From nataliek at UALBERTA.CA  Fri Jun  1 02:52:14 2012
From: nataliek at UALBERTA.CA (Natalie Kononenko)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:52:14 -0600
Subject: some photographs that may be of interest .....
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Thanks everyone.  A collector of folk art in Manitoba name Len Krawchuk
showed turn of the century postcards of folk costumes in colour.  They made
me curious about early colour photography.  That is how I heard about using
three lenses - red, green, and blue - to achieve the colour effect.

Natalie

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Christine Worobec <
worobecchristine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Natalie: Yes, it was the 3-colour lens method. I very recently
> heard a short presentation on how the photographs were digitized at
> the Library of Congress. Best to contact the European Reading Room at
> LC, and they will provide you with more information.
>
> Very best wishes,
> Christine Worobec
> Northern Illinois University
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Natalie Kononenko <nataliek at ualberta.ca>
> wrote:
> > Does anyone know how the color was achieved?  Was it with the 3-colour
> lense
> > method?
> >
> > Natalie Kononenko
> >
> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Francoise Rosset <
> frosset at wheatonma.edu>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Robert and everyone:
> >>
> >> The Prokudin-Gorskii collection is also available, presumably in its
> >> entirety, through the Library of Congress, in a searchable site at:
> >> http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
> >> The site is called "The Empire That Was Russia"
> >>
> >> It includes a color portrait of Lev Tolstoy.
> >> And it doesn't necessarily provide good final versions of every
> photograph
> >> (such as the ones found in the article Robert sent us); often there's
> just a
> >> base digital image, easily enhanced.
> >>
> >> There is also a pretty decent book out, *Photographs for the Tsar."
> >> I bought it many many moons ago when I first started teaching, but it's
> >> probably still available.
> >>
> >> -FR
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 31 May 2012 01:38:14 -0400
> >>  Robert Orr <colkitto at ROGERS.COM> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html
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From jpf3 at UCHICAGO.EDU  Fri Jun  1 12:38:18 2012
From: jpf3 at UCHICAGO.EDU (June P. Farris)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 12:38:18 +0000
Subject: some photographs that may be of interest .....
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In response to the question about how the color was achieved, I contacted my LC colleagues and here is a reply from Harold Leich of LC's European Division.  June Farris

Prokudin-Gorsky developed his own three-color method of color photography after studying with Adolph Miethe in Berlin.   Details of how the photographs were taken and displayed are on the Library of Congress Prokudin-Gorsky exhibit site (www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire<http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire> -- this morning it seemed to be temporarily inaccessible).  This exhibit, 60 selected images printed from the negatives in the collection as digitized in 1999, was on display in Washington in 2001 and traveled around Russia 2003-06.  The entire collection as purchased by the Library of Congress from the photographer's sons in Paris in 1948 consists of 1,903 glass-plate three-color negatives; 14 albums of b/w contact prints with captions identifying most images; and an additional ca. 500 b/w photos without corresponding negatives.  The whereabouts of an additional ca. 1,600 images that Prokudin-Gorsky claims to have taken are not known.

The Allshouse publication from 1980 produced selected images from the collection produced using pre-digital technology (described in the introduction to his book).

The most recent book-length treatments of the background and history of the collection are:

Viktor Minakhin, Dostoprimechatl'nosti Rossii v natural'nykh tsvetakh: ves' Prokudin-Gorskii, 1905-1916 (Moskva: s.n., 2003). [Text in Russian and English]

Svetlana Petrovna Garanina, Rossiiskaia imperiia Prokudina-Gorskogo, 1905-1916 (Moskva: Krasivaia strana, 2006). [Text in Russian and English]

Also good is the recent article,

Jeremy Adamson and Helena Zinkham, "The Prokudin-Gorskii Legacy: Color Photographs of the Russian Empire, 1905-1915," Comma, International Journal on Archives, 2002 no.3/4:  107-144.

There are now a number of websites in Russia on the Prokudin-Gorsky images, as the digital version of the collection has been discovered there; see especially the following:

http://www.prokudin-gorsky.org/

http://www.prokudin-gorsky.ru/

http://www.veinik.by/

The first site listed has produced an ongoing, very useful list of corrections, clarifications, additions etc. to the photographer's identification of a number of the images in the collection.

Questions about the collection may be directed to Harry Leich (hlei at loc.gov<mailto:hlei at loc.gov>), European Division, LC; or Verna Curtis (vcur at loc.gov), Prints & Photographs Division, LC.



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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Natalie Kononenko
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:39 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] some photographs that may be of interest .....

Does anyone know how the color was achieved?  Was it with the 3-colour lense method?

Natalie Kononenko
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Francoise Rosset <frosset at wheatonma.edu<mailto:frosset at wheatonma.edu>> wrote:
Dear Robert and everyone:

The Prokudin-Gorskii collection is also available, presumably in its entirety, through the Library of Congress, in a searchable site at:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
The site is called "The Empire That Was Russia"

It includes a color portrait of Lev Tolstoy.
And it doesn't necessarily provide good final versions of every photograph (such as the ones found in the article Robert sent us); often there's just a base digital image, easily enhanced.

There is also a pretty decent book out, *Photographs for the Tsar."
I bought it many many moons ago when I first started teaching, but it's probably still available.

-FR





On Thu, 31 May 2012 01:38:14 -0400
 Robert Orr <colkitto at ROGERS.COM<mailto:colkitto at ROGERS.COM>> wrote:
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From kolljack at STANFORD.EDU  Fri Jun  1 22:00:08 2012
From: kolljack at STANFORD.EDU (Jack Kollmann)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:00:08 -0700
Subject: Akhmatova poem
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O, wise colleagues:

 

In Akhmatova's 1913 poem, "Stikhi o Peterburge," #2, she refers to the
"Galernaia arka in verse #1:

Serdtse b'etsia rovno, merno.

Chto mne dolgie goda!

Ved' pod arkoi na Galernoi

Nashi teni navsegda.

 

Is the "Galernaia Arch" (1) the one on Palace Square in the middle of
Rossi's General Staff Bldg.; or (2) the one between Rossi's Senate/Synod
Bldgs., the street behind which is Galernaia ulitsa; or (3) some other
arch?  I'm guessing #2 because of the street name, although Roberta Reeder
("Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet," St. Martin's, 1994) says #1 (p. 71).
In any case, why "Galernaia"?  Meaning "galley, a type of boat"
(extensively used at least during Peter's time), right?, and not
"gallery"?  

 

I can't find reference to the origin and first use of the street name
"Galernaia ulitsa," much less the arch, although I'm sure it's explained
somewhere.  Can you suggest good reference works, either online or
printed, re: street/place names in Petersburg?  I have a couple of books
on origins of street and place names in Moscow, but not a comparable one
for Petersburg.

 

Many thanks.

 

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From idshevelenko at WISC.EDU  Fri Jun  1 22:11:53 2012
From: idshevelenko at WISC.EDU (Irina Shevelenko)
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 02:11:53 +0400
Subject: Akhmatova poem
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#2 is correct. And for the origin of the name of Galernaia ulitsa, here is
information from Russian Wikipedia:

История названия

В первой половине XVIII
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/XVIII_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA> века именовалась 1-я
Галерная улица, названная по Галерному двору, находившемуся в этом районе.
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F> 20
апреля  <http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/1738_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4> 1738 года
присвоено наименование Исакиевская улица, по
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%
B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80> Исакиевской
церкви, которая тогда находилась в начале улицы. Параллельно существовали
названия Старая Исакиевская улица, Морская Исакиевская улица, Западная
улица, Западная Галерная улица (от
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%89%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C_%D0
%A2%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0_%28%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D
1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%29> площади Труда до
Ново-Адмиралтейского канала), Канатная улица (от
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%89%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C_%D0
%94%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2_%28%D0%A1%D0
%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3
%29> площади Декабристов, до улицы Труда, названа по Адмиралтейской канатной
фабрике, находившейся между этой улицей и
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B2%D0%
B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%
D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80> Конногвардейским бульваром), Канатная линия. К
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/1810_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4> 1810 году
наименование Галерная улица вытеснило все остальные и стало официальным
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%
8F_%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0_%28%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D
0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%29#cite_note-.D0.A2.D0.BE.D0.
BF.D0.BE.D0.BD.D0.B8.D0.BC.D0.B8.D1.87.D0.B5.D1.81.D0.BA.D0.B8.D0.B9_.D1.81.
D0.BB.D0.BE.D0.B2.D0.B0.D1.80.D1.8C-0> [1].

В октябре  <http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4> 1918 года
присвоено имя Красная улица, дано с целью <выражения революционного духа
времени>.
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%8F%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8F>
4 октября  <http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4> 1991 года
возвращено историческое наименование Галерная улица
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%
8F_%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0_%28%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D
0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%29#cite_note-.D0.A2.D0.BE.D0.
BF.D0.BE.D0.BD.D0.B8.D0.BC.D0.B8.D1.87.D0.B5.D1.81.D0.BA.D0.B8.D0.B9_.D1.81.
D0.BB.D0.BE.D0.B2.D0.B0.D1.80.D1.8C-0> [1].

История

Возникла сразу после появления города в первой половине XVIII
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/XVIII_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA>  века в Галерном
дворе, как тогда называли ряд домов по берегу
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0> реки Невы от
современной площади Декабристов до Ново-Адмиралтейского канала, как дорога к
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%
82%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B8>
Галерной верфи, находившейся за каналом
<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%
8F_%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0_%28%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D
0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%29#cite_note-.D0.A2.D0.BE.D0.
BF.D0.BE.D0.BD.D0.B8.D0.BC.D0.B8.D1.87.D0.B5.D1.81.D0.BA.D0.B8.D0.B9_.D1.81.
D0.BB.D0.BE.D0.B2.D0.B0.D1.80.D1.8C-0> [1].

 

 

 

 

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Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 2:00 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] Akhmatova poem

 

O, wise colleagues:

 

In Akhmatova's 1913 poem, "Stikhi o Peterburge," #2, she refers to the
"Galernaia arka in verse #1:

Serdtse b'etsia rovno, merno.

Chto mne dolgie goda!

Ved' pod arkoi na Galernoi

Nashi teni navsegda.

 

Is the "Galernaia Arch" (1) the one on Palace Square in the middle of
Rossi's General Staff Bldg.; or (2) the one between Rossi's Senate/Synod
Bldgs., the street behind which is Galernaia ulitsa; or (3) some other arch?
I'm guessing #2 because of the street name, although Roberta Reeder ("Anna
Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet," St. Martin's, 1994) says #1 (p. 71).  In any
case, why "Galernaia"?  Meaning "galley, a type of boat" (extensively used
at least during Peter's time), right?, and not "gallery"?  

 

I can't find reference to the origin and first use of the street name
"Galernaia ulitsa," much less the arch, although I'm sure it's explained
somewhere.  Can you suggest good reference works, either online or printed,
re: street/place names in Petersburg?  I have a couple of books on origins
of street and place names in Moscow, but not a comparable one for
Petersburg.

 

Many thanks.

 

Jack Kollmann

CREEES, Stanford University

 

 

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From beyer at MIDDLEBURY.EDU  Fri Jun  1 23:16:48 2012
From: beyer at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Beyer, Tom)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 23:16:48 +0000
Subject: Akhmatova poem
In-Reply-To: <007a01cd4041$e95a3ef0$bc0ebcd0$@stanford.edu>
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Have you tried Baedekers Russia 1914?

Some library might have it.

Tom Beyer
Middlebury


On 6/1/12 6:00 PM, "Jack Kollmann" <kolljack at STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

O, wise colleagues:

In Akhmatova's 1913 poem, "Stikhi o Peterburge," #2, she refers to the "Galernaia arka in verse #1:
Serdtse b'etsia rovno, merno.
Chto mne dolgie goda!
Ved' pod arkoi na Galernoi
Nashi teni navsegda.

Is the "Galernaia Arch" (1) the one on Palace Square in the middle of Rossi's General Staff Bldg.; or (2) the one between Rossi's Senate/Synod Bldgs., the street behind which is Galernaia ulitsa; or (3) some other arch?  I'm guessing #2 because of the street name, although Roberta Reeder ("Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet," St. Martin's, 1994) says #1 (p. 71).  In any case, why "Galernaia"?  Meaning "galley, a type of boat" (extensively used at least during Peter's time), right?, and not "gallery"?

I can't find reference to the origin and first use of the street name "Galernaia ulitsa," much less the arch, although I'm sure it's explained somewhere.  Can you suggest good reference works, either online or printed, re: street/place names in Petersburg?  I have a couple of books on origins of street and place names in Moscow, but not a comparable one for Petersburg.

Many thanks.

Jack Kollmann
CREEES, Stanford University


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From ntkrylova at TAYLORU.EDU  Sat Jun  2 01:38:41 2012
From: ntkrylova at TAYLORU.EDU (Krylova, Natalia)
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 21:38:41 -0400
Subject: Vysotsky / Astrakhan: Thanks for being alive, translated and sang
Message-ID: <FRI.1.JUN.2012.213841.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear fellow-SEELANG-zhane,

Per the request of Vadim Astrahan, a dedicated and experienced translator/performer of Vladimir Vysotsky's poetry, I'd like to share the press-release of his recently published CD that, for some persistent technical glitch, keeps him from posting it on SEELANGS.

Our Center had the honor to host his concert this January and to have him as an expert for our on-line translation workshop "Vysotsky in English" (http://vvysotskyinenglish.blogspot.com). Given the fact that Vadim's proven translation skills are interwoven in this album with Yury Naumov's thrilling musical arrangements, this CD will likely end-up being your summer audio-favorite and a potentially valuable teaching resource in the coming fall semester (for RusLit, Russian Culture, courses on translation, etc.). 
So, here it is...  

_________________________________ 
ASTRAKHAN / NAUMOV:  “TWO FATES” (Vysotsky in English, Volume II)
 
Four years ago Vadim Astrakhan released “Singer Sailor Soldier Spirit”:  an album of literary English translations of Vladimir Vysotsky, the greatest Russian singer / songwriter.  It featured modernized arrangements of Vysotsky’s songs, sung by Astrakhan and accompanied by a company of musicians in different genres.  Now the sequel, “Two Fates,” has arrived.
 
·        Like before, it contains incredible poetry of Vysotsky, translated and sung by Astrakhan.
·        Unlike before, the music is almost entirely new, composed mostly by the album’s producer and chief instrumentalist, Yuri Naumov, an acclaimed Russian blues musician.
·        Like before, the album features international roster of musicians:  Naumov himself (nine-string guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums), John Macaluso (ex-Yngwie Malmsteen, drums), Leonid Verman (Stalwart, guitar), Lex Plotnikoff (Mechanical Poet, keyboards), and others.
·        Unlike before, one of the songs is accompanied by a full symphonic orchestra.
·        Like before, musically the album covers a variety of different genres and sounds:  blues and folk, metal and reggae, tango and comedy; all to illustrate and compliment the incredible diversity of Vysotsky’s poetry.
·        Unlike before, this was done with far greater production values.
·        Like before, it warrants listening in its entirety, as it contains no filler tracks, with something for everyone.
·        Unlike before, it clocks at almost an hour, with song lengths ranging between 3 and 8 minutes. 
·        Like before, the tracks include both Vysotsky’s megahits, such as “If Your Friend” ("Pesnya o druge") and “Gypsy Blues” ("Moya tsyganskaya"), and lesser known gems.
·        Unlike before, it contains two of Vysotsky’s biggest epics, “When the Great Flood Waters Had Subsided” ("Ballada o Lyubvi") and “Two Fates” ("Dve sud'by"), newly translated and recorded.
 
Not only does this album tell gripping stories.  It also covers the entire spectrum of human emotions and experiences:  courage, friendship, anger, fear, laughter, loss, and love.  This is accomplished via superb translations, music, and musicianship.  If you are a Russian speaker, you can appreciate the translations.  If you are not, simply enjoy the songs and the stories!
 
www.vvinenglish.com
__________________________
Enjoy it!
NK  
__________________________
Natalia V. Krylova
Center Director, "Russkiy Mir" / American Councils for International Education
1828 L Street N.W., Suite 1120 
Washington, DC 20036 
Tel: 202-833-7522 
Fax: 202-833-7523
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From denis.akhapkin at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jun  2 08:11:10 2012
From: denis.akhapkin at GMAIL.COM (Denis Akhapkin)
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 12:11:10 +0400
Subject: Akhmatova poem
In-Reply-To: <007a01cd4041$e95a3ef0$bc0ebcd0$@stanford.edu>
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Dear Jack,

The right answer is #2. The arch between Rossi's Senate/Synod Bldgs is
very important topos in Silver age literature (not only Akhmatova
refers to it, but Mandelstam, Nabokov etc.).

For street/place names in St. Petersburg I can recommend K.
Gorbachevich and E. Hablo book:

Горбачевич К., Хабло Е. Почему так названы: О происхождении названий
улиц, площадей, островов, рек и мостов Санкт-Петербурга.

There were many editions, the last, as far as I know, in 2002.

There is online version of an old, Soviet time edition:
http://bukharapiter.ru/topo/toponim.html#ex2

Remember, that many streets changed their names in Soviet time, then
was renamed back after 1991. The printed version of the book have
index of old and new names, but in this online version it missed.

The name of the street in 1918-1991 was Красная. This is the entry
from the book:

Красная улица проходит от площади Декабристов до набережной
Ново-Адмиралтейского канала (Октябрьский район). В 1738 году этой
улице было присвоено наименование Исаакиевской, но в народе ее
называли Галерной, так как она вела к Галерной верфи -- месту постройки
галер (крупных многовесельных судов для Балтийского флота). Затем
название <<Галерная>> стало официальным, и оно сохранялось за улицей
почти два столетия.
В 1918 году Галерная улица была переименована в Красную. Новое ее
название имеет символическое значение. <<Красная>> в данном случае
означает <<советская>>, <<революционная>>.

Best,

Denis Akhapkin
Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature
Saint-Petersburg State University, Smolny College

2012/6/2 Jack Kollmann <kolljack at stanford.edu>:
> O, wise colleagues:
>
>
>
> In Akhmatova's 1913 poem, "Stikhi o Peterburge," #2, she refers to the
> "Galernaia arka in verse #1:
>
> Serdtse b'etsia rovno, merno.
>
> Chto mne dolgie goda!
>
> Ved' pod arkoi na Galernoi
>
> Nashi teni navsegda.
>
>
>
> Is the "Galernaia Arch" (1) the one on Palace Square in the middle of
> Rossi's General Staff Bldg.; or (2) the one between Rossi's Senate/Synod
> Bldgs., the street behind which is Galernaia ulitsa; or (3) some other
> arch?  I'm guessing #2 because of the street name, although Roberta Reeder
> ("Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet," St. Martin's, 1994) says #1 (p. 71).
> In any case, why "Galernaia"?  Meaning "galley, a type of boat" (extensively
> used at least during Peter's time), right?, and not "gallery"?
>
>
>
> I can't find reference to the origin and first use of the street name
> "Galernaia ulitsa," much less the arch, although I'm sure it's explained
> somewhere.  Can you suggest good reference works, either online or printed,
> re: street/place names in Petersburg?  I have a couple of books on origins
> of street and place names in Moscow, but not a comparable one for
> Petersburg.
>
>
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
>
> Jack Kollmann
>
> CREEES, Stanford University
>
>
>
>
>
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From Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK  Sat Jun  2 10:09:22 2012
From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith)
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 11:09:22 +0100
Subject: Akhmatova poem/Galernaya as an important topos
In-Reply-To: <CAKb7L2dAvxMX4ytO47Yacuw-7ugbEQQStMqBRobfj7iJkrVN+w@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear Denis,

Thank you very much for pointing out that Galernaya is an important  
topos found in the works of Russian modernists. As it happens, the  
arch mentioned in Akhmatova's poem and Galernaya street itself had a  
special significance for the representatives of Russian unofficial  
culture in the post-Stalin period.
Thus, for example, Elena Bonner states:
"Да, я была студенткой вечернего отделения Герценовского института в  
Ленинграде. Почему вечернего отделения? Потому что у бабушки было трое  
«сирот 37-го года» на руках, и надо было работать. Полагалось, чтобы  
учеба каким-то боком соприкасалась с воспитательной, школьной и прочей  
работой. И меня райком комсомола направил на работу в 69-ю школу. Она  
располагалась на улице, которая тогда называлась Красной, до революции  
называлась Галерной, сейчас снова Галерная. Она упоминается у  
Ахматовой в стихах:
«И под аркой на Галерной
Наши тени навсегда».
Эта арка в начале улицы — между Сенатом и Синодом — выходит прямо к  
памятнику Петру. Это была вторая моя трудовая площадка. Первая  
трудовая площадка была в нашем домоуправлении, я работала на полставки  
уборщицей. Это был дом с коридорной системой, и на меня приходились  
коридор третьего этажа и парадная лестница с двумя большими  
венецианскими окнами. Я очень любила мыть эти окна весной, ощущение  
радости было. Во дворе рос клен, была волейбольная самодельная  
площадка, где мы все, дворовые дети, развлекались. И я мыла окна."
Source: http://lib.rus.ec/b/200635/read
Kuzminsky writes about Evgeny Rein in relation to Galernaya street:
/из письма Рейна/ - "... мы оба десятилетиями жили рядом, на  
Галерной-Красной. И все-таки были незнакомы..."

         Да, на Галерной... "Ведь под аркой, на Галерной / Наши тени  
навсегда... /Ахматова/. На Галерной жили: художники В.Левитин,  
А.Васильев, А.Белкин, Е.Рухин, Г.Израилевич, А.Маслов, архитектор  
В.Стасов, поэты А.Пушкин, А.Блок, Е.Рейн, В. Ширали - некоторого  
количества, да еще и помню не всех. Галерная, где-то и была центром  
Петербургской культуры - и Сенатская рядом, на которую вышли  
"декабристы 1975 года - Юлия Вознесенская со- товарищи, и были войска,  
и вязали - кого перед выходом на Сенатскую, кого после. Рабы Галерной  
- это ли не симптоматично?
Source: http://kkk-bluelagoon.ru/tom2b/rein1.htm

All best,
Alexandra















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From: kaunas4 at RCN.COM (richard tomback)
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 16:44:21 -0500
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I have the following book for sale

Belorussko-Russkii  Slovar

90,000 words

Printed in USSR  in  1962

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Book is in good condition

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From eroby at FRIENDSBALT.ORG  Sun Jun  3 01:16:13 2012
From: eroby at FRIENDSBALT.ORG (Roby, Lee)
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 21:16:13 -0400
Subject: a conversation course in Russian
Message-ID: <SAT.2.JUN.2012.211613.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Hi Sasha,
 
This is Lee Roby writing in response to your question sent to SEELANGS regarding a conversation course as a supplement to the second year course.  I now teach at Friends School in Baltimore, but taught for a number of years conversation courses for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years at Indiana University (Bloomington) both during the academic year and during the intensive summer program (SWSEESL), and so I can tell you what worked well and less well for us there.  
 
1.  Using a different text (set of materials) for the conversation class worked less well. Students had a difficult time with the scope of material thrust at them.  Between the regular course and the conversation course, there were too many new words when the courses were not coordinated, and the consequence was that the students felt overwhelmed and were actually less proficient overall as a result.  When we coordinated the two courses, the students felt that the conversation class provided them with a lot of practice and reinforcement using the language (vocabulary and structures) that they were flying through in the other course, and it really  helped to cement their usage of the language.  It was a much more effective approach.  So in this model, my job was to look through the standard text (coordinate with the "grammar" teacher) and think up new, interesting communicative activities that would reinforce the material.  In some cases, the 'grammar" teacher would not be ab!
 le to do all of the communicative activities given in the unit, and so I would pick up some of the those; in other cases, I would think them up (or steal good ideas from other good texts that I had used in the past!). 
 
2.  During the academic year, when the conversation course was not coordinated with the "grammar" class and would meet only once or twice a week, it was also difficult for there to be a sense of cohesion or flow, or even a sense of commitment from the students to do more than fill the chair (somehow there is sometimes a sense that students shouldn't have to prepare by reading or writing or preparing a presentational task for a conversation class ahead of time -- this is augmented when class meets only once a week).  When you have a "stand alone curriculum" this problem is more difficult to manage.  When the class reinforces their daily activities, there is a greater natural sense of purpose, cohesion and buy-in.
 
3. At the second-year level, in particular, a coordinated conversation section can really help students to develop proficiency using the millions of forms and concepts that are getting thrown at them.  It is, unfortunately, easy with Russian to keep expanding students' conceptual base at the second year level without having time to  really automatize most of the forms since the scope of what we "need to cover" is so large. This is especially true at the point when students now have all the cases, but have still not automatized their endings, are not comfortable  yet making spontaneous aspectual choices, and have a plethora of verbs of motion, but stumble when they have to use them.  The conversation course was designed to get them using such language in meaningful contexts. 
 
4.  Some specific ideas:
 
I focused on situational dialogues (esp. initially at level 1), and then developing skills of description (often using pictures), and narration (often using video). 
 
In working on description with pictures, I often used an info. gap model  (1.  One student has a picture and is describing it to another (who can't see it) but who has to draw it -- especially good for practicing with a variety of prepositions of location; 2.  Students bring in picures of people they know and swap with a partner.  They each try to create a biography and context for the picture that they share with their partner. The partner then tells "the real story").  Even without pictures, an info. gap model is a great way to keep students interested in using basic language structures.
 
If the standard course is a course that has an accompanying video (like Stage One: Live from Russia), lots of work with narration can be done.  Initially it was good to work on present tense narration.  Students become proficient in present tense verb conjugation, standard case usage (and endings), learning sequencing phrases (at first, then, finally, etc.) and linking words such as "because" and "therefore," converting direct speech to indirect speech.  After aspect is introduced we would work a lot on converting present tense narration to past tense narration and then on future in predicting what might come next.  This was a really effective activity.  After verbs of motion are introduced, we would go back to past segments (because they already knew the vocab. for these) and we focused on narrating the motion (again, first in the present tense and then in the past).  After comparitives are introduced, we  would watch the 1996 video (Live from Moscow!)  and compare it with !
 the 2008 update (Live from Russia!) (also rich material to discuss changes in Russia over the last 15 years).
 
Good luck!  I hope some of this info. helps.
 
Best, Lee

________________________________

From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Sasha Spektor
Sent: Sun 5/27/2012 3:09 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] a conversation course in Russian


Dear Seenoevilangovtsy,

I'm preparing a conversation course in Russian that would complement the second year Russian course and would like to ask for your advise.   What textbook(s) would be most useful in preparing such a course?

Please reply on or off the list at xrenovo at gmail.com

Thank you,
Sasha.
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From xrenovo at GMAIL.COM  Sun Jun  3 17:01:19 2012
From: xrenovo at GMAIL.COM (Sasha Spektor)
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 12:01:19 -0500
Subject: a conversation course in Russian
In-Reply-To: <7E772013A54B1A4BB3F6981F0CEE8DB50B6376B2@post2003.friendsbalt.org>
Message-ID: <SUN.3.JUN.2012.120119.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Lee,
thank you for this fantastic and thorough advice.  The more I think about
it, the more I come to the same opinion -- both course should be
coordinated, not separate entities.

All best,
Sasha.



On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Roby, Lee <eroby at friendsbalt.org> wrote:

> Hi Sasha,
>
> This is Lee Roby writing in response to your question sent to SEELANGS
> regarding a conversation course as a supplement to the second year course.
>  I now teach at Friends School in Baltimore, but taught for a number of
> years conversation courses for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years at Indiana
> University (Bloomington) both during the academic year and during the
> intensive summer program (SWSEESL), and so I can tell you what worked well
> and less well for us there.
>
> 1.  Using a different text (set of materials) for the conversation class
> worked less well. Students had a difficult time with the scope of material
> thrust at them.  Between the regular course and the conversation course,
> there were too many new words when the courses were not coordinated, and
> the consequence was that the students felt overwhelmed and were actually
> less proficient overall as a result.  When we coordinated the two courses,
> the students felt that the conversation class provided them with a lot of
> practice and reinforcement using the language (vocabulary and structures)
> that they were flying through in the other course, and it really  helped to
> cement their usage of the language.  It was a much more effective approach.
>  So in this model, my job was to look through the standard text (coordinate
> with the "grammar" teacher) and think up new, interesting communicative
> activities that would reinforce the material.  In some cases, the 'grammar"
> teacher would not be ab!
>  le to do all of the communicative activities given in the unit, and so I
> would pick up some of the those; in other cases, I would think them up (or
> steal good ideas from other good texts that I had used in the past!).
>
> 2.  During the academic year, when the conversation course was not
> coordinated with the "grammar" class and would meet only once or twice a
> week, it was also difficult for there to be a sense of cohesion or flow, or
> even a sense of commitment from the students to do more than fill the chair
> (somehow there is sometimes a sense that students shouldn't have to prepare
> by reading or writing or preparing a presentational task for a conversation
> class ahead of time -- this is augmented when class meets only once a
> week).  When you have a "stand alone curriculum" this problem is more
> difficult to manage.  When the class reinforces their daily activities,
> there is a greater natural sense of purpose, cohesion and buy-in.
>
> 3. At the second-year level, in particular, a coordinated conversation
> section can really help students to develop proficiency using the millions
> of forms and concepts that are getting thrown at them.  It is,
> unfortunately, easy with Russian to keep expanding students' conceptual
> base at the second year level without having time to  really automatize
> most of the forms since the scope of what we "need to cover" is so large.
> This is especially true at the point when students now have all the cases,
> but have still not automatized their endings, are not comfortable  yet
> making spontaneous aspectual choices, and have a plethora of verbs of
> motion, but stumble when they have to use them.  The conversation course
> was designed to get them using such language in meaningful contexts.
>
> 4.  Some specific ideas:
>
> I focused on situational dialogues (esp. initially at level 1), and then
> developing skills of description (often using pictures), and narration
> (often using video).
>
> In working on description with pictures, I often used an info. gap model
>  (1.  One student has a picture and is describing it to another (who can't
> see it) but who has to draw it -- especially good for practicing with a
> variety of prepositions of location; 2.  Students bring in picures of
> people they know and swap with a partner.  They each try to create a
> biography and context for the picture that they share with their partner.
> The partner then tells "the real story").  Even without pictures, an info.
> gap model is a great way to keep students interested in using basic
> language structures.
>
> If the standard course is a course that has an accompanying video (like
> Stage One: Live from Russia), lots of work with narration can be done.
>  Initially it was good to work on present tense narration.  Students become
> proficient in present tense verb conjugation, standard case usage (and
> endings), learning sequencing phrases (at first, then, finally, etc.) and
> linking words such as "because" and "therefore," converting direct speech
> to indirect speech.  After aspect is introduced we would work a lot on
> converting present tense narration to past tense narration and then on
> future in predicting what might come next.  This was a really effective
> activity.  After verbs of motion are introduced, we would go back to past
> segments (because they already knew the vocab. for these) and we focused on
> narrating the motion (again, first in the present tense and then in the
> past).  After comparitives are introduced, we  would watch the 1996 video
> (Live from Moscow!)  and compare it with !
>  the 2008 update (Live from Russia!) (also rich material to discuss
> changes in Russia over the last 15 years).
>
> Good luck!  I hope some of this info. helps.
>
> Best, Lee
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on
> behalf of Sasha Spektor
> Sent: Sun 5/27/2012 3:09 PM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] a conversation course in Russian
>
>
> Dear Seenoevilangovtsy,
>
> I'm preparing a conversation course in Russian that would complement the
> second year Russian course and would like to ask for your advise.   What
> textbook(s) would be most useful in preparing such a course?
>
> Please reply on or off the list at xrenovo at gmail.com
>
> Thank you,
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From nataliek at UALBERTA.CA  Sun Jun  3 22:04:08 2012
From: nataliek at UALBERTA.CA (Natalie Kononenko)
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 16:04:08 -0600
Subject: Mel'nitsa query
Message-ID: <SUN.3.JUN.2012.160408.0600.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear fellow list members - or at least the cartoon enthusiasts among you,

I am writing in the hope that you can help me find sources for director's
statements about the animation films produced by Mel'nitsa.  The films I
have in mind are the Bogatyri trilogy: Alesha Popovich i Tugarin Zmei,
Dobrynia Nikitych i Zmei Gorynych, and Il'ia Muromets i Solovei Razboinik.
To that I want to add the Bogatyri follow-up Shamakhanskaia tsaritsa and
the most recent Mel'nitsa film Ivan Tsarevich i Seryi Volk.  There must be
websites where the directors talk about what they were trying to achieve
with these films.

For example, Alesha has been called the Russian answer to Shrek.  Was
creating a Russian Shrek really the director's intention?

Critics reviewing Russian animation, not just that produced by Mel'nitsa,
talk about the quality of Russian work and claim that it takes a back seat
to Pixar.  Do Russian directors, at least the ones who work for Mel'nitsa,
feel that they are in competition with the West?

In viewers reviews of the various Mel'nitsa films, such as those that
appear on Kinopoisk and Afisha, the writers often talk about the importance
of having content that is truly Russian and not some sort of take-off on
the West.  Are Mel'nitsa directors, by chosing Russian folklore as a
source, intentionally trying to make  their animated features Russian?

Thanks in advance for any help and guidance.

-- 
Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
200 Arts Building
Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2E6
780-492-6810
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From olgs at ST-ANDREWS.AC.UK  Mon Jun  4 09:26:16 2012
From: olgs at ST-ANDREWS.AC.UK (Oliver Smith)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:26:16 +0000
Subject: Job announcement: Readership in Russian, University of St Andrews
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Readership in Russian 
University of St Andrews - St Andrews, Scotland
£46,846 - £52,706 per annum, 
Start: 1 January 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter

The School of Modern Languages is seeking to appoint a full time Reader in Russian.  You will be expected to hold a PhD, and should possess native or near-native language skills in Russian and English. Applications are invited from candidates with a specialist interest in any area of Russian literature and culture, although applications in visual arts, film and twentieth to twenty-first century literature and culture are particularly encouraged. Applications will be considered from both Lecturers at or near the top of the Lecturer scale and Senior Lecturers (or above). 

Further detailed information about the School of Modern Languages can be found at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlanqs/.  

Informal enquiries can be directed to:  Dr Roger Keys, Head of Russian, e-mail: rjk1 at st-andrews.ac.uk, tel 01334 462952 

Professor Margaret-Anne Hutton, Head of School of Modern Languages, e-mail:  langshos at st-andrews.ac.uk, tel. 01334 463678  

Further details:
https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk

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From shkapp at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jun  4 14:39:19 2012
From: shkapp at GMAIL.COM (Sarah Kapp)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:39:19 -0500
Subject: Call for Papers: AATSEEL-Wisconsin 2012
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AATSEEL-Wisconsin Conference
12-13 October 2012
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Call for papers for the 2012 AATSEEL-WI Conference

Abstracts for 20-minute papers on any aspect of Slavic literatures
and cultures (including film, music, the visual arts, linguistics, 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, 12-13 October 2012.

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 2012.  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:

Sarah Kapp
skapp at wisc.edu

 PLEASE INCLUDE “AATSEEL-WI” IN THE SUBJECT LINE.

All submissions will be considered.

-- 
Sarah Kapp
PhD Candidate
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
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From jdingley43 at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jun  4 15:48:29 2012
From: jdingley43 at GMAIL.COM (John Dingley)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 08:48:29 -0700
Subject: 82 Gower Street
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http://tinyurl.com/85epjbq

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From air3 at FRONTIER.COM  Mon Jun  4 12:09:15 2012
From: air3 at FRONTIER.COM (Irina Rodimtseva)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 08:09:15 -0400
Subject: English speaker needed in Russia for the summer
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Dear colleagues,

Here's an organization that is looking for a native speaker of English to teach at their summer camps in Russia. If you know somebody who would be interested, please pass on the contact information. If I am not mistaken, this person doesn't have to be a professional teacher.

http://www.english-city.ru/

Thank you!

Irina Rodimtseva
WV University

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From mpesenson at MSN.COM  Mon Jun  4 20:34:41 2012
From: mpesenson at MSN.COM (MICHAEL PESENSON)
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 20:34:41 +0000
Subject: Nominations for 2012 Early Slavic Studies Association Book Prize
Message-ID: <MON.4.JUN.2012.203441.0000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>




















Greetings!

 

We are currently accepting nominations for the 2012 Early
Slavic Studies Association Book Prize to be announced at the ASEEES Annual
Convention in New Orleans.  The
nominated book has to be a monograph on any aspect of pre-eighteenth century
Slavic studies published from 2010 to the present.

 

Please submit your nominations by email to:

 

Dr. Michael Pesenson, ESSA Book Prize Committee Chair

 

mpesenson at mail.utexas.edu

 

Thank you!

 

Michael Pesenson, Ph.D.

Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

The University of Texas at Austin





 		 	   		  
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From pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU  Sun Jun  3 16:26:01 2012
From: pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU (pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU)
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 12:26:01 -0400
Subject: Akhmatova and "Anty" (Antonina Mikhailovna Oranzhireeva)?
Message-ID: <SUN.3.JUN.2012.122601.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

It has long been accepted as established that Antonina Mikhailovna  
Oranzhireeva (1897-1960), who provided "evidence" against Daniil  
Kharms, was informing on Akhmatova.

Does anyone know what the source/documentation for this knowledge is?

Peter Scotto
Mount Holyoke College

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From Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK  Tue Jun  5 16:30:40 2012
From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith)
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:30:40 +0100
Subject: Akhmatova and "Anty" (Antonina Mikhailovna Oranzhireeva)?
In-Reply-To: <20120603122601.61492dp6xa9gjti1@webmail.mtholyoke.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.5.JUN.2012.173040.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Peter,

It has been mentioned in Valery Bondarenko's review on Kobrinsky's  
book on Kharms. Here is the address of this  
review:http://www.library.ru/2/liki/sections.php?a_uid=131

She is also mentioned as informer on Akhmatova in Roman Timenchik's  
review on Kralin's book on Akhmatova:  
http://www.akhmatova.org/bio/kralin/kralin00.htm


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
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
UK

tel. +44-(0)131-6511381
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Quoting pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU on Sun, 3 Jun 2012 12:26:01 -0400:

> It has long been accepted as established that Antonina Mikhailovna  
> Oranzhireeva (1897-1960), who provided "evidence" against Daniil  
> Kharms, was informing on Akhmatova.
>
> Does anyone know what the source/documentation for this knowledge is?
>
> Peter Scotto
> Mount Holyoke College
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From MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU  Wed Jun  6 17:30:56 2012
From: MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU (Monnier, Nicole M.)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:30:56 +0000
Subject: Histories, memoirs, autobiography,
 fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.173056.0000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

SEELANGTSY!

I'm working with an undergraduate student on an independent study for which we're pairing historical accounts of major events in 20th century Russian/Soviet history with literary (or filmic) works that explore the same period. Initially, we were going to do Chechnya, but my student (a former military officer) is intrigued by the Soviet war in Afghanistan, about which I know . . . well, not very much. Any suggestions would be most gratefully received . . .

Best,

Nicole


****************************
Dr. Nicole Monnier
Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
German & Russian Studies
428A Strickland (formerly GCB)
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

phone: 573.882.3370

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From agregovich at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jun  6 18:30:15 2012
From: agregovich at GMAIL.COM (Andrea Gregovich)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:30:15 -0800
Subject: Histories, memoirs, autobiography,
 fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
In-Reply-To: <CBF4FDFD.BDB5%monniern@missouri.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.103015.0800.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Hi Nicole --

I have a book called *Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story* by Vladislav
Tamarov, you can find it on Amazon.  It's mostly photo essay with some
commentary, based on photos Tamarov took himself when he was a nineteen
year old minesweeper in Afghanistan.  Not sure it's what you're looking
for, but it's very authentic.

Best,
Andrea Gregovich

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Monnier, Nicole M. <MonnierN at missouri.edu>wrote:

> SEELANGTSY!
>
> I'm working with an undergraduate student on an independent study for
> which we're pairing historical accounts of major events in 20th century
> Russian/Soviet history with literary (or filmic) works that explore the
> same period. Initially, we were going to do Chechnya, but my student (a
> former military officer) is intrigued by the Soviet war in Afghanistan,
> about which I know . . . well, not very much. Any suggestions would be most
> gratefully received . . .
>
> Best,
>
> Nicole
>
>
> ****************************
> Dr. Nicole Monnier
> Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
> Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
> German & Russian Studies
> 428A Strickland (formerly GCB)
> University of Missouri
> Columbia, MO 65211
>
> phone: 573.882.3370
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From sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET  Wed Jun  6 19:27:01 2012
From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:27:01 -0800
Subject: Histories, memoirs, autobiography,
 fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
In-Reply-To: <CBF4FDFD.BDB5%monniern@missouri.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.112701.0800.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

There is a film called "Cargo 200" set in that period with a soldier killed
in Afghanistan as part of the plot, but it is extremely gruesome and
disturbing. Not because of the war, which isn't shown, but the crazy
psychopath who is the main character. Still, it's relevant. 

Sarah Hurst

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From e.gapova at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jun  6 20:45:12 2012
From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 16:45:12 -0400
Subject: Histories, memoirs, autobiography,
 fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
In-Reply-To: <318FE0A33C1F40BE919A2537CBF5E123@Roosevelt>
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.164512.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

"Zinky Boys" by Svetlana Alexievich (see
http://www.amazon.com/Zinky-Boys-Soviet-Voices-Afghanistan/dp/0393336867/ref=la_B001JOE0N4_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1339015199&sr=1-2)
would be an obvious first choice for me.

Also, there is a chapter on Afghan veterans and soldiers' mothers in
Serguei Oushakin's "Patriotism of Despair."

Elena Gapova

2012/6/6 Sarah Hurst <sarahhurst at alaska.net>

> There is a film called "Cargo 200" set in that period with a soldier killed
> in Afghanistan as part of the plot, but it is extremely gruesome and
> disturbing. Not because of the war, which isn't shown, but the crazy
> psychopath who is the main character. Still, it's relevant.
>
> Sarah Hurst
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From ieubanks at pushkiniana.org  Wed Jun  6 21:48:36 2012
From: ieubanks at pushkiniana.org (Ivan S. Eubanks)
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 01:48:36 +0400
Subject: Histories, memoirs, autobiography,
 fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
In-Reply-To: <CAOVwo0t7XFU+B9PdYnQOgFgeQdHvz90EGmnMWE6NKiaGQUoagg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <THU.7.JUN.2012.014836.0400.>

Sokurov's /Spiritual Voices/ is a documentary filmed while living with 
soldiers along the Afghan border, I believe.  It startsm with a 
beautiful 30-minute opening shot that seems to have nothing to do with 
war (the narrator discusses the composers whose music you're hearing).  
Then it features about four hours worth of daily soldier life, and 
finally live footage of a battle.  I think it's available on /Netflix/.  
It's worth checking out, at any rate, because it is designed to contrast 
the prolonged boredom of a station in the middle of nowhere with the 
sudden and unpredictable danger of a firefight.

Ivan S. Eubanks, Ph. D.
Editor
Pushkin Review
www.pushkiniana.org


On 6/7/12 12:45 AM, Elena Gapova wrote:
> "Zinky Boys" by Svetlana Alexievich (see 
> http://www.amazon.com/Zinky-Boys-Soviet-Voices-Afghanistan/dp/0393336867/ref=la_B001JOE0N4_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1339015199&sr=1-2 
> <http://www.amazon.com/Zinky-Boys-Soviet-Voices-Afghanistan/dp/0393336867/ref=la_B001JOE0N4_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1339015199&sr=1-2>) 
> would be an obvious first choice for me.
> Also, there is a chapter on Afghan veterans and soldiers' mothers in 
> Serguei Oushakin's "Patriotism of Despair."
> Elena Gapova
>
> 2012/6/6 Sarah Hurst <sarahhurst at alaska.net 
> <mailto:sarahhurst at alaska.net>>
>
>     There is a film called "Cargo 200" set in that period with a
>     soldier killed
>     in Afghanistan as part of the plot, but it is extremely gruesome and
>     disturbing. Not because of the war, which isn't shown, but the crazy
>     psychopath who is the main character. Still, it's relevant.
>
>     Sarah Hurst
>
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From jhlyles at WM.EDU  Wed Jun  6 21:53:40 2012
From: jhlyles at WM.EDU (John Lyles)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:53:40 -0400
Subject: Histories, memoirs, autobiography,
 fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
In-Reply-To: <CBF4FDFD.BDB5%monniern@missouri.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.175340.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Hi Nicole,

Девятая рота (9th Company) is a recent film (2005 I think) about the Soviet
war in Afghanistan.  There is also a book you could consult on the topic
called "Russian War Films," by Denise Youngblood (here is a link to it on
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/RUSSIAN-WAR-FILMS-Cinema-1914-2005/dp/0700614893).

Good luck!
John

2012/6/6 Monnier, Nicole M. <MonnierN at missouri.edu>

> SEELANGTSY!
>
> I'm working with an undergraduate student on an independent study for
> which we're pairing historical accounts of major events in 20th century
> Russian/Soviet history with literary (or filmic) works that explore the
> same period. Initially, we were going to do Chechnya, but my student (a
> former military officer) is intrigued by the Soviet war in Afghanistan,
> about which I know . . . well, not very much. Any suggestions would be most
> gratefully received . . .
>
> Best,
>
> Nicole
>
>
> ****************************
> Dr. Nicole Monnier
> Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
> Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
> German & Russian Studies
> 428A Strickland (formerly GCB)
> University of Missouri
> Columbia, MO 65211
>
> phone: 573.882.3370
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From klinela at COMCAST.NET  Wed Jun  6 22:08:05 2012
From: klinela at COMCAST.NET (Laura Kline)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:08:05 -0400
Subject: Histories, memoirs, autobiography,
 fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
In-Reply-To: <CAOVwo0t7XFU+B9PdYnQOgFgeQdHvz90EGmnMWE6NKiaGQUoagg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.180805.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

He might also look at the collection of stories by Oleg Yermakov called
"Afghan Tales."

 

 

Laura Kline, Ph.D

Sr. Lecturer in Russian

CMLLC

Wayne State University

487 Manoogian

906 W. Warren

Detroit, MI  48202

 


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From eimonast at COLBY.EDU  Wed Jun  6 20:22:33 2012
From: eimonast at COLBY.EDU (Elena Monastireva-Ansdell)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 16:22:33 -0400
Subject: Histories, memoirs, autobiography,
 fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
In-Reply-To: <CBF4FDFD.BDB5%monniern@missouri.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.162233.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Nicole,

Here are a few more titles:

Oleg Yermakov, "Afganskie rasskazy" ("Zheltaia gora"/ "Yellow Mountain,"
etc.)
Vladimir Bortko, "Afganskii izlom" / Afghan Breakdown (1990)
Timur Bekmambetov, "Peshavarskii val's"/ Peshawar Waltz (1994)
Fedor Bondarchuk, 9 rota/ 9th Company (2005)

Best,

Elena.

Elena Monastireva-Ansdell
Colby College


On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Monnier, Nicole M. <MonnierN at missouri.edu>wrote:

> SEELANGTSY!
>
> I'm working with an undergraduate student on an independent study for
> which we're pairing historical accounts of major events in 20th century
> Russian/Soviet history with literary (or filmic) works that explore the
> same period. Initially, we were going to do Chechnya, but my student (a
> former military officer) is intrigued by the Soviet war in Afghanistan,
> about which I know . . . well, not very much. Any suggestions would be most
> gratefully received . . .
>
> Best,
>
> Nicole
>
>
> ****************************
> Dr. Nicole Monnier
> Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
> Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
> German & Russian Studies
> 428A Strickland (formerly GCB)
> University of Missouri
> Columbia, MO 65211
>
> phone: 573.882.3370
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From nflrc at HAWAII.EDU  Thu Jun  7 01:02:32 2012
From: nflrc at HAWAII.EDU (National Foreign Language Resource Center)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:02:32 -1000
Subject: 2nd Call for Proposals:  3rd International Conference on Language
 Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC)
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.150232.1000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>


Aloha!

The 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), “Sharing Worlds of Knowledge,” will be held February 28-March 3, 2013, at the Hawai‘i Imin International Conference Center on the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa campus.

By popular demand, the 3rd ICLDC will be a full day longer than the previous two conferences. The conference program will feature an integrated series of Master Class workshops. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawai‘i) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately follow the conference (March 4-5).

This year’s conference theme, “Sharing Worlds of Knowledge,” intends to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of language documentation and the need to share methods for documenting the many aspects of human knowledge that language encodes. We aim to build on the strong momentum created by the 1st and 2nd ICLDCs to discuss research and revitalization approaches yielding rich records that can benefit both the field of language documentation and speech communities. We hope you will join us.

For more information, visit our conference website:  http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2013/


CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Topics

We especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme of the interdisciplinary nature of language documentation. Language encodes knowledge from many facets of life: kinship, science, taxonomy, material culture, spirituality, music, and others. We encourage presentations on documenting these topics through the lens of endangered languages.

We are also seeking abstracts on the science of documentation and revitalization. Documentation is usually portrayed as a means of collecting language data, and revitalization is generally seen primarily as a kind of applied work directly benefiting communities. However, each of those domains is a genuine area of research, and we welcome presentations that treat documentation and revitalization not merely as activities, but also as domains requiring theorization in their own right.

In addition to the topics above, we warmly welcome abstracts on other subjects in language documentation and conservation, which may include but are not limited to:

Archiving matters
Community experiences of revitalization
Data management
Ethical issues
Language planning
Lexicography and reference grammar design
Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality
Orthography design
Teaching/learning small languages
Technology in documentation – methods and pitfalls
Topics in areal language documentation
Training in documentation methods – beyond the university
Assessing success in documentation and revitalization strategies 
 
Abstract submission

Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region discussed. Authors may submit no more than one individual and one joint (co-authored) proposal.

Abstracts are due by August 31, 2012, with notification of acceptance by October 1, 2012. 

We ask for abstracts of no more than 400 words for online publication so that conference participants will have a good idea of the content of your paper, and a 50-word summary for inclusion in the conference program. All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts on the topic.

We will only be accepting proposal submissions for papers or posters. We will not be accepting any proposal submission for panel or colloquia presentations this year.  Please note that the Advisory Committee may ask that some abstracts submitted as conference talks be presented as posters instead.

Selected authors will be invited to submit their conference papers to the journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication.

To submit an online proposal, visit our Call for Proposals page:  http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2013/call.html

 

Scholarships

To help defray travel expenses to come and present at the conference, scholarships of up to US$1,500 will be awarded to the six best abstracts by (i) students and/or (ii) members of an endangered language community who are actively working to document their heritage language and who are not employed by a college or university. If you are eligible and wish to be considered for a scholarship, please select the appropriate "Yes" button on the proposal submission form.


Presentation formats

Papers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of question time.

Posters will be on display throughout the conference. Poster presentations will run during the lunch breaks.



Questions?  Feel free to contact us at icldc at hawaii.edu


3rd ICLDC Organizing Committee








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From irinakrasnova2 at yahoo.com  Wed Jun  6 18:19:31 2012
From: irinakrasnova2 at yahoo.com (Irina Krasnova)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:19:31 -0700
Subject: Histories, memoirs, autobiography,
 fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
In-Reply-To: <CBF4FDFD.BDB5%monniern@missouri.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.6.JUN.2012.111931.0700.IRINAKRASNOVA2@YAHOO.COM>

Hello, the first what came to my mind is a film "Musul'manin" made by (if I am not mistaken) Hotinenko.  It's a very good film by the way.
Best,
Irina


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 From: "Monnier, Nicole M." <MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu 
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 1:30:56 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Histories, memoirs, autobiography, fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
 
SEELANGTSY!

I'm working with an undergraduate student on an independent study for which we're pairing historical accounts of major events in 20th century Russian/Soviet history with literary (or filmic) works that explore the same period. Initially, we were going to do Chechnya, but my student (a former military officer) is intrigued by the Soviet war in Afghanistan, about which I know . . . well, not very much. Any suggestions would be most gratefully received . . .

Best,

Nicole


****************************
Dr. Nicole Monnier
Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
German & Russian Studies
428A Strickland (formerly GCB)
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

phone: 573.882.3370

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From cjryan.az at GMAIL.COM  Thu Jun  7 07:50:45 2012
From: cjryan.az at GMAIL.COM (Chris Ryan)
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 00:50:45 -0700
Subject: Histories, memoirs, autobiography,
 fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
In-Reply-To: <CBF4FDFD.BDB5%monniern@missouri.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.7.JUN.2012.005045.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Dr. Monnier,

I know that this isn't strictly literary or film, but Alexander
Rozenbaum's song "Black Tulip" (Chyorniy Tyul'pan) is about the
aircraft used to bring fallen Soviet soldiers home from the Afghan war
(I believe they were An-12's). These fallen soldiers were also "Gruz
200," related to the film that Ms. Hurst referred to.

Here's an obligatory YouTube link to the song, with clips from
"Devyata Rota." (Apologies, the lyrics in the video description appear
to be a poor Google-translate job.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL76a9R0yIU

Sincerely,
Chris Ryan

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From rifkin at TCNJ.EDU  Thu Jun  7 20:02:40 2012
From: rifkin at TCNJ.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:02:40 -0400
Subject: Performance Rights for Repentance
Message-ID: <THU.7.JUN.2012.160240.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers:

Can anyone tell me who owns the Performance Rights for Abuladze's 1984 film Repentance?  The film was owned by the Cannon Film Group, but it went bankrupt and I can't tell what happened next.  I'd like to arrange for a public showing of this film on my campus in the fall.

Thanks for your help.

Ben Rifkin
The College of New Jersey

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From newsnet at PITT.EDU  Thu Jun  7 20:03:46 2012
From: newsnet at PITT.EDU (ASEEES NewsNet)
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:03:46 -0400
Subject: ASEEES June NewsNet now available
Message-ID: <THU.7.JUN.2012.160346.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

The June edition of NewNet is now available here:  http://aseees.org/newsnet/2012-05.pdf
It features articles on the current state of government in Hungary; the use of mass media in the Ural Working Class Movement; internet use in Russia; online niche communities; and an introduction to Bturn, an online magazine focused on the Balkans.  We also recognized the ACLS fellowship recipients and the ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay contest winners.    As a reminder, the summer issue of NewsNet is only available electronically.    Because of this new format (used only for the summer issue; the August edition will be circulated both in print and electronically), we are able to provide you with a great range of content:  Blue text and most images and graphics are hyperlinked to related external webpages.  Two links are of particular importance:

 *   The gender equality survey found in NN and here http://www.aseees.org/additional/gendersurvey.html
 *   And the registration form for the 2012 Annual ASEEES Convention, New Orleans, Nov. 15-18: http://www.aseees.org/convention.html

Mary Arnstein
Communications Coordinator
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
 203C Bellefield Hall University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 USA
(412) 648-9809, (412) 648-9815 (fax)
www.aseees.org<http://www.aseees.org%3chttp:/www.aseees.org/>


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From ivliyeva at MST.EDU  Fri Jun  8 14:11:47 2012
From: ivliyeva at MST.EDU (Ivliyeva, Irina)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 14:11:47 +0000
Subject: Looking  for ONE more  presenter:  the "Russian Morphology and
 Word Formation" panel , Boston 2013
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUN.2012.141147.0000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear Slavic Linguists,

We are looking for ONE more presenter at the "Russian Morphology and Word Formation"  panel which has been accepted for the 2013 AATSEEL conference in Boston.



The second deadline for review of papers is July 1.   You cand send your abstract to me via email ivliyeva at mst.edu<mailto:ivliyeva at mst.edu> or  you can submit  your proposal for  the "Russian Morphology and Word Formation"  panel directly at the AATSEEL  page  http://www.aatseel.org/cfp_main



Acceptable topics will adsress various issues in lexicology and semantics, traditional word formation and word formation synthesis, Russian morphology at in general.





AATSEEL Membership and Conference Pre-registration. In conformity with AATSEEL's bylaws, all conference participants must be members of AATSEEL in good standing and must pre-register for the conference by September 30, 2012.



Exceptions to Membership Requirement: Non-North-American scholars and non-Slavists may apply to the chair of the Program Committee for exemption from the membership requirement, which will be determined on an individual basis. Please request exemption from the membership requirement when you submit your proposal, so as not to delay acceptance.



  Please contact me if you have questions. I am looking forward to hearing from you!



Irina Ivliyeva

Associate Professor of Russian

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Email: ivliyeva at mst.edu<mailto:ivliyeva at mst.edu>

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From John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK  Fri Jun  8 15:12:38 2012
From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK (John Dunn)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:12:38 +0100
Subject: An interesting addition to parliamentary terminology
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUN.2012.161238.0100.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

As you will know, the Russian Parliament has recently approved a new law governing public protests and demonstrations.  In an attempt, if not to disrupt, then to delay the passage of this law some members of the opposition put forward several hundred amendments, some of them, apparently, nonsensical.  This procedure, ultimately unsuccessful, was described in one source in a curious mixture of Soviet and computer terminology: 
   
Правда, в конечном счете "итальянский троллинг" не помог. (http://www.newsru.com/russia/06jun2012/trolli.html)

The question I have is this: given that in British parliamentary practice the procedure for counteracting this activity is know as a guillotine, how do you behead an Italian troll?

John Dunn.

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From MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU  Fri Jun  8 19:18:36 2012
From: MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU (Monnier, Nicole M.)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 19:18:36 +0000
Subject: CFP: Central Slavic Conference 2012: 50 Years (and Beyond),
 Nov. 1-4, 2012, St. Louis, MO
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUN.2012.191836.0000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

CALL FOR PAPERS: Central Slavic Conference 2012: 50 Years (and Beyond),
November 1-4, 2012, St. Louis, Missouri
 

The Central Slavic Conference is pleased to invite scholars of all
disciplines working in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies to
submit proposals for panels, individual papers, roundtables, and poster
presentations for its annual meeting, to be held in conjunction with the
2012 International Studies Association Midwest Conference (see link below).
 

The 2012 meeting is a special one, as it marks the 50th anniversary of the
CSC. Founded in 1962 as the Bi-State Slavic Conference, the Central Slavic
Conference now encompasses seven states and is one of the two oldest of
the regional affiliates of ASEEES(Association for Slavic, East European,
and Eurasian Studies).[Ed. note:the Southern conference and the Midwest
conference will have to duke this out at some point.]
 

In honor of the anniversary, there will be special events celebrating the
past and future of the CSC. We will also partner with Saint Louis
University to co-sponsor an exhibit of early Soviet anti-religious
propaganda.
 

Proposals for paper, panel, roundtable, and poster presentations should be
submitted by email to CSC President Dr. David Borgmeyer dborgmey at slu.edu
no later than September 1st, 2012.

Proposals should include:
· Participant name, affiliation, and email contact information;
· For individual paper / poster presentation: title and brief description
(limit 50 words);
· For panels: panel title + above information for each participant and
discussant (if applicable);
· For roundtable: roundtable title and participant information.
 

Charles Timberlake Memorial Symposium
Now a regular part of the CSC program, the symposium is dedicated to the
scholarship of CSC veteran member Charles Timberlake. This year will
include a presentation of the forthcoming Civil Society and Cultural
Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe:Essays in Honor of Charles
Timberlake, a volume of papers from the first three years of the
symposium. Those interested in participating should contact symposium
coordinator Dr. Nicole Monnier at monniern at missouri.edu.
 

Timberlake Memorial Graduate Paper Prize
Graduate students who present at the CSC Annual Meeting are invited to
participate in the Charles Timberlake Graduate Paper Prize competition.
Dedicated to the memory of Professor Timberlake as teacher and mentor, the
prize carries a cash award. Submissions should be sent electronically to
prize coordinator Dr. Nicole Monnier at monniern at missouri.eduno later than
October 25th,2012.
 

General information regarding hotel and conference registration can be
found on the ISA Midwest Conference web page at:
http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=isamw&p.




****************************
Dr. Nicole Monnier
Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
German & Russian Studies
428A Strickland (formerly GCB)
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

phone: 573.882.3370

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From welsh_business at VERIZON.NET  Fri Jun  8 19:57:46 2012
From: welsh_business at VERIZON.NET (Susan Welsh)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 14:57:46 -0500
Subject: SlavFile spring issue released
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUN.2012.145746.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Belated posting, due to technical problems with my subscription:

The Spring 2012 issue of SlavFile, the quarterly newsletter of the ATA Slavic Languages Division, is available at:
http://www.ata-divisions.org/SLD/slavfile.htm
* Quotes from Is That a Fish in You Ear? by David Bellos;
* Reviews of ATA conference presentations on “Translating the Poems of Bulat Okudzhava” and “Translating English Phrasal Verbs into Polish”
* New R<>E medical dictionary compiled by Yuliya Baldwin;
* Administrator’s report
* A look at Translation Forum Russia 2011
* More Than Words column: “Out of Africa”
* “Interpreters as Interrupters”
* &#1055;&#1072;&#1074;&#1077;&#1083; &#1080; &#1052;&#1072;&#1082;&#1083;&#1102;&#1088;&#1072;
* SlavFile Lite: Not by Word Count Alone
* BritIdiom Savants 
* SlavFilms: a review of the made-for-TV production of Solzhenitsyn's “In the First Circle”
* Dictionaries Worth Seeking: a review of the Russian-English Dictionary on Disarmament;
* A review of MemSouce: A New Translation Tool from the Czech Republic.

The Winter 2012 issue is also available:
 * Insights into the Russian translation market
 * New administrator introduces the SLD Leadership Council
 * Minutes from the 2011 Meeting of the SLD
 * The Terminology Consensus Project
 * Slavic Poetry in Translation: Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
 * Russian-English glossary of political terms for the 2012 election year
 * humor and culture column by Lydia Stone
 * Russian Idioms from the World of Sports and Games 
 * Reviews of sessions from the ATA Boston conference: "Finding Terminology on the Internet," "Coping with Challenges of Simultaneous Interpretation into Russian in Courtroom Settings," "Translating Songs for Performance: Rachmaninoff's Six Choral Songs"

-- 
Susan Welsh
http://www.ssw-translation.com
Translator and editor, German-English and Russian-English
Leesburg, Virginia USA

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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Fri Jun  8 20:14:56 2012
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:14:56 -0400
Subject: SlavFile spring issue released
In-Reply-To: <5533476658445151.WA.welshbusinessverizon.net@listserv.ua.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.8.JUN.2012.161456.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Susan Welsh wrote:

> Belated posting, due to technical problems with my subscription:
>
> The Spring 2012 issue of SlavFile, the quarterly newsletter of the
> ATA Slavic Languages Division, is available at:
> <http://www.ata-divisions.org/SLD/slavfile.htm>
> * Quotes from Is That a Fish in You Ear? by David Bellos;

"Your," of course, error at SLD website, not from Susan.

> * Reviews of ATA conference presentations on “Translating the Poems
> of Bulat Okudzhava” and “Translating English Phrasal Verbs into
> Polish”
> * New R<>E medical dictionary compiled by Yuliya Baldwin;
> * Administrator’s report
> * A look at Translation Forum Russia 2011
> * More Than Words column: “Out of Africa”
> * “Interpreters as Interrupters”
> * &#1055;&#1072;&#1074;&#1077;&#1083; &#1080; &#1052;&#1072;&#1082;&#1083;&#1102;&#1088;&#1072;

Or, for those not versed in Gibberish, "Павел и Маклюра"...

> * SlavFile Lite: Not by Word Count Alone
> * BritIdiom Savants
> * SlavFilms: a review of the made-for-TV production of Solzhenitsyn's
> “In the First Circle”
> * Dictionaries Worth Seeking: a review of the Russian-English
> Dictionary on Disarmament;
> * A review of MemSouce: A New Translation Tool from the Czech Republic.

-- 
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 bliss.mst at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jun  9 15:03:35 2012
From: bliss.mst at GMAIL.COM (Liv Bliss)
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 10:03:35 -0500
Subject: An interesting addition to parliamentary terminology
Message-ID: <SAT.9.JUN.2012.100335.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

"how do you behead an Italian troll?" -- really, really carefully, I'd think. (And shouldn't all of us who post this same answer form a club?)

***************
Liv Bliss
ATA-Certified Russian to English Translator
tel.: (928) 367 1615
 
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees
John Muir
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From lynnvisson at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jun  9 19:44:54 2012
From: lynnvisson at GMAIL.COM (Lynn Visson)
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:44:54 -0400
Subject: New book by Natalia Strelkova on Russian-English Translation
Message-ID: <SAT.9.JUN.2012.154454.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Hippocrene Books has just published "Introduction to Russian-English
Translation: Tactics and Techniques for the Translator," by Natalya
Strelkova, a practical, paperback text with exercises, answer keys and
explanations. The book is intended for translators, interpreters and
advanced students of Russian, and will be of interest to teachers of
advanced Russian and translation courses.

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From sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET  Sun Jun 10 02:01:11 2012
From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst)
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 18:01:11 -0800
Subject: New book by Natalia Strelkova on Russian-English Translation
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Thanks for mentioning this. Ordering it!


Sarah Hurst

 

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Subject: [SEELANGS] New book by Natalia Strelkova on Russian-English
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Hippocrene Books has just published "Introduction to Russian-English
Translation: Tactics and Techniques for the Translator," by Natalya
Strelkova, a practical, paperback text with exercises, answer keys and
explanations. The book is intended for translators, interpreters and
advanced students of Russian, and will be of interest to teachers of
advanced Russian and translation courses.
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From wdk.ist at GMAIL.COM  Sun Jun 10 14:17:50 2012
From: wdk.ist at GMAIL.COM (William Kerr)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:17:50 +0300
Subject: Histories, memoirs, autobiography,
 fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
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Hello, Nicole ...

Your student would, I am sure, benefit greatly from the book  "Afgantsy:
The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89", written by the former British
Ambassador in the USSR, Sir Rodric Braithwaite ..... the beauty of this
work is that it offers very fascinating views into Soviet society during
the Afghan conflict, while at the same time dissects in some detail the war
and the Soviet presence in Afghanistan as seen primarily from the Russian
viewpoint.

Best,

William Kerr
ELC -  Koc Universitesi,
Istanbul




On 6 June 2012 20:30, Monnier, Nicole M. <MonnierN at missouri.edu> wrote:

> SEELANGTSY!
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> I'm working with an undergraduate student on an independent study for
> which we're pairing historical accounts of major events in 20th century
> Russian/Soviet history with literary (or filmic) works that explore the
> same period. Initially, we were going to do Chechnya, but my student (a
> former military officer) is intrigued by the Soviet war in Afghanistan,
> about which I know . . . well, not very much. Any suggestions would be most
> gratefully received . . .
>
> Best,
>
> Nicole
>
>
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From inesgdlp8mrta at YAHOO.CA  Sun Jun 10 15:14:34 2012
From: inesgdlp8mrta at YAHOO.CA (Ines Garcia de la Puente)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:14:34 -0700
Subject: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America
Message-ID: <SUN.10.JUN.2012.081434.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>


Dear SEELANGSers,
I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I am having some trouble finding relevant materials. 
So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's Russian Immigrants in the United States, the last chapter of John Glad's Russian Abroad, and some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.) 
I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs, articles, movies, documentaries...
Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
Thank you,
Ines Garcia
Ines Garcia de la PuenteUniversity of St.GallenSwitzerland

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From sasha.senderovich at GMAIL.COM  Sun Jun 10 15:51:24 2012
From: sasha.senderovich at GMAIL.COM (Sasha Senderovich)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:51:24 +0400
Subject: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America
In-Reply-To: <1339341274.1403.YahooMailClassic@web161604.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <SUN.10.JUN.2012.195124.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Some more or less obvious texts that come to mind (assuming that you need
texts that are available in English):

- Joseph Brodsky's essays
*- *novels and stories of Sergei Dovlatov
- Ludmila Ulitskaya's *The Funeral Party*
- Eduard Limonov, *It's Me, Eddie*
*
*
A few recent critical studies come to mind, too: Adrian Wanner just
published a book on this topic, *Out of Russia: Fictions of a New
Translingual Diaspora*; Sanna Turoma's *Brodsky Abroad*; there was a volume
of Slavic and East European Journal a couple of years ago devoted to the
subject that had very good articles on topics like New York in emigre
Russian writing, etc.

There's more: this is just off the top of my head.


On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Ines Garcia de la Puente <
inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca> wrote:

>
> Dear SEELANGSers,
>
> I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I
> am having some trouble finding relevant materials.
>
> So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's *Russian Immigrants in the
> United States,* the last chapter of John Glad's *Russian Abroad*, and
> some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya
> Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.)
>
> I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs,
> articles, movies, documentaries...
>
> Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ines Garcia
>
> Ines Garcia de la Puente
> University of St.Gallen
> Switzerland
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From eliasbursac at GMAIL.COM  Sun Jun 10 16:11:36 2012
From: eliasbursac at GMAIL.COM (Ellen Elias-Bursac)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:11:36 -0700
Subject: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America
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A recent novel is David Bezmosgis *The Free World.*

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Sasha Senderovich <
sasha.senderovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some more or less obvious texts that come to mind (assuming that you need
> texts that are available in English):
>
> - Joseph Brodsky's essays
> *- *novels and stories of Sergei Dovlatov
> - Ludmila Ulitskaya's *The Funeral Party*
> - Eduard Limonov, *It's Me, Eddie*
> *
> *
> A few recent critical studies come to mind, too: Adrian Wanner just
> published a book on this topic, *Out of Russia: Fictions of a New
> Translingual Diaspora*; Sanna Turoma's *Brodsky Abroad*; there was a
> volume of Slavic and East European Journal a couple of years ago devoted to
> the subject that had very good articles on topics like New York in emigre
> Russian writing, etc.
>
> There's more: this is just off the top of my head.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Ines Garcia de la Puente <
> inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear SEELANGSers,
>>
>> I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I
>> am having some trouble finding relevant materials.
>>
>> So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's *Russian Immigrants in the
>> United States,* the last chapter of John Glad's *Russian Abroad*, and
>> some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya
>> Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.)
>>
>> I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs,
>> articles, movies, documentaries...
>>
>> Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Ines Garcia
>>
>> Ines Garcia de la Puente
>> University of St.Gallen
>> Switzerland
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From kalbouss at MAC.COM  Sun Jun 10 16:38:57 2012
From: kalbouss at MAC.COM (George Kalbouss)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:38:57 -0400
Subject: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America
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I recommend a recent Russian publication,  Михаил Близнюк,  Прекрасная Маруся Сава,
Москва: Русский путь, 2007.

	This work documents Russian cabaret society in New York from the 1920's to the
1980's.  Besides providing a biography of Marusia Sava, the work also provides mini-bios
of scores of Russian entertainers (including my father, Lonya Kalbouss).  It also provides
a lot of background on the Russian emigrant culture in New York.

George Kalbouss
The Ohio State University


On Jun 10, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Ines Garcia de la Puente wrote:

> 
> Dear SEELANGSers,
> 
> I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I am having some trouble finding relevant materials. 
> 
> So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's Russian Immigrants in the United States, the last chapter of John Glad's Russian Abroad, and some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.) 
> 
> I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs, articles, movies, documentaries...
> 
> Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ines Garcia
> 
> Ines Garcia de la Puente
> University of St.Gallen
> Switzerland
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From angelika.molk at GMAIL.COM  Sun Jun 10 16:30:27 2012
From: angelika.molk at GMAIL.COM (Angelika)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:30:27 +0400
Subject: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America
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I think Sasha was referring to Olga Matich: The Third Wave, Russian Literature in Emigration, 1984. 
And you'll of course have to include P. Vajl and Genis. 

Am 10.06.2012 um 20:11 schrieb Ellen Elias-Bursac:

> A recent novel is David Bezmosgis The Free World.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Sasha Senderovich <sasha.senderovich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some more or less obvious texts that come to mind (assuming that you need texts that are available in English):
> 
> - Joseph Brodsky's essays 
> - novels and stories of Sergei Dovlatov
> - Ludmila Ulitskaya's The Funeral Party
> - Eduard Limonov, It's Me, Eddie
> 
> A few recent critical studies come to mind, too: Adrian Wanner just published a book on this topic, Out of Russia: Fictions of a New Translingual Diaspora; Sanna Turoma's Brodsky Abroad; there was a volume of Slavic and East European Journal a couple of years ago devoted to the subject that had very good articles on topics like New York in emigre Russian writing, etc. 
> 
> There's more: this is just off the top of my head. 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Ines Garcia de la Puente <inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> Dear SEELANGSers,
> 
> I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I am having some trouble finding relevant materials. 
> 
> So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's Russian Immigrants in the United States, the last chapter of John Glad's Russian Abroad, and some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.) 
> 
> I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs, articles, movies, documentaries...
> 
> Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ines Garcia
> 
> Ines Garcia de la Puente
> University of St.Gallen
> Switzerland
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From ANTHONY.QUALIN at TTU.EDU  Sun Jun 10 16:41:51 2012
From: ANTHONY.QUALIN at TTU.EDU (Qualin, Anthony)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:41:51 -0500
Subject: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America
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If you are interested in depictions as well as studies, you may want to have a look at Natalia Medvedeva's "Liubov' s alkogolem" and Villi Tokarev's songs. Psoy Korolenko's song "Abrasha" is probably worth a listen, too.

Anthony

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From yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU  Sun Jun 10 16:59:07 2012
From: yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Furman, Yelena)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:59:07 +0000
Subject: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America
In-Reply-To: <CAMD8JR=_922wC4Gbsu73XZuzmdAtt5xLBqivZ38Gr96_OhYYHw@mail.gmail.com>
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To reiterate some items and to add some new ones:

I second the suggestion of Ulitskaia's The Funeral Party as an example of Russians writing about America.
As far as Russian-American writers - i.e., Russian immigrants who live in the US (or Canada) and write in English, in addition to the names already mentioned -- Vapnyar, Budman, Ulinich, Idov, Bezmozgis, and obviously many of them have several works -- there is also:

Ellen Litman, The Last Chicken in America
Sana Krasikov, One More Year
Irina Reyn, What Happened to Anna K.
Gary Shteyngart, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan, Super Sad True Love Story
Olga Grushin, The Dream Life of Sukhanov, The Line (somewhat different from all the above, since she's not a Russian-Jewish immigrant)

For critical sources, Adrian Wanner's Out of Russia is so far the only monograph - and an excellent one - that deals with this subject at length.
I also organized a special issue of Slavic and East European Journal dealing with contemporary Russian-American fiction (55.1): 2011.

Hope that helps.
Best, Yelena Furman
________________________________
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Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 9:11 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Emigrant Culture in North America

A recent novel is David Bezmosgis The Free World.

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Sasha Senderovich <sasha.senderovich at gmail.com<mailto:sasha.senderovich at gmail.com>> wrote:
Some more or less obvious texts that come to mind (assuming that you need texts that are available in English):

- Joseph Brodsky's essays
- novels and stories of Sergei Dovlatov
- Ludmila Ulitskaya's The Funeral Party
- Eduard Limonov, It's Me, Eddie

A few recent critical studies come to mind, too: Adrian Wanner just published a book on this topic, Out of Russia: Fictions of a New Translingual Diaspora; Sanna Turoma's Brodsky Abroad; there was a volume of Slavic and East European Journal a couple of years ago devoted to the subject that had very good articles on topics like New York in emigre Russian writing, etc.

There's more: this is just off the top of my head.


On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Ines Garcia de la Puente <inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca<mailto:inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca>> wrote:

Dear SEELANGSers,

I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I am having some trouble finding relevant materials.

So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's Russian Immigrants in the United States, the last chapter of John Glad's Russian Abroad, and some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.)

I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs, articles, movies, documentaries...

Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca<mailto:inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca>

Thank you,

Ines Garcia

Ines Garcia de la Puente
University of St.Gallen
Switzerland

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From e.gapova at GMAIL.COM  Sun Jun 10 17:01:54 2012
From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:01:54 -0400
Subject: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America
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If you are interested in the contemporary period, you may want to have a
look at my paper "Жены "русских программистов" или женщины, которые едут
вслед за мужчинами" (*Семейные узы: модели для сборки,* т.2, ред. С.
Ушакин, М.:НЛО, 2004).  It deals with some aspects  of daily life of
high-tech engineers and developpers arriving in the US on special H1-B
visas for qualified professionals.You can read it at:
http://wmich.academia.edu/ElenaGapova/Papers/175607/_

A more general perspective of high-tech migration to North Americais
presented in mine "The Migration of Information Technology Professionals
from the Post-Soviet region" (Roger Rios (Ed.)* Migration Perspectives:
Eastern Europe and Central Asia* (pp.5-16). The International Organization
for Migration (IOM), 2006. I think it is available online (IOM publications
page).

Elena Gapova




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From kisel.masha at GMAIL.COM  Sun Jun 10 21:15:53 2012
From: kisel.masha at GMAIL.COM (Maria Kisel)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:15:53 -0500
Subject: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America
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I recommend the books of V.Legeza, especially Emigrants' Fairytales, which have been translated into English.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 10, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Ines Garcia de la Puente <inesgdlp8mrta at YAHOO.CA> wrote:

> 
> Dear SEELANGSers,
> 
> I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I am having some trouble finding relevant materials. 
> 
> So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's Russian Immigrants in the United States, the last chapter of John Glad's Russian Abroad, and some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.) 
> 
> I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs, articles, movies, documentaries...
> 
> Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ines Garcia
> 
> Ines Garcia de la Puente
> University of St.Gallen
> Switzerland
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From olga at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU  Sun Jun 10 23:18:37 2012
From: olga at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Yokoyama, Olga)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:18:37 +0000
Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 9 Jun 2012 to 10 Jun 2012 - Special issue
 (#2012-204)
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For an earlier period: Korolenko's story "Bez jazyka".

Olga T. Yokoyama
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  1. Histories, memoirs, autobiography, fiction or film about the Soviet war in
     Afghanistan?
  2. Russian Emigrant Culture in North America (6)

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Date:    Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:17:50 +0300
From:    William Kerr <wdk.ist at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Histories, memoirs, autobiography, fiction or film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan?

Hello, Nicole ...

Your student would, I am sure, benefit greatly from the book  "Afgantsy:
The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89", written by the former British
Ambassador in the USSR, Sir Rodric Braithwaite ..... the beauty of this
work is that it offers very fascinating views into Soviet society during
the Afghan conflict, while at the same time dissects in some detail the war
and the Soviet presence in Afghanistan as seen primarily from the Russian
viewpoint.

Best,

William Kerr
ELC -  Koc Universitesi,
Istanbul




On 6 June 2012 20:30, Monnier, Nicole M. <MonnierN at missouri.edu> wrote:

> SEELANGTSY!
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> I'm working with an undergraduate student on an independent study for
> which we're pairing historical accounts of major events in 20th century
> Russian/Soviet history with literary (or filmic) works that explore the
> same period. Initially, we were going to do Chechnya, but my student (a
> former military officer) is intrigued by the Soviet war in Afghanistan,
> about which I know . . . well, not very much. Any suggestions would be most
> gratefully received . . .
>
> Best,
>
> Nicole
>
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Date:    Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:14:34 -0700
From:    Ines Garcia de la Puente <inesgdlp8mrta at YAHOO.CA>
Subject: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America


Dear SEELANGSers,
I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I am having some trouble finding relevant materials. 
So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's Russian Immigrants in the United States, the last chapter of John Glad's Russian Abroad, and some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.) 
I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs, articles, movies, documentaries...
Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
Thank you,
Ines Garcia
Ines Garcia de la PuenteUniversity of St.GallenSwitzerland

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Date:    Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:51:24 +0400
From:    Sasha Senderovich <sasha.senderovich at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America

Some more or less obvious texts that come to mind (assuming that you need
texts that are available in English):

- Joseph Brodsky's essays
*- *novels and stories of Sergei Dovlatov
- Ludmila Ulitskaya's *The Funeral Party*
- Eduard Limonov, *It's Me, Eddie*
*
*
A few recent critical studies come to mind, too: Adrian Wanner just
published a book on this topic, *Out of Russia: Fictions of a New
Translingual Diaspora*; Sanna Turoma's *Brodsky Abroad*; there was a volume
of Slavic and East European Journal a couple of years ago devoted to the
subject that had very good articles on topics like New York in emigre
Russian writing, etc.

There's more: this is just off the top of my head.


On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Ines Garcia de la Puente <
inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca> wrote:

>
> Dear SEELANGSers,
>
> I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I
> am having some trouble finding relevant materials.
>
> So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's *Russian Immigrants in the
> United States,* the last chapter of John Glad's *Russian Abroad*, and
> some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya
> Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.)
>
> I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs,
> articles, movies, documentaries...
>
> Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ines Garcia
>
> Ines Garcia de la Puente
> University of St.Gallen
> Switzerland
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Date:    Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:11:36 -0700
From:    Ellen Elias-Bursac <eliasbursac at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America

A recent novel is David Bezmosgis *The Free World.*

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Sasha Senderovich <
sasha.senderovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some more or less obvious texts that come to mind (assuming that you need
> texts that are available in English):
>
> - Joseph Brodsky's essays
> *- *novels and stories of Sergei Dovlatov
> - Ludmila Ulitskaya's *The Funeral Party*
> - Eduard Limonov, *It's Me, Eddie*
> *
> *
> A few recent critical studies come to mind, too: Adrian Wanner just
> published a book on this topic, *Out of Russia: Fictions of a New
> Translingual Diaspora*; Sanna Turoma's *Brodsky Abroad*; there was a
> volume of Slavic and East European Journal a couple of years ago devoted to
> the subject that had very good articles on topics like New York in emigre
> Russian writing, etc.
>
> There's more: this is just off the top of my head.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Ines Garcia de la Puente <
> inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear SEELANGSers,
>>
>> I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I
>> am having some trouble finding relevant materials.
>>
>> So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's *Russian Immigrants in the
>> United States,* the last chapter of John Glad's *Russian Abroad*, and
>> some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya
>> Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.)
>>
>> I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs,
>> articles, movies, documentaries...
>>
>> Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Ines Garcia
>>
>> Ines Garcia de la Puente
>> University of St.Gallen
>> Switzerland
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Date:    Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:38:57 -0400
From:    George Kalbouss <kalbouss at MAC.COM>
Subject: Re: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America

I recommend a recent Russian publication,  Михаил Близнюк,  Прекрасная Маруся Сава,
Москва: Русский путь, 2007.

	This work documents Russian cabaret society in New York from the 1920's to the
1980's.  Besides providing a biography of Marusia Sava, the work also provides mini-bios
of scores of Russian entertainers (including my father, Lonya Kalbouss).  It also provides
a lot of background on the Russian emigrant culture in New York.

George Kalbouss
The Ohio State University


On Jun 10, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Ines Garcia de la Puente wrote:

> 
> Dear SEELANGSers,
> 
> I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I am having some trouble finding relevant materials. 
> 
> So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's Russian Immigrants in the United States, the last chapter of John Glad's Russian Abroad, and some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.) 
> 
> I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs, articles, movies, documentaries...
> 
> Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ines Garcia
> 
> Ines Garcia de la Puente
> University of St.Gallen
> Switzerland
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Date:    Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:30:27 +0400
From:    Angelika <angelika.molk at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America

I think Sasha was referring to Olga Matich: The Third Wave, Russian Literature in Emigration, 1984. 
And you'll of course have to include P. Vajl and Genis. 

Am 10.06.2012 um 20:11 schrieb Ellen Elias-Bursac:

> A recent novel is David Bezmosgis The Free World.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Sasha Senderovich <sasha.senderovich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some more or less obvious texts that come to mind (assuming that you need texts that are available in English):
> 
> - Joseph Brodsky's essays 
> - novels and stories of Sergei Dovlatov
> - Ludmila Ulitskaya's The Funeral Party
> - Eduard Limonov, It's Me, Eddie
> 
> A few recent critical studies come to mind, too: Adrian Wanner just published a book on this topic, Out of Russia: Fictions of a New Translingual Diaspora; Sanna Turoma's Brodsky Abroad; there was a volume of Slavic and East European Journal a couple of years ago devoted to the subject that had very good articles on topics like New York in emigre Russian writing, etc. 
> 
> There's more: this is just off the top of my head. 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Ines Garcia de la Puente <inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> Dear SEELANGSers,
> 
> I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I am having some trouble finding relevant materials. 
> 
> So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's Russian Immigrants in the United States, the last chapter of John Glad's Russian Abroad, and some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.) 
> 
> I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs, articles, movies, documentaries...
> 
> Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ines Garcia
> 
> Ines Garcia de la Puente
> University of St.Gallen
> Switzerland
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Date:    Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:41:51 -0500
From:    "Qualin, Anthony" <ANTHONY.QUALIN at TTU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Russian Emigrant Culture in North America


If you are interested in depictions as well as studies, you may want to have a look at Natalia Medvedeva's "Liubov' s alkogolem" and Villi Tokarev's songs. Psoy Korolenko's song "Abrasha" is probably worth a listen, too.

Anthony

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From n.bermel at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK  Mon Jun 11 10:20:44 2012
From: n.bermel at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK (Neil H Bermel)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:20:44 +0100
Subject: Interactive Czech / Interaktivni cestina
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Dear SEELANGS,

Our intermediate-level (B1/B2) Czech package, Interaktivni cestina, has
just been released by Karolinum.  It consists of an electronic textbook
with audio recordings and hundreds of interactive grammar, conversation and
reading exercises, with an accompanying workbook for classroom use.  It is
available directly from the publisher:

http://cupress.cuni.cz/ink2_stat/index.jsp?include=podrobnosti&id=7867&zalozka=1

http://cupress.cuni.cz/ink2_ext/index.jsp?include=podrobnosti&id=220065

or from internet bookshop Kosmas:

http://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/170601/interaktivni-cestina/

Best regards,

Neil Bermel
Ilona Koranova
authors, Interaktivni cestina

-- 
Neil Bermel
Professor of Russian & Slavonic Studies
Head, School of Languages and Cultures (formerly SOMLAL)
University of Sheffield
Jessop West, Sheffield S3 7RA U.K.
tel. +44 (0)114 222 7405

Times Higher Education's University of the Year 2012

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From kbrostrom0707 at COMCAST.NET  Sun Jun 10 22:06:56 2012
From: kbrostrom0707 at COMCAST.NET (Kenneth Brostrom)
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:06:56 -0400
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A somewhat dated but quite interesting book is Victor Ripp, FROM 
MOSCOW TO MAIN STREET (1984 I think).

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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:44:40 -0400
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From air3 at FRONTIER.COM  Mon Jun 11 14:43:55 2012
From: air3 at FRONTIER.COM (Irina Rodimtseva)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:43:55 -0400
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*Vasily Aksenov In Search of Melancholy Baby
*David Gurewch Travels with Dubinsky and Clive
*David Gurewich Vodka for Breakfast
*Under Eastern Eyes: The West as Reflected in Recent Russian Émigré Writing

*Annelise Orleck The Soviet Jewish Americans





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        Dear SEELANGSers,


        I am preparing a course on Russian emigrant culture in North America, and I am having some trouble finding relevant materials. 


        So far, in my list are Vera Kishinevsky's Russian Immigrants in the United States, the last chapter of John Glad's Russian Abroad, and some Russian (Jewish)-American fiction (Lara Vapnyar, Mark Budman, Anya Ulinich, Michael Idov etc.) 


        I would be thankful for any suggestions anyone might have: monographs, articles, movies, documentaries...


        Please reply off-line to inesgdlp8mrta at yahoo.ca


        Thank you,


        Ines Garcia


        Ines Garcia de la Puente
        University of St.Gallen
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From MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU  Mon Jun 11 21:40:46 2012
From: MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU (Monnier, Nicole M.)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:40:46 +0000
Subject: Soviet war in Afghanistan in Russian popular culture (a list of
 your responses) = Thank you!
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Dear SEELANGStsy,

A most grateful "thank you" to all who replied on-list and off regarding my query about the Soviet war in Afghanistan. For those who might be interested, here is a compilation of those responses:

Films

・      Cargo 200 (2007, dir. Aleksei Balabanov)

・      9aia rota (9th Company, 2005, dir. Fedor Bondarchuk). Stephen Norris has a forthcoming book devoted to the film: _Blockbuster History_

・      Musul’manin (1995, dir. Vladimir Khotinenko)

・      Dukhovnye golosa (Spiritual Voices, 1995, dir. Aleksandr Sokurov; documentary)

・      Peshavarskii val's (Peshewar Waltz, 1994, dir. Timur Bekmambetov)

・      Noga (The Leg, 1991, Nikita Tiagunov)

・      Afganskii izlom (Afghan Breakdown, 1990, dir. Vladimir Bortko)

History/scholarship

・      Braithwaite, Sir Rodric (former British ambassador to USSR). _Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89_

・      Feifer, Gregory. _The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan_

・      Kalinovsky, Artemy. _A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan_

・      Oushakin, Serguei, _Patriotism of Despair_ (not devoted to Afghanistan per se, but relevant)

・      Tamarov, Vladislav. _Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story_ (photo essay with commentary by author who was a minesweeper).

Fiction (in English):

・      Alexievich, Svetlana. _Zinky Boys_ (multiple respondents noted the “teachability” of this particular text)

・      Oleg Yermakov, _Afghan Stories_ Afganskie rasskazy" ("Zheltaia gora"/ "Yellow Mountain," etc.)

・      "Zinky Boys" by Svetlana Alexievich (see  http://www.amazon.com/Zinky-Boys-Soviet-Voices-Afghanistan/dp/0393336867/ref=la_B001JOE0N4_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1339015199&sr=1-2) would be an obvious first choice for me.

I also received the name of a Ukrainian author and Afghan veteran, Vasil Slapchuk, but haven’t found anything of his in English.
Songs/music:

・      Rozenbaum, Aleksandr. “Black Tulip” YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL76a9R0yIU

・      Blue Berets (Голубые береты), the official ensemble of the Airborne Forces (VDV) began as amateur regiment ensemble in Kabul and are considered the creators of the "Afghan" song (афганская песня), including such songs as "Pamiat', ""U opasnoi cherty," Desant ukhodit v proryv."  There is a detailed article about them in "Учительская газета" (http://www.ug.ru/archive/12561); they also have an official site (berety.ru<http://berety.ru/>):


The indispensable June Farris at the University of Chicago Regenstein Library provided the following search info:
Afghanistan Soviet occupation personal narratives:

・      Limit by language to English and you’ll get 88 matches (some will duplicate each other).

Afghanistan Soviet occupation history:

・      Limit by language to English and you’ll get 2100+ items

Afghanistan Soviet occupation fiction

・      Limit by language to English and you’ll get 85 matches

・      If you limit those matches to “Authors”.  Most will be western authors, but a few are translations from Russian to English, such as:

And finally, leave it to Wikipedia to have a page devoted to “Soviet War in Afghanistan in popular culture”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan_in_popular_culture

Gratefully,

Nicole


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Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
German & Russian Studies
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University of Missouri
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From MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU  Mon Jun 11 21:50:40 2012
From: MonnierN at MISSOURI.EDU (Monnier, Nicole M.)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:50:40 +0000
Subject: Soviet war in Afghanistan in Russian popular culture: resources
 (a better edited version)
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(My apologies--there was some awkward cut-n-paste action in that first post.)

Films

・      Cargo 200 (2007, dir. Aleksei Balabanov)

・      9aia rota (9th Company, 2005, dir. Fedor Bondarchuk). Stephen Norris has a forthcoming book devoted to the film: _Blockbuster History_

・      Musul’manin (1995, dir. Vladimir Khotinenko)

・      Dukhovnye golosa (Spiritual Voices, 1995, dir. Aleksandr Sokurov; documentary)

・      Peshavarskii val's (Peshewar Waltz, 1994, dir. Timur Bekmambetov)

・      Noga (The Leg, 1991, Nikita Tiagunov)

・      Afganskii izlom (Afghan Breakdown, 1990, dir. Vladimir Bortko)

History/scholarship

・      Braithwaite, Sir Rodric (former British ambassador to USSR). _Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89_

・      Feifer, Gregory. _The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan_

・      Kalinovsky, Artemy. _A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan_

・      Oushakin, Serguei. _Patriotism of Despair_ (not devoted to Afghanistan per se, but relevant)

・      Tamarov, Vladislav. _Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story_ (photo essay with commentary by author who was a minesweeper)


Fiction (in English):

・      Alexievich, Svetlana. _Zinky Boys_ (Тsinkovye mal'chiki; multiple respondents noted the “teachability” of this particular text)

・      Yermakov, Oleg. _Afghan Stories_ (Afganskie rasskazy)


I also received the name of a Ukrainian author and Afghan veteran, Vasil Slapchuk, but haven’t found anything of his in English.

Songs/music:

・      Rozenbaum, Aleksandr. “Black Tulip” YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL76a9R0yIU

・      Blue Berets (Голубые береты), the official ensemble of the Airborne Forces (VDV), began as amateur regiment ensemble in Kabul and are considered the creators of the "Afghan" song (афганская песня), including such songs as "Pamiat',” "U opasnoi cherty," Desant ukhodit v proryv."  There is a detailed article about them in "Учительская газета" (http://www.ug.ru/archive/12561); they also have an official site (berety.ru<http://berety.ru/>).


The indispensable June Farris at the University of Chicago Regenstein Library provided the following search info:

Afghanistan Soviet occupation personal narratives:

・      Limit by language to English and you’ll get 88 matches (some will duplicate each other).

Afghanistan Soviet occupation history:

・      Limit by language to English and you’ll get 2100+ items

Afghanistan Soviet occupation fiction

・      Limit by language to English and you’ll get 85 matches






And finally, leave it to Wikipedia to have a page devoted to “Soviet War in Afghanistan in popular culture”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan_in_popular_culture



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Dr. Nicole Monnier
Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
German & Russian Studies
428A Strickland (formerly GCB)
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

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From kolljack at STANFORD.EDU  Mon Jun 11 23:20:03 2012
From: kolljack at STANFORD.EDU (Jack Kollmann)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:20:03 -0700
Subject: Soviet war in Afghanistan in Russian popular culture:
 resources (a better edited version)
In-Reply-To: <CBFBD25D.C367%monniern@missouri.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.11.JUN.2012.162003.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Please remove me from the SEELANGS e-mail distribution list.
Thanks,
Jack Kollmann

Jack Kollmann, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Center for Russian, East European,
     and Eurasian Studies
Room 217, Encina West
Stanford University, M/C 6045
Stanford, CA 94305
e-mail:  kolljack at stanford.edu



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Subject: [SEELANGS] Soviet war in Afghanistan in Russian popular culture:
resources (a better edited version)

(My apologies--there was some awkward cut-n-paste action in that first
post.)

Films

・      Cargo 200 (2007, dir. Aleksei Balabanov)

・      9aia rota (9th Company, 2005, dir. Fedor Bondarchuk). Stephen
Norris has a forthcoming book devoted to the film: _Blockbuster History_

・      Musul’manin (1995, dir. Vladimir Khotinenko)

・      Dukhovnye golosa (Spiritual Voices, 1995, dir. Aleksandr Sokurov;
documentary)

・      Peshavarskii val's (Peshewar Waltz, 1994, dir. Timur Bekmambetov)

・      Noga (The Leg, 1991, Nikita Tiagunov)

・      Afganskii izlom (Afghan Breakdown, 1990, dir. Vladimir Bortko)

History/scholarship

・      Braithwaite, Sir Rodric (former British ambassador to USSR).
_Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89_

・      Feifer, Gregory. _The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan_

・      Kalinovsky, Artemy. _A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from
Afghanistan_

・      Oushakin, Serguei. _Patriotism of Despair_ (not devoted to
Afghanistan per se, but relevant)

・      Tamarov, Vladislav. _Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story_
(photo essay with commentary by author who was a minesweeper)


Fiction (in English):

・      Alexievich, Svetlana. _Zinky Boys_ (Тsinkovye mal'chiki; multiple
respondents noted the “teachability” of this particular text)

・      Yermakov, Oleg. _Afghan Stories_ (Afganskie rasskazy)


I also received the name of a Ukrainian author and Afghan veteran, Vasil
Slapchuk, but haven’t found anything of his in English.

Songs/music:

・      Rozenbaum, Aleksandr. “Black Tulip” YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL76a9R0yIU

・      Blue Berets (Голубые береты), the official ensemble
of the Airborne Forces (VDV), began as amateur regiment ensemble in Kabul
and are considered the creators of the "Afghan" song (афганская
песня), including such songs as "Pamiat',” "U opasnoi cherty,"
Desant ukhodit v proryv."  There is a detailed article about them in "Уч
ительская газета" (http://www.ug.ru/archive/12561); they
also have an official site (berety.ru<http://berety.ru/>).


The indispensable June Farris at the University of Chicago Regenstein
Library provided the following search info:

Afghanistan Soviet occupation personal narratives:

・      Limit by language to English and you’ll get 88 matches (some will
duplicate each other).

Afghanistan Soviet occupation history:

・      Limit by language to English and you’ll get 2100+ items

Afghanistan Soviet occupation fiction

・      Limit by language to English and you’ll get 85 matches






And finally, leave it to Wikipedia to have a page devoted to “Soviet War
in Afghanistan in popular culture”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan_in_popular_culture



****************************
Dr. Nicole Monnier
Associate Teaching Professor of Russian
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Russian)
German & Russian Studies
428A Strickland (formerly GCB)
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

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From rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU  Tue Jun 12 02:06:19 2012
From: rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU (Robert A. Rothstein)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:06:19 -0400
Subject: Soviet war in Afghanistan in Russian popular culture
In-Reply-To: <CBFBD00B.C358%monniern@missouri.edu>
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     One other song, as sung by Natal'ia Mokrousova: "Zdravstvui, Mama" 
(text at http://a-pesni.org/army/zdrmama-afg.php, song at 
http://www.audiopoisk.com/track/no/mp3/natal_a-mokrousova---zdravstvui-mama/). 
A soldier writes to his mother to reassure her that he's OK (Знаешь, 
мама, здесь не страшно, просто здесь Афганистан), but she gets the 
letter after he's been killed.
     (There's one misprint in the text: Лишь вчера осенним ветром дунуло 
окно should be ... дунуло вокно.)
Bob Rothstein





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From i.s.souch at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 12 13:45:48 2012
From: i.s.souch at GMAIL.COM (Irina Souch)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:45:48 +0200
Subject: post-sovie nostalgia
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.154548.0200.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Dear colleagues,
I am looking for a suitable relatively recent Russian literary text or poem
( translated in English) to go with Sveltana Boym's Future of Nostalgia.
It is for the students of comparative literature who are not  necessarily
familiar with Russian literature or culture.

Thank you very much!

Irina Souch
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
University of Amsterdam

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From Elena.Baraban at AD.UMANITOBA.CA  Tue Jun 12 16:33:33 2012
From: Elena.Baraban at AD.UMANITOBA.CA (Elena Baraban)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:33:33 +0000
Subject: sessional instructor position
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.163333.0000.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

University of Manitoba announces a sessional instructor position in Russian for 2012-2013:



http://umanitoba.ca/cgi-bin/human_resources/jobs/view.pl?posting_id=88935



Please forward inquiries to the address in the ad.



Thank you,



Elena

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From museum at ZISLIN.COM  Tue Jun 12 16:34:56 2012
From: museum at ZISLIN.COM (Uli Zislin)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:34:56 -0400
Subject: post-sovie nostalgia
In-Reply-To: <CAEqJYuwmjXq+F4Lf79AqypBOVqL7wwWwv_EBJmqsykkHzeM7Ew@mail.gmail.com>
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American Museum of Russian Culture 

                  for the general public (project)

 

 

        WASHINGTON MEMORIAL OF RUSSIAN  CULTURE:

 

                MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN POETRY AND MUSIC

                                                       FOUNDED  1997

 

                ALLEY OF RUSSIAN POETS and COMPOSERS, 

                                 WASHINGTON D.C.

                                                       FOUNDED  2003

 

                                                                Dr. ULI  ZISLIN,  

                 Founder, Curator, Collector, Songwriter 

www.museum.zislin.com   1-301/942-2728    museum at zislin.com

 

 

Dear Irina,

 

Please see the next  Nostalgia Songs by my compact disk # 1:

http://www.museum.zislin.com/rus/Goroda%20Mira.html

 

If you will like some texts of these songs, I ask my friend to translate these poems for you in English.

 

Regards,

 

Uli.

 

  _____  

From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Irina Souch
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 9:46 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] post-sovie nostalgia

 

Dear colleagues,

I am looking for a suitable relatively recent Russian literary text or poem ( translated in English) to go with Sveltana Boym's Future of Nostalgia.  It is for the students of comparative literature who are not  necessarily familiar with Russian literature or culture.

 

Thank you very much!

 

Irina Souch

Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)

University of Amsterdam

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From ravitch at CORD.EDU  Tue Jun 12 19:10:21 2012
From: ravitch at CORD.EDU (Lara Ravitch)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:10:21 -0500
Subject: Accredited Online Russian Classes for HS Student
In-Reply-To: <SEELANGS%201206101820295283.03EC@BAMA.UA.EDU>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.141021.0500.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

Hi All,

Can anyone help me help a parent who is looking for online Russian classes for her home-schooled child? In order for them to be accepted, they have to be accredited, but I imagine that either college-based or HS level would be fine. She has been tutored for many years, so she is not an absolute beginner.

Thank you!

Lara Ravitch
Dean, Lesnoe Ozero (Лесное озеро)
Concordia Russian Language Village

Concordia Language Villages
901 8th St. S.
Moorhead, MN 56562
800-222-4750
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From mkostina at SBCGLOBAL.NET  Tue Jun 12 19:18:29 2012
From: mkostina at SBCGLOBAL.NET (Marina Kostina)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:18:29 -0700
Subject: Accredited Online Russian Classes for HS Student
In-Reply-To: <E8346E099FF56B4484C3B091D0622F0A01AF83523F06@CORDMAIL.cord.local>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.JUN.2012.121829.0700.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>



Lara, 

Check out Blended Schools Language Institute-- Dir (Evon Zundel): 
http://li.blendedschools.net/

good luck!

Marina

________________________________
From: Lara Ravitch <ravitch at CORD.EDU>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Sent: Tue, June 12, 2012 2:15:57 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Accredited Online Russian Classes for HS Student

Hi All,

Can anyone help me help a parent who is looking for online Russian classes for 
her home-schooled child? In order for them to be accepted, they have to be 
accredited, but I imagine that either college-based or HS level would be fine. 
She has been tutored for many years, so she is not an absolute beginner.

Thank you!

Lara Ravitch
Dean, Lesnoe Ozero (Лесное озеро)
Concordia Russian Language Village

Concordia Language Villages
901 8th St. S.
Moorhead, MN 56562
800-222-4750
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From krystofslavista at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jun 13 14:07:24 2012
From: krystofslavista at GMAIL.COM (Christopher Harwood)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:07:24 -0400
Subject: AATSEEL panel on teaching non-Russian Slavic and East European
 languages
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.100724.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

AATSEEL 2013 Poster panel proposal: Teaching Less Commonly Taught Slavic
Languages

The International Association of Teachers of Czech (IATC) is organizing a
poster panel on teaching LCTLs, open to colleagues teaching any of the
languages of Central and Eastern Europe other than Russian (since Russian
is so abundantly represented elsewhere at the conference). Individual
posters should identify a specific pedagogical problem within the field of
LCTL instruction, and shed light on methodological solutions, providing
specific models for others to apply in their own courses. The goal of this
panel is to provide a forum for colleagues from various languages to
address issues common to all, and promote further contact and
collaboration. Although the panel is proposed by the International
Association of Teachers of Czech, as in the past two years colleagues
teaching any of the relevant languages are encouraged to participate, as
are graduate students.

Please contact Chris Harwood at cwh4 at columbia.edu ASAP if you are
interested in participating.

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From krystofslavista at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jun 13 14:15:44 2012
From: krystofslavista at GMAIL.COM (Christopher Harwood)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:15:44 -0400
Subject: CfP - Czech Studies Workshop at Columbia University April 26-27,
 2013
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.101544.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

CALL FOR PAPERS - FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CZECH STUDIES WORKSHOP
at Columbia University in the City of New York

The Fourteenth Annual Czech Studies Workshop, which will be held at
Columbia University
in the City of New York on April 26-27, 2013, welcomes proposals for papers
on Czech
topics, broadly defined, in all disciplines. Slovak topics will also be
considered.

In the past, our interdisciplinary conference has drawn participants from
colleges and
universities in the United States and abroad. Areas of interest have
included:
anthropology, architecture, art, economics, education, film, geography,
history, Jewish
studies, literature, music, philosophy, politics, religion, and theater.
Work in progress
is appropriate for our workshop format. Junior faculty and advanced
graduate students are
especially encouraged to participate.

Limited funding is available to reimburse participants? travel and
accommodation costs.

To submit a proposal for the workshop, please send an abstract of
approximately 450 words
and your CV to:
czechstudies2013 at yahoo.com<https://cubmail.cc.columbia.edu/horde/imp/compose.php?to=czechstudies2013%40yahoo.com&thismailbox=sent-mail>
Please be sure to include your name, full address, institutional
affiliation, daytime
telephone and e-mail address. Alternatively, you may send a hard copy of
your abstract
and personal data to:

Chris Harwood
Slavic Dept - Columbia University
708 Hamilton Hall - MC 2839
1130 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY  10027

The firm deadline for receipt of proposals is Friday, January 11, 2013. For
more
information, please contact Chris Harwood at
cwh4 at columbia.edu<https://cubmail.cc.columbia.edu/horde/imp/compose.php?to=cwh4%40columbia.edu&thismailbox=sent-mail>

The 2013 Czech Studies Workshop is made possible by funding from the
Harriman Institute
at Columbia University.

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From e.gapova at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jun 13 18:29:49 2012
From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:29:49 -0400
Subject: Soviet war in Afghanistan in Russian popular culture
In-Reply-To: <4FD6A41B.7090600@slavic.umass.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.13.JUN.2012.142949.0400.SEELANGS@BAMA.UA.EDU>

You might want to use some video clips of Soviet TV reports from
Afghanistan, in particular, вывод советских войск из Афганистана. See, for
example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8sJ33kyhQk&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLD632707F000D9215

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YWhXZIikg

 Soviet troops largely had the same agenda in Afghanistan that American
troops have now: fighting the fundamentalists and trying to modernize the
country (building schools, starting training programs and industrial
enterprises; at that time there were students from Afghanistan in most
Soviet technological universities). At the same time, Soviet society felt
that the war was wrong, and when the govenment began withdrawing the
troops, there was bitterenes because of the lives lost, but also a certain
"pride" that the troops were being withdrawn under civic pressure and in an
orderly manner etc. An important symbolic gesture was general Gromov, the
Soviet commander in Afghanistan, being the last one to leav the Afghan
territorye, i.e. to cross the bridge on the Soviet-Afghen border, leaving
"no one behind" (although there was belief that some soldiers might still
be there as war prisoners).

Some contemporary documentaries:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB1fN2-Rdu8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bp6AdOkRzE&feature=related

In fact, there is a lot of visual material on youtube, if you type
Афганистан and советcкий.

Elena Gapova

2012/6/11 Robert A. Rothstein <rar at slavic.umass.edu>

>      One other song, as sung by Natal'ia Mokrousova: "Zdravstvui, Mama"
> (text at http://a-pesni.org/army/zdrmama-afg.php, song at
> http://www.audiopoisk.com/track/no/mp3/natal_a-mokrousova---zdravstvui-mama/).
> A soldier writes to his mother to reassure her that he's OK (Знаешь, мама,
> здесь не страшно, просто здесь Афганистан), but she gets the letter after
> he's been killed.
>     (There's one misprint in the text: Лишь вчера осенним ветром дунуло
> окно should be ... дунуло в окно.)
> Bob Rothstein
>
>
>
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From kottcoos at mail.ru  Mon Jun 18 14:15:22 2012
From: kottcoos at mail.ru (=?UTF-8?B?R29sb3Zpem5pbiBLb25zdGFudGlu?=)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:15:22 +0400
Subject: Estimate needed
In-Reply-To: <9B55785EA179DA42AAA6EA7F7DC9DB90D2D519C58B@CMS01.campus.gla.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.181522.0400.KOTTCOOS@MAIL.RU>

Btw, how it really works you can look here (Petrov's "Polyglot" = English for 16 lessons = Dragunkin-like approach) - http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3937119   

Moreover, what about Dragunkin's "opredeliteli" and his explanation (or approach to) of English tenses ? 

Konstantin 

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:17:34 +0100 от John Dunn <John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK>:
> I have only looked through a few pages, but so far I am firmly in the second camp.  I accept that this sort of course is not intended for the likes of me (or, more accurately, the Russian equivalent of the likes of me), but I do wonder how much usable English can be acquired from this particular book.  To me the manner of presentation is supremely irritating, though others may disagree, but a more serious problem is the unreal nature of many of the examples.  The course also risks leaving the user stranded in mid-Atlantic: the pronunciation is not really explained, but the transcriptions suggests a distant approximation to what the BBC used to call 'educated Southern English speech', while some of the examples are more indicative of American English (color, these guys).
> 
> John Dunn.
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul B. Gallagher [paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM]
> Sent: 17 June 2012 12:55
> To: SEELANGS at listserv.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Estimate needed
> 
> Resending as I overlooked Mr. Goloviznin's redirection of replies to his
> private address.
> 
> Goloviznin Konstantin wrote:
> 
> > Dear Seelangers,
> >
> > There is some new method of teaching  English called "English by
> > A.Dragunkin".  Opinions    between russianspeaking are divided into two.
> > Some consider it revolutionary (I do  this way too) and the others see
> > it a bit of nothing or even harmful.  So it would very interesting to
> > know what you think of this. Dragunkin's "Little leap into English for
> > 115 min" can be downloaded from here:
> >
> > <http://ptlib.narod.ru/books/Dragunkin_Maliy.Pryjok.2010.pdf >
> 
> A cursory look suggests to me that it's wrong-headed in many respects,
> but I'm no pedagogue. Some self-taught individuals may find it useful;
> there are a lot of different learning styles. At any rate, no one can
> reasonably expect to finish learning a language in (not "for") 115
> minutes, and the author must intend the learner to continue his studies
> elsewhere after this jump-start.
> 
> I assume he's aiming for British English since he doesn't believe in
> postvocalic /r/, so I can't really evaluate his guidance on
> pronunciation. Much of that strikes me as completely alien, but BE
> speakers may react differently.
> 
> --
> 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 Cynthia.Ruder at UKY.EDU  Mon Jun 18 20:56:35 2012
From: Cynthia.Ruder at UKY.EDU (Ruder, Cynthia A)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:56:35 +0000
Subject: Dni Turbinykh
Message-ID: <MON.18.JUN.2012.205635.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGtsy:



By way of background...2012-2013 has been designated the "Year of Russia" by the UK College of Arts & Sciences.  As part of the activities in conjunction with this year-long event, we in Russian Studies are collaborating with colleagues from various disciplines across campus to provide diverse and original programming.



Orginally we had hoped to stage DNI TURBINYKH, but after thinking about the project and reading the play a colleague in our Theater program got inspired and is planning instead on writing a play about Mikhail Bulgakov in general and the play Dni Turbinykh (and the novel The White Guard) in particular.  He is not a Slavist, so he is most interested in corresponding with scholars who could provide some guidance, suggestions of sources, etc. so that he is as fully "read" as he can be before he embarks on writing the play.  He speaks no Russian, so he has to rely on scholarship/sources in translation.  Of course I am willing to help him, but I am not a Bulgakov specialist which is why I am hoping that those of you on the list who are might be willing to assist if necessary with his questions, etc.



He and I will be collaborating on a course that brings together his theater students and our Russian Studies students in an effort to inform each other's work--our students are exposed to theater, his students are exposed to one of the 20th centuries greatest writers and Russian/Soviet culture to boot.  It promises to be a win-win for all involved.



If you can suggest sources or would be willing to have him contact you with questions, please reply to me OFF LIST at cynthia.ruder at uky.edu<mailto:cynthia.ruder at uky.edu>.



Thanks very much in advance for your assistance.  Best regards, Cindy Ruder



Cynthia A. Ruder, Associate Professor
University of Kentucky
MCL/Russian & Eastern Studies
1055 Patterson
Lexington, KY  40506-0027
859.257.7026
cynthia.ruder at uky.edu<mailto:cynthia.ruder at uky.edu>

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From rifkin at TCNJ.EDU  Tue Jun 19 20:03:13 2012
From: rifkin at TCNJ.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:03:13 -0400
Subject: Learning Russian through Popular Music
Message-ID: <TUE.19.JUN.2012.160313.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers:

I thought some of us might find this interesting:

http://en.rian.ru/columnists/20120618/174100608.html

Best wishes to all,

Ben Rifkin
The College of New Jersey



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From seacoastrussian at yahoo.com  Tue Jun 19 21:18:48 2012
From: seacoastrussian at yahoo.com (Katya Burvikova)
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:18:48 -0700
Subject: short-term accomodation in Moscow
Message-ID: <TUE.19.JUN.2012.141848.0700.SEACOASTRUSSIAN@YAHOO.COM>

Dear seelangers,

a friend of mine is looking for an apartment in Moscow for 2 people for about 3 weeks (June, 30th - July, 8th and July 25th - July 29th). If anyone knows of  an affordable service, please reply off the list.



Katya Burvikova

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From kaunas4 at RCN.COM  Thu Jun 21 08:23:16 2012
From: kaunas4 at RCN.COM (richard tomback)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:23:16 -0500
Subject: book offer
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.032316.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

I have the following book to offer the group

Belorussian-Russian  Slovar

90,000 words
Hard Bound, no markings
Issued by the Belorussian Dept of Sciences 1962

Best offer over 25,00  plus about 12,00 postage
condition is G-VG


Respond off list to  Richard.Tomback at Kbcc.Cuny.edu


Thank you,
Richard T

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From rifkin at TCNJ.EDU  Thu Jun 21 20:41:51 2012
From: rifkin at TCNJ.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:41:51 -0400
Subject: Part-Time Job Teaching Russian
Message-ID: <THU.21.JUN.2012.164151.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers:

Please note the following job opportunity at The College of New Jersey.  Although I will supervise and mentor this instructor in our Russian program, applications should be sent to my colleagues as per the instructions in the announcement below.  Please note the July 9 deadline!

For more information about our program, here are some websites that may be of interest to applicants:

www.tcnj.edu
hss.pages.tcnj.edu
wlc.pages.tcnj.edu
http://wlc.pages.tcnj.edu/programs/russian/ 


Sincerely,

Ben Rifkin
The College of New Jersey

PART TIME POSITION IN RUSSIAN AT THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY

The College of New Jersey seeks one adjunct faculty member to teach intensive Russian in the Fall Semester, 2012, at both the first - and second - year levels, with a co-instructor, under the supervision of Benjamin Rifkin, Professor of Russian and Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences. This is a part-time position with no benefits, but with the possibility of continuation into the Spring 2013 semester.
The successful candidate must be able and willing to collaborate with co-instructor on all aspects of course management.
Requirements:
1. Near-native fluency in both Russian and English
2. A M.A. degree, or its equivalent, in Russian/Slavic or in foreign language education with an emphasis on Russian.
3. Prior college-level teaching experience.
4. Familiarity with contemporary instructional materials for college-level teaching of Russian and the use of digital media in the college curriculum.
Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate in their letter and resume substantial experience in teaching in a Standards-based proficiency-oriented curriculum.

Contact Information
Email letter of application and curriculum vitae to: Professors Deborah Compte and Adriana Rosman-Askot, Co-Chairs, dcompte at tcnj.edu by July 9, 2012 or until position is filled. Department of World Languages and Cultures, The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718.
To enrich education through diversity, The College of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The College has a strong commitment to achieving diversity among faculty and staff, and strongly encourages women and members of underrepresented groups to apply.
Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background investigation.
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From Adrienne_Harris at BAYLOR.EDU  Fri Jun 22 14:46:37 2012
From: Adrienne_Harris at BAYLOR.EDU (Harris, Adrienne M.)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:46:37 +0000
Subject: translation question
In-Reply-To: <CAOVwo0tUZ4pyOpTw+cTV=g6RB6Ge8hxEjCivg9MkOOLqXeDOdQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Дорогие Seelangцы,

I've been struggling with a translation, so I thought I'd turn to the experts for help:

>From a Iuliia Drunina poem: Вили молнии.  Тучи вились

Lightning struck?  Lightening was striking (to connote the plurality? And wouldn't lightening usually ударяет? "Beating down," perhaps?  and storm clouds were evasive),

And then there's the second phrase...storm clouds meandered?  Were evasive?  Neither of those variants sounds right, so I would be grateful for any guidance!

Thank you, Adrienne


Adrienne M. Harris, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Russian
Modern Foreign Languages
Baylor University

One Bear Place #97391
Waco, TX 76798-7391
(254) 644-5718
Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu





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From a.k.harrington at DURHAM.AC.UK  Fri Jun 22 15:01:31 2012
From: a.k.harrington at DURHAM.AC.UK (HARRINGTON A.K.)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:01:31 +0100
Subject: posts in Russian
In-Reply-To: A<2658BB968B651E4582949DD856321AEF08A7BE@Cole.baylor.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.160131.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

 

I'd like to draw your attention to two currently advertised posts in Russian at the University of Durham:

 

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AEQ168/lecturer-in-russian/

 

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AEP881/lecturer-in-russian/

 

One is a conventional grant-related replacement post for 9-months, while the other post is associated with our new Centre for Russian Cultural and Critical Studies, for 1 year in the first instance.

 

I'd be grateful if you could draw these to the attention of suitably qualified candidates who may be interested in one or both.

 

Many thanks

 

Alex Harrington

 

 

Dr Alexandra Harrington

Senior Lecturer in Russian

Head of Russian Department

School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Durham University

Elvet Riverside

Durham DH1 3JT

 

Tel. +44 (0)191 334 3452

Fax. +44 (0)191 334 3421

 

From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Harris, Adrienne M.
Sent: 22 June 2012 15:47
To: SEELANGS at listserv.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] translation question

 

Дорогие Seelangцы, 

 

I've been struggling with a translation, so I thought I'd turn to the experts for help:

 

>From a Iuliia Drunina poem: Вили молнии.  Тучи вились  

 

Lightning struck?  Lightening was striking (to connote the plurality? And wouldn't lightening usually ударяет? "Beating down," perhaps?  and storm clouds were evasive),

 

And then there's the second phrase...storm clouds meandered?  Were evasive?  Neither of those variants sounds right, so I would be grateful for any guidance!

 

Thank you, Adrienne

 

 

Adrienne M. Harris, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Russian

Modern Foreign Languages

Baylor University

 

One Bear Place #97391

Waco, TX 76798-7391

(254) 644-5718

Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu

 

 

 

 

 

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From xrenovo at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jun 22 15:17:01 2012
From: xrenovo at GMAIL.COM (Sasha Spektor)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:17:01 -0500
Subject: translation question
In-Reply-To: <2658BB968B651E4582949DD856321AEF08A7BE@Cole.baylor.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.101701.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

I think it's "били молнии" in the original, not "вили".  At least that's
what Google gives.  Били is, as you said, "were striking"

Best,
Sasha

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Harris, Adrienne M. <
Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu> wrote:

>  Дорогие Seelangцы, ****
>
> ** **
>
> I've been struggling with a translation, so I thought I'd turn to the
> experts for help:****
>
> ** **
>
> From a Iuliia Drunina poem: Вили молнии.  Тучи вились  ****
>
> ** **
>
> Lightning struck?  Lightening was striking (to connote the plurality? And
> wouldn't lightening usually ударяет? "Beating down," perhaps?  and storm
> clouds were evasive),****
>
> ** **
>
> And then there's the second phrase...storm clouds meandered?  Were evasive?
> Neither of those variants sounds right, so I would be grateful for any
> guidance!****
>
> ** **
>
> Thank you, Adrienne****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> Adrienne M. Harris, Ph.D.****
>
> Assistant Professor of Russian****
>
> Modern Foreign Languages****
>
> Baylor University****
>
> ** **
>
> One Bear Place #97391****
>
> Waco, TX 76798-7391****
>
> (254) 644-5718****
>
> Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ****
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From Adrienne_Harris at BAYLOR.EDU  Fri Jun 22 17:34:12 2012
From: Adrienne_Harris at BAYLOR.EDU (Harris, Adrienne M.)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:34:12 +0000
Subject: translation question--thank you and summation
In-Reply-To: <CAPRO7qvOkK1vtwLsDZKMTYWOL8+EQ9OYndXZTHQBgJOYrODiyw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.173412.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Thank you for your helpful responses, both public and private.  Yes, the <В> is most certainly a <Б>.

Suggestions were:

"Lightening was beating down" and possibly "dark clouds were gathering" and "Lightenings were smiting. Storm clouds were swarming."
One colleague pointed out the Pushkin reference-I never would have caught it!

If you are curious, the full stanza is:
Были молнии.  Тучи вились.
Было всякое на веку.
Жизнь летит, как горящий <виллис>
По гремящему большаку.


All the best, Adrienne

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From xrenovo at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jun 22 17:48:00 2012
From: xrenovo at GMAIL.COM (Sasha Spektor)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:48:00 -0500
Subject: translation question--thank you and summation
In-Reply-To: <2658BB968B651E4582949DD856321AEF08A88C@Cole.baylor.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.JUN.2012.124800.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

It's obviously not a direct reference, but the last two lines remind me of
Mayakovsky's

Вот и жизнь пройдет,

как прошли Азорские острова.




On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Harris, Adrienne M. <
Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu> wrote:

>  Thank you for your helpful responses, both public and private.  Yes, the
> <<В>> is most certainly a <<Б>>.  ****
>
> Suggestions were: ****
>
> "Lightening *was beating down**"* and possibly "*dark clouds were
> gathering*" and "Lightenings were smiting. Storm clouds were swarming."***
> *
>
> One colleague pointed out the Pushkin reference--I never would have caught
> it!  ****
>
> ** **
>
> If you are curious, the full stanza is:****
>
> Были молнии.  Тучи вились.****
>
> Было всякое на веку.****
>
> Жизнь летит, как горящий <<виллис>>****
>
> По гремящему большаку.  ****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> All the best, Adrienne****
>
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From uniword2 at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jun 22 19:03:39 2012
From: uniword2 at GMAIL.COM (=?KOI8-R?B?4czFy9PBzsTSIPfPzNjO2co=?=)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:03:39 +0300
Subject: New books on Russian literature
In-Reply-To: <1339942737.51881.YahooMailNeo@web65408.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
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Diar SEELANDS! I would like to present you my poetry book
"Encyclopedia of Life". www.uniword.info With best request: Alexander
Volniy

2012/6/17, ivan esaulov <esaulov50 at yahoo.com>:
> Dear colleagues, I would like to inform you about two my new books:
>
> Культурные подтексты поэтики Исаака Бабеля
> http://esaulov.net/portfolio/kulturnye-podtexty-poetiki-isaaka-babelja
>
> Русская классика: новое понимание
> http://esaulov.net/portfolio/russkaja-klassika-novoe-ponimanie
>
> http://esaulov.net/uncategorized/prezentarsija-na-adriatik
>
> Best regards,
> Ivan Esaulov
>
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From harlo at MINDSPRING.COM  Sat Jun 23 16:28:38 2012
From: harlo at MINDSPRING.COM (Harlow Robinson)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:28:38 -0400
Subject: JOB POSTING FOR NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY in introductory Russian
 language
Message-ID: <SAT.23.JUN.2012.122838.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Northeastern University seeks to hire an instructor of Russian language for the 2012-13 academic year.

This is an adjunct part-time position.  The course load will include two courses, in Elementary Russian 1 and Elementary Russian 2, with the possibility (depending upon enrollments) of a third course in Intermediate Russian.

We are seeking a candidate with experience teaching Russian language at the college level, with an M.A. or Ph.D. degree.

Send a cover letter, resume and list of references to:

Dennis Cokely, Chair, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures  d.cokely at neu.edu
Harlow Robinson, Matthews Distinguished University Professsor, h.robinson at neu.edu

thank you


Prof.Harlow Robinson
Matthews Distinguished University Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Dept.of History
249 Meserve Hall
Northeastern University
Boston, MA  02115


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From dnwells at OZEMAIL.COM.AU  Sun Jun 24 11:39:52 2012
From: dnwells at OZEMAIL.COM.AU (David Wells)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:39:52 +0800
Subject: Maritime expressions
Message-ID: <SUN.24.JUN.2012.193952.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Hello

 

I am translating a seafarer’s account from circa 1700.  I wonder if anyone can assist with a couple of expressions?

 

Матошник – I thought from example 1 this must be some sort of seaweed, but with example 2, I am not so sure.

 

1)      И как-де ветры престали, тогда они по матошнику усмотрели, что их далеко в море занесло, стали домышлитца -- как бы им назад возвратитца?

 

2)      А как дерево на море нашли [the ship was caught in a storm and the mast lost, but later replaced using a tree found floating in the ocean] и парус сшили, тогда по самой нужде по матошнику прибились к Курильской земле. 

 

Великие слезы – I take this to be the result of some sort of vitamin deficiency similar to scurvy (perhaps vitamin A deficiency).

 

Да и онеж, курильские люди, двух человек из них, которые будучи на судне на море от великих слез ослепли -- убили до смерти.

 

Many thanks

 

David Wells

 

 

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

David Wells

Secretary-Treasurer

Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association 

 

 


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From jknox at BOWDOIN.EDU  Sun Jun 24 12:03:54 2012
From: jknox at BOWDOIN.EDU (Jane Knox-Voina)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:03:54 +0000
Subject: Maritime expressions
In-Reply-To: <001c01cd51fe$121b3b50$3651b1f0$@com.au>
Message-ID: <SUN.24.JUN.2012.120354.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

I'll get back to you later with translations. Are you the David Wells who graduated from Bowdoin and took a class with me?

Jane

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 24, 2012, at 7:51 AM, "David Wells" <dnwells at OZEMAIL.COM.AU<mailto:dnwells at OZEMAIL.COM.AU>> wrote:

Hello

I am translating a seafarer’s account from circa 1700.  I wonder if anyone can assist with a couple of expressions?


Матошник – I thought from example 1 this must be some sort of seaweed, but with example 2, I am not so sure.



1)      И как-де ветры престали, тогда они по матошнику усмотрели, что их далеко в море занесло, стали домышлитца -- как бы им назад возвратитца?



2)      А как дерево на море нашли [the ship was caught in a storm and the mast lost, but later replaced using a tree found floating in the ocean] и парус сшили, тогда по самой нужде по матошнику прибились к Курильской земле.



Великие слезы – I take this to be the result of some sort of vitamin deficiency similar to scurvy (perhaps vitamin A deficiency).



Да и онеж, курильские люди, двух человек из них, которые будучи на судне на море от великих слез ослепли -- убили до смерти.



Many thanks



David Wells



*******************
David Wells
Secretary-Treasurer
Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association




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From hugh_olmsted at COMCAST.NET  Sun Jun 24 12:17:45 2012
From: hugh_olmsted at COMCAST.NET (Hugh Olmsted)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 08:17:45 -0400
Subject: Maritime expressions
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Dear David-- 
The first of your terms, матошник, is evidently a slight variant of 'маточник' (cf the old Moscow pronunciation of graphic / etymological -чн- as --шн-, as in 'яичница' and, конечно, in 'конечно'), in the meaning of 'compass' --see the Dictionary of XI-XVII century Russian, vol. 9 (M), p. 46.
Hugh Olmsted


On Jun 24, 2012, at 7:39 AM, David Wells wrote:

> Hello
>  
> I am translating a seafarer’s account from circa 1700.  I wonder if anyone can assist with a couple of expressions?
>  
> Матошник – I thought from example 1 this must be some sort of seaweed, but with example 2, I am not so sure.
>  
> 1)      И как-де ветры престали, тогда они по матошнику усмотрели, что их далеко в море занесло, стали домышлитца -- как бы им назад возвратитца?
>  
> 2)      А как дерево на море нашли [the ship was caught in a storm and the mast lost, but later replaced using a tree found floating in the ocean] и парус сшили, тогда по самой нужде по матошнику прибились к Курильской земле. 
>  
> Великие слезы – I take this to be the result of some sort of vitamin deficiency similar to scurvy (perhaps vitamin A deficiency).
>  
> Да и онеж, курильские люди, двух человек из них, которые будучи на судне на море от великих слез ослепли -- убили до смерти.
>  
> Many thanks
>  
> David Wells
>  
>  
> *******************
> David Wells
> Secretary-Treasurer
> Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association
>  
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From wfr at SAS.AC.UK  Sun Jun 24 12:25:45 2012
From: wfr at SAS.AC.UK (william ryan)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:25:45 +0100
Subject: Maritime expressions
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Possibly matoshnik = matka = compass (old White Sea terminology). It 
fits both contexts.

Will Ryan


On 24/06/2012 12:39, David Wells wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I am translating a seafarer’s account from circa 1700.  I wonder if 
> anyone can assist with a couple of expressions?
>
> Матошник – I thought from example 1 this must be some sort of seaweed, 
> but with example 2, I am not so sure.
>
> 1)И как-де ветры престали, тогда они по матошнику усмотрели, что их 
> далеко в море занесло, стали домышлитца -- как бы им назад возвратитца?
>
> 2)Акакдеревонаморенашли[the ship was caught in a storm and the mast 
> lost, but later replaced using a tree found floating in the ocean] 
> ипаруссшили, тогдапосамойнуждепоматошникуприбилиськКурильскойземле.
>
> Великие слезы – I take this to be the result of some sort of vitamin 
> deficiency similar to scurvy (perhaps vitamin A deficiency).
>
> Да и онеж, курильские люди, двух человек из них, которые будучи на 
> судне на море от великих слез ослепли -- убили до смерти.
>
> Many thanks
>
> David Wells
>
> *******************
>
> David Wells
>
> Secretary-Treasurer
>
> Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association
>
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From smd at KU.EDU  Sun Jun 24 13:14:05 2012
From: smd at KU.EDU (Dickey, Stephen McCartney)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:14:05 +0000
Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 23 Jun 2012 to 24 Jun 2012 - Special issue
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Matošnik should be a compass, see: http://www.dlib.si/preview/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-E8FGGHVM/e51cf453-20cd-427d-9168-a88be7d153a4#hit1

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Date:    Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:39:52 +0800
From:    David Wells <dnwells at OZEMAIL.COM.AU>
Subject: Maritime expressions

Hello



I am translating a seafarer’s account from circa 1700.  I wonder if anyone can assist with a couple of expressions?



Матошник – I thought from example 1 this must be some sort of seaweed, but with example 2, I am not so sure.



1)      И как-де ветры престали, тогда они по матошнику усмотрели, что их далеко в море занесло, стали домышлитца -- как бы им назад возвратитца?



2)      А как дерево на море нашли [the ship was caught in a storm and the mast lost, but later replaced using a tree found floating in the ocean] и парус сшили, тогда по самой нужде по матошнику прибились к Курильской земле.



Великие слезы – I take this to be the result of some sort of vitamin deficiency similar to scurvy (perhaps vitamin A deficiency).



Да и онеж, курильские люди, двух человек из них, которые будучи на судне на море от великих слез ослепли -- убили до смерти.



Many thanks



David Wells





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Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association






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Date:    Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:03:54 +0000
From:    Jane Knox-Voina <jknox at BOWDOIN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Maritime expressions

I'll get back to you later with translations. Are you the David Wells who graduated from Bowdoin and took a class with me?

Jane

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 24, 2012, at 7:51 AM, "David Wells" <dnwells at OZEMAIL.COM.AU<mailto:dnwells at OZEMAIL.COM.AU>> wrote:

Hello

I am translating a seafarer’s account from circa 1700.  I wonder if anyone can assist with a couple of expressions?


Матошник – I thought from example 1 this must be some sort of seaweed, but with example 2, I am not so sure.



1)      И как-де ветры престали, тогда они по матошнику усмотрели, что их далеко в море занесло, стали домышлитца -- как бы им назад возвратитца?



2)      А как дерево на море нашли [the ship was caught in a storm and the mast lost, but later replaced using a tree found floating in the ocean] и парус сшили, тогда по самой нужде по матошнику прибились к Курильской земле.



Великие слезы – I take this to be the result of some sort of vitamin deficiency similar to scurvy (perhaps vitamin A deficiency).



Да и онеж, курильские люди, двух человек из них, которые будучи на судне на море от великих слез ослепли -- убили до смерти.



Many thanks



David Wells



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Secretary-Treasurer
Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association




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Date:    Sun, 24 Jun 2012 08:17:45 -0400
From:    Hugh Olmsted <hugh_olmsted at COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: Maritime expressions

Dear David--
The first of your terms, матошник, is evidently a slight variant of 'маточник' (cf the old Moscow pronunciation of graphic / etymological -чн- as --шн-, as in 'яичница' and, конечно, in 'конечно'), in the meaning of 'compass' --see the Dictionary of XI-XVII century Russian, vol. 9 (M), p. 46.
Hugh Olmsted


On Jun 24, 2012, at 7:39 AM, David Wells wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am translating a seafarer’s account from circa 1700.  I wonder if anyone can assist with a couple of expressions?
>
> Матошник – I thought from example 1 this must be some sort of seaweed, but with example 2, I am not so sure.
>
> 1)      И как-де ветры престали, тогда они по матошнику усмотрели, что их далеко в море занесло, стали домышлитца -- как бы им назад возвратитца?
>
> 2)      А как дерево на море нашли [the ship was caught in a storm and the mast lost, but later replaced using a tree found floating in the ocean] и парус сшили, тогда по самой нужде по матошнику прибились к Курильской земле.
>
> Великие слезы – I take this to be the result of some sort of vitamin deficiency similar to scurvy (perhaps vitamin A deficiency).
>
> Да и онеж, курильские люди, двух человек из них, которые будучи на судне на море от великих слез ослепли -- убили до смерти.
>
> Many thanks
>
> David Wells
>
>
> *******************
> David Wells
> Secretary-Treasurer
> Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association
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>
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From ef50 at ST-ANDREWS.AC.UK  Sun Jun 24 21:13:48 2012
From: ef50 at ST-ANDREWS.AC.UK (Emily Finer)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:13:48 -0500
Subject: Senior Position: Readership in Russian at University of St Andrews
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Senior Position: Readership in Russian at University of St Andrews - SK1084
School of Modern Languages, £46,846 - £52,706 per annum, Start: 1 January 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The School of Modern Languages is seeking to appoint a full time Reader in Russian. You will be expected to hold a PhD, and should possess native or near-native language skills in Russian and English. Applications are invited from candidates with a specialist interest in any area of Russian literature and culture, although applications in visual arts, film and twentieth to twenty-first century literature and culture are particularly encouraged.

A Reader in the UK is a senior post associated particularly with research excellence. Candidates for readerships at UK universities will normally be mid-career scholars who have reached Assistant or Associate Professor level in the US system.

Further details:
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Further information about the School of Modern Languages can also be found at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/. Informal enquiries can be directed to: Dr Emily Finer, e-mail: ef50 at st-andrews.ac.uk; Professor Margaret-Anne Hutton, Head of School of Modern Languages, e-mail: langshos at st-andrews.ac.uk, tel. 01334 463678.

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From John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK  Mon Jun 25 09:31:54 2012
From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK (John Dunn)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:31:54 +0100
Subject: Changes in Russian pronunciation
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to see Ivan Pyr'ev's 1936 film 'Partyjnyj bilet'.  Leaving aside the debatable cinematic qualities of the film (some of which may be inferred from the title), I was struck by how different Russian, as spoken by the actors in the film, sounds in comparison to the present-day language.  It is difficult to draw too many conclusions based on a mere 90 minutes, but in part this seems to relate to the method of delivery: in a film that shows distinct signs of having been made at a time of transition from silent films to 'talkies'  the actors have a tendency to declaim.  There also seem, however, to be differences in pronunciation, particularly relating to akan'e and the difference in weight between stressed and unstressed syllables.      

I am used to the fact that the English pronunciation of British actors of the 1930s bears little resemblance to present-day practice, but I was a little surprised to find something similar reflected in a Russian film.  Does anyone have any comments?

John Dunn.

   

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From ngoldstone at MIDDLEBURY.EDU  Mon Jun 25 12:52:25 2012
From: ngoldstone at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Goldstone, Nathan Merle)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:52:25 +0000
Subject: Changes in Russian pronunciation
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Mr. Dunn,

My name is Nathan Goldstone, I am currently a junior studying Russian at Middlebury College. Your comment on the language differences in old films reminded me of something similar that I noted last year while watching Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky (1938). I don't know how valuable my observations are to you, as I have only gained adequate fluency in Russian since then (having spent the last year in Irkutsk), but at a time when I was beginning to watch Soviet films from the '70s and '80s without subtitles I had extreme difficulty with the dialogue in Nevsky. I mentioned this to a native speaker from Vilnius, and she also said that she had trouble understanding certain parts.

I have not watched the film since coming to Russia, or any other film from the period. But even at that time, the differences in the lilt of the language, the manner of response, and pronunciation of certain words was very clear to me.

Have you considered listening to old speeches? This would eliminate concerns of cinematic delivery and may give a closer look into the language of the time.

Nathan
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Changes in Russian pronunciation

Yesterday I had the opportunity to see Ivan Pyr'ev's 1936 film 'Partyjnyj bilet'.  Leaving aside the debatable cinematic qualities of the film (some of which may be inferred from the title), I was struck by how different Russian, as spoken by the actors in the film, sounds in comparison to the present-day language.  It is difficult to draw too many conclusions based on a mere 90 minutes, but in part this seems to relate to the method of delivery: in a film that shows distinct signs of having been made at a time of transition from silent films to 'talkies'  the actors have a tendency to declaim.  There also seem, however, to be differences in pronunciation, particularly relating to akan'e and the difference in weight between stressed and unstressed syllables.

I am used to the fact that the English pronunciation of British actors of the 1930s bears little resemblance to present-day practice, but I was a little surprised to find something similar reflected in a Russian film.  Does anyone have any comments?

John Dunn.



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From kalbouss at MAC.COM  Mon Jun 25 14:09:27 2012
From: kalbouss at MAC.COM (George Kalbouss)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:09:27 -0400
Subject: Changes in Russian pronunciation
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	I'm not a linguist, but I sense there are two reasons for these differences.  The first has to do with what the Russians
call сценическая речь, i.e. the way actors project words into the auditorium, over-accenting certain syllables, ostensibly to
be heard better.  We know that the Russian cinema drew a lot of actors from the Moscow Art Theater (MXAT), and MXAT, in
the first half of the twentieth century, dominated in how actors pronounced words.  There are a few examples provided in
the Russian Wikipedia article, Сценическая речь.   All actors (and singers, too)in all languages, practice this to some extent, obviously it
is not as crucial nowadays with microphones and certainly on television and films, and that's why, perhaps, the practice
it less.  I think of the mumblings of people like James Dean,  Marlon Brando, etc. (ironically influenced by Actors Studio
which in turn was influenced by MXAT).

	The second reason is I think there have been changes in the intonational "tone" of the Russian language after the Revolution.  I
grew up in an immigrant community of the first and second "waves," i.e. pre- and immediately post-revolutionary emigres,
and I don't recall the "sing-songy" ups and downs of Soviet speech.  The emigre's speech was much more even in its
intonation than what one would hear on the Soviet radio.  Perhaps some of the movie actors in the 30's were still intoning
the pre-revolutionary way (if there, indeed was such a way), I do recall the opposite, though, of great intonational
variances in many actors' utterances.   I would appreciate someone else's thoughts on my observations.

	These are my observations, perhaps they are helpful.

George Kalbouss
THE Ohio State University

On Jun 25, 2012, at 5:31 AM, John Dunn wrote:

> Yesterday I had the opportunity to see Ivan Pyr'ev's 1936 film 'Partyjnyj bilet'.  Leaving aside the debatable cinematic qualities of the film (some of which may be inferred from the title), I was struck by how different Russian, as spoken by the actors in the film, sounds in comparison to the present-day language.  It is difficult to draw too many conclusions based on a mere 90 minutes, but in part this seems to relate to the method of delivery: in a film that shows distinct signs of having been made at a time of transition from silent films to 'talkies'  the actors have a tendency to declaim.  There also seem, however, to be differences in pronunciation, particularly relating to akan'e and the difference in weight between stressed and unstressed syllables.      
> 
> I am used to the fact that the English pronunciation of British actors of the 1930s bears little resemblance to present-day practice, but I was a little surprised to find something similar reflected in a Russian film.  Does anyone have any comments?
> 
> John Dunn.
> 
> 
> 
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From uniword2 at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jun 25 16:48:19 2012
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:48:19 +0300
Subject: "Encyclopedia of Life". www.uniword.info
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Diar SEELANDS! I would like to present you my poetry book
"Encyclopedia of Life". www.uniword.info With best request: Alexander
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From lynnvisson at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jun 25 19:36:37 2012
From: lynnvisson at GMAIL.COM (Lynn Visson)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:36:37 -0400
Subject: Question re a missing volume from a Pushkin set
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A friend of mine is missing the following volume from her Pushkin set :

А.С.Пушкин
Полное собрание сочинений в шести томах
Государственное издательство художественной литературы
Москва, 1949
Missing vol. 2.

Would anyone know of a place/site that does searches for missing
volumes/out of print Russian books?
Thanks,
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From denis.akhapkin at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jun 25 19:44:09 2012
From: denis.akhapkin at GMAIL.COM (Denis Akhapkin)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:44:09 +0400
Subject: Question re a missing volume from a Pushkin set
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Try alib.ru

2012/6/25 Lynn Visson <lynnvisson at gmail.com>:
> A friend of mine is missing the following volume from her Pushkin set :
>
> А.С.Пушкин
> Полное собрание сочинений в шести томах
> Государственное издательство художественной литературы
> Москва, 1949
> Missing vol. 2.
>
> Would anyone know of a place/site that does searches for missing volumes/out
> of print Russian books?
> Thanks,
> Lynn Visson
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From lynnvisson at GMAIL.COM  Mon Jun 25 20:37:13 2012
From: lynnvisson at GMAIL.COM (Lynn Visson)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:37:13 -0400
Subject: Missing Pushkin volume
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Many thanks to all those who answered my query. WIll pass all this info
along to my friend,
Thank you,
Lynn Visson

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:02:59 -0700
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I would also suggest such fantastic resourses as
1. rutracker.org - the content is extremly reach you can find very
rare music and old films, books, etc... Sometimes materials are under
copyright laws, but great part of content is legal.
2. flibusta.net  -one of the biggest libraries.
3. lib.ru - one of the best libraries
4. albedaran.ru - Aldebaran library

> 2012/6/25 Lynn Visson <lynnvisson at gmail.com>:
>> Many thanks to all those who answered my query. WIll pass all this info
>> along to my friend,
>> Thank you,
>> Lynn Visson
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:12:29 +0000
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I have some books I would like to give away.  It's a rather eclectic selection; mostly poetry anthologies and a few other odd things thrown in.  

The books are free to anyone who would like them.  There is, however, one caveat: you must agree to take everything on the list.  I'll pay for the shipping: USPS media mail only.  

If you are interested, please send me a message with an address where I can send the list.

Maureen Riley
Associate Professor of Russian
Defense Language Institute, Washington Office
maureen.a.riley2.civ at MAIL.MIL.




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From terrel.russian.student at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 26 14:23:39 2012
From: terrel.russian.student at GMAIL.COM (Terrel Richardson)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:23:39 -0500
Subject: Free books (UNCLASSIFIED)
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I am interested in your collection. How much would shipping be? Are you at
the DLI in Monterey?

On Jun 26, 2012 7:14 AM, "Riley, Maureen A CIV (US)" <
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I have some books I would like to give away.  It's a rather eclectic
selection; mostly poetry anthologies and a few other odd things thrown in.

The books are free to anyone who would like them.  There is, however, one
caveat: you must agree to take everything on the list.  I'll pay for the
shipping: USPS media mail only.

If you are interested, please send me a message with an address where I can
send the list.

Maureen Riley
Associate Professor of Russian
Defense Language Institute, Washington Office
maureen.a.riley2.civ at MAIL.MIL.




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From John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK  Tue Jun 26 15:06:11 2012
From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK (John Dunn)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:06:11 +0100
Subject: Changes in Russian pronunciation
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Thanks to both Nathan Goldstone and George Kalbouss for their comments.  I am fairly sure that there is something in both of George's suggestions, and I would too would welcome comments on possible changes in intonation patterns.

I have to confess it is many decades since I saw the film Aleksandr Nevskij, but I wonder if part of the problem stems from the fact that the film is set in medieval Russia. It is rather fewer decades since I saw Ivan Groznyj, and I seem to remember that there are scenes in that film in which a version of 'Old Russian' is constructed which is sufficiently convincing, but also sufficiently comprehensible to pass muster with a modern audience.   

John Dunn.

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        I'm not a linguist, but I sense there are two reasons for these differences.  The first has to do with what the Russians
call сценическая речь, i.e. the way actors project words into the auditorium, over-accenting certain syllables, ostensibly to
be heard better.  We know that the Russian cinema drew a lot of actors from the Moscow Art Theater (MXAT), and MXAT, in
the first half of the twentieth century, dominated in how actors pronounced words.  There are a few examples provided in
the Russian Wikipedia article, Сценическая речь.   All actors (and singers, too)in all languages, practice this to some extent, obviously it
is not as crucial nowadays with microphones and certainly on television and films, and that's why, perhaps, the practice
it less.  I think of the mumblings of people like James Dean,  Marlon Brando, etc. (ironically influenced by Actors Studio
which in turn was influenced by MXAT).

        The second reason is I think there have been changes in the intonational "tone" of the Russian language after the Revolution.  I
grew up in an immigrant community of the first and second "waves," i.e. pre- and immediately post-revolutionary emigres,
and I don't recall the "sing-songy" ups and downs of Soviet speech.  The emigre's speech was much more even in its
intonation than what one would hear on the Soviet radio.  Perhaps some of the movie actors in the 30's were still intoning
the pre-revolutionary way (if there, indeed was such a way), I do recall the opposite, though, of great intonational
variances in many actors' utterances.   I would appreciate someone else's thoughts on my observations.

        These are my observations, perhaps they are helpful.

George Kalbouss
THE Ohio State University

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From misshelen22 at GMAIL.COM  Tue Jun 26 15:26:19 2012
From: misshelen22 at GMAIL.COM (Helen Lorman)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:26:19 -0500
Subject: Free books (UNCLASSIFIED)
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Hi Maureen
I'm also interested in the collection and would help with shipping. 

Spasibo! 
Yelena lorman (phd candidate at northwestern) 



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> I have some books I would like to give away.  It's a rather eclectic selection; mostly poetry anthologies and a few other odd things thrown in.  
> 
> The books are free to anyone who would like them.  There is, however, one caveat: you must agree to take everything on the list.  I'll pay for the shipping: USPS media mail only.  
> 
> If you are interested, please send me a message with an address where I can send the list.
> 
> Maureen Riley
> Associate Professor of Russian
> Defense Language Institute, Washington Office
> maureen.a.riley2.civ at MAIL.MIL.
> 
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From maureen.a.riley2.civ at MAIL.MIL  Tue Jun 26 16:09:33 2012
From: maureen.a.riley2.civ at MAIL.MIL (Riley, Maureen A CIV (US))
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:09:33 +0000
Subject: Free books (UNCLASSIFIED)
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Thanks for the inquiry, but the books are already gone.

mr

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Hi Maureen
I'm also interested in the collection and would help with shipping. 

Spasibo! 
Yelena lorman (phd candidate at northwestern) 



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> I have some books I would like to give away.  It's a rather eclectic selection; mostly poetry anthologies and a few other odd things thrown in.  
> 
> The books are free to anyone who would like them.  There is, however, one caveat: you must agree to take everything on the list.  I'll pay for the shipping: USPS media mail only.  
> 
> If you are interested, please send me a message with an address where I can send the list.
> 
> Maureen Riley
> Associate Professor of Russian
> Defense Language Institute, Washington Office 
> maureen.a.riley2.civ at MAIL.MIL.
> 
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From ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET  Tue Jun 26 18:15:23 2012
From: ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET (Jules Levin)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:15:23 -0700
Subject: searching for someone in FSU
Message-ID: <TUE.26.JUN.2012.111523.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

I am passing on a query from another list:
Assuming one is searching for possible relatives still alive in the 
former USSR,
what resources are available long distance?  Is there the Russian 
equivalent of
these on line "phone books" that will give you a long list of names and 
ages, and
invite you to pay to get a phone number?
Jules Levin
Los Angeles

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From maswift at UVIC.CA  Tue Jun 26 18:56:29 2012
From: maswift at UVIC.CA (Megan Swift)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:56:29 -0700
Subject: encyclopedia of modernism
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Dear Colleagues,

I am seeking a few more authors for entries for the forthcoming Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, to be published on-line in 2014. All entries are refereed and the deadline is August 1 2012. Please reply to me off-list at maswift at uvic.ca if you are interested. The terms are:

Mikhail Bulgakov - 500 words
Vladimir Mayakovsky - 500 words
Futurism - 1000 words (this will become part of a much larger entry dealing with Italian Futurism and also Futurism in art, film, architecture and theatre; your name will appear as an author at the end of the entry) 
Boris Pilnyak - 500 words
Nikolay Zabolotsky - 200 words

Yours,

Megan



Megan Swift, Associate Professor of Russian Studies

Co-Editor, Literature
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism

President, Canadian Association of Slavists

Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Victoria
PO Box 3045 STN CSC, Victoria, BC
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From sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET  Tue Jun 26 20:09:05 2012
From: sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET (Sarah Hurst)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:09:05 -0800
Subject: searching for someone in FSU
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I always thought those online phone books were a scam, but why not try
Googling the name in Cyrillic and also try adding the place name if they
have one? Even if the relative is older and doesn't use a computer, one of
their children might have a profile on social media somewhere and an email
address. It's also worth searching on Facebook.

 

Sarah Hurst

 

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Subject: [SEELANGS] searching for someone in FSU

 

I am passing on a query from another list:
Assuming one is searching for possible relatives still alive in the former
USSR,
what resources are available long distance?  Is there the Russian equivalent
of
these on line "phone books" that will give you a long list of names and
ages, and
invite you to pay to get a phone number?  
Jules Levin
Los Angeles

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From yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU  Wed Jun 27 04:05:05 2012
From: yfurman at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Furman, Yelena)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:05:05 +0000
Subject: Call for Papers: UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and
 East/Central European Studies
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Dear SEELANGS members,
For those of us teaching undergraduates, please bring this to their attention.  It is a unique opportunity to have their research published.  And please feel free to email me with any questions.
Thank you in advance.
Yelena Furman

Once again, it is time for the Call for Papers for the sixth volume of the UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies.

Papers should have a well-formulated and well-developed thesis, with plenty of textual evidence to back it up. When citing, please give quotes both in the original Cyrillic (or appropriate Slavic language) and in English translation. The papers should be 10-15 double-spaced pages and need to include footnotes and a bibliography. For the bibliography, please use the Chicago Manual of Style format.

All papers will be subject to peer review. The deadline to submit is October 1, 2012.  Please send them as email attachments in Word to Naomi Caffee (naomi.caffee at gmail.com) and Prof. Roman Koropeckyj (koropeck at humnet.ucla.edu).

While the papers will be due in a few months, right now we need a preliminary headcount.  If you are planning to submit your paper, please email me with your name, the title of your paper, and the name and email of your advisor: yfurman at humnet.ucla.edu

And in case you haven’t seen it yet, please take a look at volume five of the Journal, which is now up: http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/slavicjournal/

Best, Prof. Furman

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From rrobin at EMAIL.GWU.EDU  Wed Jun 27 07:27:01 2012
From: rrobin at EMAIL.GWU.EDU (Richard Robin)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:27:01 +0400
Subject: Changes in Russian pronunciation
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*I myself am quite interested in the interrelationship between cinema
acting styles and real speech. Acting styles, I think, change faster than
real speech. Consider American acting styles of the 1930s when one of the
predominant speech styles was a hybrid of “educated” New York, New England,
and a tad of British thrown in. Think of Katherine Hepburn. Or listen to
recordings of 1930-40s American radio. The speech there bore little
resemblance to the American English recorded by “normal” people being
interviewed on the air, even those whose English matches what today we call
General American. Listen to intonation of almost any movie. Only recently,
perhaps starting with movies such as “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” have we
seen actors speak with naturalistic intonation.

Of course, speech patterns have changed too, but not so drastically. See
Labov and the “Great Northern Vowel shift” in American cities.

The situation in Russia is just as striking but for different reasons
perhaps. I don’t want to address the 1930s question, because I haven’t
personally listened to enough soundtracks. But in films from the 50s
through perestroika everyone spoke the exact same Russian: perfect — with
intonation taken right out of Bryzgunova, except for the unnatural
predominance of IK-4 in place of IK-3 for many questions and non-final
syntagmas. This can be explained because (a) the speakers were ACTING!
(like in the Saturday Night Live “Master Thespian” routines) and (b) unlike
in North America, *everything* was redubbed in studio, even stuff shot on a
set. (See any фильм о фильме on a Russian DVD.) Probably a large part of
Russian declamatory overacting can be explained away by the vicissitudes of
the redub process.

Even today, the speech of Russian soap operas (mostly intonation and tempo)
has little to do with speech on the street. On the other hand, Valeria Gai
Germanika (Школа; Краткий курс счастливой жизни) achieves a level of speech
authenticity never before heard on TV. Just compare her Школа to the
Russian localization of Химия или физика (same topic; different levels of
reality).

More interesting in my view is the role that the media plays in molding the
speech (and in the case of Russian, the intonation and speed) of NSs.
Russian now has a well developed Valley Girl speech type, clearly audible
in the language of Ksenia Sobchak (lots of IK-2 and modified IK-2 that
sounds like American English declarative 1-3-2). But which came first,
Ksenia Sobchak or Russian teenagers? Who imitated whom? (Sobchak herself
was a teenager just as Russian Valley Girl speech was getting started.)

The speech patterns of advertising (some home grown and some borrowed from
American English) are everywhere on the air and, I believe, are beginning
to trickle down. But to what extent?

But as for the original comment, my take is that scripted movies,
especially those made under Soviet conditions, technical and political, can
probably not be taken as a model of everyday speech, just as few people in
the 1930s in the US spoke like Katherine Hepburn.*

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:31 PM, John Dunn <John.Dunn at glasgow.ac.uk> wrote:

> Yesterday I had the opportunity to see Ivan Pyr'ev's 1936 film 'Partyjnyj
> bilet'.  Leaving aside the debatable cinematic qualities of the film (some
> of which may be inferred from the title), I was struck by how different
> Russian, as spoken by the actors in the film, sounds in comparison to the
> present-day language.

-- 
Richard M. Robin, Ph.D.
Director Russian Language Program
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
202-994-7081
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Russkiy tekst v UTF-8

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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Wed Jun 27 07:48:30 2012
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:48:30 -0400
Subject: Changes in Russian pronunciation
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[Overriding Mr. Robin's private Reply-to setting and redirecting my 
reply to the list]

Richard Robin wrote:

> ... But as for the original comment, my take is that scripted movies,
> especially those made under Soviet conditions, technical and
> political, can probably not be taken as a model of everyday speech,
> just as few people in the 1930s in the US spoke like Katherine
> Hepburn.

Nor looked like her, either. ;-)

There's been an evolution in the cinematographic art that I find highly 
relevant here. In the early days, both actors and directors seemed very 
aware that they were appearing in public, and it was essential to put on 
one's best "face," including language. So we got highly artificial 
portrayals in which "all the women were strong, all the men were 
good-looking, and all the children were above average," to coin a 
phrase. All these superhuman beings dressed in evening gowns and tuxes 
and spoke in stuffy, artificial forms up to which the man in the street 
could gaze in awe and amazement. It took decades for mainstream 
cinematographers to even admit the possibility that human beings engaged 
in activities such as personal hygiene, not to mention sex, or cleaned 
their own houses. (Of course, there was an underground film industry 
that explored all forms of depravity, but that's beside the point.)

Multiply this by the Soviet propaganda machine and it's easy to see how 
movies from the 1930s would not accurately depict everyday life in Russia.

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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From ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET  Wed Jun 27 08:28:32 2012
From: ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET (Jules Levin)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:28:32 -0700
Subject: Changes in Russian pronunciation
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On 6/27/2012 12:48 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
> [Overriding Mr. Robin's private Reply-to setting and redirecting my 
> reply to the list]
>
> Richard Robin wrote:
>
>> ... But as for the original comment, my take is that scripted movies,
>> especially those made under Soviet conditions, technical and
>> political, can probably not be taken as a model of everyday speech,
>> just as few people in the 1930s in the US spoke like Katherine
>> Hepburn.
>
> Nor looked like her, either. ;-)
>
> There's been an evolution in the cinematographic art that I find 
> highly relevant here. In the early days, both actors and directors 
> seemed very aware that they were appearing in public, and it was 
> essential to put on one's best "face," including language. So we got 
> highly artificial portrayals in which "all the women were strong, all 
> the men were good-looking, and all the children were above average," 
> to coin a phrase. All these superhuman beings dressed in evening gowns 
> and tuxes and spoke in stuffy, artificial forms up to which the man in 
> the street could gaze in awe and amazement. It took decades for 
> mainstream cinematographers to even admit the possibility that human 
> beings engaged in activities such as personal hygiene, not to mention 
> sex, or cleaned their own houses.
Not all films looked like the 30's musicals that were designed to lift 
people up from their daily tribulations.  There were plenty of Gorkyish 
lower depths movies in the 20's and 30's, with actors that did not carry 
over the speech norms of the stage.  Just because you as a child didn't 
"get" the sex, doesn't mean it wasn't there.  For adults it was 
unambiguous.  Take a look at The Postman Always Rings Twice and watch 
what was going on between Lana Turner and John Garfield.  Hot sex 
indeed!  And frankly I wouldn't pay for a ticket to watch actors brush 
their teeth or vacuum their floors.
Jules Levin
Los Angeles





> (Of course, there was an underground film industry that explored all 
> forms of depravity, but that's beside the point.)
>
> Multiply this by the Soviet propaganda machine and it's easy to see 
> how movies from the 1930s would not accurately depict everyday life in 
> Russia.
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From jacob.edmond at OTAGO.AC.NZ  Wed Jun 27 10:18:23 2012
From: jacob.edmond at OTAGO.AC.NZ (Jacob Edmond)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:18:23 +0000
Subject: New book: A Common Strangeness
Message-ID: <WED.27.JUN.2012.101823.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Dear colleagues,

My book _A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature_ is just out from Fordham University Press. The book may be of particular interest to list members who work on contemporary Russian literature and art and on Russian culture in the context of globalization.

"This bold triangulation of six Chinese, Russian, and American poets advances lively current debates about global literature by exploring encounters that challenge the old binarisms and chart possibilities of literary singularities for a future poetics. Edmond's shrewd account of literary crossings in post-Cold War history helps us imagine how we can experience the challenge of new literary configurations."
--Jonathan Culler, Cornell University

"A Common Strangeness is unique among studies of contemporary poetics in being genuinely global in its perspective and its reach. At home in Russian and Chinese as well as American poetry and that of his native New Zealand, Jacob Edmond pinpoints the crucial relationships that exist between what are seemingly disparate poetic cultures. The Chinese poet Yang Lian, who lived in exile in Auckland, is read under the sign of Benjamin and Baudelaire. The American Language poet Lyn Hejinian's important dialogue with the Russian avant-gardist Arkadii Dragomoshchenko is studied carefully, and Bei Dao, Dmitri Prigov, and Charles Bernstein are treated as representative figures of cross-cultural thinking in the age of globalism. Edmond's is a provocative, exciting, and genuinely original study of the new poetics; we will all be learning from it!"
--Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University

“Jacob Edmond addresses what he calls ‘forms of textual strangeness’ across contemporary poems of beautiful complexity and staying power. This theoretically astute book challenges us to read with a keener eye and to recognize how much poetry can tell us about political catastrophes, national dislocations, and promises of cultural renewal.”
—Stephanie Sandler, Harvard University

For further details, see my blog: http://commonstrangeness.wordpress.com<http://commonstrangeness.wordpress.com/>

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Jacob Edmond
University of Otago, New Zealand
http://www.otago.ac.nz/english/staff/edmond.html
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From John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK  Wed Jun 27 12:59:23 2012
From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK (John Dunn)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:59:23 +0100
Subject: Changes in Russian pronunciation
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Many thanks for the latest batch of comments.   I think that the issue with the speech in 'Partijnyj bilet' is the extent to which it differs from the standard Russian that we have all come to know from the post-war period.  There would seem to be three strands, which it would be interesting, though no doubt very difficult to disentangle:
1. The extent to which the actors are carrying over into the film traditional stage techniques of declamation;
2. The extent to which they are trying to imitate, however notionally, working-class or regional speech, especially in the case of actors playing characters of Siberian origin;
3. The extent to which Russian pronunciation has changed since the 1930s.

It seems to be a general rule that film and television starts off from the principle that supra-regional educated speech should prevail and that any departures should be very limited and highly stylised.  It is then interesting to see how and when in different cultures that principle breaks down and moves are made towards a more accurate reproduction of regional and other forms of speech that depart from the traditional standard.  In Britain the process probably starts in the 1970s, but with variable results, perhaps for reasons that are in part contingent.  A production set in the West of Scotland, for example, will tend to produce local speech pretty accurately, but I suspect that is partly due to the presence in Glasgow of an important drama school, which means that there is a readily-available pool of trained actors who are native speakers of Glaswegian. 

In Russia the process starts very late; in fact up to the point when I stopped watching Russian television on a regular basis (2006) it had not really started at all, which is why I found Richard Robin's comments particularly interesting.  A few years ago I took it upon myself to analyse the language of 'Khrjun Moržov', the computer-generated pig who was one of the main characters in a satirical television programme of the early Putin years.  The actor who spoke Khrjun's lines chose (or was told) to emphasise the robustly anti-intellectual standpoint his character was intended to represent by giving him an accent which contained a number of features (often present only inconsistently) that the audience would recognise as vaguely  South Russian, but which could not be assigned, even approximately, to a particular locality. 
 
John Dunn.

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From Barry.P.Scherr at DARTMOUTH.EDU  Wed Jun 27 15:03:23 2012
From: Barry.P.Scherr at DARTMOUTH.EDU (Barry P. Scherr)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:03:23 +0000
Subject: searching for someone in FSU
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You can try this:

http://durix.ru

It searches by cities in Russia, and by major cities in Ukraine and some other parts of the FSU (there is an "all Ukraine" option as well).  It returns name, age, birth date and partial street address; one needs to pay to get the phone number and full address.  The problem is that the process of getting access to the full information begins with sending an SMS, and the countries listed with the needed SMS text for each country do not include the U.S. (they do include much of Europe, Israel and Australia).

Barry Scherr

On Jun 26, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Jules Levin wrote:

> I am passing on a query from another list:
> Assuming one is searching for possible relatives still alive in the former USSR,
> what resources are available long distance?  Is there the Russian equivalent of
> these on line "phone books" that will give you a long list of names and ages, and
> invite you to pay to get a phone number?  
> Jules Levin
> Los Angeles
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From eelliott55 at GMAIL.COM  Wed Jun 27 18:35:20 2012
From: eelliott55 at GMAIL.COM (E Elliott)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:35:20 -0500
Subject: Call for participants - AATSEEL 2013, Boston,
 roundtable on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC)
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Dear Colleagues,

We are seeking interested participants for a roundtable on Cultures and
Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) for AATSEEL 2013 in Boston.

In a nutshell, CLAC practices have as a goal to realize global competence
for students, for example, by:

- developing meaningful content-focused language use outside of traditional
language classes (such as, history, political science, economics,
anthropology, etc.);
- focusing on communication and content;
- creating frameworks to build connections between comparative literatures,
cultural studies, and area studies;
- creating content-based language instruction and foreign language
textbooks as well as discipline-specific learning materials, technology,
etc.
- including programs focused on professional studies in study abroad;
-including service learning models in cross-cultural contexts;

and others.

If you are interested in participating, please contact me at:

 eelliott at northwestern.edu


 The deadline for submissions is 1 July, but we wish to submit by late Fri.
29 June.

Sincerely,
Elisabeth Elliott (roundtable organizer)

and on behalf of:
Jonathan Ludwig, Rice, (roundtable chair)
Andrea Lanoux, Connecticut College (roundtable presenter)
Irina Shchemeleva, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia
(roundtable presenter)

____________________________________
Elisabeth Elliott, Ph.D.
Director of Slavic Languages
Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) in Slavic
Council on Language Instruction, Co-Chair
Department of Slavic Langs & Lits
1860 Campus Drive
Crowe Hall, #4-125 (4th floor of Crowe)
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208-2163
E-mail: eelliott at northwestern.edu
Off: 847-491-8082
Dept.:847-491-5636
Fax:847-467-2596
http://www.slavic.northwestern.edu/

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From svitlana.kobets at UTORONTO.CA  Wed Jun 27 18:51:50 2012
From: svitlana.kobets at UTORONTO.CA (Svitlana Kobets)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:51:50 -0400
Subject: hagiography question
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Dear SEELANGers,
I am looking for a literature review on the development of different perspectives on hagiography in the eastern Christian tradition. I will greatly appreciate your suggestions.
Svitlana

Svitlana Kobets, PhD, LMS
Literature Instructor
Continuing Education Division
St. Michael's College 
University of Toronto 
81 St. Mary Street 
Toronto, ON   M5S 1J4
Phone: 647-924-8435
Fax: (416) 926-7287
www.slavdom.com
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From mwarchol at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG  Thu Jun 28 15:06:05 2012
From: mwarchol at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Michael Warchol)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:06:05 +0000
Subject: American Councils/Title VIII Research & Language Training Grants
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NOW ACCEPTING FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is now accepting applications for its 2013-2014 Title VIII Grants for Research and Advanced Language Training programs in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Southeast Europe, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine. For a full list of countries eligible for each fellowship, please visit our website: http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/

THE FELLOWSHIPS
Fellowships will be offered in two 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.

*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.

Please note that Title VIII Research Scholar Program and Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program must begin between June 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014; and must be completed by September 30, 2014.

Only U.S. citizens are eligible for these awards.

APPLICATION INFO
Applications are available for download at: http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/ or by contacting the American Councils Outbound Office.

The application deadline for all Title VIII fellowships is October 1, 2012. Applications must be postmarked by the application deadline date.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Funding for these programs is available through American Councils from the U.S. Department of State’s 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.

CONTACT INFO
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<mailto:outbound at americancouncils.org>
Website: http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/

________________________________
MICHAEL WARCHOL
Communications Officer
American Councils for International Education
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From dotoiu at ULB.AC.BE  Fri Jun 29 01:14:28 2012
From: dotoiu at ULB.AC.BE (by way of Damiana-Gabriela Otoiu (dotoiu@ulb.ac.be))
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:14:28 +0200
Subject: French_=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=96=5FRomanian=5FMaster=5FProgramme=5F=28EHESS/=5FFSPUB?=
 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=29=2C=5F=93European=5FPolitics.=5FState=2C=5FBorders=2C?=
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The Master Programme "European Politics. State, Borders, and Societies" is organised by the Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest (FSPUB) and l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) – Paris, and offers an academic formation in the field of political science. 

Students will be simultaneously enrolled to both universities and will benefit from a double coordination of their dissertation during the four semesters of study (one academic adviser from each of the two partner universities). Courses will be taught in French by professors of FSPUB and EHESS respectively. Graduates of the programme will be recipients of two master diplomas from the University of Bucharest and the EHESS, Paris, respectively. 


Students will benefit from:

- 3 professional grants in Paris and 3 mobility grants at EHESS Paris (1050 Euros/month) offered by the Embassy of France in Romania. 
- One study visit at the European Parliament at Brussels, to take place during the spring of 2013 (all costs covered by the European Parliament)
- An intensive language course (French) during the first two semesters. Graduates of the course will receive an additional language certificate.

This Master Programme is part of the activities conducted within the framework of the Regional Francophone Centre of Advances Studies in Social Sciences (CeReFREA). The Centre was established in Bucharest in 2012, following the receipt of the Cultural Prize Louis D. of the Institut de France, and has as its foremost aim the development and support of scientific Francophony in Central and Eastern Europe. 

Admission 2012 – 2013: 
Candidates will apply to one of the partner universities and will be subsequently enrolled in both institutions. The examination commission will be composed of professors from both FSPUB and EHESS.

REGISTRATION TO FSPUB:
The registration for the admission exam will take place at the headquarters of the FSPUB, str. Sfantul Stefan, nr. 24, sector 2, Bucharest, in the period 3-10 September 2012. http://www.fspub.unibuc.ro/fspub/viitor-student-fspub/admitere/admitere-ciclul-de-master. The application file will be sent also in digital format via email, at: masterEHESS-FSPUB at fspub.unibuc.ro

REGISTRATION TO EHESS: http://www.ehess.fr/fr/enseignement/inscriptions/
The coordinating team of the Masters Programme will assist students for their registration to the EHESS (October 2012).

For details, please access the website of the Master Programme: https://sites.google.com/a/fspub.unibuc.ro/http-sites-google-com-a-masterfrancophone/

Or contact directly via email: Silvia Marton silvia.marton at fspub.unibuc.ro; Alexandra Ionascu alexandra.ionascu at fspub.unibuc.ro; Damiana Otoiu damianaotoiu at fspub.unibuc.ro; Florin Turcanu fturcanu at gmail.com; Vincent Duclert vincent.duclert at wanadoo.fr; masterEHESS-FSPUB at fspub.unibuc.ro.

Damiana OTOIU
Political Science Department
University of Bucharest

8, Spiru Haret Street
010175, Bucharest 1
Ph.: 0040 21 3141268
Fax: 0040 21 3133511
E-mail: damiana.otoiu at fspub.unibuc.ro

URL: www.seminairevirtuel.ro
http://www.cevipol.site.ulb.ac.be/fr/membres_otoiu-damianagabriela.html

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From actr.einstein at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jun 29 13:14:48 2012
From: actr.einstein at GMAIL.COM (Bonny Einstein)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:14:48 -0400
Subject: Become a Member of American Council of Teachers of Russian
Message-ID: <FRI.29.JUN.2012.091448.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>

Become a Member of ACTR <https://membership.actr.org/v/membership/>

The American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) was founded in 1974 as
an association of language and area professionals involved with Russian
language, literature and linguistics. Membership is open to all persons
with an interest in the study and teaching of the Russian language. Since
1998 ACTR has been a division of American Councils for International
Education:ACTR/ACCELS, which focuses its expertise on academic exchange as
well as curriculum, research, and related areas. ACTR members receive the *ACTR
Newsletter* (published four times per year) and the *Russian Language
Journal* (an annual scholarly journal), and they are eligible to enroll
students in ACTR award programs and contests and to take part in other ACTR
programs and activities.
ProgramsAside from producing textbooks and other classroom materials for
Russian, ACTR serves the classroom teacher with several auxiliary programs:
on the secondary level there are the ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian, the
ACTR National Russian Essay Contest, and the ACTR Russian Scholar Laureate
Award; colleges and universities participate in the National Post-Secondary
Russian Essay Contest and the ACTR Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate
Award. Current ACTR members may enroll their students in these programs.

   - The ACTR Olympiada of Spoken Russian is conducted separately in states
   or regions, and traces its origin to the mid-1960s, when the International
   Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRIAL/МАПРЯЛ)
   was founded and began to conduct a periodic International Olympiada of
   Spoken Russian at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. In the beginning, only
   one American school responded to the invitation to take part. Now,
   approximately 1200 students participate in the annual U.S. ACTR Olympiada
   of Spoken Russian. Students appear before three panels of judges: to speak
   on a prepared topic chosen randomly at the interview, to recite a poem from
   memory, and to respond to judges’ questions. Based on performance, some
   participants are awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, accompanied by
   corresponding certificates of award; many of the other students receive
   certificates of Honorable Mention without medals. Materials to help
   students prepare for the Olympiada can be consulted at
   http://www.americancouncils.org/compAwards.php. Every four years the
   International Olympiada of Spoken Russian is held in Moscow by MAPRIAL, and
   a group of students with the best performance in the U.S. Olympiada travels
   to Moscow to take part in that.
   - The ACTR National Russian Essay Contest (NREC) has served high school
   and middle school students of Russian for over 25 years. Students have two
   hours to write their essays under school supervision during the week before
   Thanksgiving. The topic is the same for all the students who write the
   essay. Essays are judged at the Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced and
   Native Speaker levels. Heritage students (those who came to the United
   States before age 10) are judged separately at the Beginning, Intermediate
   and Advanced levels. A team of judges rates the essays as Honorable
   Mention, Bronze, Silver or Gold. All student participants receive a
   certificate; in addition, authors of Bronze-, Silver- and Gold-award essays
   receive medals. At the Advanced, Advanced Heritage and Native Speaker
   levels the Gold Medal essays are forwarded to the State Pushkin Institute
   in Moscow, where they are rated again. Gold medalists in this Moscow round
   receive a second-level award pin.
   - The ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest has been
   conducted each winter since 1999. Students' essays are judged by native
   speakers of Russian and receive Gold, Silver and Bronze certificates of
   accomplishment. The results are published in the *ACTR Letter*, and
   facsimile excerpts from some of the best essays are printed there as well.
   - The ACTR Russian Scholar Laureate Awards were first presented in 2005.
   From each secondary school where Russian is taught one sophomore or junior
   may be nominated to receive the award as the school’s most outstanding
   student of Russian for that year. Students receive a unique lapel pin to
   wear, a certificate of award suitable for framing, and have their name,
   photograph, school, and teacher’s name printed in the fall issue of
the *ACTR
   Letter*. Congratulatory letters also go to the student’s teacher and the
   principal or headmaster of the school. Students are nominated by a teacher;
   the teacher nominating a student for this award must be a current member of
   ACTR.
   - The ACTR Post-Secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Awards were first
   presented in 2007. One junior or senior may be nominated from each college
   or university where Russian is taught to receive the award as that school's
   most outstanding student for that year. Students are nominated by a
   teacher; the teacher nominating a student for this award must be a current
   member of ACTR.

For more information on joining ACTR, contact:

Bonny Einstein

ACTR Membership Secretary

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From o.j.ready at GMAIL.COM  Fri Jun 29 15:20:43 2012
From: o.j.ready at GMAIL.COM (Oliver Ready)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:20:43 +0100
Subject: Conference: Russian Literature since 1991
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Dear All,


the website for the conference ‘Decadence or Renaissance? Russian
literature since 1991’ has now been launched; please see:


 http://decadenceorrenaissance.com/


<http://decadenceorrenaissance.com/>

All are welcome to register and attend. The conference will run from Monday
September 24 to Wednesday September 26, and be held at St Antony’s College,
Oxford.


Kind regards,

Oliver Ready

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From olgs at ST-ANDREWS.AC.UK  Fri Jun 29 18:57:59 2012
From: olgs at ST-ANDREWS.AC.UK (Oliver Smith)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:57:59 -0500
Subject: Forum for Modern Language Studies - Forum Essay Prize 2013
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The Forum Prize 2012
The 2012 Forum Prize competition was on the subject of Literature and Hunger. Authors were invited to consider how the basic human preoccupation with hunger has been reflected and explored in literature. The editors were delighted to receive a large number of high-quality submissions from both experienced and early-career researchers. It is with pleasure that we announce the winning essay by Francesco Manzini, ‘Nutrition, Hunger and Fasting: Spiritual and Material Naturalism in Zola and Huysmans’, which we look forward to publishing in the near future.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Forum Essay Prize 2013: Literature and Gossip 
Truman Capote famously said that ‘all literature is gossip’, but how true is this? Gossip plays a key part in the literature of oral traditions, in classical drama, and in the epistolary novel, among many other forms. For the 2013 Forum Prize competition, the General Editors of Forum for Modern Language Studies (FMLS) invite articles addressing the topic of Literature and Gossip. 
In what ways does literature exploit the concept of gossip? What can the use of gossip in fiction, drama and verse tell us about characters, plot and tone? In what ways is literature itself gossip? La Princesse de Clèves has been described as ‘courtly tittle-tattle’: does the function of literature in a culture parallel that of gossip in a community? What can literary culture tell us about gossip? What can linguistics tell us about the language of gossip as it is represented in literary texts, broadly understood to include non-fiction and correspondence, and can it offer parameters by which gossip can be described or defined? Does the new immediacy made possible by the internet, and, for example, the increasing popularity of confessional literature, offer new ways of thinking about the relationship between gossip and literature? What effects has the practice of criticism as gossip had on the production of literature?
The Forum Prize 2013 competition invites submissions on the subject of Literature and Gossip, addressing literature of any period, from a literary or linguistic perspective, and in any of the languages covered by the journal (usually English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian, but we will consider others too). The competition is open to all researchers, whether established or early-career: it is worth noting that previous competitions have been won by scholars in both categories.
The Forum Prize 
The winner’s prize will consist of: 
1. Publication of the winning essay in the next appropriate volume of Forum for Modern Language Studies 
2. A cheque of £200 
A panel of judges will read all entries, which will be assessed anonymously. There is no runner-up prize, but the Editors may commission for publication any entries that are highly commended by the judges. 
Entry Requirements and Submission details for the Forum Essay Prize 2013
The closing date for entries is Friday 29 March 2013. Entries must be written in English and should be no more than 6,500 words in length including notes, should conform to MHRA style, and must be accompanied by an abstract summarizing the principal arguments and making clear the relevance of the article to the competition topic. Articles should be submitted online at www.fmls.oxfordjournals.org, flagged as Forum Prize entries and following the guidelines for authors. We will also accept submissions by email or hard copy and disc, if there is a compelling reason: in this case, please contact the Administrative Editor, Dr Robin MacKenzie (rmm10 at st-andrews.ac.uk).
Click here for full details of the Essay Prize rules.

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From ag.russian at GOOGLEMAIL.COM  Fri Jun 29 21:37:22 2012
From: ag.russian at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Anna Gunin)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:37:22 +0100
Subject: kum -- Skripka Rotshilda
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Dear all,

I'd be very grateful for opinions on Chekhov's use of "kum" in "Skripka Rotshil'da". As far as I understand, either Yakov is godfather to the cemetery warden's child or they are close pals.

"Чтобы не платить лишнего дьячку, Яков сам читал псалтырь, и за могилку с него ничего не взяли, так как кладбищенский сторож был ему кум."

Having searched and searched, the most helpful definitions I have found are these:

устар.   Немолодой мужчина, находящийся с кем-либо в приятельских отношениях или во внебрачной связи. 
(Толковый словарь Ефремовой. Т. Ф. Ефремова. 2000.)

Обращение к пожилому мужчине (обл.). «- Здорово, кум Фадей! Здорово, кум Егор!» Крылов.
(Толковый словарь Ушакова. Д.Н. Ушаков. 1935-1940.)

Many thanks in advance,

Anna

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From rmcleminson at POST.SK  Sat Jun 30 13:53:34 2012
From: rmcleminson at POST.SK (R. M. Cleminson)
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:53:34 +0200
Subject: kum -- Skripka Rotshilda
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This is absolutely correct.  Your кум is either the father of your godchild or the godfather of your child.  Like the Spanish compadre, to which it is apparently related (it belongs to the earliest stratum of Slavonic religious vocabulary, derived from Latin, though the precise relationship between Latin compater/commater and Slavonic купотръ/кмотра - кум/кума and intermediate variants is unclear), it is also used more broadly to indicate the sort of close friend whom one might invite to be a godparent.

----- Pôvodná správa -----
Od: "Anna Gunin" <ag.russian at GOOGLEMAIL.COM>
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Odoslané: piatok, 29. jún 2012 22:37:22
Predmet: [SEELANGS] kum -- Skripka Rotshilda

Dear all,

I'd be very grateful for opinions on Chekhov's use of "kum" in "Skripka Rotshil'da". As far as I understand, either Yakov is godfather to the cemetery warden's child or they are close pals.

"Чтобы не платить лишнего дьячку, Яков сам читал псалтырь, и за могилку с него ничего не взяли, так как кладбищенский сторож был ему кум."

Having searched and searched, the most helpful definitions I have found are these:

устар.   Немолодой мужчина, находящийся с кем-либо в приятельских отношениях или во внебрачной связи. 
(Толковый словарь Ефремовой. Т. Ф. Ефремова. 2000.)

Обращение к пожилому мужчине (обл.). «- Здорово, кум Фадей! Здорово, кум Егор!» Крылов.
(Толковый словарь Ушакова. Д.Н. Ушаков. 1935-1940.)

Many thanks in advance,

Anna

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From alexander.burry at GMAIL.COM  Sat Jun 30 22:35:10 2012
From: alexander.burry at GMAIL.COM (Alexander Burry)
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:35:10 -0500
Subject: AATSEEL 2013 Special Events
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Dear SEELANGS members,

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