From vlad at GRAMMATICA.EU  Fri Jul  1 10:33:34 2011
From: vlad at GRAMMATICA.EU (Vladyslav Mukherjee)
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 13:33:34 +0300
Subject: An updated version of Grammatica - an application for Russian
 learners and teachers
Message-ID: <FRI.1.JUL.2011.133334.0300.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

A few months ago I posted to your mailing list to introduce you to
Grammatica - a tool designed to help students improve their knowledge of
Russian grammar and pronunciation by displaying stress marks, grammatical
information and translation in any Russian text. 

We've recently made several significant updates to Grammatica to make it
more stable and more accurate at identifying the grammatical properties of
Russian words. 

Grammatica can be used by teachers for creating handouts that include stress
marks and grammar information in all Russian words. Teachers can also use
Grammatica for classroom presentation to easily demonstrate various Russian
grammar rules using any Russian text of their choice.

You can find out more about Grammatica on our 'features' page:
http://www.grammatica.eu/en/Home/Features

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.

Best regards,

Vladyslav Mukherjee
www.grammatica.eu 

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From sdsures at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jul  2 01:19:26 2011
From: sdsures at GMAIL.COM (Stephanie Briggs)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 02:19:26 +0100
Subject: An updated version of Grammatica - an application for Russian
 learners and teachers
In-Reply-To: <005001cc37da$549faa90$fddeffb0$@eu>
Message-ID: <SAT.2.JUL.2011.021926.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Ooh! I really want this!!!!!!!!!! *eyes gleam with delight*

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On 1 July 2011 11:33, Vladyslav Mukherjee <vlad at grammatica.eu> wrote:

> Dear SEELANGers,
>
> A few months ago I posted to your mailing list to introduce you to
> Grammatica - a tool designed to help students improve their knowledge of
> Russian grammar and pronunciation by displaying stress marks, grammatical
> information and translation in any Russian text.
>
> We've recently made several significant updates to Grammatica to make it
> more stable and more accurate at identifying the grammatical properties of
> Russian words.
>
> Grammatica can be used by teachers for creating handouts that include
> stress
> marks and grammar information in all Russian words. Teachers can also use
> Grammatica for classroom presentation to easily demonstrate various Russian
> grammar rules using any Russian text of their choice.
>
> You can find out more about Grammatica on our 'features' page:
> http://www.grammatica.eu/en/Home/Features
>
> Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vladyslav Mukherjee
> www.grammatica.eu
>
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From howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK  Sat Jul  2 12:18:39 2011
From: howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK (Howard Turner)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:18:39 +0100
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
Message-ID: <SAT.2.JUL.2011.131839.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised 
Dear SEELANGS,

A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised by some publishers here 
in London who were looking for books (novels, perhaps fiction in general) for 
translation from Russian, among a number of other languages. 


I wonder if SEELANGERs have some ideas to put forward?  It's not a question for 
prolonged research, but something at the level of 'I wish *that* was translated 
so I could give it to my family and friends'; 'I've never understood why *that* 
hasn't been translated' [etc]

If any consensus emerges I'll pass it on.  Meanwhile I have my own candidate, 
and I may well be seeking the expert advice of SEELANGers about it in the near 
future.

Thanks for your attention,

 Howard Turner

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From alexei_kutuzov at YAHOO.COM  Sat Jul  2 13:53:54 2011
From: alexei_kutuzov at YAHOO.COM (Alexei Kutuzov)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 06:53:54 -0700
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
In-Reply-To: <1309609119.61348.YahooMailRC@web26605.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.2.JUL.2011.065354.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Howie,

Ivan Lazhechnikov's House of Ice (Лед


Dear Howie,

Ivan Lazhechnikov's House of Ice (Ледяной дом) from 1835, I believe.  Chandler 
has already touched everything else.

Toodles,

AK 




________________________________
From: Howard Turner <howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Sent: Sat, July 2, 2011 7:18:39 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Untranslated Russian novels that should be

A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised 
Dear SEELANGS,

A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised by some publishers here 
in London who were looking for books (novels, perhaps fiction in general) for 
translation from Russian, among a number of other languages. 


I wonder if SEELANGERs have some ideas to put forward?  It's not a question for 
prolonged research, but something at the level of 'I wish *that* was translated 
so I could give it to my family and friends'; 'I've never understood why *that* 
hasn't been translated' [etc]

If any consensus emerges I'll pass it on.  Meanwhile I have my own candidate, 
and I may well be seeking the expert advice of SEELANGers about it in the near 
future.

Thanks for your attention,

Howard Turner

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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Sat Jul  2 14:58:11 2011
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 10:58:11 -0400
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
In-Reply-To: <1309614834.73297.YahooMailRC@web120308.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.2.JUL.2011.105811.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Did you mean old or modern?

And if modern, how could there be a consensus? I hope there isn't any,  
and different people like different things.

Alina

Jul 2, 2011, в 9:53 AM, Alexei Kutuzov написал(а):

> Ivan Lazhechnikov's House of Ice (Ледяной дом) from 1835, I  
> believe.  Chandler
> has already touched everything else.
>
>
> A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised by some  
> publishers here
> in London who were looking for books (novels, perhaps fiction in  
> general) for
> translation from Russian, among a number of other languages.
>
> ...
> If any consensus emerges I'll pass it on.  Meanwhile I have my own  
> candidate,
> and I may well be seeking the expert advice of SEELANGers about it  
> in the near
> future.
>
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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From perova09 at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jul  2 15:35:10 2011
From: perova09 at GMAIL.COM (Perova Natasha)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 19:35:10 +0400
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
Message-ID: <SAT.2.JUL.2011.193510.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

>From contemporary Russian novels:

Olga Slavnikova's A Light Head
Roman Senchin's The Yeltyshevs
Maria Galina's Malaya Glusha
Asar Eppel's Tin Moon
All of Dmitry Bykov's novels

Natasha Perova
Glas New Russian Writing
tel/fax: (7)495-4419157
perova at glas.msk.su
www.glas.msk.su

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Turner" <howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 4:18 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Untranslated Russian novels that should be


A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised
Dear SEELANGS,

A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised by some publishers
here
in London who were looking for books (novels, perhaps fiction in general)
for
translation from Russian, among a number of other languages.


I wonder if SEELANGERs have some ideas to put forward?  It's not a question
for
prolonged research, but something at the level of 'I wish *that* was
translated
so I could give it to my family and friends'; 'I've never understood why
*that*
hasn't been translated' [etc]

If any consensus emerges I'll pass it on.  Meanwhile I have my own
candidate,
and I may well be seeking the expert advice of SEELANGers about it in the
near
future.

Thanks for your attention,

 Howard Turner

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From howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK  Sat Jul  2 16:12:11 2011
From: howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK (Howard Turner)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 17:12:11 +0100
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
In-Reply-To: <041A7004-8A74-4139-AED9-6968EDD94A92@american.edu>
Message-ID: <SAT.2.JUL.2011.171211.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

I think broadly modern.  Let me rephrase 'consensus' as:  if en
Alina,

I think broadly modern.  Let me rephrase 'consensus' as:  if enough people write 
to me offline that there are books with several votes I will email a summary to 
the list.

 Howard Turner





________________________________
From: Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Sent: Sat, 2 July, 2011 15:58:11
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Untranslated Russian novels that should be

Did you mean old or modern?

And if modern, how could there be a consensus? I hope there isn't any, and 
different people like different things.

Alina

Jul 2, 2011, в 9:53 AM, Alexei Kutuzov написал(а):

> Ivan Lazhechnikov's House of Ice (Ледяной дом) from 1835, I believe.  Chandler
> has already touched everything else.
> 
> 
> A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised by some publishers here
> in London who were looking for books (novels, perhaps fiction in general) for
> translation from Russian, among a number of other languages.
> 
> ...
> If any consensus emerges I'll pass it on.  Meanwhile I have my own candidate,
> and I may well be seeking the expert advice of SEELANGers about it in the near
> future.
> 
> 

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387     fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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From e.gapova at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jul  2 16:29:05 2011
From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:29:05 -0400
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
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Ilichevsky's "Pers" (Перс), I think.

Also, probably, Kolyadina's "Tsvetochnyi krest", a controversial winner of
2011 "Russkii Buker".

Elena Gapova


>
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From maptekman at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jul  2 19:59:13 2011
From: maptekman at GMAIL.COM (Marina Aptekman)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 15:59:13 -0400
Subject: A new book on the role of Jewish mysticism in Russian literature
Message-ID: <SAT.2.JUL.2011.155913.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

I just want to bring your attention to the fact that my book "Jacob's
Ladder: Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature" has been just published
by Academic Studies Press. The book covers a large period from late 18th
century to the early 20th century, and is probably a first volume that deals
completely with the issue of the place of mystical kabbalistic allegory in
Russian literature.

Here is the link to the book description on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Jacobs-Ladder-Kabbalistic-Borderlines-European-Jewish/dp/1934843385/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309636583&sr=8-1

Please, tell those your friends who might be interested in the sublect.

Thank you,

Marina Aptekman
Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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From maptekman at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jul  2 19:54:21 2011
From: maptekman at GMAIL.COM (Marina Aptekman)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 15:54:21 -0400
Subject: A good book for ADVANCED RUSSIAN CLASS
Message-ID: <SAT.2.JUL.2011.155421.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear all,

can somebody recommend a relatively new good book to teach in the advanced
russian class (3d and 4th year of russian combined, which some students
after a semester abroad)

I already used 'Advanced Russian through History' and 'Russian in Use', and
before that some years ago "Let's Talk about Life" which looks to me a
little out-of-date so I am curious what most people use now in such classes.

Thank you!

Marina Aptekman
Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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From ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET  Sun Jul  3 04:27:26 2011
From: ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET (Jules Levin)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:27:26 -0700
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
In-Reply-To: <1309609119.61348.YahooMailRC@web26605.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.2.JUL.2011.212726.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

On 7/2/2011 5:18 AM, Howard Turner wrote:
> A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised
> Dear SEELANGS,
>
> A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised by some publishers here
> in London who were looking for books (novels, perhaps fiction in general) for
> translation from Russian, among a number of other languages.
>
>
> I wonder if SEELANGERs have some ideas to put forward?  It's not a question for
> prolonged research, but something at the level of 'I wish *that* was translated
> so I could give it to my family and friends'; 'I've never understood why *that*
> hasn't been translated' [etc]
Why only novels?  As far as I know, Prince Yusupov's "Ubiystvo 
Rasputina"--a first-person detailed description/confession-- has not 
been translated.  A chilling and fascinating read; the richest man in 
Russia was playing American pop records on his Victrola as the plotters 
were entertaining Rasputin.
There are also non-fiction explorers' accounts, etc.
Jules Levin



> If any consensus emerges I'll pass it on.  Meanwhile I have my own candidate,
> and I may well be seeking the expert advice of SEELANGers about it in the near
> future.
>
> Thanks for your attention,
>
>   Howard Turner
>
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From Subhash.Jaireth at GA.GOV.AU  Mon Jul  4 03:00:51 2011
From: Subhash.Jaireth at GA.GOV.AU (Subhash.Jaireth at GA.GOV.AU)
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:00:51 +1000
Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 1 Jul 2011 to 2 Jul 2011 (#2011-199)
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Dear Friends,

My book of fiction To Silence: Three Autobiographies is being launched this month. The details of the book and the event are on the website of the bookshop in Canberra. The address is: http://www.paperchainbookstore.com.au/PaperchainBookStore/events.cfm?events_id=215&view=detail

One of the monologues is in the voice of Maria Chekhova, Anton Chekhov's sister, which may be of some interest to you. The book can be ordered from the Paperchain Bookshop.

Thanks and best wishes
Subhash Jaireth
http://sites.google.com/site/subhashjaireth/




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From kottcoos at mail.ru  Mon Jul  4 13:25:43 2011
From: kottcoos at mail.ru (Goloviznin Konstantin)
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:25:43 +0400
Subject: put us on
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUL.2011.172543.0400.KOTTCOOS@MAIL.RU>

Hello, all.

At my translating the movie "... over the cuckoo's nest" I got to some doubt ... again. I mean the following. In some episode the doc Spivey tells Mac about his (=Mac's) "...put us on".   According the context it's (probably) clear - ... making some deceit, pretending at us.  But there's a bit of  "hope"  on another meaning of  "making us nervous with your misbehaviour". What's right? 

The context is here: http://depositfiles.com/files/oi5xu1do2

... and thanks in advance, 
Konstantin.     

From bliss.mst at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jul  4 16:36:47 2011
From: bliss.mst at GMAIL.COM (Liv Bliss)
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 11:36:47 -0500
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUL.2011.113647.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Natasha Perova wrote: "All of Dmitry Bykov's novels"

Just a little FYI on Bykov (which someone else will probably have picked up on 
before this is posted): his ZhD, at least, has been translated, by Cathy Porter, 
as Living Souls. Which I only happen to know because it's sitting on my 
bookshelf.

Best to all 
Liv

***************
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ATA-Certified Russian to English Translator
tel.: (928) 367 1615
email: bliss.mst @ gmail.com

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and good with ketchup -- Anon.
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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Mon Jul  4 17:06:19 2011
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:06:19 -0400
Subject: put us on
In-Reply-To: <E1Qdj9j-0005wH-00.kottcoos-mail-ru@f3.mail.ru>
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUL.2011.130619.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Goloviznin Konstantin wrote:

> Hello, all.
>
> At my translating the movie "... over the cuckoo's nest" I got to
> some doubt ... again. I mean the following. In some episode the doc
> Spivey tells Mac about his (=Mac's) "...put us on".   According the
> context it's (probably) clear - ... making some deceit, pretending at
> us.  But there's a bit of  "hope"  on another meaning of  "making us
> nervous with your misbehaviour". What's right?
>
> The context is here: <http://depositfiles.com/files/oi5xu1do2>
>
> ... and thanks in advance, Konstantin.

Seems clear to me in the context that the doctor, as he says, is not 
convinced that Mac is crazy, but instead thinks he's feigning mental 
illness in order to be kept in the institution.

There does seem to be an element of pulling their leg -- Mac seems to be 
having some fun with it, entertaining himself by playing mind games with 
the doctors (jerking them around). But I don't recognize the alternate 
meaning you suggest.

I hope I've understood your question correctly.

-- 
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

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From perova09 at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jul  4 17:32:48 2011
From: perova09 at GMAIL.COM (Perova Natasha)
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 21:32:48 +0400
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUL.2011.213248.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Liv and others
yes, ZhD was published by Alma Books in the UK (no US edition yet) but Bykov 
is a very prolific author and one of the most interesting thinkers in Russia 
today.  (We published a big excerpt in Glas 40 under the title "Jewhad", and 
in a different translation). His novels spotlight all the main problems of 
contemporary Russian life.
Olga Slavnikova's novel "2017" has been published by Overlook in the US but 
her other novels, and particularly "Light Head" deserve the attention of all 
those interested in present-day Russia and its near future.
Glas published Senchin's novel MINUS, but his latest novel "The Yeltyshevs" 
is almost a Shakesperean tragedy about a typical family crushed by 
perestroika. No economic reports will tell you so graphically how it all was 
for the people in the provinces.

I could extend the list, of course.

Natasha Perova
Glas New Russian Writing
tel/fax: (7)495-4419157
perova at glas.msk.su
www.glas.msk.su

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liv Bliss" <bliss.mst at GMAIL.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Untranslated Russian novels that should be


> Natasha Perova wrote: "All of Dmitry Bykov's novels"
>
> Just a little FYI on Bykov (which someone else will probably have picked 
> up on
> before this is posted): his ZhD, at least, has been translated, by Cathy 
> Porter,
> as Living Souls. Which I only happen to know because it's sitting on my
> bookshelf.
>
> Best to all
> Liv
>
> ***************
> Liv Bliss
> ATA-Certified Russian to English Translator
> tel.: (928) 367 1615
> email: bliss.mst @ gmail.com
>
> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
> for you are crunchy and good with ketchup -- Anon.
> ***************
>
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From ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET  Mon Jul  4 19:25:47 2011
From: ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET (Jules Levin)
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:25:47 -0700
Subject: put us on
In-Reply-To: <4E11F30B.3040101@pbg-translations.com>
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUL.2011.122547.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

On 7/4/2011 10:06 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> Goloviznin Konstantin wrote:
>
>> .  But there's a bit of  "hope"  on another meaning of  "making us
>> nervous with your misbehaviour". What's right?
>>
>> The context is here: <http://depositfiles.com/files/oi5xu1do2>
>>
>> ... and thanks in advance, Konstantin.
>
> Seems clear to me in the context that the doctor, as he says, is not 
> convinced that Mac is crazy, but instead thinks he's feigning mental 
> illness in order to be kept in the institution.
>
> There does seem to be an element of pulling their leg -- Mac seems to 
> be having some fun with it, entertaining himself by playing mind games 
> with the doctors (jerking them around). But I don't recognize the 
> alternate meaning you suggest.
>
> I hope I've understood your question correctly.
>
Paul, the alternate meaning Konstantin gives is satisfied by the 
expression "to put off".   Maybe that is the source of the confusion.
Jules Levin

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From kottcoos at mail.ru  Tue Jul  5 01:17:50 2011
From: kottcoos at mail.ru (Goloviznin Konstantin)
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 05:17:50 +0400
Subject: put us on
In-Reply-To: <4E1213BB.4040400@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <TUE.5.JUL.2011.051750.0400.KOTTCOOS@MAIL.RU>

On 7/4/2011 10:06 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> Goloviznin Konstantin wrote:
>>
>> . But there's a bit of "hope" on another meaning of "making us
>> nervous with your misbehaviour". What's right?
>>
>> The context is here: <http://depositfiles.com/files/oi5xu1do2>;
>>
>> ... and thanks in advance, Konstantin.
>
> Seems clear to me in the context that the doctor, as he says, is not
> convinced that Mac is crazy, but instead thinks he's feigning mental
> illness in order to be kept in the institution.
>
> There does seem to be an element of pulling their leg -- Mac seems to
> be having some fun with it, entertaining himself by playing mind games
> with the doctors (jerking them around). But I don't recognize the
> alternate meaning you suggest.
>
> I hope I've understood your question correctly.
>

- Paul, the alternate meaning Konstantin gives is satisfied by the
- expression "to put off". Maybe that is the source of the confusion.
- Jules Levin

Telling the truth, I have doubted for the sake of the second meaning at finding in a dictionary "to put the light on". That is "put on" = "turn on" or close to it.

Konstantin. 

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From alex.rudd at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jul  5 19:39:54 2011
From: alex.rudd at GMAIL.COM (Alex Rudd)
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:39:54 -0700
Subject: SEELANGS Administrivia - LISTSERV Upgrade
Message-ID: <TUE.5.JUL.2011.123954.0700.>

Dear SEELANGS Members,

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From alexei_kutuzov at YAHOO.COM  Tue Jul  5 20:57:20 2011
From: alexei_kutuzov at YAHOO.COM (Alexei Kutuzov)
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:57:20 -0700
Subject: Works of Mikhail Gasparov
In-Reply-To: <E1QduGs-00017j-00.kottcoos-mail-ru@f188.mail.ru>
Message-ID: <TUE.5.JUL.2011.135720.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Could anyone point me to a bibliography of the
Colleagues and Friends,

Could anyone point me to a bibliography of the scholarly works of Mikhail 
Leonovich Gasparov (1935-2005)?  That would be a big help!!!

Thank you!

AK


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From e.gapova at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jul  5 20:56:05 2011
From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova)
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 16:56:05 -0400
Subject: translation question
Message-ID: <TUE.5.JUL.2011.165605.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear all,

can you help me with the standard translation for Федеральная служба
исполнения наказаний (ФИСН)?

Elena Gapova

From elena.ostrovskaya at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jul  5 21:03:45 2011
From: elena.ostrovskaya at GMAIL.COM (Elena Ostrovskaya)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 01:03:45 +0400
Subject: translation question
In-Reply-To: <CAOVwo0t66CGVtO8S8PT3DUKDTq0NXWrQZx17=0KJVgpTHZwQew@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUL.2011.010345.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Federal Penitentiary Service
Here is their site in English:
http://www.government.ru/eng/power/100/

Best,
Elena Ostrovskaya
Russian State University for the Humanities


2011/7/6 Elena Gapova <e.gapova at gmail.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> can you help me with the standard translation for Федеральная служба
> исполнения наказаний (ФИСН)?
>
> Elena Gapova
>

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From eurasia at SSRC.ORG  Wed Jul  6 17:35:44 2011
From: eurasia at SSRC.ORG (eurasia)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:35:44 +0000
Subject: CONF. SSRC Eurasia Program - Youth and Social Stability in
 Eurasia (September 30 - October 2, 2011)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUL.2011.173544.0000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Please see the Call for Applications for a SSRC Eurasia Program field building development workshop, "Youth and Social Stability in Eurasia" below and feel free to circulate this widely.



For more information on the workshop please see: http://www.ssrc.org/youth-and-social-stability-in-eurasia/. Inquiries can be directed to eurasia at ssrc.org<mailto:eurasia at ssrc.org>.

-----------------------------------------------

Social Science Research Council

One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Tel: +1.212.377.2700 | Fax: +1.212.377.2727



Field Building Development Workshop - Youth and Social Stability in Eurasia

Workshop Dates: September 30 - October 2

Application Deadline: August 15, 2011



THE EURASIA PROGRAM of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), invites applications for an intensive three-day interdisciplinary dissertation development workshop, to be held September 30-October 2 on the University of Texas campus.



OVERVIEW

Dramatic social, political, and demographic changes have occurred across Eurasia in the past twenty years. How have these changes affected youth? How might the resulting experiences and attitudes among youth influence social stability? What are the critical lines of similarity and difference in youth experiences and attitudes across, and within, the countries of Eurasia?



Studies of political engagement, social innovation, economic transformation, and religious mobilization across the globe have highlighted the unique position, and potential, of youth. To what extent can conceptual frameworks focusing on issues of youth and generation enhance our understanding of Eurasia? How can the varied and complex experiences of Eurasia challenge and expand our understanding of youth in times of political, cultural, and social transformations?



This field development workshop will convene junior scholars interested in issues related to youth and social stability for an intensive workshop led by a group of interdisciplinary senior scholars. The workshop will bring together participants from across the social science disciplines. We welcome work ranging from interpretive categories (e.g., generation, ethnicity, gender, class) to transformative processes (radicalization, stratification, the rise of social media, educational processes, migration). The meeting will provide opportunities to discuss current work, develop ideas for future projects, and solicit feedback from, and network with, fellow scholars interested in youth issues within Eurasia.



ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents and currently enrolled in an accredited PhD program or area studies MA program, with an identified and developed research project related to issues of youth and social stability. Preference will be given to those developing their dissertation. Regions and countries currently supported by the program include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan; all research projects must relate as a whole or in part to one or more of these locales.



Full Instructions on how to apply to participate can be found on the program's website: http://www.ssrc.org/youth-and-social-stability-in-eurasia/.



All inquiries should be directed to the SSRC Eurasia Program at eurasia at ssrc.org<mailto:eurasia at ssrc.org>. All application materials should be submitted electronically to the Eurasia Program by 5:00 p.m. EDT on August 15, 2011. All travel costs, workshop meals, and accommodation for participants will be covered by the SSRC.


The funding for this workshop is provided by the Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Outreach Title VIII Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Independent States of the Former Soviet Union).

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From alex.rudd at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jul  6 17:55:09 2011
From: alex.rudd at GMAIL.COM (Alex Rudd)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 10:55:09 -0700
Subject: SEELANGS Administrivia - How many subscribers are there?
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUL.2011.105509.0700.>

Dear SEELangers,

Earlier today one of you sent me the following inquiry.  Believing the
answer might be of interest to several of you, if not many of you, I
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:06 AM, (name redacted)
<to.protect at the.innocent.com> wrote:
> I just have a simple query that many of us have been wondering about (I've
> asked around and nobody knows, though there is much curiosity):
> Roughly how many people subscribe to SEELANGS at this point? And how many
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It is very easy to determine how many people are subscribed to
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From tmatza at STANFORD.EDU  Wed Jul  6 19:14:10 2011
From: tmatza at STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Antero Matza)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:14:10 -0700
Subject: For Rent: Apartment in the Center of St. Petersburg, Russia
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUL.2011.121410.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGERS, 

Below is information about a place for rent in SPb. I am sending this on
behalf of Alexei Yurchak. Please respond to his email (listed below),
off-list.

Best wishes,
Tomas Matza

=-=- 

APARTMENT IN THE CENTER OF ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA

FOR RENT

very cozy, beautiful and spacious, in the center of St. Petersburg Ideal
as a base for one or a couple of scholars doing research. Located in the
heart of St Petersburg, on Moika Canal (corner with Gorokhovaia street),
near St Isaacs Cathedral.
Gorgeous area. Very quiet.

Available: August 20, 2011 - June 30, 2012.
SHORT TERM and LONG TERM CONSIDERED

Rooms: large living room, bedroom, front room, kitchen, bathroom, toilet.
High ceilings, parquet floors. Fully furnished and equipped, beautifully
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new plumbing, shower, toilet, washing machine,.

Large library. TV, VCR, stereos, phone.

High speed wireless internet.

This is my own apartment: I am a professor at UC Berkeley and live in the
St Petersburg apartment during the summers.

Please, respond offlist to: yurchak at berkeley.edu if you are interested or
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Alexei

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From sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU  Wed Jul  6 21:50:35 2011
From: sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU (Sibelan Forrester)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:50:35 -0400
Subject: Gumilyov Translation Contest - deadline approaching
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUL.2011.175035.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear members of SEELANGS, especially all you poetry translators,

2011 marks 125 years since the birth of Nikolai Gumilyov, and 90 years 
since his execution. The journal CARDINAL POINTS is celebrating his 
legacy with a contest:

<http://www.stosvet.net/compass/index.html?

The deadline for submitting a translation of Gumilyov is July 15.

With best regards,

Sibelan


Sibelan Forrester
Russian/Modern Languages and Literatures
Swarthmore College

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From pbf at ABER.AC.UK  Fri Jul  8 07:53:56 2011
From: pbf at ABER.AC.UK (Patrick Finney [pbf])
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 02:53:56 -0500
Subject: Vasily Grossman events September 2011
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUL.2011.025356.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

A two day event on the life and work of Vasily Grossman is being held at St Peter's College Oxford on 9-10 September 2011. The event will launch the broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the following week of a major new dramatisation of Grossman's 'Life and Fate', starring Kenneth Branagh.

On Friday 9 September there will be a day of talks organised by the BBC focusing on the dramatisation and on the historical and literary significance of 'Life and Fate'. This will include a recording of a Grossman-themed edition of 'Start the Week' with Andrew Marr. These events are free, but tickets are required for admission. Further information is available here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/2011/06/radio_4_presents_life_and_fate.html.

On Saturday 10 September there will be an academic symposium dealing with Grossman's life and work more broadly. Speakers include Robert Chandler, Alex Danchev and Wendy Lower, and panel themes will include: the author and his audiences; Grossman and trauma; and the Holocaust and anti-semitism. A small registration fee is payable to cover lunch and refreshments. Further information and registration forms (to be returned by 1 September) can be found here:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/research/conferences/conferences2010-2011/vasilygrossman/.

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From jcostlow at BATES.EDU  Fri Jul  8 11:27:26 2011
From: jcostlow at BATES.EDU (Jane Costlow)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 07:27:26 -0400
Subject: Vasily Grossman events September 2011
In-Reply-To: <7660013145306980.WA.pbfaber.ac.uk@alabamamaps.ua.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUL.2011.072726.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

  Do any of you know whether American listeners will be able to get the 
BBC broadcasts on line?

On 7/8/11 3:53 AM, Patrick Finney [pbf] wrote:
> A two day event on the life and work of Vasily Grossman is being held at St Peter's College Oxford on 9-10 September 2011. The event will launch the broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the following week of a major new dramatisation of Grossman's 'Life and Fate', starring Kenneth Branagh.
>
> On Friday 9 September there will be a day of talks organised by the BBC focusing on the dramatisation and on the historical and literary significance of 'Life and Fate'. This will include a recording of a Grossman-themed edition of 'Start the Week' with Andrew Marr. These events are free, but tickets are required for admission. Further information is available here:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/2011/06/radio_4_presents_life_and_fate.html.
>
> On Saturday 10 September there will be an academic symposium dealing with Grossman's life and work more broadly. Speakers include Robert Chandler, Alex Danchev and Wendy Lower, and panel themes will include: the author and his audiences; Grossman and trauma; and the Holocaust and anti-semitism. A small registration fee is payable to cover lunch and refreshments. Further information and registration forms (to be returned by 1 September) can be found here:
> http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/research/conferences/conferences2010-2011/vasilygrossman/.
>
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From John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK  Fri Jul  8 12:44:13 2011
From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK (John Dunn)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 13:44:13 +0100
Subject: Vasily Grossman events September 2011
In-Reply-To: <4E16E99E.20101@bates.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUL.2011.134413.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

That ought not to be a problem.  Unless there is a rights issue (and I don't see why there should be here), BBC radio programmes are available on-line live and for up to a week after they are broadcast.  Nearer the time you should be able to get more information at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/

John Dunn.

________________________________________
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Costlow [jcostlow at BATES.EDU]
Sent: 08 July 2011 13:27
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Vasily Grossman events September 2011

  Do any of you know whether American listeners will be able to get the
BBC broadcasts on line?

On 7/8/11 3:53 AM, Patrick Finney [pbf] wrote:
> A two day event on the life and work of Vasily Grossman is being held at St Peter's College Oxford on 9-10 September 2011. The event will launch the broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the following week of a major new dramatisation of Grossman's 'Life and Fate', starring Kenneth Branagh.
>
> On Friday 9 September there will be a day of talks organised by the BBC focusing on the dramatisation and on the historical and literary significance of 'Life and Fate'. This will include a recording of a Grossman-themed edition of 'Start the Week' with Andrew Marr. These events are free, but tickets are required for admission. Further information is available here:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/2011/06/radio_4_presents_life_and_fate.html.
>
> On Saturday 10 September there will be an academic symposium dealing with Grossman's life and work more broadly. Speakers include Robert Chandler, Alex Danchev and Wendy Lower, and panel themes will include: the author and his audiences; Grossman and trauma; and the Holocaust and anti-semitism. A small registration fee is payable to cover lunch and refreshments. Further information and registration forms (to be returned by 1 September) can be found here:
> http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/research/conferences/conferences2010-2011/vasilygrossman/.
>
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From pyz at BRAMA.COM  Fri Jul  8 14:22:02 2011
From: pyz at BRAMA.COM (Max Pyziur)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:22:02 -0400
Subject: Language referral on the WWW
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUL.2011.102202.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Languages of the World (Wide Web)
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2011/07/languages-of-world-wide-web.html

Note the image:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-icTwf3P6f58/ThZM092RU2I/AAAAAAAAAdw/5nrMSXNz-5o/s1600/PR_mapped.gif

Slavic languages are towards the right in the image.


fyi,

MP
pyz at brama.com

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From exten86 at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jul  8 16:38:10 2011
From: exten86 at GMAIL.COM (Molly Exten)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:38:10 -0500
Subject: short-term apartment st. petersburg
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUL.2011.113810.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Hi!  Does anyone know how to go about finding a place to stay in St. Petersburg for about 4 months this fall?  I'm not looking for anything special, and I don't mind if it's not in the center.

Would love to hear if you know of anything.  Thanks!

Molly Exten

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From gheith at DUKE.EDU  Fri Jul  8 17:07:59 2011
From: gheith at DUKE.EDU (Jehanne Gheith, Ph.D.)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 13:07:59 -0400
Subject: short-term apartment st. petersburg
In-Reply-To: <4392518499599824.WA.exten86gmail.com@bama.ua.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUL.2011.130759.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

I have a friend who rents out rooms in her apartment. She is out of town until later in July but is trustworthy and reasonable so if you are interested, I'd be happy to give you her information. Before posting her info on SEELANGS I want to check with her but I know it would be fine if you wrote me off list and I could give it to you that way. Best, Jehanne


gheith at duke.edu

On Jul 8, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Molly Exten wrote:

> Hi!  Does anyone know how to go about finding a place to stay in St. Petersburg for about 4 months this fall?  I'm not looking for anything special, and I don't mind if it's not in the center.
> 
> Would love to hear if you know of anything.  Thanks!
> 
> Molly Exten
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From elizabeth.coyne at BERKELEY.EDU  Fri Jul  8 18:19:32 2011
From: elizabeth.coyne at BERKELEY.EDU (Libby Coyne)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:19:32 -0700
Subject: Apt for Rent in St. Petersburg
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUL.2011.111932.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

APARTMENT IN THE CENTER OF ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA FOR RENT

very cozy, beautiful and spacious, in the center of St. Petersburg
Ideal as a base for one or a couple of scholars doing research. Located 
in the heart of St Petersburg, on Moika Canal (corner with Gorokhovaia 
street), near St Isaacs Cathedral.
Gorgeous area. Very quiet.

Available: August 10, 2011 ­ June 30, 2012.
SHORT TERM and LONG TERM CONSIDERED

Rooms: large living room, bedroom, front room, kitchen, bathroom, toilet.
High ceilings, parquet floors. Fully furnished and equipped, beautifully 
renovated to Western standards, fully fitted kitchen, dishwasher, brand 
new plumbing, shower, toilet, washing machine.

Large library. TV, VCR, stereos, phone.

High speed wireless internet.

This is my own apartment: I am a professor at UC Berkeley and live in 
the St Petersburg apartment during the summers.

Please, respond offlist to: yurchak at berkeley.edu if you are interested 
or have questions

Alexei


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From birgitbeumers at YAHOO.CO.UK  Fri Jul  8 20:57:07 2011
From: birgitbeumers at YAHOO.CO.UK (Birgit Beumers)
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:57:07 -0500
Subject: KinoKultura 33
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUL.2011.155707.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

KinoKultura announces the launch of the July issue 2011 at http://www.kinokultura.com/2011/issue33.shtml with the following features:
Articles
Rimgaila Salys: Infernal Energy. Revisioning the Stalin era

Film Reviews
Pavel Bardin: Gop-Stop by Eugenie Zvonkine
Timur Bekmambetov: Six Degrees of Celebration by Beach Gray
Anna Chernakova: Death in Pince-Nez by Chiara Natalucci
Roman Karimov: Inadequate People by Irina Anisimova
Mariia Makhan’ko: Egor’s Grief by Sasha Razor
Anna Matison: Satisfaction by Arlene Forman
Aleksandr Mindadze: Innocent Saturday by Barbara Wurm
Slava Ross: Siberia, MonAmour by Christina Stojanova
Klim Shipenko: Who am I? by Olga Mesropova
Ol’ga Subbotina: Pro Liuboff by Irina Makoveeva

Animation:
Sergei Glezin: The Three Bogatyrs and the Princess of Shamakhansk by Lora Mjolsness

Central Asia and Caucasus Region:
Anuar Raibaev: Lave (KAZ-RUS 2009) by Ian Garner
Yolkin Tuychiev: P.S. (UZB) by Irene Ulman

Enjoy the summer edition, and look out for the October issue with reviews of many more films!
Birgit Beumers, editor

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From condee at PITT.EDU  Sun Jul 10 13:36:57 2011
From: condee at PITT.EDU (Nancy Condee)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:36:57 -0400
Subject: AATSEEL announcement: Executive Director and new AATSEEL home
Message-ID: <SUN.10.JUL.2011.093657.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

As of 1 July 2011, AATSEEL has a new Executive Director.  Dr. Elizabeth
Durst (University of Southern California) will replace Dr. Patricia Zody,
who has just completed her second AATSEEL term and is now settled at a new
job with American Councils. 

 

Elizabeth is currently a lecturer in the Writing Program at the University
of Southern California, where she earned a doctoral degree in Russian
literature. Her research includes women's fashion in Russia in the early
twentieth-century and the role of dress in conveying western notions of the
new woman in a modern urban context.  We welcome Elizabeth and look forward
to working with her in the months ahead leading up to the upcoming AATSEEL
meeting in Seattle (5-8 January 2012).  Elizabeth may now be reached for
AATSEEL matters at aatseel at usc.edu.

 

Among the changes associated with this new hiring has been a six-month
follow-up to Pat's excellent suggestion of an institutional home for
AATSEEL.  Together with Pat, the presidents-Sibelan Forrester (former
president), Caryl Emerson (outgoing president), Tom Seifrid (president
elect), and I-have explored several university and non-university options,
in hopes of finding a good institution where AATSEEL might be located under
terms grounded in a memorandum of agreement for a proposed five-year period.
In the early summer, in close consultation with legal teams on both sides,
we were able to reach an excellent agreement with the University of Southern
California, where Elizabeth is located, and have signed a memorandum of
agreement for the next five years.  This new institutional home will provide
office space, technical support, and a potential pool of extra hands when
needed, and will move the organization toward a new level of logistical
security and professional visibility.

 

We wish Pat good luck, thank her warmly for her years of efficient,
dedicated service to the organization, and know that we will see her often
at the AATSEEL conferences.  Please join us in welcoming Elizabeth to the
job. 

 

Best, Nancy Condee (President, AATSEEL)

 

Prof. N. Condee, Director

Global Studies Center (NRC Title VI)

University Center for International Studies

University of Pittsburgh

4103 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

+1 412-363-7180

 <mailto:condee at pitt.edu> condee at pitt.edu

 <http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global> www.ucis.pitt.edu/global 

 

 


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From Kris.VanHeuckelom at ARTS.KULEUVEN.BE  Sun Jul 10 13:49:35 2011
From: Kris.VanHeuckelom at ARTS.KULEUVEN.BE (Kris Van Heuckelom)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:49:35 +0200
Subject: CfP Conference on 1612
Message-ID: <SUN.10.JUL.2011.154935.0200.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

CONFERENCE ON RUSSIA'S 1612: HISTORY AND MEMORY

Date: April 20th, 2012

Place: Leuven, Belgium

Call for Papers

The year 2012 coincides with the 400th anniversary of the expel of the Polish tsar Wladyslaw from Moscow and the end of the Times of the Troubles, the Romanov dynasty being established the subsequent year. In the last decades, 1612 has reappeared on the scene of collective memory. In 2005 Putin introduced a new national holiday on 4 November to commemorate the Russian unity and the end of foreign intervention in Russia.In 2007 the historical film "1612", directed by Vladimir Khotinko and produced by Nikita Mikhalkov, was released. The movie triggered a great deal of reactions -not only in Russia,but also in Ukraine and Poland. This conference aims at inquiring into the events and the memory of 1612. We welcome papers discussing both the impact and the consequences of the end of the Times of Troubles, as well as shedding a light on its memorization in different eras and countries. We are especially looking forward to receiving contributions dealing with the commemoration of 1!
 612 in Tsarist Russia (e.g. the Minin & Pozharsky statue around 1812 and the celebration of 300 years of Romanov rule in 1913), in the Soviet Union, in the post 1991 independent countries involved, in Sweden, Poland, etc. Commemoration includes popular culture, literature, painting, movies, etc. The conference is due to take place in Leuven (Belgium) on April 20th, 2012 and is organized by the Centre for Russian Studies, Slavic Studies and Modern History Departments at the K.U.Leuven. People interested in contributing to the conference are invited to submit a proposal of ca. 500 words to Dr. Pieter Boulogne (pieter.boulogne at arts.kuleuven.be) by October 15, 2011. We seriously consider the publication of the proceedings. Further questions can be addressed to Pieter Boulogne | Centre for Russian Studies, Faculty of Arts, K.U.Leuven | Blijde-Inkomststraat 13, 3000 Leuven, Belgium | pieter.boulogne at arts.kuleuven.be | tel. +3216325497 | http://centrumvoorrussischestudies.be .

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From howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK  Sun Jul 10 15:43:58 2011
From: howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK (Howard Turner)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:43:58 +0100
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
Message-ID: <SUN.10.JUL.2011.164358.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear All,

Many thanks for your advice on this.  There seemed to be no consensus--there 
weren't any books mentioned more than once.  The subject of Dmitri Bykov caused 
some disagreement, not for the first time.  Of course, he and (I presume) his 
rights were at the London Book Fair earlier this year, so hardly an unknown 
quantity.  But I've passed your responses on to the publisher anyway.

My own candidate would be Psalom(1975) by Fridrikh Gorenshtein, which in my 
opinion is a wonderful book--among other things a reply to Dostoevsky (and 
Bulgakov) from a Jewish standpoint  and a cosmic drama projected onto the 
author's own experiences as a hungry and  abandoned child.  I've shared some 
further thoughts about it with the Internet at  http://wp.me/pBfTB-GI .  


I also have a couple of questions about the book that SEELANGS may know the 
answer to:

--is there any obvious reason it was never translated into English?  (There are 
French and German translations.)
--I have the  feeling I read something about a translation into Hebrew, but 
can't find any trace of one.  Does anyone know if there is one?

Thanks again for your help

 Howard Turner






________________________________
From: Howard Turner <howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Sent: Sat, 2 July, 2011 13:18:39
Subject: [SEELANGS] Untranslated Russian novels that should be

A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised 
Dear SEELANGS,

A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised by some publishers here 
in London who were looking for books (novels, perhaps fiction in general) for 
translation from Russian, among a number of other languages. 


I wonder if SEELANGERs have some ideas to put forward?  It's not a question for 
prolonged research, but something at the level of 'I wish *that* was translated 
so I could give it to my family and friends'; 'I've never understood why *that* 
hasn't been translated'  [etc]

If any consensus emerges I'll pass it on.  Meanwhile I have my own candidate, 
and I may well be seeking the expert advice of SEELANGers about it in the near 
future.

Thanks for your attention,

Howard Turner

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From grinberm at REED.EDU  Sun Jul 10 16:03:38 2011
From: grinberm at REED.EDU (Marat Grinberg)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:03:38 -0700
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
In-Reply-To: <1310312638.23533.YahooMailRC@web26606.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <SUN.10.JUL.2011.090338.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

On 7/10/11 8:43 AM, Howard Turner wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Many thanks for your advice on this.  There seemed to be no consensus--there
> weren't any books mentioned more than once.  The subject of Dmitri Bykov caused
> some disagreement, not for the first time.  Of course, he and (I presume) his
> rights were at the London Book Fair earlier this year, so hardly an unknown
> quantity.  But I've passed your responses on to the publisher anyway.
>
> My own candidate would be Psalom(1975) by Fridrikh Gorenshtein, which in my
> opinion is a wonderful book--among other things a reply to Dostoevsky (and
> Bulgakov) from a Jewish standpoint  and a cosmic drama projected onto the
> author's own experiences as a hungry and  abandoned child.  I've shared some
> further thoughts about it with the Internet at  http://wp.me/pBfTB-GI .
>
>
> I also have a couple of questions about the book that SEELANGS may know the
> answer to:
>
> --is there any obvious reason it was never translated into English?  (There are
> French and German translations.)
> --I have the  feeling I read something about a translation into Hebrew, but
> can't find any trace of one.  Does anyone know if there is one?
>
> Thanks again for your help
>
>   Howard Turner
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Howard Turner<howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK>
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Sent: Sat, 2 July, 2011 13:18:39
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Untranslated Russian novels that should be
>
> A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised
> Dear SEELANGS,
>
> A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised by some publishers here
> in London who were looking for books (novels, perhaps fiction in general) for
> translation from Russian, among a number of other languages.
>
>
> I wonder if SEELANGERs have some ideas to put forward?  It's not a question for
> prolonged research, but something at the level of 'I wish *that* was translated
> so I could give it to my family and friends'; 'I've never understood why *that*
> hasn't been translated'  [etc]
>
> If any consensus emerges I'll pass it on.  Meanwhile I have my own candidate,
> and I may well be seeking the expert advice of SEELANGers about it in the near
> future.
>
> Thanks for your attention,
>
> Howard Turner
>
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Dear Howard,

there is no translation into Hebrew.  Not only Psalom, but certainly all 
of Gorenshtein needs to be translated into English.

Marat Grinberg

-- 
Marat Grinberg
Assistant Professor of Russian and Humanities
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202

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From perova09 at GMAIL.COM  Sun Jul 10 17:20:08 2011
From: perova09 at GMAIL.COM (Perova Natasha)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:20:08 +0400
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
Message-ID: <SUN.10.JUL.2011.212008.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Glas published one story by Gorenstein in English translation:
GORENSTEIN, Friedrich, Bag in Hand, tr. Andrew Bromfield, Glas 38 
("Captives"), p.233
The book is out of print but can be found in good libraries.

When Gorenstein was alive I tried to find him a US publisher but the answer 
was that his novels are too long and complicated and unless there is a 
generous grant the project is unrealizable. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky might 
have got the same response today if they tried to get published for the 
first time.

Natasha Perova
Glas New Russian Writing
tel/fax: (7)495-4419157
perova at glas.msk.su
www.glas.msk.su

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marat Grinberg" <grinberm at REED.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Untranslated Russian novels that should be


> On 7/10/11 8:43 AM, Howard Turner wrote:
>> Dear All,
My own candidate would be Psalom(1975) by Fridrikh Gorenshtein, which in my
>> opinion is a wonderful book--among other things a reply to Dostoevsky 
>> (and
>> Bulgakov) from a Jewish standpoint  and a cosmic drama projected onto the
>> author's own experiences as a hungry and  abandoned child.  I've shared 
>> some
>> further thoughts about it with the Internet at  http://wp.me/pBfTB-GI .
>>
>>
>> I also have a couple of questions about the book that SEELANGS may know 
>> the
>> answer to:
>>
>> --is there any obvious reason it was never translated into English? 
>> (There are
>> French and German translations.)
>> --I have the  feeling I read something about a translation into Hebrew, 
>> but
>> can't find any trace of one.  Does anyone know if there is one?
>>
>> Thanks again for your help
>>
>>   Howard Turner

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From sdsures at GMAIL.COM  Sun Jul 10 17:35:25 2011
From: sdsures at GMAIL.COM (Stephanie Briggs)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:35:25 +0100
Subject: "Assassin of the Tsar" (1991) Malcolm McDowell w/ English
 subtitles
Message-ID: <SUN.10.JUL.2011.183525.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

Does anyone know whether this movie is available on DVD with English
subtitles inside the UK?

I found it in segments on Youtube, but without any subtitles, and parts of
it are narrated in Russian only. There is a copy available on
Ebay.co.ukwith an English soundtrack and Polish subtitles, but what I
was really
hoping to find was one with English subtitles, as hearing the parts that are
in Russian dubbed in English wouldn't be very constructive for my Russian
education.

This listing on ebay.com looks promising, if they really will ship to the UK
for free. Thoughts?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Assassin-Tsar-NEW-PAL-Arthouse-DVD-M-McDowell-/190467413286?pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item2c58be1526#shId


Also, I'm a little confused - does McDowell speak Russian in it? He appears
to be the only non-Russian actor involved.

Thanks!

Stephanie Briggs

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From robinso at STOLAF.EDU  Sun Jul 10 19:23:22 2011
From: robinso at STOLAF.EDU (Marc Robinson)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:23:22 -0500
Subject: "Assassin of the Tsar" (1991) Malcolm McDowell w/ English
 subtitles
In-Reply-To: <CAL-T6KpihPCxnhyQb+JLi7=mEB2F2958eoTvvcf8TGKD7JWkFA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SUN.10.JUL.2011.142322.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

For Assasin of the Tsar and other Mosfilm movies - they are now available
from Mosfilm on-line for free and with subtitles.  Check out
cinema.mosfilm.ru

Best,

Marc Robinson
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057


On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Stephanie Briggs <sdsures at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear SEELANGers,
>
> Does anyone know whether this movie is available on DVD with English
> subtitles inside the UK?
>
> I found it in segments on Youtube, but without any subtitles, and parts of
> it are narrated in Russian only. There is a copy available on
> Ebay.co.ukwith an English soundtrack and Polish subtitles, but what I
> was really
> hoping to find was one with English subtitles, as hearing the parts that
> are
> in Russian dubbed in English wouldn't be very constructive for my Russian
> education.
>
> This listing on ebay.com looks promising, if they really will ship to the
> UK
> for free. Thoughts?
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Assassin-Tsar-NEW-PAL-Arthouse-DVD-M-McDowell-/190467413286?pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item2c58be1526#shId
>
>
> Also, I'm a little confused - does McDowell speak Russian in it? He appears
> to be the only non-Russian actor involved.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephanie Briggs
>
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From clucey at WISC.EDU  Sun Jul 10 19:43:45 2011
From: clucey at WISC.EDU (Colleen Lucey)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:43:45 -0400
Subject: Call for papers for the 2011 AATSEEL-WI Conference
Message-ID: <SUN.10.JUL.2011.154345.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference 
21-22 October 2011 
University of Wisconsin-Madison 
 
Call for papers for the 2011 AATSEEL-WI Conference 
Abstracts for 20 minute papers on any aspect of Slavic literatures and cultures (including film, music, the visual arts, and language pedagogy) are invited for the annual conference of the Wisconsin chapter of AATSEEL (The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages).  Comparative topics and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome.  The conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday and Saturday, 21-22 October 2011.  
 
Recent conference programs are posted on the AATSEEL-WI website at http://slavic.lss.wisc.edu/new_web/?q=node/7 
To present a paper at the AATSEEL-WI conference, please submit a proposal by 31 August 2011.  A complete proposal consists of: 
1.  Author's contact information (name, affiliation, postal address, telephone and email). 
2.  Paper title 
3.  300-500 word abstract 
4.  Equipment request (if necessary)  
 
Please send proposals by email to: 
Colleen Lucey
clucey at wisc.edu
 
PLEASE INCLUDE “AATSEEL-WI” IN THE SUBJECT LINE. 
 
All submissions will be acknowledged.
 
Best wishes,
Colleen Lucey
University of Wisconsin-Madison 

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From seacoastrussian at yahoo.com  Sun Jul 10 20:42:48 2011
From: seacoastrussian at yahoo.com (Katya Burvikova)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:42:48 -0700
Subject: looking for a Russian tutor in Santa Cruz California area
Message-ID: <SUN.10.JUL.2011.134248.0700.SEACOASTRUSSIAN@YAHOO.COM>

Dear Seelangers,

A student of mine is looking for a Russian tutor for about 3 weeks starting on July, the 19th. His level is elementary. The level of the teacher is not important, he just wants lessons. Please reply directly to my email: seacoastrussian at yahoo.com

Thank you!

Katya Burvikova

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From crosenth at USM.MAINE.EDU  Sat Jul  9 15:30:45 2011
From: crosenth at USM.MAINE.EDU (Charlotte Rosenthal)
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 11:30:45 -0400
Subject: literature for course in "civilization and culture" in the fall
Message-ID: <SAT.9.JUL.2011.113045.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Seelangtsy!


Can anyone suggest a book readily available in English translation of a recent literary work (or works) that is "recognizable" as taking place in today's Russia?  I'm open to any genre, including a collection, in any one of the "brows"--high, low, or middle. We will be reading an anthology of "classical" works, so I'm less concerned about the nature of this last reading.  All the works I'm familiar with myself are either not available in translation or too postmodernist to be "readable" by my students.


I'd appreciate any suggestions.  Thanks so much.


Charlotte Rosenthal


Charlotte Rosenthal, Ph. D.
Professor of Russian
Dept. of Modern & Classical Langs. and Lits. University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME 04104-9300 U.S.A.

crosenth at usm.maine.edu
http://blogs.usm.maine.edu/crosenth/

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From marianschwartz at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jul 11 12:23:52 2011
From: marianschwartz at GMAIL.COM (Marian Schwartz)
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:23:52 -0500
Subject: Untranslated Russian novels that should be
In-Reply-To: <1310312638.23533.YahooMailRC@web26606.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <MON.11.JUL.2011.072352.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear All,

In 1991, Houghton Mifflin published Bernard Meares's translation of
TRAVELING COMPANIONS.  At the time I heard that the book did so poorly,
Gorenstein became unpublishable here.

This is a situation I come across fairly frequently.  If a foreign author's
first book doesn't do well, other publishers are reluctant to touch anything
else.  In this case, I think part of the problem was the choice of book,
which, unlike other works by Gorenstein I've read, is largely talking heads.
 Pity the poor translator expected to make something marketable of that.

I have no idea who made the decision to publish that particular book, but I
suspect this was simply the one that was brought to the publisher's
attention.

Marian Schwartz

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Howard Turner <howard_s_turner at yahoo.co.uk
> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Many thanks for your advice on this.  There seemed to be no
> consensus--there
> weren't any books mentioned more than once.  The subject of Dmitri Bykov
> caused
> some disagreement, not for the first time.  Of course, he and (I presume)
> his
> rights were at the London Book Fair earlier this year, so hardly an unknown
> quantity.  But I've passed your responses on to the publisher anyway.
>
> My own candidate would be Psalom(1975) by Fridrikh Gorenshtein, which in my
> opinion is a wonderful book--among other things a reply to Dostoevsky (and
> Bulgakov) from a Jewish standpoint  and a cosmic drama projected onto the
> author's own experiences as a hungry and  abandoned child.  I've shared
> some
> further thoughts about it with the Internet at  http://wp.me/pBfTB-GI .
>
>
> I also have a couple of questions about the book that SEELANGS may know the
> answer to:
>
> --is there any obvious reason it was never translated into English?  (There
> are
> French and German translations.)
> --I have the  feeling I read something about a translation into Hebrew, but
> can't find any trace of one.  Does anyone know if there is one?
>
> Thanks again for your help
>
>  Howard Turner
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Howard Turner <howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK>
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Sent: Sat, 2 July, 2011 13:18:39
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Untranslated Russian novels that should be
>
> A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised
> Dear SEELANGS,
>
> A couple of months ago I was at a discussion organised by some publishers
> here
> in London who were looking for books (novels, perhaps fiction in general)
> for
> translation from Russian, among a number of other languages.
>
>
> I wonder if SEELANGERs have some ideas to put forward?  It's not a question
> for
> prolonged research, but something at the level of 'I wish *that* was
> translated
> so I could give it to my family and friends'; 'I've never understood why
> *that*
> hasn't been translated'  [etc]
>
> If any consensus emerges I'll pass it on.  Meanwhile I have my own
> candidate,
> and I may well be seeking the expert advice of SEELANGers about it in the
> near
> future.
>
> Thanks for your attention,
>
> Howard Turner
>
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From JHawley at SCU.EDU  Mon Jul 11 20:43:33 2011
From: JHawley at SCU.EDU (John Hawley)
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:43:33 -0700
Subject: literature for course in "civilization and culture" in the
 fall
In-Reply-To: <4E183BE5020000EB0005C9E8@uct5.uct.usm.maine.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.11.JUL.2011.134333.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

You might consider Rossica 19, which excerpts from recent Russian fiction; subtitled "Red Pyramid: Russian Literature from the 21st Century."  --John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University

>>> Charlotte Rosenthal <crosenth at USM.MAINE.EDU> 7/9/2011 8:30 AM >>>
Dear Seelangtsy!


Can anyone suggest a book readily available in English translation of a recent literary work (or works) that is "recognizable" as taking place in today's Russia?  I'm open to any genre, including a collection, in any one of the "brows"--high, low, or middle. We will be reading an anthology of "classical" works, so I'm less concerned about the nature of this last reading.  All the works I'm familiar with myself are either not available in translation or too postmodernist to be "readable" by my students.


I'd appreciate any suggestions.  Thanks so much.


Charlotte Rosenthal


Charlotte Rosenthal, Ph. D.
Professor of Russian
Dept. of Modern & Classical Langs. and Lits. University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME 04104-9300 U.S.A.

crosenth at usm.maine.edu 
http://blogs.usm.maine.edu/crosenth/ 

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From marianschwartz at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jul 11 21:05:21 2011
From: marianschwartz at GMAIL.COM (Marian Schwartz)
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:05:21 -0500
Subject: literature for course in "civilization and culture" in the
 fall
In-Reply-To: <4E1AFE05.CEB3.0003.1@scu.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.11.JUL.2011.160521.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Moscow Noir?

Marian Schwartz

(disclaimer: I translated many pieces in the volume, but it's certainly
contemporary, if gruesome at times)

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:43 PM, John Hawley <JHawley at scu.edu> wrote:

> You might consider Rossica 19, which excerpts from recent Russian fiction;
> subtitled "Red Pyramid: Russian Literature from the 21st Century."  --John
> C. Hawley, Santa Clara University
>
> >>> Charlotte Rosenthal <crosenth at USM.MAINE.EDU> 7/9/2011 8:30 AM >>>
> Dear Seelangtsy!
>
>
> Can anyone suggest a book readily available in English translation of a
> recent literary work (or works) that is "recognizable" as taking place in
> today's Russia?  I'm open to any genre, including a collection, in any one
> of the "brows"--high, low, or middle. We will be reading an anthology of
> "classical" works, so I'm less concerned about the nature of this last
> reading.  All the works I'm familiar with myself are either not available in
> translation or too postmodernist to be "readable" by my students.
>
>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions.  Thanks so much.
>
>
> Charlotte Rosenthal
>
>
> Charlotte Rosenthal, Ph. D.
> Professor of Russian
> Dept. of Modern & Classical Langs. and Lits. University of Southern Maine
> Portland, ME 04104-9300 U.S.A.
>
> crosenth at usm.maine.edu
> http://blogs.usm.maine.edu/crosenth/
>
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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Mon Jul 11 21:11:10 2011
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:11:10 -0400
Subject: literature for course in "civilization and culture" in the
 fall
In-Reply-To: <4E183BE5020000EB0005C9E8@uct5.uct.usm.maine.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.11.JUL.2011.171110.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

It all depends on the definition of "today's Russia". And how  
recognizable and by whom should it be?

http://www.amazon.com/50-Writers-Anthology-Cultural-Syllabus/dp/1936235226

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_38?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=rasskazy+new+fiction+from+a+new+russia&sprefix=rasskazy+new+fiction+from+a+new+russia

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_4_28?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=contemporary+russian+fiction&sprefix=contemporary+russian+fiction


Jul 9, 2011, в 11:30 AM, Charlotte Rosenthal написал(а):

> Dear Seelangtsy!
>
>
> Can anyone suggest a book readily available in English translation  
> of a recent literary work (or works) that is "recognizable" as  
> taking place in today's Russia?  I'm open to any genre, including a  
> collection, in any one of the "brows"--high, low, or middle. We will  
> be reading an anthology of "classical" works, so I'm less concerned  
> about the nature of this last reading.  All the works I'm familiar  
> with myself are either not available in translation or too  
> postmodernist to be "readable" by my students.
>
>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions.  Thanks so much.
>
>
> Charlotte Rosenthal
>
>
> Charlotte Rosenthal, Ph. D.
> Professor of Russian
> Dept. of Modern & Classical Langs. and Lits. University of Southern  
> Maine
> Portland, ME 04104-9300 U.S.A.
>
> crosenth at usm.maine.edu
> http://blogs.usm.maine.edu/crosenth/
>
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Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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From rifkin at TCNJ.EDU  Tue Jul 12 16:09:32 2011
From: rifkin at TCNJ.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:09:32 -0400
Subject: google image
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUL.2011.120932.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers:

Today is the 450th anniversary of the building of St. Basil's, so --

take a look at google.com or google.ru

Best wishes,

Ben Rifkin
The College of New Jersey

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From mlg at KU.EDU  Tue Jul 12 18:16:34 2011
From: mlg at KU.EDU (Greenberg, Marc L)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:16:34 +0000
Subject: 7th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society
 25=?Windows-1252?Q?=9627_?=August 2012, Uni. of Kansas
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUL.2011.181634.0000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

For those who wish to mark their calendars a year+ ahead of time, the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society will be held 25–27 August 2012 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS
The conference website is here: http://www2.ku.edu/~slavic/conference/
More information will be added to the website in due course.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
Marc L. Greenberg 
Chair & Professor 
Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures 
University of Kansas 
1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Rm. 2133 
Lawrence, KS 66045-7594, USA 
Tel. 1: (785) 864-3313 (Slavic Dept. office) 
Tel. 2: (785) 864-2349 (voice mail) 

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From asured at VERIZON.NET  Tue Jul 12 20:23:02 2011
From: asured at VERIZON.NET (Steve Marder)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:23:02 -0400
Subject: E-reading world literature in Russian
In-Reply-To: <A74B9442-6B02-46DB-AFD6-FDE34BDA0F1A@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUL.2011.162302.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

The following link may be of some interest to followers of SEELANGS:

http://www.e-reading.org.ua/author.php?letter=%C0

If you move your cursor over the titles, additional options appear: "Read"
and "Download."

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From James at RUSSIA-ON-LINE.COM  Tue Jul 12 20:59:45 2011
From: James at RUSSIA-ON-LINE.COM (James Beale)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:59:45 -0400
Subject: E-reading world literature in Russian
In-Reply-To: A<CA4221EC.8A97%asured@verizon.net>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUL.2011.165945.0400.>

Raising what I am sure will be a contentious issue (and certainly not aimed
personally at Steve), but I would think that a list, whose members include
authors and those who desire to be published, would not be interested in
promoting yet another site that violates copyrights and an author's right to
earn money.  Yes, we all know piracy is rampant on the internet and in the
FSU, but is that any reason to help facilitate it?  

I think it's rich that this site also asks you to donate to the cause....

James Beale
Russia Online, Inc.
 
Tel: 301-933-0607    Fax: 301-933-0615
Shop online:  http://shop.russia-on-line.com
 
Learn Russian:  http://www.ilearnrussian.com
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Marder
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 4:23 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] E-reading world literature in Russian

The following link may be of some interest to followers of SEELANGS:

http://www.e-reading.org.ua/author.php?letter=%C0

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From howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK  Wed Jul 13 12:30:29 2011
From: howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK (Howard Turner)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:30:29 +0100
Subject: Survey about untranslated Russian novels
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.133029.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGS,

Thanks very much for your help with this.  Since there seemed to be some 
interest, I've created a survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3KLXL3B .  Do 
have a go!  If there are sufficient responses to be interesting, I'll report 
back to the list.  


Best wishes,

 Howard Turner

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From jcostlow at BATES.EDU  Wed Jul 13 15:49:15 2011
From: jcostlow at BATES.EDU (Jane Costlow)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:49:15 -0400
Subject: changes in visa process
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.114915.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

  Dear colleagues,

     I'm in the process of attempting to get a visa for travel to Russia 
later this month.  I had submitted everything and then got it returned 
because beginning July 1 all applications must be done on line.  
Currently the Embassy form is unavailable - the website is down - and 
the visa service they refer you to is not answering their phone.  Any 
suggestions?  Is anyone else in the middle of this?


Jane Costlow

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From rm56 at COLUMBIA.EDU  Wed Jul 13 16:06:11 2011
From: rm56 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Ronald J. Meyer)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:06:11 -0400
Subject: changes in visa process
In-Reply-To: <4E1DBE7B.5080600@bates.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.120611.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

I travelled to Russia in May and used a visa service: www.travisa.com. I
filled out the application on line, sent them my passport, and received my
passport with visa in 10 days or so. They also provide expedited service.

Ronald Meyer
Publications Editor
Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Adjunct Assistant Professor, M. A. Program in Russian Translation
Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University

http://www.pen.org/members/rmeyer

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Costlow
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:49 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] changes in visa process

  Dear colleagues,

     I'm in the process of attempting to get a visa for travel to Russia 
later this month.  I had submitted everything and then got it returned 
because beginning July 1 all applications must be done on line.  
Currently the Embassy form is unavailable - the website is down - and 
the visa service they refer you to is not answering their phone.  Any 
suggestions?  Is anyone else in the middle of this?


Jane Costlow

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From renee at ALINGA.COM  Wed Jul 13 16:06:24 2011
From: renee at ALINGA.COM (Renee (Stillings) Huhs)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:06:24 -0700
Subject: changes in visa process
In-Reply-To: <4E1DBE7B.5080600@bates.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.090624.0700.>

Yes, we have been dealing with it for the last couple of weeks. The system
is indeed often down. Have to keep trying. Even when it works it is
PAINFULLY slow. Can take up to an hour just to fill it out due to slow page
loading. 

Renee


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Costlow
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:49 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] changes in visa process

  Dear colleagues,

     I'm in the process of attempting to get a visa for travel to Russia 
later this month.  I had submitted everything and then got it returned 
because beginning July 1 all applications must be done on line.  
Currently the Embassy form is unavailable - the website is down - and 
the visa service they refer you to is not answering their phone.  Any 
suggestions?  Is anyone else in the middle of this?


Jane Costlow

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From jwilson at SRAS.ORG  Wed Jul 13 16:17:49 2011
From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG (Josh Wilson)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:17:49 +0400
Subject: changes in visa process
In-Reply-To: <4E1DBE7B.5080600@bates.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.201749.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

It is, simply put, a disaster right now. 

The server the site is hosted on is slow and crashes. The site itself is
ugly and clumsy and apparently doesn't even have all the fields that are
needed at last check. 

The site is being used on the directive of the Russian Ministry of the
Interior, but against the will of the consulates that are actually
encouraging people to go to the media and complain so that maybe Medvedev
will hear something about it and get it taken care of. 

The site has bee in use in London for about a year now - apparently visa
processing companies there have adapted to it by slogging through each
online application (which apparently takes an hour now instead of a few
minutes for the old paper kind) and charging clients a new "online
application fee" of $35-50. You can go through a number of visa processing
agencies in the US that can help you - not sure if they have increased their
fees yet to reflect this - but one we've used often in the past is
http://www.traveldocs.com/ . 

There are some very hopeful visa reforms on the horizon: 3 year
tourist/business visas with the US that will not require invitations; five
year professional visas with the EU... but as with all things, this is one
step forward and at least a stumble back. 

Not sure if this particularly helps you - but hopefully it at least explains
the situation a bit more. 


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-----
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[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Costlow
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:49 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] changes in visa process

  Dear colleagues,

     I'm in the process of attempting to get a visa for travel to Russia 
later this month.  I had submitted everything and then got it returned 
because beginning July 1 all applications must be done on line.  
Currently the Embassy form is unavailable - the website is down - and 
the visa service they refer you to is not answering their phone.  Any 
suggestions?  Is anyone else in the middle of this?


Jane Costlow

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From oldvinyl.sound at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jul 13 16:40:26 2011
From: oldvinyl.sound at GMAIL.COM (Christina)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:40:26 -0400
Subject: changes in visa process
In-Reply-To: <97B94C9E5C3042FBADD362B36781326D@JoshPC>
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.124026.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

I was in the middle of filling out my paper application when the new
site was launched. I was able to complete and submit the application
during a brief window of functionality, and sent it off to the visa
service last Thursday.

It took some creative copy and paste maneuvers - physically with
scissors and a color copy machine - to fill in the fields unpopulated
by the site but required by the embassy. Hopefully it works...

Good luck to anyone else in the same boat! If my attempt is an epic
fail I'll be sure to advise the list of any fatal mistakes to avoid.

Christina Bartol

On 13 July 2011 12:17, Josh Wilson <jwilson at sras.org> wrote:
> It is, simply put, a disaster right now.
>
> The server the site is hosted on is slow and crashes. The site itself is
> ugly and clumsy and apparently doesn't even have all the fields that are
> needed at last check.
>
> The site is being used on the directive of the Russian Ministry of the
> Interior, but against the will of the consulates that are actually
> encouraging people to go to the media and complain so that maybe Medvedev
> will hear something about it and get it taken care of.
>
> The site has bee in use in London for about a year now - apparently visa
> processing companies there have adapted to it by slogging through each
> online application (which apparently takes an hour now instead of a few
> minutes for the old paper kind) and charging clients a new "online
> application fee" of $35-50. You can go through a number of visa processing
> agencies in the US that can help you - not sure if they have increased their
> fees yet to reflect this - but one we've used often in the past is
> http://www.traveldocs.com/ .
>
> There are some very hopeful visa reforms on the horizon: 3 year
> tourist/business visas with the US that will not require invitations; five
> year professional visas with the EU... but as with all things, this is one
> step forward and at least a stumble back.
>
> Not sure if this particularly helps you - but hopefully it at least explains
> the situation a bit more.
>
>
> 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 Jane Costlow
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:49 PM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] changes in visa process
>
>  Dear colleagues,
>
>     I'm in the process of attempting to get a visa for travel to Russia
> later this month.  I had submitted everything and then got it returned
> because beginning July 1 all applications must be done on line.
> Currently the Embassy form is unavailable - the website is down - and
> the visa service they refer you to is not answering their phone.  Any
> suggestions?  Is anyone else in the middle of this?
>
>
> Jane Costlow
>
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From bojanows at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU  Wed Jul 13 18:22:12 2011
From: bojanows at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU (Edyta Bojanowska)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:22:12 -0400
Subject: Broniewski, "Poklon Rewolucji Pazdziernikowej"
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.142212.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,
I am looking for an English translation of Wladyslaw Broniewski's poem 
"Poklon Rewolucji Pazdziernikowej."  Would anyone be able to help me 
locate one?  If not, I'd be grateful for suggestions about a different 
example of socialist Polish poetry that has been translated into English.
For off-list replies, please email me at bojanows at rci.rutgers.edu.

Thank you very much,
Edyta Bojanowska

-- 
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Assistant Professor of Russian Literature
Dept. of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
Rutgers University, 195 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901
ph: (732)932-7201, fax: (732) 932-1111
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From jcostlow at BATES.EDU  Wed Jul 13 17:44:47 2011
From: jcostlow at BATES.EDU (Jane Costlow)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:44:47 -0400
Subject: changes in visa process
In-Reply-To: <97B94C9E5C3042FBADD362B36781326D@JoshPC>
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.134447.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

  Just so everyone knows, here's Travisa's response to my inquiry of how 
to proceed (since the Russian Embassy site is down):

Good afternoon, there is an issue with the Russia web site, may I 
suggest that you try again later.

Several people mentioned good agencies to work with - it does seem the 
issue here isn't the agencies, but the Russian Embassy webpage.

Might this be a time to ask our professional organizations to raise the 
issue?

Jane



On 7/13/11 12:17 PM, Josh Wilson wrote:
> It is, simply put, a disaster right now.
>
> The server the site is hosted on is slow and crashes. The site itself is
> ugly and clumsy and apparently doesn't even have all the fields that are
> needed at last check.
>
> The site is being used on the directive of the Russian Ministry of the
> Interior, but against the will of the consulates that are actually
> encouraging people to go to the media and complain so that maybe Medvedev
> will hear something about it and get it taken care of.
>
> The site has bee in use in London for about a year now - apparently visa
> processing companies there have adapted to it by slogging through each
> online application (which apparently takes an hour now instead of a few
> minutes for the old paper kind) and charging clients a new "online
> application fee" of $35-50. You can go through a number of visa processing
> agencies in the US that can help you - not sure if they have increased their
> fees yet to reflect this - but one we've used often in the past is
> http://www.traveldocs.com/ .
>
> There are some very hopeful visa reforms on the horizon: 3 year
> tourist/business visas with the US that will not require invitations; five
> year professional visas with the EU... but as with all things, this is one
> step forward and at least a stumble back.
>
> Not sure if this particularly helps you - but hopefully it at least explains
> the situation a bit more.
>
>
> 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 Jane Costlow
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:49 PM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] changes in visa process
>
>    Dear colleagues,
>
>       I'm in the process of attempting to get a visa for travel to Russia
> later this month.  I had submitted everything and then got it returned
> because beginning July 1 all applications must be done on line.
> Currently the Embassy form is unavailable - the website is down - and
> the visa service they refer you to is not answering their phone.  Any
> suggestions?  Is anyone else in the middle of this?
>
>
> Jane Costlow
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From lypark at PITT.EDU  Wed Jul 13 20:04:39 2011
From: lypark at PITT.EDU (Park, Lynda)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:04:39 -0400
Subject: changes in visa process
In-Reply-To: <4E1DD98F.5060403@bates.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.160439.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

As ASEEES has been writing many advocacy letters of late, we would be willing to take the lead in writing a letter to the Russian embassy as well as other relevant Russian administrative offices.  

If you could send me clear descriptions of the issues, I can issue a letter of concern quickly.

Regards,

Lynda Park, Executive Director
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 
(formerly AAASS) 
203C Bellefield Hall 
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 
USA
(412) 648-9788 (direct), 648-9911 (main)
(412) 648-9815 (fax)
www.aseees.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Costlow
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:45 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] changes in visa process

  Just so everyone knows, here's Travisa's response to my inquiry of how 
to proceed (since the Russian Embassy site is down):

Good afternoon, there is an issue with the Russia web site, may I 
suggest that you try again later.

Several people mentioned good agencies to work with - it does seem the 
issue here isn't the agencies, but the Russian Embassy webpage.

Might this be a time to ask our professional organizations to raise the 
issue?

Jane



On 7/13/11 12:17 PM, Josh Wilson wrote:
> It is, simply put, a disaster right now.
>
> The server the site is hosted on is slow and crashes. The site itself is
> ugly and clumsy and apparently doesn't even have all the fields that are
> needed at last check.
>
> The site is being used on the directive of the Russian Ministry of the
> Interior, but against the will of the consulates that are actually
> encouraging people to go to the media and complain so that maybe Medvedev
> will hear something about it and get it taken care of.
>
> The site has bee in use in London for about a year now - apparently visa
> processing companies there have adapted to it by slogging through each
> online application (which apparently takes an hour now instead of a few
> minutes for the old paper kind) and charging clients a new "online
> application fee" of $35-50. You can go through a number of visa processing
> agencies in the US that can help you - not sure if they have increased their
> fees yet to reflect this - but one we've used often in the past is
> http://www.traveldocs.com/ .
>
> There are some very hopeful visa reforms on the horizon: 3 year
> tourist/business visas with the US that will not require invitations; five
> year professional visas with the EU... but as with all things, this is one
> step forward and at least a stumble back.
>
> Not sure if this particularly helps you - but hopefully it at least explains
> the situation a bit more.
>
>
> 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 Jane Costlow
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:49 PM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] changes in visa process
>
>    Dear colleagues,
>
>       I'm in the process of attempting to get a visa for travel to Russia
> later this month.  I had submitted everything and then got it returned
> because beginning July 1 all applications must be done on line.
> Currently the Embassy form is unavailable - the website is down - and
> the visa service they refer you to is not answering their phone.  Any
> suggestions?  Is anyone else in the middle of this?
>
>
> Jane Costlow
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From renee at alinga.com  Wed Jul 13 20:12:17 2011
From: renee at alinga.com (Renee (Stillings) Huhs)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:12:17 -0700
Subject: changes in visa process
In-Reply-To: <4E1DD98F.5060403@bates.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.131217.0700.>

Yes, it is all about the consulate's online system and nothing to do with
the agencies.

As Josh mentioned in an earlier note, the Consul is also very frustrated and
has even asked the Ministry to extend use of paper until they sort this out
- but so far nothing developed on that front. He has suggested contacting
the Russian press - something that can get to the attention of the Ministry.
Moscow Times, etc. 

Renee

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Costlow
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:45 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] changes in visa process

  Just so everyone knows, here's Travisa's response to my inquiry of how 
to proceed (since the Russian Embassy site is down):

Good afternoon, there is an issue with the Russia web site, may I 
suggest that you try again later.

Several people mentioned good agencies to work with - it does seem the 
issue here isn't the agencies, but the Russian Embassy webpage.

Might this be a time to ask our professional organizations to raise the 
issue?

Jane

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From renee at alinga.com  Wed Jul 13 20:16:21 2011
From: renee at alinga.com (Renee (Stillings) Huhs)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:16:21 -0700
Subject: changes in visa process
In-Reply-To: <6B417A7DAAD3B545B226E4BB6DA8EDD4219F15B0EA@PITT-EXCH-09.univ.pitt.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.131621.0700.>

Lynda,

The concerns are quite simple.

1. The system is very frequently offline.
2. When it is online, pages load very slowly and as they often put one
question per page, it can take you an hour to go through it - the first
time. And if you are told (by someone like me reviewing it) that you need to
fix something in question #40 you need to spend another hour getting to
question #40 to fix it again ... . This is an issue of both poor design of
the system and made much worse by slow speed.

If this was designed well, it could actually be of some help. As it is, it
is torture. We have reviewed already 10+ apps online for our students on
this and I have another 10 backlogged to check once the system is back up
today ... not looking forward to it.

Renee

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Park, Lynda
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:05 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] changes in visa process

As ASEEES has been writing many advocacy letters of late, we would be
willing to take the lead in writing a letter to the Russian embassy as well
as other relevant Russian administrative offices.  

If you could send me clear descriptions of the issues, I can issue a letter
of concern quickly.

Regards,

Lynda Park, Executive Director
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 
(formerly AAASS) 
203C Bellefield Hall 
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 
USA
(412) 648-9788 (direct), 648-9911 (main)
(412) 648-9815 (fax)
www.aseees.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Costlow
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:45 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] changes in visa process

  Just so everyone knows, here's Travisa's response to my inquiry of how 
to proceed (since the Russian Embassy site is down):

Good afternoon, there is an issue with the Russia web site, may I 
suggest that you try again later.

Several people mentioned good agencies to work with - it does seem the 
issue here isn't the agencies, but the Russian Embassy webpage.

Might this be a time to ask our professional organizations to raise the 
issue?

Jane



On 7/13/11 12:17 PM, Josh Wilson wrote:
> It is, simply put, a disaster right now.
>
> The server the site is hosted on is slow and crashes. The site itself is
> ugly and clumsy and apparently doesn't even have all the fields that are
> needed at last check.
>
> The site is being used on the directive of the Russian Ministry of the
> Interior, but against the will of the consulates that are actually
> encouraging people to go to the media and complain so that maybe Medvedev
> will hear something about it and get it taken care of.
>
> The site has bee in use in London for about a year now - apparently visa
> processing companies there have adapted to it by slogging through each
> online application (which apparently takes an hour now instead of a few
> minutes for the old paper kind) and charging clients a new "online
> application fee" of $35-50. You can go through a number of visa processing
> agencies in the US that can help you - not sure if they have increased
their
> fees yet to reflect this - but one we've used often in the past is
> http://www.traveldocs.com/ .
>
> There are some very hopeful visa reforms on the horizon: 3 year
> tourist/business visas with the US that will not require invitations; five
> year professional visas with the EU... but as with all things, this is one
> step forward and at least a stumble back.
>
> Not sure if this particularly helps you - but hopefully it at least
explains
> the situation a bit more.
>
>
> 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 Jane Costlow
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:49 PM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] changes in visa process
>
>    Dear colleagues,
>
>       I'm in the process of attempting to get a visa for travel to Russia
> later this month.  I had submitted everything and then got it returned
> because beginning July 1 all applications must be done on line.
> Currently the Embassy form is unavailable - the website is down - and
> the visa service they refer you to is not answering their phone.  Any
> suggestions?  Is anyone else in the middle of this?
>
>
> Jane Costlow
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From davidagoldfarb at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jul 13 20:37:08 2011
From: davidagoldfarb at GMAIL.COM (David Goldfarb)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:37:08 -0400
Subject: Broniewski, "Poklon Rewolucji Pazdziernikowej"
In-Reply-To: <4E1DE254.3060106@rci.rutgers.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.163708.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Edyta,

It appears as "I Bow to the October Revolution" in the table of contents
of--

*Lenin in profile : world writers and artists on Lenin*, v. 1. Moscow:
Progress Publishers, 1975.

--p. 268, if you can turn that up.  Surely copies were distributed widely to
libraries in the English-speaking world.

David

--
David A. Goldfarb
Curator of Literature and Humanities
Polish Cultural Institute in New York
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4621
New York, NY 10118
tel. 212-239-7300, ext. 3002
fax 212-239-7577
www.polishculture-nyc.org
--
http://www.davidagoldfarb.com

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Edyta Bojanowska <bojanows at rci.rutgers.edu>
wrote:
>
> Dear SEELANGers,
> I am looking for an English translation of Wladyslaw Broniewski's poem
"Poklon Rewolucji Pazdziernikowej."  Would anyone be able to help me locate
one?  If not, I'd be grateful for suggestions about a different example of
socialist Polish poetry that has been translated into English.
> For off-list replies, please email me at bojanows at rci.rutgers.edu.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Edyta Bojanowska
>
> --
> Edyta Bojanowska
> Assistant Professor of Russian Literature
> Dept. of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
> Rutgers University, 195 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901
> ph: (732)932-7201, fax: (732) 932-1111
> http://german.rutgers.edu/faculty/profiles/bojanowska.htm
>
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From nicolakuchta at YAHOO.COM  Wed Jul 13 19:00:10 2011
From: nicolakuchta at YAHOO.COM (Nicola Kuchta)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:00:10 -0700
Subject: public displays of affection
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.120010.0700.NICOLAKUCHTA@YAHOO.COM>

Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-listing),

For those of a more prurient persuasion, a new sex museum has opened up in Moscow. Here is the link to a recent Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/12/moscow-sex-museum-sparks-controversy?intcmp=239 


Best regards,

 
Nicola Kuchta


<><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
MA Student
Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1417 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh

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From jcostlow at BATES.EDU  Wed Jul 13 22:56:28 2011
From: jcostlow at BATES.EDU (Jane Costlow)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:56:28 -0400
Subject: visa site working
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.185628.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

  A brief follow up: the Russian Embassy site is up again as of 6:00 
eastern time, and worked in fact quite quickly and well - I filled out 
the form in about 20 minutes.

Jane

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From rifkin at TCNJ.EDU  Thu Jul 14 01:28:43 2011
From: rifkin at TCNJ.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:28:43 -0400
Subject: Changes to US-Russia Visa Regime
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUL.2011.212843.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers: 

This may be of interest: 

http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2011/07/13/n_1922917.shtml 

Best wishes, 

Ben Rifkin 
The College of New Jersey 


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From erika.wolf at OTAGO.AC.NZ  Thu Jul 14 05:11:04 2011
From: erika.wolf at OTAGO.AC.NZ (Erika Wolf)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:11:04 +0000
Subject: Russian Visa Processing
Message-ID: <THU.14.JUL.2011.051104.0000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

I would like to point out that the issues being raised concerning with visa applications are NOT global, but currently limited to a number of countries and consulates (and, indeed, the different consulates seem to vary considerably on how they deal with the processing of visas and apply the relevant legislation). 

I recently received a visa from the Wellington Embassy and it still entailed the familiar downloaded application forms. 

-- 
Dr.Erika Wolf
Senior Lecturer
Te Tari Korero Nehe me te Mahi Toi Onamata/Department of History &  Art History 
Te Whare Wananga o Otago/University of Otago
P.O. Box 56
Otepoti/Dunedin, 9054
AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND
 
Phone: +64-3-479-9012
Mobile: +64-21-123-3904
Fax: +64-3-479-8429

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From anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jul 15 00:10:16 2011
From: anne.o.fisher at GMAIL.COM (Anne Fisher)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:10:16 -0700
Subject: children's songs in Russian
Message-ID: <THU.14.JUL.2011.171016.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Hello all,

Can anyone give the titles for Russian children's songs, preferably the kind
that you can have little hand gestures to, somewhat analagous to "The
Princess Pat" or "The Itsy Bitsy Spider"?

I know about the Russian version of the chicken dance ("Tanets malen'kikh
utiat") but I'm looking for other songs too. And besides I don't think the
"Dance of the little ducks" has the same dance component that the chicken
dance song does (although I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong).

Thanks,

Annie

-- 
Anne O. Fisher, Ph.D.
English>Russian Interpreter and Translator
anne.o.fisher at gmail.com
440-986-0175

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From msukholu at ECOK.EDU  Fri Jul 15 00:58:10 2011
From: msukholu at ECOK.EDU (Sukholutskaya, Mara E.)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:58:10 -0500
Subject: children's songs in Russian
Message-ID: <THU.14.JUL.2011.195810.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

"Yesli veselo zhivyotsya- delay tak...."

________________________________

From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Anne Fisher
Sent: Thu 7/14/2011 7:10 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] children's songs in Russian



Hello all,

Can anyone give the titles for Russian children's songs, preferably the kind
that you can have little hand gestures to, somewhat analagous to "The
Princess Pat" or "The Itsy Bitsy Spider"?

I know about the Russian version of the chicken dance ("Tanets malen'kikh
utiat") but I'm looking for other songs too. And besides I don't think the
"Dance of the little ducks" has the same dance component that the chicken
dance song does (although I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong).

Thanks,

Annie

--
Anne O. Fisher, Ph.D.
English>Russian Interpreter and Translator
anne.o.fisher at gmail.com
440-986-0175

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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Fri Jul 15 02:40:39 2011
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:40:39 -0400
Subject: children's songs in Russian
In-Reply-To: <CA+rWh7nM_X5D+zg94O9LQX2TjX=jFjcxpZbKP7U=WRpAaF7VeQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.14.JUL.2011.224039.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Каравай http://www.solnet.ee/holidays/s7_6_4.html

Ладушки http://www.solnet.ee/sol/001/s_263.html

Сорока‒ворона (like little piggy went to market) http://malyshi.livejournal.com/11909916.html?thread=220783 
388#t220783388

Баран‒баран, буц http://otvet.mail.ru/question/20212484

	we knew it as баран‒баран, бук: http://sashka-vyshka.livejournal. 
com/310857.html
	
	(must be one of those Moscow-Leningrad differences)

Мишка косолапый http://www.invictory.org/blog/post-4016- 
hobbies.html

Гуси‒гуси — га‒га‒га http://pozitivno.in.ua/varianty-potesh 
ki-gusi-gusi-ga-ga-ga/


Jul 14, 2011, в 8:10 PM, Anne Fisher написал(а):

> Hello all,
>
> Can anyone give the titles for Russian children's songs, preferably  
> the kind
> that you can have little hand gestures to, somewhat analagous to "The
> Princess Pat" or "The Itsy Bitsy Spider"?
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu

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From Elena_Baraban at UMANITOBA.CA  Fri Jul 15 02:48:31 2011
From: Elena_Baraban at UMANITOBA.CA (/Elena Baraban/)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:48:31 -0500
Subject: Fwd: Re: [SEELANGS] children's songs in Russian
Message-ID: <THU.14.JUL.2011.214831.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>


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From howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK  Thu Jul 21 10:59:12 2011
From: howard_s_turner at YAHOO.CO.UK (Howard Turner)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:59:12 +0100
Subject: Results of survey about untranslated Russian novels
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Dear SEELANGS,

As promised, I've posted a summary of the results of my survey (which is now 
closed) at http://wp.me/pBfTB-HB .  The favourites for translation into English 
are certainly 1. Sorokin 2. Gorenshtein.  After them things are not so clear, 
but it looks like Pavel Sanaev, Mikhail Ivanov and Oleg Pavlov.

Thanks for your help,

Howard Turner

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From D.A.R.Jamieson at EXETER.AC.UK  Thu Jul 21 12:34:49 2011
From: D.A.R.Jamieson at EXETER.AC.UK (Jamieson, Duncan)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:34:49 +0100
Subject: REMINDER CFP: From 'Minority' to 'Transnational'? Gender,
 Subjectivity, and Aesthetics in Polish Drama, Theatre,
 and Performance
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUL.2011.133449.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Apologies for cross-posting


Dear All,

My colleagues and I are writing to circulate a final reminder of the call for contributions for a special issue of the refereed journal Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP):

>From 'Minority' to 'Transnational'? Gender, Subjectivity, and Aesthetics in Polish Drama, Theatre, and Performance (PTP 3.2, 2012), guest edited by Halina Filipowicz (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Elwira M. Grossman (University of Glasgow).

Full details about the issue are available online here<http://www.ptpjournal.com/index_files/Page404.htm>. Alternatively, follow the direct link to the CFP here<http://www.ptpjournal.com/CFP_PTP_Minority-Transnational_ENG_EXTENDED.pdf>, deadline 1 August 2011.

Please circulate this reminder to colleagues who may be interested in submitting a proposal. Interested parties are encouraged to browse the PTP website at www.ptpjournal.com<http://www.ptpjournal.com> for general information about the journal and its associated research initiatives, editorial board, submissions and peer review processes, etc.

A companion file, Writings on Gender for Theatre, Drama, and Performance Studies: A select bibliography of sources and resources in English, prepared by the general editors, is available to download here<http://www.ptpjournal.com/PTP_Bibliography_GenderStudies.pdf>. This draft working document is intended primarily for use by Polish-based researchers who wish to explore English-language materials relating to gender studies approaches, but will also be of interest to many anglophone scholars and students in theatre and performance studies.

The print edition of the inaugural issue of Polish Theatre Perspectives is available to order now (ships 1 September 2011). The online edition is currently available at the Central and Eastern European Online Library<http://www.ceeol.com/>; please visit the PTP page at CEEOL here<http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/publicationdetails.aspx?publicationId=d7fd3165-8c4f-4496-a8e0-78b8fb2b638e> to purchase individual PDFs for download. Access to electronic content is free to institutional subscribers of CEEOL.

For colleagues interested in receiving a selection of sample PDF contents from the first issue, please write to me directly, off-list, at d.a.r.jamieson at ex.ac.uk<mailto:d.a.r.jamieson at ex.ac.uk>.

Best wishes,

Duncan Jamieson


Duncan Jamieson
Department of Drama,
University of Exeter, UK
Co-Editor, Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)
www.ptpjournal.com<http://www.ptpjournal.com>
















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From jacob.edmond at OTAGO.AC.NZ  Sun Jul 24 09:23:59 2011
From: jacob.edmond at OTAGO.AC.NZ (Jacob Edmond)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:23:59 +0000
Subject: UPDATE: ANZSA 2011 Conference
 =?windows-1257?Q?=93Translations/Transitions=94_?=(abstract
 deadline now August 26, 2011; keynote announced)
Message-ID: <SUN.24.JUL.2011.092359.0000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Australia and New Zealand Slavists’ Association 2011 Conference “Translations/Transitions”

Christchurch, New Zealand, 7–8 November 2011

Proposals are invited for papers on any topic related to Slavic studies, from art, culture, and language, to history, politics, and economics. The organizers of the 2011 conference especially invite papers on the theme “Translations/Transitions.” Such papers might address interactions within and beyond Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia; questions of linguistic change and translation; the translations involved in Slavic modernisms and modernities; the cross-border experiences and cultural, economic, and political changes relating to the shift from the communist to the post-communist eras in Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia; the translational and transitional nature of the Slavic geographical and cultural spaces and their broader implications for world culture, economics, and geopolitics.

The conference organizers are delighted to announce that Gerald Janecek, Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Kentucky and Editor-in-chief of the Slavic and East European Journal, will give the keynote address at the 2011 ANZSA conference.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent to Dr Jacob Edmond at jacob.edmond at otago.ac.nz. Please note that the deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to 26 August.

The conference will be held on the beautiful Christchurch campus of the University of Canterbury. While Christchurch was hit by a terrible earthquake in February of this year, the University of Canterbury campus suffered only minor damage, and housing and other conference resources are now available. The organizers see the conference itself as making a small contribution to the recovery of this wonderful city after recent tragic events and thank participants in advance for their support.

The conference is jointly hosted by the Russian Programme of the School of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics at the University of Canterbury and the Russian Studies Research Cluster at the University of Otago.

http://www.lacl.canterbury.ac.nz/russ/
http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/clusters/russianstudies/index.html

Conveners: Dr Evgeny Pavlov (Canterbury), Dr Jacob Edmond (Otago)
Organizing committee: Dr Erika Wolf (Otago), Prof. Henrietta Mondry (Canterbury), Dr Jim Headley (Otago)

Dr Jacob Edmond
Senior Lecturer
Department of English / Te Reo Ingarihi
University of Otago / Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo
PO Box 56, Dunedin / Ōtepoti  9054, Aotearoa / New Zealand
office and street address: 1S3, 1st Floor, Arts Building, 95 Albany St, Dunedin 9016, Aotearoa / New Zealand
phone: +64 3 479 7969; fax: +64 3 479 8558
http://www.otago.ac.nz/english/staff/edmond.html
http://otago.academia.edu/JacobEdmond

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From rpb at STEPHENSPENDER.ORG  Mon Jul 25 18:52:39 2011
From: rpb at STEPHENSPENDER.ORG (Robina Pelham Burn)
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:52:39 +0100
Subject: the Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUL.2011.195239.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Friends

The Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize - closing date 31 August 2011

There are just over five weeks to go until the closing date of this  
new Russian--English poetry translation prize, judged by Sasha  
Dugdale, Catriona Kelly and Paul Muldoon. Do please spread the word if  
you haven't already done so...

Anyone anywhere in the world may enter; please see http://www.stephen-spender.org/brodsky_spender.html 
  for the rules and how to enter.

Apologies if you have received this email more than once.

Best wishes


Robina Pelham Burn
Director
The Stephen Spender Trust
3 Old Wish Road
Eastbourne
East Sussex
BN21 4JX

00 44 (0)1323 452294
info at stephenspender.org
www.stephen-spender.org

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From mwarchol at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG  Mon Jul 25 20:53:18 2011
From: mwarchol at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Michael Warchol)
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:53:18 -0400
Subject: Grants for Research and Advanced Language Training
In-Reply-To: <CA53462F.C5EA%mwarchol@americancouncils.org>
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUL.2011.165318.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is now accepting
applications for its 2012-2013 Title VIII Grants for Research and Advanced
Language Training programs in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Southeast
Europe, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine. Only U.S. citizens are eligible for
these awards.
 
The application deadline for all Title VIII fellowships is October 1, 2011.
 
Please note that Title VIII Research Scholar Program and Title VIII Combined
Research and Language Training Program must begin between June 1, 2012 and
June 30, 2013; and must be completed by September 30, 2013. Title VIII
Southeast European Language Training Program offers fellowships for Spring
2012 and Summer 2012 only.
 
Fellowships will be offered in three categories:
 
*Title VIII Research Scholar Program: Provides full support for three- to
nine-month research trips to Russia, Central Asia, the South Caucasus,
Southeast Europe, Ukraine, and Moldova. Fellowships include roundtrip
international travel, housing and living stipend, visa support, medical
insurance, archive access, and logistical support in the field. Open to U.S.
graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and faculty. Annual deadline:
October 1st.
 
*Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program: Provides full
support for research and up to ten academic hours per week of advanced
language instruction for three-to-nine months in Russia, Central Asia, the
South Caucasus, Southeast Europe, Ukraine, and Moldova. Fellowships include
roundtrip international travel, housing and living stipend, tuition, visa
support, medical insurance, archive access, and logistical support in the
field. Open to U.S. graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and faculty.
Annual deadline: October 1st.
 
*Title VIII Southeast European Language Training Program: Provides
fellowships for graduate students, faculty, and scholars to study language
for spring 2012 and/or summer 2012 in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia. Open
to students at the MA and Ph.D. level, as well as post-doctoral scholars and
faculty, who have at least elementary language skills.
 
For a full list of countries eligible for each fellowship, please see our
website: 
http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/
 
Funding for these programs is available through American Councils from the
U.S. Department of State¹s Program for Research and Training on Eastern
Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII).
All competitions for funding are open and merit based. All applications will
receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, or
disability.
           

Applications are available for download at:
http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/ or by contacting the
American Councils Outbound Office. Applications must be postmarked by the
application deadline date.
 

For more information, please contact:

Russian and Eurasian Outbound Programs
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
1828 L St. NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: (202) 833-7522

Email: outbound at americancouncils.org
Website: http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/

***********************

-- Michael Warchol

Communications Officer
American Councils for International Education
1828 L Street, NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036

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From natalia.pylypiuk at UALBERTA.CA  Mon Jul 25 22:36:37 2011
From: natalia.pylypiuk at UALBERTA.CA (Natalia Pylypiuk)
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:36:37 -0600
Subject: CfP: Soviet-Nazi Collaboration, Kyiv 5.-6.11.11 (10.10.)
Message-ID: <MON.25.JUL.2011.163637.0600.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Call for papers:

Conference, November 5 – 6, 2011, Kyiv:

Collaboration between the Soviet Union and Germany: Causes and Consequences

DEAR COLLEAGUES!
We are pleased to announce the international academic conference, from November 5 – 6, 2011, organised by the Kyiv City Organization of the Ukrainian Charitable Vasyl Stus Memorial Society, the Public Institute of Historical Memory and the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, on the subject of:

Collaboration between the Soviet Union and Germany in the interwar period and during WWII:Causes and Consequences

Venue: National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Skovoroda str, 2.

A list of possible conference themes includes:
• Ideological and political platform of German National Socialism and Soviet Communism;
• Economic, political and military cooperation between Germany and the USSR in the interwar period;
• The problems of the Baltic and Black Sea states as well as stateless nations of Eastern Europe in
the context of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact;
• Russian fascism in Europe in the interwar period: ideas, images and organizational structure;
• Collaborative movements and military units in Germany and the Soviet Union before and during World War II;
• Search for a separate peace between Germany and the USSR;
• Comparative analysis of political repressions, genocide and war crimes in Germany and the USSR;
• The national liberation movements of the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe: reassessments
of historians and politicians;
• Collective memories of Nazism and Stalinism;
• The legacies of totalitarian past and the resurrection and establishment of authoritarian practices and movements
on the territory of the former Soviet Union: Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, etc.

Languages of the conference: Ukrainian, English, Russian, Belarusian, Polish;

Requirements for academic articles:

Articles should be of up to 30 thousand characters long (including bibliography) in MS Word, font Times New Roman, 14 size with 1.5 interval. The name, surname, title, academic degree and the full name of the institution should be in the upper right corner and the name of the article below in the centre. All articles should begin with an abstract (4-5 lines, italics).

The organizing committee makes the selection of offered articles. The editorial board also reserves the right to reject material with editorial and stylistic shortcomings. Publication of the articles and other conference material is envisaged following the conference.

The registration form and the text of the article should be sent by 10 October 2011 to memkonf at gmail.com and svyetlov at gmail.com.

For further information please contact:

Oleksandr Svyetlov svyetlov at gmail.com
and Sergiy Zhovty zhowty at gmail.com


Registration form for participation in the international conference
'Collaboration between the Soviet Union and Germany in the interwar period and during WWII: causes and consequences'
5 - 6 November 2011, Kyiv


Name______________________________________________________________________
Surname____________________________________________________________________
Academic degree / position_____________________________________________________
Place of work / study__________________________________________________________
Title of the presentation / article ________________________________________________
Abstract of the presentation / article (max. 300 words)
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Contact details
___________________________________________________________________________


http://ukrconsensus.org.ua/project-news/79-call-for-papers-conference-november-5-6-2011-kyiv-collaboration-between-the-soviet-union-and-germany-causes-and-consequences.html

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From Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK  Tue Jul 26 07:25:40 2011
From: Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK (Simon Beattie)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:25:40 +0100
Subject: Russian books
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUL.2011.082540.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Please find below a link to my latest list of Russian books--including
translations--in the fields of literature, music, the theatre, history, and
politics, and including works by Buturlin, Glinka, Grechaninov, Gogol,
Lomonosov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tolstoy, Pearl Buck, Ben Hecht, Kant, Doris
Lessing, J.D. Salinger, August von Schlözer, Mary Shelley, J.R.R. Tolkien,
H.G. Wells, and Walt Whitman.  

http://www.simonbeattie.co.uk/catalogues/russian_books_2011.pdf

If you have any questions, then of course please just let me know.  And you
know someone perhaps not on SEELANGS who may be interested (a collector, a
librarian), please feel free to forward this message to them.

Thank you for reading.  

Simon


Simon Beattie
Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera

84 The Broadway | Chesham | Buckinghamshire | HP5 1EG | UK

tel.  +44 (0)1494 784954 | mobile/voicemail  +44 (0)7717 707575 | e-mail
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From culik at BLISTY.CZ  Tue Jul 26 09:49:16 2011
From: culik at BLISTY.CZ (Jan Culik)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:49:16 -0500
Subject: PARLIAMENTARY PETITION IN SUPPORT OF TARGETED FUNDING OF LANGUAGE
 TUITION IN GLASGOW
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUL.2011.044916.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

PARLIAMENTARY PETITION IN SUPPORT OF TARGETED FUNDING OF LANGUAGE
TUITION IN GLASGOW



Dear colleagues

I am forced to write to you again. News from Glasgow University is not
particularly positive. We need support for our petition to the Scottish
parliament, requesting the Scottish government to introduce targeted
funding for lesser taught languages and cultures.

Please sign this petition if you have not already done so.

The petition is on this website:

http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=455

Further details:

http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_backgroundinfo.asp?PetitionID=%20455

Please, if you can, sign it before 31st June 2011.

>From 1st August, the Scottish parliament petitions website will be down,
because it will be undergoing a process of modernisation, but signatures
to the petition can still be added. Please send your name and address
after 31st July 2011  to petitions at scottish.parliament.uk, indicating
that you are supporting Petition No. 455 about targeted funding for
modern languages.

The petition will be discussed in Scottish parliament on 30th September.

Please write also to the Scottish Education Secretary Mike Russell,
pointing out the strategic, political and economic importance of
retaining language-based cultural studies of Central and Eastern Europe
in Scotland.

cabsecell at scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Michael Russell MSP
The Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP

He normally replies that "universities are independent" and he cannot
interfere in academic matters, but in fact Glasgow University is about
to start negotiating with the Scottish government about targeted funding
for its department of Nursing. If Nursing at Glasgow can be directly
funded by the Scottish government, why not lesser taught languages and
cultures?

Thank you.

Jan Culik
Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies

-----

NEWS FROM GLASGOW:

In spite of what it looked like at the beginning of June, the situation
at the University of Glasgow is not particularly positive. We are
concerned that unless the Scottish government provides targeted funding
for lesser taught languages and cultures, the way this is done in
England, the provision for the teaching of East European languages and
cultures in particular will disappear in Scotland.

I informed you in my previous email that on 2nd June, Glasgow University
Senate expressed the view that the Slavonic Studies programme should NOT
be closed down.

However, Glasgow University Court decided on 22nd June, in direct
opposition to the view of the Senate, that the Slavonic Studies cultural
programme WILL be closed down as of September 2012. The Slavonic Studies
programme is a backbone of the Slavonic provision in Glasgow. Some 120
students are enrolled on the course.

Subsequently two top Glasgow University lawyers have written to
Principal Muscatelli, pointing out that the Court decision to close down
Slavonic Studies may be illegal. According to law, University Court can
make academic decisions only on recommendation from the University Senate.

For further details, see this:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=215793668463251&set=a.179670052075613.46125.179538408755444&type=1&theater

There has been no further news regarding this matter.

In its press release of 22nd June, University Court pledged to retain
all the existing language provision at the University of Glasgow.
However, the Honours courses in Czech and Polish studies have been
abolished and language tuition in Czech and Polish is to be provided by
a unit which to date has been running "Languages at Lunchtime" courses.

The future of a unique intensive postgraduate taught Russian Diploma
course at Glasgow is also currently in doubt, although more than 10
paying postgraduates have enrolled for the 2011-12 session.

-----

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From chiara.natalucci at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jul 27 08:59:59 2011
From: chiara.natalucci at GMAIL.COM (chiara natalucci)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:59:59 +0100
Subject: Russian quotations and rights
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.095959.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

 Dear All,
My name is Chiara Natalucci and I am writing to enquire whether you can help
me with the following.
I am now doing an internship within a British publishing house. They are
going to publish a new book about Russia and they asked me to find the
copyright holders of some authors, as they are going to use several
quotations from them.
The authors include E. Evtushenko, V. Grossman, G. Maryamov, A. Achmatova,
etc.
Do you know how can I find the rights holders of these authors?
Every kind of suggestion can be extremely useful for me.
With thanks and best wishes,
Chiara

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From sdsures at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jul 26 17:38:59 2011
From: sdsures at GMAIL.COM (Stephanie Briggs)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:38:59 +0100
Subject: Russian poetry audio files?
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUL.2011.183859.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Can anyone point me to audio recordings of Chekhov, Pushkin or Pasternak
being read aloud online? Poems, short stories, novels, anything. I used to
know where I could listen to some of the Zhivago poems being read online but
can't remember or find it. Anyone know?

Thanks

Stephanie Briggs

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From mm504 at CAM.AC.UK  Wed Jul 27 14:35:55 2011
From: mm504 at CAM.AC.UK (Muireann Maguire)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:35:55 +0100
Subject: Russian poetry audio files?
In-Reply-To: <CAL-T6KoktJ7bx5o9qheOd4hPq+EXtj=qKHyF3QSKb3wVW=8S1A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.153555.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Stephanie,

Alexandra Smith and others have previously recommended Staroe Radio on this 
forum.

http://www.staroeradio.ru/


A wonderful resource.

Best wishes,

Muireann Maguire

On Jul 27 2011, Stephanie Briggs wrote:

> Can anyone point me to audio recordings of Chekhov, Pushkin or Pasternak 
> being read aloud online? Poems, short stories, novels, anything. I used 
> to know where I could listen to some of the Zhivago poems being read 
> online but can't remember or find it. Anyone know?
>
>Thanks
>
>Stephanie Briggs


-- 
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From fjm6 at COLUMBIA.EDU  Wed Jul 27 14:40:47 2011
From: fjm6 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Frank J Miller)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:40:47 -0400
Subject: Russian poetry audio files?
In-Reply-To: <CAL-T6KoktJ7bx5o9qheOd4hPq+EXtj=qKHyF3QSKb3wVW=8S1A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.104047.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

try http://staroeradio.ru/

On Jul 26, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Stephanie Briggs wrote:

> Can anyone point me to audio recordings of Chekhov, Pushkin or  
> Pasternak
> being read aloud online? Poems, short stories, novels, anything. I  
> used to
> know where I could listen to some of the Zhivago poems being read  
> online but
> can't remember or find it. Anyone know?
>
> Thanks
>
> Stephanie Briggs
>
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Professor of Slavic Languages
Russian Language Coordinator
Department of Slavic Languages
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

Phone:  212-854-8155
Fax:    212-854-5009


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From sdsures at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jul 27 15:34:55 2011
From: sdsures at GMAIL.COM (Stephanie Briggs)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:34:55 +0100
Subject: Russian poetry audio files?
In-Reply-To: <Prayer.1.3.4.1107271535550.29439@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.163455.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Thanks to all who replied!

Stephanie


On 27 July 2011 15:35, Muireann Maguire <mm504 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Stephanie,
>
> Alexandra Smith and others have previously recommended Staroe Radio on this
> forum.
>
> http://www.staroeradio.ru/
>
>
> A wonderful resource.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Muireann Maguire
>
>
> On Jul 27 2011, Stephanie Briggs wrote:
>
>  Can anyone point me to audio recordings of Chekhov, Pushkin or Pasternak
>> being read aloud online? Poems, short stories, novels, anything. I used to
>> know where I could listen to some of the Zhivago poems being read online but
>> can't remember or find it. Anyone know?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Stephanie Briggs
>>
>
>
> --
> Dr Muireann Maguire                 Wadham College, Oxford
>
>
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From frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU  Wed Jul 27 15:50:46 2011
From: frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU (Francoise Rosset)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:50:46 -0400
Subject: Russian poetry audio files?
In-Reply-To: <CAL-T6KqR7gPksZz+6KqDvTAuVQ_wXdAvgTnzDM78Sy53Mc_-_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.115046.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:34:55 +0100
  Stephanie Briggs <sdsures at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied!
> 
> Stephanie
> 
>
  
There's also:
http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/alphabetical.html

aka:
"From the Ends to the Beginning, a Bilingual Anthology of Russian 
verse."
Some --not all-- of the poems have sound files.

-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

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From Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK  Wed Jul 27 16:24:05 2011
From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:24:05 +0100
Subject: Pasternak and Pushkin
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.172405.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

In addition to the suggestions to use the Staroe radio and Nortwestern  
university poetry collection sites, I would recommend to listen to  
Pasternak's own reciting of his poems (Razluka, Veter, V bol'nitse,  
Svidanie etc.) The address of this website is:  
http://bestpoets.narod.ru/pasternak.html

The site also contains several recordings featuring Akhmatova's  
recitals of her own poetry. (The list of poets includes Brodsky and  
Mandelshtam).

As for Pushkin's poetry, there is an interesting film on Pushkin  
(Vnov' ia posetil...) in which Smoktunovsky recites several poems:  
http://video.yandex.ru/users/lucia64/view/451/

There is also an excellent video featuring Sergei Iurskii's recital of  
Pushkin's Eugene  
Onegin:http://video.yandex.ru/users/realpayalnik/view/5/

All best,
Alexandra







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Reader in Russian Studies
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
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From nilafri at YAHOO.COM  Wed Jul 27 17:28:39 2011
From: nilafri at YAHOO.COM (Nila Friedberg)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:28:39 -0700
Subject: Pasternak and Pushkin
In-Reply-To: <20110727172405.9905719j2kvkuysl@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.102839.0700.NILAFRI@YAHOO.COM>

Another good resource for audio recordings (including those of Pasternak) is http://imwerden.de/

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From eb7 at NYU.EDU  Wed Jul 27 19:27:54 2011
From: eb7 at NYU.EDU (Eliot Borenstein)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:27:54 -0400
Subject: Query: Adoption in Post-Soviet Film/TV/Fiction
In-Reply-To: <SEELANGS%201107270000019709.0002@BAMA.UA.EDU>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.152754.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGERS,

Would anyone happen to know of any post-Soviet works of fiction, film, or television, dealing with adoption?  Feel free to reply off-list, and I'll report back the results to SEELANGS.

Thanks,

Eliot Borenstein


Eliot Borenstein, Acting Chair
Professor, Russian & Slavic Studies
Collegiate Professor	
Provostial Fellow
New York University		
19 University Place, Room 212
New York, NY 10003
(212) 998-8676 (office)
(212) 995-4055 (fax)

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From harlo at MINDSPRING.COM  Wed Jul 27 19:38:59 2011
From: harlo at MINDSPRING.COM (harlo at MINDSPRING.COM)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:38:59 -0400
Subject: Query: Adoption in Post-Soviet Film/TV/Fiction
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.153859.0400.>

Eliot,

"Italyanets," a 2005 film directed by Andrey Kravchuk, is set in an orphanage, about a Russian boy adopted by Italians, very good.

best
Harlow Robinson
Northeastern U




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>Sent: Jul 27, 2011 3:27 PM
>To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>Subject: [SEELANGS] Query: Adoption in Post-Soviet Film/TV/Fiction
>
>Dear SEELANGERS,
>
>Would anyone happen to know of any post-Soviet works of fiction, film, or television, dealing with adoption?  Feel free to reply off-list, and I'll report back the results to SEELANGS.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Eliot Borenstein
>
>
>Eliot Borenstein, Acting Chair
>Professor, Russian & Slavic Studies
>Collegiate Professor	
>Provostial Fellow
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>19 University Place, Room 212
>New York, NY 10003
>(212) 998-8676 (office)
>(212) 995-4055 (fax)
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From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM  Wed Jul 27 20:44:36 2011
From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:44:36 +0100
Subject: Vasily Grossman & Beethoven
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.214436.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear all,

A radio journalist has sent me this passage, translated from one of Grossman's articles about Stalingrad for Krasnaya Zvezda.  WHAT is this Beehoven song?!

Thanks in advance,

Robert

> 
> "Someone winds up the gramophone.
> 
> ‘What shall I put on?’
> 
> Several voices cry out,
> 
> ‘Same as always.’
> 
> A strange thing happened. While the man was looking for the record, I was wondering how nice it would be to hear my favourite Irish ditty in this black, wrecked basement. Then all at once a sad, solemn voice began to sing,
> 
> ‘The blizzard rages beyond the window.’
> 
> They are obviously very fond of this song. They all sat quiet, joining in the chorus at least ten times,
> 
> ‘Milady Death, we beseech you,
>  Wait awhile outside the door…’
> 
> These words, Beethoven’s simple, brilliant music knows many ardent, joyful and bitter feelings, hatred and despair, grief and fear, love, pity, revenge. Yet sorrow visits people rarely in war. And in those words, in that music of a great, grieving heart, in that sad, mocking request – ‘Milady Death we beseech you, Wait awhile outside the door’ – there was an indestructible power and noble sorrow.
> 
> Here as never before I felt the mighty power of genuine art -- the Beethoven melody was being listened to solemnly, as a church service, by soldiers who’d been face to face with death for three months in this ruined, devastated, yet not surrendered, building. '
> 
>  




Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD





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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Wed Jul 27 21:30:56 2011
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:30:56 -0400
Subject: Query: Adoption in Post-Soviet Film/TV/Fiction
In-Reply-To: <FAD3664F-E0A9-40CD-AC57-59B86146884E@nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.173056.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Films:

  Итальянец http://www.film.ru/afisha/movie.asp?code=ITALIANC         
(not a light viewing)

Свои дети: http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/ros/hud/13453/annot/

Almost post-Soviet Двое и одна (based on Щербакова's повесть) http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B0_%28%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%29


Alina

Jul 27, 2011, в 3:27 PM, Eliot Borenstein написал(а):

> Dear SEELANGERS,
>
> Would anyone happen to know of any post-Soviet works of fiction,  
> film, or television, dealing with adoption?  Feel free to reply off- 
> list, and I'll report back the results to SEELANGS.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eliot Borenstein
>
>
> Eliot Borenstein, Acting Chair
> Professor, Russian & Slavic Studies
> Collegiate Professor	
> Provostial Fellow
> New York University		
> 19 University Place, Room 212
> New York, NY 10003
> (212) 998-8676 (office)
> (212) 995-4055 (fax)
>
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LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
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From Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK  Wed Jul 27 22:13:49 2011
From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:13:49 +0100
Subject: Vasily Grossman & Beethoven
In-Reply-To: <1577E652-FA73-421A-8696-A882071079EF@DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.231349.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Robert,

The Russian text of the song you are looking for is attached below.  
It's called in Russian "Irlanskaia zastol'naia". You can listen to it  
here:  
http://onlinemusic.org.ua/song/351414/L-V_Bethoven-Irlandskaya_zastolnaya_isp_E_Hil.html




  Артур Эйзен — Ирландская застольная (Бетховен)


За окнами шумит метель
Роями белых пчел
Друзья!
Запеним добрый эль
Поставим грог на стол!

Пусть девушки любовь дарят,
Боль сердца утоля.
Пусть светится любимый взгляд
Огнями хрусталя.

Из ночи и морозных вьюг
Кто в дверь стучится к нам?
И отчего немой испуг
На бледных лицах там?

Миледи смерть, мы просим вас
За дверью обождать
Нам Бетси будет петь сейчас,
А Дженни танцевать.

Что ж потемнели свечи вдруг?
Зажгите пунш скорей
И девушки, скорее в круг
И песни - веселей!

Звени бокалом, жизнь моя!
Гори любовь и хмель!
Нет, только б не сейчас, друзья
В морозную постель!

За окнами шумит метель
Роями белых пчел
Друзья!
Запеним добрый эль
Поставим грог на стол!

Пусть девушки любовь дарят,
Боль сердца утоля.
Пусть светится любимый взгляд
Огнями хрусталя.

All best,
Sasha Smith

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From svitlana.kobets at UTORONTO.CA  Wed Jul 27 22:07:53 2011
From: svitlana.kobets at UTORONTO.CA (Svitlana Kobets)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:07:53 -0400
Subject: Query: Adoption in Post-Soviet Film/TV/Fiction
In-Reply-To: <B421D360-8DD2-4118-A402-8DEF8090A21F@american.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUL.2011.180753.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Vera Storozheva's "Puteshestvie s domashnimi zhivotnymi"

http://www.amazon.com/Travelling-Pets-Puteshestvie-Domashnimi-Zhivotnymi/dp/B001AAEFP0

Svitlana


On 2011-07-27, at 5:30 PM, Alina Israeli wrote:

> Films:
> 
> Итальянец http://www.film.ru/afisha/movie.asp?code=ITALIANC        (not a light viewing)
> 
> Свои дети: http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/ros/hud/13453/annot/
> 
> Almost post-Soviet Двое и одна (based on Щербакова's повесть) http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B0_%28%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%29
> 
> 
> Alina
> 
> Jul 27, 2011, в 3:27 PM, Eliot Borenstein написал(а):
> 
>> Dear SEELANGERS,
>> 
>> Would anyone happen to know of any post-Soviet works of fiction, film, or television, dealing with adoption?  Feel free to reply off-list, and I'll report back the results to SEELANGS.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Eliot Borenstein
>> 
>> 
>> Eliot Borenstein, Acting Chair
>> Professor, Russian & Slavic Studies
>> Collegiate Professor	
>> Provostial Fellow
>> New York University		
>> 19 University Place, Room 212
>> New York, NY 10003
>> (212) 998-8676 (office)
>> (212) 995-4055 (fax)
>> 
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> Alina Israeli
> Associate Professor of Russian
> LFS, American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
> Washington DC 20016
> (202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
> aisrael at american.edu
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Literature Instructor, St. Michael’s College CE & Research Associate
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 
University of Toronto
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Toronto, ON  M5S 2C4
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From Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK  Thu Jul 28 07:32:25 2011
From: Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK (Simon Beattie)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:32:25 +0100
Subject: Vasily Grossman & Beethoven
In-Reply-To: <20110727231349.12543iq4s05ux5s0@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUL.2011.083225.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Is it one of the "Irische Lieder", perhaps?  Beethoven set quite a few.

Simon


-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alexandra Smith
Sent: 27 July 2011 23:14
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Vasily Grossman & Beethoven

Dear Robert,

The Russian text of the song you are looking for is attached below.  
It's called in Russian "Irlanskaia zastol'naia". You can listen to it  
here:  
http://onlinemusic.org.ua/song/351414/L-V_Bethoven-Irlandskaya_zastolnaya_isp_E_Hil.html




  Артур Эйзен — Ирландская застольная (Бетховен)


За окнами шумит метель
Роями белых пчел
Друзья!
Запеним добрый эль
Поставим грог на стол!

Пусть девушки любовь дарят,
Боль сердца утоля.
Пусть светится любимый взгляд
Огнями хрусталя.

Из ночи и морозных вьюг
Кто в дверь стучится к нам?
И отчего немой испуг
На бледных лицах там?

Миледи смерть, мы просим вас
За дверью обождать
Нам Бетси будет петь сейчас,
А Дженни танцевать.

Что ж потемнели свечи вдруг?
Зажгите пунш скорей
И девушки, скорее в круг
И песни - веселей!

Звени бокалом, жизнь моя!
Гори любовь и хмель!
Нет, только б не сейчас, друзья
В морозную постель!

За окнами шумит метель
Роями белых пчел
Друзья!
Запеним добрый эль
Поставим грог на стол!

Пусть девушки любовь дарят,
Боль сердца утоля.
Пусть светится любимый взгляд
Огнями хрусталя.

All best,
Sasha Smith

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From Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK  Thu Jul 28 09:54:04 2011
From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:54:04 +0100
Subject: Vasily Grossman & Beethoven/Irish song
In-Reply-To: <002101cc4cf8$7fbe7390$7f3b5ab0$@co.uk>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUL.2011.105404.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Simon,

Beethoven created at least 57 compositions in the style of Irish  
songs. Needless to say, the Russian version refers to the Irish cycles  
since it's called The Irish party song.
As far as I can judge, the Russian version described in Grossman's  
text uses the melody of one of the Irish songs created by Beethoven  
but the words are different from the Irish (English language) text.

All best,
Alexandra



Quoting Simon Beattie <Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK> on Thu, 28 Jul 2011  
08:32:25 +0100:

> Is it one of the "Irische Lieder", perhaps?  Beethoven set quite a few.
>
> Simon
>
>
>

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From Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK  Thu Jul 28 10:47:31 2011
From: Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK (Simon Beattie)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:47:31 +0100
Subject: Vasily Grossman & Beethoven/Irish song
In-Reply-To: <20110728105404.66116mi9ai8zugco@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUL.2011.114731.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Thanks, Alexandra.  I'm no Beethoven expert, and I don't know the original texts which he set.

Simon

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Sent: 28 July 2011 10:54
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Vasily Grossman & Beethoven/Irish song

Dear Simon,

Beethoven created at least 57 compositions in the style of Irish  
songs. Needless to say, the Russian version refers to the Irish cycles  
since it's called The Irish party song.
As far as I can judge, the Russian version described in Grossman's  
text uses the melody of one of the Irish songs created by Beethoven  
but the words are different from the Irish (English language) text.

All best,
Alexandra



Quoting Simon Beattie <Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK> on Thu, 28 Jul 2011  
08:32:25 +0100:

> Is it one of the "Irische Lieder", perhaps?  Beethoven set quite a few.
>
> Simon
>
>
>

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From wfr at SAS.AC.UK  Thu Jul 28 14:29:58 2011
From: wfr at SAS.AC.UK (William Ryan)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:29:58 +0100
Subject: Vasily Grossman & Beethoven
In-Reply-To: <002101cc4cf8$7fbe7390$7f3b5ab0$@co.uk>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUL.2011.152958.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

This caught my attention and aroused my curiosity because my teenage 
daughter is collecting Irish folksongs (seeking her roots I suppose). It 
should have been easy to find  - and wasn't, so I browsed. The main 
information on this subject appears to be  John Hennig, "Beethoven and 
Ireland", The Irish Monthly, Vol. 75, No. 890 (Aug., 1947), pp. 332-338 
and Alice Anderson Hufstader, "Beethoven's "Irische Lieder": Sources and 
Problems", The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Jul., 1959), pp. 343-360.

Opinions on the number of "Irish" songs by Beethoven vary from 57 to 72, 
and sometimes they get confused with his Scottish songs. They were 
commissioned by George Thomson, an Edinburgh publisher, who supplied 
Beethoven with the melodies, obtained from a Dr Latham in Cork, some of 
which were traditional and some contemporary popular and most were sent 
without words. The missing "lyrics" were mostly supplied by Thomson who 
commissioned them from a variety of usually minor English and Scottish 
versifiers - i.e. they were not authentic Irish folksongs.

To judge from the titles of the Irische Lieder which I can find, the 
"Irlandskaia zastol'naia" lyric seems not to be one of them , or even 
particularly Irish -  Betsy and Jenny (Jeannie?) don't sound very Irish, 
and all that ale, grog and punch sound more like a composed English 
drinking song than a folksong. And since when has death been personified 
as "milady"?

The "Irlandskaia zastol'naia"seems to have been a popular concert piece 
in Russia, with several recordings by well-known singers - and none of 
them gives the original title in their website descriptions. I had 
thought originally that Tom Moore might have Beethoven's source, but he 
wasn't because he was already preparing his Irish Melodies for another 
publisher. Even so half of Beethoven's melodies are taken from the same 
source as Moore's. As I said, this ought be easy with the resources of 
the Web, but it isn't. I would be very glad to hear the full story if 
anyone knows it, as I am sure would Robert.

Will

On 28/07/2011 08:32, Simon Beattie wrote:
> Is it one of the "Irische Lieder", perhaps?  Beethoven set quite a few.
>
> Simon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic&  East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alexandra Smith
> Sent: 27 July 2011 23:14
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Vasily Grossman&  Beethoven
>
> Dear Robert,
>
> The Russian text of the song you are looking for is attached below.
> It's called in Russian "Irlanskaia zastol'naia". You can listen to it
> here:
> http://onlinemusic.org.ua/song/351414/L-V_Bethoven-Irlandskaya_zastolnaya_isp_E_Hil.html
>
>
>
>
>    Артур Эйзен — Ирландская застольная (Бетховен)
>
>
> За окнами шумит метель
> Роями белых пчел
> Друзья!
> Запеним добрый эль
> Поставим грог на стол!
>
> Пусть девушки любовь дарят,
> Боль сердца утоля.
> Пусть светится любимый взгляд
> Огнями хрусталя.
>
> Из ночи и морозных вьюг
> Кто в дверь стучится к нам?
> И отчего немой испуг
> На бледных лицах там?
>
> Миледи смерть, мы просим вас
> За дверью обождать
> Нам Бетси будет петь сейчас,
> А Дженни танцевать.
>
> Что ж потемнели свечи вдруг?
> Зажгите пунш скорей
> И девушки, скорее в круг
> И песни - веселей!
>
> Звени бокалом, жизнь моя!
> Гори любовь и хмель!
> Нет, только б не сейчас, друзья
> В морозную постель!
>
> За окнами шумит метель
> Роями белых пчел
> Друзья!
> Запеним добрый эль
> Поставим грог на стол!
>
> Пусть девушки любовь дарят,
> Боль сердца утоля.
> Пусть светится любимый взгляд
> Огнями хрусталя.
>
> All best,
> Sasha Smith
>

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From Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK  Thu Jul 28 10:44:36 2011
From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:44:36 +0100
Subject: Vasily Grossman & Beethoven-Irlandskaya zastol'naia
In-Reply-To: <20110727231349.12543iq4s05ux5s0@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUL.2011.114436.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Robert,

The song described in Grossman's essay (Beethoven "Irlandskaia  
zastol'naia") was one of the most popular songs among soldiers during  
the war. See, for example, Olga Berrgolts's comments from "Dnevnye  
zvezdy" regarding  
this:http://militera.lib.ru/prose/russian/berggolts_of/09.html

According to some memoirs, the gramophone record featuring this song  
is related to the performance of Professor Anatolii Leonidovich Dolivo  
(Dolivo-Sobotnitskii) (1893-1965).

All best,
Sasha Smith













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Department of European Languages and Cultures
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The University of Edinburgh
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From gmmst11 at PITT.EDU  Thu Jul 28 16:20:20 2011
From: gmmst11 at PITT.EDU (Gerald McCausland)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:20:20 -0400
Subject: Query: Adoption in Post-Soviet Film/TV/Fiction
In-Reply-To: <FAD3664F-E0A9-40CD-AC57-59B86146884E@nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUL.2011.122020.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Hello Eliot:

Pavel Chukhrai's 2004 film "A Driver For Vera" ends with an adoption of 
sorts, albeit more metaphorical than formal. I'm not sure what your 
specific interest is, but the whole issue of orphanhood, with it's 
mandatory accompaniments--maternal faith(ful/less)ness, paternal 
(il)legitimacy, national (lack of) identity--is central to this film's 
thematic.

Best,
	Jerry

On 7/27/2011 3:27 PM, Eliot Borenstein wrote:
> Dear SEELANGERS,
>
> Would anyone happen to know of any post-Soviet works of fiction, film, or television, dealing with adoption?  Feel free to reply off-list, and I'll report back the results to SEELANGS.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eliot Borenstein
>
>
> Eliot Borenstein, Acting Chair
> Professor, Russian&  Slavic Studies
> Collegiate Professor	
> Provostial Fellow
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> New York, NY 10003
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University of Pittsburgh
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From sdsures at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jul 28 14:31:06 2011
From: sdsures at GMAIL.COM (Stephanie Briggs)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:31:06 +0100
Subject: Query: Adoption in Post-Soviet Film/TV/Fiction
In-Reply-To: <FAD3664F-E0A9-40CD-AC57-59B86146884E@nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUL.2011.153106.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Season 1 of "ER" has a story arc in which a Russian girl is abandoned at the
County General Hospital by her American adoptive mother (disturbingly
wealthy and self-centered, apparently barely knows Russian herself) days
after having adopted her in Saint Petersburg. Tatiana is 6 years old, speaks
no English, and is dying of AIDS. Nurse Carol Hathaway bonds with Tatiana
and seeks to adopt her, but is rejected because of a suicide attempt that
occurred in the season premiere.

Hope that's the sort of thing you might be after; I happened to watch that
story arc a few days ago with my husband. Try not to cringe at Juliana
Margolies' pronunciation, eh? I did. Made my ears bleed.

Stephanie

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From irexscholars at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jul 28 17:31:49 2011
From: irexscholars at GMAIL.COM (Julia Hon)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:31:49 -0400
Subject: Recent IREX Scholar Briefs
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUL.2011.133149.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Please find below the links to recent Scholar Research Briefs from
recipients of IREX research support fellowships and grants for Eastern
Europe and Eurasia:


Raisa Belyavina
Teachers, Students, and Administrators Speak About Secondary Education
in Belarus: An Analysis of Education Quality and Modernization
http://www.irex.org/resource/teachers-students-and-administrators-speak-about-secondary-education-belarus-analysis-educa
Abstract: This research tackles the question of education quality
through case studies of eight schools in Belarus. Through school
visits in several regions in the country and extensive interviews with
teachers, school administrators, and students, my work offers an
inside perspective on the education system in Belarus and a glimpse
into the Belarusian centralized bureaucracy. This report provides an
overview of the education system, including the curriculum, the
pedagogy, and the perceptions of quality and shifts toward
modernization of all who are involved in the education process.

***

Seth Bernstein
The Political Socialization and Militarization of Soviet Youth, 1934-1941
http://www.irex.org/resource/political-socialization-and-militarization-soviet-youth-1934-1941-research-brief
Abstract: My project examines Soviet youth programs in the eight years
before the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. I focus
primarily on the Communist Youth League (Komsomol), particularly its
departments responsible for membership issues and military and
physical education. My main focus is on changes in admissions and
disciplinary policies as well as the place of youth military training
in the Komsomol and related organizations.

***

Ramajana Hidic Demirovic
Performing Tradition in the Public Arena: Laura Papo Bohoreta and
Sephardic Women in Interwar Bosnia
http://www.irex.org/resource/performing-tradition-public-arena-laura-papo-bohoreta-and-sephardic-women-interwar-bosnia-r
Abstract: A work of cultural history situated in the inter-war period,
also known as first Yugoslav period, my project specifically
interrogates questions of Sephardic women’s experiences that were
caught in the midst of turbulent changes of Empires and a creation of
the new multinational state.

***

Lisa Kirschenbaum
International Radical Networks: The Case of the Comintern
http://www.irex.org/resource/international-radical-networks-case-comintern-research-brief
Abstract: The project investigates files from the Comintern Archive
and the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art to chart the lives
of international students at the Comintern’s Schools and international
communists who had connections to both Moscow and Spain. Examining
transnational interactions from the perspective of the people who
together constituted the Comintern, the project offers a new social
and cultural approach to the history of international communism. The
overarching question addressed by this project remains a concern of US
foreign policy: How do radical, transnational organizations recruit
and retain adherents?


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From beach.gray at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jul 28 18:08:57 2011
From: beach.gray at GMAIL.COM (Beach Gray)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:08:57 -0400
Subject: Query: Adoption in Post-Soviet Film/TV/Fiction
In-Reply-To: <4E318C44.8070004@pitt.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUL.2011.140857.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Professor Eliot Borenstein,

I am not sure of your specific research interests, but Timur Bekmambetov's
recent film _Six Degrees of Celebration_ (2010) features child protagonists
who live in an orphanage in Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg.  Like _A Driver for
Vera_,though, the adoption at the end is more metaphorical than formal.  My
recent review in _KinoKultura_ may help you decide if this is relevant for
your research:

http://www.kinokultura.com/2011/33r-elki.shtml

I hope this helps!

Best,

Beach.


Beach Gray
Graduate Student
Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages
University of Pittsburgh
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Gerald McCausland <gmmst11 at pitt.edu>wrote:

> Hello Eliot:
>
> Pavel Chukhrai's 2004 film "A Driver For Vera" ends with an adoption of
> sorts, albeit more metaphorical than formal. I'm not sure what your specific
> interest is, but the whole issue of orphanhood, with it's mandatory
> accompaniments--maternal faith(ful/less)ness, paternal (il)legitimacy,
> national (lack of) identity--is central to this film's thematic.
>
> Best,
>        Jerry
>
> On 7/27/2011 3:27 PM, Eliot Borenstein wrote:
>
>> Dear SEELANGERS,
>>
>> Would anyone happen to know of any post-Soviet works of fiction, film, or
>> television, dealing with adoption?  Feel free to reply off-list, and I'll
>> report back the results to SEELANGS.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eliot Borenstein
>>
>>
>> Eliot Borenstein, Acting Chair
>> Professor, Russian&  Slavic Studies
>> Collegiate Professor
>> Provostial Fellow
>> New York University
>> 19 University Place, Room 212
>> New York, NY 10003
>> (212) 998-8676 (office)
>> (212) 995-4055 (fax)
>>
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>>
>
>
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> Acting Undergraduate Adviser
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> University of Pittsburgh
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From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM  Thu Jul 28 20:47:51 2011
From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:47:51 +0100
Subject: One more song from LIFE &  FATE
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUL.2011.214751.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear all,

Does anyone know anything about this song?  It does not seem to be as well known as most of the other songs in L & F.

Девочки пели вполголоса грустную песенку:

...А однажды осеннею ноченькой
Командир приласкал ее сам.
До утра называл ее доченькой
И с тех пор уж пошла по рукам...
 
Under a fine autumn moon, 
the commander took her to bed, 
he kissed her till it was dawn 
and now she belongs to the men  (book 2, ch 16, p. 397)

All the best,

Robert


Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD





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From a_strat at HOTMAIL.COM  Thu Jul 28 15:26:57 2011
From: a_strat at HOTMAIL.COM (Alexander Stratienko)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:26:57 +0000
Subject: Russian poetry audio files?
In-Reply-To: <CAL-T6KoktJ7bx5o9qheOd4hPq+EXtj=qKHyF3QSKb3wVW=8S1A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.28.JUL.2011.152657.0000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Это немного не по теме, но может быть любопытно для Силанговцев...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00f9y2h/The_Wednesday_Documentary_How_My_Country_Speaks_Episode_1


> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:38:59 +0100
> From: sdsures at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian poetry audio files?
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> 
> Can anyone point me to audio recordings of Chekhov, Pushkin or Pasternak
> being read aloud online? Poems, short stories, novels, anything. I used to
> know where I could listen to some of the Zhivago poems being read online but
> can't remember or find it. Anyone know?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Stephanie Briggs
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From robinso at STOLAF.EDU  Fri Jul 29 13:26:25 2011
From: robinso at STOLAF.EDU (Marc Robinson)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:26:25 -0500
Subject: Help to find DVD's with subtitles.
Message-ID: <FRI.29.JUL.2011.082625.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Does anyone have a source for finding the newer movies "Stilyagi", "Gitler
kaput", or "Generation П" with subtitles?  I know that the first has been
shown at festivals, and so a subtitled version must exist.  I would
appreciate any contact information for distributors or the producers of
those films.

Thank you,

Marc Robinson, Chair
The Dept. of Russian Language and Area Studies
St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, MN 55057

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From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM  Fri Jul 29 07:28:35 2011
From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:28:35 +0100
Subject: Oleg Woolf (1954-2011)
Message-ID: <FRI.29.JUL.2011.082835.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear all,

I am writing to pass on the terrible news that the poet Oleg Woolf died just over a week ago.  There will be a memorial service this Sunday.

Please excuse the brevity of this message.  I am finding it difficult to write this, but I think there may be people who do not yet know of Oleg's death and who will want to attend this ceremony.

Yours,

Robert Chandler

> Олег Вулф (1954-2011)
> Поэт и главный редактор литературного проекта Cтoроны света ( Сardinal Points, www.stosvet.net )
> 
> 
> The memorial service will be held on Sunday, July 31 at 1pm
> at
> Union Church of Pocantico Hills
> 555 Bedford Rd (=Rt 448)
> Sleepy Hollow, NY
> Sunday, July 31
> Time: 1:00 -1:30pm
> 
> http://www.hudsonvalley.org/content/view/62/127/
> 914.631.8200 Monday through Friday or 914.332.6659 on weekends
> Assistance with Directions
> Call 914-332-6659
> 
> The church is easy to find unless you consult Google or Mapquest  (DON'T) :
> Tappan Zee Br (Rt 287 E), ex9 to Sleepy Hollow -> Rt 9N (=S.Broadway) to 448 (=Bedford Rd) (right after a big clock) Go ~ 1.5- 2mi until a stop sigh at Lake Rd (turn left =448 continues) - and follow for ~0.5 mi . Union Church is on your right
> 
> The gathering at the Russian Samovar starts at 4.30pm
> 256 W 42nd (52nd at 8ave) 212-757-0168
> http://russiansamovar.com/



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From Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK  Fri Jul 29 10:15:42 2011
From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:15:42 +0100
Subject: Vasily Grossman & Beethoven /and the Russian translator Globa
In-Reply-To: <4E317266.1050503@sas.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <FRI.29.JUL.2011.111542.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear William,

Thank you for your informative e-mail about Beethoven's Irish songs.
You are absolutely right about the lack of information regarding the  
Russian song "Irlandskaya zastol'naia".

As far as I can judge, the Russian song called The Irish party Song  
makes use of Beethoven's music from this piece: Ludwig van Beethoven:  
Come draw we round a cheerful ring, from Irish songs, WoO 152, No. 11.
You can hear part of it (performed by Ann Murray) here:  
http://www.classicalm.com/en/composition/1969/25-Irish-Songs
You can see the picture of the LP gramophone  record described in  
Grossman's passage here:  
http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=12514&l=russian

It was produced in the Soviet Union in 1938. The recording features  
Russian singer and voice teacher Professor A.L. Dolivo who sings two  
party songs - the Irish song and the Scottish on. Both songs -- The  
Irish Party (Drinking) Song and the Scottish Party Song use  
Beethoven's music but they don't match the original songs -- they were  
penned by Andrey Globa (1888-1964), an established Russian -Soviet  
poet, writer and playwright. (In 1922 Valerii Briusov praised his  
poetic achievements.) They were inspired by the original and might be  
defined as transpositions rather than translations. The Irish Party  
Song in Globa's rendering preserves the image of Winter described in  
the second stanza of the song "Come draw we round a cheerful ring" (it  
was written by the Scottish writer and poet Joanna Baillie):

Who shakes the door with angry din;
And would admitted be?
No, Gossip Winter, snug within,
We have no room for thee.
Go, scud it o'er Killarney's lake,
And shake the willows bare;
The water-elf his sport doth take,
Thou'lt find a comrade there.

Globa's version reads:
Iz nochi I moroznykh viug
Kto v dver' stuchitsia k nam?
I otchego nemoi ispug
Na blednykh litsakh tam?

Needless to say, Globa omits all the references to Irish landscapes.

The images of "grog" and "Betsy" appear in both songs created by  
Globa: in the Irish Party Song and in The Scottish Party Song. I think  
that this image derives from Pushkin's poem "Piruiushchie studenty"  
that features students drinking grog. The image of Jenny inserted by  
Globa into the Irish song invokes the image of loyal lover Jenny (who  
will always remember Edmond: a Edmonda ne zabudet Jenny dazhe v  
nebesakh): it appears in Pushkin's Mary's Song from A Feast in Time of  
Plague. The girl Betsy - who is featured in both songs penned by Globa  
(once again there is no Betsy in the original Scottish song)- invokes   
Liza (whose father was an anglophile and called her Betsy) from  
Pushkin's story "The Lady Peasant" (Baryshnia krestian'ka). Just like  
Pushkin's story promotes the advantages of using theatrical modes of  
behaviour and disguise as well as wit and inventiveness, Globa's  
poems/songs promote the same creative approach to established  
conventions. They can be called translations in disguise. It seems  
that Globa managed to convince some of his contemporaries in his  
abilities to be a brilliant translator, including Mariia Iudina who  
praised his translations (she also defines Globa as a typical Moscow  
dandy: tipichnyj moskovskij estet). She praises Globa's translations  
of Beethoven's songs prepared by Dolivo (Irish and Scottish songs) as  
truly remarkable: http://judina.ru/sozdanie-sbornika-pesen-shuberta/

All best,
Alexandra






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Reader in Russian Studies
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
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From zielinski at GMX.CH  Fri Jul 29 14:26:09 2011
From: zielinski at GMX.CH (Jan Zielinski)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:26:09 +0200
Subject: Vasily Grossman & Beethoven /and the Russian translator Globa
In-Reply-To: <20110729111542.61786thrj2gf6js4@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <FRI.29.JUL.2011.162609.0200.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Thanks, Alexandra, for all your explanations, so rich and answering new 
questions even before one has time to formulate them.

Jan Zielinski

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From samastef at INDIANA.EDU  Fri Jul 29 14:30:37 2011
From: samastef at INDIANA.EDU (Stefani, Sara Marie)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:30:37 +0000
Subject: Help to find DVD's with subtitles.
In-Reply-To: <CAFXraTspWN3T3bDHFGmYmYF3H5c3TNVbVZpuRFA7ChzzwBaygg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FRI.29.JUL.2011.143037.0000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

If anyone knows of such a source, could you post that information to the list - I am also interested in finding subtitled versions of these movies.

Thank you!

________________________________________
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 9:26 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] Help to find DVD's with subtitles.

Does anyone have a source for finding the newer movies "Stilyagi", "Gitler
kaput", or "Generation П" with subtitles?  I know that the first has been
shown at festivals, and so a subtitled version must exist.  I would
appreciate any contact information for distributors or the producers of
those films.

Thank you,

Marc Robinson, Chair
The Dept. of Russian Language and Area Studies
St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, MN 55057

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From sdsures at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jul 29 15:40:34 2011
From: sdsures at GMAIL.COM (Stephanie Briggs)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:40:34 +0100
Subject: Help to find DVD's with subtitles.
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Me too, please, especially Burnt by the Sun 2.

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2011/7/29 Stefani, Sara Marie <samastef at indiana.edu>

> If anyone knows of such a source, could you post that information to the
> list - I am also interested in finding subtitled versions of these movies.
>
> Thank you!
>
> ________________________________________
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [
> SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] on behalf of Marc Robinson [robinso at STOLAF.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 9:26 AM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Help to find DVD's with subtitles.
>
> Does anyone have a source for finding the newer movies "Stilyagi", "Gitler
> kaput", or "Generation П" with subtitles?  I know that the first has been
> shown at festivals, and so a subtitled version must exist.  I would
> appreciate any contact information for distributors or the producers of
> those films.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Marc Robinson, Chair
> The Dept. of Russian Language and Area Studies
> St. Olaf College
> 1520 St. Olaf Avenue
> Northfield, MN 55057
>
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From wfr at SAS.AC.UK  Fri Jul 29 23:21:32 2011
From: wfr at SAS.AC.UK (William Ryan)
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:21:32 +0100
Subject: Vasily Grossman & Beethoven /and the Russian translator Globa
In-Reply-To: <20110729111542.61786thrj2gf6js4@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <SAT.30.JUL.2011.002132.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Alexandra,
Thank you for confirming my suspicions about this "Irish" song and 
giving such an excellent elucidation of a tangled story.
Best wishes,
Will

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From mtsmith02 at YSU.EDU  Sat Jul 30 18:11:37 2011
From: mtsmith02 at YSU.EDU (Melissa Smith)
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:11:37 -0400
Subject: Help to find DVD's with subtitles.
Message-ID: <SAT.30.JUL.2011.141137.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

<www.RussianDVD.com> is a good source. If the film has had an 
international release, the DVD will usually have and English subtitles 
track, which you have to remember to turn ON before watching the film. 
Make sure it is in NTSC format if you don't have an international 
format player. I have several in PAL format that have the subtitles as 
well.

The case it comes in may be in Russian, but that is not necessarily an 
indicator that it is without subtitles. I'm positive that "Burnt By the 
Sun" is readily available, since it won the Oscar for "Best Foreign 
Film." You can probably find a copy on Amazon, which has a lot as well.

Melissa Smith

On 7/29/11 11:40 AM, Stephanie Briggs wrote:
> Me too, please, especially Burnt by the Sun 2.
> 
> *****************************
> ~Stephanie D. (Sures) Briggs
> 
> Come have a look at my handmade knitted afghans and scarves!
> http://www.etsy.com/shop/shornlambs
> 
> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sdsures
> Facebook:  <http://warmochfuzzy.etsy.com/>
> http://www.facebook.com/stephanie.briggs3
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2011/7/29 Stefani, Sara Marie <samastef at indiana.edu>
> 
> > If anyone knows of such a source, could you post that information to 
the
> > list - I am also interested in finding subtitled versions of these 
movies.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures 
list [
> > SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] on behalf of Marc Robinson [robinso at STOLAF.EDU]
> > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 9:26 AM
> > To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> > Subject: [SEELANGS] Help to find DVD's with subtitles.
> >
> > Does anyone have a source for finding the newer movies "Stilyagi", 
"Gitler
> > kaput", or "Generation П" with subtitles?  I know that the first has 
been
> > shown at festivals, and so a subtitled version must exist.  I would
> > appreciate any contact information for distributors or the producers 
of
> > those films.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Marc Robinson, Chair
> > The Dept. of Russian Language and Area Studies
> > St. Olaf College
> > 1520 St. Olaf Avenue
> > Northfield, MN 55057
> >
> > 
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Youngstown State University
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From dignashe at CARLETON.EDU  Sun Jul 31 03:03:11 2011
From: dignashe at CARLETON.EDU (Diane Nemec Ignashev)
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:03:11 -0500
Subject: Sokurov's Mat' i syn - German subtitles
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Does anyone out there own or have access to Sokurov's Mat' i syn with German subtitles? I need to check four lines of text. If you can help, please respond off-list to dignashe at carleton.edu   Thank you.  D. Nemec Ignashev

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