National Russian Week - the date?

Thu Jan 28 11:45:03 UTC 2010

There is not much time for discusison and preparation -- this year Maslenitsa starts on February 8th.  

--- On Wed, 27/1/10, Edward M Dumanis <dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU> wrote:

From: Edward M Dumanis <dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU>
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] National Russian Week - the date?
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Wednesday, 27 January, 2010, 22:59

I want to add another downside:
Maslennitsa is appropriate only if you identify Russian with the Russian 
Orthodox Church, which occupies only one of the segments (though it is a 
major one there) in the religious sector of Russian culture.
I personally know many Russian families who never carried this tradition 
either being related to different religious traditions or rejecting them 
all together.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Josh Wilson wrote:
........../snip/.............

> I propose Maslinitsa for discussion, which has lots going in its favor:
>
> 1. It is a modern and historical holiday - giving a chance to discuss to
> discuss at once modern Russia and its ancient roots
> 2. It is distinctly Russian
> 3. It has established and ongoing traditions (which are fun for the whole
> family)
> 4. It's already a week long
> 5. It comes with blini - probably the single best intro to Russian culture
> ever (who can say "No" to blini?)
>
> Downsides would be:
>
> 1. It can come early in the spring semester, which may make it logistically
> challenging for profs, etc.
> 2. Its dates change every year - which means you need to keep up (though as
> someone who has lived in Russia for sometime, this seems actually
> appropriate, to tell the truth...)
>
> Maslenitsa for this year is Feb 8-14, btw - just around the corner.
> http://www.sras.org/russian_holidays
>
> Anyone else have ideas?
>
>
>
> Josh Wilson
> Assistant Director
> The School of Russian and Asian Studies
> Editor in Chief
> Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
> 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 Inna Caron
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 5:53 PM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] National Russian Week - the date?
>
> What about September 8th? Historically, it has been a great Russian holiday
> (Rozhdestvo Bogoroditsy/The Nativity of the Theotokos), and it is also the
> date of the epic Kulikovo Battle (1380) and of the opening of the
> Tysiacheletie Rossii/1000 Years of Russia memorial in Velikii Novgorod
> (1862).
>
>
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> [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] on behalf of David Powelstock
> [powelstock at BRANDEIS.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 8:08 PM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] National Russian Week?
>
> A great idea, Devin! Maybe we could get the folks at Russian Life Magazine
> involved. As for a date, I don't know. There really isn't any consensus
> national holiday, is there? International Women's Day? We tend to celebrate
> IWD at Brandeis -- partly because it's amusingly sentimental, partly because
> it comes as the weather starts getting warmer, but while school is in
> session. Ivan-Kupala, pagan edition? Falls in summer, no good.
>
> David Powelstock
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Devin Browne
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 9:04 AM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] National Russian Week?
>
> Has the profession (whatever that means) ever considered establishing a
> National Russian Week in the U.S.?  As a French and Russian teacher, I've
> seen how effective National French Week can be in raising awareness in my
> school about what kinds of things are going on in the French-speaking world
> as well as in my classroom.  It would be helpful to have something similar
> in Russian.  I've contemplated doing my own thing and coinciding it with...
> well, um.... the only thing I could find on the internet was Russian Fashion
> Week in April and October.  Maybe that's a little over the top, but I'm open
> to suggestions!  :-)
>
> Devin
>
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