of Oregon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 afjat2 at UAA.ALASKA.EDU Thu Jan 15 16:18:16 2009 From: afjat2 at UAA.ALASKA.EDU (Jeremy Tasch) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:18:16 -0500 Subject: Moscow logistical-budget question Message-ID: Hi Everyone, Brief, logistical-budget question: What might be a fair and appropriate fee to budget for a Moscow-based consultant for their admin- logistical support? Prior to Moscow interview-based research (summer 2010), I hope to work with a freelance consultant, or subcontractor, to set up & confirm interview appointments (say, 30 1 hour meetings). These would be with a variety of NGO, government, and corporate representatives. While I would supply a number of contacts, this consultant would likely do a bit of leg work to identify possible interviewees and to fill schedule gaps. If anyone would feel comfortable offering some guidance on a fair and reasonable approximate cost; or, if were involved in an analogous project and could share a rough indication of their approach to calculating, I would very much appreciate your advice. Please feel comfortable writing me offline if that would be more appropriate. Thank you all - Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 lgoering at CARLETON.EDU Thu Jan 15 18:38:54 2009 From: lgoering at CARLETON.EDU (Laura Goering) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:38:54 -0600 Subject: Translation question In-Reply-To: <1647287637.157063951231687379407.JavaMail.root@mail2.its.carleton.edu> Message-ID: Thank you for the many fine suggestions I received here and off-line. Laura Goering ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Goering" To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:22:59 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [SEELANGS] Translation question Dear colleagues, I'm wondering if there is a standard English translation for the "Общественный совет по социальной рекламе" (St. Petersburg). If not, I would be grateful for suggestions. Thank you, Laura -- Laura Goering Professor of Russian Department of German and Russian Carleton College Northfield, MN 55057 (507) 222-4125 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Laura Goering Professor of Russian Department of German and Russian Carleton College Northfield, MN 55057 (507) 222-4125 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jan 15 20:17:21 2009 From: dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:17:21 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <296F5A1E-7952-4387-B47C-F3FDC81C8DC6@american.edu> Message-ID: I second Alina's opinion. It should be clear that such lists have no value whatsoever. Sincerely, Edward Dumanis On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Alina Israeli wrote: > Considering that Novodvorskaya is ahead of Dzerzhinsky, this has as much > value as its counterpart with the mythical Alexander Nevsky as winner. > > > On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:30 AM, John Dunn wrote: > >> Those who followed the furore surrounding the TV/Internet project 'Имя >> России' [Imja Rossii] may also be interested in its 'mirror image' Позор >> России [Pozor Rossii]: >> >> www.badnameofrussia.ru >> >> I won't spoil the fum by saying who is currently leading the poll, but >> there is perhaps a thesis to be written on the fact that at the time of >> writing Ksenija Sobchak is in sixth position, one place behind Stalin, but >> one ahead of Lenin. >> > > Alina Israeli > LFS, American University > 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW > Washington DC. 20016 > (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 > aisrael at american.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 john at RUSLAN.CO.UK Thu Jan 15 20:38:26 2009 From: john at RUSLAN.CO.UK (John Langran) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:38:26 -0000 Subject: Pozor Rossii Message-ID: Yes, but it's jolly good fun, isn't it? John Langran www.ruslan.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward M Dumanis" To: Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pozor Rossii I second Alina's opinion. It should be clear that such lists have no value whatsoever. Sincerely, Edward Dumanis On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Alina Israeli wrote: > Considering that Novodvorskaya is ahead of Dzerzhinsky, this has as much > value as its counterpart with the mythical Alexander Nevsky as winner. > > > On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:30 AM, John Dunn wrote: > >> Those who followed the furore surrounding the TV/Internet project 'Имя >> России' [Imja Rossii] may also be interested in its 'mirror image' Позор >> России [Pozor Rossii]: >> >> www.badnameofrussia.ru >> >> I won't spoil the fum by saying who is currently leading the poll, but >> there is perhaps a thesis to be written on the fact that at the time of >> writing Ksenija Sobchak is in sixth position, one place behind Stalin, >> but >> one ahead of Lenin. >> > > Alina Israeli > LFS, American University > 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW > Washington DC. 20016 > (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 > aisrael at american.edu > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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With best regards, Sibelan Sibelan Forrester Russian/Modern Languages and Literatures Swarthmore 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 pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU Thu Jan 15 23:59:13 2009 From: pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU (David Powelstock) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:59:13 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I honestly cannot imagine what Alina and Edward mean by "value" in their posts that caused them to react so curtly on the list. I think it's pretty clear that the only value anyone who posted about this to the list was seeing in this site was *entertainment* value (together with a window into other people's minds: always interesting). Entertainment value is very far from no value whatsoever. Cheers, David David Powelstock Brandeis University -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Dumanis Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:17 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pozor Rossii I second Alina's opinion. It should be clear that such lists have no value whatsoever. Sincerely, Edward Dumanis On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Alina Israeli wrote: > Considering that Novodvorskaya is ahead of Dzerzhinsky, this has as much > value as its counterpart with the mythical Alexander Nevsky as winner. > > > On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:30 AM, John Dunn wrote: > >> Those who followed the furore surrounding the TV/Internet project 'Имя >> России' [Imja Rossii] may also be interested in its 'mirror image' Позор >> России [Pozor Rossii]: >> >> www.badnameofrussia.ru >> >> I won't spoil the fum by saying who is currently leading the poll, but >> there is perhaps a thesis to be written on the fact that at the time of >> writing Ksenija Sobchak is in sixth position, one place behind Stalin, but >> one ahead of Lenin. >> > > Alina Israeli > LFS, American University > 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW > Washington DC. 20016 > (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 > aisrael at american.edu > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU Fri Jan 16 00:06:50 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:06:50 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <013401c9776d$44289260$cc79b720$@edu> Message-ID: Its counterpart was very seriously discussed by very serious commentators in a variety of very serious news outlets in Russia. The list was not created for entertainments. This list, i.e. Pozor Rossii is unlikely to be created as entertainment either. SEELANGS might see it as entertainment, but this is a totally different subject. Most of us also laugh at clowns. Alina On Jan 15, 2009, at 6:59 PM, David Powelstock wrote: > I honestly cannot imagine what Alina and Edward mean by "value" in > their > posts that caused them to react so curtly on the list. I think > it's pretty > clear that the only value anyone who posted about this to the list was > seeing in this site was *entertainment* value (together with a > window into > other people's minds: always interesting). Entertainment value is > very far > from no value whatsoever. > > Cheers, > David > > David Powelstock > Brandeis University > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list > [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Dumanis > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:17 PM > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pozor Rossii > > I second Alina's opinion. > It should be clear that such lists have no value whatsoever. > > Sincerely, > > Edward Dumanis > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Alina Israeli wrote: > >> Considering that Novodvorskaya is ahead of Dzerzhinsky, this has >> as much >> value as its counterpart with the mythical Alexander Nevsky as >> winner. >> >> >> On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:30 AM, John Dunn wrote: >> >>> Those who followed the furore surrounding the TV/Internet project >>> 'Имя >>> России' [Imja Rossii] may also be interested in its 'mirror >>> image' Позор >>> России [Pozor Rossii]: >>> >>> www.badnameofrussia.ru >>> >>> I won't spoil the fum by saying who is currently leading the >>> poll, but >>> there is perhaps a thesis to be written on the fact that at the >>> time of >>> writing Ksenija Sobchak is in sixth position, one place behind >>> Stalin, > but >>> one ahead of Lenin. >>> >> >> Alina Israeli >> LFS, American University >> 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW >> Washington DC. 20016 >> (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 >> aisrael at american.edu >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 grylkova at UFL.EDU Fri Jan 16 00:17:58 2009 From: grylkova at UFL.EDU (RYLKOVA,GALINA S) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:17:58 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii Message-ID: I would agree with Alina. Out of "entertainment," I tried to cast my vote for (i.e. against) Lavrentii Beriia. I was immediately told that my address was invalid and my vote was not counted. Whoever created this list, has a very clear idea of how many voices should be cast and for whom. Beriia, for example, has only 41 votes against him while Putin over 9,000. On Thu Jan 15 19:06:50 EST 2009, Alina Israeli wrote: > Its counterpart was very seriously discussed by very serious > commentators in a variety of very serious news outlets in Russia. > The list was not created for entertainments. This list, i.e. > Pozor Rossii is unlikely to be created as entertainment either. > SEELANGS might see it as entertainment, but this is a totally > different subject. Most of us also laugh at clowns. > > Alina > > On Jan 15, 2009, at 6:59 PM, David Powelstock wrote: > >> I honestly cannot imagine what Alina and Edward mean by "value" >> in their >> posts that caused them to react so curtly on the list. I think >> it's pretty >> clear that the only value anyone who posted about this to the >> list was >> seeing in this site was *entertainment* value (together with a >> window into >> other people's minds: always interesting). Entertainment value >> is very far >> from no value whatsoever. >> >> Cheers, >> David >> >> David Powelstock >> Brandeis University >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures >> list >> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Dumanis >> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:17 PM >> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pozor Rossii >> >> I second Alina's opinion. >> It should be clear that such lists have no value whatsoever. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Edward Dumanis >> >> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Alina Israeli wrote: >> >>> Considering that Novodvorskaya is ahead of Dzerzhinsky, this >>> has as much >>> value as its counterpart with the mythical Alexander Nevsky as >>> winner. >>> >>> >>> On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:30 AM, John Dunn wrote: >>> >>>> Those who followed the furore surrounding the TV/Internet >>>> project '?????? >>>> ????????????' [Imja Rossii] may also be interested in its >>>> 'mirror image' ?????????? >>>> ???????????? [Pozor Rossii]: >>>> >>>> www.badnameofrussia.ru >>>> >>>> I won't spoil the fum by saying who is currently leading the >>>> poll, but >>>> there is perhaps a thesis to be written on the fact that at >>>> the time of >>>> writing Ksenija Sobchak is in sixth position, one place behind >>>> Stalin, >> but >>>> one ahead of Lenin. >>>> >>> >>> Alina Israeli >>> LFS, American University >>> 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW >>> Washington DC. 20016 >>> (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 >>> aisrael at american.edu >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> 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/ >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- > > Alina Israeli > LFS, American University > 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW > Washington DC. 20016 > (202) 885-2387 > fax (202) 885-1076 > aisrael at american.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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- RYLKOVA,GALINA S ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET Fri Jan 16 00:24:38 2009 From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:24:38 -0900 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <401599286.43211232065078590.JavaMail.osg@osgjas04.cns.ufl.edu> Message-ID: I don't think it's that much of a conspiracy. I tried to vote for Putin and my vote was also rejected. I thought it was because I don't live in Russia. I am surprised to hear that very serious commentators are taking internet polls very seriously, though. Is that because there aren't any serious opinion polls in Russia...? -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of RYLKOVA,GALINA S Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:18 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pozor Rossii I would agree with Alina. Out of "entertainment," I tried to cast my vote for (i.e. against) Lavrentii Beriia. I was immediately told that my address was invalid and my vote was not counted. Whoever created this list, has a very clear idea of how many voices should be cast and for whom. Beriia, for example, has only 41 votes against him while Putin over 9,000. On Thu Jan 15 19:06:50 EST 2009, Alina Israeli wrote: > Its counterpart was very seriously discussed by very serious > commentators in a variety of very serious news outlets in Russia. > The list was not created for entertainments. This list, i.e. > Pozor Rossii is unlikely to be created as entertainment either. > SEELANGS might see it as entertainment, but this is a totally > different subject. Most of us also laugh at clowns. > > Alina > > On Jan 15, 2009, at 6:59 PM, David Powelstock wrote: > >> I honestly cannot imagine what Alina and Edward mean by "value" >> in their >> posts that caused them to react so curtly on the list. I think >> it's pretty >> clear that the only value anyone who posted about this to the >> list was >> seeing in this site was *entertainment* value (together with a >> window into >> other people's minds: always interesting). Entertainment value >> is very far >> from no value whatsoever. >> >> Cheers, >> David >> >> David Powelstock >> Brandeis University >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures >> list >> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M Dumanis >> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:17 PM >> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pozor Rossii >> >> I second Alina's opinion. >> It should be clear that such lists have no value whatsoever. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Edward Dumanis >> >> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Alina Israeli wrote: >> >>> Considering that Novodvorskaya is ahead of Dzerzhinsky, this >>> has as much >>> value as its counterpart with the mythical Alexander Nevsky as >>> winner. >>> >>> >>> On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:30 AM, John Dunn wrote: >>> >>>> Those who followed the furore surrounding the TV/Internet >>>> project '?????? >>>> ????????????' [Imja Rossii] may also be interested in its >>>> 'mirror image' ?????????? >>>> ???????????? [Pozor Rossii]: >>>> >>>> www.badnameofrussia.ru >>>> >>>> I won't spoil the fum by saying who is currently leading the >>>> poll, but >>>> there is perhaps a thesis to be written on the fact that at >>>> the time of >>>> writing Ksenija Sobchak is in sixth position, one place behind >>>> Stalin, >> but >>>> one ahead of Lenin. >>>> >>> >>> Alina Israeli >>> LFS, American University >>> 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW >>> Washington DC. 20016 >>> (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 >>> aisrael at american.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. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web >> Interface at: >> http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- > > Alina Israeli > LFS, American University > 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW > Washington DC. 20016 > (202) 885-2387 > fax (202) 885-1076 > aisrael at american.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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- RYLKOVA,GALINA S ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Out of "entertainment," I tried to cast > my vote for (i.e. against) Lavrentii Beriia. I was immediately > told that my address was invalid and my vote was not counted. > Whoever created this list, has a very clear idea of how many > voices should be cast and for whom. Beriia, for example, has only > 41 votes against him while Putin over 9,000. > -- реклама ----------------------------------------------------------- http://FREEhost.com.ua - еще больше места и возможностей при заказе хостнга. Домен бесплатно. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 roman.ivashkiv at UALBERTA.CA Fri Jan 16 01:56:37 2009 From: roman.ivashkiv at UALBERTA.CA (Roman Ivashkiv) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:56:37 -0700 Subject: healthy life style In-Reply-To: <8CB459265995301-714-16C8@webmail-md09.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Hi Jane, I'm not an expert on healthy life styles, but I don't see why "здоровый образ жизни" wouldn't work. Roman Ivashkiv -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of shuffelton at AOL.COM Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:39 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] healthy life style Does someone have a good, contemporary Russian equivalent of this very American phrase? "A healthy life style"? Is there a phrase that Russians actually use? Reply off the list serve to: Shuffelton at aol.com or Shuffelt at geneseo.edu Thanks from Jane Shuffelton ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU Fri Jan 16 02:05:24 2009 From: ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU (E Wayles Browne) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:05:24 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Yes, perhaps....but some people in Russia use gmail or yahoo addresses. Should they be disenfranchised? -- Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics Department of Linguistics Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A. tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h) fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE) e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu > It may simply be available only for people whose IPs are registered in > Russia. > >> I would agree with Alina. Out of "entertainment," I tried to cast >> my vote for (i.e. against) Lavrentii Beriia. I was immediately >> told that my address was invalid and my vote was not counted. >> Whoever created this list, has a very clear idea of how many >> voices should be cast and for whom. Beriia, for example, has only >> 41 votes against him while Putin over 9,000. >> > > -- реклама > ----------------------------------------------------------- > http://FREEhost.com.ua - еще больше места и > возможностей при заказе Ñ Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð½Ð³Ð°. Домен > бесплатно. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 kbtrans at COX.NET Fri Jan 16 02:12:32 2009 From: kbtrans at COX.NET (Kim Braithwaite) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:12:32 -0800 Subject: healthy life style Message-ID: A Google search brings up a lot of instances of "Zdorovyi stil' zhizni." I'd be interested to know whether there is any difference gross or subtle between that and "Zdorovyi obraz zhizni," which I have seen many times in Russian articles. Mr Kim Braithwaite, Translator "Good is better than evil, because it's nicer" - Mammy Yokum (Al Capp) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Ivashkiv" To: Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] healthy life style Hi Jane, I'm not an expert on healthy life styles, but I don't see why "здоровый образ жизни" wouldn't work. Roman Ivashkiv -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of shuffelton at AOL.COM Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:39 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] healthy life style Does someone have a good, contemporary Russian equivalent of this very American phrase? "A healthy life style"? Is there a phrase that Russians actually use? Reply off the list serve to: Shuffelton at aol.com or Shuffelt at geneseo.edu Thanks from Jane Shuffelton ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 jwilson at SRAS.ORG Fri Jan 16 07:51:39 2009 From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG (Josh Wilson) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:51:39 +0300 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <55319.64.185.154.165.1232071524.squirrel@webmail.cornell.edu> Message-ID: By address, it means IP address, which, in part, can tell where your computer is located. The voting system doesn't ask you for an email address - or even registration - but it does limit each IP address to one vote every 24hours (I just tried, as a test, to vote for Ksenya Sobchak, which went through fine, and then Joseph Stalin, which failed). I'm curious, though, if this wasn't set up for entertainment purposes or as a serious poll, what is its purpose for existence? The voting system strikes as fairly well thought out - at least as well implemented as its predecessor. It's also spawned some interesting debate in my view (and, granted, a lot of frivolity, but hey, it's the Internet). As to its not being discussed by "serious" commentators, I'm pretty sure a letter to a few media outlets in the US and GB would likely start to place discussion of it in articles and oped columns within a week or two, especially if Putin stays in first place. In short, although we laugh at clowns, there is an art and philosophy to clowning that some take and study very seriously. I don't see why we should completely throw out any and all value to this poll - especially if we grant credence to another. Just my two cents... Josh Wilson Asst. Director The School of Russian and Asian Studies Editor-in-Chief Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies www.sras.org jwilson at sras.org -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of E Wayles Browne Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 5:05 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pozor Rossii Yes, perhaps....but some people in Russia use gmail or yahoo addresses. Should they be disenfranchised? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Name: not available URL: From mbalina at IWU.EDU Fri Jan 16 18:53:39 2009 From: mbalina at IWU.EDU (Professor Marina Balina) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:53:39 -0600 Subject: Thank you Message-ID: Dear all, Please forgive the collective nature of this message, but I believe that this is the best way to say thank you for all your efforts. I received a lot of information that will be very helpful for me and my student regarding his Rotary Scholarship. It is wonderful to have such a helpful, professional community that is always ready to come to my rescue. Sincerely, Marina Balina ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jan 16 19:04:49 2009 From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:04:49 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <200901160751.n0G7pXiu006982@alinga.com> Message-ID: Josh Wilson wrote: > By address, it means IP address, which, in part, can tell where your > computer is located. The voting system doesn't ask you for an email address > - or even registration - but it does limit each IP address to one vote every > 24hours (I just tried, as a test, to vote for Ksenya Sobchak, which went > through fine, and then Joseph Stalin, which failed). > ... Or more properly, where your ISP is located. If I am an AOL member, for example, it will appear that I am located in Virginia, where AOL has its headquarters. If you want to vote more than once in such a system, you need to change your IP address. So for example, if you're on a dialup system, you need to disconnect and reconnect and hope the IP the system assigns you the second time is different from the one it assigned the first time. Chances are, it will be. I have a similar result when I restart my DirecWay satellite modem. -- 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 ericson at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG Fri Jan 16 19:31:33 2009 From: ericson at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Brita Ericson) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:31:33 -0600 Subject: Summer Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program Message-ID: American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is pleased to announce fellowship opportunities for U.S. graduate and undergraduate students to participate in the Summer 2009 Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) in Vladimir, Moscow, or St. Petersburg. Applications for the Summer 2009 program are due March 1st. Applications are now available for download from the American Councils website: http://www.americancouncils.org. Program Dates: June 2 - August 4, 2009 Fellowships are available through American Councils from U.S. Department of State (Title VIII) and the U.S. Department of Education (Fulbright-Hays) grant support. Many colleges and universities also provide financial aid for participation in American Councils programs. Recent participants have received substantial fellowship support from the Institute of International Education (IIE), the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, and the U.S. Department of Education Title VI (FLAS). The RLASP program provides approximately twenty hours per week of in-class instruction in Russian grammar, phonetics, conversation, and cultural studies at Moscow International University and at the Russian State Pedagogical University (Gertsen Institute) in St. Petersburg. The KORA Center for Russian Language hosts the Vladimir program. Participants receive graduate- or undergraduate-level academic credit through Bryn Mawr College. A full-time U.S. resident director oversees the academic and cultural programs and assists participants in academic, administrative, and personal matters. Students may live with Russian host families or in university dormitories in Moscow and St. Petersburg; all students in Vladimir live with Russian families. Students are also offered the chance to meet for two hours per week with peer tutors recruited from their host universities. The Individualized Russian Language Program for Heritage Speakers and the Business Russian Language and Internship program are also available this summer. Please contact the Outbound Office or visit our website (www.acrussiaabroad.org) for more details. The Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program is offered for the Spring, Fall, or Academic Year as well. Application Deadlines: Summer Program: March 1 Fall/Academic Year Program: April 1 Spring Semester: October 1 For more information and an application, please contact: Russian & Eurasian Outbound Programs American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 833-7522 Email: outbound at americancouncils.org Website: www.acrussiaabroad.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 angelakh at BERKELEY.EDU Fri Jan 16 19:35:10 2009 From: angelakh at BERKELEY.EDU (Anzhelika Khyzhnya) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:35:10 -0800 Subject: AAASS chair needed! Message-ID: Dear all, We are (desperately!) seeking a chair for the panel (Re)Claiming Russia: Russian Prose and National Borderlands). The talks for this panel are entitled "Reclaiming the Land": Melioratsiia and Andrei Platonov's Central Asian Prose (Mieka Erley, UC Berkeley) and "Taras Bulba": Nikolai Gogol Beyond Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism (Anzhelika Khyzhnya, UC Berkeley) Please respond off-list Thank you, Anzhelika Khyzhnya ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 stuart.goldberg at MODLANGS.GATECH.EDU Fri Jan 16 21:21:08 2009 From: stuart.goldberg at MODLANGS.GATECH.EDU (Stuart Goldberg) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:21:08 -0500 Subject: New faculty-led Russia summer abroad program / Scholarships for ROTC students Message-ID: Dear SEELangers, I would like to bring to your and your students' attention a faculty-led summer intensive program in Moscow, which Georgia Tech will be running for the second time this summer. The program is 7 weeks and runs from June 20 to Aug. 9. Minimum level is third-year. Students live in homestays with Russian families. Classes are at the governmental Academy of the National Economy (16 hours per week of intensive Russian and one course in English in International Affairs and Economics with top Russian scholars, final project in Russian, for a total of 9 credits). There is a cultural program including overnight trip to Vladimir and Suzdal. Group and classes are small. Program fee is $4450 (includes homestay with daily breakfast and dinner, course materials, cultural program, visa, insurance, airport pickup on June 20 or 21). Students pay separately for airfare, lunches and tuition. Note, however, that tuition for out-of-state students is charged at the in-state rate of $1827 for nine Georgia Tech credits plus $250. Application deadline is Feb. 15. I have been very pleased with the program in its first year and impressed with our hosts at the Academy of the National Economy, who have many years of experience in arranging programs for some of America's best universities. Scholarships will likely be available for ROTC students from other universities. ROTC students who wish to participate should inquire about these scholarships. Our website can be found at http://www.modlangs.gatech.edu/lbat-program/russia/index.php and a detailed brochure at http://www.modlangs.gatech.edu/lbat-program/russia/RussianStudy2009Moscow.pdf. I am happy to answer any questions and can be contacted by email (sgoldberg at gatech.edu) or phone (404-894-9251). With best regards, Stuart Goldberg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 latrigos at COMCAST.NET Fri Jan 16 22:11:15 2009 From: latrigos at COMCAST.NET (latrigos at COMCAST.NET) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:11:15 +0000 Subject: last last minute call- "Politicizing Pushkin" panel Message-ID: Following up on Katya Hokanson's call for papers, we are trying to form a second panel on the topic of "Politics and Pushkin." We need a third panelist. We have a paper on African-American responses to Pushkin in the 1920s and 1930s and a paper on the politicization of Pushkin in films done for the 1937 centennial. Please respond to me off-list ASAP if you are interested. All the best, Ludmilla A. Trigos, Ph.D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 angelakh at BERKELEY.EDU Sat Jan 17 00:20:05 2009 From: angelakh at BERKELEY.EDU (Anzhelika Khyzhnya) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:20:05 -0800 Subject: last minute call, AAASS panel participant invited Message-ID: Dear SEELANGS, It turned out that we have a space for the third participant in our panel (Re)Claiming Russia: Russian Prose and National Borderlands. The two talks for this panel are entitled "Reclaiming the Land": Melioratsiia and Andrei Platonov's Central Asian Prose (Mieka Erley, UC Berkeley) and "Taras Bulba": Nikolai Gogol Beyond Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism (Anzhelika Khyzhnya, UC Berkeley) Please forward this information to anyone who might be interested. If you would like to join us, please respond off-list. Thank you, Anzhelika Khyzhnya ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ninawieda2008 at U.NORTHWESTERN.EDU Sat Jan 17 02:31:51 2009 From: ninawieda2008 at U.NORTHWESTERN.EDU (Nina Wieda) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:31:51 -0600 Subject: conversation group routines Message-ID: I am posting this for a colleague who does not have a SEELANGS account: Dear All, I am coordinating our university's Russian conversation group this semester, and I know that it can be more interesting and engaging for the students when routines (games, songs, topics for conversation / controlled conversation etc.) are used by the coordinator. I would appreciate it if people with experience doing such things could post a few ideas that worked for them or any resources that might help. Our conversation group consists primarily of first- and second-year students, so ideas specific to those levels would be especially helpful. Thanks very much in advance! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 seelangs.ilya at GMAIL.COM Sat Jan 17 05:39:15 2009 From: seelangs.ilya at GMAIL.COM (*Ilya Kun*) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:39:15 -0600 Subject: Apartment in Kiev Message-ID: Dear All, I have an apartment in Kiev that I would like to rent. The apartment has 2 rooms and a kitchen (actually, there are 3 rooms in it, but I locked some of my stuff in the third room). Fully furnished. It is on the 2nd floor of a 9-storied building. Metal front door, intercom. Digital cable TV and cable internet. Washing machine. 10 min. by bus/shuttle to the metro station. The neighborhood (Bereznyaki) is considered to be good. The house is very close to Telbin lake, Dnieper and Paton bridge. Sorry, I have no photos right now as I live in Boston, but I can ask my friends to make some if you're interested. Please, do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Thanks, Ilya ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 stuart.goldberg at MODLANGS.GATECH.EDU Sat Jan 17 16:58:14 2009 From: stuart.goldberg at MODLANGS.GATECH.EDU (Stuart Goldberg) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:58:14 -0500 Subject: conversation group routines In-Reply-To: <6c9c5b260901161831p78ee35a5sfed00b68fb59480c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: It all depends on the specific material and your own imagination. For instance, my second-year class is working on a unit with comparatives. So the other day, I split them in pairs and challenged them to "perekhvastat' drug druga" (having modeled a few examples of boasts using comparatives, but not insisting on anything). After about 10 minutes of this, we listened to each student's favorite boast. Then we voted for best "kvastun." My favorite activity of all time, which works very well for first year (clothing, adjectives, objects), is borrowed from my teacher at Williams, Don Singleton. You arrange for an advanced student to burst into the room with a toy gun and execute a hold-up (in Russian, of course). Then you change roles and play the police officer, pushing the students to give the most detailed possible description of the thief and what he took. I once played the thief for a colleague with my then 2-year-old daughter in my arms. Kaif! Regards, Stuart Goldberg Nina Wieda wrote: > I am posting this for a colleague who does not have a SEELANGS account: > > Dear All, > > I am coordinating our university's Russian conversation group this semester, > and I know that it can be more interesting and engaging for the students > when routines (games, songs, topics for conversation / controlled > conversation etc.) are used by the coordinator. I would appreciate it if > people with experience doing such things could post a few ideas that worked > for them or any resources that might help. Our conversation group consists > primarily of first- and second-year students, so ideas specific to those > levels would be especially helpful. > Thanks very much in advance! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ar14433n at PACE.EDU Sun Jan 18 20:55:24 2009 From: ar14433n at PACE.EDU (Rozov, Mr. Aleksander) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:55:24 -0500 Subject: conversation group routines In-Reply-To: <6c9c5b260901161831p78ee35a5sfed00b68fb59480c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Here are some of the things I do with my students: Put music, when practicing conversational skills. Music relaxes and inspires students, maing language acquisition more pleasant and giving it a natural flow. Split students in pairs and present them with thematics that quickly engages them, i.e have one student fire another... ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Nina Wieda [ninawieda2008 at U.NORTHWESTERN.EDU] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:31 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] conversation group routines I am posting this for a colleague who does not have a SEELANGS account: Dear All, I am coordinating our university's Russian conversation group this semester, and I know that it can be more interesting and engaging for the students when routines (games, songs, topics for conversation / controlled conversation etc.) are used by the coordinator. I would appreciate it if people with experience doing such things could post a few ideas that worked for them or any resources that might help. Our conversation group consists primarily of first- and second-year students, so ideas specific to those levels would be especially helpful. Thanks very much in advance! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 vroon at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Sun Jan 18 21:43:01 2009 From: vroon at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Ron Vroon) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:43:01 -0800 Subject: International Conference at UCLA Message-ID: UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invites you to the upcoming conference, "The Book of Royal Degrees and Russian Historical Consciousness," starting Thursday, February 26, through Saturday, February 28, 2009. This three-day international conference, organized by Professor Gail Lenhoff (Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA), celebrates the publication of a critical edition of Russia's first narrative history, The Book of Royal Degrees, produced in the Moscow metropolitan's scriptorium between 1555-1564, during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Invited speakers from Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States, representing various academic disciplines, will present papers on the book's treatment of Muscovite history, politics, theology, literary production, artistic subtexts and reception. Other questions to be considered include: 1) religion and governance; 2) preconditions for a "culture of history"; 3) ways in which pre-modern writers of history seek to understand, legitimize and influence the present; 4) the ways in which historical narratives such as The Book of Royal Degrees contribute to the rise of nationalism and the survival of absolute monarchies; and, 5) the uses of historical narratives in the building of a civil, democratic society. The program is cosponsored by CMRS, the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Vice Chancellor for Research, and the UCLA Dean of Humanities. Place: Royce Hall 314 Time: variable, consult the program schedule at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/programs/russian_history_2009_program.pdf Advance Registration: Not required Fee: None Please contact the Center for Medieval for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at 310-825-1880 or cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu if you have any questions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 furnisse at GMAIL.COM Mon Jan 19 06:38:27 2009 From: furnisse at GMAIL.COM (Edie Furniss) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:38:27 -0600 Subject: Lingro on-screen translation now available in Russian Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, I just found out that Lingro's on-screen translation tool is now available in Russian: http://lingro.com/ Users can save the words they click on into word lists, which Lingro can then quiz them on in a flashcard format. I wrote a short review of Lingro on my "Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language + CALL" blog: http://ediefurniss.edublogs.org/ Edie Furniss MA Candidate Teaching a Foreign Language - Russian Monterey Institute of International Studies '10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK Mon Jan 19 15:19:42 2009 From: J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK (John Dunn) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:19:42 +0100 Subject: Two references Message-ID: Subscribers to the list with a particular interest in translation may wish to read the following; provided that they don't worry too much about the word 'poka', they may find some comfort in the final sentence: http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2009/003/13.html Coincidentally, the same edition of Novaya gazeta has an article relating to healthy life styles. Here the term used is здоровый образ жизни [zdorovyj obraz zizhni], though the abbreviation ЗОЖ [ZOZh] also occurs: http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2009/003/18.html Slightly to my surprise, the abbreviation can be found in the dictionary at www.sokr.ru John Dunn. John Dunn Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies) University of Glasgow, Scotland Address: Via Carolina Coronedi Berti 6 40137 Bologna Italy Tel.: +39 051/1889 8661 e-mail: J.Dunn at slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk johnanthony.dunn at fastwebnet.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Jan 19 18:33:46 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:33:46 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <200901160751.n0G7pXiu006982@alinga.com> Message-ID: I think this question remained unanswered. I think Russian national EGO is as wounded now as the German one was after WWII, with one main difference: Marshall plan was taking care of West Germany and showing it the way. Germany was eager to join the Western nations. Russia has love-hate relationship with the West and seeks its own path that would show them (the West) the Russian power and will force them to respect Russia. At the same time Russia is nursing its wounded EGO. All of these polls are the attempts to find the national way as well as show all the opponents the wrong way. They are not a joke and are not created for entertainment. Unlike Germany which was able to say "that was then, this is now", Russia views itself longingly as heir and descendant of the Stalinist regime (Russia was feared and respected then) while at the same time there is an idealization of the pre-1917 monarchy. In other words, people are not looking forward, they are looking back. On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:51 AM, Josh Wilson wrote: > I'm curious, though, if this wasn't set up for entertainment > purposes or as > a serious poll, what is its purpose for existence? The voting > system strikes > as fairly well thought out - at least as well implemented as its > predecessor. It's also spawned some interesting debate in my view > (and, > granted, a lot of frivolity, but hey, it's the Internet). > Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 rrobin at GWU.EDU Mon Jan 19 20:50:34 2009 From: rrobin at GWU.EDU (Richard Robin) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:50:34 -0500 Subject: Lingro on-screen translation now available in Russian In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Wow! That's some site! It's one more site that makes us think about the meaning of literacy and reading proficiency. My own feelings are quite mixed on this subject. On the one hand, there's something in my bones, both as a teacher and an item writer for proficiency tests, that says No dictionaries! No outside help! On the other hand, if we define certain aspects of proficiency as the ability to extract information from a text (a different task than reading for pleasure or general edification), then a site like lingro or an expert translation bot casts a whole new light on what that skill entails. And hard copy is not immune. Got a long article to read? Scan it. No scanner? Get out a cellphone camera and send it to Evernote for conversion to text (English only for now). Eventually technology will kill the meaning of the entire lower part of the proficiency reading scale. -Rich Robin On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Edie Furniss wrote: > Dear SEELANGers, > I just found out that Lingro's on-screen translation tool is now available > in Russian: > > http://lingro.com/ > > Users can save the words they click on into word lists, which Lingro can > then quiz them on in a flashcard format. > > I wrote a short review of Lingro on my "Teaching Russian as a Foreign > Language + CALL" blog: > > http://ediefurniss.edublogs.org/ > > > Edie Furniss > MA Candidate Teaching a Foreign Language - Russian > Monterey Institute of International Studies '10 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 20 02:26:30 2009 From: vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM (Valery Belyanin) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:26:30 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <4A26937B-164F-455F-BE05-41A22F3242ED@american.edu> Message-ID: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Alina Israeli wrote: > I think this question remained unanswered. I think Russian national EGO is > as wounded now as the German one was after WWII, with one main difference: > Marshall plan was taking care ...... > In other words, people are not looking forward, they are looking back. I fully agree with tis statement. A lot of Russian TV broadcsting nowadays is devoted to history, to the past. It is shown either awful, or shameful, or so full of manipulations and mistakes that one has to know it very well to understand what was really done. And they - most of the viewers - are trying to solve the puzzles of the past and have no time or desire to look in the future as I wrote in 2002 Среди всех докладов мне особо запомнилась вечерняя лекция, посвященная неизжитой травме России. Лекция называлась Processing the (Soviet) Past, что может быть переведено как "Осмысливая (советское) прошлое". В ней William Rosenberg (University of Michigan) говорил о неосуществленном наказании за преступления (прежде всего, коллективизации и "декулакизации") и не до конца осмысленной истории самоистязания. Не называя произошедшее социальной катастрофой, Россия, с одной стороны, проявляет определённую силу духа, с другой стороны, она еще несёт на себе крест прошлого, не желая (или не умея) понять его. http://www.textology.ru/article.aspx?aId=153 I mean it still stuck in the past. :-((((((((((((( "а воз и ныне там" (Крылов) увы Valery Belyanin From arkadi65 at HOTMAIL.COM Tue Jan 20 03:22:33 2009 From: arkadi65 at HOTMAIL.COM (arkadi kliouthanski) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:22:33 +0000 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <4A26937B-164F-455F-BE05-41A22F3242ED@american.edu> Message-ID: Alina Israeli wrote: "...I think Russian national EGO is as wounded now as the German one was after WWII,..." Correction: WW I. Sincerely, Arkadi Klioutchanski > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:33:46 -0500> From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pozor Rossii> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu> > I think this question remained unanswered. I think Russian national > EGO is as wounded now as the German one was after WWII, with one main > difference: Marshall plan was taking care of West Germany and showing > it the way. Germany was eager to join the Western nations. Russia has > love-hate relationship with the West and seeks its own path that > would show them (the West) the Russian power and will force them to > respect Russia. At the same time Russia is nursing its wounded EGO.> > All of these polls are the attempts to find the national way as well > as show all the opponents the wrong way. They are not a joke and are > not created for entertainment.> > Unlike Germany which was able to say "that was then, this is now", > Russia views itself longingly as heir and descendant of the Stalinist > regime (Russia was feared and respected then) while at the same time > there is an idealization of the pre-1917 monarchy. In other words, > people are not looking forward, they are looking back.> > On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:51 AM, Josh Wilson wrote:> > > I'm curious, though, if this wasn't set up for entertainment > > purposes or as> > a serious poll, what is its purpose for existence? The voting > > system strikes> > as fairly well thought out - at least as well implemented as its> > predecessor. It's also spawned some interesting debate in my view > > (and,> > granted, a lot of frivolity, but hey, it's the Internet).> >> > Alina Israeli> LFS, American University> 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW> Washington DC. 20016> (202) 885-2387 > fax (202) 885-1076> aisrael at american.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 anyse1 at MAC.COM Tue Jan 20 03:44:42 2009 From: anyse1 at MAC.COM (Anyse Joslin) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:44:42 -0800 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <4A26937B-164F-455F-BE05-41A22F3242ED@american.edu> Message-ID: Unfortunately, I just do not UNDERSTAND at all the Cold War mentality toward Russia carrying on so long and so vociferously. Nowhere is it ever mentioned that, without Russia to take the large blow from Germany during WWII, the world would "definitely" be nowhere like it is today. The West owes a "debt" to Russia that it shall never give because the West has an EGO that cannot acknowledge the gifts that Russia has given to the West. All arguments have TWO sides and, most certainly, the West has had no monopoly on "truth" for such a long, long time now. This so saddens me every time I hear this . . . Anyse On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Alina Israeli wrote: I think this question remained unanswered. I think Russian national EGO is as wounded now as the German one was after WWII, with one main difference: Marshall plan was taking care of West Germany and showing it the way. Germany was eager to join the Western nations. Russia has love-hate relationship with the West and seeks its own path that would show them (the West) the Russian power and will force them to respect Russia. At the same time Russia is nursing its wounded EGO. All of these polls are the attempts to find the national way as well as show all the opponents the wrong way. They are not a joke and are not created for entertainment. Unlike Germany which was able to say "that was then, this is now", Russia views itself longingly as heir and descendant of the Stalinist regime (Russia was feared and respected then) while at the same time there is an idealization of the pre-1917 monarchy. In other words, people are not looking forward, they are looking back. On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:51 AM, Josh Wilson wrote: > I'm curious, though, if this wasn't set up for entertainment > purposes or as > a serious poll, what is its purpose for existence? The voting system > strikes > as fairly well thought out - at least as well implemented as its > predecessor. It's also spawned some interesting debate in my view > (and, > granted, a lot of frivolity, but hey, it's the Internet). > Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 xmas at UA.FM Tue Jan 20 03:58:20 2009 From: xmas at UA.FM (Maria Dmytriyeva) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:58:20 +0200 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I haven't yet received the letter by Alina Israeli so I don't know whether she mentioned it but there is another difference -- there was no Nuernberg for Stalinist regime. talking about historic memory -- one of the brightest examples is that of the Great Famine (Holodomor). every time Ukrainians are trying to pay the debt of memory to their debt the Russian authorities would demand to stop slandering our joint history (and not only them, as a matter of fact -- I've seen by now thousands of discussions in LiveJournal of why Ukrainians should shut the f*ck up because there was no Holodomor, because everybody suffered, because it was necessary to create the industry and a whole bunch of other similarly plausible reasons). there is a very interesting article about the different ways of work with the national historic memory in Ukraine, Poland and Russia that I highly recommend: «Против упырей прошлого»: Голодомор и формирование исторической памяти в украинской, польской и русской культурах* Оксана ПАХЛЕВСКАЯ, Римский университет «Ла Сапьенца», Институт литературы им. Т.Г. Шевченко НАН Украины http://www.day.kiev.ua/257039/ http://www.day.kiev.ua/257204/ http://www.day.kiev.ua/257356/ btw, one could compare these two TV projects -- Prominent names in Ukraine and in Russia. in Ukraine one of the leading names was that of Stepan Bandera until rude intervention of the organizers that falsified the results so that the 'infamous' UPA leader would not appear as the most prominent Ukrainian what forced the project's editor-in-chief to resign. the entire story caused a lot of ruckus in mass media and blogosphere. (I cannot provide links right away but if anybody is interested in this story for professional reasons or out of curiosity -- please do not hesitate to contact me off-list) With best regards, Maria > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Alina Israeli wrote: > > > I think this question remained unanswered. I think Russian national EGO is > > as wounded now as the German one was after WWII, with one main difference: > > Marshall plan was taking care > > In other words, people are not looking forward, they are looking back. > > > I fully agree with tis statement. > A lot of Russian TV broadcsting nowadays is devoted to history, to the > past. It is shown either awful, or shameful, or so full of manipulations and > mistakes that one has to know it very well to understand what was really > done. And they - most of the viewers - are trying to solve the puzzles of > the past and have no time or desire to look in the future > -- реклама ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows server 2008 от www.hostpro.ua 2 месяца бесплатно + домен в подарок ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU Tue Jan 20 04:09:55 2009 From: pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU (David Powelstock) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:09:55 -0500 Subject: Learn Russian - US News and World Report Message-ID: Perhaps someone posted this here already, and I missed it? Just in case: US News and World Report did a piece on “50 Ways to Improve Your Life in 2009.” (http://tinyurl.com/39auer) Who knew verbs of motion could be a part of improving your life? Learn Russian The former Cold War superpower is starting to flex its geopolitical muscles again By Thomas Omestad Posted December 18, 2008 Why not get ahead of the geopolitical curve and study Russian? Though it has never been a top foreign language among American students, Russian did grow in popularity during the Cold War. And the wealth of Russian history and literature has always made learning the tongue rewarding enough for many. Now, a resurgent and more nationalistic (though post-communist) Russia is again doing some muscle flexing, albeit much more modestly than in the past. American students currently rank Russian eighth on a list of foreign languages that interest them. But with Russia widely pegged as a re-emerging great power—and taking a tough line against a range of American policies—mastering the tongue of the Kremlin could well come to regain some cachet. And, if not, you still could read Dostoevski in the original form, not to mention order a vodka in Moscow with a certain grace. (http://tinyurl.com/7xvtky) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 xmas at UA.FM Tue Jan 20 04:52:04 2009 From: xmas at UA.FM (Maria Dmytriyeva) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:52:04 +0200 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <76D8F9F5-37A8-4526-A2F7-11FF3E147E7C@mac.com> Message-ID: Dear Anyse, i would highly recommend to learn the difference between Russia and the Soviet Union. because this is a sin unforgivable for any (at least, decent) Slavist. there are several facts, though, that make your statement rather dubious. first. the Soviet Union and nazist Germany were allies. ever heard of Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov-Ribbentrop_Pact) it was thanks to support from the USSR that Germans had aviation (as a matter of fact German pilots were _trained_ in the Soviet Union) they together divided Poland and even had a military parade together: http://www.ua-today.com/modules/myarticles/article_storyid_8112.html second. it was not that much Russia itself that took the blow. it was Ukraine and Belarus. which were first occupied by the Soviets (in 1939, Western parts) then by Germans, and then "freed" by Soviets again. the WWII took one in every _four_ Belarussians and one in every _five_ Ukrainians. (I come from the region where Germans burnt to the ground 200 villages -- with their dwellers) the part of Russia's territory under occupation was less than 10 percent. third. but for the help of the West, the USSR would have never been able to defeat the Germans. fourth. a lot of victims of the WWII in Eastern Europe (not American understanding of Eastern Europe, European understanding of Eastern Europe) was the result of the USSR's treatment of its own citizens. partisans who were sent to the occupied territories to prevent the locals from living peacefully (to the extent possible) under the Nazis. idiotic strategic decisions that cost thousands of lives (in one of such sensless attacks my uncle was killed). sending untrained troops to the fight with no weapon. the list can go on and on. fifth. the present-day Russia is a country led by madmen. Georgia has already experienced it. Ukraine may be the next. it has nothing to do with the Cold War perception -- but everything with the common sense. btw, I would not advise you to accuse me of this Cold War world view. I was born in the Soviet Union and spent a good deal of my life in it. and I hate it deeply and truly -- for everything it did wrong (and there are few things it did right). and the present-day Russia freaks me out. totally. because I am well aware of what it had been doing to my country for centuries -- but I fear to think what else it can do to it. With best regards, Maria > Unfortunately, I just do not UNDERSTAND at all the Cold War mentality > toward Russia carrying on so long and so vociferously. Nowhere is it > ever mentioned that, without Russia to take the large blow from > Germany during WWII, the world would "definitely" be nowhere like it > is today. The West owes a "debt" to Russia that it shall never give > because the West has an EGO that cannot acknowledge the gifts that > Russia has given to the West. > > All arguments have TWO sides and, most certainly, the West has had no > monopoly on "truth" for such a long, long time now. > > This so saddens me every time I hear this . . . > > Anyse -- реклама ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows server 2008 от www.hostpro.ua 2 месяца бесплатно + домен в подарок ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 xmas at UA.FM Tue Jan 20 05:01:59 2009 From: xmas at UA.FM (Maria Dmytriyeva) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:01:59 +0200 Subject: Pozor Rossii -- literally Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I don't know whether you heard of it but here is another news: 19.01.2009 17:04 : В центре Москвы на Пречистенке застрелен адвокат семьи Эльзы Кунгаевой Станислав Маркелов http://www.echo.msk.ru/news/567068-echo.html Сегодня убили адвоката, президента Института Верховенства Права, антифашиста, правозащитника Станислава Маркелова. В Москве, на Пречистенке. http://marchenk.livejournal.com/177698.html "Маркелов в разное время представлял интересы родственников жертв захвата "Норд-Оста", чеченцев, пострадавших от рук сотрудника Ханты-Мансийского ОМОН с позывным "Кадет", главного редактора газеты "Химкинская правда" Михаила Бекетова, которого в прошлом году зверски избили неизвестные, и семей антифашистов и мигрантов, погибших от рук московских скинхедов". Стаса знали и уважали все, кто занимался какой-либо гражданской активностью. Не только в Москве. Не верится. У него осталась жена и двое детей. вместе с Станиславом была смертельно ранена в голову журналистка Анастасия Бабурова. Писала в основном о противостоянии праворадикальному национализму, о противоправном преследовании социальных активистов и запретах собраний антиавторитарных левых, по делу Буданова и т.д. Была активисткой анархистского и экологического движений, участвовала в деятельности "Хранителей Радуги". -- реклама ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows server 2008 от www.hostpro.ua 2 месяца бесплатно + домен в подарок ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 20 05:55:28 2009 From: vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM (Valery Belyanin) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:55:28 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii In-Reply-To: <76D8F9F5-37A8-4526-A2F7-11FF3E147E7C@mac.com> Message-ID: as the former and future president said Russia is on the way to civilization for only 15 years Если кому-то кажется, что Россия не соответствует каким-то стандартам, - вы вправе это анализировать. Но это не мешает и нам посмотреть, так ли хороши стандарты, которые вам нравятся. У каждой страны свой путь развития. Россия жила в условиях царизма, потом коммунистического режима, и только пятнадцать лет назад мы стали переходить к более цивилизованным способам управления. В руководстве страны нет никого, кто хотел бы вернуться к старым формам управления и развития страны. as for me I thought it started when Eltzin gave back his party ticket in 1987. that is 25 years ago. who will tell for sure when this process started? Valery Belyanin From shelenko1 at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 20 06:25:24 2009 From: shelenko1 at GMAIL.COM (Valerii Shelenko) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:25:24 +0100 Subject: Pozor Rossii Message-ID: To Ms Maria Dmytriyeva: >>>>>>>>>>>>>fifth. the present-day Russia is a country led by madmen. Georgia has already experienced it. Ukraine may be the next. Oh, really? What is the difference, then between the no less 'madmen' Mr Saakashvili+co and the scorned Russians? Do you belive that the hoplessly corrupted oligarchical politicians like Timoshenko (the notorious "Gas Princess") or Yuschenko/Baloga or former Ukrainian Prime-Minister the former convict Yanukovich are *not* madmen at all and *only* Medvedev (PhD in Law of SPB University, Sobchak's favourite disciple) is this scorned 'madman'? >>>>>the Soviet Union and nazist Germany were allies. ever heard of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? Ever heard (as at least, as a decent 'Slavist') that political allies were killing millions of their own - of each one of them? very peculiar type of allies then! Never heard of that type of allies. Must be the first case in human history! >>>>>second. it was not that much Russia itself that took the blow. it was Ukraine and Belarus. which were first occupied by the Soviets (in 1939, Western parts) then by Germans, and then "freed" by Soviets again. Please tell, who were those "Soviets"? Were they some kind of aliens who came from Mars? Would you care to explain and strictly differentiate between the "Soviets" and the (blessed and innocent) "Ukrainians"/ "Belorussians"? What is the empirical real-life difference between "Soviets" and the "Belorussians" or "Ukrainians"? With all due respect, Valerii Shelenko ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 shelenko1 at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 20 06:32:17 2009 From: shelenko1 at GMAIL.COM (Valerii Shelenko) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:32:17 -0600 Subject: Pozor Rossii Message-ID: To Ms Maria Dmytriyeva: >>>>>>>>>>>>>fifth. the present-day Russia is a country led by madmen. Georgia has already experienced it. Ukraine may be the next. Oh, really? What is the difference, then between the no less 'madmen' Mr Saakashvili+co and the scorned Russians? Do you belive that the hoplessly corrupted oligarchical politicians like Timoshenko (the notorious "Gas Princess") or Yuschenko/Baloga or former Ukrainian Prime-Minister the former convict Yanukovich are *not* madmen at all and *only* Medvedev (PhD in Law of SPB University, Sobchak's favourite disciple) is this scorned 'madman'? >>>>>the Soviet Union and nazist Germany were allies. ever heard of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? Ever heard (as at least, as a decent 'Slavist') that political allies were killing millions of their own - of each one of them? very peculiar type of allies then! Never heard of that type of allies. Must be the first case in human history! >>>>>second. it was not that much Russia itself that took the blow. it was Ukraine and Belarus. which were first occupied by the Soviets (in 1939, Western parts) then by Germans, and then "freed" by Soviets again. Please tell, who were those "Soviets"? Were they some kind of aliens who came from Mars? Would you care to explain and strictly differentiate between the "Soviets" and the (blessed and innocent) "Ukrainians"/ "Belorussians"? What is the empirical real-life difference between "Soviets" and the "Belorussians" or "Ukrainians"? With all due respect, Valerii Shelenko ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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I think for a post-Soviet country it is already a big achievement. don't you think? as to allies. well, they did kill a lot of other's citizens. _after_ they were allies. besides, the USSR was killing millions of its own citizens. I have much more problems with that. Ukrainians and Belorussians were people who inhabit the territories between Russia and Poland / Czech / Slovakia / Romania. Soviets was a political power. _armed_ political power. obviously some of its soldiers were Ukrainians and Belorussians. that's the problem with stateless nations -- whoever's got more guns can take over you and take away you grain, soil, wood, gas, girls to work in their factories and boys to fight in their armies. (and I didn't mention museums and archives. what is another painful issue) so for Ukrainians in, say, Western Ukraine it was no great difference between Nazis and Soviets. both were worth. in Eastern Ukraine this was settled much earlier -- with the climax in the form of the Great Famine. when all attempts of resistance were heavily supressed. so I see your point. I just don't understand whom you intended to impress (let alone) convince with it. With best regards, Maria > To Ms Maria Dmytriyeva: > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>fifth. the present-day Russia is a country led by madmen. > Georgia has already experienced it. Ukraine may be the next. > > Oh, really? What is the difference, then between the no less 'madmen' > Mr Saakashvili+co and the scorned Russians? > Do you belive that the hoplessly corrupted oligarchical politicians > like Timoshenko (the notorious "Gas Princess") or Yuschenko/Baloga or > former Ukrainian Prime-Minister the former convict Yanukovich are > *not* madmen at all and *only* Medvedev (PhD in Law of SPB University, > Sobchak's favourite disciple) is this scorned 'madman'? > > >>>>>the Soviet Union and nazist Germany were allies. ever heard of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? > > Ever heard (as at least, as a decent 'Slavist') that political allies > were killing millions of their own - of each one of them? very > peculiar type of allies then! Never heard of that type of allies. Must > be the first case in human history! > > >>>>>second. it was not that much Russia itself that took the blow. it was Ukraine and Belarus. which were first occupied by the Soviets (in 1939, Western parts) then by Germans, and then "freed" by Soviets again. > Please tell, who were those "Soviets"? Were they some kind of aliens > who came from Mars? Would you care to explain and strictly > differentiate between the "Soviets" and the (blessed and innocent) > "Ukrainians"/ "Belorussians"? What is the empirical real-life > difference between "Soviets" and the "Belorussians" or "Ukrainians"? > > With all due respect, > Valerii Shelenko -- реклама ----------------------------------------------------------- Windows server 2008 от www.hostpro.ua 2 месяца бесплатно + домен в подарок ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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I have much > more problems with that. > > Ukrainians and Belorussians were people who inhabit the territories > between Russia and Poland / Czech / Slovakia / Romania. > Soviets was a political power. _armed_ political power. obviously some of > its soldiers were Ukrainians and Belorussians. that's the problem with > stateless nations -- whoever's got more guns can take over you and take > away you grain, soil, wood, gas, girls to work in their factories and boys > to fight in their armies. (and I didn't mention museums and archives. what > is another painful issue) > > so for Ukrainians in, say, Western Ukraine it was no great difference > between Nazis and Soviets. both were worth. > in Eastern Ukraine this was settled much earlier -- with the climax in the > form of the Great Famine. when all attempts of resistance were heavily > supressed. > > so I see your point. I just don't understand whom you intended to impress > (let alone) convince with it. > > With best regards, > Maria > >> To Ms Maria Dmytriyeva: >> >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>fifth. the present-day Russia is a country led by madmen. >> Georgia has already experienced it. Ukraine may be the next. >> >> Oh, really? What is the difference, then between the no less 'madmen' >> Mr Saakashvili+co and the scorned Russians? >> Do you belive that the hoplessly corrupted oligarchical politicians >> like Timoshenko (the notorious "Gas Princess") or Yuschenko/Baloga or >> former Ukrainian Prime-Minister the former convict Yanukovich are >> *not* madmen at all and *only* Medvedev (PhD in Law of SPB University, >> Sobchak's favourite disciple) is this scorned 'madman'? >> >> >>>>>the Soviet Union and nazist Germany were allies. ever heard of >> >>>>>Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? >> >> Ever heard (as at least, as a decent 'Slavist') that political allies >> were killing millions of their own - of each one of them? very >> peculiar type of allies then! Never heard of that type of allies. Must >> be the first case in human history! >> >> >>>>>second. it was not that much Russia itself that took the blow. it >> >>>>>was Ukraine and Belarus. which were first occupied by the Soviets >> >>>>>(in 1939, Western parts) then by Germans, and then "freed" by >> >>>>>Soviets again. > >> Please tell, who were those "Soviets"? Were they some kind of aliens >> who came from Mars? Would you care to explain and strictly >> differentiate between the "Soviets" and the (blessed and innocent) >> "Ukrainians"/ "Belorussians"? What is the empirical real-life >> difference between "Soviets" and the "Belorussians" or "Ukrainians"? >> >> With all due respect, >> Valerii Shelenko > > -- реклама ----------------------------------------------------------- > Windows server 2008 от www.hostpro.ua > 2 месяца бесплатно + домен в подарок > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. 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Two decades after the Cold War was said to have ended, the concept of a Cold War has once again reappeared in the rhetoric of world politics. Therefore, one cannot argue that the Cold War was merely a process of the past with minor relevance to the present. The 9th Aleksanteri Conference “Cold War Interactions Reconsidered”, will be hosted by the Aleksanteri Institute and will take place at the University of Helsinki on 29—31 October, 2009. Aims of the Conference Traditional research on the Cold War has focused on conflicts and rivalries, highlighting state agents and diplomatic history. The 9th Aleksanteri Conference aims to challenge traditional analyses by looking at new ways to view and conceptualise the international and transnational histories of the Cold War era. The conference intends to place particular emphasis on Europe and the former Socialist countries, as well as smaller states, non-state actors and multilevel approaches. Leaving East-West bipolarity and superpower confrontations to one side, the conference will focus on interactions that took place despite the existence of the Iron Curtain. Along with great powers, individuals and their various interactions have helped form the course of history. The conference wishes to promote critical self-evaluation and a theoretical discussion on disciplines that are not so obviously connected with traditional Cold War studies. We encourage scholars to evaluate the current state of the area studies and to discuss how the Cold War influenced and perhaps still influences our thinking, identities, communication and culture. The conference will also encourage discussion on the manifold ways of coming to terms with the past. The conference will emphasise a multidisciplinary approach, in the belief that it will greatly enrich the discussion and bring forth new interpretations. Besides historians, we hope to gather a broad array of scholars from the social and political sciences, cultural studies, the arts and humanities, law and economics. The conference will cover the whole of the Cold War period and the post-Cold War period up to the present day. Themes of the conference: • Interactions across Boundaries. Cultural, economic and political exchanges, contacts and cooperation; know-how and technology transfers. • Behind the Scenes and Beyond the State. Individuals and networks, non-governmental and non-state agents. • The Cold War’s Effects. The impact of the Cold War and transnational interactions on ideology, culture, civil society; communication and identity, everyday life and consumption; and perceptions of the “other”. • The Cold War and the Present. Politics of the past; Vergangenheitsbewältigung, (n)ostalgia. • Reconsidering the Cold War. Critical reconceptualisation and periodisation; new approaches, theories and methodologies. The Cold War as a resource and/or a limitation. Keynote speakers: Nadia Arbatova, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russia Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Serguei Oushakine, Princeton University, USA Yale Richmond, USA Jadwiga Staniszkis, University of Warsaw, Poland Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Conference Schedule and Deadlines: Proposals for panels (approx. 500 words): March 15, 2009 Abstracts for individual papers (approx. 300 words): March 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2009 Conference: October 29—31, 2009 Please submit all the above information through the forms on the conference website: http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conference2009 In addition, you will find further practical information on submissions, travel and accommodation on the website. For further assistance, please contact the Conference Coordinator, Riikka Nisonen-Trnka, or the Conference Secretary, Eeva Korteniemi, at: fcree-aleksconf at helsinki.fi or visit the conference homepage at: http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/conference2009 The Aleksanteri Conference is an annual, multidisciplinary, international conference organised by the Aleksanteri Institute, Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, affiliated with the University of Helsinki. Aleksanteri Conferences have attracted broad interest among researchers and policy-makers in a wide variety of disciplines, both in Finland and abroad, interested in the development of post-socialist countries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 M.R.Platts at SUSSEX.AC.UK Tue Jan 20 10:58:32 2009 From: M.R.Platts at SUSSEX.AC.UK (Matthew Platts) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:58:32 +0000 Subject: Marriinsky Theatre - Does anyone have a photo? In-Reply-To: <5EBB90D6329A443387D002AE9B748697@john30bbc972bd> Message-ID: Hi John, This isn't a good quality one, but it does state "/I grant any entity the right to use this work *for any purpose*, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law."/: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mariinsky_Theatre.jpg There are more in the Wikimedia Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mariinsky_Theatre but their licensing may be just what you were referring to! Sorry I haven't any snaps of my own you could use... Good luck with the US edition - I'm pleased to see Ruslan going from strength to strength. Cheers, Matt John Langran wrote: > Dear SEELANGERS > > Does anyone have a photo of the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg > they could let me have with permission to use? I need one urgently for > a page in the US edition of Ruslan 1. The resolution does not need to > be high, as the image will be reproduced fairly small. > > I have found a few on the Internet, but there are delays with the > permissions, and we want to go to print. > > Please reply off list john at ruslan.co.uk > > John Langran > www.ruslan.co.uk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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Yes Ruslan is doing fine, Beijing University Press are now interested! john ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Platts" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Marriinsky Theatre - Does anyone have a photo? > Hi John, > > This isn't a good quality one, but it does state "/I grant any entity > the right to use this work *for any purpose*, without any conditions, > unless such conditions are required by law."/: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mariinsky_Theatre.jpg > > There are more in the Wikimedia Commons at > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mariinsky_Theatre but their > licensing may be just what you were referring to! > > Sorry I haven't any snaps of my own you could use... > > Good luck with the US edition - I'm pleased to see Ruslan going from > strength to strength. > > Cheers, > Matt > > John Langran wrote: >> Dear SEELANGERS >> >> Does anyone have a photo of the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg >> they could let me have with permission to use? I need one urgently for >> a page in the US edition of Ruslan 1. The resolution does not need to >> be high, as the image will be reproduced fairly small. >> >> I have found a few on the Internet, but there are delays with the >> permissions, and we want to go to print. >> >> Please reply off list john at ruslan.co.uk >> >> John Langran >> www.ruslan.co.uk >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription >> options, and more. 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All the best, Don The Department of German and Russian Studies and the Department of Cinema at Binghamton University (SUNY) will host the Annual Conference of the European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF) July 9-12, 2009 EUROPEAN CINEMA: EXPERIMENT, MAINSTREAM AND PRAXIS The conference will explore European Cinema, looking at those films and directors, movements and aesthetics that might be considered "Art House," and considering whether these work with or against European "mainstream" cinema. The conference will consider both theory and praxis, and explore the nature of European cinema, both present and past, through the works of directors, movements and ideas that have informed these cinemas. Participants are invited to consider such areas as European cinema and its engagement with border crossings between European and other cinemas; representations of intersections of (trans)gender, sexuality and race in European cinemas; New Cinemas in Europe; European filmmaking praxis and European production ideas, and more. Papers should be thirty minutes (including clips). We look forward to your proposal (ca. 2 pages) by February 15, 2008 to Ingeborg Majer-O'Sickey (imos at binghamton.edu) and Brian Wall (bwall at binghamton.edu). -- Donald Loewen Associate Professor of Russian Chair, Dept. of German and Russian Studies Binghamton University (SUNY) PO Box 6000 Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 ph. (607) 777-5970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Most of the people who find this attitude unwarranted spend time demonstrating that it is inconsistent with the facts, prejudiced, one-sided, self-serving, politically motivated, ideoloical, racist, etc. This analysis is important but does not answer the question of why it is the USSR / Russia rather than some other country that still plays this special role in Western political mentality. As I learned recently, there is a new book "Distorted Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russian and China in the Twentieth Century" by Donald Davis and Eugene Trani forthcoming in the U of Missouri Press, which seems to address this issue -- Izvestia published an interesting review of it here http://www.izvestia.ru/comment/article3124292/ But, at any rate, the topic is vast and, apparently, increasingly urgent. Best wishes, Andrey Shcherbenok Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anyse Joslin Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:45 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Pozor Rossii Unfortunately, I just do not UNDERSTAND at all the Cold War mentality toward Russia carrying on so long and so vociferously. Nowhere is it ever mentioned that, without Russia to take the large blow from Germany during WWII, the world would "definitely" be nowhere like it is today. The West owes a "debt" to Russia that it shall never give because the West has an EGO that cannot acknowledge the gifts that Russia has given to the West. All arguments have TWO sides and, most certainly, the West has had no monopoly on "truth" for such a long, long time now. This so saddens me every time I hear this . . . Anyse On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Alina Israeli wrote: I think this question remained unanswered. I think Russian national EGO is as wounded now as the German one was after WWII, with one main difference: Marshall plan was taking care of West Germany and showing it the way. Germany was eager to join the Western nations. Russia has love-hate relationship with the West and seeks its own path that would show them (the West) the Russian power and will force them to respect Russia. At the same time Russia is nursing its wounded EGO. All of these polls are the attempts to find the national way as well as show all the opponents the wrong way. They are not a joke and are not created for entertainment. Unlike Germany which was able to say "that was then, this is now", Russia views itself longingly as heir and descendant of the Stalinist regime (Russia was feared and respected then) while at the same time there is an idealization of the pre-1917 monarchy. In other words, people are not looking forward, they are looking back. On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:51 AM, Josh Wilson wrote: > I'm curious, though, if this wasn't set up for entertainment > purposes or as > a serious poll, what is its purpose for existence? The voting system > strikes > as fairly well thought out - at least as well implemented as its > predecessor. It's also spawned some interesting debate in my view > (and, > granted, a lot of frivolity, but hey, it's the Internet). > Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Michael Katz Middlebury College America Engages Russia, Circa 1880-ca. 1930: Studies in Cultural Interaction A Summer Institute Funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities The New York Public Library Sunday June 14 ­Friday July 3, 2009 The Institute will bring together twenty-five university teaching faculty, curators, and senior bibliographers with nationally-recognized Session Leaders to consider, investigate, and reflect upon the implications of the various forms of cultural engagement between the United States and the Russian Empire/Soviet Union from the late 19^th century to the beginning of the 1930s. Over a period of three weeks, daily sessions, discussions, field trips, and independent project research will explore strategies for developing and implementing new teaching and educational paradigms. During the Institute, participants will have the opportunity to work with many of North America¹s greatest repositories of Americana and Slavic and East European materials, among them the NYPL and Columbia University Libraries. In addition, the Co-Directors Edward Kasinec (NYPL) and Robert Davis (Columbia) will assist participants in gaining access to the myriad other museums and archives in the Greater New York Metropolitan area. A full description of the program, and details of the application process are available at www.nypl.org/research/chss/slv/2009_neh.pdf , at www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/slavic/2009NEH.html ; alternatively, you may contact the Co-Directors for further information at ekasinec at nypl.org or rhd2106 at Columbia.edu . 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Candidates should work in one or more of the major Slavic languages and cultures (including Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Polish, and Russian) with a research emphasis on the theory and practice of contemporary media, which could include contemporary cinema and print in addition to television, popular music and digital media. The committee welcomes applications from candidates with degrees in various disciplines, including Anthropology, History, Linguistics, Music, Sociology, or Slavic Languages and Literatures, as long as their work displays theoretical sophistication and focuses on contemporary media culture. Appointed as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rank of Instructor, the successful candidate will be expected to teach two quarter-length courses of his/her own devising, one for undergraduates and one for graduate students, in each year of the two award years. It is anticipated that the Fellow will work closely with other relevant programs within the University to help establish the University of Chicago as a leader in this emerging field. The Fellows will be matched with one or more faculty mentors to ensure that the two years in residence at the University are of maximum benefit to the Fellows' research agenda and career path. This is a residential fellowship; persons holding tenure-track appointments are ineligible to apply, and candidates must have received their Ph.D. within the five academic years previous to the year of award. Applicants should submit a CV, transcripts, samples of scholarly writing, three letters of recommendation, and a cover letter in hard copy to: Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow Search Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Chicago 1130 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637-1539 E-mails and faxes will not be considered. Review of applications will begin on 2 February 2009. 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Is that still the case, and how would students go about finding them? Thank you, Shannon Spasova Dalhousie 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 renee at ALINGA.COM Tue Jan 20 23:08:54 2009 From: renee at ALINGA.COM (Renee Stillings) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:08:54 -0800 Subject: host families In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Generally the universities hosting foreign students have a network of hosts, although obviously they would prioritize allocating those hosts to their students. But if it were a quiet time of year and they wanted to keep hosts busy, they might be willing to arrange host family stays without study. While some tourist companies may be able to make such arrangements on a limited basis, HOFA is the only organization that seems to provide such a service regularly. The one other organization (really just a couple, I think) that used to do this in Moscow up until a few years ago gave up on it - I think as things got more and more expensive in Moscow it wasn't practical for him to make any money at it, particular considering how much Russians like posredniki. :) If anyone else has heard of other organizations doing this though, I'd be interested in hearing about it as well. Renee -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shannon Spasova Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:26 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] host families Does anyone have any recommendations about organizations that help match students to host families in Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow especially)? I searched through the SEELANGS archives but couldn't find many suggestions except for HOFA in St. Petersburg. I remember that when I was studying in Russia there were a good number of families willing to host because of the income that it brought in. Is that still the case, and how would students go about finding them? Thank you, Shannon Spasova Dalhousie 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU Tue Jan 20 23:52:42 2009 From: frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU (Francoise Rosset) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:52:42 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii and Western anti-Russian sentiments In-Reply-To: <200901201935.n0KJZJ5W015205@jalapeno.cc.columbia.edu> Message-ID: I agree with Anyse Joslin and Andrei Shcherbenok, if I understood them correctly, that there is a special and sometimes inexplicable animosity towards Russia. As a Slavist and a professor of Russian, it always infuriated me that the USSR was singled out for special opprobium while we turned a relatively blind eye to the Chinese communists -- "inscrutable" they were/are, so I guess that absolved us from looking too closely. That said, Russian politics have taken really awful turns recently. Look at today's Times and the news about yet ANOTHER lawyer and reporter being gunned down with impunity. As for WWII, while we don't acknowledge Russia's role enough, I'm not comfortable either with Russia's insistence on calling it the Great Patriotic War, which, in obsessing on their losses alone, tends to gloss over other Nazi atrocities, say, the Jewish Holocaust. Finally, Anyse, the West has NOT always ignored Russia's sufferingI. Here's JFK in 1963: "And no nation in the history of battle ever suffered more than the Soviet Union in the second world war. At least 20 million lost their lives. Countless millions of homes and families were burned or sacked. A third of the nation's territory, including two-thirds of its industrial base, was turned into a wasteland -- a loss equivalent to the destruction of this country east of Chicago." American University speech, June 10, 1963 -FR Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor Chair, Russian and Russian Studies Coordinator, German and Russian Wheaton College Norton, Massachusetts 02766 Office: (508) 285-3696 FAX: (508) 286-3640 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Jan 21 01:06:06 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:06:06 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii and Western anti-Russian sentiments In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The animosity towards Russia wherever and whenever it existed is based solely on the struggle for world domination. While China quietly grew its ranks and tried not to starve, Russia disregarding starvation waged proxy wars first in Asia, then in Africa and Latin America. There were organizations (maybe they still exist) that were in charge of the insurgent movements in the Mediterranean, Latin America, possibly elsewhere, I know of the those two first hand. It's also well known now that there were training camps for Palestinian terrorists on the territory of Eastern block countries. And it was the Soviet Union that was behind the blockade of West Berlin. While of course the Western attitude towards Russia should be studied, what I find most amazing is the siege mentality which is pervasive in Russian social discourse. Take this Leontiev series: http://kbiho.ru/load/14-1-0-3896 — the West has been preoccupied from early 1800 with only one thing: prevention of Russia's expansion in Asia and elsewhere; hindrance of Russian interests is the sole purpose of Western politics. When such historic programs are made in the West, their main point is national soul searching and national MEA CULPA towards the former colonies. This is not the case with Leontiev films (and he is not alone). The underlying leitmotif is "the Russians are coming and it's a good thing but the West is holding us back". On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Francoise Rosset wrote: > I agree with Anyse Joslin and Andrei Shcherbenok, if I understood > them correctly, that there is a special and sometimes inexplicable > animosity towards Russia. As a Slavist and a professor of Russian, > it always infuriated me that the USSR was singled out for special > opprobium while we turned a relatively blind eye to the Chinese > communists -- "inscrutable" they were/are, so I guess that absolved > us from looking too closely. > Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 anyse1 at MAC.COM Wed Jan 21 01:35:26 2009 From: anyse1 at MAC.COM (Anyse Joslin) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:35:26 -0800 Subject: Pozor Rossii and Western anti-Russian sentiments In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Francoise, I would like to thank you for such a well-tempered as well as thought out reply. I am here, in SEELANGS, among some of the very best scholars of Russian, Russian history, etc., and I remember when I was very young that I wanted to study Russian in order to more understand the Russian people as well as their history and so on. I would hope that anyone who learns the language of any nation as well as about its own group culture or "whatever" would do so, not to tear it down in revocation of its own historial "reality" (even US historical "reality" is distorted, as we know) but to "try" all the more so to understand that culture as well as the history, culture and so on. I believe that we, in this area of "unique" study, would strive to help others to break down the many barriers that always exists between almost any two cultures in the world. I would also hope that no one would take such a line of study for granted and, instead, be a proud "servant" to sharing those things that make us so much alike as well as that which makes us so different. Anyse On Jan 20, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Francoise Rosset wrote: I agree with Anyse Joslin and Andrei Shcherbenok, if I understood them correctly, that there is a special and sometimes inexplicable animosity towards Russia. As a Slavist and a professor of Russian, it always infuriated me that the USSR was singled out for special opprobium while we turned a relatively blind eye to the Chinese communists -- "inscrutable" they were/are, so I guess that absolved us from looking too closely. That said, Russian politics have taken really awful turns recently. Look at today's Times and the news about yet ANOTHER lawyer and reporter being gunned down with impunity. As for WWII, while we don't acknowledge Russia's role enough, I'm not comfortable either with Russia's insistence on calling it the Great Patriotic War, which, in obsessing on their losses alone, tends to gloss over other Nazi atrocities, say, the Jewish Holocaust. Finally, Anyse, the West has NOT always ignored Russia's sufferingI. Here's JFK in 1963: "And no nation in the history of battle ever suffered more than the Soviet Union in the second world war. At least 20 million lost their lives. Countless millions of homes and families were burned or sacked. A third of the nation's territory, including two-thirds of its industrial base, was turned into a wasteland -- a loss equivalent to the destruction of this country east of Chicago." American University speech, June 10, 1963 -FR Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor Chair, Russian and Russian Studies Coordinator, German and Russian Wheaton College Norton, Massachusetts 02766 Office: (508) 285-3696 FAX: (508) 286-3640 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 anyse1 at MAC.COM Wed Jan 21 01:54:41 2009 From: anyse1 at MAC.COM (Anyse Joslin) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:54:41 -0800 Subject: Pozor Rossii and Western anti-Russian sentiments In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Alina, you force me to write! At a time when the US sees itself as the "policeman" of the word, shoving "democracy" down the throats of those who have their own "form" of democracy that the US is unable to accept. This chauvinist attitude has come to the point of breaking international law by "breaking the peace" in the world with a preemptory strike on a nation so small that it should NEVER be seen as less than a "war crime." Personally, in the current state of our democracy, I would not want a "mini-ME" democracy modeled after it anywhere in the world. THe US uses its apologies to continue its own gunboat diplomacy that has grown worse and even more worse since the US involvement in the Philippines in the very early twentieth century under the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1901). We have taken no lessons from ANY act tas an agressor in which this country has participated since. Also, to make matters worse, the "efficiency" of US weapons has risen so "high" that the actual collateral damage in terms of civilian casualties as the result of US attacks has gone from only 5% in WWI to 95% today. So, for every civilian killed in WWI, 19 soldiers died. Today, for every 19 civilian casualties in Iraq, one soldier has died. How can anyone find ANY preference of this to any other set of behaviors? Now, the US is actually a WAR ECONOMY and no longer concentrates on producing consumer goods or any of the manufacturing needed to keep and to maintain any economic advantage in the world. I will not go any further on the US role in the "killing fields" of Cambodia and too many others to even mention here. Anyse On Jan 20, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Alina Israeli wrote: The animosity towards Russia wherever and whenever it existed is based solely on the struggle for world domination. While China quietly grew its ranks and tried not to starve, Russia disregarding starvation waged proxy wars first in Asia, then in Africa and Latin America. There were organizations (maybe they still exist) that were in charge of the insurgent movements in the Mediterranean, Latin America, possibly elsewhere, I know of the those two first hand. It's also well known now that there were training camps for Palestinian terrorists on the territory of Eastern block countries. And it was the Soviet Union that was behind the blockade of West Berlin. While of course the Western attitude towards Russia should be studied, what I find most amazing is the siege mentality which is pervasive in Russian social discourse. Take this Leontiev series: http://kbiho.ru/load/14-1-0-3896 — the West has been preoccupied from early 1800 with only one thing: prevention of Russia's expansion in Asia and elsewhere; hindrance of Russian interests is the sole purpose of Western politics. When such historic programs are made in the West, their main point is national soul searching and national MEA CULPA towards the former colonies. This is not the case with Leontiev films (and he is not alone). The underlying leitmotif is "the Russians are coming and it's a good thing but the West is holding us back". On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Francoise Rosset wrote: > I agree with Anyse Joslin and Andrei Shcherbenok, if I understood > them correctly, that there is a special and sometimes inexplicable > animosity towards Russia. As a Slavist and a professor of Russian, > it always infuriated me that the USSR was singled out for special > opprobium while we turned a relatively blind eye to the Chinese > communists -- "inscrutable" they were/are, so I guess that absolved > us from looking too closely. > Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 grylkova at UFL.EDU Wed Jan 21 02:08:17 2009 From: grylkova at UFL.EDU (RYLKOVA,GALINA S) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:08:17 -0500 Subject: Pozor Rossii and Western anti-Russian sentiments Message-ID: While everybody is free to love or hate Russia, this discussion seems to lead nowhere. I think it is worth looking at some books, like "Distorted Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in the Twentieth Century" by Donald Davis and Eugene Trani forthcoming in the U of Missouri Press, the review of which was kindly mentioned by Andrey Shcherbenok today: http://www.izvestia.ru/comment/article3124292/ This book might provide a point of departure for some, or the final destination for others. Otherwise we will continue piling up emotionally charged accusations that really mean nothing. Galina Rylkova On Tue Jan 20 20:54:41 EST 2009, Anyse Joslin wrote: > Alina, you force me to write! > > At a time when the US sees itself as the "policeman" of the word, > shoving "democracy" down the throats of those who have their own > "form" of democracy that the US is unable to accept. This > chauvinist attitude has come to the point of breaking > international law by "breaking the peace" in the world with a > preemptory strike on a nation so small that it should NEVER be > seen as less than a "war crime." Personally, in the current > state of our democracy, I would not want a "mini-ME" democracy > modeled after it anywhere in the world. THe US uses its > apologies to continue its own gunboat diplomacy that has grown > worse and even more worse since the US involvement in the > Philippines in the very early twentieth century under the > Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1901). We have taken no > lessons from ANY act tas an agressor in which this country has > participated since. Also, to make matters worse, the > "efficiency" of US weapons has risen so "high" that the actual > collateral damage in terms of civilian casualties as the result > of US attacks has gone from only 5% in WWI to 95% today. So, for > every civilian killed in WWI, 19 soldiers died. Today, for every > 19 civilian casualties in Iraq, one soldier has died. How can > anyone find ANY preference of this to any other set of > behaviors? Now, the US is actually a WAR ECONOMY and no longer > concentrates on producing consumer goods or any of the > manufacturing needed to keep and to maintain any economic > advantage in the world. I will not go any further on the US role > in the "killing fields" of Cambodia and too many others to even > mention here. > > Anyse > > > On Jan 20, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Alina Israeli wrote: > > The animosity towards Russia wherever and whenever it existed is > based solely on the struggle for world domination. While China > quietly grew its ranks and tried not to starve, Russia > disregarding starvation waged proxy wars first in Asia, then in > Africa and Latin America. There were organizations (maybe they > still exist) that were in charge of the insurgent movements in > the Mediterranean, Latin America, possibly elsewhere, I know of > the those two first hand. > > It's also well known now that there were training camps for > Palestinian terrorists on the territory of Eastern block > countries. And it was the Soviet Union that was behind the > blockade of West Berlin. > > While of course the Western attitude towards Russia should be > studied, what I find most amazing is the siege mentality which > is pervasive in Russian social discourse. Take this Leontiev > series: http://kbiho.ru/load/14-1-0-3896 ??? the West has been > preoccupied from early 1800 with only one thing: prevention of > Russia's expansion in Asia and elsewhere; hindrance of Russian > interests is the sole purpose of Western politics. When such > historic programs are made in the West, their main point is > national soul searching and national MEA CULPA towards the > former colonies. This is not the case with Leontiev films (and > he is not alone). The underlying leitmotif is "the Russians are > coming and it's a good thing but the West is holding us back". > > > On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Francoise Rosset wrote: > >> I agree with Anyse Joslin and Andrei Shcherbenok, if I >> understood them correctly, that there is a special and >> sometimes inexplicable animosity towards Russia. As a Slavist >> and a professor of Russian, it always infuriated me that the >> USSR was singled out for special opprobium while we turned a >> relatively blind eye to the Chinese communists -- "inscrutable" >> they were/are, so I guess that absolved us from looking too >> closely. >> > > > Alina Israeli > LFS, American University > 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW > Washington DC. 20016 > (202) 885-2387 > fax (202) 885-1076 > aisrael at american.edu > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 tbuzina at YANDEX.RU Wed Jan 21 06:57:07 2009 From: tbuzina at YANDEX.RU (Tatyana Buzina) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:57:07 +0300 Subject: Pozor Rossii and Western anti-Russian sentiments In-Reply-To: <497601664.78381232503697879.JavaMail.osg@osgjas03.cns.ufl.edu> Message-ID: Here is another possible reference: David S. Foglesong. The American Mission and the “Evil Empire.” The Crusade for a “Free Russia” since 1881. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 352 pp. Regards, Tatyana 21.01.09, 05:08, RYLKOVA: > While everybody is free to love or hate Russia, this discussion > seems to lead nowhere. I think it is worth looking at some books, > like "Distorted > Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in > the > Twentieth Century" by Donald Davis and Eugene Trani forthcoming in > the U of Missouri Press, the review of which was kindly mentioned > by Andrey Shcherbenok today: > http://www.izvestia.ru/comment/article3124292/ > This book might provide a point of departure for some, or the > final destination for others. > Otherwise we will continue piling up emotionally charged > accusations that really mean nothing. > Galina Rylkova > On Tue Jan 20 20:54:41 EST 2009, Anyse Joslin > wrote: > > Alina, you force me to write! > > > > At a time when the US sees itself as the "policeman" of the word, > > shoving "democracy" down the throats of those who have their own > > "form" of democracy that the US is unable to accept. This > > chauvinist attitude has come to the point of breaking > > international law by "breaking the peace" in the world with a > > preemptory strike on a nation so small that it should NEVER be > > seen as less than a "war crime." Personally, in the current > > state of our democracy, I would not want a "mini-ME" democracy > > modeled after it anywhere in the world. THe US uses its > > apologies to continue its own gunboat diplomacy that has grown > > worse and even more worse since the US involvement in the > > Philippines in the very early twentieth century under the > > Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1901). We have taken no > > lessons from ANY act tas an agressor in which this country has > > participated since. Also, to make matters worse, the > > "efficiency" of US weapons has risen so "high" that the actual > > collateral damage in terms of civilian casualties as the result > > of US attacks has gone from only 5% in WWI to 95% today. So, for > > every civilian killed in WWI, 19 soldiers died. Today, for every > > 19 civilian casualties in Iraq, one soldier has died. How can > > anyone find ANY preference of this to any other set of > > behaviors? Now, the US is actually a WAR ECONOMY and no longer > > concentrates on producing consumer goods or any of the > > manufacturing needed to keep and to maintain any economic > > advantage in the world. I will not go any further on the US role > > in the "killing fields" of Cambodia and too many others to even > > mention here. > > > > Anyse > > > > > > On Jan 20, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Alina Israeli wrote: > > > > The animosity towards Russia wherever and whenever it existed is > > based solely on the struggle for world domination. While China > > quietly grew its ranks and tried not to starve, Russia > > disregarding starvation waged proxy wars first in Asia, then in > > Africa and Latin America. There were organizations (maybe they > > still exist) that were in charge of the insurgent movements in > > the Mediterranean, Latin America, possibly elsewhere, I know of > > the those two first hand. > > > > It's also well known now that there were training camps for > > Palestinian terrorists on the territory of Eastern block > > countries. And it was the Soviet Union that was behind the > > blockade of West Berlin. > > > > While of course the Western attitude towards Russia should be > > studied, what I find most amazing is the siege mentality which > > is pervasive in Russian social discourse. Take this Leontiev > > series: http://kbiho.ru/load/14-1-0-3896 ??? the West has been > > preoccupied from early 1800 with only one thing: prevention of > > Russia's expansion in Asia and elsewhere; hindrance of Russian > > interests is the sole purpose of Western politics. When such > > historic programs are made in the West, their main point is > > national soul searching and national MEA CULPA towards the > > former colonies. This is not the case with Leontiev films (and > > he is not alone). The underlying leitmotif is "the Russians are > > coming and it's a good thing but the West is holding us back". > > > > > > On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Francoise Rosset wrote: > > > >> I agree with Anyse Joslin and Andrei Shcherbenok, if I > >> understood them correctly, that there is a special and > >> sometimes inexplicable animosity towards Russia. As a Slavist > >> and a professor of Russian, it always infuriated me that the > >> USSR was singled out for special opprobium while we turned a > >> relatively blind eye to the Chinese communists -- "inscrutable" > >> they were/are, so I guess that absolved us from looking too > >> closely. > >> > > > > > > Alina Israeli > > LFS, American University > > 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW > > Washington DC. 20016 > > (202) 885-2387 > > fax (202) 885-1076 > > aisrael at american.edu > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your > > subscription > > options, and more. 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Please see the link at www.ruslan.co.uk/courses.htm#inrussia John Langran www.ruslan.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon Spasova" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:26 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] host families > Does anyone have any recommendations about organizations that help match > students to host families in Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow > especially)? > I searched through the SEELANGS archives but couldn't find many > suggestions > except for HOFA in St. Petersburg. I remember that when I was studying in > Russia there were a good number of families willing to host because of the > income that it brought in. Is that still the case, and how would students > go > about finding them? > > Thank you, > Shannon Spasova > Dalhousie University > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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Name: not available URL: From gbpeirce at PITT.EDU Wed Jan 21 15:55:38 2009 From: gbpeirce at PITT.EDU (Peirce, Gina M) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:55:38 -0500 Subject: 2009 Summer Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh Message-ID: The 2009 Russian and East European Summer Language Institute at the University of Pittsburgh will offer the following intensive language courses: Russian Language Programs (first through fourth year): Eight Week Session in Pittsburgh, June 8-July 31; Pitt/Moscow 5+5 Program and Russian Heritage Speakers' Program, June 8-August 14. Central & East European Languages, Six Week Programs in Pittsburgh, June 8-July 17: Beginning Intensive Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, and Ukrainian; Intermediate Intensive Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Polish, and Slovak; Advanced Intensive Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Slovak. Central & East European Study Abroad Programs: Pitt/Bulgaria 6+4 Program; Pitt/Poland 6+4 Program; Pitt/Slovakia 6+4 Program; 4 Week Programs in Bulgaria, Poland, and Slovakia; Advanced Mastery Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 6 Week Program in Belgrade, Sarajevo and Zagreb (for advanced and heritage speakers of B/C/S). Tuition for the Intermediate and Advanced Mastery B/C/S courses will be waived for graduate students specializing in any field of East European Studies due to grants from ACLS. All courses are equivalent to one academic year of college-level language instruction. Instructional staff chosen for their experience, enthusiasm, and commitment to language teaching ensure the high academic quality of Pitt's SLI program. Daily contact with instructors, both in class and out, and the use of native speakers in most sections create an environment conducive to effective language acquisition. All programs include extracurricular activities such as film viewing, singing, cooking classes and cultural lectures. The study abroad programs include excursions and cultural programming in the targeted countries. All applicants may apply for the various scholarships that the SLI has available. Over 90 percent of applicants receive partial or full funding from sources including SLI tuition scholarships and FLAS fellowships. Further information and applications are available at http://sli.slavic.pitt.edu. Application deadline for scholarships and all study abroad programs is March 20, 2009. For more information, contact Christine Metil, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 1417 Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Phone: 412-624-5906, email: slavic at pitt.edu. ************************************* Gina M. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Wed Jan 21 16:24:35 2009 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:24:35 +0000 Subject: Memorial St Petersburg latest press release In-Reply-To: <6614ebb30901210716v93dbd79h11df83576c12d411@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > there are some good news: yesterday the Court of the Dzerzhinskii region in St > Petersburg, following a complaint filed by Memorial's lawyer, Ivan Pavlov, > declared the raid on the office of RIC "Memorial" on 4 December illegal due to > gross procedural violations (in particular the fact that Memorial was denied > the right to have a lawyer present during the search of their premises) and > ordered the investigator to return all materials confiscated during the > search. > > The investigator can lodge an appeal against this decision with the City Court > within the next ten days. Until then the confiscated materials will not be > returned. > > However, the raid itself was declared valid, i.e. the judge confirmed that Mr > Kalganov, the investigator, had good reason for ordering the raid, which means > that Memorial's good name has not yet been restored. > > Memorial wishes to thank everyone who supported them during these difficult > times. Please continue to follow the story in the news (polit.ru > runs regular updates, including lawyer Ivan Pavlov's > concluding speech in court yesterday > http://www.polit.ru/dossie/2009/01/21/pavlov.html ). The last two press > releases are attached (in Russian). Feel free to circulate. > > Let us continue to hope this story will come to a good end. > > Best wishes, > > Josie von Zitzewitz > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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They will also participate in an orientation and a capstone conference at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. Candidates should currently hold academic positions of junior rank in their home countries and be future leaders in their field of the humanities. For full descriptions of the programs and contact information please see the following links: For scholars with positions in Russia: http://centerinparis.uchicago.edu/mellon/ http://centerinparis.uchicago.edu/endeavor/ For more information about this facet of Chicago's involvement in Europe, contact Daniel Bertsche, Information Coordinator for International Education (ddb1 at uchicago.edu). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From nsrandall at EARTHLINK.NET Wed Jan 21 17:07:44 2009 From: nsrandall at EARTHLINK.NET (Natasha Randall) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:07:44 +0100 Subject: Seeking information on Bessarabian carpets (Moldovan and Ukrainian) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, An independent scholar, Aaron Nejad, is writing a book about Bessarabian carpets and is having a hard time getting Russian and Ukrainian museums to give him access to their archives. I thought perhaps there might be some helpful professors in textile history in Russia/Ukraine/Moldova to whom he could speak and get a sense of which carpets are where... and how to apply to see them. As far as I know there isn't any proper catalogue or book of these carpets and their relevance, so Mr. Nejad is forging a new path here. Any help in locating textiles historians or folk historians who might know about old carpets (Russian, Ukrainian, Moldovan) would be most appreciated. Indeed - if you know how one goes about getting access to museum archives, do advise. Please reply off-list to me: nsrandall at earthlink.net Thanks, Natasha Randall On 21 Jan 2009, at 16:55, Peirce, Gina M wrote: > The 2009 Russian and East European Summer Language Institute at the > University of Pittsburgh will offer the following intensive > language courses: > > Russian Language Programs (first through fourth year): > Eight Week Session in Pittsburgh, June 8-July 31; > Pitt/Moscow 5+5 Program and Russian Heritage Speakers' Program, > June 8-August 14. > > Central & East European Languages, Six Week Programs in Pittsburgh, > June 8-July 17: > Beginning Intensive Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, > Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, and Ukrainian; > Intermediate Intensive Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Polish, and Slovak; > Advanced Intensive Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Slovak. > > Central & East European Study Abroad Programs: > Pitt/Bulgaria 6+4 Program; > Pitt/Poland 6+4 Program; > Pitt/Slovakia 6+4 Program; > 4 Week Programs in Bulgaria, Poland, and Slovakia; > Advanced Mastery Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 6 Week Program in > Belgrade, Sarajevo and Zagreb (for advanced and heritage speakers > of B/C/S). > > Tuition for the Intermediate and Advanced Mastery B/C/S courses > will be waived for graduate students specializing in any field of > East European Studies due to grants from ACLS. > > All courses are equivalent to one academic year of college-level > language instruction. Instructional staff chosen for their > experience, enthusiasm, and commitment to language teaching ensure > the high academic quality of Pitt's SLI program. Daily contact with > instructors, both in class and out, and the use of native speakers > in most sections create an environment conducive to effective > language acquisition. All programs include extracurricular > activities such as film viewing, singing, cooking classes and > cultural lectures. The study abroad programs include excursions and > cultural programming in the targeted countries. > > All applicants may apply for the various scholarships that the SLI > has available. Over 90 percent of applicants receive partial or > full funding from sources including SLI tuition scholarships and > FLAS fellowships. > > Further information and applications are available at http:// > sli.slavic.pitt.edu. Application deadline for scholarships and all > study abroad programs is March 20, 2009. > > For more information, contact Christine Metil, Department of Slavic > Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 1417 Cathedral > of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Phone: 412-624-5906, email: > slavic at pitt.edu. > > ************************************* > Gina M. Peirce > Assistant Director > Center for Russian and East European Studies > University of Pittsburgh > 4414 Posvar Hall > Pittsburgh, PA 15260 > Phone: (412) 648-2290 > Fax: (412) 648-7002 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > 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 kirsty.mccluskey at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 21 19:53:06 2009 From: kirsty.mccluskey at GMAIL.COM (Kirsty McCluskey) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:53:06 -0300 Subject: SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist Message-ID: Hello all I am currently polishing up a commented translation of a very early article by Trotsky, published in 1902 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Gogol's death. Throughout the piece, Trotsky consistently refers to Gogol as a Realist; indeed, as the Father of the Realist School. As one who knows Trotsky somewhat better than I know Gogol studies (although I know Gogol's output well), this strikes me as an odd descriptor. I wonder, can anyone tell me whether this is consistent with contemporary views on Gogol? Did the great minds of 1902 indeed see Gogol not only as a Realist, but as *the* Realist? Best wishes Kirsty McCluskey -- http://kirstyjane.wordpress.com Vulpes Libris A collective of bibliophiles writing about books http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.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 avs2120 at COLUMBIA.EDU Wed Jan 21 19:59:09 2009 From: avs2120 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Andrey Shcherbenok) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:59:09 -0500 Subject: SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist In-Reply-To: <5edab3490901211153n5f51b2b5pcd77a60ff004f880@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: If I am not mistaken, Gogol was proclaimed the father of the so-called "Natural School" by Belinsky; "Natural School", in its turn, was often understood as realism par excellence (their manifest was "Fisiologia Peterbugra", a collection of ethnographic essays of the city). Thus, Trotsky is not very original here. Later on, the main Soviet work of Gogol's realism is Gukovsky's "Realism Gogolia", written in the 1940s, if I am not mistaken. Best, Andrey -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirsty McCluskey Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:53 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist Hello all I am currently polishing up a commented translation of a very early article by Trotsky, published in 1902 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Gogol's death. Throughout the piece, Trotsky consistently refers to Gogol as a Realist; indeed, as the Father of the Realist School. As one who knows Trotsky somewhat better than I know Gogol studies (although I know Gogol's output well), this strikes me as an odd descriptor. I wonder, can anyone tell me whether this is consistent with contemporary views on Gogol? Did the great minds of 1902 indeed see Gogol not only as a Realist, but as *the* Realist? Best wishes Kirsty McCluskey -- http://kirstyjane.wordpress.com Vulpes Libris A collective of bibliophiles writing about books http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.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 kirsty.mccluskey at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 21 20:03:54 2009 From: kirsty.mccluskey at GMAIL.COM (Kirsty McCluskey) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:03:54 -0300 Subject: SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist In-Reply-To: <200901211959.n0LJx528012146@serrano.cc.columbia.edu> Message-ID: Many thanks - I certainly did not expect Trotsky to be original (at least at that stage in his career). So it makes sense that he must have got it from somewhere! He references Belinskii extensively, of course. Kirsty On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Andrey Shcherbenok wrote: > If I am not mistaken, Gogol was proclaimed the father of the so-called > "Natural School" by Belinsky; "Natural School", in its turn, was often > understood as realism par excellence (their manifest was "Fisiologia > Peterbugra", a collection of ethnographic essays of the city). Thus, > Trotsky > is not very original here. Later on, the main Soviet work of Gogol's > realism > is Gukovsky's "Realism Gogolia", written in the 1940s, if I am not > mistaken. > > Best, > Andrey > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list > [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirsty McCluskey > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:53 PM > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu > Subject: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist > > Hello all > > I am currently polishing up a commented translation of a very early article > by Trotsky, published in 1902 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of > Gogol's > death. Throughout the piece, Trotsky consistently refers to Gogol as a > Realist; indeed, as the Father of the Realist School. As one who knows > Trotsky somewhat better than I know Gogol studies (although I know Gogol's > output well), this strikes me as an odd descriptor. > > I wonder, can anyone tell me whether this is consistent with contemporary > views on Gogol? Did the great minds of 1902 indeed see Gogol not only as a > Realist, but as *the* Realist? > > Best wishes > Kirsty McCluskey > > -- > http://kirstyjane.wordpress.com > > Vulpes Libris > A collective of bibliophiles writing about books > http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- http://kirstyjane.wordpress.com Vulpes Libris A collective of bibliophiles writing about books http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.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 russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU Wed Jan 21 20:35:54 2009 From: russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU (Valentino, Russell) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:35:54 -0600 Subject: SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist In-Reply-To: <5edab3490901211203t56768b34xf30cc244067fc681@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: The best treatment of the dueling visions of Gogol (humanist, realist, enlightener vs. explorer of the dark recesses of the human psyche, etc.) is in Fanger's Creation of Nikolai Gogol. The Soviet (1950s) statue of the upright, book in hand figure proclaiming the truth of Tsarist oppression is in keeping with the realist line, so Trotsky's version of it from 1902 is not suprising. -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirsty McCluskey Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:04 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist Many thanks - I certainly did not expect Trotsky to be original (at least at that stage in his career). So it makes sense that he must have got it from somewhere! He references Belinskii extensively, of course. Kirsty On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Andrey Shcherbenok wrote: > If I am not mistaken, Gogol was proclaimed the father of the so-called > "Natural School" by Belinsky; "Natural School", in its turn, was often > understood as realism par excellence (their manifest was "Fisiologia > Peterbugra", a collection of ethnographic essays of the city). Thus, > Trotsky > is not very original here. Later on, the main Soviet work of Gogol's > realism > is Gukovsky's "Realism Gogolia", written in the 1940s, if I am not > mistaken. > > Best, > Andrey > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list > [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirsty McCluskey > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:53 PM > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu > Subject: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist > > Hello all > > I am currently polishing up a commented translation of a very early article > by Trotsky, published in 1902 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of > Gogol's > death. Throughout the piece, Trotsky consistently refers to Gogol as a > Realist; indeed, as the Father of the Realist School. As one who knows > Trotsky somewhat better than I know Gogol studies (although I know Gogol's > output well), this strikes me as an odd descriptor. > > I wonder, can anyone tell me whether this is consistent with contemporary > views on Gogol? Did the great minds of 1902 indeed see Gogol not only as a > Realist, but as *the* Realist? > > Best wishes > Kirsty McCluskey > > -- > http://kirstyjane.wordpress.com > > Vulpes Libris > A collective of bibliophiles writing about books > http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.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. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kirsty.mccluskey at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 21 20:46:41 2009 From: kirsty.mccluskey at GMAIL.COM (Kirsty McCluskey) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:46:41 -0300 Subject: SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist In-Reply-To: <4FC285B239556745BC6B3929B14E32DA80D76EA3B5@IOWAEVS08.iowa.uiowa.edu> Message-ID: Thanks to both of you. That does make a great deal of sense in the context of the time and place and of Trotsky's self-identification at that time. My query arises because I was well aware of earlier critics' attitude to Gogol, but the Realist label seemed a little disconcerting still given both Gogol's talent for absurdity and the young Trotsky's predilection - in that same article - for accusing Gogol of being out of touch with reality! But the contradiction there is entirely Trotsky's. He seems to be clinging to Belinskii and Herzen while evolving towards a socialist standpoint on "bourgeois" literature something akin to that of Literature and Revolution. Before I ramble on further about Trotsky, thanks again for your kind answers to my rather obvious question. Best wishes, Kirsty On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Valentino, Russell < russell-valentino at uiowa.edu> wrote: > The best treatment of the dueling visions of Gogol (humanist, realist, > enlightener vs. explorer of the dark recesses of the human psyche, etc.) is > in Fanger's Creation of Nikolai Gogol. The Soviet (1950s) statue of the > upright, book in hand figure proclaiming the truth of Tsarist oppression is > in keeping with the realist line, so Trotsky's version of it from 1902 is > not suprising. > > -----Original Message----- > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list > [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirsty McCluskey > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:04 PM > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist > > Many thanks - I certainly did not expect Trotsky to be original (at least > at > that stage in his career). So it makes sense that he must have got it from > somewhere! He references Belinskii extensively, of course. > > Kirsty > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Andrey Shcherbenok >wrote: > > > If I am not mistaken, Gogol was proclaimed the father of the so-called > > "Natural School" by Belinsky; "Natural School", in its turn, was often > > understood as realism par excellence (their manifest was "Fisiologia > > Peterbugra", a collection of ethnographic essays of the city). Thus, > > Trotsky > > is not very original here. Later on, the main Soviet work of Gogol's > > realism > > is Gukovsky's "Realism Gogolia", written in the 1940s, if I am not > > mistaken. > > > > Best, > > Andrey > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list > > [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirsty McCluskey > > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:53 PM > > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu > > Subject: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist > > > > Hello all > > > > I am currently polishing up a commented translation of a very early > article > > by Trotsky, published in 1902 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of > > Gogol's > > death. Throughout the piece, Trotsky consistently refers to Gogol as a > > Realist; indeed, as the Father of the Realist School. As one who knows > > Trotsky somewhat better than I know Gogol studies (although I know > Gogol's > > output well), this strikes me as an odd descriptor. > > > > I wonder, can anyone tell me whether this is consistent with contemporary > > views on Gogol? Did the great minds of 1902 indeed see Gogol not only as > a > > Realist, but as *the* Realist? > > > > Best wishes > > Kirsty McCluskey > > > > -- > > http://kirstyjane.wordpress.com > > > > Vulpes Libris > > A collective of bibliophiles writing about books > > http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 grylkova at UFL.EDU Wed Jan 21 21:06:10 2009 From: grylkova at UFL.EDU (RYLKOVA,GALINA S) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:06:10 -0500 Subject: SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist Message-ID: My guess (and I am not a Gogol' specialist) that the vision of Gogol'-the-realist in 1902 should have been rather disconcerting. At least in the eyes of some other specialists in Russian literature. In his "Istoriia noveishei literatury" (1903), Skabichevskii, for example, makes the following statement: "Gogol' iavliaetsia vovse ne odnim iz tekh novatorov, kotorye vvodiat nechto sovershenno do nikh nebyvaloe. On povinovalsia lish' obshchemu techeniiu razvitiia sovremennoi emu literatury i predstavliaet odnu iz stupenei ee spuska iz zaoblachnykh vysot na pochvu deistvitel'nosti. [...] Gogol' nachal dobivat'sia osmysleniia svoego tvorchestva ne putem usvoeniia peredovykh evropeiiskikh idei svoego veka, a nravstvennym samouglubleniem, i zaputalsia v labirintakh mistiko-asketicheskikh umstvovanii." On Wed Jan 21 15:46:41 EST 2009, Kirsty McCluskey wrote: > Thanks to both of you. That does make a great deal of sense in > the context > of the time and place and of Trotsky's self-identification at > that time. > > My query arises because I was well aware of earlier critics' > attitude to > Gogol, but the Realist label seemed a little disconcerting still > given both > Gogol's talent for absurdity and the young Trotsky's predilection > - in that > same article - for accusing Gogol of being out of touch with > reality! But > the contradiction there is entirely Trotsky's. He seems to be > clinging to > Belinskii and Herzen while evolving towards a socialist > standpoint on > "bourgeois" literature something akin to that of Literature and > Revolution. > > Before I ramble on further about Trotsky, thanks again for your > kind answers > to my rather obvious question. > > Best wishes, Kirsty > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Valentino, Russell < > russell-valentino at uiowa.edu> wrote: > >> The best treatment of the dueling visions of Gogol (humanist, >> realist, >> enlightener vs. explorer of the dark recesses of the human >> psyche, etc.) is >> in Fanger's Creation of Nikolai Gogol. The Soviet (1950s) statue >> of the >> upright, book in hand figure proclaiming the truth of Tsarist >> oppression is >> in keeping with the realist line, so Trotsky's version of it >> from 1902 is >> not suprising. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures >> list >> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirsty McCluskey >> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:04 PM >> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist >> >> Many thanks - I certainly did not expect Trotsky to be original >> (at least >> at >> that stage in his career). So it makes sense that he must have >> got it from >> somewhere! He references Belinskii extensively, of course. >> >> Kirsty >> >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Andrey Shcherbenok >> > >wrote: >> >> > If I am not mistaken, Gogol was proclaimed the father of the >> so-called >> > "Natural School" by Belinsky; "Natural School", in its turn, >> was often >> > understood as realism par excellence (their manifest was >> "Fisiologia >> > Peterbugra", a collection of ethnographic essays of the city). >> Thus, >> > Trotsky >> > is not very original here. Later on, the main Soviet work of >> Gogol's >> > realism >> > is Gukovsky's "Realism Gogolia", written in the 1940s, if I am >> not >> > mistaken. >> > >> > Best, >> > Andrey >> > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and >> Literatures list >> > [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirsty McCluskey >> > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:53 PM >> > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu >> > Subject: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist >> > >> > Hello all >> > >> > I am currently polishing up a commented translation of a very >> early >> article >> > by Trotsky, published in 1902 to commemorate the 50th >> anniversary of >> > Gogol's >> > death. Throughout the piece, Trotsky consistently refers to >> Gogol as a >> > Realist; indeed, as the Father of the Realist School. As one >> who knows >> > Trotsky somewhat better than I know Gogol studies (although I >> know >> Gogol's >> > output well), this strikes me as an odd descriptor. >> > >> > I wonder, can anyone tell me whether this is consistent with >> contemporary >> > views on Gogol? Did the great minds of 1902 indeed see Gogol >> not only as >> a >> > Realist, but as *the* Realist? >> > >> > Best wishes >> > Kirsty McCluskey >> > >> > -- >> > http://kirstyjane.wordpress.com >> > >> > Vulpes Libris >> > A collective of bibliophiles writing about books >> > http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.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/ >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> http://kirstyjane.wordpress.com >> >> Vulpes Libris >> A collective of bibliophiles writing about books >> http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- RYLKOVA,GALINA S ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mpwalker at WISC.EDU Wed Jan 21 22:56:16 2009 From: mpwalker at WISC.EDU (Matthew Walker) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:56:16 -0600 Subject: SEELANGS: Gogol as Realist In-Reply-To: <5edab3490901211153n5f51b2b5pcd77a60ff004f880@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: It's not unusual for the time. Trotsky is in a lot of ways only repeating the conventional wisdom of the period, although the questioning of Gogol's realism had already begun in earnest with Rozanov in the early 1890s. Trotsky's take on the matter probably owes as much to Chernyshevsky as it does to Belinsky (there's a difference). The latter's understanding of Gogol's "realism" as it develops over the course of his career as a critic is actually a bit more complicated than the "father of the natural school" line would seem to suggest, and very mixed up with Hegel in interesting ways. Best, Matt Walker Kirsty McCluskey wrote: > Hello all > > I am currently polishing up a commented translation of a very early article > by Trotsky, published in 1902 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Gogol's > death. Throughout the piece, Trotsky consistently refers to Gogol as a > Realist; indeed, as the Father of the Realist School. As one who knows > Trotsky somewhat better than I know Gogol studies (although I know Gogol's > output well), this strikes me as an odd descriptor. > > I wonder, can anyone tell me whether this is consistent with contemporary > views on Gogol? Did the great minds of 1902 indeed see Gogol not only as a > Realist, but as *the* Realist? > > Best wishes > Kirsty McCluskey > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 jwilson at SRAS.ORG Thu Jan 22 10:31:12 2009 From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG (Josh Wilson) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:31:12 +0300 Subject: Seeking information on Bessarabian carpets (Moldovan and Ukrainian) In-Reply-To: <6E2416E4-8C0E-4A8D-BFBC-92343F91CE9F@earthlink.net> Message-ID: >From our Library entry on Central Asia: ( http://www.sras.org/library_central_asia ) TurkoTek is one the best sites available for those interested in carpets - a common art form in Central Asia. See also the blog called Deconstructing Central Asian Carpets and Textiles. While their focus is on Central Asian carpets, Bessarabian carpets do get some mention - and I'm sure the folks who run the site could point you in the proper directions on finding out more about carpets in the FSU. Hope that helps! Josh Wilson Asst. Director The School of Russian and Asian Studies Editor-in-Chief Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies www.sras.org jwilson at sras.org -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Natasha Randall Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:08 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] Seeking information on Bessarabian carpets (Moldovan and Ukrainian) Dear SEELANGers, An independent scholar, Aaron Nejad, is writing a book about Bessarabian carpets and is having a hard time getting Russian and Ukrainian museums to give him access to their archives. I thought perhaps there might be some helpful professors in textile history in Russia/Ukraine/Moldova to whom he could speak and get a sense of which carpets are where... and how to apply to see them. As far as I know there isn't any proper catalogue or book of these carpets and their relevance, so Mr. Nejad is forging a new path here. Any help in locating textiles historians or folk historians who might know about old carpets (Russian, Ukrainian, Moldovan) would be most appreciated. Indeed - if you know how one goes about getting access to museum archives, do advise. 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In-Reply-To: <4977A810.40102@wisc.edu> Message-ID: Today, I received what I would call the most angry and out of control message from someone here who does not like my views about relations between Russia and the US. I am neither an apologist for the evils of Soviet Russia nor for the evils of the US. Each is flawed and each works very hard to color their own history as best as they can. I cannot write forever about how evil everyone WAS. I am only writing about how each country can work TODAY to be better and to work together better and to better their relations. What a Russia did under Stalin is NOT what Russia does TODAY. Nor does what the US did in its process of genocide with Native Americans is not what it does TODAY. I do not know if I shall write again about seeking peace between nations when I will be accosted for it by someone who read what I wrote here. I believe that this place is supposed to be "safe" for such discussion and, unfortunately, I am learning differently. I do not mind if someone RATIONALLY disagrees with me and wants to "discuss" it the same way. However, a crazed message accusing me of "excusing" all of the past "evils" of the Soviet Union does not fit this type of discourse. I am reminded of a line from a song: "Do not remind me of my failures. I have not forgotten." I have not forgotten all history and I do not approve of evils of the past. However, we do need to move beyond all of this to something more positively universal. Maybe I am nieve. I don't really think so, though. I would appreciate your input about this. Should I write as I have or should I just forget it? Thank you, Anyse Anyse Joslin 9515 Kellingworth Court Sacramento, CA 95827 anyse1 at mac.com SKYPE: anyse1 916 364.1743 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 lisa.gulya at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 22 11:15:08 2009 From: lisa.gulya at GMAIL.COM (Lisa Gulya) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:15:08 +0300 Subject: Translations for endearing suffixes? Message-ID: Hi all, I am doing interviews in Russia(n) with young mothers. While I don't foresee the need to translate all the interviews in full, I will need to translate parts. Any books or Internet resources for a) understanding the grammar of endearing suffixes (ласкательные суффиксы), and b) translating such words and phrases into English? Another question: how to translate the words "polzalki" and "lazalki"? (The woman was talking about those kids rec rooms, similar to McDonald's playlands.) I tried ABBYY Lingvo and multitran.ru with no luck. Google images shows some sort of playground equipment... Thanks in advance for your help! Lisa Gulya lisa.gulya at gmail.com Veliky Novgorod, Russia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jan 22 11:37:51 2009 From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:37:51 -0500 Subject: Translations for endearing suffixes? In-Reply-To: <41054fd40901220315l5846d725y64602062055e44b7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Lisa Gulya wrote: > ... > Another question: how to translate the words "polzalki" and "lazalki"? > (The woman was talking about those kids rec rooms, similar to > McDonald's playlands.) I tried ABBYY Lingvo and multitran.ru with no > luck. Google images shows some sort of playground equipment... > > Thanks in advance for your help! The generic term for these sorts of things seems to be "playsets." Based on images I found on the web for лазалки, I would call it a "jungle gym," though there's also a related, more specific term "monkey bars." I wasn't able to find enough images of "ползалки" to get a clear idea of what it is. I assume you don't intend the computer sense.... And of course my local McDonald's has a "ball bath," if that's what you want.... -- 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 rmeridaf at SUPERNET.COM.BO Thu Jan 22 12:59:28 2009 From: rmeridaf at SUPERNET.COM.BO (Roberto Merida) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:59:28 -0200 Subject: Translations for endearing suffixes? In-Reply-To: <41054fd40901220315l5846d725y64602062055e44b7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Lisa Gulya, If you want, I can help you with translations. Some stuff, that exist in russian playgrounds, it�s hard to find in other countries, like you wrote, the lazalki, comes from word lazit, and that lazalki, is pipeline, when the gauge is small (2 inches) enaugh as to allow kids where the kids climb up, and the polzalki, this is a pipeline on ground, which gauge is big, (something like 20 inches), enaugf to allow kids to go trough. Sorry for spelling and english, hope you have a ideia of what are this toys for. Greetings, Roberto ----- Mensaje original ----- De: Lisa Gulya Fecha: Jueves, Enero 22, 2009 9:15 ombr Asunto: [SEELANGS] Translations for endearing suffixes? > Hi all, > > I am doing interviews in Russia(n) with young mothers. While I don't > foresee the need to translate all the interviews in full, I will need > to translate parts. > > Any books or Internet resources for a) understanding the grammar of > endearing suffixes (�a�U�g�`�U�h�Z�a�r�c�q�Z �g�i�j�j�^�`�g�q), and b) translating such > words and phrases into English? > > Another question: how to translate the words "polzalki" and "lazalki"? > (The woman was talking about those kids rec rooms, similar to > McDonald's playlands.) I tried ABBYY Lingvo and multitran.ru with no > luck. Google images shows some sort of playground equipment... > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > Lisa Gulya > lisa.gulya at gmail.com > Veliky Novgorod, Russia > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > 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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He published a book describing his visits in '44, but it is necessarily tactful about the Soviet regime and I would like to compare it with his private thoughts. He definitely did keep a diary, because he quotes it fairly extensively in his later 'Russia at War', but I have been unable to locate it. Any ideas?! Anna Reid annareid01 at btinternet.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 RwellsMDInc at AOL.COM Thu Jan 22 14:55:51 2009 From: RwellsMDInc at AOL.COM (RwellsMDInc at AOL.COM) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:55:51 EST Subject: correct spelling vor v zakone Message-ID: Does anyone know what the difference is between vorovsky zakone and vor v zakone? I have seen it written both ways in books. It is supposed to mean the Thieves Code, I don't know if it's simply a misspelling or two different ways to write the same word. Thank you, Ronda Wells IUPUI **************From Wall Street to Main Street and everywhere in between, stay up-to-date with the latest news. (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000023) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Philippe.FRISON at COE.INT Thu Jan 22 15:11:41 2009 From: Philippe.FRISON at COE.INT (FRISON Philippe) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:11:41 +0100 Subject: correct spelling 'vor v zakone' In-Reply-To: A Message-ID: Hello, As far as I know, Vor v zakone is a gangster (French: truand), and vorovskoy zakon, a bandit Code (French: lois du milieu). Philippe Frison (Strasbourg, France) -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of RwellsMDInc at AOL.COM Sent: jeudi 22 janvier 2009 15:56 To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] correct spelling vor v zakone Does anyone know what the difference is between vorovsky zakone and vor v zakone? I have seen it written both ways in books. It is supposed to mean the Thieves Code, I don't know if it's simply a misspelling or two different ways to write the same word. Thank you, Ronda Wells IUPUI ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 slivkin at OU.EDU Thu Jan 22 15:19:38 2009 From: slivkin at OU.EDU (Slivkin, Yevgeniy A.) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:19:38 -0600 Subject: Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! In-Reply-To: <6277BB63-CC7D-40AF-B60A-BF1206A3AE39@mac.com> Message-ID: Dear Anyse, I just wanted to say that I support your view entirely. To rephrase Bernard-Henri Levy, I am not pro-Russian, I am anti- anti-Russian. Vigorously pro-Russians and anti-Russians are the same type of people, it is no use talking to them. Actually, William Butler Yeats formulated the situation in one great line, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Regards , Yevgeny Slivkin, Ph.D. Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics University of Oklahoma ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anyse Joslin [anyse1 at MAC.COM] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:45 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! Today, I received what I would call the most angry and out of control message from someone here who does not like my views about relations between Russia and the US. I am neither an apologist for the evils of Soviet Russia nor for the evils of the US. Each is flawed and each works very hard to color their own history as best as they can. I cannot write forever about how evil everyone WAS. I am only writing about how each country can work TODAY to be better and to work together better and to better their relations. What a Russia did under Stalin is NOT what Russia does TODAY. Nor does what the US did in its process of genocide with Native Americans is not what it does TODAY. I do not know if I shall write again about seeking peace between nations when I will be accosted for it by someone who read what I wrote here. I believe that this place is supposed to be "safe" for such discussion and, unfortunately, I am learning differently. I do not mind if someone RATIONALLY disagrees with me and wants to "discuss" it the same way. However, a crazed message accusing me of "excusing" all of the past "evils" of the Soviet Union does not fit this type of discourse. I am reminded of a line from a song: "Do not remind me of my failures. I have not forgotten." I have not forgotten all history and I do not approve of evils of the past. However, we do need to move beyond all of this to something more positively universal. Maybe I am nieve. I don't really think so, though. I would appreciate your input about this. Should I write as I have or should I just forget it? Thank you, Anyse Anyse Joslin 9515 Kellingworth Court Sacramento, CA 95827 anyse1 at mac.com SKYPE: anyse1 916 364.1743 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 trubikhina at AOL.COM Thu Jan 22 16:12:06 2009 From: trubikhina at AOL.COM (trubikhina at AOL.COM) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:12:06 -0500 Subject: Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! In-Reply-To: <9200AB231E42194AB8E3930ABB4C22D5B9EB9B9534@XMAIL4.sooner.net.ou.edu> Message-ID: You have unintentionally (I assume) misquoted, Zhenya.? Yeates means this as an indication of all that is wrong with our (his) times:) In other words, it is not laudable to lack convictions.? Ditto, I think this discussion is leading you guys nowhere. All best, Julia -----Original Message----- From: Slivkin, Yevgeniy A. To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:19 am Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! Dear Anyse, I just wanted to say that I support your view entirely. To rephrase Bernard-Henri Levy, I am not pro-Russian, I am anti- anti-Russian. Vigorously pro-Russians and anti-Russians are the same type of people, it is no use talking to them. Actually, William Butler Yeats formulated the situation in one great line, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Regards , Yevgeny Slivkin, Ph.D. Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics University of Oklahoma ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anyse Joslin [anyse1 at MAC.COM] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:45 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! Today, I received what I would call the most angry and out of control message from someone here who does not like my views about relations between Russia and the US. I am neither an apologist for the evils of Soviet Russia nor for the evils of the US. Each is flawed and each works very hard to color their own history as best as they can. I cannot write forever about how evil everyone WAS. I am only writing about how each country can work TODAY to be better and to work together better and to better their relations. What a Russia did under Stalin is NOT what Russia does TODAY. Nor does what the US did in its process of genocide with Native Americans is not what it does TODAY. I do not know if I shall write again about seeking peace between nations when I will be accosted for it by someone who read what I wrote here. I believe that this place is supposed to be "safe" for such discussion and, unfortunately, I am learning differently. I do not mind if someone RATIONALLY disagrees with me and wants to "discuss" it the same way. However, a crazed message accusing me of "excusing" all of the past "evils" of the Soviet Union does not fit this type of discourse. I am reminded of a line from a song: "Do not remind me of my failures. I have not forgotten." I have not forgotten all history and I do not approve of evils of the past. However, we do need to move beyond all of this to something more positively universal. Maybe I am nieve. I don't really think so, though. I would appreciate your input about this. Should I write as I have or should I just forget it? Thank you, Anyse Anyse Joslin 9515 Kellingworth Court Sacramento, CA 95827 anyse1 at mac.com SKYPE: anyse1 916 364.1743 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU Thu Jan 22 16:40:22 2009 From: frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU (Francoise Rosset) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:40:22 -0500 Subject: Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! In-Reply-To: <6277BB63-CC7D-40AF-B60A-BF1206A3AE39@mac.com> Message-ID: It is unfortunate that we feel the need to get angry at each other, but that message was off-list and I cannot comment on that. I agree with your position in principle, ... HOWEVER, I think this needs to drop off-list and people can continue discussing it off-list if they wish. Alex (the owner of SEELangs) has kindly reminded us that most of this thread is in fact off-topic. Alex, point taken, but I do have one comment. While I appreciate your wanting to keep us out of purely political squabbles, the fact is that in Russian language and politics are never far apart. For many of us, teaching language or literature has required fielding pretty constant questions about Russian culture and politics, and about cross-perceptions between the two. I know that these discussions have arisen before and have been (wisely) left to go on for a while. I know you have a fine line to tread, one we cross routinely and with varying degrees of excitability. So I am grateful that you did not stop this particular discussion earlier. -FR The discussion about P.C. language was fraught with ideology, but because it was ostensibly about language it went on and on. On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:45:34 -0800 Anyse Joslin wrote: > Today, I received what I would call the most angry and out of >control message from someone here who does not like my views about >relations between Russia and the US. I am neither an apologist for >the evils of Soviet Russia nor for the evils of the US. Each is >flawed and each works very hard to color their own history as best >as they can. I cannot write forever about how evil everyone WAS. I >am only writing about how each country can work TODAY to be better >and to work together better and to better their relations. What a >Russia did under Stalin is NOT what Russia does TODAY. Nor does what >the US did in its process of genocide with Native Americans is not >what it does TODAY. I do not know if I shall write again about >seeking peace between nations when I will be accosted for it by >someone who read what I wrote here. I believe that this place is >supposed to be "safe" for such discussion and, unfortunately, I am >learning differently. > > I do not mind if someone RATIONALLY disagrees with me and wants to > "discuss" it the same way. However, a crazed message accusing me of > "excusing" all of the past "evils" of the Soviet Union does not fit > this type of discourse. I am reminded of a line from a song: "Do not > remind me of my failures. I have not forgotten." I have not >forgotten all history and I do not approve of evils of the past. >However, we do need to move beyond all of this to something more >positively universal. Maybe I am nieve. I don't really think so, >though. > > I would appreciate your input about this. Should I write as I have >or should I just forget it? > > Thank you, > > Anyse > > Anyse Joslin > 9515 Kellingworth Court > Sacramento, CA 95827 > anyse1 at mac.com > SKYPE: anyse1 > 916 364.1743 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor Chair, Russian and Russian Studies Coordinator, German and Russian Wheaton College Norton, Massachusetts 02766 Office: (508) 285-3696 FAX: (508) 286-3640 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 slivkin at OU.EDU Thu Jan 22 17:08:28 2009 From: slivkin at OU.EDU (Slivkin, Yevgeniy A.) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:08:28 -0600 Subject: Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! In-Reply-To: <8CB4AC34E3F4E62-EA8-966@FWM-M07.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I wonder how you can be sure that you know what Yeates means, Julia? Poetry is open to interpretation. Any way, this line is a best way to stop any discussion. Yevgeny ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of trubikhina at AOL.COM [trubikhina at AOL.COM] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:12 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! You have unintentionally (I assume) misquoted, Zhenya.? Yeates means this as an indication of all that is wrong with our (his) times:) In other words, it is not laudable to lack convictions.? Ditto, I think this discussion is leading you guys nowhere. All best, Julia -----Original Message----- From: Slivkin, Yevgeniy A. To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:19 am Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! Dear Anyse, I just wanted to say that I support your view entirely. To rephrase Bernard-Henri Levy, I am not pro-Russian, I am anti- anti-Russian. Vigorously pro-Russians and anti-Russians are the same type of people, it is no use talking to them. Actually, William Butler Yeats formulated the situation in one great line, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Regards , Yevgeny Slivkin, Ph.D. Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics University of Oklahoma ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anyse Joslin [anyse1 at MAC.COM] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:45 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! Today, I received what I would call the most angry and out of control message from someone here who does not like my views about relations between Russia and the US. I am neither an apologist for the evils of Soviet Russia nor for the evils of the US. Each is flawed and each works very hard to color their own history as best as they can. I cannot write forever about how evil everyone WAS. I am only writing about how each country can work TODAY to be better and to work together better and to better their relations. What a Russia did under Stalin is NOT what Russia does TODAY. Nor does what the US did in its process of genocide with Native Americans is not what it does TODAY. I do not know if I shall write again about seeking peace between nations when I will be accosted for it by someone who read what I wrote here. I believe that this place is supposed to be "safe" for such discussion and, unfortunately, I am learning differently. I do not mind if someone RATIONALLY disagrees with me and wants to "discuss" it the same way. However, a crazed message accusing me of "excusing" all of the past "evils" of the Soviet Union does not fit this type of discourse. I am reminded of a line from a song: "Do not remind me of my failures. I have not forgotten." I have not forgotten all history and I do not approve of evils of the past. However, we do need to move beyond all of this to something more positively universal. Maybe I am nieve. I don't really think so, though. I would appreciate your input about this. Should I write as I have or should I just forget it? Thank you, Anyse Anyse Joslin 9515 Kellingworth Court Sacramento, CA 95827 anyse1 at mac.com SKYPE: anyse1 916 364.1743 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 dustin.hosseini at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 22 18:36:19 2009 From: dustin.hosseini at GMAIL.COM (Dustin Hosseini) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:36:19 -0600 Subject: Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! Message-ID: Don't worry about whatever it was. Those who are truly wrong get theirs in the end. When it comes to views on Russia and the Russians, I've never seen more divisive ones. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 maureen.riley at US.ARMY.MIL Thu Jan 22 19:08:05 2009 From: maureen.riley at US.ARMY.MIL (Riley, Maureen Ms CIV USA TRADOC) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:08:05 -0500 Subject: Old calendars Message-ID: I have a couple years' worth of Russian wall calendars that have some very nice photographs (mostly cities of the Golden Ring, churches and the like) that I am loathe to throw out. Yet, I have no use for them. Is there a talented someone out there who could put them to good use (decorating a classroom or office)? I will be happy to send them to you at my expense. Feel free to respond to me off-line. Maureen Riley Defense Language Institute -- Washington ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 anyse1 at MAC.COM Thu Jan 22 19:42:09 2009 From: anyse1 at MAC.COM (Anyse Joslin) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:42:09 -0800 Subject: Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: OK, now the subject is closed. I am reminded of Mayakovsky's "Past one o'clock" It's past one o'clock you must have gone to bed . . . As they say, the "incident" is closed and life's boat has smashed against the daily grind . . . Why bother then to balance mutual sorrows pains and hurts . . . Take care and I hope we shall get back to this some other time. Now, for my query about Russian! I am very interested in books on "Verbs of Motion." I am sincerely working on a document on verbs of motion myself (in spite of my own lack of knowledge or certificated expertise). I have four perspectives that I would like to put together that can be used as a teaching tool to help American students to understand the two "types" of motion verbs, how to read/interpret them, how to determine prepositions to use with each verb/prefixed verb of motion. I already have the book "Verbs of Motion in Russian" by Muravyova as well as Mahota's "Russian Motion Verbs for Intermediate Students." I also have Terrence Wade's "Oxford Russian Grammar and Verbs," "Russian Grammar" and "The Russian Grammar Workbook"; Patricia Davis' "Making Progress in Russian"; "В Пути" by Kagan and Miller, et al.; "Большой Толковый Словарь Русских Глаголов" (this has some of the very best material on verbs of motion presented in an interesting manner); Offord's "Using Russian"; the Russian edition of Russian grammar through pictures; "Большой Грамматический Словарь; Timberlake's Russian Grammar; Miller's Russian preposition book, and many more. Books specifically addressing verbs of motion as the single topic are so few (I only know of the two that I mentioned above) and only one is currently in print. Muravyova's book is out of print and Ohota's is written for a certain level of learning. Also, the perspectives offered are pretty narrow as well. What I would like to do is to present each verb set for each type of motion in a "wheel" graphic as did Dr. Alexander Pronin in his book "15 Russian Verbs a Day," in tables for each verb set, as graphics for each verb set, and then the "standard" academic description. Providing students with helpful presentations with a number of perspectives will at least give them a variety of which at least one will "click" in their minds. Of course, I would also like to present students with a great number of exercises to go with the presentations as well: from translation to interpretation, from "fill in the blank" to "describe the reason" why this verb rather than that verb is used here, and from prefixes and ascribed meaning due them as well as the prepositions used with them and "making sense" of those prepositions and the cases used with them. If you can steer me toward any resources that I can get a hold of, please, let me know. I would like to see as much of what is out there as possible. You have all been more than kind and I thank you. Anyse Anyse Joslin 9515 Kellingworth Court Sacramento, CA 95827 anyse1 at mac.com SKYPE: anyse1 916 364.1743 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 karen.schmiady at GMX.DE Thu Jan 22 20:28:29 2009 From: karen.schmiady at GMX.DE (Karen Schmiady) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:28:29 +0100 Subject: Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL!/ Books on verbs of motion In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Anyse, you could have look at "Знаю и люблю русские глаголы" by А.Д. Кривоносов and Т.Ю. Редькина. Most of it is about verbs of motion (about 45 pages) and as far as I got you right, it is exactly what you are looking for. I hope you will find it helpfully Regards Karen Anyse Joslin schrieb: > OK, now the subject is closed. > > I am reminded of Mayakovsky's "Past one o'clock" > > It's past one o'clock > you must have gone to bed . . . > > As they say, > the "incident" is closed > and life's boat > has smashed against the daily grind . . . > > Why bother then > to balance > mutual sorrows > pains > and hurts . . . > > Take care and I hope we shall get back to this some other time. > > Now, for my query about Russian! I am very interested in books on > "Verbs of Motion." I am sincerely working on a document on verbs of > motion myself (in spite of my own lack of knowledge or certificated > expertise). I have four perspectives that I would like to put together > that can be used as a teaching tool to help American students to > understand the two "types" of motion verbs, how to read/interpret > them, how to determine prepositions to use with each verb/prefixed > verb of motion. I already have the book "Verbs of Motion in Russian" > by Muravyova as well as Mahota's "Russian Motion Verbs for > Intermediate Students." I also have Terrence Wade's "Oxford Russian > Grammar and Verbs," "Russian Grammar" and "The Russian Grammar > Workbook"; Patricia Davis' "Making Progress in Russian"; "В Пути" by > Kagan and Miller, et al.; "Большой Толковый Словарь Русских Глаголов" > (this has some of the very best material on verbs of motion presented > in an interesting manner); Offord's "Using Russian"; the Russian > edition of Russian grammar through pictures; "Большой Грамматический > Словарь; Timberlake's Russian Grammar; Miller's Russian preposition > book, and many more. Books specifically addressing verbs of motion as > the single topic are so few (I only know of the two that I mentioned > above) and only one is currently in print. Muravyova's book is out of > print and Ohota's is written for a certain level of learning. Also, > the perspectives offered are pretty narrow as well. What I would like > to do is to present each verb set for each type of motion in a "wheel" > graphic as did Dr. Alexander Pronin in his book "15 Russian Verbs a > Day," in tables for each verb set, as graphics for each verb set, and > then the "standard" academic description. Providing students with > helpful presentations with a number of perspectives will at least give > them a variety of which at least one will "click" in their minds. Of > course, I would also like to present students with a great number of > exercises to go with the presentations as well: from translation to > interpretation, from "fill in the blank" to "describe the reason" why > this verb rather than that verb is used here, and from prefixes and > ascribed meaning due them as well as the prepositions used with them > and "making sense" of those prepositions and the cases used with them. > > If you can steer me toward any resources that I can get a hold of, > please, let me know. I would like to see as much of what is out there > as possible. > > You have all been more than kind and I thank you. > > Anyse > > Anyse Joslin > 9515 Kellingworth Court > Sacramento, CA 95827 > anyse1 at mac.com > SKYPE: anyse1 > 916 364.1743 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Karen Schmiady Rochlitzstraße 92 04229 Leipzig Tel.: 0341/4816842 mobil:0151/14452569 email: karen.schmiady at gmx.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 colkitto at rogers.com Thu Jan 22 20:31:31 2009 From: colkitto at rogers.com (colkitto at rogers.com) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:31:31 -0500 Subject: Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! Message-ID: Anyse, If you can read French, there's a chapter on verbs of motion in Jacqueline Fontaine's book (I forget the exact title, but the year of publication is 1983) which might be worth having a look at. Robert Orr -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com – Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft® Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 dustin.hosseini at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 22 20:35:42 2009 From: dustin.hosseini at GMAIL.COM (Dustin Hosseini) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:35:42 -0600 Subject: Well, I HAVE LEARNED WELL! Message-ID: Here are some free resources for you and your students: http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/verbs_motion.php http://www.unilang.org/wiki/index.php/Russian_verbs_of_motion (unfinished) http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/wfverb0.html http://members.tripod.com/~russian_textbook/topics/movement.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 aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU Thu Jan 22 23:24:04 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:24:04 -0500 Subject: Verbs of motion In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Careful with # 3 on this list. On Jan 22, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Dustin Hosseini wrote: > Here are some free resources for you and your students: > > http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/verbs_motion.php > http://www.unilang.org/wiki/index.php/Russian_verbs_of_motion > (unfinished) > http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/wfverb0.html > http://members.tripod.com/~russian_textbook/topics/movement.html > > Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU Fri Jan 23 15:28:12 2009 From: sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU (Sibelan Forrester) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:28:12 -0500 Subject: Ukrainian poetry event in Philadelphia, Feb 6 Message-ID: Literature in the Booth Series presents An Evening of Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry featuring *viktor neborak* Procurator, Bu-Ba-Bu February 6, 2009 7PM admission $5 A Ukrainian & English Language Event The Ukrainian League of Philadelphia 23rd and Brown Sts. co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University ********** This is his first visit to the USA, so if you live anywhere nearby don't miss it! With best regards, Sibelan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 lizewaskio at YAHOO.COM Fri Jan 23 18:41:38 2009 From: lizewaskio at YAHOO.COM (elizabeth ewaskio) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:41:38 -0800 Subject: American High School Students Studying Russian In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, I am trying to find out how many (approximately) US high school students are currently studying Russian. If any of you have a sense of the numbers, please reply off-list. Spasibo! Liz Ewaskio ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Fri Jan 23 21:36:44 2009 From: Monniern at MISSOURI.EDU (Monniern) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:36:44 -0600 Subject: Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion? Message-ID: SEELANGS-tsy! Could anyone recommend a good recent-ish Russian comedy that would be easily available (say, through Netflix) with English subtitles? The MU Russian Club is looking for suggestions, and I am more useless than I would generally care to admit (tho I suppose I¹m doing it fairly publicly with this email . . .). In any event, all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Best, Nicole **************************** Dr. Nicole Monnier Assistant Teaching Professor of Russian Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) German & Russian Studies 428A Strickland (formerly GCB) University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 phone: 573.882.3370 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 kirsty.mccluskey at GMAIL.COM Fri Jan 23 21:57:49 2009 From: kirsty.mccluskey at GMAIL.COM (Kirsty McCluskey) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:57:49 -0300 Subject: Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Ivan Vasil'evich meniaet professiiu is available in the US, I believe, as Ivan the Terrible: Back to the Future. I never miss an opportunity to recommend this film (although I now notice you asked for "recent-ish" ones, and it is from the 70s). Best wishes Kirsty McCluskey On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Monniern wrote: > SEELANGS-tsy! > > Could anyone recommend a good recent-ish Russian comedy that would be > easily > available (say, through Netflix) with English subtitles? The MU Russian > Club > is looking for suggestions, and I am more useless than I would generally > care to admit (tho I suppose I¹m doing it fairly publicly with this email . > . .). > > In any event, all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Best, > > Nicole > > > **************************** > Dr. Nicole Monnier > Assistant Teaching Professor of Russian > Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) > German & Russian Studies > 428A Strickland (formerly GCB) > University of Missouri > Columbia, MO 65211 > > phone: 573.882.3370 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- http://kirstyjane.wordpress.com Vulpes Libris A collective of bibliophiles writing about books http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.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 brifkin at TEMPLE.EDU Fri Jan 23 23:57:26 2009 From: brifkin at TEMPLE.EDU (Ben Rifkin) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:57:26 -0500 Subject: Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion? In-Reply-To: <5edab3490901231357x6b296411na1c8233098da9657@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: I would recommend more recent films, such as the Peculiarities of the National Hunt / Fishing, etc. series. Some of them are available with subtitles from russiandvd.com. Also, Window to Paris is nice. I'm not sure if it's available with subtitles, but Piter-FM is a lovely romantic comedy, no sex, very little violence (nothing serious), Petersburg during white nights, light and pleasant. Ben Rifkin > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Monniern wrote: > >> SEELANGS-tsy! >> >> Could anyone recommend a good recent-ish Russian comedy that would be >> easily >> available (say, through Netflix) with English subtitles? >> Dr. Nicole Monnier >> Assistant Teaching Professor of Russian >> Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) >> German & Russian Studies >> 428A Strickland (formerly GCB) >> University of Missouri >> Columbia, MO 65211 >> >> phone: 573.882.3370 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Jan 24 00:01:07 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:01:07 -0500 Subject: Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Yes, Piter-FM is a cute comedy with the same plot as "Sleepless in Seattle". On Jan 23, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Ben Rifkin wrote: > > I'm not sure if it's available with subtitles, but Piter-FM is a > lovely > romantic comedy, no sex, very little violence (nothing serious), > Petersburg > during white nights, light and pleasant. > > ----------------------------------------------------- Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK Sat Jan 24 00:38:30 2009 From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:38:30 +0000 Subject: comedy Message-ID: I think that it's worth watching Kira Muratova's film "Nastroishchik" (The Tuner). It is one of the most interesting post-Soviet comedies in the style of Chekhov's comedy of character. The DVD version with English subtitles was produced in 2004. ------------------------------- Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London) Reader in Russian Department of European Languages and Cultures School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures The University of Edinburgh David Hume Tower George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JX UK tel. +44-(0)131-6511381 fax: +44- (0)131- 650-3604 e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Nicole, You might like “Artistka”, 2005 (with English subtitles) – a very lyrical comedy with fine Russian humor and burlesque dialogs - http://www.amazon.com/Artistka-Artist-English-Subtitles-Bondarchuk/dp/B00112ANPI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1232757941&sr=8-3 Or “Bednye rodstvenniki”, 2005 (with English subtitles) directed by Pavel Lungin about a young con artist Edik played by Konstantin Khabensky (Night Watch)  who gets in trouble gathering long lost foreign relatives together. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464632/ Another lyrical comedy is “Zolushka.ru”, 2007, but I am not sure if you can find it with English subtitles. Some info in Russian is here: http://www.film.ru/afisha/movie.asp?code=ZOLUSHRU Best, Olga --- On Fri, 1/23/09, Monniern wrote: From: Monniern Subject: [SEELANGS] Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion? To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 4:36 PM SEELANGS-tsy! Could anyone recommend a good recent-ish Russian comedy that would be easily available (say, through Netflix) with English subtitles? The MU Russian Club is looking for suggestions, and I am more useless than I would generally care to admit (tho I suppose I¹m doing it fairly publicly with this email . . .). In any event, all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Best, Nicole **************************** Dr. Nicole Monnier Assistant Teaching Professor of Russian Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) German & Russian Studies 428A Strickland (formerly GCB) University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 phone: 573.882.3370 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 oothappam at EARTHLINK.NET Sat Jan 24 03:42:11 2009 From: oothappam at EARTHLINK.NET (Nola) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:42:11 -0800 Subject: Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion? Message-ID: Peculiarities of the National Fishing and Peculiarities of the National Hunt are really funny! I had no idea what these were about when I first saw Fishing...and ended up nearly choking with laughter at one scene, the one where the submarine's line caught onto the edge of the pier ....I will not spoil this for anyone who has not seen it yet. But, it was funny! I also loved Mimino- it is sweet. Nola ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Rifkin" To: Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion? >I would recommend more recent films, such as the Peculiarities of the > National Hunt / Fishing, etc. series. Some of them are available with > subtitles from russiandvd.com. Also, Window to Paris is nice. > > I'm not sure if it's available with subtitles, but Piter-FM is a lovely > romantic comedy, no sex, very little violence (nothing serious), Petersburg > during white nights, light and pleasant. > > Ben Rifkin > >> >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Monniern wrote: >> >>> SEELANGS-tsy! >>> >>> Could anyone recommend a good recent-ish Russian comedy that would be >>> easily >>> available (say, through Netflix) with English subtitles? > >>> Dr. Nicole Monnier >>> Assistant Teaching Professor of Russian >>> Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian) >>> German & Russian Studies >>> 428A Strickland (formerly GCB) >>> University of Missouri >>> Columbia, MO 65211 >>> >>> phone: 573.882.3370 >>> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 TORRESNG at MAILBOX.SC.EDU Sat Jan 24 04:42:21 2009 From: TORRESNG at MAILBOX.SC.EDU (TORRES, NOHEMI G) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:42:21 -0500 Subject: Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion? Message-ID: Piter FM is available with subtitles, but it's hard to find that way. I would also recommend "Ljubov-morkov" (2007), a romantic comedy directed by Aleksandr Strizhenov. It's basically Freaky Friday for an estranged couple. The language isn't difficult, and it's pretty clean (little violence, even less sex). I hear there's a sequel out there, too. ________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Alina Israeli Sent: Fri 1/23/2009 7:01 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion? Yes, Piter-FM is a cute comedy with the same plot as "Sleepless in Seattle". On Jan 23, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Ben Rifkin wrote: > > I'm not sure if it's available with subtitles, but Piter-FM is a > lovely > romantic comedy, no sex, very little violence (nothing serious), > Petersburg > during white nights, light and pleasant. > > ----------------------------------------------------- Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 brifkin at TEMPLE.EDU Sat Jan 24 05:16:35 2009 From: brifkin at TEMPLE.EDU (Ben Rifkin) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:16:35 -0500 Subject: The Great Russian Language Message-ID: Dear SEELangers: See http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2009/01/23_a_2928760.shtml for a headline with what I suppose is a new Russian verb: razbushevat¹sia. Turgenev was right. With best wishes to all, Ben Rifkin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ViktorOlevich at AOL.COM Sat Jan 24 00:23:08 2009 From: ViktorOlevich at AOL.COM (ViktorOlevich at AOL.COM) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:23:08 EST Subject: Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion? Message-ID: I would also suggest Karen Shakhnazarov's Kur'er (Courier), a comedic coming of age story of the generation of late 80s. Best regards, Victor Olevich In a message dated 1/23/2009 5:02:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, kirsty.mccluskey at GMAIL.COM writes: Ivan Vasil'evich meniaet professiiu is available in the US, I believe, as Ivan the Terrible: Back to the Future. I never miss an opportunity to recommend this film (although I now notice you asked for "recent-ish" ones, and it is from the 70s). Best wishes Kirsty McCluskey **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 egites at EDUC.UMASS.EDU Sat Jan 24 08:14:53 2009 From: egites at EDUC.UMASS.EDU (Ekaterina Ites) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:14:53 -0500 Subject: The Great Russian Language In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, Ben! :) Yes, he was. The greatness of the "velikiy i moguchiy" is especially obvious in a commonly practice of creative and playful reuse of heuristic resources of its popular texts: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Фантомас_разбушевался_(фильм) dal.sci-lib.com/word034936.html kind regards, Katya Ites Quoting Ben Rifkin : > Dear SEELangers: > > See http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2009/01/23_a_2928760.shtml for a headline > with what I suppose is a new Russian verb: razbushevat�sia. > > Turgenev was right. > > With best wishes to all, > > Ben Rifkin > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 Sat Jan 24 11:33:52 2009 From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:33:52 -0500 Subject: The Great Russian Language In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Ben Rifkin wrote: > Dear SEELangers: > > See for a > headline with what I suppose is a new Russian verb: razbushevat'sia. > > Turgenev was right. I haven't been reading the Russian press much lately, but I can see that it's a treasure trove of interesting usages. Разбушеваться was an interesting use of the reflexive -- if it had said "Обама разбушевает пр-во США" I would've understood in an instant. But how is Obama himself the target of the action? In a previous article , we see: Обама закрыл Гуантанамо ----------------------- Барак Обама начал избавляться от наследия своего предшественника Джорджа Буша. ... There, the reflexive on избавляться makes perfect sense. The perfective (уже полностью) "закрыл" -- less so, as one of the comments notes. ;-) That second article also contains the interesting euphemisms "особые (специальные) методы дознания," which I take as the counterpart to our "enhanced interrogation methods." I found it interesting to learn that Обама follows the model of Коля, Саша, Вика, etc. -- it declines as a feminine but functions otherwise as a masculine (президента Обамы, президенту Обаме, и т.д.). I expected a mismatched /foreign/ name to be indeclinable. I also noticed the phrasing "Как пишет британская The Times,..." where the noun is omitted -- I thought it was required. Guess I still have a lot to learn. -- 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 tbuzina at YANDEX.RU Sat Jan 24 11:58:01 2009 From: tbuzina at YANDEX.RU (Tatyana Buzina) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:58:01 +0300 Subject: Good recent Russian comedy film suggestion? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I don't know if they are available with English subtitles but these are two very recent and decent comedies: "Den' vyborov" (2007) and "Den' radio" (2008). Regards, Tatyana ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Franssuasso at HOTMAIL.COM Sat Jan 24 13:05:30 2009 From: Franssuasso at HOTMAIL.COM (Frans Suasso) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:05:30 +0100 Subject: The Great Russian Language Message-ID: What we see here is not a new verb, but a wordplay based on the existing inchoative verb разбушеваться which is formed from the imperfective бушевать which is always used in connection with natural phenomena as rain, wind, tempest or similar. Разбушеваться is used in connection with the arrival of a new natural fenomenon which is increasing in strenght. Obama is is described not only as "de-Bushing" but he is also compared with the arrival of a strong new atmos[eric phenomenon. Russian is a great language indeed. Frans Suasso ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul B. Gallagher" To: Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] The Great Russian Language > Ben Rifkin wrote: > >> Dear SEELangers: >> >> See for a >> headline with what I suppose is a new Russian verb: razbushevat'sia. >> >> Turgenev was right. > > I haven't been reading the Russian press much lately, but I can see that > it's a treasure trove of interesting usages. > > Разбушеваться was an interesting use of the reflexive -- if it had said > "Обама разбушевает пр-во США" I would've understood in an instant. But how > is Obama himself the target of the action? In a previous article > , we see: > > Обама закрыл Гуантанамо > ----------------------- > Барак Обама начал избавляться от наследия > своего предшественника Джорджа Буша. ... > > There, the reflexive on избавляться makes perfect sense. The perfective > (уже полностью) "закрыл" -- less so, as one of the comments notes. ;-) > > That second article also contains the interesting euphemisms "особые > (специальные) методы дознания," which I take as the counterpart to our > "enhanced interrogation methods." > > > I found it interesting to learn that Обама follows the model of Коля, > Саша, Вика, etc. -- it declines as a feminine but functions otherwise as a > masculine (президента Обамы, президенту Обаме, и т.д.). I expected a > mismatched /foreign/ name to be indeclinable. > > I also noticed the phrasing "Как пишет британская The Times,..." where the > noun is omitted -- I thought it was required. > > Guess I still have a lot to learn. > > -- > 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 Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK Sat Jan 24 13:48:40 2009 From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:48:40 +0000 Subject: an interview with Sorokin Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Those of you who are interested in contemporary culture, might be curious to watch a short interview with Vladimir Sorokin: http://www.openspace.ru/mediathek/details/7041/ In this interview Sorokin talks on Tolstoy, contemporary Moscow and internet...and defines himself as "POMOSKVICH". All best, Alexandra =============================== Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London) Reader in Russian Department of European Languages and Cultures School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures The University of Edinburgh David Hume Tower George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JX UK tel. +44-(0)131-6511381 fax: +44- (0)131- 650-3604 e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU Sat Jan 24 16:03:02 2009 From: meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU (Olga Meerson) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:03:02 -0500 Subject: The Great Russian Language In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Paul and all, The verb form разбушевает is aspectually impossible in Russian. What you misconstrue as the appropriate non-reflexive (and Frans is right: the actual verb is reflexive and refers to elemental phenomena!) would be *разбушёвывет in imp. and *разбушует in perf, future. (If the verb indeed meant de-bushizing). Needless to say, neither of them exist, unlike the actual разбушеваться. Also, there is a pun on the Russian title of the 1960s French film series, one of which was called "Фантомас разбушевался". Russians are treating Obama as this weird man posing as a semi-robot, not because of any personal dislike but because of their habitual suspiciousness about the motives of ANY politician's actions. In fact, this seemingly hostile pun may be a term of endearment, as the actual meaning of this verb (for a natural element or a wild person to spin out of control or become tempestuous) is obviously not the primary one he! re. It is precisely the fact that Obama is, in fact, keeping his cool and not spinning out of control emotionally that makes the pun--on an pre-existing verb! -- so funny. As for the logic of the reflexive which is, allegedly self-inflicting, this is not merely factually wrong for this verb but a fallacy linguistically: many reflexives, including especially many of the раз- + -ся verbs, have no transitive source whatsoever. They are just intransitive themselves. The reflexive ending works with the particular prefix to show how exactly this intransitivity affects the actant, as these prefixes usually orient one in space, literally or figuratively. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ozaslav at ALUMNI.UPENN.EDU Sat Jan 24 16:12:02 2009 From: ozaslav at ALUMNI.UPENN.EDU (Olga Zaslavsky) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:12:02 +0000 Subject: The Great Russian Language In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I think "razbushevalsya" is a take on a French comedy with Luis de Funes, popular in the 70's and titled in Russian "Fantomas razbushevalsya" -- "Fantomas se Dechaine." I don't see what the use of this verb has to do with Turgenev, rather, it's quite the opposite -- manipulating cliches. Respectfully, Olga Zaslavsky > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:16:35 -0500 > From: brifkin at TEMPLE.EDU > Subject: [SEELANGS] The Great Russian Language > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu > > Dear SEELangers: > > See http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2009/01/23_a_2928760.shtml for a headline > with what I suppose is a new Russian verb: razbushevat¹sia. > > Turgenev was right. > > With best wishes to all, > > Ben Rifkin > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK Sat Jan 24 16:30:55 2009 From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:30:55 +0000 Subject: The Great Russian Language/Turgenev In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Olga, I guess that the allusion to Turgenev's 1882 prose poem was meant to be funny and was meant to suggest that Turgenev was right in his assessment of the creative potential of the Russian language. See the whole poem here:http://ilibrary.ru/text/1378/p.51/index.html It defines Russian language as velikii and moguchii... Yet if we bear in mind that Turgenev's poem was included into his book of prose poems titled SENILIA (Starcheskoe)and that this book has very strong melancholic overtones evoking Arthur Shopenhauer's cycle of philosophical fragments "Senilia" (as well as Baudelaire's "Petits poemes en prose"), then the poem on the Russian language appears to be much more philosophical than the allusion to the poem suggests. All best, Sasha Smith -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Jan 24 18:11:46 2009 From: asred at COX.NET (Steve Marder) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:11:46 -0500 Subject: Platonov: I wrote this work for one man In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Robert Chandler wrote: > Dear all, > > There is a quote I need urgently and cannot track down. > > Somewhere Platonov says something like ‘I wrote this work, in effect, for > one man.’ He is talking, I think, of VPROK, though it might be KOTLOVAN. > > Can anyone help me? I don’t think I have dreamed this up! После атаки на “Впрок” Платонов говорил: “Я писал эту повесть для одного человека (для тов. Сталина), а этот человек повесть читал и по существу мне ответил. Все остальное меня не интересует” (“Огонек”. 1990. №19. С. 19-20). (http://www.hrono.info/biograf/platonov.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 peitlovakatarina at TISCALI.IT Sat Jan 24 17:53:06 2009 From: peitlovakatarina at TISCALI.IT (Peitlova Katarina) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:53:06 +0100 Subject: Nosov in Italian Message-ID: I'm looking for Italian translation of Nikolaj Nosov Prikljuchenja Neznajki i ego druzej. Was it ever translated in Italian? Thanks for help. Katarina Peitlova-Tocci,PhDr. Italia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ozaslav at ALUMNI.UPENN.EDU Sat Jan 24 17:51:10 2009 From: ozaslav at ALUMNI.UPENN.EDU (Olga Zaslavsky) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:51:10 +0000 Subject: The Great Russian Language/Turgenev In-Reply-To: <20090124163055.v2dhfmoxk4408cw4@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear Alexandra, We had to memorize the passage about "velikiy i moguchiy russkiy yazyk" in elementary school; it's firmly ingraned in my memory. I was trying to suggest that the verb разбушевался was not a linguistic experimentation, but a sarcastic reference, evoking a cross cultural cliché. Best, Olga. > Dear Olga, > > I guess that the allusion to Turgenev's 1882 prose poem was meant to > be funny and was meant to suggest that Turgenev was right in his > assessment of the creative potential of the Russian language. See the > whole poem here:http://ilibrary.ru/text/1378/p.51/index.html > It defines Russian language as velikii and moguchii... > > Yet if we bear in mind that Turgenev's poem was included into his book > of prose poems titled SENILIA (Starcheskoe)and that this book has > very strong melancholic overtones evoking Arthur Shopenhauer's cycle > of philosophical fragments "Senilia" (as well as Baudelaire's "Petits > poemes en prose"), then the poem on the Russian language appears to be > much more philosophical than the allusion to the poem suggests. > > All best, > Sasha Smith > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_012009 From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Sat Jan 24 17:36:00 2009 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:36:00 +0000 Subject: Platonov: I wrote this work for one man Message-ID: Dear all, There is a quote I need urgently and cannot track down. Somewhere Platonov says something like ŒI wrote this work, in effect, for one man.¹ He is talking, I think, of VPROK, though it might be KOTLOVAN. Can anyone help me? I don¹t think I have dreamed this up! Vsego dobrogo, 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 pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU Sat Jan 24 17:03:12 2009 From: pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU (David Powelstock) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:03:12 -0500 Subject: The Great Russian Language In-Reply-To: <20090124110302.ACC00772@mstore-prod-2.pdc.uis.georgetown.edu> Message-ID: Olga: "would be *разбушёвывет in imp." dp: Shouldn't that be *разбушёвывaет? Cheers, David David Powelstock Brandeis University -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Olga Meerson Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 11:03 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] The Great Russian Language Dear Paul and all, The verb form разбушевает is aspectually impossible in Russian. What you misconstrue as the appropriate non-reflexive (and Frans is right: the actual verb is reflexive and refers to elemental phenomena!) would be *разбушёвывет in imp. and *разбушует in perf, future. (If the verb indeed meant de-bushizing). Needless to say, neither of them exist, unlike the actual разбушеваться. Also, there is a pun on the Russian title of the 1960s French film series, one of which was called "Фантомас разбушевался". Russians are treating Obama as this weird man posing as a semi-robot, not because of any personal dislike but because of their habitual suspiciousness about the motives of ANY politician's actions. In fact, this seemingly hostile pun may be a term of endearment, as the actual meaning of this verb (for a natural element or a wild person to spin out of control or become tempestuous) is obviously not the primary one he! re. It is precisely the fact that Obama is, in fact, keeping his cool and not spinning out of control emotionally that makes the pun--on an pre-existing verb! -- so funny. As for the logic of the reflexive which is, allegedly self-inflicting, this is not merely factually wrong for this verb but a fallacy linguistically: many reflexives, including especially many of the раз- + -ся verbs, have no transitive source whatsoever. They are just intransitive themselves. The reflexive ending works with the particular prefix to show how exactly this intransitivity affects the actant, as these prefixes usually orient one in space, literally or figuratively. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Jan 24 17:38:59 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:38:59 -0500 Subject: The Great Russian Language In-Reply-To: <03a201c97e45$a4426e30$ecc74a90$@edu> Message-ID: Not in dictionaries, but you are absolutely correct, just as затушевать — затушёвывать, which is in the dictionary, разбушевать should be разбушёвывать. On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:03 PM, David Powelstock wrote: > Olga: "would be *разбушёвывет in imp." > > dp: Shouldn't that be *разбушёвывaет? > > Cheers, > David > > David Powelstock > Brandeis University > > Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU Sat Jan 24 20:00:50 2009 From: meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU (Olga Meerson) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:00:50 -0500 Subject: The Great Russian Language In-Reply-To: <03a201c97e45$a4426e30$ecc74a90$@edu> Message-ID: Of course, a typo! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU Sat Jan 24 19:59:25 2009 From: meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU (Olga Meerson) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:59:25 -0500 Subject: The Great Russian Language/Turgenev In-Reply-To: <20090124163055.v2dhfmoxk4408cw4@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: As my dear friend Andrey Arkhipov, a genius in both Slavic and Hebrew studies, says, "во дни депрессий, во дни тягостных рецессий, один ты был мне опорой и поддержкой..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU Sat Jan 24 22:35:03 2009 From: pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU (David Powelstock) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:35:03 -0500 Subject: The Great Russian Language In-Reply-To: <20090124150050.ACC04385@mstore-prod-2.pdc.uis.georgetown.edu> Message-ID: I knew it was just a typo. I just wanted to make sure that students of Russian on this list wouldn't be misled. Cheers, David -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Olga Meerson Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 3:01 PM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] The Great Russian Language Of course, a typo! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 TEMPLE.EDU Sun Jan 25 03:59:29 2009 From: brifkin at TEMPLE.EDU (Ben Rifkin) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:59:29 -0500 Subject: Razbushevat'sia Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers: What I meant by my reference to Turgenev would have best been accomplished by a wink and a nudge in connection with what for me was a totally new use of a verb. I¹d never seen this verb used before in a context in which there was a reference to the former president of the US and I thought it was a very clever pun on the part of the article¹s author. This is what made me think of Turgenev. Best regards to all, BR ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK Sun Jan 25 09:35:27 2009 From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:35:27 +0000 Subject: Russian dictionaries on line Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Just to let you know about one very helpful website that has a lot of Russian dictionaries: http://www.slovopedia.com/ It's free of charge. All best, Alexandra ======================================= Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London) Reader in Russian Department of European Languages and Cultures School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures The University of Edinburgh David Hume Tower George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JX UK tel. +44-(0)131-6511381 fax: +44- (0)131- 650-3604 e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Ronald.LeBlanc at UNH.EDU Sun Jan 25 15:19:23 2009 From: Ronald.LeBlanc at UNH.EDU (LeBlanc, Ronald) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:19:23 -0500 Subject: scholarships for foreign students to study in Russia? Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, A former student of mine asks: "Do you know if the Russian government provides any scholarships to foreign students who want to study in Russia? I have heard rumors that such scholarships exist, but so far have not been able to find any information myself." Does anybody know of such scholarships? Thanks for any help you might be able to provide. Ron Ronald D. LeBlanc Professor of Russian and Humanities Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Murkland Hall University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 603-862-3553 ronald.leblanc at unh.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 ozaslav at ALUMNI.UPENN.EDU Sun Jan 25 16:07:16 2009 From: ozaslav at ALUMNI.UPENN.EDU (Olga Zaslavsky) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:07:16 +0000 Subject: Razbushevat'sia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Prof. Rifkin, I, in turn, have failed to see the Nabokovian pun in raz -- bush -- evat'sya right away, and now I can see that this title has more charm than sarcasm. Best, Olga Z. > Dear SEELANGers: > > What I meant by my reference to Turgenev would have best been accomplished > by a wink and a nudge in connection with what for me was a totally new use > of a verb. I¹d never seen this verb used before in a context in which there > was a reference to the former president of the US and I thought it was a > very clever pun on the part of the article¹s author. This is what made me > think of Turgenev. > > Best regards to all, > > BR > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_012009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sun Jan 25 16:11:13 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:11:13 -0500 Subject: Razbushevat'sia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Monosyllabic noun have a great potential. Since there is a familiar to all canned fish (yes, I know, it doesn't have to be canned, but non-canned doesn't have a name tag) called GORBUSHA http:// www.prodos.ru/pictures/gorbusha.jpg, that was a nice foundation for a cartoon in 2000 when the elections were not settled for a while. And it was used in press for some time: http://old.russ.ru/politics/ events/20001110_belyakov.html http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/article.shtml?2000/11/09/22464 On Jan 24, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Ben Rifkin wrote: > Dear SEELANGers: > > What I meant by my reference to Turgenev would have best been > accomplished > by a wink and a nudge in connection with what for me was a totally > new use > of a verb. I’d never seen this verb used before in a context in > which there > was a reference to the former president of the US and I thought it > was a > very clever pun on the part of the article’s author. This is what > made me > think of Turgenev. > > Best regards to all, > > BR Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 renee at ALINGA.COM Sun Jan 25 17:39:13 2009 From: renee at ALINGA.COM (Renee Stillings) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:39:13 -0800 Subject: scholarships for foreign students to study in Russia? In-Reply-To: <977E785C6A3522459121342BBE8986EA027F3BD1@COLOBUS.ad.unh.edu> Message-ID: I believe they still do have a large scholarship system that appears to be negotiated with each country in terms of how many students Russia will accept. This is of course only for degree study and not "study abroad." I don't believe the US is on the list of countries that participate in this, but I am not sure. In other countries it is the Russian Embassy and/or that country's Ministry of Education that is involved with this process so if there are some allocated to the US, I suppose they would be the folks to ask. I believe also that MGU, SPbGU and MGIMO - and perhaps a few other top universities - do not participate in this gov't scholarship program. Renee -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of LeBlanc, Ronald Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:19 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] scholarships for foreign students to study in Russia? Dear SEELANGers, A former student of mine asks: "Do you know if the Russian government provides any scholarships to foreign students who want to study in Russia? I have heard rumors that such scholarships exist, but so far have not been able to find any information myself." Does anybody know of such scholarships? Thanks for any help you might be able to provide. Ron Ronald D. LeBlanc Professor of Russian and Humanities Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Murkland Hall University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 603-862-3553 ronald.leblanc at unh.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. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From caton at EMAIL.UNC.EDU Sun Jan 25 19:11:30 2009 From: caton at EMAIL.UNC.EDU (Diane E. Caton) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:11:30 -0500 Subject: VA Governor's Russian Academy - JOB OPPORTUNITY Summer 2009 Message-ID: The Virginia Governor's Russian Academy invites applications and resumes for the Summer 2009 Academy at Virginia Commonwealth University! http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/Language/GAindex.html *** The Virginia Governor's Russian Academy invites applications and resumes for the Summer 2009 Academy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Applications and job descriptions are available online at http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/Language/GAindex.html Please submit your application and all supplemental materials ASAP to the address provided. Should you have any questions please feel free to contact the Director directly via telephone (434) 962-4851 or email VARussianAcademy at gmail.com. The Teacher position is open to current instructors of Russian Language and/or Literature at the high school or college level. Each teacher will be responsible for designing the curriculum for an exploratory class of their choosing (7-10 contact hours per week) and design in addition to the core introductory language course (3+ contact hours daily). The exploratory classes range from folk dancing, to theater, to music, to film and literature. Creativity is welcomed and encouraged; patience, flexibility, and high energy are required. Teachers are further expected to participate in field trips and extracurricular activities throughout the Academy, including one all-day trip to Washington, D.C. The RA position is an exciting opportunity for ambitious and high- energy undergraduate and/or graduate students to work with gifted VA high schoolers in an intense language learning environment. The ideal candidate will be a current major or minor in Russian Language or related fields with 2-3 years of Russian Language. Study abroad experience is a plus. Work experience with high school students or undergraduates (e.g. RA and/or TA) is a plus. Heritage and native speakers are welcome and encouraged to apply. In order to be considered, applicants MUST be available throughout the period of the Academy June 28-July 19 (staff may be asked to report one day early and will be required to attend a staff meeting on April 25-26 in Richmond, VA). Application review is already underway! All hiring to be completed by April 1, 2009. Please submit your application AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! Заранее спасибо! Diane E. Caton Director Virginia Governor's Russian Academy 2009 Губернаторская русская академия 2009 Tel.: (434) 962-4851 E-mail: VARussianAcademy at gmail.com http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/Language/GAindex.html ***** 2009 Русская губернаторская академия приглашает RESIDENT ASSISTANTS (RAs) и TEACHERS Требования: Отличное знание русского языка • Образование высшее • Опыт работы с школьниками / преподавания в группах и индивидуально • Знание коммуникативных подходов и умение их применять в рамках интенсивного обучения • Доброжелательность, инициативность‚ самостоятельность ‚ ответственность, гибкость, пунктуальность, +++ Обязанности: Дружный результативный коллектив! • Офис - Губернаторская Русская Академия, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of World Studies - Richmond, VA График: полный рабочий день ++++ c 28 июня до 19 июля Для связи: Diane Caton Телефон: (434) 962-4851 E-mail: VARussianAcademy at gmail.com http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/Language/GAindex.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 caton at EMAIL.UNC.EDU Sun Jan 25 19:33:06 2009 From: caton at EMAIL.UNC.EDU (Diane E. Caton) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:33:06 -0500 Subject: JOB OPENING SUMMER 09 - VA Governor's Russian Academy Message-ID: The Virginia Governor's Russian Academy invites applications and resumes for the Summer 2009 Academy at Virginia Commonwealth University! http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/Language/GAindex.html *** The Virginia Governor's Russian Academy invites applications and resumes for the Summer 2009 Academy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Applications and job descriptions are available online at http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/Language/GAindex.html Please submit your application and all supplemental materials ASAP to the address provided. Should you have any questions please feel free to contact the Director directly via telephone (434) 962-4851 or email VARussianAcademy at gmail.com. The Teacher position is open to current instructors of Russian Language and/or Literature at the high school or college level. Each teacher will be responsible for designing the curriculum for an exploratory class of their choosing (7-10 contact hours per week) and design in addition to the core introductory language course (3+ contact hours daily). The exploratory classes range from folk dancing, to theater, to music, to film and literature. Creativity is welcomed and encouraged; patience, flexibility, and high energy are required. Teachers are further expected to participate in field trips and extracurricular activities throughout the Academy, including one all-day trip to Washington, D.C. The RA position is an exciting opportunity for ambitious and high- energy undergraduate and/or graduate students to work with gifted VA high schoolers in an intense language learning environment. The ideal candidate will be a current major or minor in Russian Language or related fields with 2-3 years of Russian Language. Study abroad experience is a plus. Work experience with high school students or undergraduates (e.g. RA and/or TA) is a plus. Heritage and native speakers are welcome and encouraged to apply. In order to be considered, applicants MUST be available throughout the period of the Academy June 28-July 19 (staff may be asked to report one day early and will be required to attend a staff meeting on April 25-26 in Richmond, VA). Application review is already underway! All hiring to be completed by April 1, 2009. Please submit your application AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! Заранее спасибо! Diane E. Caton Director Virginia Governor's Russian Academy 2009 Губернаторская русская академия 2009 Tel.: (434) 962-4851 E-mail: VARussianAcademy at gmail.com http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/Language/GAindex.html ***** 2009 Русская губернаторская академия приглашает RESIDENT ASSISTANTS (RAs) и TEACHERS Требования: Отличное знание русского языка • Образование высшее • Опыт работы с школьниками / преподавания в группах и индивидуально • Знание коммуникативных подходов и умение их применять в рамках интенсивного обучения • Доброжелательность, инициативность‚ самостоятельность ‚ ответственность, гибкость, пунктуальность, +++ Обязанности: Дружный результативный коллектив! • Офис - Губернаторская Русская Академия, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of World Studies - Richmond, VA График: полный рабочий день ++++ c 28 июня до 19 июля Для связи: Diane Caton Телефон: (434) 962-4851 E-mail: VARussianAcademy at gmail.com http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Instruction/Language/GAindex.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 kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Sun Jan 25 20:50:22 2009 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:50:22 +0000 Subject: Praxis Centre Message-ID: I am forwarding an email I have just received. Please reply NOT to me, but to Richard Greeman, the translator of Victor Serge: Robert Chandler Dear Friends, > I enclose an urgent appeal from the Praxis Research and Education Center in > Moscow to help 'Stop Political Terror in Russia' -- written after one of our > close collaborators, a human rights lawyer, was murdered in a Moscow street > last week. You can help by forwarding this appeal to others and by sending a > personal protest to the Russian Federation Embassy. Please see email addresses > and model protest letter below. > Yours in solidarity, Richard Greeman, Secretary, Victor Serge Foundation, > Montpellier, FR > > Russian Embassies : russianembassy at mindspring.com (US) > and office at rusemblon.org (UK) > Model Letter : > Mr. Ambassador, I am writing to express my concern about the Jan. 19 > assassination of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and young anti-fascist > journalist Anastasia Baburova in Moscow in an atmosphere of increasing > nationalist violence and legal impunity for killers. Please urge your > Government to take strong and effective measures to rein in fascist violence, > bring the perpetrators to justice and prevent future assaults on journalists, > lawyers and human rights advocates ­ scandalous political crimes that > seriously undermine the credibility of the Russian Federation in the > international sphere. (signed, etc) > > P.S. > I also invite you to become part of an emergency email list I am creating to > support Praxis and free thought against increasing repression in Russia. As > many of you know, Praxis established the Victor Serge Public Library in Moscow > back in 1997 to make non-Stalinist left-wing books in different languages > available for the first time to Russian scholars and activists. Over the past > ten years, Praxis has translated and published for the first time in Russian > several works of Victor Serge as well Voline's Unknown Revolution, Rubels Marx > Against the Marxists collections of papers of our annual International > Conferences in Russia and Ukraine. Praxis also participates in social > movements fighting for human rights and freedoms, social justice, popular > self-government, environmental justice etc and puts out a paper, Radical > Thought (now on line since our printer refused to print our criticisms of the > government). Last week, the authorities informed us that the Serge Library > (with over 6,000 books) is being evicted from the premises we occupy in > Moscow, where for both political and financial reasons space is extremely > difficult to find.   > Please visit our Praxis website (in five languages) at www.praxiscenter.ru >  If you wish your address to be added to this > emergency list, please send me back this email with the words 'Support > Praxis.' ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sun Jan 25 20:58:56 2009 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:58:56 +0000 Subject: Praxis Centre Message-ID: I am forwarding part of an email I have just received. Please reply NOT to me, but to Richard Greeman, the translator of Victor Serge. I am sure he will be glad to send you the full version of his message. I have cut most of it in order to comply with SEELANGS guidelines. Robert Chandler > > I also invite you to become part of an emergency email list I am creating to > support Praxis and free thought against increasing repression in Russia. As > many of you know, Praxis established the Victor Serge Public Library in Moscow > back in 1997 to make non-Stalinist left-wing books in different languages > available for the first time to Russian scholars and activists. Last week, the > authorities informed us that the Serge Library (with over 6,000 books) is > being evicted from the premises we occupy in Moscow, where for both political > and financial reasons space is extremely difficult to find.  Please visit our > Praxis website (in five languages) at www.praxiscenter.ru >  If you wish your address to be added to this > emergency list, please send me back this email with the words 'Support > Praxis.' ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Cynthia.Ruder at UKY.EDU Sun Jan 25 21:57:42 2009 From: Cynthia.Ruder at UKY.EDU (Ruder, Cynthia A) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:57:42 -0500 Subject: REWARD YOUR BEST STUDENT! Message-ID: Colleagues: It's time once again to nominate the TOP STUDENT in your program for the annual Post Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award--PSRSLA!! The PSRSLA is a FREE program offered to US Russian Departments and Programs. Organized under the auspices of ACTR (the American Council of Teachers of Russian), the PSRSLA seeks to provide national recognition for our best students--those students who best embody an enthusiasm for and love of things Russian. ACTR provides this program as a service to the profession. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to publicly recognize your top student. It's free! It's easy! In order to nominate a student, please follow these guidelines: --Deadline for nominations 1 MARCH 2009. --Nominations are accepted in ELECTRONIC FORMAT, via e-mail to me at cynthia.ruder at uky.edu or VIA FAX at 859-257-3743. Nominations can be in the body of the e-mail or sent as an attachment and MUST BE on Department/Program letterhead. Nomination letters should include the following information: --Full name of student. Nominees should be juniors or seniors. **Note that only 1 student can be nominated from each institution. We realize that Russian programs frequently have more than one outstanding student, but in order to preserve the integrity of the award, no more than ONE student at a given institution can be nominated to receive the PSRSLA. ***Remember that YOU decide who is worthy of this award, not ACTR. --Description of why this student most deserves this award. Be sure to supply specific information that describes how the student promotes the study of Russian and models the behavior of a committed Russian student. The student need not have the top GPA, nor be a Russian major, but should demonstrate an active dedication--in course work, outside activities, attitude--to the study of Russian language and culture. --Name and contact information of the nominator. The nomination should reflect the CONSENSUS of the program or department. The nomination letter should be submitted over the signature of the Department or Program chair or the Director of Undergraduate Studies. --Remember that the nominator must be a member of ACTR. If you are not a member of ACTR and would like to join, please contact George Morris, ACTR Treasurer, at actrmbrs at sbcglobal.net, in order to join the organization. Remember that with your membership fee you receive the ACTR Newsletter as well as a subscription to the Russian Language Journal. --Award certificates will be mailed to nominators during March so that they arrive prior to any departmental award ceremonies. Questions? Feel fee to contact me at cynthia.ruder at uky.edu with any questions about the program. We encourage you to take advantage of this program in order to let our best and brightest know that we appreciate their work and value their commitment to all things Russian. 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In-Reply-To: <8BEEA0C05C8342AA939DF5F503BAE674@ReneeOffice> Message-ID: You might have your student contact the Russkiy Mir Foundation - http://russkiymir.org/ I don't believe they offer such scholarships but given their mission, they might be a helpful resource in finding out where the scholarships might be. Josh Wilson Asst. Director The School of Russian and Asian Studies Editor-in-Chief Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies www.sras.org jwilson at sras.org -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of LeBlanc, Ronald Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:19 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] scholarships for foreign students to study in Russia? Dear SEELANGers, A former student of mine asks: "Do you know if the Russian government provides any scholarships to foreign students who want to study in Russia? I have heard rumors that such scholarships exist, but so far have not been able to find any information myself." Does anybody know of such scholarships? Thanks for any help you might be able to provide. Ron Ronald D. LeBlanc Professor of Russian and Humanities Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Murkland Hall University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 603-862-3553 ronald.leblanc at unh.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. 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I want to present some context for discussing stereotypes in class. I¹ll be using the famous elephant book contest (competition to come up with a book about elephants, joke from the 1980s). Thanks for your help. Ben Rifkin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 jwilson at SRAS.ORG Mon Jan 26 04:44:36 2009 From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG (Josh Wilson) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:44:36 +0300 Subject: Anekdot query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Does anyone really stereotype Russians as philosophers? I know there have been many greats from Russia - but as a stereotype (and joke) I'm not sure it works. I don't know how many times I've heard this joke - even told to me by Russians in Russia and I don't think I've ever heard the Russians mentioned in list. I've usually heard it as: Heaven: the policeman is British, the lover is Italian, the cook is French, the engineer is German and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell: the policeman is German, the lover is Swiss, the cook is British, the engineer is French and it is all organized by the Italians. A quick look online also reveals this variant: Heaven: the cook is French, the car is German, the police is English, the woman is Italian and the service is American. And Hell is: the cook is English, the car is American, the police are Italian, the woman is French and the service is German. If to add the Russians in in a way prompts hard-core stereotypes, might I suggest: Heaven: the Russians make the toasts Hell: the Russians make the toasts. Josh Wilson Asst. Director The School of Russian and Asian Studies Editor-in-Chief Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies www.sras.org jwilson at sras.org -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ben Rifkin Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 7:12 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] Anekdot query Dear SEELANGers: Can someone help remind me of the Russian anekdot about heaven and hell, something along the lines of heaven is the place where the cook is French, the police officer is English, the engineer is German, the lover is Italian, and the philosopher is Russian, while hell is the place where the cook is English, the philosopher is Italian, the police officer is German ... (perhaps here we could add that the American is the I know this anekdot is not from War & Peace, in which Tolstoy writes about the arrogance of different peoples and concludes that the arrogance of the German is the worst because he knows unquestioningly that he is right. I want to present some context for discussing stereotypes in class. I¹ll be using the famous elephant book contest (competition to come up with a book about elephants, joke from the 1980s). Thanks for your help. Ben Rifkin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Jan 26 05:19:01 2009 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:19:01 -0500 Subject: Anekdot query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Рай это когда, полицейский - англичанин, повар - француз, техник - немец, любовник - итальянец и всё организовано швейцарцем. Ад это когда, повар - англичанин, техник - француз, полицейский - немец, любовник - швейцарец, а организация поручена итальянцу". John Elliott, английский писатель. Heaven is an English policeman, a French cook, a German engineer, an Italian lover and everything organised by the Swiss. Hell is an English cook, a French engineer, a German policeman, a Swiss lover and everything organised by the Italians. (Aussie entrepreneur, John Elliot) http://books.google.com/books? id=Zfz4EXdPCQsC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=Heave+is+an+English+policeman,+a +French+cook,+a+German+engineer,&source=web&ots=rRHF7- nQN8&sig=3JxWekp8_2J2ad2OZ8MgmkHm- Pg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA34,M1 Alina Israeli LFS, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington DC. 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.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 resco at UMICH.EDU Mon Jan 26 13:03:00 2009 From: resco at UMICH.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Alina_Makin?=) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:03:00 -0600 Subject: Anekdot query Message-ID: I also heard the same joke with the following additions: Paradise -- the wife is Japanese, the kids are Finnish, the house is American, and the car is German Hell -- the wife is German, the kids are American, the house is Japanese and the car is Finnish. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Past panels have included topics such as Slavic Linguistics, Text and Image, Space and Time, and Slavs Abroad. Past papers have included: "Andrei Drozin's Evening of Plastika, World of People and Objects: The Role of Plastika in Acting Training," "Conceptual Overlaps and Formal Gaps in Gombrowicz and Borges," "Day as Ritual: Temporal Perspective in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," "On the Development of Syllabic Liquids in East South Slavic," and "Realization of Predicate in Czech Distributive Verbs." All talks are 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Keynote speaker TBA. Please submit abstracts (250 words) to slavicforum at gmail.com by February 15th, 2009. All abstracts should be sent as attachments in Word or PDF. Examples and references are not included in the word count. Please put your name and affiliation at the top of the abstract but not in the body, so that we may make them anonymous for refereeing and easily identify them afterwards. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From M.J.BERRY.RUS at BHAM.AC.UK Mon Jan 26 16:42:21 2009 From: M.J.BERRY.RUS at BHAM.AC.UK (Michael Berry) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:42:21 +0000 Subject: Anekdot query Message-ID: The elephant joke is much earlier than the 1980s - I heard it in in Moscow in 1961. I don't think the heaven and hell one is a genuine Russian joke. Another one I heard in 1961 starts off one Englishman is a gentleman; two Englishmen make a club; Three Englishmen make a government . and goes though various other nationalities and ends up One Russian is a fool; Two Russians make a queue; Three Russians make a primary party group. One Georgian is a leader (Stalin) Two Georgians make a government (Stalin and Beria) Three Georgians ...Thank God, there have never been three Georgians so far... Is this the sort of anecdote you want for your class?? Best wishes, Mike Berry Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 maureen.riley at US.ARMY.MIL Mon Jan 26 17:06:47 2009 From: maureen.riley at US.ARMY.MIL (Riley, Maureen Ms CIV USA TRADOC) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:06:47 -0500 Subject: No more old Russian calendars, but... Message-ID: Thanks to all who responded to my earlier message regarding the old Russian calendars. I never expected that there would be so many of you interested in them! As I type, they are on their way to a good home. Now, if only I could find someone willing to take all the cat calendars (unfortunately, only one of them is in Russian) off my hands... Maureen Riley Defense Language Institute-Washington ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Jan 26 17:14:02 2009 From: J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK (John Dunn) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:14:02 +0100 Subject: Anekdot query Message-ID: I always thought that the heaven and hell joke originated in the corridors of Versailles during the peace negotiations after World War I. The key point in all versions (that I have heard) is that in hell the British have to be the cooks and the Germans the police. Meanwhile those with an interest in the invention of tradition may be interested to read the following: http://www.newsru.com/russia/25jan2009/tt.html John Dunn. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Berry To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:42:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Anekdot query The elephant joke is much earlier than the 1980s - I heard it in in Moscow in 1961. I don't think the heaven and hell one is a genuine Russian joke. Another one I heard in 1961 starts off one Englishman is a gentleman; two Englishmen make a club; Three Englishmen make a government . and goes though various other nationalities and ends up One Russian is a fool; Two Russians make a queue; Three Russians make a primary party group. One Georgian is a leader (Stalin) Two Georgians make a government (Stalin and Beria) Three Georgians ...Thank God, there have never been three Georgians so far... Is this the sort of anecdote you want for your class?? Best wishes, Mike Berry Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies) University of Glasgow, Scotland Address: Via Carolina Coronedi Berti 6 40137 Bologna Italy Tel.: +39 051/1889 8661 e-mail: J.Dunn at slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk johnanthony.dunn at fastwebnet.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 l_horner at ACG.RU Mon Jan 26 18:04:01 2009 From: l_horner at ACG.RU (Lisa Horner) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:04:01 +0300 Subject: SRAS Calendar In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear SEELANGERs, We've still got a few calendars left. As some of you have mentioned using these in the classroom and/or awarding to students as prizes, we're offering 20 free copies to the first two professors who respond to me off-the-list at lhorner at sras.org. Thank you everyone who gave us such nice feedback - it was very pleasant to hear. And we are always welcome to new ideas for other things we could do. Best, Lisa Horner SRAS Student Relations www.sras.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Jan 26 11:52:58 2009 From: vinarska at YAHOO.COM (Maryna Vinarska) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:52:58 -0800 Subject: Anekdot query In-Reply-To: <200901260444.n0Q4ieZi026520@alinga.com> Message-ID: I have also never heard Russians be stereotyped as philosophers in the Western world, normally quite different cliches are being promoted, but I did hear once the following statement on Russian TV: U russkikh gorizontnoe myshlenie. The statement was supposed to mean the following: Russians are never satisfied with what they have (so true…) but always curious about what is behind the horizon (za gorizontom). This lack of practicality is true and in a way does prove the inclination to philosophize. Regards, Maryna Vinarska --- On Mon, 1/26/09, Josh Wilson wrote: > From: Josh Wilson > Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Anekdot query > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu > Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 6:44 AM > Does anyone really stereotype Russians as philosophers? I > know there have > been many greats from Russia - but as a stereotype (and > joke) I'm not sure > it works. > > I don't know how many times I've heard this joke - > even told to me by > Russians in Russia and I don't think I've ever > heard the Russians mentioned > in list. > > I've usually heard it as: > > Heaven: the policeman is British, the lover is Italian, the > cook is French, > the engineer is German and it is all organized by the > Swiss. > > Hell: the policeman is German, the lover is Swiss, the cook > is British, the > engineer is French and it is all organized by the Italians. > > A quick look online also reveals this variant: > > Heaven: the cook is French, the car is German, the police > is English, the > woman is Italian and the service is American. > > And Hell is: the cook is English, the car is American, the > police are > Italian, the woman is French and the service is German. > > If to add the Russians in in a way prompts hard-core > stereotypes, might I > suggest: > > Heaven: the Russians make the toasts > > Hell: the Russians make the toasts. > > > Josh Wilson > Asst. Director > The School of Russian and Asian Studies > Editor-in-Chief > Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies > www.sras.org > jwilson at sras.org > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and > Literatures list > [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ben Rifkin > Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 7:12 AM > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu > Subject: [SEELANGS] Anekdot query > > Dear SEELANGers: > > Can someone help remind me of the Russian anekdot about > heaven and hell, > something along the lines of heaven is the place where the > cook is French, > the police officer is English, the engineer is German, the > lover is Italian, > and the philosopher is Russian, while hell is the place > where the cook is > English, the philosopher is Italian, the police officer is > German ... > (perhaps here we could add that the American is the > > I know this anekdot is not from War & Peace, in which > Tolstoy writes about > the arrogance of different peoples and concludes that the > arrogance of the > German is the worst because he knows unquestioningly that > he is right. > > I want to present some context for discussing stereotypes > in class. I¹ll be > using the famous elephant book contest (competition to come > up with a book > about elephants, joke from the 1980s). > > Thanks for your help. > > Ben Rifkin > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU Mon Jan 26 20:10:17 2009 From: sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU (Sibelan Forrester) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:10:17 -0500 Subject: CFP: Totalitarian Laughter: Cultures of the Comic under Socialism (Princeton, May 15-17, 2009) Message-ID: TOTALITARIAN LAUGHTER: CULTURES OF THE COMIC UNDER SOCIALISM May 15-17, 2009 Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures Princeton University http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/ Throughout its history, socialist mass culture actively relied on satire, humor, and comedy to foster emotional bonds with its audience. Orchestrated by the state cultural industry, public laughter released social and political tension, while leaving intact or buttressing mechanisms of repression and institutions of power. In turn, late Soviet irony or the aesthetic of grotesque, developed from below, became instrumental in solidifying a cultural distance from the values promoted by the socialist state. Varied in their impact and scope, these cultures of the comic nonetheless constantly pointed to the irrationality and ludicrousness of the socialist way of life. Whether officially approved or censored, totalitarian laughter relativized existing practices and norms, suggesting different models of understanding and embodying really existing socialism. Regardless of their content, these jokes of repression shared the same quality: they were made, not found. It is precisely this active production of totalitarian laughter from above and from below that this conference aims to explore. How did state socialism transform traditional genres and categories of the comic? How crucial was state censorship in producing (or suppressing) totalitarian laughter? Through what forms of displacement and condensation did official and non-official cultures achieve their comic effect? How did these practices of the comic correspond and interact with each other? What kinds of communities were formed in the process of producing jokes of repression? What were the mechanisms and paths of circulation through which laughable versions of socialism became available to larger audiences? Finally, what kinds of pleasure did totalitarian laughter promise, if not deliver? We seek to address these questions by bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars interested in reconstructing the peculiar relationship between repression and laughter under state socialism. We invite papers that explore forms of socialist grotesque in the Soviet Union and central and eastern Europe in such diverse fields as politics, history, literature, arts, music, theater, television, and film, among others. Please send an abstract (300 words) of the paper you would like to present at this conference, along with your short CV, by February 10, 2009 to We may be able to offer a limited number of travel subsidies for foreign presenters. Those selected to give presentations at the conference will be contacted at the end of February 2009. Final papers will be due no later than April 20, and they will be posted on the conference's website. Program committee: Serguei Oushakine (Princeton), Petre Petrov (Princeton), Seth Graham (UCL), Kevin M.F. Platt (Penn), Nancy Ries (Colgate). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 lyudmila.parts at MCGILL.CA Mon Jan 26 20:35:45 2009 From: lyudmila.parts at MCGILL.CA (Lyudmila Parts, Prof.) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:35:45 -0500 Subject: looking for contact info for Prof. Barratt. Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am trying to locate Andrew Barratt, an Olesha scholar, formerly of University of Otago, New Zealand. If you have contact information for Prof. Barratt, please contact me off-line lyudmila.parts at mcgill.ca Thank you! Lucy Parts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 reei at INDIANA.EDU Mon Jan 26 20:26:09 2009 From: reei at INDIANA.EDU (REEI) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:26:09 -0500 Subject: SWSEEL 2009 Message-ID: Indiana University’s 59th Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages June 19th - August 14th, 2009 Bloomington, Indiana ALL participants pay IN-STATE TUITION. Foreign Language Area Studies Awards are available. The following languages are ACLS-funded and TUITION-FREE for graduate students specializing in any field related to these languages: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Macedonian, and Romanian. All fellowship deadlines are March 20th. Acceptance is on a space-available basis after that date. The following languages will be offered: Russian 1-6 Azerbaijani 1-3** Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1 Czech 1 Georgian 1 Hungarian 1 Kazakh 1-2 Kyrgyz 1* Macedonian 1 Mongolian 1* Pashto 1-2 Polish 1 Romanian 1 Slovene 1* Tajik 1-2 Turkmen 1-2 Ukrainian 1 Uyghur 1-3** Uzbek 1-3** *pending funding **Level 3 pending funding For more information contact: Director Ballantine Hall 502 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-2608 swseel at indiana.edu http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK Mon Jan 26 21:05:08 2009 From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:05:08 +0000 Subject: looking for contact info for Prof. Barratt. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Professor Parts, Dr Andrew Barratt has taken an early retirement from the University of Otago a few years ago. To the best of my knowledge he still lives in Dunedin. Please contact the treasurer of the Association of New Zealand and Australian Slavists Dr David Wells:David Wells I would imagine that Dr Barratt is still a member of this association and could be contacted through David Wells. All best, Alexandra ======================== Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London) Reader in Russian Department of European Languages and Cultures School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures The University of Edinburgh David Hume Tower George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JX UK tel. +44-(0)131-6511381 fax: +44- (0)131- 650-3604 e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk Quoting "Lyudmila Parts, Prof." : > Dear Colleagues, > > I am trying to locate Andrew Barratt, an Olesha scholar, formerly of > University of Otago, New Zealand. If you have contact information > for Prof. Barratt, please contact me off-line > > lyudmila.parts at mcgill.ca > > Thank you! > > Lucy Parts. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Eric.Metz at UGENT.BE Mon Jan 26 21:02:47 2009 From: Eric.Metz at UGENT.BE (Eric Metz) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:02:47 +0100 Subject: Folklore and the Symbolists Message-ID: Dear Eric, Natalya A. Molchanova is the author of a "kandidatskaya" on the Russian Symbolists' use of Russian folklore motives - "Мотивы русской мифологии и фольклора в лирике символистов 1900-х годов: Автореф. дис. … канд. филол. наук." Горький. 1984. 24 с. See also her "Русские символисты–исследователи фольклора". М.,1986. On Bal'mont and Slavic folklore, see Molchanova's article "Об одной фольклорной интерпретации в 'Жар-птице' К. Д. Бальмонта", in: Творчество писателя и литературный процесс. Иваново, 1982." With best regards, Eric Metz ----- Original Message ----- From: "eric r laursen" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:56 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] Folklore and the Symbolists Can someone point me to some good sources on the Symbolists' use of folktales/folklore? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Anthony.J.Vanchu at NASA.GOV Mon Jan 26 21:27:07 2009 From: Anthony.J.Vanchu at NASA.GOV (Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TTI]) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:27:07 -0600 Subject: Russian Language Films on Space Exploration Available On Line Message-ID: Dear Seelangtsovy, I want to call to your attention to the website http://tvroscosmos.ru/?page=films. This is part of the Roskosmos (the Russian equivalent to NASA) website devoted to films on space exploration. There are a number of decent films there (11 total) that students might find interesting. They can be viewed on the site itself or else downloaded to one's computer and viewed there. Titles include: "Kosmos govorit po-russki," "Kosmicheskii prorok" (about Tsiolkovsky), "Zvezdnye amazonki," "Beloe solntse Baikonura" (about pre-flight traditions at the Russian launch site in Kazakhstan), and others. Best, Tony Vanchu Dr. Anthony J. Vanchu Director, JSC Language Education Center TechTrans International, Inc. NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX anthony.j.vanchu at nasa.gov 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 jwilson at SRAS.ORG Tue Jan 27 08:13:08 2009 From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG (Josh Wilson) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:13:08 +0300 Subject: Mumiy Troll American Tour Message-ID: Dear all, If there is anything that can perk students interest in language - it's pop bands. Especially good ones. Mumyi Troll, a Russian group that mixes rock, electronic, and whatever happens to be lying around, has just announced that they will be adding performance dates in North America to their current tour. I've copied the dates below. Try searching Google for places to buy tickets ( ie "Mumyi Troll" + the location). Their site (available in English) also has some additional info on the band (and will play their music automatically over your speakers) http://www.mumiytroll.com/en 05.03.09 - USA, Los Angeles, CA. 04.03.09 - USA, San Franciscо, CA. 03.03.09 - USA, San Francisco, CA. 07.02.09 - USA, Portland, OR. 06.02.09 - USA, Seattle, WA. 03.02.09 - USA, Salt Lake City, UT. 02.02.09 - USA, Denver, CO. 31.01.09 - USA, Minneapolis, MN. 30.01.09 - USA, Chicago, IL. 29.01.09 - USA, Cleveland, OH. 28.01.09 - Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 27.01.09 - USA, Buffalo, NY. Josh Wilson Asst. Director The School of Russian and Asian Studies Editor-in-Chief Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies www.sras.org jwilson at sras.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 latrigos at COMCAST.NET Tue Jan 27 15:23:01 2009 From: latrigos at COMCAST.NET (latrigos at COMCAST.NET) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:23:01 +0000 Subject: obtaining permissions from Pushkinskii dom Message-ID: Greetings! Has anyone had any luck obtaining permissions to reproduce line drawings from Pushkin's rabochye tetradi from Pushkinskii dom or Dmitrii Bulanin publishers? I would like to include two drawings in my book and my publisher must have permissions in hand or proof that the drawings are in the public domain. Does anyone have any suggestions? If so, please reply to me off-line. Thanks in advance for your assistance. Best regards, Ludmilla Trigos, Ph.D. Independent Scholar ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU Tue Jan 27 15:52:13 2009 From: sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU (Sibelan Forrester) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:52:13 -0500 Subject: Internship opportunity for American students in Russia Message-ID: Dear colleagues, A former student now with the State Department in Russia asked me to pass along this invitation for American graduate and undergraduate students studying abroad in Russia. The American Corners can hold stationery exhibits or (as described below) host conversation groups in English or visitors' talks on any topic of interest in American culture (contemporary movies; the history of jazz; sports - it depends partly on the interests of the person doing the internship). Please bring this to the attention of your current and former students. ********** We invite American study abroad students in Russia to intern at our American Centers and Corners. We have 29 such locations around Russia, and many are eager for volunteers and interns. An internship at an American Center or Corner is a fantastic way to learn about US public diplomacy and a great way to make local friends. A favorite activity is running local chat clubs in English, but we also have people dropping by the Corners all the time to give talks about American holidays, their home states, politics, etc. I do these kinds of talks all the time, will be speaking in Bryansk next week! You can see a full list of our Corners and Centers in Russia at ********** For more information please reply OFF LIST, or ask your students to reply, to Geoff Anisman at With best wishes, Sibelan Sibelan Forrester Russian/Modern Languages and Literatures Swarthmore 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 davidagoldfarb at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 27 16:56:32 2009 From: davidagoldfarb at GMAIL.COM (David Goldfarb) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:56:32 -0500 Subject: M.A. EES Online: Call for Applications In-Reply-To: Message-ID: *Freie Universität Berlin International Master's Programs 2009-2010* Do you want to enhance your career with a Master's degree in International Relations or East European Studies? The Center for Global Politics seeks qualified candidates interested in advancing their international careers. The Center for Global Politics houses the award-winning Freie Universität Berlin's academic programs directed by Prof. Klaus Segbers. The flagship programs of the Center for Global Politics are the M.A. in East European Studies Online and the M.A. in International Relations Online, each fulfilling 120 ECTS credits. Applications for fall 2009 are now being accepted. *Program Highlights* - English language coursework attracting an international community - Staying on the job while working towards your degree - Bridging the classroom with real world issues through field research - Rewarding in-house classes in Berlin, Germany supplementing online modules - Fellow students with diverse professional experience and backgrounds - Faculty from a broad array of international institutions *East European Studies Online* (www.ees-online.org) With E.U. expansion and a rapidly changing Europe, our program puts students at the forefront of this dynamic international arena. Our *accredited*interdisciplinary *M.A.** **program* prepares students for high-level Eastern Europe-related assignments in business, public sector, non-governmental and international organizations. East European Studies (EES) Online was recently named a Top Ten International Master's Degree Course in Germany. *International Relations Online* (www.ir-online.org) With globalization on the rise and a multitude of issues affecting today's world, individuals with international expertise who understand global culture and communication are in high demand. Candidates in the M.A. program gain in-depth knowledge of International Relations enabling them to tackle global issues with a balance of hard and soft-skills. The degree gives candidates top-tier academic credentials for the international job market. *Application Requirements* - Bachelor's degree, or equivalent** - Proof of high English proficiency - Online application, curriculum vitae, and statement of intent Online applications are welcome through *April 30, 2009*. Programs start in October 2009. Please visit our websites or contact us at ees at fu-berlin.de or IROnline at fu-berlin.de. Victoria Muntendorf Application Officer Center for Global Politics | Freie Universität Berlin Garystrasse 55 | 14195 Berlin Phone: +49-30-838-55093 | Fax: +49-30-838-53616 http://www.global-politics.org -- David A. Goldfarb http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 sergerogosin at YAHOO.COM Wed Jan 28 02:51:44 2009 From: sergerogosin at YAHOO.COM (serge rogosin) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:51:44 -0800 Subject: Tserkov' Agrafeny kupal'nitsy/Agrippiny in Moscow In-Reply-To: <1255704046.835011233069781013.JavaMail.root@sz0074a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> Message-ID: I'm having trouble tracking down the location of a tserkov' "Agrafeny kupal'nitsy"/Agrippiny that is referred to as being in Moscow in the 1870s. Contemporary guidebooks to Moscow have produced nothing. Any information or advice would be greatly appreciated. Serge Rogosin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 at PRINCETON.EDU Wed Jan 28 15:10:38 2009 From: kate at PRINCETON.EDU (Kathleen Fischer) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:10:38 -0600 Subject: AATSEEL awards competition Message-ID: The Publications Committee of AATSEEL is soliciting nominations for its annual awards competition. As in the past, awards will be given for “Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies,” “Best Translation into English,” “Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics,” and “Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy.” For the prizes in literary/cultural studies and translation, all books published in 2007 and 2008 are eligible. For the prize in linguistics, books or ground-breaking articles published in 2007 and 2008 are eligible. For the prize in language pedagogy, books, textbooks, computer software, testing materials, and other instructional tools published in 2006, 2007 or 2008 are eligible. To make a nomination in any of these four categories, please send one copy of the nominated publication to: Professor Michael Wachtel, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 249 East Pyne, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. For more information about the AATSEEL book prizes, see http://www.aatseel.org/prizes. The deadline for nominations is: May 1, 2009. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mlsvetka at YAHOO.COM Wed Jan 28 16:13:46 2009 From: mlsvetka at YAHOO.COM (Svetlana Malykhina) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:13:46 -0800 Subject: Museum of Russian Icons Message-ID: Museum of Russian Icons 203 Union Street Clinton, MA 01510 http://www.museumofrussianicons.org/   Tara Young, Education and Program Specialist at the Museum of Russian Icons asked me to pass along this invitation addressed to Russian programs in the area and those who travel to Boston.   It is with great pleasure that I invite you to attend the Museum of Russian Icons, a non-profit educational museum in Clinton, MA. The collection of Russian icons, which is the largest such a collection in North America and one of the largest outside of Russia, spans six centuries, and includes important historical icons dating from the earliest periods of icon painting up to the present.   Now the Museum hosts two ground-breaking international cultural exchanges between the United States and Russia:   Two Museums/One Culture (on exhibit through May 1, 2009), displays 16 significant RUssian icons from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and comprises some of the most important RUssian icons ever to come to the USA from a RUssian national museum;   Palekh: From Icons to Souvenir Boxes to Icons (on exhibit through May 1, 2009) presents Palekh, the Russian folk handicraft of miniature painting with tempera on varnished objects made of papier-mâché.    Museum Education offers a wealth of exciting programs for students of all levels and backgrounds, including courses and lectures. This is the place where students can examine the Museum’s treasures, connect directly to the Russian culture and have fun learning interactively.  The Museum can accommodate thematic tours.. Listed below are several topics to be covered in conjunction with the exhibition: Icon painting schools Old Slavonic texts on the icons Early Russian history through icons Links between Literature and Icons in Medieval  Russia Famous Icon Painters Originality and Byzantine influence in Russian Medieval art Palekh art: past and present Russian Fairy Tales’ motifs in lacquer box craft       For more information please reply off list, or ask students to reply to Tara Young tyoung at museumofrussianicons.org  Svitlana Malykhina (smalykhina at yahoo.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 n.bermel at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK Thu Jan 29 16:36:50 2009 From: n.bermel at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK (Neil Bermel) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:36:50 +0000 Subject: University of Sheffield and AHRC postgraduate studentships in Russian/Slavonic Message-ID: The University of Sheffield is offering 15 postgraduate studentships for students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities: eight cover UK/EU fees and offer a maintenance award at the Research Council rate of £13,290; seven cover UK/EU fees and offer a maintenance award at 50% of the Research Council rate, i.e. £6,645. Applicants for research degrees (MPhil and PhD) in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies may apply, subject to eligibility, for these awards. The deadline is 31 March 2009. For more information, follow the link below. http://www.shef.ac.uk/russian/postgraduate/fees.html Please note that in order to be considered for a University of Sheffield studentship, you must first apply to the University for admission to an appropriate programme of study. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding AHRC-funded studentships will be available either through the AHRC's Studentship Competition, or through a Block Grant Partnership (BGP) whereby the University will have an allocated number of studentships in specified subject areas and for specified schemes -- Research Preparation Masters (RPM), Professional Preparation Masters (PPM), and Doctoral. The University has applied for a BGP and will know the outcome on 23 February 2009. If the application is successful, the BGP will allow the University to award, on a competitive basis and subject to AHRC approval, studentships to prospective postgraduate students. EU nationals accepted to study on programmes and in subject areas for which BGP studentships have been allocated will be eligible for nomination to AHRC. Information about the outcome of the BGP Competition will be posted on this web page and elsewhere. The University hopes that, when the outcome of its application is known, it will be able to offer a number of Doctoral awards in the subject area of Russian, Slavonic and Eastern European Language and Culture over the period covered by the first round of the Scheme (2009–2013). If the University is not awarded a BGP allocation, students who have already been admitted to the University to study can still apply to the AHRC Studentship Competition for funding. It is possible for applicants for University of Sheffield studentships to indicate their interest now in being considered for AHRC awards. For more details, follow the link below. http://www.shef.ac.uk/russian/postgraduate/fees.html Students who wish to be considered for AHRC-funded studentships in this subject area must apply to the University no later than 31 March 2009. Please note that in order to be considered for a University of Sheffield or AHRC studentship, you must first apply to the University for admission to an appropriate programme of study. More information about the Department's research profile and areas of expertise may be found at http://www.shef.ac.uk/russian/research If you would like more information, please contact us: Applications in the field of Russian and Slavonic languages and linguistics: Professor Neil Bermel (n.bermel at sheffield.ac.uk) Applications in the field of Russian and Slavonic literary and cultural studies: Professor Craig Brandist (c.s.brandist at sheffield.ac.uk) Best regards, Neil Bermel -- Neil Bermel Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies University of Sheffield Jessop West 1 Upper Hanover Street Sheffield S3 7RA, U.K. Tel. +44 (0)114 222 7405 Fax +44 (0)114 275 1198 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ericson at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG Thu Jan 29 18:40:10 2009 From: ericson at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Brita Ericson) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:40:10 -0600 Subject: Intensive Summer Language Institute for Russian Teachers Message-ID: The Department of State is pleased to announce Intensive Summer Language Institute in Russian for 2009 as part of the National Security Language Initiative. The goal of the program is to strengthen critical need foreign language instruction at U.S. schools by providing intermediate and advanced level Russian as a Foreign Language teachers with the opportunity for intensive language study. The summer 2009 program is open to current K-12 teachers as well as community college instructors of Russian. It is also open to students enrolled in education programs intending to teach this language. Successful applicants will gain further knowledge and a greater understanding of Russian through the following: attending intensive language classes; collaborating with foreign and American teachers on foreign language teaching methodology; and living abroad. Scholarship Benefits for Selected Participants: International airfare, in-country travel, housing, meals, incidentals, classes, books, pre-departure orientation, educational and cultural excursions. In addition, participants may be eligible for post-scholarship grants as well as academic credit. To be eligible, candidates must: • Speak intermediate or advanced Russian and score in the intermediate or advanced range of the ALTA exam. All candidates will be tested through the oral ALTA exam by telephone during the application process. • Be current teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language at the primary or secondary level at an accredited U.S. public or private school, or be enrolled in a 4-year education program (B.A. or B.S.) teacher certification program or a Masters of Education program. Instructors of Russian at Community Colleges are also encouraged to apply. Candidates must be committed to teaching the language upon their return to the U.S. • Be U.S. citizens For information and applications, please see our website: https://apps.americancouncils.org/webForms/?frmno=23. Please contact isli at americancouncils.org for more information. This program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), U.S. Department of State, and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers in cooperation with American Councils for International Education. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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BALSSI is sponsored by a consortium of twelve US universities and receives additional support from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies. For further information about BALSSI 2009, please contact Nancy Heingartner, BALSSI program coordinator, balssi at creeca.wisc.edu, 1-608-262-3379. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ericson at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG Thu Jan 29 19:08:21 2009 From: ericson at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Brita Ericson) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:08:21 -0600 Subject: CORRECTION:Intensive Summer Language Institute for Russian Teachers Message-ID: Intensive Summer Language Institute for Arabic, Chinese and Russian Teachers The Department of State is pleased to announce Intensive Summer Language Institute in Russian for 2009 as part of the National Security Language Initiative. The goal of the program is to strengthen critical need foreign language instruction at U.S. schools by providing intermediate and advanced level teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language with the opportunity for intensive language study. The summer 2009 program is open to current K-12 teachers as well as community college instructors of and Russian. It is also open to students enrolled in education programs intending to teach these languages. Successful applicants will gain further knowledge of the target language and a greater understanding of the target culture by attending intensive language classes, participating in a program of cultural enrichment, collaborating with foreign and American teachers, and living in a target-language immersion environment. Scholarship Benefits for Selected Participants: Grants cover international airfare, in-country travel, housing, meals, incidentals, classes, books, pre-departure orientation, and educational and cultural excursions. In addition, participants may be eligible for post-scholarship grants as well as academic credit. Program Location: Russian State Pedagogical University (Herzen), St. Petersburg, Russia To be eligible, candidates must: • Speak intermediate or advanced Russian and score in the intermediate or advanced range on the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) exam. All candidates will be tested during the application process. • Be current teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language at the primary or secondary level at an accredited U.S. public or private school, or be enrolled in a 4-year education program (B.A. or B.S.) teacher certification program or a Masters of Education program. Instructors of Russian at Community Colleges are also eligible and strongly encouraged to apply. Candidates must be committed to teaching the language upon their return to the U.S. • Be U.S. citizens For information and applications: Applications are due on March 2, 2009 and are available on American Councils’ website at https://apps.americancouncils.org/webForms/?frmno=23 . Please contact isli at americancouncils.org for more information. This program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), U.S. Department of State, and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers in cooperation with American Councils for International Education. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jan 29 19:28:56 2009 From: ggerhart at COMCAST.NET (Genevra Gerhart) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:28:56 -0800 Subject: CORRECTION:Intensive Summer Language Institute for Russian Teachers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: And why would you want to strengthen a critical need? Genevra Gerhart ggerhart at comcast.net www.genevragerhart.com www.russiancommonknowledge.com -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Brita Ericson Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:08 AM To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu Subject: [SEELANGS] CORRECTION:Intensive Summer Language Institute for Russian Teachers Intensive Summer Language Institute for Arabic, Chinese and Russian Teachers The Department of State is pleased to announce Intensive Summer Language Institute in Russian for 2009 as part of the National Security Language Initiative. The goal of the program is to strengthen critical need foreign language instruction at U.S. schools by providing intermediate and advanced level teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language with the opportunity for intensive language study. The summer 2009 program is open to current K-12 teachers as well as community college instructors of and Russian. It is also open to students enrolled in education programs intending to teach these languages. Successful applicants will gain further knowledge of the target language and a greater understanding of the target culture by attending intensive language classes, participating in a program of cultural enrichment, collaborating with foreign and American teachers, and living in a target-language immersion environment. Scholarship Benefits for Selected Participants: Grants cover international airfare, in-country travel, housing, meals, incidentals, classes, books, pre-departure orientation, and educational and cultural excursions. In addition, participants may be eligible for post-scholarship grants as well as academic credit. Program Location: Russian State Pedagogical University (Herzen), St. Petersburg, Russia To be eligible, candidates must: . Speak intermediate or advanced Russian and score in the intermediate or advanced range on the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) exam. All candidates will be tested during the application process. . Be current teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language at the primary or secondary level at an accredited U.S. public or private school, or be enrolled in a 4-year education program (B.A. or B.S.) teacher certification program or a Masters of Education program. Instructors of Russian at Community Colleges are also eligible and strongly encouraged to apply. Candidates must be committed to teaching the language upon their return to the U.S. . Be U.S. citizens For information and applications: Applications are due on March 2, 2009 and are available on American Councils' website at https://apps.americancouncils.org/webForms/?frmno=23 . Please contact isli at americancouncils.org for more information. This program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), U.S. Department of State, and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers in cooperation with American Councils for International Education. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 labov1 at HUMANITIES.OSU.EDU Fri Jan 30 03:02:58 2009 From: labov1 at HUMANITIES.OSU.EDU (Jessie Labov) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:02:58 -0600 Subject: Roundtable on David Cerny at Midwest Slavic Conference (April 16-18, 2009) Message-ID: ROUNDTABLE PROPOSAL FOR MIDWEST SLAVIC CONFERENCE, APRIL 16-18, 2009 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ABSTRACTS DUE FEB 1 Please send submissions to: AND See CFP for Midwest Slavic Conference below for more details. ====> “David Cerny’s Europe and other reflections from the new center” Last week, the atrium of the European Council headquarters in Brussels witnessed a Christo-like ‘shrouding’ of the most offending piece of David Cerny’s sculpture/installation “Entropa”: the country Bulgaria depicted as an interlocking system of squat toilets. After ruffling diplomatic feathers from Sofia to Amsterdam, Cerny has offered some explanations and gestures of apology (such as returning funding for the project). However, he insists that “The art works, by artificially constructed artists from the 27 EU countries, show how difficult and fragmented Europe as a whole can seem from the perspective of the Czech Republic.“ http://www.davidcerny.cz/startEN.html. Yet just a few decades ago, in his 1984 essay “Wysoki mur” (A High Wall), the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski suggested that: “The idea of Europe lives intensely in the dreams and longings of Central European countries. [...] The fact that such an intense longing for Europe has survived East of the Elbe should be of interest to Western Europe as well. It has a young mirror of itself over in the East. If it gazes into that mirror it may see itself as it once was: more cheerful, more talented. It may even come to like itself again, who knows.” (CC 6 (1987): 26-27) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/crossc/. Now Europe has looked into its mirror in East of the Elbe, but does not like what it sees. The proposed roundtable invites artists/scholars/activists to discuss reflections of European identity in cultural expressions from the newest members states. Does Europe expect to see a different image in that reflection? Has there really been such a shift as suggested by the stark contrast between Zagajewski and Cerny’s words? Or do both concepts of Europe remain in place in the artistic imagination? Finally, how do the cultural dynamics between new member states (i.e., Czech Republic-Bulgaria) affect the vision of Europe as a whole? *************************************************** Midwest Slavic Conference and Short Film Competition at OSU April 16-18, 2009 Deadline February 1 The Midwest Slavic Association and The Ohio State University’s Center for Slavic and East European Studies (CSEES) are proud to announce the 2009 Midwest Slavic Conference, to be held at the Blackwell Inn and Conference Center on the OSU campus April 16-18, 2009. Conference highlights include: *Keynote address by Dr. Dina Iordanova, St. Andrews University *Screening of Katyn, part of a Wajda tribute series at the Wexner Center *Welcome reception *Luncheon talk by Dr. Beth Holmgren, Duke University Conference organizers invite proposals for panels or individual papers addressing all disciplines related to Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Please send a one-paragraph abstract and brief C.V. to csees at osu.edu by February 1, 2009. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to submit presentations. Limited funding will be available to subsidize graduate hotel lodging. For more information, contact the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at (614) 292-8770 or at csees at osu.edu. CSEES would also like to announce the first annual Short Film Competition to showcase the top short films produced by students from all Russian, East European and Central Asian National Resource Centers and other universities and colleges from throughout the Midwest. Pieces must be independently produced by current students, no longer than 20 minutes in length, and created after April 20, 2008. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the top rated entries and will be showcased during the conference. All entries must be received by February 1, 2009. For more information on competition rules please visit http://slaviccenter.osu.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 crees at MAIL.KU.EDU Fri Jan 30 15:36:55 2009 From: crees at MAIL.KU.EDU (crees) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:36:55 -0600 Subject: Central Europe 1989: Lessons and Legacies, October 16-18, 2009 Message-ID: As part of a semester-long commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in East Central Europe, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas announces a conference, "Central Europe 1989: Lessons and Legacies," to be held in Lawrence, KS, October 16-18, 2009. We invite 250-word abstracts dealing with the question of transition and change in Central Europe as it relates to discourses, narratives, myths of identity in a variety of areas, including but not exclusively culture, literature and film, gender, ethnicity, civil and state structures, environment, economy. Historical and political contextualizations of the "Turn" are also welcome. Please email your abstract by May 1, 2009, to: crees at ku.edu (and put "CE1989" in the subject line), or mail to: CE1989, CREES, University of Kansas, 320 Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045. Possible topics include: 1. meanings of revolution (society, arts, science, technology, environment, etc.) 2. transition (and its discontents) 3. myths of identity 4. discourses of change 5. thinking and rethinking history 6. (re)defining Central Europe 7. stocktaking on the transition 8. structures of political change 9. institutional design -- Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies University of Kansas 320 Bailey Hall 1440 Jayhawk Blvd. Lawrence, KS 66045-7574 tel.: 785-864-4236 fax: 785-864-3800 http://www.crees.ku.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 slivkin at OU.EDU Fri Jan 30 17:20:54 2009 From: slivkin at OU.EDU (Slivkin, Yevgeniy A.) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:20:54 -0600 Subject: AAASS panel Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am posting this message on behalf of Dr. Karen Stepanian, a well-known Dostoevsky scholar, the editor-in-chief of "Dostoevsky i mirovaia kul'tura", and the Vice-President of the Russian Dostoevsky Society. K. Stepanian is interested in presenting a paper on Dostoevsky and Cervantes at the AAASS conference in November 2009 in Boston. If anyone has a place for one more panelist on his/her panel, please let me know and I will put Dr. Stepanian in contact with you. Please reply off list to slivkin at ou.edu Thank you very much. Yevgeny Sivkin, Ph.D. Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 eboudovs at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Fri Jan 30 20:28:05 2009 From: eboudovs at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Boudovskaia, Elena) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:28:05 -0800 Subject: Vassar program in St Petersburg Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I would like to bring to your attention our semester-long program in St. Petersburg designed for students majoring in either Russian Studies or Art History. This program is truly unique, as it grants our students a virtually unlimited access to St. Petersburg's Hermitage, whose collection of European art is on par with the British Museum or the Louvre. Our students are taught by museum curators, with some classes taking place on days when the museums are closed to the general public. Program participants also have a chance to view and handle works in museum storage rooms. Other classes are taught in St. Petersburg's Russian Museum, a major depository of Russian art from icons to post-modernism. The program is in the fourth year of its existence. In addition to Vassar students, we have had participants from many other colleges. The deadline is March 2009. For more information, follow the link below: http://internationalprograms.vassar.edu/programs/russia_stpetersburg.html or contact the Program Director, Nicolai Firtich, at nifirtich at vassar.edu Sincerely, Elena Boudovskaia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM Sat Jan 31 00:20:35 2009 From: vbelyanin at GMAIL.COM (Valery Belyanin) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:20:35 -0500 Subject: Razbushevat'sia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Хватит кудрить мозгиhttp://mk.ru/blogs/MK/2009/01/31/society/392270/ it is a regular practice to play with names in press I do not think they read turgenev any more in Russia :( Valery Belyanin http://russianforyou.com/library/belyanin/1994/Belyanin_1994_Live_speech_kartochka.jpg On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Ben Rifkin wrote: > Dear SEELANGers: > > What I meant by my reference to Turgenev would have best been accomplished > by a wink and a nudge in connection with what for me was a totally new use > of a verb. I¹d never seen this verb used before in a context in which > there > was a reference to the former president of the US and I thought it was a > very clever pun on the part of the article¹s author. This is what made me > think of Turgenev. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU Sat Jan 31 03:42:58 2009 From: meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU (Olga Meerson) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:42:58 -0500 Subject: Razbushevat'sia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: THEY don't have to read Turgenev--for HIM to assess the role of language in Russia with precision and inspiration. It was his precise point--that in Russia and in Russian, everyone plays with language, not just the few who read him! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 condee2 at VERIZON.NET Sat Jan 31 15:44:38 2009 From: condee2 at VERIZON.NET (condee) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:44:38 -0500 Subject: Stanislavsky Summer School (6 July to 9 August 2009) Message-ID: I am posting this message for a friend. If you could pass it along to students who might be interested, she would be grateful. They may respond directly to msbelenky at gmail.com rather than to me. Cordially, Nancy Condee Stanislavsky Summer School (July 6 to August 9, 2009: Cambridge, MA since 1992) Moscow Art Theatre School teachers bring to America the rich Russian theatre tradition. This intensive training program is designed to introduce students to the basics of the famous Stanislavsky System as it is taught in Russia today. The curriculum includes acting classes (Stanislavsky and Michael Chekhov Technique), movement training, and drama history course with Dr. Anatoly Smeliansky, Dean of the Moscow Art Theatre School. Classes meet six days a week, Monday through Saturday. Application deadline is May 15, 2009. See www.moscowart.org or call 412-422-1115. Prof. N. Condee Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures 1417 CL University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 412-624-5906 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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