From brenner at WISC.EDU Wed Jan 1 15:07:23 2014 From: brenner at WISC.EDU (Rachel F. Brenner) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 09:07:23 -0600 Subject: ASEEES 2014 panel Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elenapedigo at YAHOO.COM Wed Jan 1 23:48:01 2014 From: elenapedigo at YAHOO.COM (Elena Clark) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 18:48:01 -0500 Subject: ASEEES 2014 panel on Slavic Characters in Speculative Fiction In-Reply-To: <52C42F2B.4040001@wisc.edu> Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers! S novym godom! We are looking for a chair and a discussant for a panel to be submitted for ASEEES 2014 on Slavic themes and characters in Soviet and Western speculative fiction. If you are interested, please reply off-list to Elena Clark at elenapedigo at yahoo.com. Best, Elena ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From avkhimo2 at ILLINOIS.EDU Wed Jan 1 23:54:24 2014 From: avkhimo2 at ILLINOIS.EDU (Avkhimovich, Irina Sergeyevna) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 23:54:24 +0000 Subject: CFP: Interdisciplinary Forum in Slavic Studies - U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign April 11-12 Message-ID: Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Forum in Slavic Studies We are pleased to announce a collaboration between the Departments of Slavic Languages and Literatures at The University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). A joint meeting of the 33rd Annual Slavic Forum and the 4th Slavic Graduate Student Association Conference will take place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign on April 11-12, 2014 This year’s conference will feature (but not be limited to) interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian cultures. Our goal is to encourage dialogue and exchange between different fields. We invite abstracts for individual papers from graduate students in Slavic studies and related fields, including linguistics, literature, film, theatre, music, history, translation studies, political science, gender studies, Jewish-Russian and Holocaust Studies, anthropology, sociology, and art history. Application guidelines: • email: slavicforum2014 at gmail.com • please send your abstract as a Word Document attachment • abstracts should be 300 words or less (references are not included in the word count) • include your name and affiliation at the top of the abstract in header, but not in the body, so that they may be anonymous for refereeing and easily identifiable afterwards. In the body of your email: • provide a short biography • request equipment The deadline for all abstract proposals is February 1, 2014. Participants will be notified by March 1. We are trying to organize low-cost or free lodging for all, and we may be able to defray some travel expenses for participants from outside the local area. Each participant will give a 20-minute presentation (8-9 pages of text, double-spaced). The Slavic Forum committee will organize panels. Prof. Kristin Romberg of the School of Art and Design at UIUC will present a keynote talk. Topic TBA. For more information, refer to UIUC’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures website http://www.slavic.illinois.edu/ and The University of Chicago’s Slavic Forum's website http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/theslavicforum ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bkhayden1990 at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 2 06:17:58 2014 From: bkhayden1990 at GMAIL.COM (Brian Hayden) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 01:17:58 -0500 Subject: Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, Does anyone know of a bibliography -- preferably an online one -- of Russian literature in English translation? 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Gladstone, Russian Literature, Theatre and Art: a Bibliography of Works in English, published between 1900-1945 (1947) They were handily combined in the Methuen Library Reprints series as Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation to 1945, published by Rowman & Littlefield (Totowa, NJ) and Methuen (London) in 1972, which is quite easily obtainable secondhand for around £10-20. Happy New Year! Simon From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian Hayden Sent: 02 January 2014 06:18 To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation Dear SEELANGers, Does anyone know of a bibliography -- preferably an online one -- of Russian literature in English translation? 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URL: From perova09 at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 2 08:42:10 2014 From: perova09 at GMAIL.COM (Perova Natasha) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:42:10 +0200 Subject: Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation Message-ID: Amazon will give you a long list if you put "Russian literature in English translation" in the search box and if you have enough patience to go through all the pages. Natasha Perova GLAS New Russian Writing tel. +7-495-441 9157 www.glas.msk.su ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Hayden To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 8:17 AM Subject: [SEELANGS] Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation Dear SEELANGers, Does anyone know of a bibliography -- preferably an online one -- of Russian literature in English translation? Sincerely, Brian Hayden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a.jameson2 at DSL.PIPEX.COM Thu Jan 2 10:53:57 2014 From: a.jameson2 at DSL.PIPEX.COM (Andrew Jameson) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:53:57 -0000 Subject: Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Brian, You may also like to look at The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, Oxford University Press, 2000 edited by Peter France who is a Russianist, among other things. The Guide contains general sections (Theoretical Issues, Historical Development, and Text Types) and then sections on languages and language groups. Russian is on pp. 582-609. Andrew Jameson Consultant on Russian Language and Culture 6 Gilbert Road Malvern WR14 3RQ UK 01684 572466 _____ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Simon Beattie Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 8:36 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation The two standard (printed) bibliographies are Line and Ettlinger & Gladstone: Maurice B. Line, A Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation to 1900 (1963) Amrei Ettlinger & Joan M. Gladstone, Russian Literature, Theatre and Art: a Bibliography of Works in English, published between 1900-1945 (1947) They were handily combined in the Methuen Library Reprints series as Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation to 1945, published by Rowman & Littlefield (Totowa, NJ) and Methuen (London) in 1972, which is quite easily obtainable secondhand for around £10-20. Happy New Year! Simon From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian Hayden Sent: 02 January 2014 06:18 To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation Dear SEELANGers, Does anyone know of a bibliography -- preferably an online one -- of Russian literature in English translation? 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But again, these are subtitles, not entire screenplays. -Richard Robin On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Olga Livshin wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I am wondering if someone might have access (or know where I might look to > gain access) to scripts for the following Russian films: > > - Anna (directed by Nikita Mikhalkov) > - Okno v Parizh > - Strana glukhikh > - Utomlennye solntsem > - Priiatel' pokoinika > > Please feel free to reply off-list. Many thanks in advance for your help! > > Warmest regards, and happy 2014, > Olga Livshin > Boston University > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Richard M. Robin, Ph.D. Director Russian Language Program Academy of Distinguished Teachers The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 202-994-7081 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clucey at WISC.EDU Sat Jan 4 05:18:24 2014 From: clucey at WISC.EDU (Colleen Lucey) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 23:18:24 -0600 Subject: MLA Subconference: Resisting Vulnerable Times (Jan 8-9, Chicago) In-Reply-To: <76b084511165b0.52c7998b@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Message-ID: Dear SEELANGERs, On behalf of the MLA Subconference Organizing Committee, I would like to announce an upcoming conference to be held next week in Chicago. The Subconference, "Resisting Vulnerable Times," will meet January 8-9 at Columbia College (Collins Hall, 624 S. Michigan, Chicago, IL). Please see http://mlasubconference.org/program/ for program details. All events are free and open to the public.  About the organizers (from http://mlasubconference.org/who-we-are/): The organizing committee for the MLA Subconference is an independent and evolving group of graduate students in the humanities who are interested in creating a new kind of conference environment, in order to propose alternative professional, social, and political possibilities for ourselves and our peers. We see both the committee and the conference as an open, collective endeavor that will work collaboratively with and outside more formal academic networks. As such a collective, we are actively seeking new participants and committee members to assist with the inaugural conference in Chicago and/or those interested in becoming a part of the next iteration. Sincerely, Colleen Lucey Ph.D. Candidate Slavic Languages and Literature UW-Madison ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From rapple at UCHICAGO.EDU Sat Jan 4 13:18:49 2014 From: rapple at UCHICAGO.EDU (Rachel Leah Applebaum) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 13:18:49 +0000 Subject: Cfp: 2014 ASEEES Panel on Memory of the Red Army's Liberation of Eastern Europe Message-ID: Dear SEELANGERS, I am in the process of organizing a panel for the 2014 ASEEES convention in San Antonio about the history of memory of the Red Army’s liberation of Eastern Europe from the Nazi occupation. I am looking for at least one more presenter, as well as possibly a chair and a discussant. My own paper will examine personal memories of the Soviet liberation of Czechoslovakia by both Soviet veterans and Czech and Slovak civilians in the 1950s and 1960s, and how these memories helped challenge the Soviet imperial project in the country. I am interested in papers looking at any aspect of the postwar memory of the Red Army’s liberation of Eastern Europe, including the legacy of violence perpetrated by Red Army soldiers, the construction of monuments to the Red Army, Holocaust survivors' memories of the Red Army’s liberation of concentration camps, and the like. I am also interested in papers that examine this topic from the perspective of Soviet veterans, or that look at Soviet postwar commemorations/artistic representations of the liberation of Eastern Europe. If you are interested, please send me a 1-3 sentence summary of your topic, or of your qualifications as panel discussant or chair, as well as a brief description of your current academic research and affiliation. My e-mail address is Rachel.Applebaum at eui.eu Given that the deadline for panel submissions is January 15, I would appreciate it if you would respond as soon as possible, at the latest by January 9. Thank you and Happy New Year, Rachel Applebaum Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow European University Institute Florence, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Teaching load is comparable to that of an American liberal arts college. AUCA is an ideal place to build a teaching career for a few years. To apply: Please send a CV, cover letter, teaching philosophy (not more than 1000 words), sample syllabi, and two Letters of Reference (scanned copies are acceptable) to Galina L. Gorborukova, Chair of General Education Department at wisdom20gg at gmail.com and copy the Office of Human Resources at human_resources at mail.auca.kg by February 15, 2014. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From DAS200 at PITT.EDU Mon Jan 6 14:07:27 2014 From: DAS200 at PITT.EDU (Seckler, Dawn A) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:07:27 -0500 Subject: CFP Roundtable: Internationalization of the Community College Curriculum Message-ID: Dear All, I'm reaching out to you on behalf of a group of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies centers at research universities (see partial list below), which is seeking to intensify collaboration with community colleges on internationalizing curricula and expanding international studies opportunities for community college faculty and students. Our centers are cooperating on this initiative with ASEEES. Educational outreach programs with community colleges are an important component of several of our centers' missions as U.S. Department of Education-sponsored Title VI National Resource Centers (NRC). As part of these efforts, I am seeking to organize a roundtable to take place at the 2014 ASEEES conference in San Antonio, Texas. The goal of this roundtable would be for the NRCs to learn from our colleagues teaching at community colleges. We seek to enter into an engaged conversation to better learn what is already done-in terms of curriculum, study abroad, and degrees to educate students on our regions-as well as how NRC schools might help provide resources to support curriculum and/or professional development to further academic opportunities featuring our region. We are seeking 2 or 3 additional panelists. It is the goal of the NRCs to fund travel to and from San Antonio, conference hotel, membership fees, and a per diem for roundtable participants. If you are interested, please respond directly to me at Das200 at pitt.edu and provide some indication on precisely what you'd like to speak. Sincerely, Dawn Seckler The universities presently involved in this effort include the following: Arizona State University, Columbia University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, Indiana University, Ohio State University, Stanford University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Kansas, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, University of Washington, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Additional institutions may join in the near future as well. Dawn Seckler, PhD Program Manager Center for Russian and East European Studies University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Das200 at pitt.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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To enrol on the course, send an email to the teacher (r.valijarvi at ucl.ac.uk) by 20 January 2013. ************ Dear postgraduate student, I am looking for participants for a Finnish-language online continuation course. This pilot course is aimed at lower intermediate students with previous knowledge of the Finnish language. The course will run from the week starting 27 January to the week ending 6 April 2013 (10 weeks). * The course is free of charge. I am asking you to commit to the lessons, take the exam and give me feedback about your experiences at the end. * You will need a headset and the book Teach Yourself Complete Finnish by Terttu Leney. We will start at chapter 10. * We will have one 90-minute lesson a week online through the conferencing tool Blackboard Learn. I have available slots on Monday and Thursday mornings and Saturday afternoons. * You will have access to a Moodle page with exercises and quizzes. * The focus on the course will be on reading skills. We will read authentic texts, such as news, abstracts and Wikipedia entries. Writing, speaking and listening skills will also be practised. * The course is particularly useful if you want to conduct fieldwork/archive work in Finland or access authentic source materials in Finnish. It is also good if you simply want to revise your previous skills. * I would expect potential students to have completed at least an intensive beginners' course (10 or 20 weeks) or reached level A2 on the CEFR scale. To enrol on the course, send an email to the teacher r.valijarvi at ucl.ac.uk by 20 January 2013. Include the following information in the email: 1) previous Finnish studies, and 2) the time that suits you the best (Monday morning, Thursday morning, Saturday afternoon). I look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes, Dr Riitta Valijarvi ________________________________ The Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) CEELBAS is a network of leading UK universities established to promote the study of all the countries of Central, Eastern, South-Eastern Europe and the Baltics, Russia, as well as Turkey and the Black Sea, Central Asia and the Caucasus. NEW! AHRC PhD Studentships available in Russian, Slavonic and East European languages and culture: http://www.ceelbas.ac.uk/students/cdt www.ceelbas.ac.uk www.facebook.com/theCEELBASnetwork Postgraduate and early-career researchers facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/ceelbas Twitter: @CEELBAS1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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To see back issues of the journal or to read about guidelines for submissions, visit https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/folklorica Below is the table of contents of the current volume. Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, editor, Folklorica Articles Ukrainian Rushnyky: Binding Amulets and Magical Talismans in the Modern Period, Frank Sciacca Eschatological Folk Songs and Poetry in the Manuscript Tradition of the Russian Old Believers of Latgale, Tatiana Filosofova Mythological Thinking and Archetypes in the Contemporary Bulgarian Nestinarski Ritual Complex, Ana Stefanova No Nastas’ias on the Volga: Soviet Women Veterans and Folkloric Self-Representations, Adrienne Marie Harris Reviews Inna Golovakha and Larysa Vakhnina, eds. 35th International Ballad Conference SIEF Papers and Materials (2005, July 6-11, Kyiv, Ukraine), Genia Boivin Baer, Elizabeth R. The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction, B. Stu Burns 79 Turner, Kay and Pauline Greenhill, eds. Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms, B. Stu Burns Mucz, Michael. Baba’s Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada, Sibelan Forrester Crummey, Robert O. Old Believers in a Changing World, Jack V. Haney Slavianskie drevsnosti: Etnolingvisticheskii slovar' v 5-i tomakh. N.I. Tolstoi, general editor, Aleksey V. Iudin Corona, Annette Ogrodnik. The New Ukrainian Cookbook, Natalie Kononenko Hilton, Alison. Russian Folk Art, Natalie Kononenko Jefferson J. A. Gatrall and Douglas Greenfield, eds., Alter Icons: The Russian Icon and Modernity, Bonnie Marshall Greene, Robert H. Bodies like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia, David Prestel ********************************* Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby Professor of Russian, Folklore and Linguistics Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures Division of Russian and Eastern Studies 1055 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506 (859) 257-1756 Fax: (859) 257-3743 j.rouhier at uky.edu www.uky.edu/~jrouhie Skype contact name: Jeanmarie Rouhier, j.rouhier ________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From townsend at PRINCETON.EDU Mon Jan 6 15:09:41 2014 From: townsend at PRINCETON.EDU (Charles E. Townsend) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:09:41 +0000 Subject: Folklorica, SEEFA journal released In-Reply-To: <5D5A1BBE1D4B954DB1523EA08304EBC0152BD181@ex10mb05.ad.uky.edu> Message-ID: On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie wrote: Dear Seelangers: The Slavic, East European and Eurasian Folklore Association is pleased to announce the publication of FOLKLORICA 2013, Vol. XVII. SEEFA is an affiliate of AASEEES and AATSEEL (http://www.seefa.org/). We are currently soliciting submissions for the next edition of the journal. Articles or field reports on the folklore of the Slavic, East European and Eurasian world are welcome, preferably in English. You need not be a member of the organization to submit to the journal. To see back issues of the journal or to read about guidelines for submissions, visit https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/folklorica Below is the table of contents of the current volume. Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, editor, Folklorica Articles Ukrainian Rushnyky: Binding Amulets and Magical Talismans in the Modern Period, Frank Sciacca Eschatological Folk Songs and Poetry in the Manuscript Tradition of the Russian Old Believers of Latgale, Tatiana Filosofova Mythological Thinking and Archetypes in the Contemporary Bulgarian Nestinarski Ritual Complex, Ana Stefanova No Nastas’ias on the Volga: Soviet Women Veterans and Folkloric Self-Representations, Adrienne Marie Harris Reviews Inna Golovakha and Larysa Vakhnina, eds. 35th International Ballad Conference SIEF Papers and Materials (2005, July 6-11, Kyiv, Ukraine), Genia Boivin Baer, Elizabeth R. The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction, B. Stu Burns 79 Turner, Kay and Pauline Greenhill, eds. Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms, B. Stu Burns Mucz, Michael. Baba’s Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada, Sibelan Forrester Crummey, Robert O. Old Believers in a Changing World, Jack V. Haney Slavianskie drevsnosti: Etnolingvisticheskii slovar' v 5-i tomakh. N.I. Tolstoi, general editor, Aleksey V. Iudin Corona, Annette Ogrodnik. The New Ukrainian Cookbook, Natalie Kononenko Hilton, Alison. Russian Folk Art, Natalie Kononenko Jefferson J. A. Gatrall and Douglas Greenfield, eds., Alter Icons: The Russian Icon and Modernity, Bonnie Marshall Greene, Robert H. Bodies like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia, David Prestel ********************************* Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby Professor of Russian, Folklore and Linguistics Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures Division of Russian and Eastern Studies 1055 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506 (859) 257-1756 Fax: (859) 257-3743 j.rouhier at uky.edu www.uky.edu/~jrouhie Skype contact name: Jeanmarie Rouhier, j.rouhier ________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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We are especially interested in papers that explore Leskov’s work as a polemical novelist, but papers dedicated to his journalistic work or short stories are also welcome. One of the papers will analyze No Way Out as a polemical and artistic answer to Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons and Chernyshevsky’s What Is To Be Done? Viewing No Way Out as “mothers and daughters” to Turgenev’s “fathers and sons,” the paper shows how Leskov’s reinterpretation of the generational conflict through the lens of the Woman Question significantly widens our understanding of the debate on nihilism in 1860s Russia. Another examines the informers and false accusations of being an informer found in Leskov’s fiction. Co-existing with the standard condemnations against informing widespread in Russian culture and elsewhere, there are morally complex and even heroic informers in Leskov, whose works engage, sometimes explicitly, with the tragic informer Mazepa in Pushkin’s Poltava. If you are interested in joining this panel, please send your paper topic and a brief abstract to Victoria Thorstensson at vit at sas.upenn.edu. If interested in chairing the panel or serving as a discussant, send us a brief description of your current academic research and/or affiliation. To be included in the panel, please respond by January 12. Victoria Thorstensson Visiting Fellow, Yale University Erik McDonald Independent Scholar ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kunkler.10 at OSU.EDU Mon Jan 6 18:57:03 2014 From: kunkler.10 at OSU.EDU (Kunkler, Eileen) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 18:57:03 +0000 Subject: Reminder: CFP for 2014 Midwest Slavic Conference Message-ID: REMINDER: PROPOSALS DUE MONDAY, JANUARY 13TH FOR THE 2014 MIDWEST SLAVIC CONFERENCE! Proposals now being accepted for the 2014 Midwest Slavic Conference! The Midwest Slavic Association and The Ohio State University (OSU) Center for Slavic and East European Studies (CSEES) are proud to announce the 2014 Midwest Slavic Conference, to be held at OSU March 28-March 30, 2014. Conference organizers invite proposals for panels or individual papers addressing all disciplines related to Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Please send a one-paragraph abstract in PDF format and brief C.V. to csees at osu.edu by January 13, 2014. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to participate. Limited funding is available for student lodging. Additionally, conference participants can elect to have their abstract, paper, and presentation included in the conference’s Knowledge Bank community. Those opting for inclusion in Knowledge Bank can also choose to receive a brief peer review by the conference committee. Please indicate by email when submitting your abstract whether you want to be included in Knowledge Bank and have your submission reviewed. Abstract and C.V. Deadline: January 13 Notification of Acceptance: February 5 Panels Announced: February 28 Paper Submission Deadline: March 14 The Midwest Slavic Association also would like to announce Between Shots, a series of panels within the conference dedicated to East European/Eurasian film and visual culture. A Central/Southeastern European film will be screened with a corresponding panel discussion. Limited support for travel and lodging may be available to Between Shots participants. Please indicate your participation interest in Between Shots via email when submitting your abstract and C.V. Conference Details: Friday, March 28th, 5:30-8:00pm: Keynote address by Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University) followed by reception in Page Hall. Saturday, March 29th, 8:30am-5:30pm: Panels will be held throughout the day on Saturday at the main conference site, Mendenhall Laboratory. Sunday, March 30th, 8:30am-1:00pm: Panels will be held on Sunday morning in Mendenhall Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Modeled after traditional academic conferences, the symposium provides students with an opportunity to present their research papers on Western and Eastern Europe (including Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union) to discussants and an audience. Please encourage your outstanding undergraduate students to apply to participate in the symposium. The application form and further information can be found at http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/ursymposium/. Deadlines: 1) Students must submit applications with 250-300 word abstracts and paper drafts by January 27, 2014. 2) Selected students will be notified by mid-February 2014. 3) Final revised papers are due by March 19, 2014. 4) Presentations will be made at the Symposium on April 11, 2014. If you have any questions, please contact me at gbpeirce at pitt.edu. Sincerely, Gina Peirce ************************************************** Gina M. Peirce Assistant Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies MA Program, Applied Linguistics/Second Language Acquisition University of Pittsburgh 4414 Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Phone: (412) 648-2290 Fax: (412) 648-7002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tkeenan at PRINCETON.EDU Mon Jan 6 21:52:10 2014 From: tkeenan at PRINCETON.EDU (Thomas F. Keenan) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 21:52:10 +0000 Subject: Roundtable on Russian publishing/ publishers for ASEEES 2014 in Austin TX Message-ID: Greetings list, There's a roundtable being organized on the state of Russian publishing for next year’s ASEEES Convention. We are looking for one or two more participants, ideally someone who could speak about Russian publishers from the perspective of literary criticism and belles lettres, and someone else to speak about the publishing industry from the perspective of biography, political science, or even religion and Russian Orthodoxy (other suggestions welcome). Questions that we are seeking to raise include: Who are the top publishers for certain disciplines? Which publishers are obscure, but publish material of high quality? Should certain publishers be avoided, and if so, which ones are they? How do we learn about Russian publishers? If interested please reply off-list at your earliest convenience, so we can add your name to the roundtable proposal by the January 15 deadline. Thomas Keenan Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Librarian Princeton University Library One Washington Road, Princeton New Jersey 08544-2098 (tel.) 609-258-3592 (fax.) 609-258-6950 tkeenan at princeton.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tsmorodi at MIDDLEBURY.EDU Mon Jan 6 23:43:40 2014 From: tsmorodi at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Smorodinska, Tatiana E.) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 23:43:40 +0000 Subject: panel on dance Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I am trying to put together a panel proposal on Dance in Russian Culture. Broadly defined: dance in film, dance in literature, dance as politics, dance as propaganda, dance as national representation, professional dance (folk, state ensembles), folk dance, ball room dance, social dance, etc. Looking for presenters, discussant and chair. My proposed paper is on lezginka. Please, reply off the list. Tsmorodi at middlebury.edu Tatiana Smorodinska Middlebury College ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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(215)-204-1768 oprokop at temple.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bershtee at REED.EDU Tue Jan 7 02:06:34 2014 From: bershtee at REED.EDU (Evgenii Bershtein) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 18:06:34 -0800 Subject: "'Pushkin and Homosexuality': An Understudied Fragment of the Pushkin Myth in Russia": ASEEES Panel Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I would like to organize an ASEEES panel, provisionally named " 'Pushkin and Homosexuality': An Understudied Fragment of the Pushkin Myth in Russia". We have two papers so far: one on Yuri Lotman's unpublished "sketch of an essay" entitled "Pushkin and Homosexuality", and another (mine) on Sergei Eisenstein's extensive treatment of this theme in his (unpublished) diaries. As I see it, the panel will focus not so much on the historical Pushkin and his actual take on homosexuality but rather on interpretations that this theme received in Russian cultural texts – scholarly or non-scholarly. This panel topic has many potentially fascinating aspects, e.g., the Pushkinist legend of the homosexual relationship between Heeckeren and d'Anthés, or заговор педерастов. If you would like to propose a paper, please email me off the list with a brief abstract. Sincerely, Evgenii Bershtein Associate Professor of Russian Reed College ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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A third paper discusses how Dostoevsky manipulates the concept of verisimilitude in Diary of a Writer and The Brothers Karamazov. We would welcome the participation of anyone who shares a general interest in aesthetic theory within Russian culture. Please reply to Ruth Lorenz at srlorenz at berkeley.edu or Tatyana Gershkovich at gershkov at fas.harvard.edu . Sarah Ruth Lorenz, Ph.D. Lecturer, Slavic Languages and Literatures University of California, Berkeley srlorenz at berkeley.edu > My paper will take up the question of aesthetic judgment. I will argue that Tolstoy, in rejecting certain principles of Schopenhauer’s aesthetics, came to grapple with Kant’s Antinomy of Taste. Constanine Muravnik will examine Nabokov's aesthetic critique of mathematics in Invitation to a Beheading. and I'll likely present on manipulations of verisimilitude in Dostoevsky. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From khazanov at SAS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jan 7 06:24:21 2014 From: khazanov at SAS.UPENN.EDU (Pavel Khazanov) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 20:24:21 -1000 Subject: CFP Submission deadline reminder (Sun, Jan 12) : "Russia, in Theory," grad conference at UPenn on March 7, 2014 Message-ID: Dear all, We just wanted to let you know that the submission deadline for our graduate conference is coming up this Sunday, Jan 12. Please see our CFP below— we would appreciate it if you could circulate it among your colleagues and departments. Thank you so much, and looking forward to your submissions! Best regards, Pavel Khazanov *Russia, in Theory* *A graduate conference presented byThe Program in Comparative Literature and Theory, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Slavics Without Borders, a Graduate Student Colloquium* *Friday, March 7, 2014University of Pennsylvania* *Keynote Speaker: Boris Groys (NYU, SHG Karlsruhe, EGS)* The “end of history” in 1991 was, in many ways, a Russian affair. Seemingly overnight, Russia was transformed from "the most progressive society on earth" into the defeated arch-nemesis of the free world, thus ushering in a new era of post-history—quite an accomplishment for a country that supposedly entered “world history” only in the eighteenth century. Of course, Fukuyama’s cosmic, geopolitical vision was hardly the first time that Russia has been cast in such a grandiose role. Since Peter the Great’s heavy-handed transformation of “medieval” Rus’ into a Western-styled Empire, Russia has presented a tempting playground for theorizing and applying European conceptions of history, enlightenment and progress. Over the course of the nineteenth century, Russian intellectuals, influenced by German Idealist philosophy of history, fought over the place of the “Russian Idea” in the civilizational economy of the world. In the twentieth century, generations of European thinkers struggled to understand the meaning of the Soviet experiment. Finally, in our ostensibly post-historical twenty-first century, the experience of post-socialist Russia continues to pose meaningful questions for the ideologues of the Western political, economic and social establishment, as well as for those who wish to resist their hegemony. Our conference aims to examine and complicate the idea of “Russia” and its role in both local and global philosophical discourse. What place does Russia hold in the imaginations of Western philosophers, from Hegel and Marx to Žižek and Badiou, and how did it come to do so? What meaning does standing with or apart from the West hold among ideologues of the so-called “Russian Idea,” from Gogol’ to Limonov? Finally, what does Russian philosophy, art and political practice, from Chaadaev to Podoroga, from Karamzin to Pussy Riot, from Catherine to Lenin, to Surkov— have to contribute to our understanding of the past, the present and the future states of world history and its discontents? We are interested in submissions from all humanitarian disciplines, including, but not limited to philosophy and critical theory, literature, history, anthropology, political science, culture and media studies, which may in some way tackle the following general topics: —Europe or Asia? Empire or Periphery? Russia’s place in the geopolitical and social imaginary —The place of Russia in religious, mystical and eschatological thought —What is to be done? Russia and the idea of radical politics —Russia and the theoretical discourse of modernity & post-modernity —Shklovsky, Kojève, Jakobson: the Russian turn in continental philosophy and aesthetics —Mimesis, montage and the Kino-Eye: the impact of Soviet film theory —Dreamworld, phantasm and catastrophe: Russia in the utopian and dystopian imagination —The Russian poet as a prophet? The place of Russia in the world literary canon —To reach and overtake decaying capitalism? The Soviet experiment— theory, reality and memory wars —Tsarism, capitalism and socialism with a human face: Russia’s place in the discourse of the human —“Three worlds” theory: the contest of socialism and the West across the globe —Everything was forever, until it was no more: making sense of post-Soviet Russia *Please send your 300 word abstracts in the body of an email with “Russia, in Theory submission, LASTNAME” in the title to Pavel Khazanov and Alex Moshkin at slavicswithoutborders at gmail.com , by January 12, 2014. Submissions should include the paper title, author’s name, affiliation, and email address. * -- Pavel Khazanov Doctoral Student Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies University of Pennsylvania 720 Williams Hall 255 S. 36th St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 khazanov at sas.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Simon Simon Beattie Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera Award-winning catalogues. Regular blog. 84 The Broadway | Chesham | Buckinghamshire | HP5 1EG | UK tel. +44 (0)1494 784954 | mobile/voicemail +44 (0)7717 707575 | e-mail simon at simonbeattie.co.uk VAT no. GB 983 5355 83 Website | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest Member of the ABA and ILAB 'If you have not got a copy of Beattie Short List 1, get it at once' (The Book Collector) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From at2205 at COLUMBIA.EDU Tue Jan 7 13:58:25 2014 From: at2205 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Alan Timberlake) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:58:25 -0500 Subject: Announcement, NEH Summer (2014) Institute, =?windows-1252?Q?=93America=92s_East_Central_Europeans=3A_Migration_an?= =?windows-1252?Q?d_Memory=94?= In-Reply-To: <52C5A91E.3030700@columbia.edu> Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, With this I would like to draw your attention to an upcoming Summer Institute, funded by the National Endowment of Humanities, to be held at Columbia this coming June**8-29.The topic is “America’s East Central Europeans: Migration and Memory.” Quick facts to note are that the application deadline is March 4; the Institute provides a stipend of $2700 to participants.The Institute is described in full on the website http://nehsummerinst.columbia.edu/, which includes information about the application process, presenters, schedule, and housing. Questions may be addressed to Co-Director Robert Davis (rhd2106 at Columbia.edu , 212 854-4701). Allow me to add some less bureaucratic observations.While I’m the PI for this project, this Institute is the really the work of Edward Kasinec and Robert Davis, experienced hands at designing and administering summer NEH institutes.I spent some time as a private citizen at last summer’s institute, on Russia immigration, and observed several things.The plan and overall design were superb.The Institute ran crisply and smoothly.Invited speakers, thoughtfully selected by the co-directors, gave presentations on a high level. The participants were thoroughly engaged and quickly formed an active community. The same can be expected this summer. I might add the further informal comment that the NEH, and also the local organizers, want this institute to be inclusive of participants from the full range of educational institutions, and we welcome applications from people at small colleges and universities. Yours truly, Alan Timberlake Director, East Central European Center, Columbia University Principal Investigator, NEH Summer Institute: “America’s East Central Europeans: Migration and Memory” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From O.F.Boele at HUM.LEIDENUNIV.NL Tue Jan 7 14:52:06 2014 From: O.F.Boele at HUM.LEIDENUNIV.NL (Boele, O.F.) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 14:52:06 +0000 Subject: ASEEES 2014: panel on 1993 Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, For the 2014 ASEEES convention in San Antonio I'm organizing a panel on the constitutional crisis of 1993, in particular on the ways in which the bloody events of September/October of that year are remembered and narrativized in poetry, fiction, memoires, documentary films and various remembrance practices (protest song contests, commemoration marches). Because the surviving defenders of the House of the Soviets and their sympathizers have been considerably more vocal about 1993 than president Yeltsin's supporters, the color "red-brown" is likely to dominate this panel. However, contributions dealing with State Television's treatment of 1993 last year (cf. various live debates on Pervyi kanal and the new public TV channel OTR) are also very welcome. My own paper will focus on the (historical) prose of Yurii Bondarev, Aleksander Prokhanov and on Sergei Shargunov's very recent novel 1993. If you are interested, please send me a title and a short abstract off-list (o.f.boele at hum.leidenuniv.nl). Thank you! Otto Boele Dr. Otto Boele Chair of the Department of Russian Studies Associate Professor of Russian Literature Department of Russian Studies, University of Leiden P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden o.f.boele at hum.leidenuniv.nl http://zoekenopnaam.leidenuniv.nl/profile/d2561cb34a5035fde72d754dcbbddcfccced17b4?q=boele ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Priority admission and scholarship application deadline is January 31. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY CRITICAL LANGUAGES INSTITUTE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HYBRID COURSES: STUDY AT ASU, THEN ABROAD: 2 months intensive study at ASU with optional 1 month study in country, providing 8–13 credits. - Albanian (ASU + Tirana) - Armenian (ASU + Yerevan) - Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (ASU + Sarajevo) - Modern Hebrew (ASU only) - Macedonian (ASU only) - Persian (ASU + Samarqand) - Polish (ASU + Poznan) - Russian (ASU + Kazan) - Turkish (ASU + Ankara) - Uzbek (ASU + Samarqand) Sessions at ASU include daily co-curricular programming, grant mentoring and career planning opportunities. Sessions abroad feature academically challenging study, extensive co-curricular programs, and peer-guided cultural programming integrated into academic coursework. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERSEAS PROGRAMS: 2-month intensive programs providing 8–10 credits. - Armenian (Yerevan) 3rd-year and up - Russian (Kazan) 2nd–4th-year - Russian (Kiev) 4th– 6th-year - Russian (St. Petersburg) 5th–6th-year - Tatar (Kazan) 1st–2nd-year - Ukrainian (Kyiv) 1st–4th-year Programs feature homestays, peer-guided cultural programming integrated into academic coursework, and internships at the 5th-year level and up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2014 APPLICATION AND FULL DETAILS: (http://cli.asu.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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The deadline is 15 March 2014. Please note that I am unable to supply any films or help with sourcing, so you have to either have access to a film or have seen it. If you are interested in writing, please get in touch with me via russiancinema2010 at gmx.com and I will send you a list with the titles. Many thanks, Birgit Beumers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From birgitbeumers at YAHOO.CO.UK Tue Jan 7 17:39:05 2014 From: birgitbeumers at YAHOO.CO.UK (Birgit Beumers) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:39:05 -0600 Subject: KinoKultura 43 Message-ID: The January issue of KinoKultura is now available at http://www.kinokultura.com/2014/issue43.shtml Contents: Article on Folklore and New Russian Animation Interview: Frederick H. White with Vsevolod Benigsen and Andrei Bogatyrev about Judas (2013) Film Reviews DoubleView: Aleksandr Veledinskii: The Geographer Drank Away the Globe, reviewed by Andrei Rogatchevski and Mark Lipovetskii & Tatiana Mikhailova Reviews Andrei Bogatyrev: Judas by Frederick H. White Georgii Daneliia, Tat’iana Il’ina: Ku! Kin-Dza-Dza by Sasha Senderovich Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross: In Bloom by Julie A. Christensen Boris Khlebnikov: A Long and Happy Life by Alyssa DeBlasio Konstantin Lopushanskii: The Role by Stephen M. Norris Natal’ia Merkulova, Aleksei Chupov: Intimate Parts by Zdenko Mandušić Gennadii Ostrovskii: Dumpling Brothers by Lars Kristensen Vladimir Pankov: Doc.tor by Eva Binder Pavel Parkhomenko: Gagarin. The First Man in Space by Otto Boele Maria Saakyan: Entropy by Sergey Toymentsev Gennadii Sidorov: A Romance with Cocaine by Anthony Anemone Aleksandra Strelianaia: The Sea by Elise Thorsen Viktor Tikhomirov: Chapaev-Chapaev by Lilya Nemchenko Dmitrii Tiurin: Thirst by Alexandar Mihailovic Happy new year, your KiKu editorial team ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Arianna.Nowakowski at DU.EDU Tue Jan 7 19:10:20 2014 From: Arianna.Nowakowski at DU.EDU (Arianna Nowakowski) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 19:10:20 +0000 Subject: ASEEES Panel Message-ID: Dear all, I would like to organize a panel for the 2014 ASEEES conference entitled “Performing Gender in Putin’s Russia.” My intent is for this panel to investigate the ways in which gender performances/expressions interact with politics and identity, broadly defined, in Russia today. Papers may focus on any aspect of gender and/or sexuality, but they should reflect contemporary issues. Please reply off-list if you might be interested in participating. Best wishes, Arianna _____________________________ Arianna Nowakowski, PhD DU/Iliff Joint PhD Program Korbel School of International Studies University of Denver http://portfolio.du.edu/anowakow 303.765.3136 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From irinasix at KU.EDU Tue Jan 7 20:46:24 2014 From: irinasix at KU.EDU (Six, Irina Anatolyevna) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 20:46:24 +0000 Subject: ASEEES 2014 roundtable "Russian Language for Jobs: teaching strategies and future perspectives on market-relevant Russian language skills" Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, We are seeking 2 or 3 additional panelists for a Roundtable Discussion: Russian Language for Jobs: Teaching strategies and future perspectives on market-relevant Russian language skills. We will be discussing the classes addressing the practical application of Russian language skills in post-Soviet environments (25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union). What are the the perspectives for employment of students with Russian language skills inside and outside the US? What level of fluency is necessary to participate successfully in the global workplace? What classes do we need to develop or upgrade so we are able to address the current employment challengers? How to market Russian for Jobs classes to our students? Is there any need for Russian language skills in post-Soviet countries? We are looking for participants or discussants interested in these and other related questions. If you are teaching classes Russian for Specific Purposes, Business Russian, Russian for the Professions or similar classes addressing Russian for Special Purposes, you are welcome to join us as discussant or participant. We will be discussing curriculum development, study materials, class format, traditional and on-line teaching resources, teaching strategies for students with low-intermediate language skills. If you are interested, please respond directly to Irina Six at irinasix at ku.edu Please, provide some indication on precisely what you’d like to speak Thank you, Irina Six Dr. Irina Six, Lecturer, Academic Program Associate, Slavic Languages and Literatures The University of Kansas 2135 Wescoe, Lawrence, Ks 66045-7594 i rinasix at ku.edu (785) 864-1230 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From darancourlaferriere at COMCAST.NET Wed Jan 8 06:06:16 2014 From: darancourlaferriere at COMCAST.NET (Daniel Rancour-Laferriere) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 22:06:16 -0800 Subject: "'Pushkin and Homosexuality': An Understudied Fragment of the Pushkin Myth in Russia": ASEEES Panel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On this very list, back in March and April of 2006, there was a detailed and lively discussion of "Pushkin and Homosexuality" under the following subject headings: Applied Psychoanalysis in Slavic Studies Psychoanalysis and Russian Studies Psychoanalysis and my Senior Thesis Onegin Again Onegin Again = Envy is not Lust Onegin Again - All Dressed Up Was Onegin a Metrosexual? More Questions on Onegin Onegin et al This Onegin Thing If we think about the current controversy about gay rights in Russia, it will be obvious why the theme of "Pushkin and Homosexuality" is "understudied" in Russia. With friendly regards to the list, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere Emeritus Professor of Russian University of California, Davis http://Rancour-Laferriere.com On Jan 6, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Evgenii Bershtein wrote: Dear Colleagues, I would like to organize an ASEEES panel, provisionally named " 'Pushkin and Homosexuality': An Understudied Fragment of the Pushkin Myth in Russia". We have two papers so far: one on Yuri Lotman's unpublished "sketch of an essay" entitled "Pushkin and Homosexuality", and another (mine) on Sergei Eisenstein's extensive treatment of this theme in his (unpublished) diaries. As I see it, the panel will focus not so much on the historical Pushkin and his actual take on homosexuality but rather on interpretations that this theme received in Russian cultural texts – scholarly or non-scholarly. This panel topic has many potentially fascinating aspects, e.g., the Pushkinist legend of the homosexual relationship between Heeckeren and d'Anthés, or заговор педерастов. If you would like to propose a paper, please email me off the list with a brief abstract. Sincerely, Evgenii Bershtein Associate Professor of Russian Reed College ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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The purpose of SCSS is to promote scholarship, education, and in all other ways to advance scholarly interest in Russian, Soviet, East European, and Eurasian studies in the Southern region of the United States and nationwide. Membership in SCSS is open to all persons interested in furthering these goals. Papers from all humanities and social science disciplines are welcome and encouraged, as is a focus on countries other than Russia/USSR. Papers and panels on all topics will be considered. The program committee is accepting panel and paper proposals until January 15, 2014. Whole panel proposals (chair, three papers, discussant) are preferred, but proposals for individual papers are also welcome. Whole panel proposals should include the titles of each individual paper as well as a title for the panel itself and identifying information (email addresses and institutional affiliations) for all participants. Proposals for individual papers should include paper title, email contact, institutional affiliation, and a brief (one paragraph) abstract to guide the program committee in the assembly of panels. If any AV equipment will be needed, the panel or paper proposals should indicate so when submitted. AV will be of limited availability and assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Email (preferably) your proposals to Sharon Kowalsky at Sharon.Kowalsky at tamuc.edu, or send it by conventional post to: Dr. Sharon Kowalsky Department of History Texas A&M University-Commerce PO Box 3011 Commerce, TX 75429 For local arrangements or conference information other than the program, please contact Dr. Hugh Hudson, Georgia State University, hhudson at gsu.edu. 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The University of Pittsburgh Summer Language Institute offers five programs in Summer 2014: · Priority admission and scholarship application deadline is March 7. · Scholarships are available for undergraduates, graduate students, and non-students: http://www.slavic.pitt.edu/sli o Project Go deadline: FEBRUARY 21 2014 http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/projectgo #1. 5+5 PROGRAM IN PITTSBURGH AND MOSCOW (10 CREDITS) · Russian: four levels – five weeks in Pittsburgh + 5 weeks in Moscow # 2. 6+4 PROGRAMS IN PITTSBURGH (6 CREDITS PITTSBURGH ONLY; 4 MORE FOR ABROAD ADD-ON; 4 CREDITS ABROAD ONLY) · Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (4 levels) èPodgorica, Montenegro · Bulgarian èSofia, Bulgaria · Hungarian èDebrecen, Hungary · Polish (3 levels) èKrakow, Poland · Slovak (3 levels) èBratislava, Slovakia # 3. ABROAD ONLY: · Advanced Russian èIrkutsk (Project Go only); 8 weeks; (8 CREDITS) · Intermediate or Advanced Czech èPrague (FLAS eligible) (6 CREDITS) · Intermediate or Advanced Polish èKrakow, Poland (FLAS eligible) (6 CREDITS) # 4. 8 WEEKS IN PITTSBURGH (NO ABROAD COMPONENT) (8 CREDITS) · Arabic (Beginning) · Russian (all levels) · Persian (Beginning) · Turkish (Beginning) # 5. 6 WEEKS IN PITTSBURGH (NO ABROAD COMPONENT) (6 CREDITS) · Estonian · Latvian · Lithuanian · Ukrainian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please respond off-list to: mmiller8 at wisc.edu All best, Melissa Miller Ph.D. Candidate The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures The University of Wisconsin-Madison ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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(Drake Hotel, Walton II/ Walton North Room ) Saturday, January 11, 7-9 pm: Round Table in Memory of Rafael Levchin (Drake Hotel, Parkside Room). We hope you can join some of these events! With best regards, Stephanie Sandler, Sibelan Forrester, Maria Khotimsky. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sidneydement at GMAIL.COM Fri Jan 10 00:04:10 2014 From: sidneydement at GMAIL.COM (Sidney Dement) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 18:04:10 -0600 Subject: The Russian-German Course: ASEEES 2014 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, In response to this year's conference theme, my colleagues and I are putting together a roundtable for ASEEES 2014 in San Antonio that will address the Russian/German course. Many of us interact with colleagues in German Studies on a regular basis: opportunities for collaboration in the classroom abound. We're looking for a chair and two more participants to present syllabi and describe their plans for and/or experience of team-teaching a course on some aspect of interaction between German and Russian culture. Curretnly we have three participants who will present German/Russian courses on the Battle of Stalingrad and Russian and German immigration. Please respond off list to sdement at binghamton.edu. And bring along your colleagues in German Studies! 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The case has a little "2" down in the corner, and the disc itself says "Made in the United Kingdom". The film is now streaming on Netflix, so I can easily watch it to my hearts content. I'd like to pass on this DVD to anyone who might want it in the UK, or anyone else who can play a Region 2 DVD. I'll pay postage, just send me your address off-list if you want it. First come, first served. Thanks! Andrea Gregovich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You > are most cordially welcome! > > Those who want to participate, please send me asap the title and > one-paragraph abstract of your paper, and also please check that you are a > current member of ASEEES and that your bio is posted there. > > Kind regards, > Elena > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eboudovs at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Fri Jan 10 13:25:44 2014 From: eboudovs at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Boudovskaia, Elena) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:25:44 +0000 Subject: Minority languages panel for ASEEES 2014 - second call In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Curt, Thank you very much for your answer and for volunteering to be chair! It turns out, we don't have enough papers (we have only two for now) and I am thinking of changing the panel into a roundtable. If we have to do so, will you be able to participate? Kind regards, Elena ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Curt Woolhiser [cwoolhis at GMAIL.COM] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 7:27 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Minority languages panel for ASEEES 2014 - second call Dear Elena, I'm already committed to presenting on another panel, but would be happy to serve as chair. Best regards, Curt Woolhiser Brandeis University On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Boudovskaia, Elena > wrote: Dear SEELANG-ovtsyl, we are putting together a panel on dialects and minority languages for ASEEES 2014. There is still space for one paper, and we need a chair. You are most cordially welcome! Those who want to participate, please send me asap the title and one-paragraph abstract of your paper, and also please check that you are a current member of ASEEES and that your bio is posted there. Kind regards, Elena ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mfrazier at SARAHLAWRENCE.EDU Fri Jan 10 13:47:10 2014 From: mfrazier at SARAHLAWRENCE.EDU (Melissa Frazier) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:47:10 -0500 Subject: Tolstaia panel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, I'm posting this on behalf of Hilde Hoogenboom: Panel "Sofia Andreevna Tolstaia: Lives, Works & Reevaluations" for the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 46th Annual Convention, November 20-23, 2014, in San Antonio, TX. In search of 2 panelists interested in presenting a paper on any aspect of her work. The panel proposal deadline is next Wednesday, January 15. Please contact Hilde.hoogenboom at asu.edu This panel presents ongoing reevaluations of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaia (1844-1919), begun in 2010, the anniversary year of Tolstoy's death. Publications include her biography in the series Lives of Remarkable People, Alexandra Popoff's Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography, her autobiography My Life in full in Russian for the first time and in English translation, which in 2011 was award the MLA's Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work, and two tales Tolstaia wrote in rebuttal to Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata. In 2011, Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya: Literary Works, in Russian and in English translation (528 pages) was published, and a review article appeared on the state of the field by Hugh McLean. A bibliography of her work includes her autobiography, diaries, memoirs, letters, tales, children's stories, and poetry, with over a dozen publications during her lifetime. Yet as a writer, she is even overlooked by dictionaries of women writers. Her contentious marriage and literary partnership with Tolstoy, recently recast in the film The Last Station (2009), where Tolstaia is played by Helen Mirren, have long overshadowed evaluations of her life and hindered the publication of her works. This panel reexamines Tolstaia's historical legacies. __________________________________ Melissa Frazier Russian Language and Literature Sarah Lawrence College 1 Mead Way Bronxville, NY 10708 914-395-2295 ________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sglebov at SMITH.EDU Fri Jan 10 18:20:49 2014 From: sglebov at SMITH.EDU (Sergey Glebov) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:20:49 +0000 Subject: Call for applications: NEH Summer Seminar The Ottoman and Russian Empires: Citizenship, Belonging and Difference in Washington DC, June 9-27, 2014 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We invite applications to a National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, *The Ottoman and Russian Empires: Citizenship, Belonging and Difference*, to be held at George Washington University, June 9-27, 2014. The seminar is open to fourteen NEH Summer Scholars, teachers of US undergraduate students, drawn from different disciplines and two full-time graduate students. Deadline for applications is March 4, 2014. For more information about the seminar and how to apply please consult: https://ottoman-russian-seminar.columbian.gwu.edu/ Co-directors Dina Rizk Khoury George Washington University Sergey Glebov Smith College/Amherst College ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Is there any need for Russian language skills in post-Soviet countries? We are looking for participants or discussants interested in these and other related questions. If you are teaching classes Russian for Specific Purposes, Business Russian, Russian for the Professions or similar classes addressing Russian for Special Purposes, you are welcome to join us as discussant or participant. We will be discussing curriculum development, study materials, class format, traditional and on-line teaching resources, teaching strategies for students with low-intermediate language skills. If you are interested, please respond directly to Irina Six at irinasix at ku.edu Please, provide some indication on precisely what you’d like to speak Thank you, Irina Six Dr. Irina Six, Lecturer, Academic Program Associate, Slavic Languages and Literatures The University of Kansas 2135 Wescoe, Lawrence, Ks 66045-7594 irinasix at ku.edu (785) 864-1230 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ehaber at SYR.EDU Fri Jan 10 20:42:34 2014 From: ehaber at SYR.EDU (Erika Haber) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 20:42:34 +0000 Subject: Folk Dancer around Ithaca area Message-ID: I’m posting on behalf of a colleague at Cornell University, who is not a member of our list. If you can help him out, please respond directly to him at this email: John M. Pagano" jmp372 at cornell.edu My fiancee and I have been looking for someone to help perform/teach Russian folk dancing at our wedding reception in May. We haven’t been able to find anyone in Syracuse. My fiancee is from Russia and thought this would be a good opportunity to enjoy her culture with family and friends. Do you know anyone who could help with either having a small performance, or help lead/teach the guests at the reception in some Russian dance? Or do you have any suggestions? Kind Regards, John Pagano jmp372 at cornell.edu ------------------------------------------------- John Pagano, PhD Cornell University Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics 417 Biotechnology Building Ithaca, NY 14850 508-826-8645 www.linkedin.com/in/johnmpagano/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From O.F.Boele at HUM.LEIDENUNIV.NL Fri Jan 10 21:27:42 2014 From: O.F.Boele at HUM.LEIDENUNIV.NL (Boele, O.F.) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:27:42 +0000 Subject: ASEEES: One more presenter for panel on 1993 and current protest movement Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, We are still looking for one more presenter who can speak about the significance (real or perceived) of October 1993 from a historical, cultural or sociological perspective. The topic is not as narrow as it may seem considering that the current protest movement is often perceived as fighting against essentially the same "clique" that "killed" Russian democracy twenty years ago (a parallel that is discussed ever more openly). A paper dealing with the latest demonstrations is therefore more than welcome, as long as it takes into the account the possible continuities between what happened back in 1993 and what is happening now. Please respond off list: o.f.boele at hum.leidenuniv.nl Cheers! Otto Boele Depratment of Russian and Eurasian Studies University of Leiden The Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zimberg.alexis at GMAIL.COM Fri Jan 10 21:59:26 2014 From: zimberg.alexis at GMAIL.COM (Alexis Zimberg) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:59:26 -0500 Subject: Fwd: [Shera] ASEEES 2014 panel on Conceptual Art in Eastern Europe Before and after the Wall In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear SEELANGS, Please excuse my cross-posting. This conceptual art panel seeks one additional presenter. Kindly, Alexis Zimberg ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ksenya Gurshtein Date: Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:47 PM Subject: [Shera] ASEEES 2014 panel on Conceptual Art in Eastern Europe Before and after the Wall To: shera at lists.oakland.edu Greetings, fellow SHERAns. I'm writing as one of the co-organizers of a panel for ASEEES 2014 which we want to use to consider broadly two issues: 1) What impact did the fall of the Berlin wall have on the work/practice(s) of conceptual artists in Eastern Europe? 2) What understandings of conceptual art in Eastern Europe did the fall of the wall make possible that were not possible before? In both cases, we are particularly keen to investigate how the artists' sense of the place they came from shaped them before the fall of the wall and changed after. We are in the somewhat awkward situation of currently having 4 people who are interested in presenting papers and are hoping to find 2 additional speakers (as well as one additional discussant and chair) in order to propose this topic as a two-panel bloc. The papers currently proposed are on the following topics: -- a paper arguing for shared conceptual preoccupations that existed across the region and were distinct to the region (in terms of aspirations, ways of working, and iconography) even when the artists didn't know of each other. The paper will make the case by comparing large-scale utopian projects by the artists Julius Koller, Tamas St. Auby, Stano Filko, and several others. -- a paper that will examine the post-Soviet work of artists associated with Moscow Conceptualism, thinking about the possible critical framings of the relationship of these artists' post-Soviet practices to their Soviet art -- A paper that will look at how Kabakov, Komar, and Melamid extended and reworked their investigations of artistic personae from the 1970s as they interacted with the international artworld during the 1980s and 1990s -- a paper that will consider conceptual and performance art in the former Yugoslav countries, where artists had relative freedom under socialism, but are in a more complicated situation now, after the breakup and the wars. -- a paper that will examine conceptual performance art in Moscow, specifically highlighting the work of Anton Litvin as it progressed from the Fall period (1990-1992) through the 1990s and into the Putin era. If you're interested in being on the panel, please write to me at ksenya at gmail.com Sincerely, Ksenya Gurshtein -- Ksenya Gurshtein Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow Department of Photographs National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Phone: (202) 789-3054 (work); (347) 567-8425 (home) Fax: (202) 789-4620 ksenya at gmail.com "Art is what makes life more interesting than art." --- Robert Filliou "What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end." --- Michel Foucault -- *Alexis Zimberg*Director *Democratic Transitions and Media Analysis*[image: Picture] Info at PostSovietGraffiti.com ww .PostSovietGraffiti.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Тарту, 2013 TEXTBOOKS TEXTS: RUSSIAN PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE OF THE 19th CENTURY AND THE POETIC CANON Summary The present monographic research of the group involved in the project "Russian Literary Canon Formation", financed by Estonian Science Foundation (grant 8471), and their supporters is devoted to the Russian literary canon and the pedagogical practice of the 19th century. The first part of the book contains chapters about the general history of school textbooks for reading and the story of the heritage of two authors (Vyazemsky and Fet) in them. The second part of the book presents chapters on various Russian poets (Batyushkov, Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Koltsov, Tyutchev, Maikov) whose poems found a firm place in the reading materials for schools. The chapters of the monograph give an idea of different aspects of the history of these texts and their reception. The monograph has two supplements. In the first there is a list of 108 textbooks and books of reading which are all included in the unique data base accessible in the Internet (www.ruthenia.ru/canon). The second supplement offers a list of the most popular authors and their texts included in the textbooks of the 19th century. The whole book is available at www.ruthenia.ru/canon as a single file and in chapters at http://ruthenia.ru/document/551821.html With best wishes, -- Alexey Vdovin / Алексей Вдовин, PhD доцент факультета филологии, Национальный исследовательский университет "Высшая школа экономики", Москва http://www.hse.ru/org/persons/61713299 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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This panel addresses various understandings of the relationship between cinephilia and creative production. Exploring cinephilia as an element in the reproduction of the cinema industry as well as other forms of audience creativity, such as the paraphernalia of fandom—from scrapbooks and collections to poetry and music videos—or the constructive role that audiences play in the development of the film industry, such as star systems and practices of film distribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Exploring cinephilia as an element in the reproduction of the cinema industry as well as other forms of audience creativity, such as the paraphernalia of fandom—from scrapbooks and collections to poetry and music videos—or the constructive role that audiences play in the development of the film industry, such as star systems and practices of film distribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From donna.orwin at UTORONTO.CA Sat Jan 11 20:51:30 2014 From: donna.orwin at UTORONTO.CA (Donna Orwin) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:51:30 +0000 Subject: Tolstoy Conference Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, In case you missed it the first time, I'm resending the announcement about the biannual Tolstoy conference this summer at Iasnaia Poliana. If you need a letter of invitation, you must send the required information by February 1. Best regards to all, Donna Orwin 11-15 августа 2014 года <Музей-усадьба Л. Н. Толстого <Ясная Поляна> проводит IX Международную научную конференцию <Лев Толстой и мировая литература>. На заседаниях конференции будут обсуждаться проблемы творчества писателя в контексте русской и мировой литературы, философии, религии. Конференция традиционно проходит на базе личной библиотеки Л. Н. Толстого, в которой хранятся книги на 39 иностранных языках. По итогам конференции издается сборник статей. Заявки на участие в конференции принимаются до 1июня 2014 года. Заявка включает информацию об участнике и тезисы выступления. ДЛЯ ПОЛУЧЕНИЯ ПРИГЛАШЕНИЯ ДЛЯ ВИЗЫ НЕОБХОДИМО ДО 1 ФЕВРАЛЯ 2014 ГОДА ПРИСЛАТЬ копию первой страницы паспорта, информацию о работе, месте жительства, адрес, телефон и город, в котором участник будет обращаться за визой. Заявки направлять Галине Алексеевой: gala at tgk.tolstoy.ru или galalexeeva at tula.net телефоны: (48751)76-1-41, (4872)38-67-10 On August 11-15, 2014, the State Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana will host the IX International Academic Conference Tolstoy and World Literature. We invite applications for papers on Tolstoy's work and art in the context of Russian and world literature, history, philosophy, and religion. Traditionally the Conference is organized with reference to Tolstoy's personal library with books and periodicals in 39 foreign languages. The proceedings of the Conference will be published. Accommodation, meals, cultural program and transportation from Moscow to Yasnaya Polyana and back are covered by the organizers. The deadline for applications is June 1st, 2014. The application includes the information about the participant and the abstract of the paper to be presented. THOSE WHO NEED AN INVITATION FOR A VISA MUST SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION BY FEBRUARY 1, 2014: a copy of the front passport page, home institution, address, telephone, and the place where the visa will be issued. Please forward your application to Galina Alekseeva: gala at tgk.tolstoy.ru or galalexeeva at tula.net Telephones: (48751)76-1-41, (4872)38-67-10 Those with questions can contact Donna Orwin at donna.orwin at utoronto.ca or Galina Alekseeva. ________________________________________ Donna Tussing Orwin, Professor and Chair Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Toronto President, Tolstoy Society Alumni Hall 421 121 St. Joseph St. Toronto, ON Canada M5S 1J4 tel 416-926-1300, ext. 3316 fax 416-926-2076 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From david.matthew.johnson at VANDERBILT.EDU Sun Jan 12 00:01:38 2014 From: david.matthew.johnson at VANDERBILT.EDU (Johnson, David Matthew) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:01:38 +0000 Subject: Teach English, Study Russian in Vladimir (The American Home) In-Reply-To: <285370CB273F414A930CA18752D6D1F316A1F1@ITS-HCWNEM104.ds.vanderbilt.edu> Message-ID: Dear Russian Language Professionals, Teachers, and Students, The American Home in Vladimir, Russia, is currently accepting applications for the American English and Intensive Russian Programs. 1) TEACH ENGLISH AT THE AMERICAN HOME IN VLADIMIR, RUSSIA � Application Deadline March 1, 2014 (www.serendipity-russia.com/teach.html) Program Benefits: small stipend, room and board with a Russian family, three hours per week of one-to-one Russian lessons, teacher training and lesson planning assistance, a pleasant, well-equipped, and organized teaching environment. Teacher obligations: Plan and teach up to five classes a week, hold office hours, present a brief lecture on any aspect of American culture, airfare to Moscow, visa fee, obtain TESOL certification. Experience Russia in a uniquely supportive atmosphere and accomplish something worthwhile in the process! Live in the truly Russian city of Vladimir, gain an understanding of provincial Russian culture, and improve your Russian language skills�while you learn to teach effectively and make a positive contribution to the community. Former teachers have found good positions in education, government, and business, both in Moscow and the United States, and been accepted to major graduate programs and law schools. 2) STUDY RUSSIAN AT THE AMERICAN HOME IN VLADIMIR, RUSSIA � Applications Accepted All Year (www.serendipity-russia.com/studyrussian.html) Program fee: one-to-one instruction group instruction (2-5+ people, 15-35% discount) Four weeks $3,897 $3,160 - 2,504 Six weeks $5,386 $4,463 - 3,509 Eight weeks $6,874 $5,765 - 4,514 Longer and shorter programs, including semester, summer, and fall, winter, and spring break programs are also possible. The benefits of the American Home's long-standing Intensive Russian Program are provided to both individual and group participants: + experienced faculty specializing in teaching Russian to non-native speakers; + program and schedule customized to the needs of each student or group of students; + study from one week to one year; + individual home-stay with a Russian family; + �Russian friend-conversation partner� program; + on-site administrative support; + well-equipped classrooms in a comfortable, home-like, atmosphere; + excursions to UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Vladimir, Suzdal and Bogoliubovo; + opportunities to meet and socialize with some of the more than 400 Russians participating in the American Home English Program and others; + opportunities to participate in a variety of activities�for example, volunteering at an orphanage Additional information about the teaching positions and the Intensive Russian Program are in the attached PDF flyers. I hope that we will have the privilege to work with you and your students in Vladimir! Sincerely, David Johnson Coordinator, Intensive Russian Program, American Home (Vladimir, Russia), www.serendipity-russia.com Lecturer in Russian, Vanderbilt University, david.matthew.johnson at vanderbilt.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THE AMERICAN HOME �What you've done is truly incredible. The excitement and positive energy that we witnessed was something that I'd rarely seen before. You deserve hearty congratulations!�(US Embassy Official, visiting the AH (2010)). "I'm a big supporter of the American Home in Vladimir; You have been doing such an amazing job for so many years!" (Professor Maia Solovieva, Faculty-in-Residence, Lecturer in Russian, Oberlin College). �I am extremely impressed by all that I have learned about the program: the educational opportunities..., the enthusiasm of the participants, the careful planning the American Home staff puts into each participant's experience. In the post-Soviet period there are many opportunities for Americans in Russia; I find the Serendipity program one of the most exciting� (Dr. Judith E. Kalb, Russian Program, University of South Carolina). �Vladimir offers a real opportunity to immerse yourself in Russian language and culture. Such immersion can be very frightening at first, and that is why...the American Home is such a plus. Here I am given the opportunity to work with Russians in an atmosphere that is very familiar, fostering, and comfortable. I would certainly recommend it to anyone who wants to experience Russia for what it really is...� (Matt Plischke, Miami University (Ohio)). �Not only have the staff at the American Home helped facilitate my travel, they also have offered kindness and hospitality. They are truly wonderful. I don't know what we would have done without them!� (Wendy Woith, PhD, RN). �The AH has a superb staff and an excellent reputation in the community� (Momar Ndiaye, Director, Office of International Studies, Illinois State University). �Galina and the [rest of the staff] made a profound impression with their efficiency and helpfulness. If only everyone we worked with on [our] trips was as reliable and efficient as [the AH] staff� (Diane Ignashev, Professor of Russian, Carlton College). �You have a fantastic program here. This is cooperation at its finest, and the skills and respect that you are giving your students is invaluable� (Patrick Buzzard, NASA, US Embassy, Moscow). �Vladimir and the American Home are ideally situated. Vladimir is a part of Russia's famed Golden Ring, and the American Home lies in the heart of downtown Vladimir. Here, you have all the advantages of Russian city life, but with all the charm of the nearby dachas. The American Home really is the meeting and mixing point for two cultures. The longer I stay, the more I discover how much Vladimir has to offer me� (Erika Boeckler, University of Wisconsin at Madison). �Every night when I come home from work I�m greeted enthusiastically by my 15-year-old host brother, Pasha. After dinner we drink tea, and Pasha usually launches into one of his favorite conversation topics and doesn�t stop for quite some time. Living in Vladimir...has provided a rich assortment of unique experiences that I know I wouldn�t have encountered elsewhere� (Joanna Greenlee, Gordon College, Wenham, MA). �Thanks to the people who have worked so hard and who remain committed to its success, the reputation that the American Home has earned with the people of Vladimir has to represent one of the most successful relationships any American organization has developed anywhere in Russia.� �Karen Hasara, former state legislator and former mayor of Springfield, Illinois �The American Home is easily the single most influential American presence in [Russia] outside Moscow and St. Petersburg.� (Dr. Nils H. Wessel, Professor of Government, Emeritus, US Coast Guard Academy) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pkupfer at SMU.EDU Sun Jan 12 19:50:17 2014 From: pkupfer at SMU.EDU (Peter Kupfer) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:50:17 -0600 Subject: ASEEES 2014: roundtable on film music/sound In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Call for Roundtable Participants Title: "Conceptualizing Sound/Music in Soviet and post-Soviet Cinema" We seek a chair and up to three participants for a roundtable on questions of sound and/or music in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema. We construe this idea widely, topics can include close readings of individual films/sequences, sweeping historical overviews, or focus on methodologies and perhaps even on conflicting interpretations of sound/music in particular films/sequences. We are interested foremost in fostering a lively discussion on what may (or may not) be unique to Soviet and post-Soviet cinema when it comes to questions of sound/music. If you are interested, please send a short description of your potential contribution directly to pkupfer at smu.edu and ann28 at pitt.edu. Best, Peter Kupfer Anna Nisnevich -- Peter Kupfer Assistant Professor of Music History Division of Music Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University PO Box 750356 Dallas, TX 75275 214-768-3687 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From e.gapova at GMAIL.COM Sun Jan 12 20:32:43 2014 From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:32:43 -0500 Subject: ASEEES 2014: roundtable on film music/sound In-Reply-To: <52D2F1F9.9010803@smu.edu> Message-ID: Peter, do you mind if I re-post this message on the Facebook page for The Bridge-MOCT : https://www.facebook.com/TheBridgeMoct It will reach a bigger audience in the region, and some of these people might, actually, go to San Antonio. Elena Gapova P.S. If anyone is interested in posting a similar plea on that page, please, contact us at journalmoct at gmail.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Kupfer Date: 2014/1/12 Subject: [SEELANGS] ASEEES 2014: roundtable on film music/sound To: SEELANGS at listserv.ua.edu Call for Roundtable Participants Title: "Conceptualizing Sound/Music in Soviet and post-Soviet Cinema" We seek a chair and up to three participants for a roundtable on questions of sound and/or music in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema. We construe this idea widely, topics can include close readings of individual films/sequences, sweeping historical overviews, or focus on methodologies and perhaps even on conflicting interpretations of sound/music in particular films/sequences. We are interested foremost in fostering a lively discussion on what may (or may not) be unique to Soviet and post-Soviet cinema when it comes to questions of sound/music. If you are interested, please send a short description of your potential contribution directly to pkupfer at smu.edu and ann28 at pitt.edu. Best, Peter Kupfer Anna Nisnevich -- Peter Kupfer Assistant Professor of Music History Division of Music Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University PO Box 750356 Dallas, TX 75275 214-768-3687 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Chair: Rex Wade, George Mason University *Presenters *Jason Strudler, Vanderbilt: On the figure of zero in Kandinsky's prose poetry in the context of Russian Futurism and the Blue Rider group Cate Reilly, Princeton: On criminality and pathology in Rudolph Leonhard's "Outsiders of Society" series and Ilya Zdanevich's prose Geoff Cebula, Princeton: On the late Russian avant-garde group OBERIU's response to Expressionism, focusing on the case of Alexander Vvedensky and Franz Werfel Sincerely, Geoff Cebula ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dshembel at YAHOO.COM Sun Jan 12 20:34:41 2014 From: dshembel at YAHOO.COM (Daria Shembel) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:34:41 -0600 Subject: 2014 ASEEES panel on the Russian cinema of the 90s Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, we are putting together a panel on the cinema of the 90s. So far we have two speakers, and looking for one more speaker, chair, and a discussant (it could be a roundtable too). Here is a brief description: The Russian Cinema of the 1990s demands exhumation and re-evaluation. This was an era of the birth of a new cinematic language, of new production structures and unregulated markets. The period appeared to signal the death of a national cinema with low audience figures and an absence of ideological structures or a meaningful commercial imperative. It was a time that saw an emergence of co-productions, the first appearance of sequels, the uncensored re-evaluations of the glorious past and an out-of-control arthouse. The roundtable explores the various trends of 1990s cinema and its impact on the present. Daria Shembel will speak on the experimental cinema of the 90s (Yevgeny Yufit, among others) Gregory Dolgopolov will speak on the serialized films of the 90s Please contact us off-list gregd at unsw.edu.au dshembel at yahoo.com Thank you very much!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tsmorodi at MIDDLEBURY.EDU Mon Jan 13 05:40:21 2014 From: tsmorodi at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Smorodinska, Tatiana E.) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:40:21 +0000 Subject: discussant needed Message-ID: Dear colleagues, We are looking for a discussant for a panel on dance for the 2014 ASEEES. The panel will examine how professional dance is utilized to build a nation and create national identity. The three papers are: - Lezginka and the Rebirth of the National Professional Folk Dance ensembles in Post-Soviet Russia - Nationhood and the Dances of the Russian National Opera: Sources and Legacies * Berezka’s Mesmerizing Step Please, reply off the list. Tatiana Smorodinska Middlebury College Tsmorodi at middlebury.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From KIH12 at PITT.EDU Mon Jan 13 06:48:57 2014 From: KIH12 at PITT.EDU (Kiun Hwang) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:48:57 -0500 Subject: ASEEES 2014 panel on Museums and St. Petersburg Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, Emily Ewers and Kiun Hwang are seeking a third panelist, a discussant and chair for our panel on museums and Saint Petersburg in San Antonio at ASEEES. I am trying to work on a project that examines post-Soviet Saint Petersburg as a set of museumified spaces. My paper will focus on contemporary films like Kokoko, Dukhless, and Russian Ark, where museums play pivotal roles in description of Saint Petersburg or chacterization of their heroes. Please respond directly to kih12 at pitt.edu Kiun Hwang Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Pittsburgh kih12 at pitt.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lypark at PITT.EDU Mon Jan 13 15:15:08 2014 From: lypark at PITT.EDU (Park, Lynda) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:15:08 -0500 Subject: Still looking for panelist for ASEEES 2014 Convention? Check the ASEEES list Message-ID: ASEEES 46th Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 20-23, 2014 http://www.aseees.org/convention.html The deadline for panel and roundtable proposals is January 15, 2014: http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp.html Are you still looking for a panelist for your proposal? Check our panel/paper wanted board list. The last column also indicates those willing to volunteer to serve as chair or discussant: http://goo.gl/jSP21i If you are a panel/roundtable organizer, you MUST be a current ASEEES member at the time of the submission: http://www.aseees.org/membership/membershipindividual.html And please review the general rules for convention participants: http://www.aseees.org/convention/cfp.html#rules For more information or assistance, please contact Wendy Walker, convention coordinator, at wwalker at pitt.edu Lynda Park, Executive Director Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 203C Bellefield Hall | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 USA +1 (412) 648-9788 (direct), +1 (412) 648-9911 (main) +1 (412) 648-9815 (fax) www.aseees.org Find us on Facebook | Join us on LinkedIn | Follow us on Twitter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Best regards, Pavel Khazanov *Russia, in Theory* * A graduate conference presented byThe Program in Comparative Literature and Theory, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Slavics Without Borders, a Graduate Student Colloquium* *Friday, March 7, 2014University of Pennsylvania* *Keynote Speaker: Boris Groys (NYU, SHG Karlsruhe, EGS)* The “end of history” in 1991 was, in many ways, a Russian affair. Seemingly overnight, Russia was transformed from "the most progressive society on earth" into the defeated arch-nemesis of the free world, thus ushering in a new era of post-history—quite an accomplishment for a country that supposedly entered “world history” only in the eighteenth century. Of course, Fukuyama’s cosmic, geopolitical vision was hardly the first time that Russia has been cast in such a grandiose role. Since Peter the Great’s heavy-handed transformation of “medieval” Rus’ into a Western-styled Empire, Russia has presented a tempting playground for theorizing and applying European conceptions of history, enlightenment and progress. Over the course of the nineteenth century, Russian intellectuals, influenced by German Idealist philosophy of history, fought over the place of the “Russian Idea” in the civilizational economy of the world. In the twentieth century, generations of European thinkers struggled to understand the meaning of the Soviet experiment. Finally, in our ostensibly post-historical twenty-first century, the experience of post-socialist Russia continues to pose meaningful questions for the ideologues of the Western political, economic and social establishment, as well as for those who wish to resist their hegemony. Our conference aims to examine and complicate the idea of “Russia” and its role in both local and global philosophical discourse. What place does Russia hold in the imaginations of Western philosophers, from Hegel and Marx to Žižek and Badiou, and how did it come to do so? What meaning does standing with or apart from the West hold among ideologues of the so-called “Russian Idea,” from Gogol’ to Limonov? Finally, what does Russian philosophy, art and political practice, from Chaadaev to Podoroga, from Karamzin to Pussy Riot, from Catherine to Lenin, to Surkov— have to contribute to our understanding of the past, the present and the future states of world history and its discontents? We are interested in submissions from all humanitarian disciplines, including, but not limited to philosophy and critical theory, literature, history, anthropology, political science, culture and media studies, which may in some way tackle the following general topics: —Europe or Asia? Empire or Periphery? Russia’s place in the geopolitical and social imaginary —The place of Russia in religious, mystical and eschatological thought —What is to be done? Russia and the idea of radical politics —Russia and the theoretical discourse of modernity & post-modernity —Shklovsky, Kojève, Jakobson: the Russian turn in continental philosophy and aesthetics —Mimesis, montage and the Kino-Eye: the impact of Soviet film theory —Dreamworld, phantasm and catastrophe: Russia in the utopian and dystopian imagination —The Russian poet as a prophet? The place of Russia in the world literary canon —To reach and overtake decaying capitalism? The Soviet experiment— theory, reality and memory wars —Tsarism, capitalism and socialism with a human face: Russia’s place in the discourse of the human —“Three worlds” theory: the contest of socialism and the West across the globe —Everything was forever, until it was no more: making sense of post-Soviet Russia *Please send your 300 word abstracts in the body of an email with “Russia, in Theory submission, LASTNAME” in the title to Pavel Khazanov and Alex Moshkin at slavicswithoutborders at gmail.com , by ***January 19, 2014 (NEW DEADLINE)*** Submissions should include the paper title, author’s name, affiliation, and email address. * ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Best, Sidney Dement, PhD Assistant Professor of Russian German and Russian Studies Binghamton University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From msn4eq at VIRGINIA.EDU Mon Jan 13 18:28:58 2014 From: msn4eq at VIRGINIA.EDU (Madelyn Stuart) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:28:58 -0500 Subject: CFP: UVa Slavic Forum, April 5, 2014 Message-ID: The Fifth Annual UVA Slavic Forum Transforming Despair into Creation: Artistic Pathology, Coping Mechanisms, and the Enduring Spirit of the Imagination. Call for Papers The Society of Graduate Students at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Slavic Forum to be held in the Jefferson Scholars Building in Charlottesville, VA on Saturday April 5th, 2014. The focus of this year’s forum is the role of psychiatric conditions or madness in literature, as well as its relationship to the act of literary creation. For this forum, we welcome papers dealing with issues regarding the representation of mental illness and madness in literature, and the role of art as a cathartic mechanism for those suffering from psychological anguish. How have some authors managed to use writing to offer solutions to their articulated malaise? What works deal with an “overcoming” of psychological suffering through the act of artistic creation? How is mental illness depicted in Russian and other world literatures? Explorations of these questions and others would be most welcome at the forum. While the theme of the forum is intended to be broad, it particularly invites papers on the following subjects: - Particular authors’ psychological relationships to writing - Depiction of madness or mental illness in literature - The relationship between the individual and society - Societal malaise and artistic depiction of the *Zeitgeist* - The influence of authors’ individual psychologies in their art - Work drawing on the philosophy of Foucault, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and other prominent thinkers. - Comparative studies drawing from English, French, German, and other national literatures - Artistic creation as a means for catharsis Presentations should be 20 minutes or fewer in length. Please submit one-page abstracts as attachments to SlavicForum at virginia.edu before March 3rd. 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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:41:55 +0000 Subject: SEEFA: CFP for ASEEES 2014 In-Reply-To: <2658BB968B651E4582949DD856321AEF11189D86@Rowdy.baylor.edu> Message-ID: I am looking for 2 papers to complete panels sponsored by SEEFA: 1 paper that would fit into a "Folklore and New Archival Finds" panel and 1 paper that would fit into a "New directions in Folklore since 1989" panel Please see the message below for more information. If you are interested, please send a proposal as soon as possible to Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu All the best, Adrienne Adrienne M. Harris, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Russian Modern Languages and Cultures Baylor University One Bear Place #97391 Waco, TX 76798-7391 (254) 644-5718 Adrienne_Harris at baylor.edu From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Harris, Adrienne M. Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 10:47 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] SEEFA: CFP for ASEEES 2014 The Slavic and East European Folklore Association [SEEFA], an ASEEES affiliate, issues an annual call for papers for the ASEEES Conference, to be held in San Antonio, Texas, 20-23 November 2014. Participation in our panels does not require SEEFA membership. We welcome participation not only from folklorists, but from specialists representing all fields of study, including literature, anthropology, and history. We are calling for proposals related to ASEEES's 2014 theme of "25 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Historical Legacies and New Beginnings." Submissions may broadly address the historical legacies of folklore or new initiatives in folkloristics, or, for that matter, any other topic of interest to the profile of SEEFA. We hope to organize at least two related panels, depending on the number of submissions. We particularly welcome proposals on "Folklore and New Archival Finds" and "Folklore 25 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall." The ASEEES deadline for submission of panels is 15 January 2014. SEEFA will accept proposals until 5:00 CST on 10 January 2014. If you would like to propose a paper for a SEEFA-sponsored panel, please: - electronically send a title and a 250-word abstract of your proposed paper by January 9 to me, Prof. Adrienne Harris, Baylor University, at >. - update your ASEEES c.v. form (online at http://www.aseees.org/); If you are willing to chair or to be a discussant for one of the panels, please also let me know by 10 January. International scholars do not need to be a member of ASEEES to present at the annual conference. Sincerely, 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From AnemoneA at NEWSCHOOL.EDU Mon Jan 13 22:25:30 2014 From: AnemoneA at NEWSCHOOL.EDU (Anthony Anemone) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:25:30 -0500 Subject: Kharms's notebooks in English Message-ID: *“I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary” The Notebooks, Diaries and Letters of Daniil Kharms*. selected, translated & edited by Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto, is now available in paperback at 30% off the list price of $35 by emailing the the promotional code "Kharms30" at sales at academicstudiespress.com. The offer also comes with free shiping! With a host of newly translated materials, Anemone and Scotto offer a unique window into the writing process and impassioned personal musings of Daniil Kharms. Posthumously recognized as one of the leading figures of the Soviet Avant-Garde and a master of the minimalist absurd, Kharms displayed his fervent artistic energy even in his diaries and letters. The book intersperses poems and prose miniatures with artfully selected glimpses into Kharms’s tumultuous personal life. >From reviews: “Gives the best sense of any book in English of Kharms both within his context and as a deeply fascinating individual whose work can’t be explained away by the circumstances of its creation. . . . A huge addition to the Kharms canon in English. . . . Dozens of entries translated here for the first time that are just as great, as weird and delightful and mysterious, as his better-known works.” —Chris Cumming, review on BOMBlog, August 1, 2013 “[Kharms’s notebooks] are generously sampled and gracefully translated by Anemone (The New School) and Scotto (Mount Holyoke College). . . . Not only have they succeeded in producing a vivid, often poignant portrait of Kharms, they offer a host of new texts in English—many as funny, violent, and profoundly existential as any seen before. . . . Highly recommended.” —M. Kasper (emeritus, Amherst College) in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, August 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amelia.glaser at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 14 03:02:13 2014 From: amelia.glaser at GMAIL.COM (Amelia Glaser) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:02:13 -0800 Subject: ASEEES 2014 Round Table on Comintern Modernism Message-ID: Greetings, SEELANGers, We still have a couple of slots open on a roundtable devoted to Comintern Modernism(s) for next year's ASEEES conference in San Antonio. Please write to Amelia Glaser at amglaser at ucsd.edu off-list if you are interested in taking part. Below is a brief description. Sincerely, Amelia Glaser Comintern Modernism(s) This panel focuses on the convergence of revolutionary politics and modernist literature—in particular the emergence of the Soviet Union during the interwar years as a center of world letters. As Katerina Clark and others have recently shown, the Communist International (Comintern), Russian avant-garde, and socialist realism resonated around the globe. The Soviet Union attracted such canonical literary figures as Walter Benjamin, Langston Hughes, Andre Malraux, and Lu Xun. This roundtable will include presentations on the resonance of the Comintern within multiple national literary traditions, and will explore further the Soviet Union as a new, non-Western, anti-capitalist center of global modernism. We aim to foster a discussion that will assess the usefulness of viewing literary history, party politics, and ethnic particularism as mutually influential forces in the years leading up to World War Two. 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We are looking for a chair and discussant interested in language policy issues, the impact of internationalization and globalization on language and education policies, or the sociology of language and education. Here is a description of our panel: Language issues, policies and struggles in post-Soviet contexts The years after the collapse of the Soviet Union brought forth a fragmentation of social positions and a shift in perspectives on foreign, national, and ethnic languages. This panel brings together researchers to examine issues in foreign-language teacher education, national language policies, ethnic language use, and language change, to trace shifts in ideological orientations towards linguistic issues, and to analyze how transformations in linguistic values and beliefs reflect and affect wider social and structural changes in post-Soviet contexts. Please respond offlist to Helen Aydarova at helen.aydarova at gmail.com. 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Ballou) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:28:34 -0500 Subject: our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas Message-ID: Dear all, I have to defend my small but productive Russian program (see below) to the school board this Thursday. I have a list of reasons as to why learning Russian is a great thing to do (not sure if this is the place to post it for those who'd willing to help to review), but am looking for more ideas... Thank you! Yuliya Ballou Russian and German Teacher Springfield High School Springfield, Vermont ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU Tue Jan 14 18:46:53 2014 From: mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Katz, Michael R.) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:46:53 +0000 Subject: our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Yuliya: I missed the show, but I know that On Point (on VPR) devoted an hour yesterday to the importance of foreign language education:" http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/01/13/foreign-languages-chinese-economy I hope this helps. Michael Katz Middlebury College From: "Yuliya I. Ballou" > Reply-To: "SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list" > Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:28 PM To: "SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU" > Subject: [SEELANGS] our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas Dear all, I have to defend my small but productive Russian program (see below) to the school board this Thursday. I have a list of reasons as to why learning Russian is a great thing to do (not sure if this is the place to post it for those who'd willing to help to review), but am looking for more ideas... Thank you! Yuliya Ballou Russian and German Teacher Springfield High School Springfield, Vermont ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eroby at FRIENDSBALT.ORG Tue Jan 14 19:16:08 2014 From: eroby at FRIENDSBALT.ORG (Roby, Lee) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:16:08 -0500 Subject: our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas Message-ID: Hi Yuliya, I can't read your description of what you already have so this suggestion might be repetitive, but when I had to do this, I emphasized the "critical need" status of Russian (thus useful language), and the fact that there are few highschool programs out there (thus each one is more important). I outlined opportunities for students in connection with this (NSLI-Y scholarships) and continuing opportunities into college. I wrote up a document that I passed on. Much of it is specific to my school and program, but I will be happy to pass it along if you send your personal email. Lee ________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Yuliya I. Ballou Sent: Tue 1/14/2014 1:28 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas Dear all, I have to defend my small but productive Russian program (see below) to the school board this Thursday. I have a list of reasons as to why learning Russian is a great thing to do (not sure if this is the place to post it for those who'd willing to help to review), but am looking for more ideas... Thank you! Yuliya Ballou Russian and German Teacher Springfield High School Springfield, Vermont ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From rifkin at TCNJ.EDU Tue Jan 14 19:33:24 2014 From: rifkin at TCNJ.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:33:24 -0500 Subject: our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Yuliya: If your graduates go on to good or great colleges, you might want to talk about how the study of Russian shows up on a HS transcript as an impressive / rigorous / challenging course and that colleges like to see that in students' records. If your students have gone on to study Russian at some of these other colleges, you can talk about how they were placed into 2nd or even 3rd year Russian as evidence of your success. If any of your former students can write you testimonials of the impact of the study of Russian at high school on their college careers or beyond that would be helpful. Parents of current or former students who could talk about the impact of the study of Russian on their kids would be helpful. Good luck and best wishes, Ben Rifkin The College of New Jersey On Jan 14, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Yuliya I. Ballou wrote: > Dear all, > > I have to defend my small but productive Russian program (see below) to the school board this Thursday. I have a list of reasons as to why learning Russian is a great thing to do (not sure if this is the place to post it for those who'd willing to help to review), but am looking for more ideas... > Thank you! > > Yuliya Ballou > > Russian and German Teacher > Springfield High School > Springfield, Vermont > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kalbouss at MAC.COM Tue Jan 14 19:37:44 2014 From: kalbouss at MAC.COM (George Kalbouss) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:37:44 -0500 Subject: our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas In-Reply-To: <7E772013A54B1A4BB3F6981F0CEE8DB50B6382AC@post2003.friendsbalt.org> Message-ID: Hi Yulia, Our country needs more pioneers such as yourself! Having had Russian in a high school is a plus in college admissions, it's a great topic for a college admissions interview as well as the required essay. Also, with advanced placement in Russian, the student will be eligible earlier for study abroad. George Kalbouss Assoc. Prof (Emeritus) Ohio State University On Jan 14, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Roby, Lee wrote: > Hi Yuliya, > > I can't read your description of what you already have so this suggestion might be repetitive, but when I had to do this, I emphasized the "critical need" status of Russian (thus useful language), and the fact that there are few highschool programs out there (thus each one is more important). I outlined opportunities for students in connection with this (NSLI-Y scholarships) and continuing opportunities into college. I wrote up a document that I passed on. Much of it is specific to my school and program, but I will be happy to pass it along if you send your personal email. > > Lee > > ________________________________ > > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Yuliya I. Ballou > Sent: Tue 1/14/2014 1:28 PM > To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [SEELANGS] our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas > > > Dear all, > > I have to defend my small but productive Russian program (see below) to the school board this Thursday. I have a list of reasons as to why learning Russian is a great thing to do (not sure if this is the place to post it for those who'd willing to help to review), but am looking for more ideas... > Thank you! > > Yuliya Ballou > > Russian and German Teacher > Springfield High School > Springfield, Vermont > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jschill at AMERICAN.EDU Tue Jan 14 15:56:14 2014 From: jschill at AMERICAN.EDU (John Schillinger) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:56:14 -0500 Subject: 2014 Summer Slavic & E. Euro Programs Listing Message-ID: Dear Colleagues- As we mark CCPCR's 30th year of collecting and sharing data, just a note to let you know that the list of STATESIDE Summer 2014 programs in Russian, Slavic, and other East European languages is now being posted on the CCPCR Summer Program website. A direct link to the summer program page is at: http://www1.american.edu/research/CCPCR/Summer%20programs.htm Please check this program page for the format we use to display your information, and send your summer info directly to our e-mail address: ccpcr at american.edu We look forward to receiving your updated entry for this summer! PLEASE NOTE: You can check CCPCR's list of fall 2013 enrollments at over 80 colleges and universities by clicking on this link: http://www1.american.edu/research/CCPCR/COLLEGEENROLL.htm John Schillinger, Emeritus Prof. of Russian American University, Washington, DC Chair, CCPCR Committee on College and Pre-College Russian e-mail: ccpcr at american.edu website: http://www1.american.edu/research/CCPCR/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cwoolhis at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 14 20:22:26 2014 From: cwoolhis at GMAIL.COM (Curt Woolhiser) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:22:26 -0500 Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?=93Our_Mickiewicz=94_?=in contemporary Belarus Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, Those of you with an interest in Polish-East Slavic literary and cultural relations might be interested in this report (in Russian) from Belarusian TV about the upcoming premiere of a Belarusian-language stage adaptation of Mickiewicz's “Pan Tadeusz” at the Janka Kupala Theatre in Minsk. Mickiewicz, born and raised in the Nowogródek (Navahrudak) region in what is today west central Belarus, is increasingly being portrayed as part of the Belarusian literary canon, despite the fact that he wrote in Polish. Note that at the end of the report, the journalist refers to “OUR Mickiewicz” and quotes the opening lines of “Pan Tadeusz” in Belarusian! (“Litva! Ty, jak zdarouje u nas, maja Ajchyna!”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TCTwE8RMGQ There has recently been something a Mickiewicz boom in Belarus, as 2012 saw the premiere of Mickiewicz’s “Dziady” in Belarusian (a Belarusian-Lithuanian co-production): http://novychas.info/kultura/dziady_spiektaklj_jaki_cakali/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bIoGgIG_eA The increased attention to Mickiewicz in Belarus is clearly part of a broader trend. Whereas previously it was only the pro-European, anti-Lukashenko opposition that looked to the legacy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a source of historical legitimacy, now even the Lukashenko regime has begun to integrate the GDL into its narrative of Belarusian identity. This is reflected, for example, in the ambitious program of restoring the castles and palaces of the Radziwills, Sapiehas and other magnate families of the Grand Duchy. This is a report from Belarusian state TV (in Russian) about the castles of Belarus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOVowKm7i90). Not surprisingly, the fact that the regime has begun to cultivate the memory of Belarus’ role in the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is making some commentators in Lithuania nervous (article in Russian from the Lithuanian internet news portal Delfi): http://ru.delfi.lt/vkl/history/bumblauskas-poka-litva-dumaet-vitis-mozhet-vernut-belarus.d?id=59429949 The rise of “Litvinism” in contemporary Belarus has also been noticed by Russian nationalists, who generally regard Belarus as part of Russia's irrendenta: http://www.regnum.ru/news/1554354.html Curt Woolhiser ============================= Curt F. Woolhiser German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature Brandeis University 415 South Street MS-024 Waltham, MA 02454 USA Tel. 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Apparently, the people in charge of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) website, healthcare.gov, have put up a Spanglish-language version that is incomprehensible to Spanish speakers. Here's are several links to the AP wire story, which doubtless has appeared in many newspapers all over the country: -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher pbg translations, inc. "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals" http://pbg-translations.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From v.carvalhoferreira at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Tue Jan 14 20:31:15 2014 From: v.carvalhoferreira at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Vera Ferreira) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:31:15 +0000 Subject: Coding for Language Communities (Summer school, Minde /Portugal) Message-ID: Please pass on to interested parties.* CID**LeS Summer School: **CODING FOR LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES (CLC 2014)* *Date and venue**:* August 11th - 15th | The Summer School will take place within the "Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros" in or near Minde, Portugal. *Website:* http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-coding-for-language-communities-2014/ *About the Summer School* There are currently around 7.000 languages spoken all over the world - but each month a language dies. In general we see a strong tendency to learn and use only the major languages such as English, German, French, etc., especially in electronic communication. This is partly caused by the lack of hardware (e.g. keyboards) and software (for transliteration, text completion, etc.) for under-resourced languages, which constrain the natural usage of people's own language in many tasks. The Summer School "Coding for Language Communities" is about ongoing research and development to turn that process in exactly the other direction: every successful technology can also be used to teach, revitalize and therefore boost the use of regional languages. This technology should also assist the renewal of local languages and cultures by allowing people to actively teach, learn, extend, and spread their language in their community. Our aim is to give people the ability to use their mother tongue in everyday electronic communication, no matter where they are or what language they speak. What will we do? The Summer School "Coding for Language Communites" aims to bring together three groups: - Speakers of languages that are currently not supported by language technologies and that want to use their language on electronic devices; - Students of linguistics and language-related disciplines interested in learning about software development; - Software developers and students of computational sciences that are interested in supporting under-resourced languages by technological means. During an exciting and exhausting week we will work together to develop new software and tools for under-resourced languages. We will create five interdisciplinary teams to tackle real-world problems in ongoing or new open source projects. Each team will consist of five members, with at least one participant of each of the groups mentioned above. Each team will have an expert as mentor to guide and supervise the progress, in addition to three senior software developers that will be available to support all the teams in the implementation of the solution. At the end of the week there will be prizes for the most creative solutions. Each day we start with a theoretical talk by one of the mentors, which complements the practical experience of developing language technologies as a team within an open source project. This summer school is the first part of a larger event. There will be a second summer school the week after this one about Community-driven Language Documentation (http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/). *Mentors* Kevin Scannell Bruce Birch Dorothee Beermann Peter Bouda other mentors to be announced *Application* Deadline for application is *May 31st, 2014*. The number of participants is limited to 25. Admission will be based on the track record and a motivational statement that is part of the application form. Apply here: http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/apply/ *Costs* The summer school costs 250 Euros for the whole week. The fee includes summer school materials, all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and a place to sleep. We plan to provide scholarships for students to participate in the summer school. If possible, the scholarship will cover the fee of 250 Euros and travel costs up to 1.000 Euros. Describe in the application form why you need a scholarship. *Organizing team* Vera Ferreira Peter Bouda Rita Pedro Felix Rau Kevin Scannell Dorothee Beermann Eva Schinzel For more information please contact clc2014 at cidles.eu. -- Vera Ferreira Centro Interdisciplinar de Documentação Linguística e Social / Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation Rua do Remexido, Loja 15 2395-174 Minde Portugal Tel.: +351249849123 Email:vferreira at cidles.eu Web:http://www.cidles.eu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It will bring together speakers of endangered languages, local language workers, students and researchers of linguistics and related fields. The summer school is intended to be a space for engagement and exchange between community members, language workers and students and provide an environment for learning about each other's interests and requirements. The curriculum is developed to be in accordance with the needs and interests of the speech communities. It aims at empowering the speech communities to participate in the definition and implementation of research projects and sensitise students of linguistic for the needs of the communities. Thus, the major goal of this summer school is to introduce the participants into the theory and methods of language documentation. The goal is to acquire the knowledge and competence to conduct one's own documentation projects with regard to endangered language. This summer school is part of a larger event. The week before CDLD 2014 there will be another one-week summer school on Coding for Language Communities (http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-coding-for-language-communities-2014/). *Topics of lectures and courses* Audio and video recording & processing Annotations (transcription, translation, GRAID) Lexicography Ethnobotany Ethnomusicology Language maintenance and revitalization CDLD 2014 will focus on the theory, methods and techniques of language documentation and revitalization and on their interdisciplinary character. Each day will consist of two learning sessions in the morning: one general lecture and a course lecture (seminar-like unit) that will introduce the participants to the course tutorials (practice unit) which will take place in the afternoon. *Invited lecturers* Ben Levine (Speaking Place, USA) Dorothee Beermann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim) Julia Schulz (Speaking Place, USA) Ulrike Mosel (University of Kiel) /other lecturers to be announced/ *Application* Participants have to apply by filling out the application form providing information on their background and interest in the area of language documentation and revitalization. Deadline for application is *May 31st, 2014*. The number of participants is limited to 30. Admission will be based on the track record and a motivational statement that are part of the application form. Apply here: http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/apply/ *Costs* The summer school costs 250 Euros for the whole week. The fee includes summer school materials, all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and a place to sleep. We plan to provide scholarships for students to participate in the summer school. If possible, the scholarship will cover the fee of 250 Euros and travel costs up to 1.000 Euros. Describe in the application form why you need a scholarship. *Organizing team* Vera Ferreira Peter Bouda Rita Pedro Felix Rau Ingrid Scholz For more information, please contact cdld2014 at cidles.eu. -- Vera Ferreira Centro Interdisciplinar de Documentação Linguística e Social / Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation Rua do Remexido, Loja 15 2395-174 Minde Portugal Tel.: +351249849123 Email:vferreira at cidles.eu Web:http://www.cidles.eu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Of that total, 420, 163 say that they speak English "less than very well." if you live in an area with many of these speakers, knowing Russian can be useful even in the U.S. Russian is the 11th most spoken non-English language/language group in the U.S. Good luck, Susie Susan Bauckus UCLA Center for World Languages www.international.ucla.edu Heritage Language Journal www.heritagelanguages.org Language Materials Project www.lmp.ucla.edu LA Language World www.lalamag.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From amoshkin at SAS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jan 14 20:23:11 2014 From: amoshkin at SAS.UPENN.EDU (Alex Moshkin) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:23:11 -0600 Subject: Seeking Panelist for ASEEES 2014: Sociology of Literature Message-ID: Dear Slavists, We are putting together a panel on the topic of Sociology of Literature, and are seeking one more participant who will present a paper on this topic. This is a theory-heavy panel that focuses on socio-cultural theories of Pierre Bourdieu in the context of Slavic Studies. We are looking for both advanced graduate students and faculty members in various stages. Title: Sociological Methods: Institutional Construction of Literature across Time Abstract: This panel revisits the idea of “sociology of literature” and examines its relevance to the field of Russian and russophone literature. Nearly a quarter century after it's heyday, Pierre Bourdieu’s method of viewing cultural works within their orbits of production, consumption and circulation, i.e. as products of an “immense enterprise of symbolic alchemy,” appears to be on the margins of scholarly discourse. This panel encourages a rethinking of sociological approaches to literature informed by critical engagement with cultural practices from the rise of modernism to the post-Soviet era. Panelists will present how sociological approaches inform their observations of diverse institutions and cultural sites, and how their experience has shaped their particular methodological framework. Please send a short abstract of your paper to amoshkin at sas.upenn.edu, including paper title, author’s name, affiliation, and email address. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From John.Pendergast at USMA.EDU Tue Jan 14 20:17:04 2014 From: John.Pendergast at USMA.EDU (Pendergast, John J CIV USA USMA) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:17:04 -0500 Subject: our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Yuliya- Given that you've posted this on the AATSEEL bulletin board, I suspect this suggestion may be superfluous, but AATSEEL and ACTR have a joint web page with interesting ideas on why one should study Russian: http://modules.russnet.org/why/ -John Pendergast -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Yuliya I. Ballou Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:29 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas Dear all, I have to defend my small but productive Russian program (see below) to the school board this Thursday. I have a list of reasons as to why learning Russian is a great thing to do (not sure if this is the place to post it for those who'd willing to help to review), but am looking for more ideas... Thank you! Yuliya Ballou Russian and German Teacher Springfield High School Springfield, Vermont ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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The National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the National Resource Center East Asia (NRCEA) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa are pleased to announce our… *LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES SUMMER INSTITUTE* July 7-11, 2014 University of Hawai’i at Manoa Honolulu, HI Language for specific purposes (LSP) courses and programs focus on developing learner communicative competence in a particular professional or academic field (e.g., Korean for Business or Japanese for Health Care Providers). This institute provides training and experience in developing LSP courses for your home institution. Topics include doing needs analysis, setting goals and objectives, developing materials, teaching, and assessing and evaluating LSP courses. Language faculty and staff members at postsecondary institutions are eligible to apply. Preference is given to applicants who teach less commonly taught languages and/or teach at the community college level. Partial travel funding is available. *For more information, visit our website: https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/lsp-summer-institute/home * *The application deadline is March 31, 2014.* Jim Yoshioka Program Coordinator ************************************************************ *National Foreign Language Resource Center*University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 1859 East-West Road #106 Honolulu, HI 96822-2322 Phone: 808-956-9424 Email: nflrc at hawaii.edu Website: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu NFLRC Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/NFLRC/ NFLRC Twitter page: http://www.twitter.com/NFLRC/ ************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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 First published in 1549, von Herberstein’s account of Moscow (and Russia more generally) was the main early European source of information on Russia in the sixteenth century. 
 A Pestilential Distemper in Russia WILLIAM RICHARDSON 
 On the Massacre of the Archbishop of Moscow and a fever running through the capital. 
 Moscow and St. Petersburg: 1842 ALEXANDER HERZEN 
 Herzen's classic comparison of Russia's two capitals, in which he finds much to love and loathe in each. 
 :: Translation by John Leafgren 
 Evgeny Onegin ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 
 A short excerpt from the classic poem, where Pushkin sings Moscow's praises. 
 :: Translation by James Falen 
 Khitrovka VLADIMIR GILYAROVSKY 
 One of the most famous chapters from this classic work, about the seamy underbelly of Moscow at the turn of the last century. 
 :: Translation by Brendan Kiernan 
 The Past's Dead and Gone BULAT OKUDZHAVA 
 The great poet's lyrical tribute to the Moscow that once was... 
 :: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone 
 Guide for Moscow Visitors SASHA CHYORNY 
 The author's 15-point guide to surviving a visit to the capital. 
:: Translation by Eugenia Sokolskaya 
 The Shopping Renaissance MIKHAIL BULGAKOV 
A consideration of what NEP wrought in Moscow, from one of Russia's greatest writers. 
:: Translation by Mila Sanina and Michael Wagner 
 The Moscow Eccentric ANDREI BELY 
 A fascinating look at life in post-revolutionary Moscow, in this never-before-translated excerpt from Bely's little known novel about the capital. All the more amazing for the fact that it is written (and translated) in metered prose. Presented here in our bilingual format (English and Russian on facing pages) 
 :: Translation by Daniel O’Carroll 
 Clear Ponds YURI NAGIBIN 
 A truly wonderful memoir of life growing up along Moscow's boulevard, by a writer hardly published in English. 
 :: Translation by Olga Kuzmina 
 Midnight Trolley BULAT OKUDZHAVA 
 One of Okudzhava's most beloved poems. 
 :: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone 
 The Great Stone Bridge ALEXANDER TEREKHOV 
An excerpt from a new novel about an infamous murder case in Moscow that revealed a horrific layer of elite corruption and bigotry. The excerpt introduces the scene of the crime, looking at the history and mystery of this great bridge. 
 :: Translation by Simon Patterson and Nina Chordas 
 A Visit DMITRY BYKOV 
 In this hilarious bit of rhyming prose, one of Russia's most prolific and interesting modern writers offers a sendup of the propiska system. Presented in bilingual format, with Russian and English on facing pages. 
 :: Translation by Daniel O’Carroll 
 My City Now is Drowsing BULAT OKUDZHAVA 
 A final poem by Okudzhava to close out this issue devoted to his beloved city. 
 :: Translation by Lydia Razran Stone Photography DMITRY ZVEREV 
Dmitry Zverev's black and white photos in this issue capture the sense of the capital as a small village, a humming metropolis, a place of solitude amid chaos... 
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It obviously led to my decision to enroll in a graduate program in Slavic Languages and Literatures, but the fundamentals of Russian I learned in high school opened up several other opportunities for me as well. I was able to travel to Ukraine in my early college years. I was soon after able to get an internship with a trade association in Washington DC looking for someone in my field (Food Science, at the time) who had Russian language skills to assist with a training program in Kiev. Had I not had the fundamentals of Russian from high school that allowed me to travel to Ukraine I would not have been able to land that internship. I had many career paths to choose from apart from graduate school thanks to having formal instruction in Russian early on. I would urge every high school to provide less-commonly-taught languages such as Russian, as they open a great variety of opportunities for students. Russian class ranks among the highlights of my high school experience. Joseph Schlegel PhD Candidate Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Toronto On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 2:17 PM, "Roby, Lee" wrote: Hi Yuliya, I can't read your description of what you already have so this suggestion might be repetitive, but when I had to do this, I emphasized the "critical need" status of Russian (thus useful language), and the fact that there are few highschool programs out there (thus each one is more important).  I outlined opportunities for students in connection with this (NSLI-Y scholarships) and continuing opportunities into college.  I wrote up a document that I passed on.  Much of it is specific to my school and program, but I will be happy to pass it along if you send your personal email. Lee ________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Yuliya I. Ballou Sent: Tue 1/14/2014 1:28 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas Dear all, I have to defend my small but productive Russian program (see below) to the school board this Thursday. I have a list of reasons as to why learning Russian is a great thing to do (not sure if this is the place to post it for those who'd willing to help to review), but am looking for more ideas... Thank you! Yuliya Ballou Russian and German Teacher Springfield High School Springfield, Vermont ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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URL: From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU Tue Jan 14 23:35:13 2014 From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:35:13 -0500 Subject: our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: They panned (in part only) Larry Summers' statement that one does not need to study foreign languages anymore (in this day and age). The late Ann Richards said about Bush-41 that he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. I am afraid that Summers is equally endowed. But there were some good points there as well. AI On Jan 14, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Katz, Michael R. wrote: > Dear Yuliya: > > I missed the show, but I know that On Point (on VPR) devoted an hour > yesterday to the importance of foreign language education:" > > http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/01/13/foreign-languages-chinese-economy > > Alina Israeli Associate Professor of Russian WLC, American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave. Washington DC 20016 (202) 885-2387 fax (202) 885-1076 aisrael at american.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Carol.Any at TRINCOLL.EDU Wed Jan 15 00:35:48 2014 From: Carol.Any at TRINCOLL.EDU (Any, Carol J) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:35:48 +0000 Subject: [Caution: Message contains Redirect URL content] [SEELANGS] CHAIR NEEDED! In-Reply-To: <6176989763749294.WA.sidneydementgmail.com@listserv.ua.edu> Message-ID: Dear Sidney, I’d be happy to chair this roundtable if you’re still in need. Best, Carol From: Sidney Dement > Reply-To: "SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list" > Date: Monday, January 13, 2014 12:51 PM To: "SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU" > Subject: [Caution: Message contains Redirect URL content] [SEELANGS] CHAIR NEEDED! Dear colleagues, Would anyone be interested in chairing our roundtable on the Russian and German Course for ASEEES 2014? We now have participants who will address courses on German and Russian immigration, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the interactions between _Faust_ and _Master and Margarita_. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From beyer at MIDDLEBURY.EDU Wed Jan 15 01:09:26 2014 From: beyer at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Beyer, Tom) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 01:09:26 +0000 Subject: Announcement of Virtual Conference Message-ID: A group of international universities and colleges will sponsor a virtual (online) conference in Russian and English at the Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan from September 25-29, 2014. The theme of the conference is the Socio-cultural and Philological Aspects of Teaching and Scholarship in the 21st Century. Papers can be submitted and delivered in either Russian or English and accepted papers will be published in the proceedings following the conference. Established scholars and graduate students are invited to participate. For further information and an application go to: http://sites.middlebury.edu/mesiv/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lolson at COLORADO.EDU Wed Jan 15 06:07:42 2014 From: lolson at COLORADO.EDU (Laura Olson Osterman) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:07:42 -0700 Subject: discussant needed -- Ethnic Identity in Multicultural Society Message-ID: Dear colleagues, At the 11th hour we're looking for a discussant for a panel on Ethnic Identity in a Multicultural Society -- it is truly interdisciplinary, dealing with rituals, literature, music, dance, and material culture, in the contexts of diaspora communities (Ukrainians in Canada and Russians in Germany) and a multicultural area in Macedonia. All three papers take an ethnographic perspective (see below). Should be a fun panel. Thanks!! Laura Osterman 1) Breininger-Umetayeva, Olga , PhD Candidate, Harvard University "Diaspora Identity in a Multicultural Society (a case study of the contemporary Russian diaspora in Germany)" 2) Dave Wilson:The Galičnik Wedding and State-Sponsored Ritual in the Republic of Macedonia . 3) KONONENKO, Natalie. University of Alberta LINKING OBJECTS: CONSTRUCTING UKRAINIAN CANADIAN IDENTITY ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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The papers included in the paper will discuss Nabokov's use of Blok's imagery in constructing his own notion of femininity; his idea of time as a repository of sensory and sexual impressions in _Ada_; and Nabokov's general response to the age-old challenge of literary descriptions of sex, especially vis-a-vis the classical tradition. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All three papers take an >ethnographic perspective (see below). >Should be a fun panel. >Thanks!! >Laura Osterman > > >1) Breininger-Umetayeva, Olga , PhD Candidate, Harvard University >"Diaspora Identity in a Multicultural Society >(a case study of the contemporary Russian diaspora in Germany)" > > >2) Dave Wilson:The Galičnik Wedding and State-Sponsored Ritual in the >Republic of Macedonia > . >3) KONONENKO, Natalie. University of Alberta >LINKING OBJECTS: CONSTRUCTING UKRAINIAN CANADIAN IDENTITY > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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Vote or nominate your favorite book for the 2013 NOJ prize now by visiting the website: http://www.nabokovonline.com/the-noj-prizes.html The winner will be announced on 23 April, 2014, at the special event in Paris, France. The Prize is worth US $600. Follow the news! Editors, Nabokov Online Journal www.nabokovonline.com --  Yuri Leving Professor of Russian Literature and Film Department of Russian Studies Dalhousie University McCain Arts, 6135 University Ave. PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS  B3H 4R2, Canada T: (902) 494-3473; F: (902) 494-7848 W: http://russiandepartment.com      http://www.keystogift.com       ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Trigos, Carol Ueland, Angela Brintlinger, Marsha Siefert, Polly Jones, Ben Eklof, Lynne Hartnett, Ivan Peshkov, Jon Stone, Galina Rylkova, Sasha Smith, Lina Bernstein, Julie Curtis, Denis Sdvizkov, Stephen M. Norris, Anatoly Pinsky, Andrea Gullotta, Philip Bullock, Margarita Vaysman, Vicky Davis, Dan Healey. Funded by: the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; Overbrook research fund, University College Oxford; CEELBAS Registration is via the link below, by end of February. Places are limited and allocated on a first come, first served basis. Registration store: http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=59&prodid=225 Conference webpage (with complete program; program also pasted below): http://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/univ-events/conference-writing-and-reading-russian-biography-19th-and-20th-centuries Friday 14 March 2014 4:30pm REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 5:00-6:30 WELCOME Polly Jones (Oxford) KEYNOTE ADDRESS Jochen Hellbeck (Rutgers): Biographical Clarifications and Reckonings: Soviet Survivors of Nazi Occupation and Their Audiences (1943-1945) Saturday 15 March 2014 9:00-11:00 PANEL 1. Biographical genres and narrative forms Discussant: Samantha Sherry (Oxford) Andrei Zorin (Oxford), Radishchev's "The Life of Fyodor Ushakov” and the early period of Russian biographical art. Nathaniel Knight (Seton Hall University), Biography as Archive: The Genre of Scholarly Biography in Pre-revolutionary Russia Duccio Colombo (University of Palermo), Evil Deeds and Evil Fiction: Russian Criminal Biography from Van'ka Kain to Len'ka Panteleev Tatiana Voronina (EUSPb), Making Socialist Realist stories: the Leningrad Blockade in Soviet memories and reminiscences 11:00 COFFEE 11:15-1:15 PANEL 2. Changing Biographies over time Discussant: Simon Dixon (UCL-SSEES) Page Herrlinger (Bowdoin), Not a Saint’s Life: Biographical Sketches of the Lay Preacher and Healer, Brother Ioann Churikov, 1910-1963 Ludmilla A. Trigos and Carol Ueland (Drew), Lives of Remarkable People as a Cultural Phenomenon Angela Brintlinger (Ohio State), Pushkin 'Threefold' in the Pages of ZhZL Marsha Siefert (CEU), From Biographical Novel to Biographical Film: “The Lonely Life” of Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky 2:00-4:00 PANEL 3. Revolutionary lives Discussant: Susan Morrissey (UCL-SSEES) Ben Eklof (Indiana University) and Tatiana Saburova (Omsk State Pedagogical University), О далёком прошлом. Nikolai Apollonovich Charushin and the Generational Memory of the Revolutionaries of the 1870s Lynne Hartnett (Villanova University), Literary Legitimacy: Justifying a Radical Life in a Revolutionary Age through Autobiography Polly Jones (Oxford), Reimagining Revolutionary Heroism in Late Socialist Biographies Ivan Peshkov (Poznan University), The Grammar of Revolutionary Flame in the Fiery Revolutionaries biographical series. The Post-Stalinist Usable Past and Russian-Oriented Cosmopolitanism in the Late Soviet Union 4:00 COFFEE 4:15-5:45 PANEL 4. Literary biography from the imperial to the post-Soviet era Discussant: Julie Curtis (Oxford) Jonathan Stone (Franklin & Marshall College), Symbolist Works and Symbolist Lives: Ellis and the Return of Russkie simvolisty Galina Rylkova (University of Florida), Living with Tolstoy and Dying with Chekhov: Ivan Bunin’s Liberation of Tolstoy (1937) and About Chekhov (1953) As Two Modes of Auto/Biography Writing Alexandra Smith (University of Edinburgh), Post-Soviet Biographies of Russian Major 20th-c. Poets. 6:00-7:15 ROUNDTABLE. Writing biographies of Russians Julie Curtis (Oxford); Lynne Hartnett (Villanova); Lina Bernstein (Franklin and Marshall); Angela Brintlinger (OSU) Sunday March 16 9:00 COFFEE 9:15-11:15 PANEL 5. Auto/biography Discussant: Catriona Kelly (Oxford) Denis Sdvizkov (German Historical Institute Moscow), The diary of a village priest. (Auto)biographies of clerics in Russia in the first half of the nineteenth century (1780-1860) Stephen M. Norris (Miami University, Ohio), Son of the Soviet Century: Boris Efimov and Soviet Auto/Biography Anatoly Pinsky (EUSPb), The Personal and the Public after Stalin: The Diaries of Aleksandr Tvardovskii Andrea Gullotta (University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice), V teni Gogolya: Sinyavsky’s Path to the Self through Biography 11:15 COFFEE AND PASTRIES 11:40-1:30 PANEL 6. Reading, reception and the uses of biography Discussant: Steve Smith (Oxford) Philip Bullock (Oxford), Biography as a Category of Reception: Russian Music in Britain, 1890-1914 Margarita Vaysman (Oxford), Nikolenka’s Childhood: Nikolay Chernyshevsky in Children’s Literature Vicky Davis (UCL-SSEES), The rise and fall of Malaia zemlia: The role of Brezhnev's biography in the construction and deconstruction of the war myth in Novorossiisk Dan Healey (Oxford),“Non-traditional” lives: the dilemmas of queering Russian biography 1:30-1:45 (approx.) SUMMING UP -- http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300185126 Dr Polly Jones Schrecker-Barbour Fellow in Russian University College Oxford OX1 4BH tel.: 01865 276785 http://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/univ-people/dr-polly-jones ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nataliek at UALBERTA.CA Wed Jan 15 15:35:32 2014 From: nataliek at UALBERTA.CA (Natalie Kononenko) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:35:32 -0700 Subject: discussant needed -- Ethnic Identity in Multicultural Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Quick note to add from me to anyone considering discussing on this panel. I'll be talking about weddings and the ritual objects used in weddings. Based on my Canadian fieldwork in Northern Alberta and Northern Saskatchewan. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Laura Olson Osterman wrote: > Dear colleagues, > At the 11th hour we're looking for a discussant for a panel on Ethnic > Identity in a Multicultural Society -- it is truly interdisciplinary, > dealing with rituals, literature, music, dance, and material culture, in > the contexts of diaspora communities (Ukrainians in Canada and Russians in > Germany) and a multicultural area in Macedonia. All three papers take an > ethnographic perspective (see below). > Should be a fun panel. > Thanks!! > Laura Osterman > > > 1) Breininger-Umetayeva, Olga , PhD Candidate, Harvard University > "Diaspora Identity in a Multicultural Society > (a case study of the contemporary Russian diaspora in Germany)" > > > 2) Dave Wilson:The Galičnik Wedding and State-Sponsored Ritual in the > Republic of Macedonia > . > 3) KONONENKO, Natalie. University of Alberta > LINKING OBJECTS: CONSTRUCTING UKRAINIAN CANADIAN IDENTITY > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Natalie Kononenko Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography University of Alberta 200 Arts Building Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2E6 780-492-6810 http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/uvp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lolson at COLORADO.EDU Wed Jan 15 16:07:17 2014 From: lolson at COLORADO.EDU (Laura Olson Osterman) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:07:17 -0700 Subject: Found discussant -- Ethnic Identity in Multicultural Society Message-ID: Dear all, We've found a discussant, thanks! --Laura On 1/15/14, 8:35 AM, "Natalie Kononenko" wrote: >Quick note to add from me to anyone considering discussing on this >panel. I'll be talking about weddings and the ritual objects used in >weddings. Based on my Canadian fieldwork in Northern Alberta and >Northern Saskatchewan. > > >On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Laura Olson Osterman > wrote: >> Dear colleagues, >> At the 11th hour we're looking for a discussant for a panel on Ethnic >> Identity in a Multicultural Society -- it is truly interdisciplinary, >> dealing with rituals, literature, music, dance, and material culture, in >> the contexts of diaspora communities (Ukrainians in Canada and Russians >>in >> Germany) and a multicultural area in Macedonia. All three papers take an >> ethnographic perspective (see below). >> Should be a fun panel. >> Thanks!! >> Laura Osterman >> >> >> 1) Breininger-Umetayeva, Olga , PhD Candidate, Harvard University >> "Diaspora Identity in a Multicultural Society >> (a case study of the contemporary Russian diaspora in Germany)" >> >> >> 2) Dave Wilson:The Galičnik Wedding and State-Sponsored Ritual in the >> Republic of Macedonia >> . >> 3) KONONENKO, Natalie. University of Alberta >> LINKING OBJECTS: CONSTRUCTING UKRAINIAN CANADIAN IDENTITY >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription >> options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: >> http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > > >-- >Natalie Kononenko >Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography >University of Alberta >200 Arts Building >Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2E6 >780-492-6810 >http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/uvp/ > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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Best, Vitaly Chernetsky --------------------------------------------------------- Vitaly Chernetsky Associate Professor Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Kansas 2140 Wescoe Hall, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd. Lawrence, KS 66045-7594 (785) 864-2359 vchernetsky at ku.edu --------------------------------------------------------- Heanon Wilkins Fellowship at Miami University for ABDs and recent graduates. Available to multiple departments, the Wilkins Fellows program provides a culturally diverse faculty with mentoring, a salary equivalent to that of a Miami University faculty member at the same rank (instructor or visiting assistant professor), $3000-$5000 for research-related expenses, the potential of obtaining a future tenure-track faculty position at Miami University, and an opportunity to live and work in a welcoming community of enthusiastic scholars. Miami University welcomes candidates who have nearly completed (e.g. ABD) or completed their doctorate or equivalent degree within four years of the August 2014 appointment date. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, temporary resident (admitted for residence as an applicant under the 1986 immigration amnesty law), refugee or asylee. Preferred Qualifications: Ability to contribute in significant ways to Miami's diversity-related initiatives. Submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a statement of proposed research (one to five pages) indicating area or discipline, and sample scholarship. Three letters of reference are required, including one from the dissertation advisor and should be uploaded via the "Optional Letters of Reference" or, if unavailable to the candidate, sent via email to nguyenp at Miamioh.edu. During the appointment, Wilkins Fellows conduct research and enjoy a reduced teaching load. Applications are due by March 3, 2014. 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Best, Tony Students taking Russian at accredited colleges and universities are invited to participate in the fifteenth annual National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest sponsored by the American Council of Teachers of Russian. All students must pay a registration fee of $5.00. Only teachers can register students. Please note that one teacher at each participating institution must be a current member of ACTR. Be sure to indicate this person on your registration form. To register your students, please fill out a registration form (below) and write a check to “ACTR” and mail them to Tony Brown, Department of German and Russian, Brigham Young University, 3093 JFSB, Provo, Utah 84602. All registrations must be received by January 31, 2014. Registrations received after the deadline will not be accepted. (Payment can be received later since we understand that approval for final payment may take several weeks at your institution.) When registering your students, please consult the criteria below to select the appropriate level. Teachers whose students are participating in the contest will receive directions and the essay topic in late January 2014. Students will write their essays between Feb. 1 and Feb. 15, 2014 at a time selected by the instructor at each institution. Students should not receive the essay topic until the time scheduled to write the essay. Judges will review the essays in March 2014 and winners will be announced by April 15, 2014. Please note that students cannot use any books or notes and may not work together. Essays must be written legibly in blue or black ink (pencil is not acceptable as it will not photocopy) and on lined paper provided by instructors. The time limit for writing the essays will be one hour. After students complete the essay, teachers will make one (1) photocopy of each essay as per the directions and then send the originals to Tony Brown within 48 hours of the test date. All essays will be evaluated anonymously: no essay will be identifiable by the name or institution of the student who wrote it. Gold, silver, bronze and honorable mention ribbon awards (certificates) will be presented for the best essays at each level. Teachers may not substitute students for those registered by the deadline. No refunds are available for students who don’t show up for the essay contest. Essays will be ranked according to the following guidelines. PLEASE NOTE: Students in each category are divided into levels according to the number of contact hours of formal instruction in Russian (and degree of exposure to Russian for Russian heritage speakers). Please calculate the number of contact hours for each student participating in the essay contest according to the guidelines below. To adjust for Study Abroad or other immersion programs, please identify the number of contact hours of formal language instruction (not other classes in the program), multiply that number by 2, and use the result in determining the total number of contact hours. STUDENTS OTHER THAN RUSSIAN HERITAGE LEARNERS Category A: Students who do not and did not ever speak Russian or any other Slavic language at home. Category B: Heritage speakers of a Slavic language other than Russian. Please take the time to calculate the number of hours that your students have studied Russian and assign them to the proper level. Level One (1A, 1B): Students who, at the time of the essay contest, will have had fewer than 100 contact hours of instruction in Russian (whether in college alone or in college and high school). Please note that heritage speakers of Russian must be assigned to Category C (below), and heritage speakers of any other Slavic language must be assigned to Category B. Level Two (2A, 2B): Students who, at the time of the essay contest, will have had more than 100 contact hours, but fewer than 250 contact hours of instruction in Russian. (These are mostly students in second-year Russian.) Level Three (3A, 3B): Students who will have had more than 250 contact hours, but fewer than 400 contact hours of instruction in Russian. (These are mostly students in third- or fourth-year Russian.) Level Four (4A, 4B): Students who will have had more than 400 contact hours of instruction in Russian. (These are mostly students in fourth- or fifth-year Russian.) RUSSIAN HERITAGE LEARNERS Category C: Students who were born to Russian speaking families and received most or all of their education in English. Please take the time to calculate the number of hours that your students have studied Russian and assign them to the proper level. Level One (1C): Students who may or may not speak Russian with their families, and who have NOT attended school in Russia or the former Soviet Union and who had to learn reading and writing skills after emigration. Those students who did not have any formal instruction in Russian before college and have had fewer than 60 contact hours of instruction in college. Level Two (2C): Students who may or may not speak Russian with their families, and who have NOT attended school in Russia or the former Soviet Union and who had to learn reading and writing skills after emigration. Those students who did not have any formal instruction in Russian before college and have had fewer than 120 contact hours of instruction in college. Level Three (3C): Students who speak Russian with their families, and who attended school for fewer than 5 years in Russia or the former Soviet Union and may have had to relearn reading and writing skills after emigration, and who have had fewer than 60 contact hours of instruction in college. Level Four (4C): Students who speak Russian with their families, and who attended school for 5 or more years in Russia or the former Soviet Union and have not had to relearn reading and writing skills after emigration. Judges will evaluate essays according to content (the ability to express ideas in Russian and communicate information about the topic) and length, lexicon, syntax, structure (grammatical and orthographic accuracy), and originality or creativity. Awards will be announced in the ACTR Newsletter. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From julia at SINGINGBEE.COM Wed Jan 15 21:52:57 2014 From: julia at SINGINGBEE.COM (Julia Chadaga) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:52:57 -0600 Subject: ASEEES 2014: Discussant Needed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Sergey, I would be happy to serve as a discussant if you are still looking for one. Let me know! All best, Julia On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Sergey Karpukhin wrote: > Dear SEELANGers, > > We are looking for a last-minute substitute discussant for our ASEEES > panel on Nabokov and sexuality next year. Please email directly to > karpukhin at wisc.edu if you're interested and we'll include your name in > the proposal. I'm attaching a summary of the panel below. > > Thank you! > > Best regards, > Sergey Karpukhin > PhD Candidate > Slavic Department > UW-Madison > > Vladimir Nabokov and Sexuality > > The panel will explore the ways in which Vladimir Nabokov engaged with the > concepts of sexuality, gender, sexual orientation and identity. It will > also address the relations between the sensory, the sensual, and the sexual > in Nabokov's works. The papers included in the paper will discuss Nabokov's > use of Blok's imagery in constructing his own notion of femininity; his > idea of time as a repository of sensory and sexual impressions in _Ada_; > and Nabokov's general response to the age-old challenge of literary > descriptions of sex, especially vis-a-vis the classical tradition. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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URL: From janeshuffelton at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 14 23:13:34 2014 From: janeshuffelton at GMAIL.COM (Jane Shuffelton) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:13:34 -0500 Subject: our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas In-Reply-To: <6757038BFDCD614DA5213272D1E157980CCA0DF8D2@USMASVGDOIM522.usma.ds.army.edu> Message-ID: Dear Ms. Ballou,h First - I used your last name because it is one that goes a long way in my family. Ballou is my middle name, my daughter's middle name, her daughter's middle name. My mother was Marion Evans Ballou from Keene, New Hampshire. As for reasons to use in supporting your program, I agree completely with the other suggestions posted. The personal stories of your own students can be very effective with administrators. I would add some embellishments to the powerful argument that Russian is a critical language. I would mention not just NSLI-Y as a study abroad opportunity, but as part of a continuing series of programs to make your students proficient. CLS is the national security summer program for college students, and the Flagship program is yet another step for more advanced students. All prepare students to be true global citizens with valuable skills in language, cultural competence and so many other domains. All are funded. I believe a head start in language acquisition in a Russian high school program is an indicator of success in progressing upward in proficiency. I would also go into some of the reasons why Russian is so critical: oil, nuclear stores, coordination on efforts to thwart terrorism, and more. We need people who understand the region, its peoples, and cultures. Doing that well requires language proficiency! Good luck and keep us posted. Jane Ballou Shuffelton, nee Jane Ballou Weiss Past President, ACTR On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Pendergast, John J CIV USA USMA < John.Pendergast at usma.edu> wrote: > Dear Yuliya- > > Given that you've posted this on the AATSEEL bulletin board, I suspect > this suggestion may be superfluous, but AATSEEL and ACTR have a joint web > page with interesting ideas on why one should study Russian: > http://modules.russnet.org/why/ > > -John Pendergast > > -----Original Message----- > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list > [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Yuliya I. Ballou > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:29 PM > To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [SEELANGS] our High School Russian program is in danger of being > cut - need suggestions and ideas > > Dear all, > > I have to defend my small but productive Russian program (see below) to > the school board this Thursday. I have a list of reasons as to why learning > Russian is a great thing to do (not sure if this is the place to post it > for those who'd willing to help to review), but am looking for more ideas... > Thank you! > > Yuliya Ballou > > Russian and German Teacher > Springfield High School > Springfield, Vermont > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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URL: From jwilson at SRAS.ORG Thu Jan 16 04:10:16 2014 From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG (Josh Wilson) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:10:16 +0400 Subject: our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear all, SRAS has a handy poster showing some reasons why - you'll also find more reasons on the "All Programs" poster - and other information on other materials listed here: http://www.sras.org/sras_posters_published Hope that helps! Josh -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Yuliya I. Ballou Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:29 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] our High School Russian program is in danger of being cut - need suggestions and ideas Dear all, I have to defend my small but productive Russian program (see below) to the school board this Thursday. I have a list of reasons as to why learning Russian is a great thing to do (not sure if this is the place to post it for those who'd willing to help to review), but am looking for more ideas... Thank you! Yuliya Ballou Russian and German Teacher Springfield High School Springfield, Vermont ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Not student specific scholarships but program specific grants and other type of funding? It would be good to have this information to add to our presentation to the board. Thank you in advance, Yuliya Ballou ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tony_brown at BYU.EDU Thu Jan 16 18:05:09 2014 From: tony_brown at BYU.EDU (Tony Brown) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:05:09 -0600 Subject: clarification on categories and levels for National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please refer to the revised Category and Level description and registration form below. I apologize for any confusion that the previous instructions may have created. Best, Tony Students taking Russian in accredited colleges and universities are invited to participate in the fifteenth annual National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest sponsored by the American Council of Teachers of Russian. All students must pay a registration fee of $5.00. Only teachers can register students. Please note that one teacher at each participating institution must be a current member of ACTR. Be sure to indicate this person on your registration form. To register your students, please fill out a registration form (below) and write a check to “ACTR” and mail them to Tony Brown, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Brigham Young University, 3093 JFSB, Provo, Utah 84602. All registrations must be received by January 31, 2014. Registrations received after the deadline will not be accepted. (Payment can be received later since we understand that approval for final payment may take several weeks at your institution.) When registering your students, please consult the criteria below to select the appropriate level. Teachers whose students are participating in the contest will receive directions and the essay topic in late January 2014. Students will write their essays between Feb. 1 and Feb. 15, 2014 at a time selected by the instructor at each institution. Students should not receive the essay topic until the time scheduled to write the essay. Judges will review the essays in March 2014 and winners will be announced by April 15, 2014. Please note that students cannot use any books or notes and may not work together. Essays must be written legibly in blue or black ink (pencil is not acceptable as it will not photocopy) and on lined 8.5x11 paper provided by instructors (no blue books). The time limit for writing the essays will be one hour. After students complete the essay, teachers will make one (1) photocopy of each essay as per the directions and then send the original and a signed student declaration and waiver form that you will receive to Tony Brown within 48 hours of the test date. All essays will be evaluated anonymously: no essay will be identifiable by the name or institution of the student who wrote it. Gold, silver, bronze, and honorable mention certificates will be presented for the best essays at each level. Teachers may not substitute students for those registered by the deadline. No refunds are available for students who don’t show up for the essay contest. Essays will be ranked according to the following guidelines. PLEASE NOTE: Students in each category are divided into levels according to the number of contact hours of formal instruction in Russian (and degree of exposure to Russian for Russian heritage speakers). Please calculate the number of contact hours for each student participating in the essay contest according to the guidelines below. To adjust for Study Abroad or other immersion programs, please identify the number of contact hours of formal language instruction (not other classes in the program), multiply that number by 2, and use the result in determining the total number of contact hours. STUDENTS OTHER THAN RUSSIAN HERITAGE LEARNERS Category A: Students who do not and did not ever speak Russian or any other Slavic language at home. Category B: Heritage speakers of a Slavic language other than Russian. Please take the time to calculate the number of hours that your students have studied Russian and assign them to the proper level. Level One (A1, B1): Students who, at the time of the essay contest, will have had fewer than 100 contact hours of instruction in Russian (whether in college alone or in college and high school). Please note that heritage speakers of Russian must be assigned to Category C (below), and heritage speakers of any other Slavic language must be assigned to Category B. Level Two (A2, B2): Students who, at the time of the essay contest, will have had more than 100 contact hours, but fewer than 250 contact hours of instruction in Russian. (These are mostly students in second-year Russian.) Level Three (A3, B3): Students who will have had more than 250 contact hours, but fewer than 400 contact hours of instruction in Russian. (These are mostly students in third- or fourth-year Russian.) Level Four (A4, B4): Students who will have had more than 400 contact hours of instruction in Russian. (These are mostly students in fourth- or fifth-year Russian.) RUSSIAN HERITAGE LEARNERS Category C: Students who were born to Russian speaking families and received most or all of their education in English. Please take the time to calculate the number of hours that your students have studied Russian and assign them to the proper level. Level One (C1): Students who may or may not speak Russian with their families, and who have NOT attended school in Russia or the former Soviet Union and who had to learn reading and writing skills after emigration. Those students who did not have any formal instruction in Russian before college and have had fewer than 60 contact hours of instruction in college. Level Two (C2): Students who may or may not speak Russian with their families, and who have NOT attended school in Russia or the former Soviet Union and who had to learn reading and writing skills after emigration. Those students who did not have any formal instruction in Russian before college and have had fewer than 120 contact hours of instruction in college. Level Three (C3): Students who speak Russian with their families, and who attended school for fewer than 5 years in Russia or the former Soviet Union and may have had to relearn reading and writing skills after emigration, and who have had fewer than 60 contact hours of instruction in college. Level Four (C4): Students who speak Russian with their families, and who attended school for 5 or more years in Russia or the former Soviet Union and have not had to relearn reading and writing skills after emigration. Judges will evaluate essays according to content (the ability to express ideas in Russian and communicate information about the topic) and length, lexicon, syntax, structure (grammatical and orthographic accuracy), and originality or creativity. Awards will be announced in the ACTR Newsletter. Teachers with questions about the essay contest should contact: Tony Brown Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages Brigham Young University 3093 JFSB Provo, Utah 84602 801-422-7012 tony_brown at byu.edu NAME OF INSTITUTION: .................................................................................................. INSTRUCTOR: ..................................................................................................................... INSTRUCTOR (current member of ACTR if different from name listed above): ………………………………………………………………………………………………. ADDRESS: ........................................................................................................................... CITY/STATE/ZIP: .......................................................... TELEPHONE: ................................................ EMAIL: .........................................................................FAX: ............................................... 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From joshua.alvizu at YALE.EDU Thu Jan 16 18:07:02 2014 From: joshua.alvizu at YALE.EDU (Josh Alvizu) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:07:02 -0500 Subject: CFP: Conditions of Precarity, Graduate Conference, Yale University, April 11-12, 2014 (1/31/2014) Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, Please see below the CFP for an upcoming German graduate conference open, and potentially of interest, to Slavicists. All best, Josh Alvizu Call for Papers 25th Annual Graduate Student Conference in German Studies at Yale University Conditions of Precarity Life, Work, Literature April 11-12, 2014 Yale University Keynote Speaker: John Hamilton (Harvard University) In the last decade, “precarity” has been invoked to describe working conditions and social life under late capitalism. Thinkers such as Paulo Virno and Franco Berardi have noted that privatization, neoliberal deregulation, and debt culture have given employers unprecedented bargaining power, and a collection of disconnected groups–migrant workers, unskilled laborers, part-timers, and independent contractors–have been made to exist under vulnerable conditions of contingent employment: McJobs, adjunct positions, and temporary contracts. Plato’s call in the Republic for “one citizen, one job” has reached a new level of absurdity as capital continues to produce an adaptable “reserve army of labor” willing to be yoked under any number of insecure positions emerging in the crevices of a sterile labor market. At the same time, the expansion of powers and resources devoted to the institutional practices of security and surveillance have only intensified the experience of human life as intermittent, tenuous, and unpredictable. What is truly new about precarity, and how is this felt as an absence of the continuation of other forms of life? What happens when a permanent underclass of precarious workers becomes a necessary condition of the reproduction of capital in its current form? Our conference does not seek merely to apply to these conditions a ready-made concept of precarity, but first to concretely describe and reflect theoretically on its effects. We propose to do so within the sphere of the humanities, where the possibilities for thinking through precarity are promising: beyond the empirical analysis of the social sciences, inquiry in the humanities opens up the space to describe current phenomena of precarity, situate what is new in the context of a long tradition of human experience and critically engage with this tradition. The humanities reflect on what makes thinking precarity possible, on the conditions under which knowledge in general is produced, and on the potential tensions and contradictions implied in such a project: does the concept of precarity allow for representation without mere aestheticization, that is to say, a naive or reactionary romanticization? A wealth of literary material can be brought to bear on the contemporary experience of precarity: from the vicissitudes of Job to the abandonment of humanity by the gods in Epicurus; from the “wound” of human nature Aristophanes speaks of in the Symposium to the chaotic “natural” insecurity of Hobbes’ bellum omnium contra omnes; from Arnold Gehlen’s description of the human as a creature of lack (Mangelwesen) and the “thrown-ness” (Geworfenheit) of Dasein in Heidegger to Agamben’s Homo sacer; from the vicissitudes of bureaucratic unknowability explored by Kafka to precarious forms of contemporary art practice (Thomas Hirshhorn, Nicolas Bourriaud); and from the observations of precarious urban life in Baudelaire and Rilke to the more provincial exploitation of figures in Robert Walser. Finally, the humanities–in what the Modern Language Association has recently called “Vulnerable Times”– have experienced a thoroughgoing reduction of financial resources in the academy, in contemporary poetry, and in the production of art. The humanities, as this conference hopes to demonstrate, can draw on its deep reserves in the project of reflecting on the conditions of precarity. Since precarity is experienced in an untold number of forms, we invite contributions from the broad range of disciplines that can speak to our topic. Proposals of up to 300 words for a 20-minute presentation should be sent by January 31st, 2014 to Josh Alvizu, Jason Kavett, and Andrew Kirwin at conditionsofprecarity at gmail.com. 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Fisher, Ph.D. Russian>English Translator anne.o.fisher at gmail.com 440-986-0175 (GMT-7) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richmond at OXY.EDU Thu Jan 16 19:49:48 2014 From: richmond at OXY.EDU (Walt Richmond) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:49:48 -0800 Subject: =?KOI8-R?Q?=F5=CD=C5=D2=CC=C1_=E1=CC=C5=CB=D3=C1=CE=C4=D2=C1_=E9=CC=D8?= =?KOI8-R?Q?=C9=CE=C9=DE=CE=C1_=E9=CC=D8=C6?= In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Anne, I had not seen this. Thank you. I knew and loved Sasha. She was a wonderful, wonderful person. Best, Walt Richmond Occidental College ------------------------------ *From:* SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Anne Fisher *Sent:* Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:42 AM *To:* SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU *Subject:* [SEELANGS] Умерла Александра Ильинична Ильф This may be old news, but: http://glasweb.com/umerla-doch-ili-ilfa-aleksandra-ilf/ She will be sorely missed. -- Anne O. Fisher, Ph.D. Russian>English Translator anne.o.fisher at gmail.com 440-986-0175 (GMT-7) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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URL: From richmond at OXY.EDU Thu Jan 16 20:23:21 2014 From: richmond at OXY.EDU (Walt Richmond) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:23:21 -0800 Subject: =?KOI8-R?Q?=F5=CD=C5=D2=CC=C1_=E1=CC=C5=CB=D3=C1=CE=C4=D2=C1_=E9=CC=D8?= =?KOI8-R?Q?=C9=CE=C9=DE=CE=C1_=E9=CC=D8=C6?= In-Reply-To: Message-ID: If anyone is interested, I published a brief memoriam to Sasha with a couple reminiscences of her on my blog http://waltrichmond.blogspot.com/2014/01/rip-sasha-ilf.html Walt Richmond Occidental College, Los Angeles ------------------------------ *From:* SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Anne Fisher *Sent:* Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:42 AM *To:* SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU *Subject:* [SEELANGS] Умерла Александра Ильинична Ильф This may be old news, but: http://glasweb.com/umerla-doch-ili-ilfa-aleksandra-ilf/ She will be sorely missed. -- Anne O. 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For more information, please contact Veronika Tuckerová, vtuckerova at fas.harvard.edu or visit http://www.summer.harvard.edu/programs/study-abroad/prague-czech-republic The deadline for online applications is January 31, 2014. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From julia.titus at GMAIL.COM Fri Jan 17 03:57:06 2014 From: julia.titus at GMAIL.COM (Julia Titus) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:57:06 -0500 Subject: ACTFL 2014 co-presenter needed Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am preparing a proposal for this year ACTFL conference in San Antonio on November 21-23 for a session on teaching language through literature and looking for a co-presenter. If you are interested in presenting on this topic, please email me as soon as possible a short description of your proposed talk at julia.titus at yale.edu since the deadline is tomorrow (Fr). Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you, Julia Titus -- Julia Titus Senior Lector, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University P.O.Box 208236 New Haven, CT 06520-8236 tel.(203) 432-0996 fax.(203)432-0999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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The CEELBAS CDT is a consortium of four universities with extensive expertise in and resources for the study of the languages, literatures, cultures and history of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia: * UCL (School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies) * University of Cambridge (Department of Slavonic Studies) * University of Manchester (Department of Russian and East European Studies) * University of Oxford (Sub-Faculty of Russian & Slavonic Languages) External training partners of the consortium include: * The Foreign and Commonwealth Office * The British Library * openDemocracy * Pushkin House The CEELBAS CDT is currently able to offer AHRC Doctoral Studentships to candidates who have been offered a place on a relevant doctoral programme at one of its four partner universities (standard UK Research Council eligibility criteria apply). The application deadline for submission of Studentship applications to CEELBAS is Monday 3rd March 2014. PLEASE NOTE: to be eligible to apply for a Studentship you must have already applied and been offered a place at one of the universities in the consortium. The deadlines for submission of admission applications to the universities in the consortium are all THIS MONTH, JANUARY 2014: Please check online or with the relevant institutional admissions offices for the exact deadlines. For full application guidelines and further details about the Studentships and the CDT, please visit: http://www.ceelbas.ac.uk/students/cdt The Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) ______________________________________________________ CEELBAS is a network of leading UK universities established to promote the study of all the countries of Central, Eastern, South-Eastern Europe and the Baltics, Russia, as well as Turkey and the Black Sea, Central Asia and the Caucasus. www.ceelbas.ac.uk www.facebook.com/theCEELBASnetwork Postgraduate and early-career researchers facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/ceelbas Twitter: @CEELBAS1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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URL: From lypark at PITT.EDU Fri Jan 17 15:30:24 2014 From: lypark at PITT.EDU (Park, Lynda) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:30:24 -0500 Subject: Important Survey on the State of Area and Language Studies in the US Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: I am writing to you with a request to assist in efforts to collect data on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies experts' training and careers. The National Council of Area Studies Associations, of which ASEEES is a member, is conducting a survey that will produce a picture of the present and future of language and area studies in the United States. ASEEES is spearheading this effort. The data collected will represent area and language studies experts from different world regions with diverse disciplinary specialties. We request 10-20 minutes of your time in filling out this important survey by Saturday, February 1. A number of trends across universities and within the U.S. Department of Education have raised concerns about the training of the next generation of area studies experts. As U.S. federal funding for area and language studies has dramatically decreased in the last few years, it has become increasingly important for our profession to show reliable data on the state of the field. We know you share our commitment to in-depth language training, cultural immersion, and nuanced expertise, so we ask you to participate in this survey as part of an effort to inform and influence policies that will affect our future. The survey can be found at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NCASA2014 The data gathered by this survey will be presented at a policy research conference in April of 2014, "Internationalization of U.S. Education in the 21st Century: The Future of International and Foreign Language Studies": http://www.aseees.org/new/IFLE.php Data from the study will also be published in scholarly publications, and used to inform scholars, educators and funders about the current situation and future prospects for international and foreign language studies in the U.S. What: area studies experts' survey Where: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NCASA2014 When: by Saturday, February 1 If you have any questions or concerns about the survey, or if you experience any technical difficulties, please contact Dr. Laura Adams, the principal investigator of the study, at ladams at fas.harvard.edu. I thank you in advance for your participation in the survey and apologize for duplicate postings on other listservs. Regards, Lynda Park, Executive Director Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 203C Bellefield Hall University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 USA +1 (412) 648-9788 (direct), +1 (412) 648-9911 (main) +1 (412) 648-9815 (fax) www.aseees.org Find us on Facebook | Join us on LinkedIn | Follow us on Twitter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gbabankov at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG Fri Jan 17 17:21:55 2014 From: gbabankov at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Gennady Babankov) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:21:55 +0000 Subject: Resident Director job at the American Councils for International Education Message-ID: Resident Director Russian Overseas Flagship Program Location: St. Petersburg, Russia Position Description FLSA Classification: Exempt SUMMARY: The Russian Overseas Flagship program, located in St. Petersburg, Russia, assists learners of Russian to reach Superior or higher levels of proficiency. The Overseas Flagship program consists of intensive, structured language instruction; direct enrollment in relevant courses at the host institution; internships; and home stays with native speakers of the target language. The Overseas Flagship Program Resident Director serves as American Councils' representative in St. Petersburg in the areas of participants' health, safety, and program logistics. He/she must be available to program participants on a daily basis; meet regularly with teachers, administrators, and students; and arrange group travel and cultural programs. The Resident Director must be available to participants during any emergencies that arise and must communicate regularly with host institution representatives in Russia and American Councils staff in Washington, DC. The Resident Director attends American Councils pre-departure orientation programs in Washington, DC, travels to Russia with the student group at the beginning of the program and returns to Washington, DC with the group at the end of the program. The Resident Director reports to the Russian Overseas Flagship Program Manager in Washington, DC. EMPLOYMENT DATES: August 1, 2014 to May 30, 2015, with possible continuation into the following academic year. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES * Monitor participants' health and safety, and promptly communicate significant issues to American Councils' and host institution staff; * Coordinate health care for participants and intervene on behalf of participants as necessary; * Enforce policies regarding terms and conditions of program participation; * Coordinate St. Petersburg-based program logistics, including cultural excursions and related travel, and communicate logistical details to DC-based staff; * Submit weekly written updates to the Program Manager; * Participate in weekly phone briefings with the Program Manager; * Serve as the local liaison between American Councils and the host institute administration as directed to ensure that program logistics proceed as agreed; * Cooperate with Academic Coordinator and Homestay/Internship Coordinator in resolving student administrative and behavior issues; * Submit a final report and test scores within two weeks of program conclusion; * Manage program finances, make necessary purchases and payments, and submit monthly expense reports accounting for all program expenditures; * Other responsibilities as assigned. QUALIFICATIONS * Demonstrated proficiency in Russian at Level 3 or higher on the ILR scale (http://www.dlielc.edu/Testing/round_table.pdf); * Bachelor's degree or higher in Russian, Slavic studies, or related area studies field; * Substantial study and/or work experience in Russia; * Experience overseeing and guiding groups; * Demonstrated skills in academic and personal counseling; * Demonstrated skills in general financial accountability; * U.S. citizenship required MORE INFORMATION: Please visit our employment section at http://www.americancouncils.org and read more about Flagship at http://flagship.americancouncils.org. TO APPLY: Select this link and follow the prompts: https://home.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=7841331 For fullest consideration, applications must be received by January 24, 2014. Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer. American Councils improves education at home and abroad through the support of international research, the design of innovative programs, and the exchange of students, scholars, and professionals around the world. American Councils employs a full-time professional staff of over 370, located in the U.S. and in 40 cities in 24 countries of Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Asia and the Middle East. Gennady Babankov Senior Program Officer, Russian and Turkish Overseas Flagship Programs American Councils for International Education 1828 L Street N.W., Suite 1200 Washington, D.C. 20036 T 202 833 7522 / 202 572 9186 (direct) F 202 833 7523 www.americancouncils.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Possible topics include, but are not limited to: -intersections between literature and the musical arts, including folk/traditional music, songs, chamber music, symphonies, ballet music, opera, film soundtracks, and popular music -depictions of music in Slavic literature -interactions between Slavic literature and the study of acoustics -the study of conversation and colloquial speech in Slavic languages -the use and representation of colloquial speech in Slavic literature -the relationship between spoken and literary language -experiments with the sound of language and its role in literary thought -considerations of sound and sound devices in literary translation -the aural element in the performance of literature (public/private readings, poetry recitations, drama, etc.) -the transition from visual to aural when discussing and teaching literature (literary salon*, *classroom, etc.) -musical adaptations of literary (and non-literary) texts -the advent of sound in Russian and Soviet cinema In addition to scholarly articles, *ULBANDUS* encourages submission of original poetry, fiction, translations, photography, and artwork. The deadline for submissions is February 17, 2014. Manuscripts should be in UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FORMAT, double-spaced, and not exceed 25 pages in length. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged and may be sent to hem2134 at columbia.edu in .doc or .rtf format. Alternatively, authors may submit 2 hard copies of their paper to: *ULBANDUS* Attn: Holly Myers Columbia University 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail code 2839 New York, NY, 10027 USA See the “How to Submit Work” link at the Ulbandus website for further details, including a style guide. For inquiries or questions, please check our website, or write to hem2134 at columbia.edu for more information. Articles published in *Ulbandus XVI* will also appear on the JSTOR site. *ULBANDUS* is a peer-reviewed journal. All articles and notes submitted for publication are reviewed *anonymously* and should be prepared so that the author's identity is not revealed either in the body of the manuscript or in bibliographic references. 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Call for Papers and Conference Information ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference 22-24 May 2014 Nazarbayev University Astana, Kazakhstan DEADLINE for proposal submissions: January 22, 2014 We invite panel and paper proposals for the Joint Regional Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) to be hosted by Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan) on 22-24 May 2014. This represents the fourth biennial regional conference of CESS together with the first regional conference organized by ASEEES. Panel and paper topics relating to all aspects of humanities and social science scholarship are welcome. The geographic domain of covered by this conference extends from East-Central Europe to the Iranian Plateau, Mongolia and Siberia, including the Black Sea region, the Caucasus, Middle Volga, Afghanistan, Tibet, and Central and Inner Asia. Practitioners and scholars in all fields of humanities and social science with an interest in this region are encouraged to participate. Submissions of Pre-organized Panels are strongly encouraged and will be given some priority in the selection process. Individual papers are also welcome and will be assigned by the Program Committee to an appropriate panel with a chair and a discussant. The deadline for submission of panel/paper proposals for the ASEEES-CESS Regional Conference is: 22 January 2014 Conference Participation For detailed information about submitting proposals and about attending the conference, please see the conference web pages at Nazarbayev University: http://shss.nu.edu.kz/shss/Events/Conferences/ASEEES-CESS The program will feature approximately 60 panels including about 200 presentations, and there will also be a supplementary program including a reception, cultural program, and two keynote speakers. Participants are responsible for covering the costs of their own travel and stay in Astana, and are responsible for making their own arrangements. Meanwhile, both CESS and ASEEES offer reduced rates for membership dues to members from the region, and members qualify for lower registration fees (see the web link above for details). In addition, ASEEES has made available a fund that its members can apply to for some support toward their conference participation costs on a financial need basis (see the web link above). Nazarbayev University will make available accommodations free-of-charge in shared dormitory rooms - on a first-come-first-served and financial need basis. The Host University Nazarbayev University was established in 2010 and is rapidly becoming a leading center of academic excellence in the broader region. The university is home to dozens of scholars in various social science, humanities, and applied fields who focus on topics related to the Eurasian region. The great majority of such scholars are concentrated in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, while others are in the more recently established Graduate School of Education and Graduate School of Public Policy. The university has a very impressive campus and high-quality facilities and organizational experience for hosting major international events. In August 2013, Nazarbayev University hosted the 13th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), which marked the first time the conference was held in Central Asia and was one of the largest events in the history of the ESCAS conferences. Schedule of Key Dates: - Deadline for Proposals: 22 January 2014. (Proposals received after this date may be considered at the discretion of the Program Committee.) - Notification of selection results: 12 February 2014. (The Program Committee will notify you of whether you have been accepted by email.) - Cut-off date for notification of withdrawal: 7 April 2014. ("No Shows" will be penalized with exclusion from future conferences - see Individual Proposal Form for details.) - Deadline for sending Registration Fee: 7 April 2014. (Participants who do not have a bank card or other method by which to pay in advance must notify us by this date and must pay at the conference registration desk on arrival.) - Preliminary Program will be available: 14 April 2014. - Deadline for submission of changes to the Conference Program: 8 May 2014. - Deadline for sending papers to Discussant and Chair: 8 May 2014. - Conference dates: 22-24 May 2014 (arrival by the morning of Thurs., May 22; departure on evening of Sat., May 24 or on Sun., May 25; the conference program will begin in the afternoon of Thurs., May 22 and continue through the evening of Sat., May 24). The Program Committee John Schoeberlein, Chair (Nazarbayev U.) Alima Bissenova (Nazarbayev U.) Ali Igmen (CESS) Scott Levi (CESS) Gabriel McGuire (Nazarbayev U.) Lynda Park (ASEEES) Caress Schenk (Nazarbayev U.) Robert Weinberg (ASEEES) Cynthia Werner (CESS) Chris Whitsel (Nazarbayev U.) Further Information Please send conference related inquiries to: Eurasian-Studies at nu.edu.kz. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Mickiewicz, > born and raised in the Nowogródek (Navahrudak) region in what is today > west central Belarus, is increasingly being portrayed as part of the > Belarusian literary canon, despite the fact that he wrote in Polish. Note > that at the end of the report, the journalist refers to “OUR Mickiewicz” > and quotes the opening lines of “Pan Tadeusz” in Belarusian! (“Litva! Ty, > jak zdarouje u nas, maja Ajchyna!”) > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TCTwE8RMGQ > > > > There has recently been something a Mickiewicz boom in Belarus, as 2012 > saw the premiere of Mickiewicz’s “Dziady” in Belarusian (a > Belarusian-Lithuanian co-production): > > > > http://novychas.info/kultura/dziady_spiektaklj_jaki_cakali/ > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bIoGgIG_eA > > > > The increased attention to Mickiewicz in Belarus is clearly part of a > broader trend. Whereas previously it was only the pro-European, > anti-Lukashenko opposition that looked to the legacy of the Grand Duchy of > Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a source of historical > legitimacy, now even the Lukashenko regime has begun to integrate the GDL > into its narrative of Belarusian identity. This is reflected, for example, > in the ambitious program of restoring the castles and palaces of the > Radziwills, Sapiehas and other magnate families of the Grand Duchy. Thisis a report from Belarusian state TV (in Russian) about the castles of > Belarus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOVowKm7i90). > > Not surprisingly, the fact that the regime has begun to cultivate the > memory of Belarus’ role in the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is > making some commentators in Lithuania nervous (article in Russian from the > Lithuanian internet news portal Delfi): > > > > > http://ru.delfi.lt/vkl/history/bumblauskas-poka-litva-dumaet-vitis-mozhet-vernut-belarus.d?id=59429949 > > > > The rise of “Litvinism” in contemporary Belarus has also been noticed by > Russian nationalists, who generally regard Belarus as part of Russia's > irrendenta: > > > > http://www.regnum.ru/news/1554354.html > > > > > > Curt Woolhiser > > > > ============================= > > Curt F. Woolhiser > > German, Russian and Asian Languages > > and Literature > > Brandeis University > > 415 South Street MS-024 > > Waltham, MA 02454 USA > > > > Tel. 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For example, the four-skills textbook, Road to Russia, is a best-seller for learners starting from the very beginning.    A few years ago we opened our Russian Language Training and Testing Center. Our test of Russian as a foreign language has become more and more popular among international companies working in Russia since it generates official documentation of the tester’s Russian language proficiency. Our Testing Center is one of four leading centers in Russia. Our Institute offers the following programs: Full-Time Program :   This program features 26 academic hours per week, of which 18 academic hours per week are devoted to Russian language classes   in groups of no more than 8 students (grouping is done in accordance with the entrance test results); and 8 academic hours per week of selective seminars. We offer a broad range of seminars such as Russian Literature, Russian History, Phonetics, Preparation for TORFL, etc. Beginners and students at the Elementary (TORFL) Level are offered 26 hours of Russian Language intensive course until they reach the TORFL Basic Level. This program costs $170 US per week. If paid on one installment   a discount is offered: 1 academic year (38 weeks) - $ 5 780 ( instead of   $ 6 460) First semester( 16 weeks) – $ 2 480 ( instead of   $ 2 720) Second semester (22 weeks) - $ 3 380 ( instead of   $ 3 740) Part-Time Program: This program features just18 academic hours per week   of   Russian language classes.   No seminars are included. This program costs $140 US per week . If paid on one installment   a discount is offered: 1 academic year (38 weeks) - $ 4 780 ( instead of   $ 5 320) 1)     Summer School :   This program lasts for 8 weeks starting from July 1. Students are welcome to choose any period of study but not less than 3 weeks. The Full-Time Summer School Program (24 academic hours per week – including 16 hours of   Russian language course   and 8 hours of 2 seminars) costs $215 per week The Part-Time Program (20 academic hours per week –including 16 hours of Russian language course and 4 hours of   a seminar) costs $190 per week . We offer discounts for our partner-universities (with signed partnership agreements) and for other groups.   Contact   Valeriy Chastnykh (Mr) ( tchastnykh at mail.ru ) or Irina Maloglazova    ( ciemsu at yandex.ru )   for more information. The academic year starts on September 1 and lasts for 38 weeks. The first semester lasts for 16 weeks and the second semester starts on January 9 and lasts for 22 weeks. Regardless of our academic calendar, we accept students at any time of the year and for different periods of time (minimum is 4 weeks), so American universities on both the quarter and semester system can send their students to our program. ACCOMMODATIONS: Students usually live in the dormitory located in the historical main building of Moscow State University (built in the style of Stalinist classicism).   2 students share an apartment with a shower and a toilet with individual bedrooms for each student. The cost of the room is approximately $360 US per month per person   (the cost may vary depending on the room’s size.) CONTACT INFORMATION: For more information, contact us: Name: Valeriy Chastnykh ( Russian program director) Phone Number: +7 499 124 81 88 E-mail Address: tchastnykh at mail.ru Website: www.cie.ru ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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So in that vein, I'd like to draw your attention to my new book with Oxford University Press called Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy and the Secret History of the Russian State, which was released last week. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/vodka-politics-9780199755592 http://www.amazon.com/Vodka-Politics-Alcohol-Autocracy-History/dp/0199755590 I'd originally joined the seelangs list in order to answer some translation and transliteration questions I'd had while preparing the manuscript, and the responses that I received were extremely helpful. So thank you to those seelangers who'd helped contribute to this project. Cheers, -Mark Mark Lawrence Schrad Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Villanova University 256 St. Augustine Center 800 Lancaster Ave. Villanova, PA 19085-1699 http://www10.homepage.villanova.edu/mark.schrad mark.schrad at villanova.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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With best wishes, Alexander Burak Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1 The “Americanization” of Russian Life and Literature through Translations of Hemingway’s Works: Establishing a Russian “Amerikanskii” Substyle in Russian Literature—A Case Study of Two “Kashkintsy” Translations of Hemingway ................................... 9 Chapter 2 Some Like it Hot – “Goblin‑Style”: Ozhivliazh (Sexing Things Up) in Russian Film Translations—A Case Study of Two Voiceover Translations into Russian of The Sopranos Series ..................................... 31 Chapter 3 Translating Skaz as a Whole‑Text Realium: Five Modes of Translation (Russian‑to‑English)—A Case Study of Pevear and Volokhonsky’s Translation of the Parable about Two Merchants Told by Platon Karataev in Tolstoy’s War and Peace ........... 53 Chapter 4 Translating Skaz as a Whole‑Text Realium: From Skaz to Swaggering Pizzazz (English‑to‑Russian)—A Case Study of Three Translations into Russian of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye ................................................................................... 71 Chapter 5 Translating Postmodernism: A Translator’s Modus Operandi— A Case Study of Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik ...................... 87 Chapter 6 Translation as a Political Weapon: Having a Riot Translating “Pussy Riot”—A Case Study of the Suggestive Translations of the Name of the Punk Band Pussy Riot in the Russian Media ........... 115 Chapter 7 Russian Translation Theory: Some Ongoing Discussions ................... 131 Conclusion Negotiating Multiculturalism – A Brief Assessment of the Role of Literary Translation in the Context of Globalization, Internationalization, and Multiculturalism ........................................... 149 Appendix 1 Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s and Anthony Briggs’s translations of Platon Karataev’s story ................... 153 Appendix 2 Lotovskii’s preface to his translation (abridged) ................................... 159 Appendix 3 Three Translations of the First Paragraph of The Catcher in the Rye ................................................................................. 161 Appendix 4 Skaz‑Forming Linguistic and Stylistic Means in the Catcher in the Rye Original and Its Translations ..................................... 167 Appendix 5 Applying Theory to Practice: How Do You Translate Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious into Russian? ........................................ 177 Appendix 6 Translating Platonov ................................................................................. 179 Appendix 7 Translation Think Tanks, Anti‑Prizes, and Competitions ................... 185 Appendix 8 A Translator User Guide ........................................................................... 191 Bibliography ...................................................................................................... 195 Index ................................................................................................................... 211 Alexander Burak Assistant Professor of Russian Studies Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures University of Florida Office phone: (352) 273-3798 E-mail: alburak at ufl.edu www.languages.ufl.edu/russian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From bliss.mst at GMAIL.COM Mon Jan 20 21:10:16 2014 From: bliss.mst at GMAIL.COM (Liv Bliss) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:10:16 -0600 Subject: SOS: Schluss mit der Kom=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=B6die!_?=Stop That Comedy! Message-ID: Does any fellow SEELANGER happen to have access to a book entitled Schluss mit der Komödie! Stop That Comedy! (edited by Robert Pfaller)? Six passages from the book (on eight pages) are quoted, translated into Russian, in a text that I'm translating into English. I've been trying to source a copy for almost two months now. Interlibrary Loan is proving problematic, with even the Library of Congress apparently balking at releasing a copy for me to consult on-site at my town library. I know this is a huge request, but if anyone can help me, I will of course reimburse all out-of-pocket expenses and add to that whatever my savior considers reasonable compensation for my imposition on his/her time. It would probably be best to reply to me off-list. Thank you, and greetings to all Liv *************** Liv Bliss ATA-Certified Russian to English Translator tel.: (928) 367 1615 We have to protect the forest to keep the unicorns alive Timothy Westbrook: Project Runway, Season 12 *************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Here you can find some information about me: http://www.hrc.ane.ru/persons/detail.php?id=156 I wish a room was furniched, had a washing maschine If you know any possibilities, please contact me off-list with the details Best Wishes, Dmitry Kozlov dmitrys.kozlov at gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.kozlov.5494 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dmitrys.kozlov at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 21 06:28:44 2014 From: dmitrys.kozlov at GMAIL.COM (Dmitry Kozlov) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:28:44 -0600 Subject: Looking to Rent a Room in Moscow Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, I'm looking to rent a room in Moscow from March till August. It is the period of my fellow research programme in The Actual Humanities Research School. Here you can find some information about me: http://www.hrc.ane.ru/persons/detail.php?id=156 I wish a room was furniched, had a washing maschine If you know any possibilities, please contact me off-list with the details Best Wishes, Dmitry Kozlov dmitrys.kozlov at gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.kozlov.5494 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ejt2115 at COLUMBIA.EDU Tue Jan 21 15:07:09 2014 From: ejt2115 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Edward J Tyerman) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:07:09 -0500 Subject: February 27=?windows-1252?Q?=9628=3A_?=RUSSIA IN EAST ASIA: A Conference at Columbia University Message-ID: RUSSIA IN EAST ASIA: IMAGINATION, EXCHANGE, TRAVEL, TRANSLATION *A Conference at Columbia University* *Thursday, February 27, 2014** to Friday, February 28, 2014* *1501 IAB and 1512 IAB* Does Russia belong to East Asia? What is Russia’s position within the geopolitical and cultural imaginary called “the Far East”? This conference will explore these questions by investigating cross-border perceptions, connections, and cultural exchanges between Russia and its neighbors in East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan. Supplementing the prevalent academic emphasis on the political and economic dimensions of these crucial global relationships, our focus is on the formation of spatial and historical ideology in the realm of cultural production. As the Russian Empire expanded eastwards from the 17th century, it came into closer contact with cultures from a very different civilizational heritage. Their historical fates were to become increasingly intertwined, from war with Japan through Soviet influence in China’s revolutions to the expansion of the Communist bloc into Korea. These unprecedented historical interactions and tensions generated, for both Russians and Asians, novel geopolitical imaginaries that sought to illuminate their problematic positions in a modern world order. Our conference brings together domestic and international scholars with specializations across Slavic studies, East Asian studies, history, and comparative literature. Focusing on the period of heightened interaction from around 1850, papers will explore changing Russian perceptions of East Asia alongside the influence of Russian and Soviet culture in China, Korea and Japan, as intellectuals in these countries negotiated questions of national identity, sovereignty, and modernization. *KEYNOTE LECTURE, Thursday 27th February, 6pm, 1501 IAB:* *Katerina Clark* (Yale University): "China in the Leftist Imagination of the 1920s and 1930s" *CONFERENCE PANELS*, *Friday 28th February, 9am-6pm, 1512 IAB* Panel topics: - Translation and Influence - Tolstoy in East Asia - Encounters and Transformations - Self-Fashioning across the Russo-Chinese Border Speakers: *Kateryna Bugayevska *(Tsinghua University) *Roy Chan *(University of Oregon) *Heekyoung Cho *(University of Washington) *Mark Gamsa* (Tel Aviv University) *Andrew Leong *(Northwestern University) *Susanna Lim *(University of Oregon) *Xiaolu Ma *(Harvard University) *Elizabeth McGuire *(San Francisco State University) *Mitsuyoshi Numano* (University of Tokyo) *Katy Sosnak *(University of California, Berkeley) *Edward Tyerman *(Columbia University) *Zhen Zhang *(University of California, Davis) [Full conference program TBA] Free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute, the University Seminar on Slavic History and Culture, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Organizers: Edward Tyerman (Columbia, Slavic), Roy Chan (Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of Oregon), Anatoly Detwyler (Columbia, EALAC). All enquiries to Edward Tyerman at ejt2115 at columbia.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In addition to the academic program, the students will be able to attend a ballet performance, to take guided tours of the city, to see the famous Kremlin cathedrals and armories, to visit Stalin’s Bunker, to examine masterpieces of Russian art at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and to see other culturally important sites. The students will also briefly visit YAROSLAVL’ and ST. PETERSBURG. *Estimated Dates and Cost*: Summer, 4 weeks (15 May - 14 June) 6-9 college credits $3,950 Summer, 8 weeks (15 May - 12 July) 9-12 college credits $6,200 The projected cost indicated above covers a visa/invitation/registration fee, transportation to and from Moscow airport, a dormitory room, Russian classes, a cultural program (including the trips to Yaroslavl’ and St. Petersburg), and local transportation. 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URL: From formallyrussia at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 22 04:42:24 2014 From: formallyrussia at GMAIL.COM (Denis Kierans) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:42:24 -0600 Subject: anti-homosexual images in Russian print Message-ID: Hello All! As I am new to this please correct me if I am deviating too much from usual format here. All advice is appreciated. OK: Do you know of any "cultural" newspapers or satirical magazines that (would likely) feature cartoons/caricatures of a Russian homosexual? My aim here is to track down a clearly negative and critical visual portrayal of the homosexual in contemporary Russia. I will be likening this image to the oft-cited cartoons of "Zionists" or Jews in earlier Krokodil, linking the two by way of anti-American sentiment and the continued deployment of the language of difference. Also, for the record, I am a Master's Student at University of Toronto. Thank you all very much, Denis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gusejnov at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 22 07:06:45 2014 From: gusejnov at GMAIL.COM (Gasan Gusejnov) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 11:06:45 +0400 Subject: anti-homosexual images in Russian print In-Reply-To: <8212423146018763.WA.formallyrussiagmail.com@listserv.ua.edu> Message-ID: enjoy 2014/1/22 Denis Kierans > Hello All! > > As I am new to this please correct me if I am deviating too much from > usual format here. All advice is appreciated. > > OK: Do you know of any "cultural" newspapers or satirical magazines that > (would likely) feature cartoons/caricatures of a Russian homosexual? My aim > here is to track down a clearly negative and critical visual portrayal of > the homosexual in contemporary Russia. I will be likening this image to the > oft-cited cartoons of "Zionists" or Jews in earlier Krokodil, linking the > two by way of anti-American sentiment and the continued deployment of the > language of difference. > > Also, for the record, I am a Master's Student at University of Toronto. > > Thank you all very much, > > Denis > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Educational Center "Cosmopolitan", Novosibirsk, Russia, is pleased to announce that we have several vacancies available for summer internships at the children's camps that we will be running in the beautiful Altai Mountains and in the delightful countryside just outside Novosibirsk, the administrative capital of Siberia and the centre of Russia. These positions are open to university students. No previous teaching experience, no previous knowledge of Russian is required. Becoming a summer intern at our camp, your students will gain valuable skills and experience for their future profession while being immersed in Russian culture and having intensive practice in the Russian language. Please help us spread the word about this internship opportunity to your students and colleagues. Thank you for your support! For more information please contact the Director Natalia Bodrova cosmoschool2 at mail.ru or cosmoschool2 at yandex.ru with any questions and application inquiries. 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You can see more information about the website's distribution here: http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/caricatura.ru/index.html?period=month They average about 3000 visitors a month. For a website with as much content as this one has, that is fairly pitiful. (Keep in mind that most website visits are "bounces" - visitors that land on a site and leave fairly quickly. Others are "spiders" - the bots by which search engines regularly scour webpages in order to build their databases from which search results are drawn. It looks like they do have quite a few visitors that do stop and look extensively - the page view to visitor ratio here is quite high - but if you are looking for how wide-spread the popularity of the site is, you want to look at unique visitor numbers. There are about 50-80 million internet users in Russia alone - not counting the millions outside of Russia. I'd also point out that their audience and page views are declining significantly. Just to put things in a bit of perspective. Josh Wilson Assistant Director The School of Russian and Asian Studies Editor in Chief Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies SRAS.org jwilson at sras.org From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gasan Gusejnov Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:07 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] anti-homosexual images in Russian print enjoy 2014/1/22 Denis Kierans Hello All! As I am new to this please correct me if I am deviating too much from usual format here. All advice is appreciated. OK: Do you know of any "cultural" newspapers or satirical magazines that (would likely) feature cartoons/caricatures of a Russian homosexual? My aim here is to track down a clearly negative and critical visual portrayal of the homosexual in contemporary Russia. I will be likening this image to the oft-cited cartoons of "Zionists" or Jews in earlier Krokodil, linking the two by way of anti-American sentiment and the continued deployment of the language of difference. Also, for the record, I am a Master's Student at University of Toronto. Thank you all very much, Denis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Curt Woolhiser Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:22 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] “Our Mickiewicz” in contemporary Belarus Dear SEELANGers, Those of you with an interest in Polish-East Slavic literary and cultural relations might be interested in this report (in Russian) from Belarusian TV about the upcoming premiere of a Belarusian-language stage adaptation of Mickiewicz's “Pan Tadeusz” at the Janka Kupala Theatre in Minsk. Mickiewicz, born and raised in the Nowogródek (Navahrudak) region in what is today west central Belarus, is increasingly being portrayed as part of the Belarusian literary canon, despite the fact that he wrote in Polish. Note that at the end of the report, the journalist refers to “OUR Mickiewicz” and quotes the opening lines of “Pan Tadeusz” in Belarusian! (“Litva! Ty, jak zdarouje u nas, maja Ajchyna!”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TCTwE8RMGQ There has recently been something a Mickiewicz boom in Belarus, as 2012 saw the premiere of Mickiewicz’s “Dziady” in Belarusian (a Belarusian-Lithuanian co-production): http://novychas.info/kultura/dziady_spiektaklj_jaki_cakali/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bIoGgIG_eA The increased attention to Mickiewicz in Belarus is clearly part of a broader trend. Whereas previously it was only the pro-European, anti-Lukashenko opposition that looked to the legacy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a source of historical legitimacy, now even the Lukashenko regime has begun to integrate the GDL into its narrative of Belarusian identity. This is reflected, for example, in the ambitious program of restoring the castles and palaces of the Radziwills, Sapiehas and other magnate families of the Grand Duchy. This is a report from Belarusian state TV (in Russian) about the castles of Belarus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOVowKm7i90). Not surprisingly, the fact that the regime has begun to cultivate the memory of Belarus’ role in the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is making some commentators in Lithuania nervous (article in Russian from the Lithuanian internet news portal Delfi): http://ru.delfi.lt/vkl/history/bumblauskas-poka-litva-dumaet-vitis-mozhet-ve rnut-belarus.d?id=59429949 The rise of “Litvinism” in contemporary Belarus has also been noticed by Russian nationalists, who generally regard Belarus as part of Russia's irrendenta: http://www.regnum.ru/news/1554354.html Curt Woolhiser ============================= Curt F. Woolhiser German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature Brandeis University 415 South Street MS-024 Waltham, MA 02454 USA Tel. 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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. 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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 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Second, we are always eager for new contributors willing to share their insight into contemporary Russia with a broad audience, especially academics and graduate students. If you would be interested, please send any pitches to me at jamie at calvert22.org. Yes, we do pay our contributors; yes, we welcome submissions in Russian as well as English. Third, we are currently looking to hire a new staff writer — someone who could work at our London base, who speaks native-level English and good Russian, and who is interested in what is going on in Russia day in day out. I would be grateful if members of the list could share this advert http://calvert22foundation.org/about/opportunities/ with anyone who might be interested. 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Funding requests received after this date will be reviewed contingent upon availability of remaining funds. -------- The 2014 Indiana University Summer Language Workshop (June 9 - August 1, 2014) is accepting applications for intensive study of Arabic (begins June 2), Hindi-Urdu, Hungarian, Mongolian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swahili, Tatar, Turkish, and Uzbek on the Bloomington campus. * All participants pay in-state tuition * Students earn 6-10 credits * FLAS and ROTC Project GO funding available to qualified students in select languages * 4 and 5-week options are available for Russian (ending on July 3) See http://www.indiana.edu/~swseel for more information and to apply. Questions? Please contact swseel at indiana.edu or 812-855-2889. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ilbernstein at YAHOO.COM Wed Jan 22 16:29:07 2014 From: ilbernstein at YAHOO.COM (Ilya Bernstein) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:29:07 -0600 Subject: new book of Osip Mandelstam translations for free download Message-ID: To SEELANGS readers: I'd like to let readers of the list know that I've uploaded my collection of translations of Mandelstam poems here: http://books.google.com/books/about?id=hYigAgAAQBAJ The book can be freely downloaded as a pdf. Please feel free to download, print, use with students, etc. Of the poems, seven are from the 1920s, 17 from the Moscow Notebooks (1930-1934), and 29 from the Voronezh notebooks (1935-1937). A sample translation appears below. Ilya Bernstein *** Sample translation: I am lost in the sky – what to do? He to whom it is near, reply! It was easier to ring for you, Dante’s discuses nine. Not I can be sundered from life. Its dream is: to kill, then to kiss. And my ears, my eyes, my eyeholes Overflow with Florentine grief. Then lay not upon my temples Laurels that kiss and cut But tear my heart into pieces Of that blue ringing sound... And when I sleep, after serving, In life to the living a friend, It will echo deeper and higher – The reply of the sky in my breast. 9 - 19 March 1937 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From colkitto at ROGERS.COM Thu Jan 23 04:21:17 2014 From: colkitto at ROGERS.COM (Robert Orr) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:21:17 -0500 Subject: anti-homosexual images in Russian print In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Would a Polish example do? The first gay pride parade in Poland was carried out with a lot of support from German gays. Wprost carried some commentary saying that at least this time Germany was not backing up its "civilizing mission" with tanks, aircraft etc., and they printed a picture of two SA men with rainbow armbands saying that Ernst Rohm should be commemorated as a victim of homophobia. I have seen the picture on line, but I can't find it at the moment. From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gasan Gusejnov Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 2:07 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] anti-homosexual images in Russian print enjoy 2014/1/22 Denis Kierans Hello All! As I am new to this please correct me if I am deviating too much from usual format here. All advice is appreciated. OK: Do you know of any "cultural" newspapers or satirical magazines that (would likely) feature cartoons/caricatures of a Russian homosexual? My aim here is to track down a clearly negative and critical visual portrayal of the homosexual in contemporary Russia. I will be likening this image to the oft-cited cartoons of "Zionists" or Jews in earlier Krokodil, linking the two by way of anti-American sentiment and the continued deployment of the language of difference. Also, for the record, I am a Master's Student at University of Toronto. Thank you all very much, Denis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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All advice is appreciated. > >OK: Do you know of any "cultural" newspapers or satirical magazines that (would likely) feature cartoons/caricatures of a Russian homosexual? My aim here is to track down a clearly negative and critical visual portrayal of the homosexual in contemporary Russia. I will be likening this image to the oft-cited cartoons of "Zionists" or Jews in earlier Krokodil, linking the two by way of anti-American sentiment and the continued deployment of the language of difference. > >Also, for the record, I am a Master's Student at University of Toronto. > >Thank you all very much, > >Denis > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >  Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription >  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: >                        http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >  >------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Yet this most recent stage, the ongoing Putin era, has also brought with it new-found stability and bourgeoisification in Russia’s major cities. Where then, does the middle class figure in the Russian Federation today, and where do we see its cultural presence? We seek to explore the middle class in Russia through its construction in film. How does a celluloid, or rather, a digital middle class reflect the values cultivated in Russian society today? Is the middle class constructed from within or from outside its ranks? Is it presented as an inclusive or exclusive group? How is its filmic representation different from its reality? How do we as scholars continue or discontinue the discussion of class categories in our analyses of contemporary Russian culture? Our on-line project adopts the form of a digital Domostroi, recognizing that the middle class is not simply a group of people, but also represents an ideal set of values that are very much under construction and contestation. Entries should be 500-700 words and address a specific middle class value or middle class keyword through contemporary Russian film and related media. Examples of completed keywords include: “impersonation,” “happiness,” “creative class,” and “family values.” Please include with your entry at least one screenshot, attached separately from the word document as a .jpeg file. Inquires to propose a new keyword should first be addressed to Andrew Chapman, Alyssa DeBlasio, and Greg Dolgopolov at Andrew.H.Chapman at Dartmouth.edu, deblasia at dickinson.edu, and gregd at unsw.edu.au. Proposals for new keywords are due by 1 February, and entries should be completed by 15 March. Andrew Chapman Department of Russian 6085 Reed Hall Room 201 Dartmouth College Hanover NH 03755 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK Fri Jan 24 13:58:06 2014 From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK (John Dunn) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:58:06 +0000 Subject: Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English In-Reply-To: <002201cf1904$f3dc5320$db94f960$@rogers.com> Message-ID: Yes, I can confirm that Wade's grammar (A Comprehensive Russian Grammar) has a very good chapter on particles. Dunn and Khairov's Modern Russian Grammar has a chapter on focus and emphasis. John Dunn. ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Orr [colkitto at ROGERS.COM] Sent: 24 January 2014 14:05 To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English Off the cuff I think Terence Wade’s Russian Grammar has a chapter on that topic. From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian Hayden Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 4:28 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English Dear SEELANGers, Does anyone know of any articles, book chapters, etc. that discuss the various ways of translating ведь, уж, же, and да into English, or that compare emphatic constructions in the two languages? 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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian Hayden Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 4:28 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English Dear SEELANGers, Does anyone know of any articles, book chapters, etc. that discuss the various ways of translating ведь, уж, же, and да into English, or that compare emphatic constructions in the two languages? Sincerely, Brian Hayden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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URL: From townsend at PRINCETON.EDU Fri Jan 24 15:57:16 2014 From: townsend at PRINCETON.EDU (Charles E. Townsend) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:57:16 +0000 Subject: Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English In-Reply-To: <002201cf1904$f3dc5320$db94f960$@rogers.com> Message-ID: Mr. Hayden and others, Or if you look at the index of Russian words in my old-fashioned advanced Russian textbook, Continuing With Russian, I think you will find all of these words discussed pretty decently, with suggested translations; e.g., The key role of "small" words in really learning languages has always been a near obsession with me and I wrote some articles discussing these words (e.g., "On Small Words That Are Big Problems", Russian Language Journal, 1972). In CWR, ведь is treated on pp. 175-176, да on p.155 and p.311, and жe on p.228. Charles Townsend On Jan 24, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Robert Orr wrote: Off the cuff I think Terence Wade’s Russian Grammar has a chapter on that topic. From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian Hayden Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 4:28 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English Dear SEELANGers, Does anyone know of any articles, book chapters, etc. that discuss the various ways of translating ведь, уж, же, and да into English, or that compare emphatic constructions in the two languages? Sincerely, Brian Hayden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Jahn) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:33:30 -0600 Subject: Teaching position available Message-ID: Lecturer or Teaching Specialist Position in Russian Program in Slavic Languages & Literatures, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The Program in Slavic Languages & Literatures in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota seeks candidates for a position in Russian. Responsibilities include: teaching six courses per year (three per semester) at the beginning and intermediate levels, and possibly advanced language or literature and culture courses; engaging in ongoing curriculum development; holding office hours to assist and advise students; performing some administrative duties. This is a 100%, nine-month position, annually renewable based on funding and performance, beginning August 25, 2014. Salary range is $39,000-$44,000, depending on qualifications and experience. Excellent benefits available. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: • MA degree or foreign equivalent or ABD in Russian, Foreign Language Education, or a related field. • Two years of post-secondary teaching experience. • Native or near-native fluency in Russian & English. • Demonstration of commitment to quality teaching and program development. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: • PhD degree or foreign equivalent or ABD in Russian, Foreign Language Education, or a related field • Experience teaching literature and/or culture courses • Experience teaching American college- or university-level undergraduates. • Strong background (e.g., coursework, publications) in foreign language education, second language acquisition, proficiency-based teaching. • Interest in curriculum development. • Positive evaluations from students, peers, and/or supervisors. Applicants with an M.A. will be appointed as Teaching Specialists. Those with a Ph.D. will be appointed at the Lecturer level. APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Persons interested and who meet the qualifications listed above should apply through the University of Minnesota’s online application system (https://employment.umn.edu; Requisition number: 188509). Supporting materials required for the initial application: 1. Cover Letter/Letter of Intent 2. CV 3. List of three recommenders (including contact information) Completed applications must be received no later than March 1, 2014. Please provide a translation of any material not in English. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From labov1 at HUMANITIES.OSU.EDU Fri Jan 24 18:50:01 2014 From: labov1 at HUMANITIES.OSU.EDU (Jessie Labov) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:50:01 -0600 Subject: CFP: Sawyer Seminar Conference October 2014 @ Ohio State (abstracts due May 1) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS: OSU Sawyer Seminar Conference October 2014 We are excited to announce the interdisciplinary conference, "Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia", which will take place at The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 9-11, 2014. The conference completes and complements a series of interdisciplinary activities in 2013-14, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the John E. Sawyer Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures grant program. For more information on the seminar, please visit: sawyer.osu.edu. On the surface, the Balkans and South Asia might seem to have little in common. However, despite many specific differences, they share similar dilemmas of linguistic, religious, cultural, and ethno-national complexity, similar turbulent political developments associated with imperial, post-colonial, and Cold War legacies, and a similar diversity of responses to these historical and contemporary challenges. Both areas have seen a mixing of people through migratory settlement, conquest, contact, and trade. But both have also experienced periods of reaction to cultural hybridity: a radical unmixing of people through partition and population exchange. The impact of these upheavals is seen in the direct violence of war and devastation, but also through crises on the levels of language, religion, and other modes of culture and human creative activity. The unique yet similar issues within each region compel us towards a comparative approach that will offer a transnational perspective on the intersection of language, religion, culture, and nationalism. We thus invite proposals for paper presentations from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective within the humanities and social sciences addressing one or more of the following themes in the Balkans or in South Asia, or comparatively between the two regions: 1. Violence, Gender, and Human Rights 2. Nation, Religion, Language, and Secularism 3. Minorities, State, Language, and Citizenship 4. Postcolonial and Postsocialist Perspectives on Neoliberalism Additionally, selected papers will be included in a collection of essays resulting from the conference. Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Limited funding is available for student lodging. Please send a 350-word abstract in PDF format and brief (one paragraph maximum) bio to sawyerseminar at osu.edu by March 1, 2014. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lypark at PITT.EDU Fri Jan 24 21:50:09 2014 From: lypark at PITT.EDU (Park, Lynda) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:50:09 -0500 Subject: CFP/CONF.- DEADLINE EXTENSION: ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference Committee, Astana, May 22-24, 2014; Deadline: Jan. 29 Message-ID: DEADLINE EXTENSION ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference Committee May 22-44, 2014 - Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan DEADLINE: Wed., January 29, 2014 Webpage: http://shss.nu.edu.kz/shss/Events/Conferences/ASEEES-CESS Email: Eurasian-Studies at nu.edu.kz We are offering a short extension of the deadline for submissions to the ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference to be held at Nazarbayev University this coming May. The deadline is extended until Wednesday, January 29. For those who have already submitted a proposal, please note you should receive an confirmation of receipt by Jan 25. If you do not receive confirmation by Jan 26, you should re-send your proposal to ensure that it is not lost (and then make sure you get confirmation by Jan. 30). Email problems do occasionally occur. If there is anyone who has already submitted a proposal but would like to use the deadline extension to make improvements to the proposal, you may do so, sending the new version with a note that it is revised. For full information about the conference, please see the Call for Papers and information on the webpage: http://shss.nu.edu.kz/shss/Events/Conferences/ASEEES-CESS To ensure that you submit a properly completed application by the final deadline of Jan. 29, please note the following points carefully: 1) All those seeking to be considered for inclusion in the conference must complete the PDF forms that can be found on the conference webpage: For individual paper proposals, the "Individual Proposal Form" is required, while for pre-organized panels, we need a "Panel Proposal Form" for the panel and an "Individual Proposal Form" for each of the panelists. 2) In order to make sure that you complete the PDF form correctly: - Please ensure that you have an up-to-date version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader program (available for free at http://get.adobe.com/reader/‎ - versions 10 and 11 certainly work, while older versions may not). Those with older versions can find that the form does not work, and either data cannot be entered or it is not saved properly. - Please save the form from the website on your computer *before* filling it out, and then open the file on your computer with Acrobat Reader to fill it out (do not fill it out from within your browser in online regime as the data may not save correctly and may be lost). - Please save the form carefully in the normal way (use Save As... and give it a file name with your name in it) - do not print it, scan it or use "print to -> Adobe PDF" (otherwise the data cannot be extracted normally from the form). - Please check your form by closing and reopening it before sending it to ensure that the data is saved properly. Please also read carefully the rules of participation that are listed on the proposal form and sign it to indicate your acceptance of these (note for example that proposals for papers to be presented in Russian can be accepted *only* if they are included in a pre-organized panel that is designated as either Russian-only or mixed Russian and English). >From the proposals received so far, it is clearly going to be a very interesting and well-attended conference, so we encourage you your participation! ASEEES is offering a very limited number of travel grants for our members to present their papers at the conference. Click HERE for the application. The grant application deadline is March 1. Please send all conference related inquiries to: Eurasian-Studies at nu.edu.kz. 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URL: From sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU Sat Jan 25 00:34:30 2014 From: sforres1 at SWARTHMORE.EDU (Sibelan Forrester) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:34:30 -0500 Subject: Call for STUDENT translations of science fiction In-Reply-To: <934092294.2705237.1390609774782.JavaMail.zimbra@swarthmore.edu> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Passing on this call for submissions, directed at YOUR students: the deadline is February 28, giving them just time to translate some nice short SF story from Russian, or Polish, or Romanian... Thanks for your attention, and best wishes for the weekend - Sibelan Forwarded message: Hello. My name is Pepe Rojo. I'm a science fiction writer from Mexico, and I am studying an MFA in Writing at UCSD. My duties include editing Alchemy, UCSD's journal of translation (along with Paola Capó-García), and we are preparing for our Spring 2014 issue, which will include a special section called GLOBAL SCIENCE FICTION where we want to publish science fiction from all over the world. Alchemy only publishes translations made by students under the advisory of a teacher or faculty advisor. Here's a link to our submissions guidelines . We would really love to include some Eastern Europe Science Fiction translations in our issue, and we are asking for advice and support on the matter. Thanks a lot. Pepe Rojo Editor, Alchemy www.alchemy.ucsd.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From oleksandr.spirin at YMAIL.COM Fri Jan 24 11:15:58 2014 From: oleksandr.spirin at YMAIL.COM (Oleksandr Spirin) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 03:15:58 -0800 Subject: Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Brian, I would like attract your attention firstly to ordinary sources like Lingvo.15 multilingual electronic dictionary summarising and in some cases combining many en-ru and ru-en "paper" dictionaries.  Then, I will recommend you Russ.-Engl. Dict. of Interjections by D.I. Kveselevich and V.P. Sasina (Moscow: 'Astrel' Publ. House, 2001), Russ.-Engl. Dict. of Winged Words by I.A. Uolsh and V.P. Berkov (Moscow: 'AST' - 'Astrel', 2003), and translations of prose by Ivan Turgenev done by Olga Scharze with apt and well turned examples of phrases. Sincerely, Oleksandr Spirin  On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:28 AM, Brian Hayden wrote: Dear SEELANGers, Does anyone know of any articles, book chapters, etc. that discuss the various ways of translating ведь, уж, же, and да into English, or that compare emphatic constructions in the two languages? Sincerely, Brian Hayden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Further information is available from here: http://www.sussex-academic.com/sa/titles/CulturalSocialStudies/culik.htm Information in Czech: http://blisty.cz/art/71899.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From olga at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Sat Jan 25 17:19:28 2014 From: olga at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Yokoyama, Olga) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:19:28 +0000 Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 24 Jan 2014 (#2014-41) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Re жe and ведь I recommend the 1997 Harvard dissertation by Lillian Parrott, "Discourse orientation and inference: the usage of the Russian particles Ze and Ved'". Olga T. Yokoyama -----Original Message----- From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of SEELANGS automatic digest system Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 10:00 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 24 Jan 2014 (#2014-41) There are 6 messages totaling 786 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English (2) 2. Teaching position available 3. CFP: Sawyer Seminar Conference October 2014 @ Ohio State (abstracts due May 1) 4. CFP/CONF.- DEADLINE EXTENSION: ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference Committee, Astana, May 22-24, 2014; Deadline: Jan. 29 5. Call for STUDENT translations of science fiction ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:57:16 +0000 From: "Charles E. Townsend" Subject: Re: Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English Mr. Hayden and others, Or if you look at the index of Russian words in my old-fashioned advanced Russian textbook, Continuing With Russian, I think you will find all of these words discussed pretty decently, with suggested translations; e.g., The key role of "small" words in really learning languages has always been a near obsession with me and I wrote some articles discussing these words (e.g., "On Small Words That Are Big Problems", Russian Language Journal, 1972). In CWR, ведь is treated on pp. 175-176, да on p.155 and p.311, and жe on p.228. Charles Townsend On Jan 24, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Robert Orr wrote: Off the cuff I think Terence Wade’s Russian Grammar has a chapter on that topic. From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian Hayden Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 4:28 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English Dear SEELANGers, Does anyone know of any articles, book chapters, etc. that discuss the various ways of translating ведь, уж, же, and да into English, or that compare emphatic constructions in the two languages? Sincerely, Brian Hayden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Jahn" Subject: Teaching position available Lecturer or Teaching Specialist Position in Russian Program in Slavic Languages & Literatures, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The Program in Slavic Languages & Literatures in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota seeks candidates for a position in Russian. Responsibilities include: teaching six courses per year (three per semester) at the beginning and intermediate levels, and possibly advanced language or literature and culture courses; engaging in ongoing curriculum development; holding office hours to assist and advise students; performing some administrative duties. This is a 100%, nine-month position, annually renewable based on funding and performance, beginning August 25, 2014. Salary range is $39,000-$44,000, depending on qualifications and experience. Excellent benefits available. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: • MA degree or foreign equivalent or ABD in Russian, Foreign Language Education, or a related field. • Two years of post-secondary teaching experience. • Native or near-native fluency in Russian & English. • Demonstration of commitment to quality teaching and program development. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: • PhD degree or foreign equivalent or ABD in Russian, Foreign Language Education, or a related field • Experience teaching literature and/or culture courses • Experience teaching American college- or university-level undergraduates. • Strong background (e.g., coursework, publications) in foreign language education, second language acquisition, proficiency-based teaching. • Interest in curriculum development. • Positive evaluations from students, peers, and/or supervisors. Applicants with an M.A. will be appointed as Teaching Specialists. Those with a Ph.D. will be appointed at the Lecturer level. APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Persons interested and who meet the qualifications listed above should apply through the University of Minnesota’s online application system (https://employment.umn.edu; Requisition number: 188509). Supporting materials required for the initial application: 1. Cover Letter/Letter of Intent 2. CV 3. List of three recommenders (including contact information) Completed applications must be received no later than March 1, 2014. Please provide a translation of any material not in English. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:50:01 -0600 From: Jessie Labov Subject: CFP: Sawyer Seminar Conference October 2014 @ Ohio State (abstracts due May 1) CALL FOR PAPERS: OSU Sawyer Seminar Conference October 2014 We are excited to announce the interdisciplinary conference, "Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia", which will take place at The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 9-11, 2014. The conference completes and complements a series of interdisciplinary activities in 2013-14, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the John E. Sawyer Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures grant program. For more information on the seminar, please visit: sawyer.osu.edu. On the surface, the Balkans and South Asia might seem to have little in common. However, despite many specific differences, they share similar dilemmas of linguistic, religious, cultural, and ethno-national complexity, similar turbulent political developments associated with imperial, post-colonial, and Cold War legacies, and a similar diversity of responses to these historical and contemporary challenges. Both areas have seen a mixing of people through migratory settlement, conquest, contact, and trade. But both have also experienced periods of reaction to cultural hybridity: a radical unmixing of people through partition and population exchange. The impact of these upheavals is seen in the direct violence of war and devastation, but also through crises on the levels of language, religion, and other modes of culture and human creative activity. The unique yet similar issues within each region compel us towards a comparative approach that will offer a transnational perspective on the intersection of language, religion, culture, and nationalism. We thus invite proposals for paper presentations from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective within the humanities and social sciences addressing one or more of the following themes in the Balkans or in South Asia, or comparatively between the two regions: 1. Violence, Gender, and Human Rights 2. Nation, Religion, Language, and Secularism 3. Minorities, State, Language, and Citizenship 4. Postcolonial and Postsocialist Perspectives on Neoliberalism Additionally, selected papers will be included in a collection of essays resulting from the conference. Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Limited funding is available for student lodging. Please send a 350-word abstract in PDF format and brief (one paragraph maximum) bio to sawyerseminar at osu.edu by March 1, 2014. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 1, 2014 and the program will be announced by June 1, 2014. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:50:09 -0500 From: "Park, Lynda" Subject: CFP/CONF.- DEADLINE EXTENSION: ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference Committee, Astana, May 22-24, 2014; Deadline: Jan. 29 DEADLINE EXTENSION ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference Committee May 22-44, 2014 - Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan DEADLINE: Wed., January 29, 2014 Webpage: http://shss.nu.edu.kz/shss/Events/Conferences/ASEEES-CESS Email: Eurasian-Studies at nu.edu.kz We are offering a short extension of the deadline for submissions to the ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference to be held at Nazarbayev University this coming May. The deadline is extended until Wednesday, January 29. For those who have already submitted a proposal, please note you should receive an confirmation of receipt by Jan 25. If you do not receive confirmation by Jan 26, you should re-send your proposal to ensure that it is not lost (and then make sure you get confirmation by Jan. 30). Email problems do occasionally occur. If there is anyone who has already submitted a proposal but would like to use the deadline extension to make improvements to the proposal, you may do so, sending the new version with a note that it is revised. For full information about the conference, please see the Call for Papers and information on the webpage: http://shss.nu.edu.kz/shss/Events/Conferences/ASEEES-CESS To ensure that you submit a properly completed application by the final deadline of Jan. 29, please note the following points carefully: 1) All those seeking to be considered for inclusion in the conference must complete the PDF forms that can be found on the conference webpage: For individual paper proposals, the "Individual Proposal Form" is required, while for pre-organized panels, we need a "Panel Proposal Form" for the panel and an "Individual Proposal Form" for each of the panelists. 2) In order to make sure that you complete the PDF form correctly: - Please ensure that you have an up-to-date version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader program (available for free at http://get.adobe.com/reader/‎ - versions 10 and 11 certainly work, while older versions may not). Those with older versions can find that the form does not work, and either data cannot be entered or it is not saved properly. - Please save the form from the website on your computer *before* filling it out, and then open the file on your computer with Acrobat Reader to fill it out (do not fill it out from within your browser in online regime as the data may not save correctly and may be lost). - Please save the form carefully in the normal way (use Save As... and give it a file name with your name in it) - do not print it, scan it or use "print to -> Adobe PDF" (otherwise the data cannot be extracted normally from the form). - Please check your form by closing and reopening it before sending it to ensure that the data is saved properly. Please also read carefully the rules of participation that are listed on the proposal form and sign it to indicate your acceptance of these (note for example that proposals for papers to be presented in Russian can be accepted *only* if they are included in a pre-organized panel that is designated as either Russian-only or mixed Russian and English). From the proposals received so far, it is clearly going to be a very interesting and well-attended conference, so we encourage you your participation! ASEEES is offering a very limited number of travel grants for our members to present their papers at the conference. Click HERE for the application. The grant application deadline is March 1. Please send all conference related inquiries to: Eurasian-Studies at nu.edu.kz. Best regards, Lynda Park, Executive Director Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 203C Bellefield Hall | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424 USA +1 (412) 648-9788 (direct), +1 (412) 648-9911 (main) +1 (412) 648-9815 (fax) www.aseees.org Find us on Facebook | Join us on LinkedIn | Follow us on Twitter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:34:30 -0500 From: Sibelan Forrester Subject: Call for STUDENT translations of science fiction Dear colleagues, Passing on this call for submissions, directed at YOUR students: the deadline is February 28, giving them just time to translate some nice short SF story from Russian, or Polish, or Romanian... Thanks for your attention, and best wishes for the weekend - Sibelan Forwarded message: Hello. My name is Pepe Rojo. I'm a science fiction writer from Mexico, and I am studying an MFA in Writing at UCSD. My duties include editing Alchemy, UCSD's journal of translation (along with Paola Capó-García), and we are preparing for our Spring 2014 issue, which will include a special section called GLOBAL SCIENCE FICTION where we want to publish science fiction from all over the world. Alchemy only publishes translations made by students under the advisory of a teacher or faculty advisor. Here's a link to our submissions guidelines . We would really love to include some Eastern Europe Science Fiction translations in our issue, and we are asking for advice and support on the matter. Thanks a lot. Pepe Rojo Editor, Alchemy www.alchemy.ucsd.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 03:15:58 -0800 From: Oleksandr Spirin Subject: Re: Translation of Emphatic Particles from Russian into English Dear Brian, I would like attract your attention firstly to ordinary sources like Lingvo.15 multilingual electronic dictionary summarising and in some cases combining many en-ru and ru-en "paper" dictionaries.  Then, I will recommend you Russ.-Engl. Dict. of Interjections by D.I. Kveselevich and V.P. Sasina (Moscow: 'Astrel' Publ. House, 2001), Russ.-Engl. Dict. of Winged Words by I.A. Uolsh and V.P. Berkov (Moscow: 'AST' - 'Astrel', 2003), and translations of prose by Ivan Turgenev done by Olga Scharze with apt and well turned examples of phrases. Sincerely, Oleksandr Spirin  On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:28 AM, Brian Hayden wrote: Dear SEELANGers, Does anyone know of any articles, book chapters, etc. that discuss the various ways of translating ведь, уж, же, and да into English, or that compare emphatic constructions in the two languages? Sincerely, Brian Hayden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------ End of SEELANGS Digest - 24 Jan 2014 (#2014-41) *********************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Sat Jan 25 18:39:58 2014 From: kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:39:58 -0500 Subject: The world's intellectual elite appeals not to turn back on Ukraine Message-ID: Dear colleagues, For your information appeal of the international intellectual elite re. the events in Ukraine. Very best, Oleh Kotsyuba http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny The Future of Ukraine The future of Ukraine depends most of all on the Ukrainians themselves. They defended their democracy and future 10 years ago, during the Orange Revolution, and are standing up for those values again today. As Europeans grow disenchanted with the idea of a common Europe, people in Ukraine are fighting for that idea and for their country's place in Europe. Defending Ukraine from the authoritarian temptations of its corrupt leaders is in the interests of the democratic world. We cannot afford to turn our back on Ukraine. The new authoritarians in Kyiv should know that there will be a high price to pay for their repressive policies and for abandoning the European aspirations of the people. It is not too late for us to change things for the better and prevent Ukraine from becoming a dictatorship. Passivity in the face of the authoritarian turn in Ukraine and the country's reintegration into a newly expanding Russian imperial sphere of interests pose a threat to the European Union’s integrity. It is a threat not just to the moral integrity of the Union but possibly to its internal institutional integrity as well. Alongside the diplomatic and economic measures taken by individual states and the entire EU, independent democratic initiatives should make efforts to defend victims of repression, support civil society and strengthen independent media. The quality of any democracy depends to a great extent on what its citizens know about their country and the world. In Ukraine, the picture of the world is shaped by the authorities, who control most of the mass media, and Russian television channels faithful to President Putin. For the sake of democracy, we must support and strengthen independent and pluralistic media in Ukraine. We must help strengthen civil society, especially the new initiatives that have arisen around the Maidan. No matter what the authorities say, the people fighting to keep their country's future open are not foreign agents – the only ones deserving that name are those pursuing a policy of mass repression to quash Ukraine's hopes of becoming a European democracy. The letter has been signed by: Andrew Arato, Professor of Political and Social Theory, New School for Social Research, United States Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Lluís Bassets, Deputy Director, El País, Spain Zygmunt Bauman, Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Gianni Bonvicini, Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy José Casanova, Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University, United States Bogusław Chrabota, Editor-In-Chief of Rzeczpospolita daily, Poland Aleš Debeljak, Poet and Cultural Critic, Slovenia Tibor Dessewffy, President of the DEMOS Hungary Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, former Foreign Minister, Chairman of the Baltic Development Forum, Denmark Ute Frevert, Director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany Paolo Flores d'Arcais, Philosopher and Journalist, Editor of MicroMega magazine, Italy Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, Oxford University, United Kingdom Carlos Gaspar, Chairman of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), Portugal Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States André Glucksmann, Philosopher and Writer, France Jeff Goldfarb, Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research, United States Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform, United Kingdom Andrea Graziosi, Professor of History, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Tomáš Halík, Professor of Sociology, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Pierre Hassner, Director of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, France Agnieszka Holland, Film Director and Screenwriter, Poland William Hunt, Professor of History, St. Lawrence University, United States Suat Kiniklioglu, Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Communication, Turkey Ira Katznelson, Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University, United States János Kis, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Central European University, Hungary Zenon E. Kohut, Professor of History, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada David Koranyi, Diplomat, Former Undersecretary of State, Deputy Director Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Hungary-United States Bernard Kouchner, Former Foreign Minister, France Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria Marcin Król, Professor of History of Ideas, Warsaw University, Poland Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, United Kingdom Sonja Licht, President of Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Serbia Tomasz Lis, Editor-In-Chief of Newsweek Polska weekly , Poland Adam Michnik, Editor-In-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza daily, Poland Marie Mendras, Directeur de recherche, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France Dominique Moïsi, Conseiller spécial de Institut français de relations internationales (l'IFRI), France Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, United States Piotr Mucharski, Editor-In-Chief of Tygodnik Powszechny weekly, Poland Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations, United States Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ton Nijhuis, Director of the Duitsland Instituut, The Netherlands Zbigniew Nosowski, Editor-In-Chief of Więź magazine, Poland Claus Offe, Professor of Political Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Germany Andrzej Olechowski, Former Foreign Minister, Poland Monika Olejnik, Journalist, Poland Andrés Ortega, Author and Journalist, Former Director of Policy Planning, Office of the Spanish Prime Minister, Spain Ana Palacio, Former Foreign Minister, Former Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group, Spain Šimon Pánek, Director of the People In Need, Czech Republic Anton Pelinka, Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Austria-Hungary Víctor Pérez-Díaz, President of Analistas Socio-Políticos (ASP), Spain Marc F. Plattner, Editor, Journal of Democracy, United States Ruprecht Polenz, Former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the German Bundestag, Germany Adam Pomorski, President of the Polish PEN Club, Poland László Rajk jr., Architect, Designer and Political Activist, Hungary Joachim Rogall, Executive Director of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany Adam Daniel Rotfeld , Former Foreign Minister, Poland Jacques Rupnik, Directeur de recherche, Sciences Po, France Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, United States Gesine Schwan, President of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Germany Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology New York University, United States Narcis Serra, President of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Spain Martin M. Šimečka, Journalist, Editor of Respekt weekly, Czech Republic Sławomir Sierakowski, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Poland Aleksander Smolar, Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University, United States Andrzej Stasiuk, Writer, Poland Fritz Stern, Professor of History, Columbia University, United States Frank E. Sysyn, Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada Jerzy Szacki, Professor of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland Monika Sznajderman, Publisher, Publishing House Czarne, Poland Roman Szporluk, Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University, United States Paweł Świeboda, President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy, Poland Paul Thibaud, Philosopher and Writer, France Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy Jordi Vaquer, Director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe, Spain Tomas Venclova, Poet and Writer, Yale University, Lithuania-United States António Vitorino, former European Commissioner, President of Notre Europe-Institut Jacques Delors, Portugal-France George Weigel, Writer, Ethics and Public Policy Center, United States Michel Wieviorka, Directeur d’études, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, d'études, France Adam Zagajewski, Poet and Essayist, University of Chicago, Poland Jacek Żakowski, Columnist, Polityka weekly , Poland Slavoj Žižek, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, Slovenia-United Kingdom - See more at: http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny#sthash.FUWDRg5m.dpuf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From devilsbit06 at YAHOO.COM Sat Jan 25 19:57:35 2014 From: devilsbit06 at YAHOO.COM (J P Maher) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:57:35 -0800 Subject: The world's intellectual elite appeals not to turn back on Ukraine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:42 AM 11:42 AM Message starred Nebojsa gets it right on Ukraine - 'Serbian scenario unfolding in Ukraine?'   ...   forces in the western part of Ukraine have always been hostile to the majority of the population in the country, even allied with the Germans during WWII. And it is not an accident that these opposition movements have the most support in that part of the country.  ...   Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 10:10 AM   Another major factor here is a familiar one - that the Vatican had been involved in creating the anti-Russian and Anti-Orthodox sentiment in Western Ukraine by supporting physical violence against Orthodox Ukrainians, Rusyns, Carpatho-Russians, etc., who yearned for re-unificaition with their common homeland, but fell under under Polish and Austro-Hungarian rule, a de facto occupation of historic Rus-Russian lands, including parts of Belarus, as well as Western Ukraine, for centuries (in the case of Ukraine, as described by Gogol in such works as "The Terrible Vengeance"). Through their partner-Catholic rulers, they imposed the UNIA-Catholicism masquerading under a "Byzantine Rite" using violence, which did not abate through WWII and created the first concentration camp in Europe at the start of WW I - Talerhof:  http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/pdf/talerhof.pdf-  a pre-cursor to Jasenovac - where Orthodox people feeling their historic kinship with the "Greater Rus - Russia" were sent for such offences as having a postcard in Russian, or keeping works by Leo Tolstoy in Russian in their homes...  There are some similarities here with how some Orthodox Serbs became "Bosnian Muslims"..   Few people know that as much as 20 thousand Ukrainian Uniates were "transplanted" from Western Ukraine into Serbia by Austro-Hungary in the hopes of spreading the Vatican-ruled UNIA to Orthodox Serbs. However, this was a complete failure... Just like the Vatican's post-WW II attempt at indoctrinating children of Russian Émigrés who fled Yugoslavia to Trieste after Tito took over: they spent significant resources on sending Uniate priests (looking like Orthodox) to summer camps they sponsored for propaganda - about a "better enlightened way"  - but not one single youth responded...   http://rt.com/op-edge/ukraine-serbian-scenario-protest-177/ Serbian scenario unfolding in Ukraine? Published time: January 25, 2014 As riots resumed in central Kiev, Ukrainian affairs analyst Nebojsa Malic told RT that protesters are using extortion tactics to get the government to undemocratically hand power over to them. RT: President Yanukovich said he will reshuffle the government and make other concessions. Why have the protesters started hurling Molotov cocktails again, and not waited for these concessions to take place? Nebojsa Malic: What has been going on in Ukraine since November reminds me of nothing more than a Serbian scenario, which started out in September and October of 2000 with the early presidential elections for then Yugoslavia. The goal of the protesters who were trained and financed by the US government was to overthrow the government of president Milosevic. And they succeeded because police and the military and the government were already so taken over by these subversive groups that they refused to put up any resistance. I don’t know if that is exactly what is happening in Kiev, but it is the same playbook. The protesters camp out in the square and demand completely unreasonable, undemocratic demands, such as the immediate resignation of the government and turning over the power to the so-called popular opposition that hasn’t even been tested in elections and has a very small minority of support of the parties that have. And all of a sudden they are the democrats and the government is anti-democratic because John McCain says so. RT: We are seeing some extreme measures from the protesters. They are throwing Molotov cocktails, throwing stones in an attempt to show force. Why are they doing this now, without waiting for the concessions to take effect? NM: [Protesters] are trying to force the issue. This is a typical extortion tactic. The whole point is to force the government to react, to force Berkut and other police forces to confront the protesters and then scream “bloody murder, oh my god, they are killing us, they are oppressing us, please help, foreign intervention” and so on. It is a very basic tactic from the rebellion playbook, as was articulated in Serbia 15 years ago and is being implemented throughout the world in Georgia and elsewhere and in Ukraine in 2004 of all things. The protesters are trying to make a point that they are the ones that decide what gets done and who initiates the violence. RT: We have seen government buildings taken over in different parts of the country. How much further do you think these riots will spread, and what would it take to end them? NM: This could turn into another Syrian scenario. Syria also started as allegedly spontaneous protests against the government and ended up being a full-scale civil war. There are definitely forces in the western part of Ukraine that have always been hostile to the majority of the population in the country, even allied with the Germans during WWII. And it is not an accident that these opposition movements have the most support in that part of the country. The Crimeans already said they will not stand idly by and look at their future being stolen by these Westerners. Then eastern Ukraine, where all the economic and industrial activity is located, is staunchly pro-Russian and intolerant of this sort of thing. So this could get very ugly, very quickly if the opposition and their Western backers push this. ________________________________ From: Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ) To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 12:39 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] The world's intellectual elite appeals not to turn back on Ukraine Dear colleagues, For your information appeal of the international intellectual elite re. the events in Ukraine. Very best, Oleh Kotsyuba http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny The Future of Ukraine The future of Ukraine depends most of all on the Ukrainians themselves. They defended their democracy and future 10 years ago, during the Orange Revolution, and are standing up for those values again today. As Europeans grow disenchanted with the idea of a common Europe, people in Ukraine are fighting for that idea and for their country's place in Europe. Defending Ukraine from the authoritarian temptations of its corrupt leaders is in the interests of the democratic world. We cannot afford to turn our back on Ukraine. The new authoritarians in Kyiv should know that there will be a high price to pay for their repressive policies and for abandoning the European aspirations of the people. It is not too late for us to change things for the better and prevent Ukraine from becoming a dictatorship. Passivity in the face of the authoritarian turn in Ukraine and the country's reintegration into a newly expanding Russian imperial sphere of interests pose a threat to the European Union’s integrity. It is a threat not just to the moral integrity of the Union but possibly to its internal institutional integrity as well. Alongside the diplomatic and economic measures taken by individual states and the entire EU, independent democratic initiatives should make efforts to defend victims of repression, support civil society and strengthen independent media. The quality of any democracy depends to a great extent on what its citizens know about their country and the world. In Ukraine, the picture of the world is shaped by the authorities, who control most of the mass media, and Russian television channels faithful to President Putin. For the sake of democracy, we must support and strengthen independent and pluralistic media in Ukraine. We must help strengthen civil society, especially the new initiatives that have arisen around the Maidan. No matter what the authorities say, the people fighting to keep their country's future open are not foreign agents – the only ones deserving that name are those pursuing a policy of mass repression to quash Ukraine's hopes of becoming a European democracy. The letter has been signed by: Andrew Arato, Professor of Political and Social Theory, New School for Social Research, United States Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Lluís Bassets, Deputy Director, El País, Spain Zygmunt Bauman, Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Gianni Bonvicini, Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy José Casanova, Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University, United States Bogusław Chrabota, Editor-In-Chief of Rzeczpospolita daily, Poland Aleš Debeljak, Poet and Cultural Critic, Slovenia Tibor Dessewffy, President of the DEMOS Hungary Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, former Foreign Minister, Chairman of the Baltic Development Forum, Denmark Ute Frevert, Director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany Paolo Flores d'Arcais, Philosopher and Journalist, Editor of MicroMega magazine, Italy Timothy Garton Ash,  Professor of European Studies, Oxford University, United Kingdom Carlos Gaspar, Chairman of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), Portugal Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States André Glucksmann, Philosopher and Writer, France Jeff Goldfarb, Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research, United States Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform, United Kingdom Andrea Graziosi, Professor of History, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Tomáš Halík, Professor of Sociology, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Pierre Hassner, Director of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, France Agnieszka Holland, Film Director and Screenwriter, Poland William Hunt, Professor of History, St. Lawrence University, United States Suat Kiniklioglu, Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Communication, Turkey Ira Katznelson, Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University, United States János Kis, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Central European University, Hungary Zenon E. Kohut, Professor of History, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada David Koranyi, Diplomat, Former Undersecretary of State, Deputy Director Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Hungary-United States Bernard Kouchner, Former Foreign Minister, France Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria Marcin Król, Professor of History of Ideas, Warsaw University, Poland Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, United Kingdom Sonja Licht, President of Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Serbia Tomasz Lis, Editor-In-Chief of Newsweek Polska weekly , Poland Adam Michnik, Editor-In-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza daily, Poland Marie Mendras, Directeur de recherche, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France Dominique Moïsi, Conseiller spécial de Institut français de relations internationales (l'IFRI), France Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, United States Piotr Mucharski, Editor-In-Chief of Tygodnik Powszechny weekly, Poland Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations, United States Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ton Nijhuis, Director of the Duitsland Instituut, The Netherlands Zbigniew Nosowski, Editor-In-Chief of Więź magazine, Poland Claus Offe, Professor of Political Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Germany Andrzej Olechowski, Former Foreign Minister, Poland Monika Olejnik, Journalist, Poland Andrés Ortega, Author and Journalist, Former Director of Policy Planning, Office of the Spanish Prime Minister, Spain Ana Palacio, Former Foreign Minister, Former Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group, Spain Šimon Pánek, Director of the People In Need, Czech Republic Anton Pelinka, Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Austria-Hungary Víctor Pérez-Díaz, President of Analistas Socio-Políticos (ASP),  Spain Marc F. Plattner, Editor, Journal of Democracy, United States Ruprecht Polenz, Former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the German Bundestag, Germany Adam Pomorski, President of the Polish PEN Club, Poland László Rajk jr., Architect, Designer and Political Activist, Hungary Joachim Rogall, Executive Director of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany Adam Daniel Rotfeld , Former Foreign Minister, Poland Jacques Rupnik, Directeur de recherche, Sciences Po, France Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, United States Gesine Schwan, President of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Germany Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology New York University, United States Narcis Serra, President of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Spain Martin M. Šimečka, Journalist, Editor of Respekt weekly,  Czech Republic Sławomir Sierakowski, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Poland Aleksander Smolar, Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University,  United States Andrzej Stasiuk, Writer, Poland Fritz Stern, Professor of History, Columbia University,  United States Frank E. Sysyn, Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada Jerzy Szacki, Professor of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland Monika Sznajderman, Publisher, Publishing House Czarne, Poland Roman Szporluk, Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University, United States Paweł Świeboda, President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy, Poland Paul Thibaud, Philosopher and Writer, France Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy Jordi Vaquer, Director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe, Spain Tomas Venclova, Poet and Writer, Yale University, Lithuania-United States António Vitorino, former European Commissioner, President of Notre Europe-Institut Jacques Delors, Portugal-France George Weigel, Writer, Ethics and Public Policy Center, United States Michel Wieviorka, Directeur d’études,  École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, d'études, France Adam Zagajewski, Poet and Essayist, University of Chicago, Poland Jacek Żakowski, Columnist,  Polityka weekly , Poland Slavoj Žižek, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, Slovenia-United Kingdom- See more at: http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny#sthash.FUWDRg5m.dpuf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Tom authored "Monumenta Bulgarica: A Bilingual Anthology of Bulgarian Texts from the 9th to the 19th Centuries", published in 1996 by University of Michigan as part of their Michigan Slavic Materials collection. As he states in his Preface: "The operative assumption throughout this book has been that if we wish to begin to understand a nation, we must first come to terms with its cultural memory." The texts begin with St. Constantine-Cyril's "Sermon on the translation fo the relics of St. Clement of Rome" and continue through the 19th century National Revival; also included are folklore materials - songs, folktales, proverbs, riddles, and incantations. For Bulgarian Studies Association, however, I'm not sure if he was one of the founding members, but he was certainly one of the early members, holding the position of Secretary-Treasurer from 1978-1980. END Catherine Rudin added (in a message to me), "I'm sure he was a founding member; he organized the first conference, in 1972 or 73, which I got to help out at as a very excited sophomore." Indeed, the subtitle of the proceedings volume specifies the date: "Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bulgarian Studies, held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 3-5, 1973" --Loren Billings ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From apolunov at MAIL.RU Sun Jan 26 06:29:44 2014 From: apolunov at MAIL.RU (=?UTF-8?B?QWxleGFuZGVyIFBvbHVub3Y=?=) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:29:44 +0400 Subject: The world's intellectual elite appeals not to turn back on Ukraine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: In 2012, Oleg Tyagnibok was included by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in the list of 20 most dangerous world ani-semines http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/1447395 Суббота, 25 января 2014, 13:39 -05:00 от "Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)" : >Dear colleagues, > >For your information appeal of the international intellectual elite re. the events in Ukraine. > >Very best, >Oleh Kotsyuba > >http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny > >The Future of Ukraine >The future of Ukraine depends most of all on the Ukrainians themselves. They defended their democracy and future 10 years ago, during the Orange Revolution, and are standing up for those values again today. As Europeans grow disenchanted with the idea of a common Europe, people in Ukraine are fighting for that idea and for their country's place in Europe. Defending Ukraine from the authoritarian temptations of its corrupt leaders is in the interests of the democratic world. >We cannot afford to turn our back on Ukraine. The new authoritarians in Kyiv should know that there will be a high price to pay for their repressive policies and for abandoning the European aspirations of the people. It is not too late for us to change things for the better and prevent Ukraine from becoming a dictatorship. >Passivity in the face of the authoritarian turn in Ukraine and the country's reintegration into a newly expanding Russian imperial sphere of interests pose a threat to the European Union’s integrity. It is a threat not just to the moral integrity of the Union but possibly to its internal institutional integrity as well. Alongside the diplomatic and economic measures taken by individual states and the entire EU, independent democratic initiatives should make efforts to defend victims of repression, support civil society and strengthen independent media. >The quality of any democracy depends to a great extent on what its citizens know about their country and the world. In Ukraine, the picture of the world is shaped by the authorities, who control most of the mass media, and Russian television channels faithful to President Putin. For the sake of democracy, we must support and strengthen independent and pluralistic media in Ukraine. >We must help strengthen civil society, especially the new initiatives that have arisen around the Maidan. No matter what the authorities say, the people fighting to keep their country's future open are not foreign agents – the only ones deserving that name are those pursuing a policy of mass repression to quash Ukraine's hopes of becoming a European democracy. >The letter has been signed by: >Andrew Arato, Professor of Political and Social Theory, New School for Social Research, United States >Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel >Lluís Bassets, Deputy Director, El País, Spain >Zygmunt Bauman, Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom >Gianni Bonvicini, Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy >José Casanova, Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University, United States >Bogusław Chrabota, Editor-In-Chief of Rzeczpospolita daily, Poland >Aleš Debeljak, Poet and Cultural Critic, Slovenia >Tibor Dessewffy, President of the DEMOS Hungary >Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, former Foreign Minister, Chairman of the Baltic Development Forum, Denmark >Ute Frevert, Director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany >Paolo Flores d'Arcais, Philosopher and Journalist, Editor of MicroMega magazine, Italy >Timothy Garton Ash,  Professor of European Studies, Oxford University, United Kingdom >Carlos Gaspar, Chairman of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), Portugal >Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States >André Glucksmann, Philosopher and Writer, France >Jeff Goldfarb, Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research, United States >Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform, United Kingdom >Andrea Graziosi, Professor of History, University of Naples Federico II, Italy >Tomáš Halík, Professor of Sociology, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic >Pierre Hassner, Director of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, France >Agnieszka Holland, Film Director and Screenwriter, Poland >William Hunt, Professor of History, St. Lawrence University, United States >Suat Kiniklioglu, Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Communication, Turkey >Ira Katznelson, Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University, United States >János Kis, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Central European University, Hungary >Zenon E. Kohut, Professor of History, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada >David Koranyi, Diplomat, Former Undersecretary of State, Deputy Director Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Hungary-United States >Bernard Kouchner, Former Foreign Minister, France >Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria >Marcin Król, Professor of History of Ideas, Warsaw University, Poland >Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, United Kingdom >Sonja Licht, President of Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Serbia >Tomasz Lis, Editor-In-Chief of Newsweek Polska weekly , Poland >Adam Michnik, Editor-In-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza daily, Poland >Marie Mendras, Directeur de recherche, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France >Dominique Moïsi, Conseiller spécial de Institut français de relations internationales (l'IFRI), France >Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, United States >Piotr Mucharski, Editor-In-Chief of Tygodnik Powszechny weekly, Poland >Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations, United States >Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, United Kingdom >Ton Nijhuis, Director of the Duitsland Instituut, The Netherlands >Zbigniew Nosowski, Editor-In-Chief of Więź magazine, Poland >Claus Offe, Professor of Political Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Germany >Andrzej Olechowski, Former Foreign Minister, Poland >Monika Olejnik, Journalist, Poland >Andrés Ortega, Author and Journalist, Former Director of Policy Planning, Office of the Spanish Prime Minister, Spain >Ana Palacio, Former Foreign Minister, Former Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group, Spain >Šimon Pánek, Director of the People In Need, Czech Republic >Anton Pelinka, Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Austria-Hungary >Víctor Pérez-Díaz, President of Analistas Socio-Políticos (ASP),  Spain >Marc F. Plattner, Editor, Journal of Democracy, United States >Ruprecht Polenz, Former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the German Bundestag, Germany >Adam Pomorski, President of the Polish PEN Club, Poland >László Rajk jr., Architect, Designer and Political Activist, Hungary >Joachim Rogall, Executive Director of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany >Adam Daniel Rotfeld , Former Foreign Minister, Poland >Jacques Rupnik, Directeur de recherche, Sciences Po, France >Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, United States >Gesine Schwan, President of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Germany >Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology New York University, United States >Narcis Serra, President of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Spain >Martin M. Šimečka, Journalist, Editor of Respekt weekly,  Czech Republic >Sławomir Sierakowski, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Poland >Aleksander Smolar, Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland >Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University,  United States >Andrzej Stasiuk, Writer, Poland >Fritz Stern, Professor of History, Columbia University,  United States >Frank E. Sysyn, Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada >Jerzy Szacki, Professor of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland >Monika Sznajderman, Publisher, Publishing House Czarne, Poland >Roman Szporluk, Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University, United States >Paweł Świeboda, President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy, Poland >Paul Thibaud, Philosopher and Writer, France >Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy >Jordi Vaquer, Director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe, Spain >Tomas Venclova, Poet and Writer, Yale University, Lithuania-United States >António Vitorino, former European Commissioner, President of Notre Europe-Institut Jacques Delors, Portugal-France >George Weigel, Writer, Ethics and Public Policy Center, United States >Michel Wieviorka, Directeur d’études,  École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, d'études, France >Adam Zagajewski, Poet and Essayist, University of Chicago, Poland >Jacek Żakowski, Columnist,  Polityka weekly , Poland >Slavoj Žižek, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, Slovenia-United Kingdom - See more at: http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny#sthash.FUWDRg5m.dpuf > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Totally rebuilt, as wags put it "more beautiful and older than before".  The only demolished building in the Old City was a palazzo across the way from the Orthodox church, belonging to the Croat artist Ivo Grbic. His shingle on the façade of the fire-gutted building in English and Serbian Cyrillic advertise ICONS ~IKONE. Surrounding houses were unscathed. The destruction was by plastique and incendiaries, laid on the spot, not by JNA navy guns. j p maher  ________________________________ From: Loren Billings To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:11 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler Martha Forsyth recently posted in the Bulgarian Studies Association list: BEGIN I am sorry to have to share the news I received yesterday, that Prof. Thomas Butler passed away earlier this week, at age 84. Tom authored "Monumenta Bulgarica: A Bilingual Anthology of Bulgarian Texts from the 9th to the 19th Centuries", published in 1996 by University of Michigan as part of their Michigan Slavic Materials collection. As he states in his Preface: "The operative assumption throughout this book has been that if we wish to begin to understand a nation, we must first come to terms with its cultural memory." The texts begin with St. Constantine-Cyril's "Sermon on the translation fo the relics of St. Clement of Rome" and continue through the 19th century National Revival; also included are folklore materials - songs, folktales, proverbs, riddles, and incantations. For Bulgarian Studies Association, however, I'm not sure if he was one of the founding members, but he was certainly one of the early members, holding the position of Secretary-Treasurer from 1978-1980. END Catherine Rudin added (in a message to me), "I'm sure he was a founding member; he organized the first conference, in 1972 or 73, which I got to help out at as a very excited sophomore." Indeed, the subtitle of the proceedings volume specifies the date: "Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bulgarian Studies, held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 3-5, 1973" --Loren Billings -------------------------------------------------------------------------   Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription   options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:                         http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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The goal of the protesters who were trained and financed by the US government was to overthrow the government of president Milosevic. ... the same playbook.  ...     http://rickrozoff. wordpress. com/2014/ 01/25/video- interview- serbian-scenario -unfolding- in-ukraine/ Serbian scenario unfolding in Ukraine?    WordPress.com richardrozoff posted: "RT   January 25, 2014  Video: Download video As riots resumed in central Kiev, Ukrainian affairs analyst Nebojsa Malic told RT that protesters are using extortion tactic" New post on Stop NATO...Opposition to global militarism Video Interview: Serbian Scenario Unfolding In Ukraine? RT     January 25, 2014     Video: Download video As riots resumed in central Kiev, Ukrainian affairs analyst Nebojsa Malic told RT that protesters are using extortion tactics to get the government to undemocratically hand power over to them. RT: President Yanukovich said he will reshuffle the government and make other concessions. Why have the protesters started hurling Molotov cocktails again, and not waited for these concessions to take place? Nebojsa Malic: What has been going on in Ukraine since November reminds me of nothing more than a Serbian scenario, which started out in September and October of 2000 with the early presidential elections for then Yugoslavia. The goal of the protesters who were trained and financed by the US government was to overthrow the government of president Milosevic. And they succeeded because police and the military and the government were already so taken over by these subversive groups that they refused to put up any resistance. I don’t know if that is exactly what is happening in Kiev, but it is the same playbook. The protesters camp out in the square and demand completely unreasonable, undemocratic demands, such as the immediate resignation of the government and turning over the power to the so-called popular opposition that hasn’t even been tested in elections and has a very small minority of support of the parties that have. And all of a sudden they are the democrats and the government is anti-democratic because John McCain says so. RT: We are seeing some extreme measures from the protesters. They are throwing Molotov cocktails, throwing stones in an attempt to show force. Why are they doing this now, without waiting for the concessions to take effect? NM: [Protesters] are trying to force the issue. This is a typical extortion tactic. The whole point is to force the government to react, to force Berkut and other police forces to confront the protesters and then scream “bloody murder, oh my god, they are killing us, they are oppressing us, please help, foreign intervention” and so on. It is a very basic tactic from the rebellion playbook, as was articulated in Serbia 15 years ago and is being implemented throughout the world in Georgia and elsewhere and in Ukraine in 2004 of all things. The protesters are trying to make a point that they are the ones that decide what gets done and who initiates the violence. RT: We have seen government buildings taken over in different parts of the country. How much further do you think these riots will spread, and what would it take to end them? NM: This could turn into another Syrian scenario. Syria also started as allegedly spontaneous protests against the government and ended up being a full-scale civil war. There are definitely forces in the western part of Ukraine that have always been hostile to the majority of the population in the country, even allied with the Germans during WWII. And it is not an accident that these opposition movements have the most support in that part of the country. The Crimeans already said they will not stand idly by and look at their future being stolen by these Westerners. Then eastern Ukraine, where all the economic and industrial activity is located, is staunchly pro-Russian and intolerant of this sort of thing. So this could get very ugly, very quickly if the opposition and their Western backers push this.   richardrozoff | January 25, 2014 at 1:51 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/ pCpOz-6KA Comment    See all comments http://rickrozoff. wordpress. com/2014/ 01/25/video- interview- serbian-scenario -unfolding- in-ukraine/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From apostema at UCHICAGO.EDU Sun Jan 26 17:31:26 2014 From: apostema at UCHICAGO.EDU (antje postema) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:31:26 -0600 Subject: Death of Thomas Butler In-Reply-To: <1390745400.87116.YahooMailNeo@web184705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear Prof. Maher, I would request that you keep these kind of inflammatory statements off of SEELANGS. Not only does such anecdotal revisionism have no place on a list like this at any time, it most certainly does not when tastelessly appended to obituary information. Thanks very much. -antje _________________ Antje Postema University of Chicago Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:10 AM, J P Maher wrote: > Tom malso authored Monumenta Serbo-Croatica (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1980); > > http://www.jstor.org.rwlib.neiu.edu:2048/action/showPublication?journalCode=wilsonq > > This link is to Tom Butler's 1993 article "Yugoslavia, Mon Amour", echoing Resnais's film on Hiroshima... Butler was fair to all sides and critical in the best sense. I talked on the phone with him after reading this piece and advised him that he was ill-advised to believe the NY Times spin on "the destruction of Dubrovnik" in 1991. I went there with a cameraman on 25 March 1992, three months after the "destruction". Totally rebuilt, as wags put it "more beautiful and older than before". The only demolished building in the Old City was a palazzo across the way from the Orthodox church, belonging to the Croat artist Ivo Grbic. His shingle on the façade of the fire-gutted building in English and Serbian Cyrillic advertise ICONS ~IKONE. Surrounding houses were unscathed. The destruction was by plastique and incendiaries, laid on the spot, not by JNA navy guns. j p maher > > > From: Loren Billings > To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:11 PM > Subject: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler > > Martha Forsyth recently posted in the Bulgarian Studies Association list: > > BEGIN > I am sorry to have to share the news I received yesterday, that Prof. > Thomas Butler passed away earlier this week, at age 84. > > Tom authored "Monumenta Bulgarica: A Bilingual Anthology of Bulgarian > Texts from the 9th to the 19th Centuries", published in 1996 by > University of Michigan as part of their Michigan Slavic Materials > collection. As he states in his Preface: "The operative assumption > throughout this book has been that if we wish to begin to understand a > nation, we must first come to terms with its cultural memory." The > texts begin with St. Constantine-Cyril's "Sermon on the translation fo > the relics of St. Clement of Rome" and continue through the 19th > century National Revival; also included are folklore materials - > songs, folktales, proverbs, riddles, and incantations. > > For Bulgarian Studies Association, however, I'm not sure if he was one > of the founding members, but he was certainly one of the early > members, holding the position of Secretary-Treasurer from 1978-1980. > END > > Catherine Rudin added (in a message to me), "I'm sure he was a > founding member; he organized the first conference, in 1972 or 73, > which I got to help out at as a very excited sophomore." Indeed, the > subtitle of the proceedings volume specifies the date: "Proceedings of > the First International Conference on Bulgarian Studies, held at the > University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 3-5, 1973" > > --Loren Billings > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Not only does such anecdotal revisionism have no place on a list > like this at any time, it most certainly does not when tastelessly appended > to obituary information. > > Thanks very much. > > -antje > > _________________ > Antje Postema > University of Chicago > Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures > > > On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:10 AM, J P Maher wrote: > > Tom malso authored *Monumenta Serbo-Croatica* (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic > Publications, 1980); > > > http://www.jstor.org.rwlib.neiu.edu:2048/action/showPublication?journalCode=wilsonq > > This link is to Tom Butler's 1993 article "Yugoslavia, Mon Amour", > echoing Resnais's film on Hiroshima... Butler was fair to all sides and > critical in the best sense. I talked on the phone with him after reading > this piece and advised him that he was ill-advised to believe the NY Times > spin on "the destruction of Dubrovnik" in 1991. I went there with a > cameraman on 25 March 1992, three months after the "destruction". Totally > rebuilt, as wags put it "more beautiful and older than before". The only > demolished building in the Old City was a palazzo across the way from the > Orthodox church, belonging to the Croat artist Ivo Grbic. His shingle on > the façade of the fire-gutted building in English and Serbian Cyrillic > advertise ICONS ~IKONE. Surrounding houses were unscathed. The destruction > was by plastique and incendiaries, laid on the spot, not by JNA navy > guns. j p maher > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Loren Billings > *To:* SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU > *Sent:* Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:11 PM > *Subject:* [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler > > Martha Forsyth recently posted in the Bulgarian Studies Association list: > > BEGIN > I am sorry to have to share the news I received yesterday, that Prof. > Thomas Butler passed away earlier this week, at age 84. > > Tom authored "Monumenta Bulgarica: A Bilingual Anthology of Bulgarian > Texts from the 9th to the 19th Centuries", published in 1996 by > University of Michigan as part of their Michigan Slavic Materials > collection. As he states in his Preface: "The operative assumption > throughout this book has been that if we wish to begin to understand a > nation, we must first come to terms with its cultural memory." The > texts begin with St. Constantine-Cyril's "Sermon on the translation fo > the relics of St. Clement of Rome" and continue through the 19th > century National Revival; also included are folklore materials - > songs, folktales, proverbs, riddles, and incantations. > > For Bulgarian Studies Association, however, I'm not sure if he was one > of the founding members, but he was certainly one of the early > members, holding the position of Secretary-Treasurer from 1978-1980. > END > > Catherine Rudin added (in a message to me), "I'm sure he was a > founding member; he organized the first conference, in 1972 or 73, > which I got to help out at as a very excited sophomore." 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URL: From kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Sun Jan 26 17:41:50 2014 From: kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:41:50 -0500 Subject: The world's intellectual elite appeals not to turn back on Ukraine In-Reply-To: <1390717784.401270621@f311.i.mail.ru> Message-ID: Please read the following article by Anton Shekhovtsov who works on the Ukrainian far right movement: http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.co.at/2014/01/what-west-should-know-about-euromaidans.html Many in the West, are asking questions about the involvement of the Ukrainian ultranationalists in the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv. Some allegedly left-wing web-sites, such as the World Socialist Web Site, publish blatant lies about the Euromaidan protests and the role that the far right is playing in them. These web-sites are trying to appease Russian imperialists who are doing everything they can to deprive Ukraine of its already weakened independence. At the moment, there are two things that the West should understand about the Ukrainian ultranationalists in the context of Euromaidan. 1. As I wrote before, in the article "The Ukrainian revolution is European and national", Euromaidan is, among other things, a national revolution against the Kremlin's imperialism and a nationalist uprising against Russia's destructive influence on Ukraine. The major share of support for the Ukrainian far right comes from those citizens who do not share far right views but urge for Ukraine's true independence. This means that it will only be possible to neutralise the far right after Ukraine gains national independence. The far right is being fuelled by the constant threat to the Ukrainian statehood rather than the alleged growth of extreme right views in the Ukrainian society. As Roger Griffin wrote in his Modernism and Fascism, the rise of fascism may occur, in particular, due to "occupation, colonization, or acts of aggression inflicted on [a society] by other societies" (p. 104). Thus, a fight against fascism in Ukraine should always be synonymous with the fight against the attempts to colonise the country. Those who separate these two issues or crack down on the Ukrainian far right without recognising the urgent need for national independence will never be successful in their attempts to neutralise the far right. Moreover, they can make the situation worse. Ultranationalist and anarchist symbols side by side on the battlefield 2. While the Ukrainian far right has indeed endorsed and used violence against Viktor Yanukovych's corrupt authoritarian regime and the brutal police who abuse and torture protesters, they are not the only violent force of Euromaidan. They are joined by many Ukrainian left-wingers and democrats who have become radicalised as a result of the lack of progress of non-violent resistance to the country's slipping into an outright dicatorship. The majority of the protesters who take to Kyiv's dead cold streets are tired of Yanukovych's cynical disregard of their demands and outraged about the police brutality. Their radicalisation is a sad response to the regime's policies and actions which gave an impetus to a non-aggression pact between the Ukrainian far left and far right who are now on the same side of the barricades. Those commentators who associate violence at Euromaidan exclusively with the far right are downplaying the causes of the radicalisation of the Euromaidan protests and - willingly or unwillingly - exonerating Yanukovych's authoritarian regime. On Jan 26, 2014, at 1:29 AM, Alexander Polunov wrote: > In 2012, Oleg Tyagnibok was included by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in the list of 20 most dangerous world ani-semines > > http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/1447395 > > > Суббота, 25 января 2014, 13:39 -05:00 от "Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)" : > Dear colleagues, > > For your information appeal of the international intellectual elite re. the events in Ukraine. > > Very best, > Oleh Kotsyuba > > http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny > > The Future of Ukraine > > The future of Ukraine depends most of all on the Ukrainians themselves. They defended their democracy and future 10 years ago, during the Orange Revolution, and are standing up for those values again today. As Europeans grow disenchanted with the idea of a common Europe, people in Ukraine are fighting for that idea and for their country's place in Europe. Defending Ukraine from the authoritarian temptations of its corrupt leaders is in the interests of the democratic world. > > We cannot afford to turn our back on Ukraine. The new authoritarians in Kyiv should know that there will be a high price to pay for their repressive policies and for abandoning the European aspirations of the people. It is not too late for us to change things for the better and prevent Ukraine from becoming a dictatorship. > > Passivity in the face of the authoritarian turn in Ukraine and the country's reintegration into a newly expanding Russian imperial sphere of interests pose a threat to the European Union’s integrity. It is a threat not just to the moral integrity of the Union but possibly to its internal institutional integrity as well. Alongside the diplomatic and economic measures taken by individual states and the entire EU, independent democratic initiatives should make efforts to defend victims of repression, support civil society and strengthen independent media. > > The quality of any democracy depends to a great extent on what its citizens know about their country and the world. In Ukraine, the picture of the world is shaped by the authorities, who control most of the mass media, and Russian television channels faithful to President Putin. For the sake of democracy, we must support and strengthen independent and pluralistic media in Ukraine. > > We must help strengthen civil society, especially the new initiatives that have arisen around the Maidan. No matter what the authorities say, the people fighting to keep their country's future open are not foreign agents – the only ones deserving that name are those pursuing a policy of mass repression to quash Ukraine's hopes of becoming a European democracy. > > The letter has been signed by: > > Andrew Arato, Professor of Political and Social Theory, New School for Social Research, United States > > Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel > Lluís Bassets, Deputy Director, El País, Spain > Zygmunt Bauman, Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom > Gianni Bonvicini, Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy > José Casanova, Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University, United States > Bogusław Chrabota, Editor-In-Chief of Rzeczpospolita daily, Poland > Aleš Debeljak, Poet and Cultural Critic, Slovenia > Tibor Dessewffy, President of the DEMOS Hungary > Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, former Foreign Minister, Chairman of the Baltic Development Forum, Denmark > Ute Frevert, Director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany > Paolo Flores d'Arcais, Philosopher and Journalist, Editor of MicroMega magazine, Italy > Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, Oxford University, United Kingdom > Carlos Gaspar, Chairman of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), Portugal > Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States > André Glucksmann, Philosopher and Writer, France > Jeff Goldfarb, Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research, United States > Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform, United Kingdom > Andrea Graziosi, Professor of History, University of Naples Federico II, Italy > Tomáš Halík, Professor of Sociology, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic > Pierre Hassner, Director of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, France > Agnieszka Holland, Film Director and Screenwriter, Poland > William Hunt, Professor of History, St. Lawrence University, United States > Suat Kiniklioglu, Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Communication, Turkey > Ira Katznelson, Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University, United States > János Kis, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Central European University, Hungary > Zenon E. Kohut, Professor of History, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada > David Koranyi, Diplomat, Former Undersecretary of State, Deputy Director Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Hungary-United States > Bernard Kouchner, Former Foreign Minister, France > Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria > Marcin Król, Professor of History of Ideas, Warsaw University, Poland > Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, United Kingdom > Sonja Licht, President of Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Serbia > Tomasz Lis, Editor-In-Chief of Newsweek Polska weekly , Poland > Adam Michnik, Editor-In-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza daily, Poland > Marie Mendras, Directeur de recherche, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France > Dominique Moïsi, Conseiller spécial de Institut français de relations internationales (l'IFRI), France > Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, United States > Piotr Mucharski, Editor-In-Chief of Tygodnik Powszechny weekly, Poland > Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations, United States > Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, United Kingdom > Ton Nijhuis, Director of the Duitsland Instituut, The Netherlands > Zbigniew Nosowski, Editor-In-Chief of Więź magazine, Poland > Claus Offe, Professor of Political Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Germany > Andrzej Olechowski, Former Foreign Minister, Poland > Monika Olejnik, Journalist, Poland > Andrés Ortega, Author and Journalist, Former Director of Policy Planning, Office of the Spanish Prime Minister, Spain > Ana Palacio, Former Foreign Minister, Former Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group, Spain > Šimon Pánek, Director of the People In Need, Czech Republic > Anton Pelinka, Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Austria-Hungary > Víctor Pérez-Díaz, President of Analistas Socio-Políticos (ASP), Spain > Marc F. Plattner, Editor, Journal of Democracy, United States > Ruprecht Polenz, Former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the German Bundestag, Germany > Adam Pomorski, President of the Polish PEN Club, Poland > László Rajk jr., Architect, Designer and Political Activist, Hungary > Joachim Rogall, Executive Director of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany > Adam Daniel Rotfeld , Former Foreign Minister, Poland > Jacques Rupnik, Directeur de recherche, Sciences Po, France > Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, United States > Gesine Schwan, President of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Germany > Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology New York University, United States > Narcis Serra, President of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Spain > Martin M. Šimečka, Journalist, Editor of Respekt weekly, Czech Republic > Sławomir Sierakowski, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Poland > Aleksander Smolar, Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland > Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University, United States > Andrzej Stasiuk, Writer, Poland > Fritz Stern, Professor of History, Columbia University, United States > Frank E. Sysyn, Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada > Jerzy Szacki, Professor of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland > Monika Sznajderman, Publisher, Publishing House Czarne, Poland > Roman Szporluk, Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University, United States > Paweł Świeboda, President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy, Poland > Paul Thibaud, Philosopher and Writer, France > Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy > Jordi Vaquer, Director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe, Spain > Tomas Venclova, Poet and Writer, Yale University, Lithuania-United States > António Vitorino, former European Commissioner, President of Notre Europe-Institut Jacques Delors, Portugal-France > George Weigel, Writer, Ethics and Public Policy Center, United States > Michel Wieviorka, Directeur d’études, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, d'études, France > Adam Zagajewski, Poet and Essayist, University of Chicago, Poland > Jacek Żakowski, Columnist, Polityka weekly , Poland > Slavoj Žižek, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, Slovenia-United Kingdom > > - See more at: http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny#sthash.FUWDRg5m.dpuf > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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URL: From devilsbit06 at YAHOO.COM Sun Jan 26 18:03:09 2014 From: devilsbit06 at YAHOO.COM (J P Maher) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:03:09 -0800 Subject: Death of Thomas Butler In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Truth is inflammatory? j p maher ________________________________ From: antje postema To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler Dear Prof. Maher, I would request that you keep these kind of inflammatory statements off of SEELANGS. Not only does such anecdotal revisionism have no place on a list like this at any time, it most certainly does not when tastelessly appended to obituary information. Thanks very much. -antje _________________ Antje Postema University of Chicago Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:10 AM, J P Maher wrote: Tom malso authored Monumenta Serbo-Croatica (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1980); > > >http://www.jstor.org.rwlib.neiu.edu:2048/action/showPublication?journalCode=wilsonq > > >This link is to Tom Butler's 1993 article "Yugoslavia, Mon Amour", echoing Resnais's film on Hiroshima... Butler was fair to all sides and critical in the best sense. I talked on the phone with him after reading this piece and advised him that he was ill-advised to believe the NY Times spin on  "the destruction of Dubrovnik" in 1991. I went there with a cameraman on 25 March 1992, three months after the "destruction". Totally rebuilt, as wags put it "more beautiful and older than before".  The only demolished building in the Old City was a palazzo across the way from the Orthodox church, belonging to the Croat artist Ivo Grbic. His shingle on the façade of the fire-gutted building in English and Serbian Cyrillic advertise ICONS ~IKONE. Surrounding houses were unscathed. The destruction was by plastique and incendiaries, laid on the spot, not by JNA navy guns. j p maher  > > > > > >________________________________ > From: Loren Billings >To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:11 PM >Subject: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler > > >Martha Forsyth recently posted in the Bulgarian Studies Association list: > >BEGIN >I am sorry to have to share the news I received yesterday, that Prof. >Thomas Butler passed away earlier this week, at age 84. > >Tom authored "Monumenta Bulgarica: A Bilingual Anthology of Bulgarian >Texts from the 9th to the 19th Centuries", published in 1996 by >University of Michigan as part of their Michigan Slavic Materials >collection. As he states in his Preface: "The operative assumption >throughout this book has been that if we wish to begin to understand a >nation, we must first come to terms with its cultural memory." The >texts begin with St. Constantine-Cyril's "Sermon on the translation fo >the relics of St. Clement of Rome" and continue through the 19th >century National Revival; also included are folklore materials - >songs, folktales, proverbs, riddles, and incantations. > >For Bulgarian Studies Association, however, I'm not sure if he was one >of the founding members, but he was certainly one of the early >members, holding the position of Secretary-Treasurer from 1978-1980. >END > >Catherine Rudin added (in a message to me), "I'm sure he was a >founding member; he organized the first conference, in 1972 or 73, >which I got to help out at as a very excited sophomore." Indeed, the >subtitle of the proceedings volume specifies the date: "Proceedings of >the First International Conference on Bulgarian Studies, held at the >University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 3-5, 1973" > >--Loren Billings > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >  Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription >  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: >                        http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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URL: From apolunov at MAIL.RU Sun Jan 26 18:30:53 2014 From: apolunov at MAIL.RU (=?UTF-8?B?QWxleGFuZGVyIFBvbHVub3Y=?=) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:30:53 +0400 Subject: The world's intellectual elite appeals not to turn back on Ukraine In-Reply-To: <231DB87A-331F-4FD4-8071-1A4585263C04@fas.harvard.edu> Message-ID: The No. 2 of the Ukrainian Freedom party allegedly played on the Maidan stage the part of a Kike who bribe and buy everybody http://izrus.co.il/diasporaIL/article/2014-01-20/23384.html   Воскресенье, 26 января 2014, 12:41 -05:00 от "Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)" : >Please read the following article by Anton Shekhovtsov who works on the Ukrainian far right movement: > >http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.co.at/2014/01/what-west-should-know-about-euromaidans.html > >Many in the West, are asking questions about the involvement of the Ukrainian ultranationalists in the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv. Some allegedly left-wing web-sites, such as the World Socialist Web Site, publish  blatant lies  about the Euromaidan protests and the role that the far right is playing in them. These web-sites are trying to appease Russian imperialists who are doing everything they can to deprive Ukraine of its already weakened independence. > >At the moment, there are two things that the West should understand about the Ukrainian ultranationalists in the context of Euromaidan. > >1. As I wrote before, in the article " The Ukrainian revolution is European and national ", Euromaidan is,  among other things , a national revolution against the Kremlin's imperialism and a nationalist uprising against Russia's destructive influence on Ukraine. The major share of support for the Ukrainian far right comes from those citizens who do not share far right views but urge for Ukraine's true independence. This means that it will only be possible to neutralise the far right  after  Ukraine gains national independence. The far right is being fuelled by the constant threat to the Ukrainian statehood rather than the alleged growth of extreme right views in the Ukrainian society. As Roger Griffin wrote in his  Modernism and Fascism , the rise of fascism may occur, in particular, due to  "occupation, colonization, or acts of aggression inflicted on [a society] by other societies" (p. 104). Thus, a fight against fascism in Ukraine should always be synonymous with the fight against the attempts to colonise the country. Those who separate these two issues or crack down on the Ukrainian far right without recognising the urgent need for national independence will never be successful in their attempts to neutralise the far right. Moreover, they can make the situation worse. > >Ultranationalist and anarchist symbols side by side on the battlefield 2. While the Ukrainian far right has indeed endorsed and used violence against Viktor Yanukovych's corrupt authoritarian regime and the brutal police who  abuse and torture protesters , they are not the only violent force of Euromaidan. They are joined by many Ukrainian left-wingers and democrats who have become radicalised as a result of the lack of progress of non-violent resistance to the country's slipping into an outright dicatorship. The majority of the protesters who take to Kyiv's dead cold streets are tired of Yanukovych's cynical disregard of their demands and outraged about the police brutality. Their radicalisation is a sad response to the regime's policies and actions which gave an impetus to a non-aggression pact between the Ukrainian far left and far right who are now on the same side of the barricades. Those commentators who associate violence at Euromaidan exclusively with the far right are downplaying the causes of the radicalisation of the Euromaidan protests and - willingly or unwillingly - exonerating Yanukovych's authoritarian regime. > > > >On Jan 26, 2014, at 1:29 AM, Alexander Polunov < apolunov at MAIL.RU > wrote: >>In 2012, Oleg Tyagnibok was included by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in the list of 20 most dangerous world ani-semines >> >>http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/1447395 >> >> >>Суббота, 25 января 2014, 13:39 -05:00 от "Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)" < kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU >: >>>Dear colleagues, >>> >>>For your information appeal of the international intellectual elite re. the events in Ukraine. >>> >>>Very best, >>>Oleh Kotsyuba >>> >>>http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny >>> >>>The Future of Ukraine >>>The future of Ukraine depends most of all on the Ukrainians themselves. They defended their democracy and future 10 years ago, during the Orange Revolution, and are standing up for those values again today. As Europeans grow disenchanted with the idea of a common Europe, people in Ukraine are fighting for that idea and for their country's place in Europe. Defending Ukraine from the authoritarian temptations of its corrupt leaders is in the interests of the democratic world. >>>We cannot afford to turn our back on Ukraine. The new authoritarians in Kyiv should know that there will be a high price to pay for their repressive policies and for abandoning the European aspirations of the people. It is not too late for us to change things for the better and prevent Ukraine from becoming a dictatorship. >>>Passivity in the face of the authoritarian turn in Ukraine and the country's reintegration into a newly expanding Russian imperial sphere of interests pose a threat to the European Union’s integrity. It is a threat not just to the moral integrity of the Union but possibly to its internal institutional integrity as well. Alongside the diplomatic and economic measures taken by individual states and the entire EU, independent democratic initiatives should make efforts to defend victims of repression, support civil society and strengthen independent media. >>>The quality of any democracy depends to a great extent on what its citizens know about their country and the world. In Ukraine, the picture of the world is shaped by the authorities, who control most of the mass media, and Russian television channels faithful to President Putin. For the sake of democracy, we must support and strengthen independent and pluralistic media in Ukraine. >>>We must help strengthen civil society, especially the new initiatives that have arisen around the Maidan. No matter what the authorities say, the people fighting to keep their country's future open are not foreign agents – the only ones deserving that name are those pursuing a policy of mass repression to quash Ukraine's hopes of becoming a European democracy. >>>The letter has been signed by: >>>Andrew Arato, Professor of Political and Social Theory, New School for Social Research, United States >>>Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel >>>Lluís Bassets, Deputy Director, El País, Spain >>>Zygmunt Bauman, Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom >>>Gianni Bonvicini, Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy >>>José Casanova, Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University, United States >>>Bogusław Chrabota, Editor-In-Chief of Rzeczpospolita daily, Poland >>>Aleš Debeljak, Poet and Cultural Critic, Slovenia >>>Tibor Dessewffy, President of the DEMOS Hungary >>>Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, former Foreign Minister, Chairman of the Baltic Development Forum, Denmark >>>Ute Frevert, Director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany >>>Paolo Flores d'Arcais, Philosopher and Journalist, Editor of MicroMega magazine, Italy >>>Timothy Garton Ash,  Professor of European Studies, Oxford University, United Kingdom >>>Carlos Gaspar, Chairman of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), Portugal >>>Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States >>>André Glucksmann, Philosopher and Writer, France >>>Jeff Goldfarb, Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research, United States >>>Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform, United Kingdom >>>Andrea Graziosi, Professor of History, University of Naples Federico II, Italy >>>Tomáš Halík, Professor of Sociology, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic >>>Pierre Hassner, Director of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, France >>>Agnieszka Holland, Film Director and Screenwriter, Poland >>>William Hunt, Professor of History, St. Lawrence University, United States >>>Suat Kiniklioglu, Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Communication, Turkey >>>Ira Katznelson, Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University, United States >>>János Kis, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Central European University, Hungary >>>Zenon E. Kohut, Professor of History, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada >>>David Koranyi, Diplomat, Former Undersecretary of State, Deputy Director Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Hungary-United States >>>Bernard Kouchner, Former Foreign Minister, France >>>Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria >>>Marcin Król, Professor of History of Ideas, Warsaw University, Poland >>>Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, United Kingdom >>>Sonja Licht, President of Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Serbia >>>Tomasz Lis, Editor-In-Chief of Newsweek Polska weekly , Poland >>>Adam Michnik, Editor-In-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza daily, Poland >>>Marie Mendras, Directeur de recherche, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France >>>Dominique Moïsi, Conseiller spécial de Institut français de relations internationales (l'IFRI), France >>>Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, United States >>>Piotr Mucharski, Editor-In-Chief of Tygodnik Powszechny weekly, Poland >>>Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations, United States >>>Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, United Kingdom >>>Ton Nijhuis, Director of the Duitsland Instituut, The Netherlands >>>Zbigniew Nosowski, Editor-In-Chief of Więź magazine, Poland >>>Claus Offe, Professor of Political Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Germany >>>Andrzej Olechowski, Former Foreign Minister, Poland >>>Monika Olejnik, Journalist, Poland >>>Andrés Ortega, Author and Journalist, Former Director of Policy Planning, Office of the Spanish Prime Minister, Spain >>>Ana Palacio, Former Foreign Minister, Former Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group, Spain >>>Šimon Pánek, Director of the People In Need, Czech Republic >>>Anton Pelinka, Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Austria-Hungary >>>Víctor Pérez-Díaz, President of Analistas Socio-Políticos (ASP),  Spain >>>Marc F. Plattner, Editor, Journal of Democracy, United States >>>Ruprecht Polenz, Former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the German Bundestag, Germany >>>Adam Pomorski, President of the Polish PEN Club, Poland >>>László Rajk jr., Architect, Designer and Political Activist, Hungary >>>Joachim Rogall, Executive Director of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany >>>Adam Daniel Rotfeld , Former Foreign Minister, Poland >>>Jacques Rupnik, Directeur de recherche, Sciences Po, France >>>Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, United States >>>Gesine Schwan, President of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Germany >>>Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology New York University, United States >>>Narcis Serra, President of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Spain >>>Martin M. Šimečka, Journalist, Editor of Respekt weekly,  Czech Republic >>>Sławomir Sierakowski, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Poland >>>Aleksander Smolar, Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland >>>Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University,  United States >>>Andrzej Stasiuk, Writer, Poland >>>Fritz Stern, Professor of History, Columbia University,  United States >>>Frank E. Sysyn, Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada >>>Jerzy Szacki, Professor of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland >>>Monika Sznajderman, Publisher, Publishing House Czarne, Poland >>>Roman Szporluk, Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University, United States >>>Paweł Świeboda, President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy, Poland >>>Paul Thibaud, Philosopher and Writer, France >>>Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy >>>Jordi Vaquer, Director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe, Spain >>>Tomas Venclova, Poet and Writer, Yale University, Lithuania-United States >>>António Vitorino, former European Commissioner, President of Notre Europe-Institut Jacques Delors, Portugal-France >>>George Weigel, Writer, Ethics and Public Policy Center, United States >>>Michel Wieviorka, Directeur d’études,  École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, d'études, France >>>Adam Zagajewski, Poet and Essayist, University of Chicago, Poland >>>Jacek Żakowski, Columnist,  Polityka weekly , Poland >>>Slavoj Žižek, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, Slovenia-United Kingdom - See more at: http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny#sthash.FUWDRg5m.dpuf >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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He overtaxes them, and they all keel over dead at the same time as he reaches his destination. Trotsky somehow ends up lying in the snow, weeping, and making a vow to himself to start a revolution at all costs. Apparently Murakami tells this story in his most recent novel, and mentions a monument to these reindeer in Red Square that apparently, according to Murakami, even Stalin didn't dare take down. Is any of this based on even the smallest grain of truth (apart from the fact, that is, that Trotsky used reindeer to escape from Siberia to Finland in 1907, as Robert Service describes in his recent biography)? (please reply off-list to yuricorrigan at gmail.com.) Many thanks in advance. Best, Yuri ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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URL: From antic at PITT.EDU Sun Jan 26 18:56:31 2014 From: antic at PITT.EDU (Marina Antic) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:56:31 -0500 Subject: Death of Thomas Butler Message-ID: There have been incidents on this list that resulted in folks with far less objectionable "truths" leaving the list.  As a result,  certain political discussions have been off limits.  Moderators, would you please do us a favor and do the same with this particular thread?  Best,  Marina Antic  Sent from Samsung tablet -------- Original message -------- From: J P Maher Date: 01/26/2014 1:03 PM (GMT-05:00) To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler Truth is inflammatory? j p maher From: antje postema To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler Dear Prof. Maher, I would request that you keep these kind of inflammatory statements off of SEELANGS. Not only does such anecdotal revisionism have no place on a list like this at any time, it most certainly does not when tastelessly appended to obituary information. Thanks very much. -antje _________________ Antje Postema University of Chicago Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:10 AM, J P Maher wrote: Tom malso authored Monumenta Serbo-Croatica (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1980); http://www.jstor.org.rwlib.neiu.edu:2048/action/showPublication?journalCode=wilsonq This link is to Tom Butler's 1993 article "Yugoslavia, Mon Amour", echoing Resnais's film on Hiroshima... Butler was fair to all sides and critical in the best sense. I talked on the phone with him after reading this piece and advised him that he was ill-advised to believe the NY Times spin on  "the destruction of Dubrovnik" in 1991. I went there with a cameraman on 25 March 1992, three months after the "destruction". Totally rebuilt, as wags put it "more beautiful and older than before".  The only demolished building in the Old City was a palazzo across the way from the Orthodox church, belonging to the Croat artist Ivo Grbic. His shingle on the façade of the fire-gutted building in English and Serbian Cyrillic advertise ICONS ~IKONE. Surrounding houses were unscathed. The destruction was by plastique and incendiaries, laid on the spot, not by JNA navy guns. j p maher  From: Loren Billings To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:11 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler Martha Forsyth recently posted in the Bulgarian Studies Association list: BEGIN I am sorry to have to share the news I received yesterday, that Prof. Thomas Butler passed away earlier this week, at age 84. Tom authored "Monumenta Bulgarica: A Bilingual Anthology of Bulgarian Texts from the 9th to the 19th Centuries", published in 1996 by University of Michigan as part of their Michigan Slavic Materials collection. As he states in his Preface: "The operative assumption throughout this book has been that if we wish to begin to understand a nation, we must first come to terms with its cultural memory." The texts begin with St. Constantine-Cyril's "Sermon on the translation fo the relics of St. Clement of Rome" and continue through the 19th century National Revival; also included are folklore materials - songs, folktales, proverbs, riddles, and incantations. For Bulgarian Studies Association, however, I'm not sure if he was one of the founding members, but he was certainly one of the early members, holding the position of Secretary-Treasurer from 1978-1980. END Catherine Rudin added (in a message to me), "I'm sure he was a founding member; he organized the first conference, in 1972 or 73, which I got to help out at as a very excited sophomore." Indeed, the subtitle of the proceedings volume specifies the date: "Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bulgarian Studies, held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 3-5, 1973" --Loren Billings -------------------------------------------------------------------------   Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription   options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:                         http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Tom created his own NGO, Builders for Peace, and for more than ten years, and well into an stage of life that for nearly everyone is retirement, led summer service trips to BiH. The work evolved over the years from actual rebuilding and restoration projects—the Karadjoz-Beg Mosque in Mostar and the Franciscan library in Fojnica—to more recently, the teaching of English in Gračanica. A number of Boston College students went to BiH with Tom, and went on to work in other NGOs, at the International Criminal Tribunal, and in various agencies of the State Department. Tom Butler made significant contributions to Slavic, but he will be remembered at Boston College even more as a dedicated and indefatigable teacher and humanitarian. 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URL: From kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Sun Jan 26 19:56:40 2014 From: kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:56:40 -0500 Subject: The world's intellectual elite appeals not to turn back on Ukraine In-Reply-To: <1390761053.358364025@f359.i.mail.ru> Message-ID: The issue is much more complex than expressions of everyday antisemitism in Ukraine. Please read the open letter from a group of Ukrainian human rights activists, writers, journalist and so on. Full list available here: http://krytyka.com/ua/community/blogs/my-ne-ekstremisty-vidkrytyy-lyst We are not extremists! Open letter of the Ukrainian scholars, scientists, artists, doctors, lawyers, pedagogues and journalists to their fellow citizens and to the international community. In the past several days, the protests of Ukrainians against the policies of the Ukrainian government have taken on a new quality. The peaceful demonstrations turned into a forceful confrontation between the protesters and the police. For the past six days, in the government quarter at the heart of Kyiv, on Hrushevskyi Street, genuine battles between the demonstrators and the police have been going on, with hundreds of wounded and several deaths. The government in Ukraine is trying to frame the situation as progroms initiated by the extremist, radical rightist organizations, Ukrainian neofascists, mostly from the Western regions of Ukraine. We are moderate people, peaceful professionals, of varied ethnic origin, from various regions of Ukraine. We do not sympathize with the right-wing radical organizations, let alone being their members. We do not think that throwing Molotov cocktails or stones can serve as adequate instruments for protecting one's values. Despite this, we declare our solidarity with those, who have been forced to use these instruments today. We are convinced: the overwhelming majority of the protesters does not belong to any extremist organizations. A 21 year old farmer from Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Nigoyan, who was shot in Hrushevskyi Street, was not a member of such organizations, neither was a 50 year old Ph.D. (physical and mathematical sciences), Yuriy Verbytskyi, a seismologist from L'viv region, wounded in Hrushevskyi Street, kidnapped by unknown subjects, and taken to a forest, where he died. The turn from hitherto unprecedented massive and peaceful protests to radical ways of expressing one's position was forced upon the protesters by the policies of the Ukrainian government, which demonstrates utter disregard for the interests of Ukrainian citizens, ignores their opinions and uses violence against the peaceful protesters. The last straw that broke the camel's back and provoked the battle in downtown Kyiv was the blatant attempt to usurp power by the faction of the Party of Regions in the national legislature. On January 16th, violating the established parliamentary procedure and practically without a genuine vote count, that faction adopted bills that severely violate the Constitution and the international human rights standards. The President, instead of imposing a veto, signed these laws the following day. It was the government of Ukraine, which was quickly losing any remaining semblance of legitimacy, that radicalized people that never belonged to any extremist groups. The government left the protesters no other choice. That is why the attempts to portray the protesters as fascist-like extremists is nothing but a ruse, a manipulation and a falsification on the part of the government, designed to absolve itself of responsibility for the clashes in center city Kyiv and to form the corresponding public opinion about the anti-governmental protests, both among the Ukrainians and the citizens and politicians of other nations. All that is being done with express purpose of creating an informational background favorable to the forceful crackdown on the protests. Simultaneously, though, we proclaim that the continuation of such forceful confrontation will lead to more violence and more casualties. To stop the escalation of violence, the government must remove the special forces of the Ministry of the Interior and soldiers of the Interior Militia, which were brought to Kyiv, must stop criminal persecutions of the protesters and strike down the shameful laws adopted on January 16th, afterward arranging for genuine, not just decorative, negotiations with the opposition, including the representatives of the civil society. Signed by: Yevhen Zakharov, Director of Kharkiv Human Rights Group, Kharkiv; Serhiy Zhadan, writer, Kharkiv; Viktor Pushkar, social psychologist, Ph.D. (psychological sciences), scientific director of IC «Maidan Monitoring», Kyiv; Oleksander Severyn, attorney at law, J.D. (legal sciences), legal consultant of IC «Maidan Monitoring», Kyiv; and many others. - See more at: http://krytyka.com/ua/community/blogs/my-ne-ekstremisty-vidkrytyy-lyst#sthash.7pMXt9as.dpuf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zmandusic at UCHICAGO.EDU Sun Jan 26 20:19:02 2014 From: zmandusic at UCHICAGO.EDU (Zdenko Mandusic) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:19:02 +0000 Subject: Death of Thomas Butler In-Reply-To: <1390759389.19540.YahooMailNeo@web184701.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: It's hard to understand (or actually quite obvious) what one qualifies as 'truth' if they are a 'Team member' and contributor to a blog called "1389 - Counteriihad!". ________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at listserv.ua.edu] on behalf of J P Maher [devilsbit06 at YAHOO.COM] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 12:03 PM To: SEELANGS at listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler Truth is inflammatory? j p maher From: antje postema To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler Dear Prof. Maher, I would request that you keep these kind of inflammatory statements off of SEELANGS. Not only does such anecdotal revisionism have no place on a list like this at any time, it most certainly does not when tastelessly appended to obituary information. Thanks very much. -antje _________________ Antje Postema University of Chicago Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:10 AM, J P Maher wrote: Tom malso authored Monumenta Serbo-Croatica (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1980); http://www.jstor.org.rwlib.neiu.edu:2048/action/showPublication?journalCode=wilsonq This link is to Tom Butler's 1993 article "Yugoslavia, Mon Amour", echoing Resnais's film on Hiroshima... Butler was fair to all sides and critical in the best sense. I talked on the phone with him after reading this piece and advised him that he was ill-advised to believe the NY Times spin on "the destruction of Dubrovnik" in 1991. I went there with a cameraman on 25 March 1992, three months after the "destruction". Totally rebuilt, as wags put it "more beautiful and older than before". The only demolished building in the Old City was a palazzo across the way from the Orthodox church, belonging to the Croat artist Ivo Grbic. His shingle on the façade of the fire-gutted building in English and Serbian Cyrillic advertise ICONS ~IKONE. Surrounding houses were unscathed. The destruction was by plastique and incendiaries, laid on the spot, not by JNA navy guns. j p maher From: Loren Billings > To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:11 PM Subject: [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler Martha Forsyth recently posted in the Bulgarian Studies Association list: BEGIN I am sorry to have to share the news I received yesterday, that Prof. Thomas Butler passed away earlier this week, at age 84. Tom authored "Monumenta Bulgarica: A Bilingual Anthology of Bulgarian Texts from the 9th to the 19th Centuries", published in 1996 by University of Michigan as part of their Michigan Slavic Materials collection. As he states in his Preface: "The operative assumption throughout this book has been that if we wish to begin to understand a nation, we must first come to terms with its cultural memory." The texts begin with St. Constantine-Cyril's "Sermon on the translation fo the relics of St. Clement of Rome" and continue through the 19th century National Revival; also included are folklore materials - songs, folktales, proverbs, riddles, and incantations. For Bulgarian Studies Association, however, I'm not sure if he was one of the founding members, but he was certainly one of the early members, holding the position of Secretary-Treasurer from 1978-1980. END Catherine Rudin added (in a message to me), "I'm sure he was a founding member; he organized the first conference, in 1972 or 73, which I got to help out at as a very excited sophomore." Indeed, the subtitle of the proceedings volume specifies the date: "Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bulgarian Studies, held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 3-5, 1973" --Loren Billings ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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It is fundamental reading for any student of “Yugoslavia” and beyond. > > Yet, Tom’s second calling was that of a humanitarian, dedicated to alleviating in some real sense the losses of the Bosnian war and the continuing struggles in the aftermath. Tom created his own NGO, Builders for Peace, and for more than ten years, and well into an stage of life that for nearly everyone is retirement, led summer service trips to BiH. The work evolved over the years from actual rebuilding and restoration projects—the Karadjoz-Beg Mosque in Mostar and the Franciscan library in Fojnica—to more recently, the teaching of English in Gračanica. A number of Boston College students went to BiH with Tom, and went on to work in other NGOs, at the International Criminal Tribunal, and in various agencies of the State Department. > > Tom Butler made significant contributions to Slavic, but he will be remembered at Boston College even more as a dedicated and indefatigable teacher and humanitarian. > > > Cynthia Simmons > Professor of Slavic Studies > Director of Undergraduate Studies > Department of Slavic and Eastern > Languages and Literatures > Lyons Hall 210 > Boston College > 140 Commonwealth Ave. > Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 > Phone: 617/552-3914 > Fax: 617/552-3913 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From aimee.m.roebuck-johnson at NASA.GOV Mon Jan 27 15:18:19 2014 From: aimee.m.roebuck-johnson at NASA.GOV (Roebuck-Johnson, Aimee M. (JSC-AH)[TECHTRANS INTERNATIONAL, INC.]) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:18:19 +0000 Subject: Translating Russian particles into English Message-ID: Dear Mr. Hayden, I'm responding to your request for resources related to translating Russian particles into English. Below are some resources that I've found useful. Aimee Roebuck-Johnson More practical: http://russianlearn.com/grammar/category/particles http://www.amazon.com/Minchenkov-particles-translated-Allowance-chastitsy/dp/5816800582 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Particles-Colloquial-Russian-N-Vasilyeva/dp/1410203336 (I have found this one particularly useful.) More theoretical: http://russkiy-na-5.ru/articles/294 http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0_%D0%B2_%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B5 http://nashol.com/2011122762588/chastici.html http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~korbay/esslli01-wsh/Jolli/Final/mccoy.pdf http://books.google.com/books?id=UFjpTEgsPfkC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=Russian+particles+in+English+grammar&source=bl&ots=YtlJEDCbqt&sig=wwOPcGnYxmu73AQcyADJNLBB4ZM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UHXmUv76F-amygGT0YCYCw&ved=0CF0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Russian%20particles%20in%20English%20grammar&f=false ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Elena Petroska ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Laura Olson Osterman [lolson at COLORADO.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:13 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] discussant needed -- Ethnic Identity in Multicultural Society Oh sorry, forgot to add -- this is for ASEEES 2014. --Laura On 1/14/14, 11:07 PM, "Laura Olson Osterman" wrote: >Dear colleagues, >At the 11th hour we're looking for a discussant for a panel on Ethnic >Identity in a Multicultural Society -- it is truly interdisciplinary, >dealing with rituals, literature, music, dance, and material culture, in >the contexts of diaspora communities (Ukrainians in Canada and Russians in >Germany) and a multicultural area in Macedonia. All three papers take an >ethnographic perspective (see below). >Should be a fun panel. >Thanks!! >Laura Osterman > > >1) Breininger-Umetayeva, Olga , PhD Candidate, Harvard University >"Diaspora Identity in a Multicultural Society >(a case study of the contemporary Russian diaspora in Germany)" > > >2) Dave Wilson:The Galičnik Wedding and State-Sponsored Ritual in the >Republic of Macedonia > . >3) KONONENKO, Natalie. University of Alberta >LINKING OBJECTS: CONSTRUCTING UKRAINIAN CANADIAN IDENTITY > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Sibelan Forrester wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Passing on this call for submissions, directed at YOUR students: the > deadline is February 28, giving them just time to translate some nice short > SF story from Russian, or Polish, or Romanian... > > Thanks for your attention, and best wishes for the weekend - > > Sibelan > > > Forwarded message: > > Hello. > My name is Pepe Rojo. I'm a science fiction writer from Mexico, and I am > studying an MFA in Writing at UCSD. My duties include editing Alchemy, > UCSD's journal of translation (along with Paola Capó-García), and we are > preparing for our Spring 2014 issue, which will include a special > section called GLOBAL SCIENCE FICTION where we want to publish science > fiction from all over the world. > Alchemy only publishes translations made by students under the advisory > of a teacher or faculty advisor. Here's a link to our submissions > guidelines . > > We would really love to include some Eastern Europe Science Fiction > translations in our issue, and we are asking for advice and support on the > matter. > Thanks a lot. > > Pepe Rojo > Editor, Alchemy > www.alchemy.ucsd.edu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals" http://pbg-translations.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From emilka at MAC.COM Mon Jan 27 22:33:55 2014 From: emilka at MAC.COM (Emily Saunders) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:33:55 -0800 Subject: Cyrillic Cursive Fonts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I have been using primo fonts that I downloaded at this website: http://nekin.info/e24.htm What it took me waaay too long to figure out is that you download a Word template that has a macro embedded in it. You type out what you want, then select the portion you wish to turn into cursive, go Tools > Macros > Run Macro > To Primo. And voila! you have your прописи. The macro fills in the connecting lines. Without running the macro you have gobblegook (which confused me way longer than it should have). I cannot comment on the security of the site, but all google searches for прописи sent me there, and lots of Russian internet forums praised it highly, so... I can't tell that it's harmed my machine any worse than it was before I started using it. Hope this helps! Emily Saunders blendedschools.net On Jan 27, 2014, at 1:22 PM, Spencer Robinson wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying to find a Cyrillic cursive font to use to help students read handwriting. Do you have any font recommendations and/or trustworthy internet sites where such fonts can be downloaded? > > Thank you so much, > Spencer Robinson > > -- > S. Spencer Robinson > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From opitzc at TCD.IE Mon Jan 27 23:28:11 2014 From: opitzc at TCD.IE (Conny Opitz) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:28:11 +0000 Subject: Cyrillic Cursive Fonts In-Reply-To: <8AA6CFEE-4606-4B8C-8592-C9D436788276@mac.com> Message-ID: Hi Spencer, Some years ago I bought a font called propisi (propisi.tff) for not too much money - it apparently was developed for Russian school kids ( http://www.fonts.com/font/paratype/propisi#product_top), and is a really lovely handwriting font because it is not too "frilly". That site sells the font for €19 - that sounds more than I remember paying, but maybe it was. It's offered for $25 on http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/paratype/propisi/. Quite a few other sites apparently offer the font free (conditionally?): http://www.911fonts.com/font/download_Propisi_42715.htm http://www.4shared.com/file/SrBupm2-/Propisi.html http://www.free-fonts.com/font/propisi.html Unfortunately, I don't remember where I downloaded it from, and I can't comment on the security of the sites above, but once I had it was really easy, and worked like a treat. The font downloads into a folder, which I keep with all my installation files. You then just copy the .ttf file out of that folder into the Windows fonts folder (Control Panel > Fonts - you may have to select "Traditional view" if you don't see the Fonts folder straight off). There has been no damage to my machine (perhaps it's worth paying out to avoid what might come along with the free versions.) In Word, the font comes up in the alphabetically correct place in the font dropdown list, but the name appears as spaces, an o and two hard signs (doesn't stop it from working fine). The only thing some may have reservations about is that "o" always ties at the bottom with this font, but I have found that that works ok for the initial stage - helps avoid students' attempts at illegitimate letter combinations - you can always point out later that sometimes o may be joined at the top. Hope this helps. Conny On 27 January 2014 22:33, Emily Saunders wrote: > I have been using primo fonts that I downloaded at this website: > http://nekin.info/e24.htm > > What it took me waaay too long to figure out is that you download a Word > template that has a macro embedded in it. You type out what you want, then > select the portion you wish to turn into cursive, go Tools > Macros > Run > Macro > To Primo. And voila! you have your прописи. The macro fills in > the connecting lines. Without running the macro you have gobblegook (which > confused me way longer than it should have). > > I cannot comment on the security of the site, but all google searches for > прописи sent me there, and lots of Russian internet forums praised it > highly, so... I can't tell that it's harmed my machine any worse than it > was before I started using it. > > Hope this helps! > > Emily Saunders > blendedschools.net > > On Jan 27, 2014, at 1:22 PM, Spencer Robinson wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I am trying to find a Cyrillic cursive font to use to help students read > handwriting. Do you have any font recommendations and/or trustworthy > internet sites where such fonts can be downloaded? > > > > Thank you so much, > > Spencer Robinson > > > > -- > > S. Spencer Robinson > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From svetgmcc at YAHOO.COM Mon Jan 27 23:39:14 2014 From: svetgmcc at YAHOO.COM (Svetlana McCoy-Rusanova) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:39:14 -0600 Subject: Translating Russian particles into English Message-ID: While working on my dissertation on –to, zhe, and ved’, I, too, found Vasilieva’s book as a comprehensive and insightful source (at least in an older, descriptive sense): Vasilyeva, A. N. 1972. Particles in Colloquial Russian: Manual for English-Speaking Students of Russian. Moscow: Progress Publishers. A detailed bibliography on particles can be found at: http://rci.rutgers.edu/~smccoy/dissertation.html (with a full text of the dissertation, including a review of some sources). Best wishes to all, Svetlana McCoy-Rusanova Rutgers U. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM Mon Jan 27 23:45:00 2014 From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:45:00 -0500 Subject: Cyrillic Cursive Fonts In-Reply-To: <8AA6CFEE-4606-4B8C-8592-C9D436788276@mac.com> Message-ID: Emily Saunders wrote: > I have been using primo fonts that I downloaded at this website: > > > What it took me waaay too long to figure out is that you download a > Word template that has a macro embedded in it. You type out what you > want, then select the portion you wish to turn into cursive, go Tools > > Macros > Run Macro > To Primo. And voila! you have your прописи. > The macro fills in the connecting lines. Without running the macro > you have gobblegook (which confused me way longer than it should > have). > > I cannot comment on the security of the site, but all google searches > for прописи sent me there, and lots of Russian internet forums > praised it highly, so... I can't tell that it's harmed my machine > any worse than it was before I started using it. That may well be a good solution for your needs, but as an advocate of KISS, I prefer something simpler: enter the text in Russian and select a script font. Of course, I use the default Cyrillic keyboard built into Windows, so Word instantly knows as I type that this is Russian. One widely available script font that includes Cyrillic characters is Mistral. It looks a bit "sloppy" as handwriting goes, but if you take a sentence like Попробуем писать русским шрифтом. and mark it as Mistral you'll see that the characters are natural and linked as they should be. A somewhat neater hand is Segoe Script. I'm sure there are other TrueType fonts available for downloading on the Web. Computer systems vary, but on my Win7 Pro SP1 system using Word 2010, here's an easy strategy for finding usable fonts: 1) Type a sentence in Russian. 2) Select the sentence. 3) In the "Font" area of the "Home" tab on the ribbon, you'll see a pull-down box listing the current font, probably Times New Roman or some other plain-vanilla American font. Click the downward-pointing triangle at the right end of the font name and you'll get a long list of fonts, each name displayed in that font. 4) Scroll through the list, looking for fonts with the text "Ёё Жж Йй Фф Щщ" in script to the right of the font name. Fonts that don't display this text don't include Cyrillic glyphs, and fonts that display this text in nonscript form are not script fonts. [Note: This doesn't work unless you've selected some text formatted as Russian. It doesn't matter if you use Russian characters, what matters is that Word's language format specifies Russian] 5) Select a font you like and you're done. Note: If the fonts are all displayed in the same default font, you'll need to change a setting. I just wasted 20 minutes poking around looking for it in vain; fortunately when I upgraded from Word 2003 the installer imported my settings. Instructions for displaying font names in their own fonts in older (pre-ribbon) versions of Word (2003/2000): -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher pbg translations, inc. 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Bezyaeva: http://books.google.ca/books?id=bN8YAQAAIAAJ&dq=%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B7%D1%8F%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iAfnUoOJJOTW2AW7gIGgDw&redir_esc=y Безяева, М.Г., Семантика коммуникативного уровня звучащего языка: волеизъявление и выражение желания говорящего в русском диалоге Communicative semantic of particles is quite different from what traditional grammar books declare, yet the explanatory power of the communicative approach is very strong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From dziadevych at UKR.NET Tue Jan 28 05:30:15 2014 From: dziadevych at UKR.NET (tetiana dziadevych) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:30:15 +0200 Subject: [SEELANGS] The world's intellectual elite appeals not to turn back on Ukraine In-Reply-To: <1390761053.358364025@f359.i.mail.ru> Message-ID: Here is also an important note: http://evreiskiy.kiev.ua/obrashhenie-k-prezidentu-ukrainy-i-12689.html --- Оригінальне повідомлення --- Від кого: Alexander Polunov < apolunov at MAIL.RU > Дата: 26 січня 2014, 20:33:20 The No. 2 of the Ukrainian Freedom party allegedly played on the Maidan stage the part of a Kike who bribe and buy everybody http://izrus.co.il/diasporaIL/article/2014-01-20/23384.html   Воскресенье, 26 января 2014, 12:41 -05:00 от "Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)" < kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU >: Please read the following article by Anton Shekhovtsov who works on the Ukrainian far right movement: http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.co.at/2014/01/what-west-should-know-about-euromaidans.html Many in the West, are asking questions about the involvement of the Ukrainian ultranationalists in the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv. Some allegedly left-wing web-sites, such as the World Socialist Web Site, publish  blatant lies  about the Euromaidan protests and the role that the far right is playing in them. These web-sites are trying to appease Russian imperialists who are doing everything they can to deprive Ukraine of its already weakened independence. At the moment, there are two things that the West should understand about the Ukrainian ultranationalists in the context of Euromaidan. 1. As I wrote before, in the article " The Ukrainian revolution is European and national ", Euromaidan is,  among other things , a national revolution against the Kremlin's imperialism and a nationalist uprising against Russia's destructive influence on Ukraine. The major share of support for the Ukrainian far right comes from those citizens who do not share far right views but urge for Ukraine's true independence. This means that it will only be possible to neutralise the far right  after  Ukraine gains national independence. The far right is being fuelled by the constant threat to the Ukrainian statehood rather than the alleged growth of extreme right views in the Ukrainian society. As Roger Griffin wrote in his  Modernism and Fascism , the rise of fascism may occur, in particular, due to  "occupation, colonization, or acts of aggression inflicted on [a society] by other societies" (p. 104). Thus, a fight against fascism in Ukraine should always be synonymous with the fight ag ainst the attempts to colonise the country. Those who separate these two issues or crack down on the Ukrainian far right without recognising the urgent need for national independence will never be successful in their attempts to neutralise the far right. Moreover, they can make the situation worse. Ultranationalist and anarchist symbols side by side on the battlefield 2. While the Ukrainian far right has indeed endorsed and used violence against Viktor Yanukovych's corrupt authoritarian regime and the brutal police who  abuse and torture protesters , they are not the only violent force of Euromaidan. They are joined by many Ukrainian left-wingers and democrats who have become radicalised as a result of the lack of progress of non-violent resistance to the country's slipping into an outright dicatorship. The majority of the protesters who take to Kyiv's dead cold streets are tired of Yanukovych's cynical disregard of their demands and outraged about the police brutality. Their radicalisation is a sad response to the regime's policies and actions which gave an impetus to a non-aggression pact between the Ukrainian far left and far right who are now on the same side of the barricades. Those commentators who associate violence at Euromaidan exclusively with the far right are downp laying the causes of the radicalisation of the Euromaidan protests and - willingly or unwillingly - exonerating Yanukovych's authoritarian regime. On Jan 26, 2014, at 1:29 AM, Alexander Polunov < apolunov at MAIL.RU > wrote: In 2012, Oleg Tyagnibok was included by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in the list of 20 most dangerous world ani-semines http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/1447395 Суббота, 25 января 2014, 13:39 -05:00 от "Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)" < kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU >: Dear colleagues, For your information appeal of the international intellectual elite re. the events in Ukraine. Very best, Oleh Kotsyuba http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny The Future of Ukraine The future of Ukraine depends most of all on the Ukrainians themselves. They defended their democracy and future 10 years ago, during the Orange Revolution, and are standing up for those values again today. As Europeans grow disenchanted with the idea of a common Europe, people in Ukraine are fighting for that idea and for their country's place in Europe. Defending Ukraine from the authoritarian temptations of its corrupt leaders is in the interests of the democratic world. We cannot afford to turn our back on Ukraine. The new authoritarians in Kyiv should know that there will be a high price to pay for their repressive policies and for abandoning the European aspirations of the people. It is not too late for us to change things for the better and prevent Ukraine from becoming a dictatorship. Passivity in the face of the authoritarian turn in Ukraine and the country's reintegration into a newly expanding Russian imperial sphere of interests pose a threat to the European Union’s integrity. It is a threat not just to the moral integrity of the Union but possibly to its internal institutional integrity as well. Alongside the diplomatic and economic measures taken by individual states and the entire EU, independent democratic initiatives should make efforts to defend victims of repression, support civil society and strengthen independent media. The quality of any democracy depends to a great extent on what its citizens know about their country and the world. In Ukraine, the picture of the world is shaped by the authorities, who control most of the mass media, and Russian television channels faithful to President Putin. For the sake of democracy, we must support and strengthen independent and pluralistic media in Ukraine. We must help strengthen civil society, especially the new initiatives that have arisen around the Maidan. No matter what the authorities say, the people fighting to keep their country's future open are not foreign agents – the only ones deserving that name are those pursuing a policy of mass repression to quash Ukraine's hopes of becoming a European democracy. The letter has been signed by: Andrew Arato, Professor of Political and Social Theory, New School for Social Research, United States Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Lluís Bassets, Deputy Director, El País, Spain Zygmunt Bauman, Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Gianni Bonvicini, Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy José Casanova, Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University, United States Bogusław Chrabota, Editor-In-Chief of Rzeczpospolita daily, Poland Aleš Debeljak, Poet and Cultural Critic, Slovenia Tibor Dessewffy, President of the DEMOS Hungary Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, former Foreign Minister, Chairman of the Baltic Development Forum, Denmark Ute Frevert, Director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany Paolo Flores d'Arcais, Philosopher and Journalist, Editor of MicroMega magazine, Italy Timothy Garton Ash,  Professor of European Studies, Oxford University, United Kingdom Carlos Gaspar, Chairman of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), Portugal Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States André Glucksmann, Philosopher and Writer, France Jeff Goldfarb, Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research, United States Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform, United Kingdom Andrea Graziosi, Professor of History, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Tomáš Halík, Professor of Sociology, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Pierre Hassner, Director of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, France Agnieszka Holland, Film Director and Screenwriter, Poland William Hunt, Professor of History, St. Lawrence University, United States Suat Kiniklioglu, Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Communication, Turkey Ira Katznelson, Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University, United States János Kis, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Central European University, Hungary Zenon E. Kohut, Professor of History, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada David Koranyi, Diplomat, Former Undersecretary of State, Deputy Director Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Hungary-United States Bernard Kouchner, Former Foreign Minister, France Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria Marcin Król, Professor of History of Ideas, Warsaw University, Poland Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, United Kingdom Sonja Licht, President of Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Serbia Tomasz Lis, Editor-In-Chief of Newsweek Polska weekly , Poland Adam Michnik, Editor-In-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza daily, Poland Marie Mendras, Directeur de recherche, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France Dominique Moïsi, Conseiller spécial de Institut français de relations internationales (l'IFRI), France Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, United States Piotr Mucharski, Editor-In-Chief of Tygodnik Powszechny weekly, Poland Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations, United States Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ton Nijhuis, Director of the Duitsland Instituut, The Netherlands Zbigniew Nosowski, Editor-In-Chief of Więź magazine, Poland Claus Offe, Professor of Political Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Germany Andrzej Olechowski, Former Foreign Minister, Poland Monika Olejnik, Journalist, Poland Andrés Ortega, Author and Journalist, Former Director of Policy Planning, Office of the Spanish Prime Minister, Spain Ana Palacio, Former Foreign Minister, Former Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group, Spain Šimon Pánek, Director of the People In Need, Czech Republic Anton Pelinka, Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Austria-Hungary Víctor Pérez-Díaz, President of Analistas Socio-Políticos (ASP),  Spain Marc F. Plattner, Editor, Journal of Democracy, United States Ruprecht Polenz, Former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the German Bundestag, Germany Adam Pomorski, President of the Polish PEN Club, Poland László Rajk jr., Architect, Designer and Political Activist, Hungary Joachim Rogall, Executive Director of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany Adam Daniel Rotfeld , Former Foreign Minister, Poland Jacques Rupnik, Directeur de recherche, Sciences Po, France Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, United States Gesine Schwan, President of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Germany Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology New York University, United States Narcis Serra, President of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Spain Martin M. Šimečka, Journalist, Editor of Respekt weekly,  Czech Republic Sławomir Sierakowski, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Poland Aleksander Smolar, Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University,  United States Andrzej Stasiuk, Writer, Poland Fritz Stern, Professor of History, Columbia University,  United States Frank E. Sysyn, Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada Jerzy Szacki, Professor of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland Monika Sznajderman, Publisher, Publishing House Czarne, Poland Roman Szporluk, Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University, United States Paweł Świeboda, President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy, Poland Paul Thibaud, Philosopher and Writer, France Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy Jordi Vaquer, Director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe, Spain Tomas Venclova, Poet and Writer, Yale University, Lithuania-United States António Vitorino, former European Commissioner, President of Notre Europe-Institut Jacques Delors, Portugal-France George Weigel, Writer, Ethics and Public Policy Center, United States Michel Wieviorka, Directeur d’études,  École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, d'études, France Adam Zagajewski, Poet and Essayist, University of Chicago, Poland Jacek Żakowski, Columnist,  Polityka weekly , Poland Slavoj Žižek, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, Slovenia-United Kingdom - See more at: http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny#sthash.FUWDRg5m.dpuf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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URL: From dziadevych at UKR.NET Tue Jan 28 08:03:23 2014 From: dziadevych at UKR.NET (tetiana dziadevych) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:03:23 +0200 Subject: [SEELANGS] The world's intellectual elite appeals not to turn back on Ukraine In-Reply-To: <1390761053.358364025@f359.i.mail.ru> Message-ID: Here is also  important: http://eajc.org/page16/news42895.html  Best regards --- Оригінальне повідомлення --- Від кого: Alexander Polunov < apolunov at MAIL.RU > Дата: 26 січня 2014, 20:33:20 The No. 2 of the Ukrainian Freedom party allegedly played on the Maidan stage the part of a Kike who bribe and buy everybody http://izrus.co.il/diasporaIL/article/2014-01-20/23384.html   Воскресенье, 26 января 2014, 12:41 -05:00 от "Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)" < kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU >: Please read the following article by Anton Shekhovtsov who works on the Ukrainian far right movement: http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.co.at/2014/01/what-west-should-know-about-euromaidans.html Many in the West, are asking questions about the involvement of the Ukrainian ultranationalists in the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv. Some allegedly left-wing web-sites, such as the World Socialist Web Site, publish  blatant lies  about the Euromaidan protests and the role that the far right is playing in them. These web-sites are trying to appease Russian imperialists who are doing everything they can to deprive Ukraine of its already weakened independence. At the moment, there are two things that the West should understand about the Ukrainian ultranationalists in the context of Euromaidan. 1. As I wrote before, in the article " The Ukrainian revolution is European and national ", Euromaidan is,  among other things , a national revolution against the Kremlin's imperialism and a nationalist uprising against Russia's destructive influence on Ukraine. The major share of support for the Ukrainian far right comes from those citizens who do not share far right views but urge for Ukraine's true independence. This means that it will only be possible to neutralise the far right  after  Ukraine gains national independence. The far right is being fuelled by the constant threat to the Ukrainian statehood rather than the alleged growth of extreme right views in the Ukrainian society. As Roger Griffin wrote in his  Modernism and Fascism , the rise of fascism may occur, in particular, due to  "occupation, colonization, or acts of aggression inflicted on [a society] by other societies" (p. 104). Thus, a fight against fascism in Ukraine should always be synonymous with the fight ag ainst the attempts to colonise the country. Those who separate these two issues or crack down on the Ukrainian far right without recognising the urgent need for national independence will never be successful in their attempts to neutralise the far right. Moreover, they can make the situation worse. Ultranationalist and anarchist symbols side by side on the battlefield 2. While the Ukrainian far right has indeed endorsed and used violence against Viktor Yanukovych's corrupt authoritarian regime and the brutal police who  abuse and torture protesters , they are not the only violent force of Euromaidan. They are joined by many Ukrainian left-wingers and democrats who have become radicalised as a result of the lack of progress of non-violent resistance to the country's slipping into an outright dicatorship. The majority of the protesters who take to Kyiv's dead cold streets are tired of Yanukovych's cynical disregard of their demands and outraged about the police brutality. Their radicalisation is a sad response to the regime's policies and actions which gave an impetus to a non-aggression pact between the Ukrainian far left and far right who are now on the same side of the barricades. Those commentators who associate violence at Euromaidan exclusively with the far right are downp laying the causes of the radicalisation of the Euromaidan protests and - willingly or unwillingly - exonerating Yanukovych's authoritarian regime. On Jan 26, 2014, at 1:29 AM, Alexander Polunov < apolunov at MAIL.RU > wrote: In 2012, Oleg Tyagnibok was included by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in the list of 20 most dangerous world ani-semines http://korrespondent.net/ukraine/politics/1447395 Суббота, 25 января 2014, 13:39 -05:00 от "Oleh Kotsyuba (Harvard Univ)" < kotsyuba at FAS.HARVARD.EDU >: Dear colleagues, For your information appeal of the international intellectual elite re. the events in Ukraine. Very best, Oleh Kotsyuba http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny The Future of Ukraine The future of Ukraine depends most of all on the Ukrainians themselves. They defended their democracy and future 10 years ago, during the Orange Revolution, and are standing up for those values again today. As Europeans grow disenchanted with the idea of a common Europe, people in Ukraine are fighting for that idea and for their country's place in Europe. Defending Ukraine from the authoritarian temptations of its corrupt leaders is in the interests of the democratic world. We cannot afford to turn our back on Ukraine. The new authoritarians in Kyiv should know that there will be a high price to pay for their repressive policies and for abandoning the European aspirations of the people. It is not too late for us to change things for the better and prevent Ukraine from becoming a dictatorship. Passivity in the face of the authoritarian turn in Ukraine and the country's reintegration into a newly expanding Russian imperial sphere of interests pose a threat to the European Union’s integrity. It is a threat not just to the moral integrity of the Union but possibly to its internal institutional integrity as well. Alongside the diplomatic and economic measures taken by individual states and the entire EU, independent democratic initiatives should make efforts to defend victims of repression, support civil society and strengthen independent media. The quality of any democracy depends to a great extent on what its citizens know about their country and the world. In Ukraine, the picture of the world is shaped by the authorities, who control most of the mass media, and Russian television channels faithful to President Putin. For the sake of democracy, we must support and strengthen independent and pluralistic media in Ukraine. We must help strengthen civil society, especially the new initiatives that have arisen around the Maidan. No matter what the authorities say, the people fighting to keep their country's future open are not foreign agents – the only ones deserving that name are those pursuing a policy of mass repression to quash Ukraine's hopes of becoming a European democracy. The letter has been signed by: Andrew Arato, Professor of Political and Social Theory, New School for Social Research, United States Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Lluís Bassets, Deputy Director, El País, Spain Zygmunt Bauman, Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Gianni Bonvicini, Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy José Casanova, Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University, United States Bogusław Chrabota, Editor-In-Chief of Rzeczpospolita daily, Poland Aleš Debeljak, Poet and Cultural Critic, Slovenia Tibor Dessewffy, President of the DEMOS Hungary Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, former Foreign Minister, Chairman of the Baltic Development Forum, Denmark Ute Frevert, Director of the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany Paolo Flores d'Arcais, Philosopher and Journalist, Editor of MicroMega magazine, Italy Timothy Garton Ash,  Professor of European Studies, Oxford University, United Kingdom Carlos Gaspar, Chairman of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), Portugal Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States André Glucksmann, Philosopher and Writer, France Jeff Goldfarb, Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research, United States Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform, United Kingdom Andrea Graziosi, Professor of History, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Tomáš Halík, Professor of Sociology, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Pierre Hassner, Director of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, France Agnieszka Holland, Film Director and Screenwriter, Poland William Hunt, Professor of History, St. Lawrence University, United States Suat Kiniklioglu, Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Communication, Turkey Ira Katznelson, Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University, United States János Kis, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Central European University, Hungary Zenon E. Kohut, Professor of History, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada David Koranyi, Diplomat, Former Undersecretary of State, Deputy Director Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Hungary-United States Bernard Kouchner, Former Foreign Minister, France Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria Marcin Król, Professor of History of Ideas, Warsaw University, Poland Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, United Kingdom Sonja Licht, President of Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Serbia Tomasz Lis, Editor-In-Chief of Newsweek Polska weekly , Poland Adam Michnik, Editor-In-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza daily, Poland Marie Mendras, Directeur de recherche, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France Dominique Moïsi, Conseiller spécial de Institut français de relations internationales (l'IFRI), France Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, United States Piotr Mucharski, Editor-In-Chief of Tygodnik Powszechny weekly, Poland Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations, United States Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ton Nijhuis, Director of the Duitsland Instituut, The Netherlands Zbigniew Nosowski, Editor-In-Chief of Więź magazine, Poland Claus Offe, Professor of Political Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Germany Andrzej Olechowski, Former Foreign Minister, Poland Monika Olejnik, Journalist, Poland Andrés Ortega, Author and Journalist, Former Director of Policy Planning, Office of the Spanish Prime Minister, Spain Ana Palacio, Former Foreign Minister, Former Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group, Spain Šimon Pánek, Director of the People In Need, Czech Republic Anton Pelinka, Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Austria-Hungary Víctor Pérez-Díaz, President of Analistas Socio-Políticos (ASP),  Spain Marc F. Plattner, Editor, Journal of Democracy, United States Ruprecht Polenz, Former Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the German Bundestag, Germany Adam Pomorski, President of the Polish PEN Club, Poland László Rajk jr., Architect, Designer and Political Activist, Hungary Joachim Rogall, Executive Director of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany Adam Daniel Rotfeld , Former Foreign Minister, Poland Jacques Rupnik, Directeur de recherche, Sciences Po, France Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, United States Gesine Schwan, President of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Germany Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology New York University, United States Narcis Serra, President of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Spain Martin M. Šimečka, Journalist, Editor of Respekt weekly,  Czech Republic Sławomir Sierakowski, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Poland Aleksander Smolar, Chairman of the Board, Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University,  United States Andrzej Stasiuk, Writer, Poland Fritz Stern, Professor of History, Columbia University,  United States Frank E. Sysyn, Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, University of Alberta, Canada Jerzy Szacki, Professor of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland Monika Sznajderman, Publisher, Publishing House Czarne, Poland Roman Szporluk, Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University, United States Paweł Świeboda, President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy, Poland Paul Thibaud, Philosopher and Writer, France Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director of the Institute of International Affairs, Italy Jordi Vaquer, Director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe, Spain Tomas Venclova, Poet and Writer, Yale University, Lithuania-United States António Vitorino, former European Commissioner, President of Notre Europe-Institut Jacques Delors, Portugal-France George Weigel, Writer, Ethics and Public Policy Center, United States Michel Wieviorka, Directeur d’études,  École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, d'études, France Adam Zagajewski, Poet and Essayist, University of Chicago, Poland Jacek Żakowski, Columnist,  Polityka weekly , Poland Slavoj Žižek, Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, Slovenia-United Kingdom - See more at: http://krytyka.com/ua/articles/maybutnie-ukrayiny#sthash.FUWDRg5m.dpuf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Janneke.vandeStadt at WILLIAMS.EDU Tue Jan 28 15:42:03 2014 From: Janneke.vandeStadt at WILLIAMS.EDU (Janneke van de Stadt) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:42:03 -0500 Subject: First-Year Russian over the Summer In-Reply-To: <2503962484352531.WA.tonybrownbyu.edu@listserv.ua.edu> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I have a student who is very interested in taking an intense first-year (full year) Russian language course over the summer and would appreciate hearing from anyone who has recommendations to make. She is especially interested in insights based on actual experience at any given program, be that your own or your students'. She knows about Middlebury, and many of our students have completed and loved that program, but she would like to explore other options as well. 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It reviews and expands grammatical concepts covered in the first-year Russian courses. Authentic language materials (including Russian films) are used extensively. *Third-Year Russian: * The course goal is to continue to improve students' command of language structure, aiming toward the advanced language proficiency in speaking, reading, listening, and writing. Russian films will be an integral part of this course. Please contact slavic at umich.edu with any questions. Best regards, Jean Jean McKee Student Services Coordinator | Assistant to the Chair Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 812 E Washington St | 3040 MLB | Ann Arbor | MI | 48109 voice 734.764.5355 | fax 734.647.2127 www.lsa.umich.edu/slavic // Visit us on Facebook! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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This year’s conference will feature (but not be limited to) interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian cultures. Our goal is to encourage dialogue and exchange between different fields. We invite abstracts for individual papers from graduate students in Slavic studies and related fields, including linguistics, literature, film, theater, music, history, political science, gender studies, Jewish-Russian and Holocaust Studies, anthropology, sociology, and art history. Application Guidelines: Email: slavicforum2014 at gmail.com Please send your abstract as a Word Document attachment. Abstracts should be 300 words or less (references are not included in the word count). Include your name and affiliation at the top of the abstract in header, but not in the body, so that they may be anonymous for refereeing and easily identifiable afterwards. In the Body of Your Email: Provide a short biography Request equipment The deadline for all abstract proposals is February 1, 2014. Participants will be notified by March 1. We are trying to organize low-cost or free lodging for all, and we may be able to defray some travel expenses for participants from outside the local area. Each participant will give a 20-minute presentation (8-9 pages of text, double-spaced). The Slavic Forum committee will organize panels. Prof. Kristin Romberg of the School of Art and Design at UIUC will present a keynote talk. Topic TBA. For more information, please refer to UIUC's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures website http://www.slavic.illinois.edu/ and the University of Chicago's Slavic Forum website http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/theslavicforum ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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What are the available   programmes and prices: The full-time programme consists of 24 academic hours spread over 5 days and costs 215 $ per week. The part-time programme consists of 20 academic   spread over 4 days and costs 190$. How is the programme structured: Groups are formed according to students’ level of Russian language. On arrival all students should complete an entrance test and are placed   in groups based on the results. Each group contains no more than 8 students. Intermediate level students and above study Russian   language 3 days per week   and, depending on the length of   programme, the remaining one or two days are spent studying a seminar of the students’ choice. The available seminars are: Russian literature, history and culture; business Russian; phonetics; Russian idioms; preparation for the State Russian as a Foreign Language Proficiency Test(TRKI), etc. Students of a beginner or elementary level study Russian language on a 5-day a week programme. Where can students stay: Students can stay in Moscow State University   student accommodation, for $12 -15 per day . Excursions: Free excursions around Moscow are included in the programme of   study. Excursions outside of Moscow( for example to Tver’, Yasnaya Polyana and other interesting places)are offered at the weekends at an extra cost. How to find out more: If you have any questions or wish to enroll, please contact Mrs. Irina Maloglazova , Head of enrollment ( ciemsu at yandex.ru ) or   Mr. Valeriy Chastnykh , Director of Summer School ( tchastnykh at mail.ru ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All the best, Steven Steven Clancy Senior Lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literatures Director of the Slavic Language Program Harvard University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures On Jan 28, 2014, at 3:05 PM, SEELANGS automatic digest system wrote: > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:42:03 -0500 > From: Janneke van de Stadt > Subject: First-Year Russian over the Summer > > Dear colleagues, > > I have a student who is very interested in taking an intense first-year (full year) Russian language course over the summer and would appreciate hearing from anyone who has recommendations to make. She is especially interested in insights based on actual experience at any given program, be that your own or your students'. She knows about Middlebury, and many of our students have completed and loved that program, but she would like to explore other options as well. > > Please respond to her directly: Laura.K.Shamsie at williams.edu > > Many thanks in advance for your assistance! > Janneke ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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All presenters will be notified of abstract acceptance on March 17, 2014. Registration fee is $10, to be paid in cash on the day of the conference. The fee covers coffee-break and lunch. Thank you very much! Ekaterina Turta Graduate Student Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tony_brown at BYU.EDU Tue Jan 28 21:02:29 2014 From: tony_brown at BYU.EDU (Tony Brown) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:02:29 -0600 Subject: Last week to register for National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Just a reminder that this is the last week to register your students for the 2014 National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest. Please see details below. Best, Tony Students taking Russian in accredited colleges and universities are invited to participate in the fifteenth annual National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest sponsored by the American Council of Teachers of Russian. All students must pay a registration fee of $5.00. Only teachers can register students. Please note that one teacher at each participating institution must be a current member of ACTR. Be sure to indicate this person on your registration form. To register your students, please fill out a registration form (below) and write a check to “ACTR” and mail them to Tony Brown, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Brigham Young University, 3093 JFSB, Provo, Utah 84602. All registrations must be received by January 31, 2014. Registrations received after the deadline will not be accepted. (Payment can be received later since we understand that approval for final payment may take several weeks at your institution.) When registering your students, please consult the criteria below to select the appropriate level. Teachers whose students are participating in the contest will receive directions and the essay topic in late January 2014. Students will write their essays between Feb. 1 and Feb. 15, 2014 at a time selected by the instructor at each institution. Students should not receive the essay topic until the time scheduled to write the essay. Judges will review the essays in March 2014 and winners will be announced by April 15, 2014. Please note that students cannot use any books or notes and may not work together. Essays must be written legibly in blue or black ink (pencil is not acceptable as it will not photocopy) and on lined 8.5x11 paper provided by instructors (no blue books). The time limit for writing the essays will be one hour. After students complete the essay, teachers will make one (1) photocopy of each essay as per the directions and then send the original and a signed student declaration and waiver form that you will receive to Tony Brown within 48 hours of the test date. All essays will be evaluated anonymously: no essay will be identifiable by the name or institution of the student who wrote it. Gold, silver, bronze, and honorable mention certificates will be presented for the best essays at each level. Teachers may not substitute students for those registered by the deadline. No refunds are available for students who don’t show up for the essay contest. Essays will be ranked according to the following guidelines. PLEASE NOTE: Students in each category are divided into levels according to the number of contact hours of formal instruction in Russian (and degree of exposure to Russian for Russian heritage speakers). Please calculate the number of contact hours for each student participating in the essay contest according to the guidelines below. To adjust for Study Abroad or other immersion programs, please identify the number of contact hours of formal language instruction (not other classes in the program), multiply that number by 2, and use the result in determining the total number of contact hours. STUDENTS OTHER THAN RUSSIAN HERITAGE LEARNERS Category A: Students who do not and did not ever speak Russian or any other Slavic language at home. Category B: Heritage speakers of a Slavic language other than Russian. Please take the time to calculate the number of hours that your students have studied Russian and assign them to the proper level. Level One (A1, B1): Students who, at the time of the essay contest, will have had fewer than 100 contact hours of instruction in Russian (whether in college alone or in college and high school). Please note that heritage speakers of Russian must be assigned to Category C (below), and heritage speakers of any other Slavic language must be assigned to Category B. Level Two (A2, B2): Students who, at the time of the essay contest, will have had more than 100 contact hours, but fewer than 250 contact hours of instruction in Russian. (These are mostly students in second-year Russian.) Level Three (A3, B3): Students who will have had more than 250 contact hours, but fewer than 400 contact hours of instruction in Russian. (These are mostly students in third- or fourth-year Russian.) Level Four (A4, B4): Students who will have had more than 400 contact hours of instruction in Russian. (These are mostly students in fourth- or fifth-year Russian.) RUSSIAN HERITAGE LEARNERS Category C: Students who were born to Russian speaking families and received most or all of their education in English. Please take the time to calculate the number of hours that your students have studied Russian and assign them to the proper level. Level One (C1): Students who may or may not speak Russian with their families, and who have NOT attended school in Russia or the former Soviet Union and who had to learn reading and writing skills after emigration. Those students who did not have any formal instruction in Russian before college and have had fewer than 60 contact hours of instruction in college. Level Two (C2): Students who may or may not speak Russian with their families, and who have NOT attended school in Russia or the former Soviet Union and who had to learn reading and writing skills after emigration. Those students who did not have any formal instruction in Russian before college and have had fewer than 120 contact hours of instruction in college. Level Three (C3): Students who speak Russian with their families, and who attended school for fewer than 5 years in Russia or the former Soviet Union and may have had to relearn reading and writing skills after emigration, and who have had fewer than 60 contact hours of instruction in college. Level Four (C4): Students who speak Russian with their families, and who attended school for 5 or more years in Russia or the former Soviet Union and have not had to relearn reading and writing skills after emigration. Judges will evaluate essays according to content (the ability to express ideas in Russian and communicate information about the topic) and length, lexicon, syntax, structure (grammatical and orthographic accuracy), and originality or creativity. Awards will be announced in the ACTR Newsletter. Teachers with questions about the essay contest should contact: Tony Brown Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages Brigham Young University 3093 JFSB Provo, Utah 84602 801-422-7012 tony_brown at byu.edu NAME OF INSTITUTION: .................................................................................................. INSTRUCTOR: ..................................................................................................................... INSTRUCTOR (current member of ACTR if different from name listed above): ………………………………………………………………………………………………. ADDRESS: ........................................................................................................................... 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mtsmith02 at YSU.EDU Wed Jan 29 00:15:52 2014 From: mtsmith02 at YSU.EDU (Melissa T Smith) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 00:15:52 +0000 Subject: First-Year Russian over the Summer at Harvard University In-Reply-To: <28BA1CD6-C5BF-423F-A638-7D9A8FC61E05@fas.harvard.edu> Message-ID: Students of mine have had good experiences at both the University of Pittsburgh and Indiana. I myself spent four summers at Middlebury, but began at 4th-year level (in the 1970s, when it was the most intensive experience you could get!) Melissa Smith ________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of Steven Clancy Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:17 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] First-Year Russian over the Summer at Harvard University Summer Intensive Russian Study at Harvard Harvard's first-year intensive Russian program will run Mon-Fri 9:00-3:00, June 21-August 9, 2014 http://www.summer.harvard.edu http://www.summer.harvard.edu/courses/beginning-russian I'd be happy to answer any additional questions! All the best, Steven Steven Clancy Senior Lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literatures Director of the Slavic Language Program Harvard University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures On Jan 28, 2014, at 3:05 PM, SEELANGS automatic digest system > wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:42:03 -0500 From: Janneke van de Stadt > Subject: First-Year Russian over the Summer Dear colleagues, I have a student who is very interested in taking an intense first-year (full year) Russian language course over the summer and would appreciate hearing from anyone who has recommendations to make. She is especially interested in insights based on actual experience at any given program, be that your own or your students'. She knows about Middlebury, and many of our students have completed and loved that program, but she would like to explore other options as well. Please respond to her directly: Laura.K.Shamsie at williams.edu Many thanks in advance for your assistance! 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URL: From jwilson at SRAS.ORG Wed Jan 29 07:33:21 2014 From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG (Josh Wilson) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:33:21 +0400 Subject: New Resources on SRAS Message-ID: Dear all, We've recently published a few new resources that may be of interest to you: Russian Language Lessons http://www.sras.org/russian_language_lessons This one brings together all of our language resources into one page. Olga's Blog, Russian Mini Lessons, and Image of the Month as well as links to all our other language-related resources. Those of you who have visited Olga's Blog in past months and found the formatting very strange will also find that we fixed that (apparently a server update has caused some commotion there). Intro to Conflict in the Post-Soviet Space http://www.sras.org/intro_conflict_post_soviet This is a free, online textbook and resource that we've put together for our study abroad program focused on Policy and Conflict to the Post-Soviet Space. It was written, in large part, by our students and graduates under the direction of SRAS. 12 Russian Brands You Should Buy http://students.sras.org/12-russian-brands-that-beat-out-western-competitors / Those of you who teach modern culture as part of your classes might find this useful. Why the Terrorists Chose Volgograd www.sras.org/why_the_terrorists_chose_volgograd Those of you who teach geography - or who have faced this question from you students might find this useful. All of our resources are regularly published in our free monthly newsletter. You can sign up for that from our homepage: http://www.sras.org/ just click the "subscribe" button in the middle right of the page. Best, Josh Wilson Assistant Director The School of Russian and Asian Studies Editor in Chief Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies SRAS.org jwilson at sras.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thysentinel at HOTMAIL.COM Wed Jan 29 12:16:37 2014 From: thysentinel at HOTMAIL.COM (Sentinel76 Astrakhan) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:16:37 +0000 Subject: New Resources on SRAS In-Reply-To: <007b01cf1cc4$64059950$2c10cbf0$@sras.org> Message-ID: Josh, With all due respect, #9 in your article "12 Russian Brands" doesn't make any sense. Granted, it's the only "Russian brand" that I am familiar with, and I'm grateful for this interesting information, but... Russian TV News? Seriously? Yes, I have read your explanation: "Russian television news does tend towards a conservative, pro-government, anti-US slant – however, they also don’t generally purport to be unbiased. Many editors and government officials will admit that the news is slanted and argue that all news is opinionated in some way. I would agree with that. Most Russians get the bulk of their news from TV, but also state in polls that they don’t trust the news; they realize that it is at least partially propaganda." Doesn't it invalidate each and every advantage that Russian News has over the American counterparts? It's propaganda, plain and simple. It doesn't matter how many people "realize" that it's propaganda (do they, now?), because it's still propaganda. Its informational value is very low, and, much like in the Soviet times, one has to sieve through tons of debris to find specs of gold. That's not to say American news aren't lame, they most certainly are, which is why TV is generally a poor source of the news. They can even be biased (Fox, MSNBC), but still they ain't got nuthin' on Russian TV. On the other hand: thanks for all other entries. I will look them up in stores here in NYC. Sincerely, Vadim Astrakhanwww.vvinenglish.com Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:33:21 +0400 From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG Subject: [SEELANGS] New Resources on SRAS To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU 12 Russian Brands You Should Buyhttp://students.sras.org/12-russian-brands-that-beat-out-western-competitors/Those of you who teach modern culture as part of your classes might find this useful. 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URL: From jwilson at SRAS.ORG Wed Jan 29 13:16:36 2014 From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG (Josh Wilson) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:16:36 +0400 Subject: New Resources on SRAS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Vadim, I did indeed state there that that entry would get me into some trouble. J One important thing to point out is that I don't hold up the Russian news to be a glowing nugget of journalism. Indeed, it's a bit like living in a town where you main options to dine out are either Burger King or Taco Bell - neither one will leave you fully satisfied and not entirely without reason to be digested, but you likely will come to prefer one over the other. What I say is that if to choose between the banter of CNN and the colder, harder Vesti - I chose Vesti. If to compare many of the American sources that deliberately try to sell themselves as unbiased but which are obviously biased and the Russian sources which are biased but don't directly try to evade that fact, I'll go with the Russian source. It leaves me, personally, with less of a sense of rockgut while stand in the kitchen making dinner at night. I'll leave my response to that as SEELANGS, as the rules state, is not a forum for political and personal debate. If anyone wishes to email me personally with issues on this, I'll gladly hear your views about how wrong I am on this or any other subject. J Josh Wilson Assistant Director The School of Russian and Asian Studies Editor in Chief Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies SRAS.org jwilson at sras.org From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sentinel76 Astrakhan Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:17 PM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] New Resources on SRAS Josh, With all due respect, #9 in your article "12 Russian Brands" doesn't make any sense. Granted, it's the only "Russian brand" that I am familiar with, and I'm grateful for this interesting information, but... Russian TV News? Seriously? Yes, I have read your explanation: "Russian television news does tend towards a conservative, pro-government, anti-US slant - however, they also don't generally purport to be unbiased. Many editors and government officials will admit that the news is slanted and argue that all news is opinionated in some way. I would agree with that. Most Russians get the bulk of their news from TV, but also state in polls that they don't trust the news; they realize that it is at least partially propaganda." Doesn't it invalidate each and every advantage that Russian News has over the American counterparts? It's propaganda, plain and simple. It doesn't matter how many people "realize" that it's propaganda (do they, now?), because it's still propaganda. Its informational value is very low, and, much like in the Soviet times, one has to sieve through tons of debris to find specs of gold. That's not to say American news aren't lame, they most certainly are, which is why TV is generally a poor source of the news. They can even be biased (Fox, MSNBC), but still they ain't got nuthin' on Russian TV. On the other hand: thanks for all other entries. I will look them up in stores here in NYC. Sincerely, Vadim Astrakhan www.vvinenglish.com _____ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:33:21 +0400 From: jwilson at SRAS.ORG Subject: [SEELANGS] New Resources on SRAS To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU 12 Russian Brands You Should Buy http://students.sras.org/12-russian-brands-that-beat-out-western-competitors / Those of you who teach modern culture as part of your classes might find this useful. 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Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK Wed Jan 29 14:32:19 2014 From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK (John Dunn) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:32:19 +0000 Subject: New Resources on SRAS In-Reply-To: <014101cf1cf4$59397750$0bac65f0$@sras.org> Message-ID: Those who would like a different view of Russian television might like to read Slava Taroshchina's demolition of Vesti nedeli's coverage of events in Ukraine: http://www.novayagazeta.ru/columns/62000.html I think the problem with Russian television news is not that it is biased, but that it is done so badly (and I think it has got worse since I stopped watching regularly in 2006). You can be biased and professional: Evgenii Kiselev managed it in the glory days of NTV; Italian television, which is in some ways stylistically close to its Russian equivalent, mostly manages it (if you except Berlusconi's more extreme sycophants). A few lessons on the use of the 'panino'* would make all the difference. But I can't compare with American channels. Incidentally, the same edition of Novaya gazeta has a lengthy interview with Gleb Yakunin; this contains observations on the present state of the Russian Orthodox Church that some may find interesting: http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/61944.html John Dunn. *The 'panino' (sandwich) was invented as a way of neutralising the opposition in news bulletins when Berlusconi was in power: for every political story three sets of quotes were obtained, first from the government, then from the opposition and finally from the parliamentary majority. In that way everybody got their say, but the government got two bites of the cherry to the opposition's one. ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Josh Wilson [jwilson at SRAS.ORG] Sent: 29 January 2014 14:16 To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] New Resources on SRAS Vadim, I did indeed state there that that entry would get me into some trouble. ☺ One important thing to point out is that I don’t hold up the Russian news to be a glowing nugget of journalism. Indeed, it’s a bit like living in a town where you main options to dine out are either Burger King or Taco Bell – neither one will leave you fully satisfied and not entirely without reason to be digested, but you likely will come to prefer one over the other. What I say is that if to choose between the banter of CNN and the colder, harder Vesti – I chose Vesti. If to compare many of the American sources that deliberately try to sell themselves as unbiased but which are obviously biased and the Russian sources which are biased but don’t directly try to evade that fact, I’ll go with the Russian source. It leaves me, personally, with less of a sense of rockgut while stand in the kitchen making dinner at night. I’ll leave my response to that as SEELANGS, as the rules state, is not a forum for political and personal debate. If anyone wishes to email me personally with issues on this, I’ll gladly hear your views about how wrong I am on this or any other subject. ☺ Josh Wilson Assistant Director The School of Russian and Asian Studies Editor in Chief Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies SRAS.org jwilson at sras.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From mwarchol at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG Wed Jan 29 15:15:14 2014 From: mwarchol at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Michael Warchol) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:15:14 +0000 Subject: Intensive Language Immersion Programs in Russia Message-ID: ANNOUNCEMENT American Councils for International Education (ACTR) would like to remind interested parties about its Summer 2014, Fall 2014, and Academic Year 2014-15 language study programs in Russia. February 15is the application deadline for summer programs and March 15 is the deadline for fall and academic-year programs: - Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) RLASP offers participants the unique opportunity to study Russian language and area studies in Moscow, St. Petersburg, or Vladimir, while pursuing volunteer opportunities, internships, and cultural interests in an overseas immersion setting. Learn more:http://www.acStudyAbroad.org/rlasp/ - Business Russian Language and Internship Program (BRLI) Combining intensive business language classes and an internship in Moscow or St. Petersburg, BRLI prepares Russian language students for a career in the international job market. Learn more: http://www.acStudyAbroad.org/brli/ - Russian Heritage Speakers Program An individually customized program, the Russian Heritage Speakers Program is intended to address the specific needs of students who grew up speaking Russian and wish to strengthen their language skills. Learn more: http://www.acStudyAbroad.org/heritage/ FINANCIAL AID American Councils has several scholarship funds for the intensive study of Russian language. Information on these scholarships and many other funding possibilities are available online: - www.acStudyAbroad.org/financialaid/ APPLYING Applications, additional program information, and eligibility requirements are available online at: http://www.acRussiaAbroad.org Applications for summer 2014 programs are due on February 15, 2014. Applications for fall 2014 and academic year 2014-15 programs are due on March 15, 2014. Must be 18 to apply. AMERICAN COUNCILS PROGRAMS For nearly 40 years, American Councils has operated comprehensive language immersion programs in Russia for thousands of students and scholars. Participants greatly benefit from individual attention in our small classes and from interaction with host faculty who have extensive experience in second language acquisition. In addition to classroom learning, American Councils emphasizes language immersion outside of the academic program through: - volunteer opportunities at sites such as local public schools, charity organizations, and international NGOs; - cultural excursions, discussion groups, and other extracurricular activities; and - life with Russian host-families where participants become fully immersed in the language, culture and cuisine of Russia. All participants receive undergraduate- or graduate-level academic credit through Bryn Mawr College. QUESTIONS? Email: outbound at americancouncils.org CONTACT American Councils (ACTR) Attn: Outbound Programs 1828 L Street, N.W. Suite 1200 Washington, D.C. 20036 Web: www.acStudyAbroad.org Phone: 202.833.7522 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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URL: From katiegal47 at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 29 23:15:23 2014 From: katiegal47 at GMAIL.COM (Katherine Nolde) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:15:23 -0500 Subject: Recommendations for a good article on the Russian Olympics? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >From The Nation's sports columnist Dave Zirin on the intersection of LGBT repression, politics, and the Olympics: http://www.thenation.com/article/178053/lgbt-movement-takes-aim-sochi?page=0,0 On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Monnier, Nicole M. wrote: > SEELANGStsy! > > I'm offering my Soviet civilization students an extra credit > opportunity: to watch an hour of the Olympic opening ceremonies on Friday > (the Russian Club is hosting a "watch" party). I'd also like them to read > an article (or two if they're short) to which they can respond. It could be > an opinion piece, an overview, a news report, a magazine article, etc. I > want something accessible and not overly inflammatory. Suggestions? > > Gratefully, > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enthorsen at GMAIL.COM Wed Jan 29 23:22:41 2014 From: enthorsen at GMAIL.COM (Elise Thorsen) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:22:41 -0500 Subject: Recommendations for a good article on the Russian Olympics? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This isn't far from any beaten track, but the January issue of ASEEES's *NewsNet* (http://aseees.org/newsnet/2014-01.pdf) has a piece by Robert W. Orttung, "How the Olympics in Sochi Differ from Previous Games" (18-20), which also has a section for further reading at the end. Best, Elise On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Katherine Nolde wrote: > From The Nation's sports columnist Dave Zirin on the intersection of LGBT > repression, politics, and the Olympics: > > > http://www.thenation.com/article/178053/lgbt-movement-takes-aim-sochi?page=0,0 > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Monnier, Nicole M. > wrote: > >> SEELANGStsy! >> >> I'm offering my Soviet civilization students an extra credit >> opportunity: to watch an hour of the Olympic opening ceremonies on Friday >> (the Russian Club is hosting a "watch" party). I'd also like them to read >> an article (or two if they're short) to which they can respond. It could be >> an opinion piece, an overview, a news report, a magazine article, etc. I >> want something accessible and not overly inflammatory. Suggestions? >> >> Gratefully, >> >> 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription >> options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: >> http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Elise Thorsen Ph.D. Student, University of Pittsburgh Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 1417 Cathedral of Learning Pittsburgh, PA 15260 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zakhar.ishov at YALE.EDU Wed Jan 29 23:22:54 2014 From: zakhar.ishov at YALE.EDU (Zakhar Ishov) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:22:54 -0500 Subject: Recommendations for a good article on the Russian Olympics? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Stephen Fry's article is the most succinct and precise. It makes for a perfect discussion platform about these Olympics: http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/08/07/an-open-letter-to-david-cameron-and-the-ioc/ On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Monnier, Nicole M. wrote: > SEELANGStsy! > > I'm offering my Soviet civilization students an extra credit > opportunity: to watch an hour of the Olympic opening ceremonies on Friday > (the Russian Club is hosting a "watch" party). I'd also like them to read > an article (or two if they're short) to which they can respond. It could be > an opinion piece, an overview, a news report, a magazine article, etc. I > want something accessible and not overly inflammatory. Suggestions? > > Gratefully, > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Then we show the kitchen as it is now, with indoor plumbing, a flush toilet, and a fancy shower stall. Please have look and give us your feedback. -- Natalie Kononenko Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography University of Alberta 200 Arts Building Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2E6 780-492-6810 http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/uvp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From colkitto at ROGERS.COM Thu Jan 30 05:45:50 2014 From: colkitto at ROGERS.COM (Robert Orr) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:45:50 -0500 Subject: Recommendations for a good article on the Russian Olympics? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: "I'm offering my Soviet civilization students an extra credit opportunity: to watch an hour of the Olympic opening ceremonies on Friday (the Russian Club is hosting a "watch" party). I'd also like them to read an article (or two if they're short) to which they can respond. It could be an opinion piece, an overview, a news report, a magazine article, etc. I want something accessible and not overly inflammatory. Suggestions?" What about a major comparative credit opportunity. Currently Nigeria is persecuting gays far more harshly than Russia, and is still the recipient of substantial foreign aid, but seems to be getting a pass. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i7EA0Ktb2YTMHvb5PkkNpiVT5 Gbw?docId=29e1e9d5-68a6-490b-83ce-e200e8078f48 Why the differences in approach? And there's another lovely comparative paper waiting to be written after Qatar hosts the World Cup in 2022. Oh, and Josh, "If given the choice between watching CNN and BBC or perhaps Vesti (a 24-hour news channel owned by the Russian government) or Moskva 24 ( a 24-hour news and information channel co-owned by the Russian federal government and Moscow city administration). I will generally pick the Russian broadcasts. This admission will probably get me in trouble with some readers, so please let me explain." Some readers will agree with you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Correct website address is: http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/folkloreukraine/ -- Natalie Kononenko Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography University of Alberta 200 Arts Building Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2E6 780-492-6810 http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/folkloreukraine/ http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/Shkola/ http://ukrainealive.ualberta.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From swseel at INDIANA.EDU Thu Jan 30 22:27:19 2014 From: swseel at INDIANA.EDU (Indiana University Summer Language Workshop) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:27:19 -0600 Subject: Priority funding deadline is this weekend - IU Summer Language Workshop Message-ID: REMINDER: The priority deadline for Workshop funding is February 1, 2014. Funding requests received after this date will be reviewed contingent upon availability of remaining funds. -------- The 2014 Indiana University Summer Language Workshop (June 9 - August 1, 2014) is accepting applications for intensive study of Arabic (begins June 2), Hindi-Urdu, Hungarian, Mongolian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swahili, Tatar, Turkish, and Uzbek on the Bloomington campus. * All participants pay in-state tuition * Students earn 6-10 credits * FLAS and ROTC Project GO funding available to qualified students in select languages * 4 and 5-week options are available for Russian (ending on July 3) See http://www.indiana.edu/~swseel for more information and to apply. Questions? Please contact swseel at indiana.edu or 812-855-2889. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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To find out more about the project visit the website at lboro.ac.uk/screening-socialism and for the latest news join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/screeningsocialism Best, Simon -- Dr Simon Huxtable *Research Associate, Loughborough University* lboro.ac.uk/screening-socialism ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From e.gapova at GMAIL.COM Fri Jan 31 17:34:21 2014 From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:34:21 -0500 Subject: Recommendations for a good article on the Russian Olympics? In-Reply-To: <019e01cf1d7e$882d51f0$9887f5d0$@rogers.com> Message-ID: The official Facebook page for Sochi-2014: https://www.facebook.com/sochi2014; the website is at http://www.sochi2014.com/en elena gapova 2014-01-30 Robert Orr : > "I'm offering my Soviet civilization students an extra credit > opportunity: to watch an hour of the Olympic opening ceremonies on Friday > (the Russian Club is hosting a "watch" party). I'd also like them to read > an article (or two if they're short) to which they can respond. It could be > an opinion piece, an overview, a news report, a magazine article, etc. I > want something accessible and not overly inflammatory. Suggestions?" > > > > What about a major comparative credit opportunity. Currently Nigeria is > persecuting gays far more harshly than Russia, and is still the recipient > of substantial foreign aid, but seems to be getting a pass. > > > > > http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i7EA0Ktb2YTMHvb5PkkNpiVT5Gbw?docId=29e1e9d5-68a6-490b-83ce-e200e8078f48 > > > > Why the differences in approach? > > > > And there's another lovely comparative paper waiting to be written after > Qatar hosts the World Cup in 2022. > > > > Oh, and Josh, > > > > "If given the choice between watching CNN and BBC or perhaps Vesti (a > 24-hour news channel owned by the Russian government) or Moskva 24 ( a > 24-hour news and information channel co-owned by the Russian federal > government and Moscow city administration). I will generally pick the > Russian broadcasts. > > > > This admission will probably get me in trouble with some readers, so > please let me explain." > > > > Some readers will agree with you. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The four reindeer raced headlong across the silver expanse of frozen tundra, their breaths turning to white mist in the cold air, their hooves churning up the virgin snow. Two days later when they reached a train station, the reindeer keeled over from exhaustion, never to get up again. Trotsky hugged the dead reindeer and made a vow, tears streaming from his eyes. Whatever it takes, said he, I will bring justice and ideals, and above all, revolution to the nation. And to this very day, standing in Red Square is a bronze stature of the four reindeer. One facing east, one north, one west, and one south. Even Stalin couldn't bring himself to tear down these reindeer. Visitors to Moscow should be sure to go to the Red Square early Saturday mornings. That's when rosy-cheeked middle school children come out, breath all white in the cold, and mop down the reindeer." (Haruki Murakami, "Pinball, 1973," English trans. Alfred Birnbaum) There are no reindeer statues anywhere in Moscow, right? (is he getting it mixed up with the troika statue near the Kremlin? Or maybe it's just all made up? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you, Yuri Yuri Corrigan Assistant Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature Boston University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xrenovo at GMAIL.COM Fri Jan 31 18:50:35 2014 From: xrenovo at GMAIL.COM (Sasha Spektor) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:50:35 -0600 Subject: Trotsky and Reindeer (Help!) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Yuri, a query in Russian "олени на красной площади" in Google opens into various discussions on the subject. From what I can tell, it's all made-up, Pelevin-style. S. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Yuri Corrigan wrote: > Dear Seelangers, > > I didn't hear back from anyone on my query about Trotsky, his worn-out > reindeer, Murakami, and the reindeer statue in Red Square. > > I've pasted the passage below (it's actually from Murakami's 1980 novel, *Pinball, > 1973*). My colleague (who's translating the novel into Polish) wants to > know if there's any truth to Murakami's claims. I've said that, from what > I can tell, it's all made up, except for the fact that Trotsky did indeed > escape from imprisonment on a reindeer sleigh (which I got from consulting > Service's biography). > > Here's the passage: > > "It seems that Trotsky escaped from a penal colony under cover of night by > stealing a reindeer sleigh. The four reindeer raced headlong across the > silver expanse of frozen tundra, their breaths turning to white mist in the > cold air, their hooves churning up the virgin snow. Two days later when > they reached a train station, the reindeer keeled over from exhaustion, > never to get up again. Trotsky hugged the dead reindeer and made a vow, > tears streaming from his eyes. Whatever it takes, said he, I will bring > justice and ideals, and above all, revolution to the nation. And to this > very day, standing in Red Square is a bronze stature of the four reindeer. > One facing east, one north, one west, and one south. Even Stalin couldn't > bring himself to tear down these reindeer. Visitors to Moscow should be > sure to go to the Red Square early Saturday mornings. That's when > rosy-cheeked middle school children come out, breath all white in the cold, > and mop down the reindeer." > (Haruki Murakami, "Pinball, 1973," English trans. Alfred Birnbaum) > > > There are no reindeer statues anywhere in Moscow, right? (is he getting it > mixed up with the troika statue near the Kremlin? Or maybe it's just all > made up? > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Yuri > > > Yuri Corrigan > Assistant Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature > Boston University > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: