Please Circulate this Reminder: Call for Applications! 2014 Summer Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia at Illinois

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Call for Applications! 2014 Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois

The Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia is open to all scholars of Language, Literature and Culture with research interests in the Russian, East European and Eurasian region for eight weeks during the summer months from June 16 until August 8. The SRL provides scholars access to the resources of the University of Illinois Slavic collection within a flexible time frame where scholars have the opportunity to seek advice and research support from the librarians of the Slavic Reference Service (SRS).  Graduate students and junior scholars will also have opportunity to attend a specialized workshop on Scholarly and Literary Translation from June 16-20, 2014.



The deadline for grant funding is April 15 and is fast approaching! REEEC will continue to receive applications for the Summer Research Lab after the grant deadline, but housing and travel funds will not be guaranteed.

For more information and to apply, please use the following link: http://www.reeec.illinois.edu/srl/?utm_source=SEELANGS&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=SRL2014.



For graduate students, the SRL provides an opportunity to conduct research prior to going abroad and extra experience to refine research skills.  Students will also have the opportunity of seeking guidance from specialized librarians skilled in navigating resources pertaining to and originating from Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.



The SRS is an extensive service that provides access to a wide range of materials that center on and come from: Russia, the Former Soviet Union, Czech and Slovak Republics, Former Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. The International & Area Studies Library, where the Slavic reference collections are housed, contains work stations for readers, a collection of basic reference works, and current issues of over 1,000 periodicals and 110 newspapers in Western and area languages.


The Slavic Reference Service provides access to several literary and cultural resources such as

*         the Russian State Library's Electronic Dissertations Database including the full text of over 10,000 dissertations relating to language, literature and culture and 40,000 linguistics dissertations;

*         one of the U.S.'s most extensive print, microfilm, and microfiche collections, including the only fully-cataloged copy of the National Library of Finland's massive "Russian History and Culture" series;

*         one of North America's only complete copies of the Russian National Library's card catalogs for its pre-1998 non-Slavic-language holdings, providing bibliographic access to decades of rare publications in over 100 languages of the former Soviet Union;

*         searchable full text of Literaturnaia gazeta from 1929-2011 (the Literaturnaia gazeta Digital Archive);

*         searchable full text of leading literary-cultural journals such as Iskusstvo kino, Literaturnaia ucheba, and Molodaia gvardiia and of leading linguistics journals such as Izvestiia RAN : Seriia literatury i iazyka and Voprosy iazykoznaniia running back to 2000;

*         a wealth of bibliographic resources for reviewing other linguistics-related publications, including the U.S.'s only current holdings of the Kazakh and Uzbek national bibliographies;

*         rare items like the interwar editions in the Israel Perlstein Czech Fine Press Collection;

*         the largest collection of works relating to the Czech artist Max Švabinský outside the Czech Republic

*         an extensive collection of dictionaries from Central Europe acquired by noted scholar Keith Hitchins

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