From julia.titus at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 1 02:43:31 2014 From: julia.titus at GMAIL.COM (Julia Titus) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:43:31 -0400 Subject: copyright query Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am preparing a Russian poetry reader and I would like to find out the copyright status of Anna Akhmatova's poems "Сероглазый король" (1910), "Память о солнце..." (1911), "Вечером" (1913), "Есть в близости людей заветная черта..." (1915), "Двадцать первое. Ночь. Понедельник." (1917), and a short excerpt from a much later poem "Мне ни к чему одические рати..." (1940). I would be grateful for any information that you can give me on those texts in regards to their copyright situation. Thank you so much, 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. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.wix.com/seelangs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Wed Oct 1 06:23:27 2014 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 07:23:27 +0100 Subject: copyright query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Julia and all, Copyright in Akhmatova is - I believe - held by the FTM literary agency in Moscow. I have dealt there with Vladimir Evgenevich Popov All the best, Robert On 1 Oct 2014, at 03:43, Julia Titus wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I am preparing a Russian poetry reader and I would like to find out the copyright status of Anna Akhmatova's poems "Сероглазый король" (1910), "Память о солнце..." (1911), "Вечером" (1913), "Есть в близости людей заветная черта..." (1915), "Двадцать первое. Ночь. Понедельник." (1917), and a short excerpt from a much later poem "Мне ни к чему одические рати..." (1940). I would be grateful for any information that you can give me on those texts in regards to their copyright situation. > > Thank you so much, > 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. 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 sarahnhurst at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 1 08:18:04 2014 From: sarahnhurst at GMAIL.COM (Sarah Hurst) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 09:18:04 +0100 Subject: This is unfortunate In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Russia apparently said that it closed the FLEX program because one Russian participant stayed in the US: http://avmalgin.livejournal.com/4932231.html Sarah Hurst On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:35 PM, dusty wilmes wrote: > Russia closes the FLEX program: > > http://echo.msk.ru/news/1409742-echo.html > > -- > Justin Wilmes | Ph.D. Candidate > Dept. of Slavic and E. 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Successful candidates are expected to conduct independent and original research at the highest academic level, demonstrate academic leadership, apply for Israeli and international research grants, and cooperate with other researchers within the Faculty of Humanities and other Faculties. *Candidates are requested to apply in writing to: Professor Dror Wahrman, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities* *Applicants should provide:* (1) *Cover letter* (2) *Confirmation of receipt of degree* (3) *Curriculum Vitae *(Please use – CV form: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/upload/_FILE_1410770171.doc ) (4) *Current list of publications *(Please use - List of Publication form: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/upload/_FILE_1410857699.doc ) (5) *2-3 page statement of research plans + a statement of teaching plans* (6) *Teaching evaluations *(if available, from the past three years) (7) *Two representative publications* (8) Letters of recommendation from only *three referees *sent directly by the recommender *Complete applications must be submitted by 2 November 2014.This announcement is not an obligation to accept candidates in any or all fields.* * Additional information and application found at https://ttp.ekmd.huji.ac.il Applications submitted not according to this specifications will not be considered. In addition, Candidates must mail a *hard copy *of the documents listed above. Mailing address: Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel For additional information please contact the Office of Academic Personnel at 02-5883720 or email: mayabe at savion.huji.ac.il Rank to be determined according to the candidate's qualifications. - The Hebrew University is an equal opportunity employer - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 russellv at INDIANA.EDU Wed Oct 1 14:25:18 2014 From: russellv at INDIANA.EDU (Valentino, Russell Scott) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 14:25:18 +0000 Subject: 3-year Lectureship in Polish Language and Culture Message-ID: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer position in Polish Language and Culture The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington, announces an opening for a lecturer position in Polish language and culture, starting in Fall 2015. Initial three year appointment, renewable annually. The successful candidate should have native or near-native Polish, fluent English as well as Polish language teaching experience. Standard course load is three courses per semester, and, while we anticipate language instruction to be the primary responsibility, the successful candidate should also be able to teach introductory courses on Polish culture and literature. We expect the lecturer to take the lead in extracurricular Polish programming on campus. Applicants should hold the Ph.D. degree or be ABD in a relevant field. Familiarity with the American university system is preferred. Submit cover letter, curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, three sample syllabi (two for Polish language courses and one for a culture course), and a list of extracurricular programming ideas electronically via https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/. Questions regarding the position or application process can be directed to Polish Search Committee, Slavic & East European Languages and Cultures Department, Indiana University, BH 502, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103; iuslavic at indiana.edu, subject line: Polish-literature position. The application deadline is October 31, 2014, but candidates will be considered until the position has been filled. Current plans are to conduct initial interviews at ASEEES in San Antonio, after which we hope to invite a short list of candidates to Bloomington for on-campus interviews. Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. ________________________________ Russell Scott Valentino Professor and Chair Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Indiana University 503 Ballantine Hall Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-3272 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Kathleen Thompson PhD Student, University of Virginia -------- Centrifugal Forces: Reading Russia’s Regional Identities and Initiatives An interdisciplinary, international conference at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia March 26-28, 2015 Call for Papers Contemporary Russia has been described as a “country of broken links,” where much of the financial and intellectual wealth of the country is centered in Moscow and Moscow Region (with a population of nearly 20 million), while the rest of the country (another 123 million people) remain unheard and underestimated. At first glance, Russia’s regions often appear to mimic Moscow in all sorts of ways—politically, visually, architecturally, and intellectually…Until they don’t—for example, in the 2010 census thousands of Siberians protested the impact of the center by self-identifying as “Sibiriak.” Blogs, tweets, as well as conventional hard-copy writing, challenge overly centralized power and resources. Legal challenges to maltreatment from Moscow have arisen in the South Russian-North Caucasus region. Ethnographers, literary scholars, cultural historians, political scientists, anthropologists—all are finding that many people in Russia’s regions are taking initiative and articulating their particular identities and interests. Proposals for “Centrifugal Forces” will resist “Moscow-centric” perceptions of Russia and, through various disciplinary approaches to studying the Russian provinces,strive to hear voices from the regions instead of allowing views and opinions from Moscow to dominate. They will consider ways in which people on the peripheries engage in cultural, economic, and political processes; how they represent themselves culturally, artistically, and socially; how self-perception is developing in various regions; and, importantly in the 21st century, how the Internet impacts the very notions of center and periphery. “Centrifugal Forces” will be a three-day conference offering broad interdisciplinary perspectives on approaching regional study. Panels will blend historical and contemporary perspectives on being peripheral. Talks will deal with a broad array of regional experience, in relatively “hot” regions such as the North Caucasus, as well as other areas in European and Asiatic Russia; and addressing activity in rural areas, as well as regional cities. The organizers invite 20-minute papers from scholars from all relevant disciplines. Please submit a 250-word abstract and 1-2 pp. c.v. by December 1, 2014 to: clowes at virginia.edu Themes might include but are not limited to contemporary or historical themes that characterize aspects of regional cultures that show local and regional initiative: • Distinctive cultural groups, organizations and institutions (museums, theaters, film-making and music initiatives, literary groups) • Political organizations that support regional rights and interests • Religious organization and expression showing regional initiative • Defining or distinctive regional/local rituals and events • City or rural regional “branding” • Uses of the Internet (e.g. to help regional people communicate, bond, and organize) • Distinctive local/ regional imagined geographies For more information please visit our website: http://www.russiasperipheries.com. Organizers: Edith Clowes (Brown-Forman Professor, Slavic, Univ. of Virginia; eec3c at virginia.edu) Gisela Erbslöh (Radio journalist, SWR, DLF, deutschlandradiokultur, Germany; gerbsloeh at aol.com) Ani Kokobobo (Assistant Professor, Slavic, University of Kansas; akokobobo at ku.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Our students and alumni call EUSP the most international of Russian universities and the most Russian of international universities. You can choose between MA degree programs in Russian and Eurasian Studies with concentrations in politics, energy affairs, history, culture and society. EUSP is committed to providing high quality academic programs and personal attention for every student. Promoting the personal growth and intellectual development of our students is our first priority. EUSP’s student to faculty ratio is 2:1. Every year our students, from more than 25 countries in Europe, North America and Asia, enjoy the international atmosphere of our campus in the heart of St. Petersburg - the cultural capital of Russia. Select from the following programs: IMARES: International MA in Russian and Eurasian Studies 1-year (60 credits) MA program in the politics, economy, society, and history of Russia and neighboring Eurasian countries. ENERPO: Energy Politics in Eurasia 1-year (60 credits) MA program in energy politics in Eurasia with concentrations on political science, security studies, and political economy with first-hand expertise in the energy sector. MARCA: International MA in Russian Cultural History and Arts 1-year (60 credits) MA program in Russian cultural history combining studies of literature, arts, society, and religion. The language of instruction is English. All programs include an optional Russian Language course. You may also choose a non-degree study option for one or two semesters. Tuition: Tuition varies from 5,300 USD to 8,550 USD per semester depending on the program. Our admissions officers will assist you in choosing one of the national or international scholarship programs to help you fund your studies. EUSP is recognized by the US Department of Education and US students can receive Direct Federal Loans for their studies in our programs. Some limited financial aid may be available from the EUSP. When the program starts: Each of our International Programs (IMARES, MARCA, and ENEPRO) starts twice a year. The Fall semester starts in the beginning of September. The Spring semester starts in the beginning of February. You may choose whichever starting point you prefer. Application deadlines: October 31, 2014 to start in February 2015 April 30, 2015 to start in September 2015 We accept students on a rolling basis, so early admission is possible. How to apply: Your application should include: • A completed application form • Your statement of purpose (not more than 500 words) • Two letters of recommendation from academics who are closely acquainted with your academic work • Certified transcripts of previous undergraduate and graduate studies, with grade-point averages • Your Curriculum Vitae/ Resume You can send all the above, including a scanned transcript of studies, by e-mail to international at eu.spb.ru Please ask your references to email their recommendation letters directly to the same address. The European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) was founded in 1994 and it was the first private graduate school in Russia. The mission of the University is to satisfy societal needs in raising and expanding professional qualification of specialists and in developing their creative and scholarly potential on the basis of achievements of Russian and international experience and cooperation. EUSP has a commitment to the integration of Russian scholarship with scholarship in Europe, America and Asia. Sincerely, Gevorg Avetikyan IMARES Program Associate Director Academic Process Supervisor Department of International Programs European University at St. Petersburg Tel: +7 812 386 7648 Mob: +7 931 344 9660 avetikyan at eu.spb.ru www.eu.spb.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From marijeta.bozovic at YALE.EDU Wed Oct 1 19:26:47 2014 From: marijeta.bozovic at YALE.EDU (Marijeta Bozovic) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 15:26:47 -0400 Subject: Poetry after Language -- ACLA seminar 2015 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please consider submitting a proposal for our seminar, "Poetry after Language," at the ACLA this year: http://www.acla.org/poetry-after-language-0 Poetry after Language Marijeta Bozovic (Yale University) Walt Hunter (Clemson University) Kevin Platt (University of Pennsylvania) The L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E school of poetry marked a shift—or a return to avant-garde practice—in American poetry in the 1970s. This seminar examines the continuing international significance of the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E school of poetry in the wake of renewed politically engaged practices after the international years of protest (and protest culture) of 2011-2013. At a moment when artistic movements across the world are taking up avant-garde and modernist strategies, stances and practices, what is the legacy of that earlier recovery of the avant-garde? Diverse poetic practices associated with the loosely defined movement edged toward the position, in Lyn Hejinian’s words, that: “Language is nothing but meanings, and meanings are nothing but a flow of contexts. Such contexts rarely coalesce into images, rarely come to terms. They are transitions, transmutations, the endless radiating of denotation into relation.” Hejinian’s exchanges and mutual inspiration with Arkady Dragomoshchenko and the poets of the Leningrad underground have been documented and studied—but what are the other channels, networks, and systems by which L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poetry has gained a global reach? How has contemporary avant-garde poetic practice incorporated, extended, or critiqued the relation between poetic language and political formation? We return to the “language of inquiry” in Anglophone, Russophone, South American, Francophone, and diverse global poetries—to raise questions of transcultural, translingual, and transmedia poetic movements. Possible topics include: vernacular poetries and the avant-garde; poetry and translation; the place of poetry in a literary world-system; the international flourishing of hybrid forms of poetry, including lyric essays and disruptive performances; political readings of poetic meter and trope; international poetry journals and publishing; institutions of contemporary global poetry. -------------------------------------------- Marijeta Bozovic Assistant Professor Slavic Languages and Literatures Yale University marijeta.bozovic at yale.edu m. 917-887-5197 -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 moss at MIDDLEBURY.EDU Wed Oct 1 20:36:27 2014 From: moss at MIDDLEBURY.EDU (Moss, Kevin M.) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 20:36:27 +0000 Subject: This is unfortunate In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Apparently Astakhov is trying to drum up anti-American sentiment by claiming that one of the students was somehow given to and adopted by a gay couple, which is why he didn’t return home. http://itar-tass.com/obschestvo/1478548 None of this seems likely to me, and the program officers deny it. http://www.rferl.org/content/astakhov-us-program-exchange-couple-gay-illegal-adoption/26615391.html Chalk it up to the new ideology, which links the Western enemy with the gay enemy. The recent confab on “Large Families,” (Международный форум «Многодетные семьи и будущее человечества») which was a substitute for the planned World Congress of Families, was held INSIDE the Kremlin and at the Church of Christ the Savior. One event there was the premiere of Mamontov’s “documentary” “Sodom,” which was also screened at the Dveri rally in Belgrade before last weekend’s pride event. Google it, if you’re into that kind of thing. It shows all the evils of the homodictatorship, which is leading inevitably to the end of civilization — except in Russia. Kevin Moss On Sep 30, 2014, at 12:35 PM, dusty wilmes > wrote: Russia closes the FLEX program: http://echo.msk.ru/news/1409742-echo.html -- Justin Wilmes | Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Slavic and E. European Languages and Cultures Ohio State University | 400 Hagerty Hall | 1775 College Rd. Columbus, Ohio 43210 | http://u.osu.edu/wilmes.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 sdsures at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 1 22:55:18 2014 From: sdsures at GMAIL.COM (Stephanie Briggs) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 23:55:18 +0100 Subject: This is unfortunate In-Reply-To: <28035163-67F4-4713-BB57-2FFABD8EA81C@middlebury.edu> Message-ID: As distasteful as the idea is, is it possible to get English subtitles for the Mamontov film? I may have to force myself to watch it. ***************************** ~Stephanie D. (Sures) Briggs *Shorn Lambs: Hand-Knitted Scarves, Afghans, Throws and Baby Blankets * http://shornlambs.etsy.com My blog: http://stephaniebriggs.co.uk Twitter: @stephbriggsuk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stephanie.briggs3 On 1 October 2014 21:36, Moss, Kevin M. wrote: > Apparently Astakhov is trying to drum up anti-American sentiment by > claiming that one of the students was somehow given to and adopted by a gay > couple, which is why he didn’t return home. > > http://itar-tass.com/obschestvo/1478548 > > None of this seems likely to me, and the program officers deny it. > > > http://www.rferl.org/content/astakhov-us-program-exchange-couple-gay-illegal-adoption/26615391.html > > Chalk it up to the new ideology, which links the Western enemy with the > gay enemy. > The recent confab on “Large Families,” (Международный форум «Многодетные > семьи и будущее человечества») > which was a substitute for the planned World Congress of Families, was > held INSIDE the Kremlin and at the Church of Christ the Savior. > One event there was the premiere of Mamontov’s “documentary” “Sodom,” > which was also screened at the Dveri rally in Belgrade before last > weekend’s pride event. > Google it, if you’re into that kind of thing. It shows all the evils of > the homodictatorship, which is leading inevitably to the end of > civilization — except in Russia. > > Kevin Moss > > On Sep 30, 2014, at 12:35 PM, dusty wilmes upthera44 at GMAIL.COM>> wrote: > > Russia closes the FLEX program: > > http://echo.msk.ru/news/1409742-echo.html > > -- > Justin Wilmes | Ph.D. Candidate > Dept. of Slavic and E. European Languages and Cultures > Ohio State University | 400 Hagerty Hall | 1775 College Rd. > Columbus, Ohio 43210 | http://u.osu.edu/wilmes.1 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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Svetlana Grenier On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:07 PM, anne marie devlin < anne_mariedevlin at hotmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.adme.ru/svoboda-kultura/35-fatalnyh-oshibok-perevoda-601855/?image=2656255&utm_campaign=art-images-share#image2655355 > > Enjoy > > Anne Marie > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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Area of specialization is open, but preference will be given to candidates with cross-disciplinary interests (e.g., a secondary field in film or visual culture, comparative literature, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, theatre and performance studies, Eastern European studies, Central Asian or Caucasus studies, Eurasian studies, border studies, environmental studies, international relations). Participation in the College’s interdisciplinary programs, including First-Year Seminar, is expected. The teaching load is 5.5 courses per year, which includes language and literature/culture courses, as well as advising of junior and senior major theses. Submit letter of application, C.V., 3 letters of recommendation, statement of teaching philosophy, copies of 2 syllabi (1 language and 1 culture course), and copies of graduate transcripts through Interfolio (https://apply.interfolio.com/26570). Review of materials will begin November 1, 2014. Preliminary interviews will be held at MLA/AATSEEL in Vancouver. The College of Wooster is an independent college of the liberal arts and sciences with a commitment to excellence in undergraduate education. The College values diversity, strives to attract qualified women and minority candidates, and encourages individuals belonging to these groups to apply. Wooster seeks to ensure diversity by its policy of employing persons without regard to age, sex, color, race, creed, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or political affiliation. The College of Wooster is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Employment is subject to federal laws requiring verification of identity and legal right to work in the United States as required by the Immigration Reform and Control Act. Drug- free workplace. Mareike Herrmann Associate Professor of German Chair, Department of German and Russian Studies The College of Wooster Wooster, OH 44691 Ph. 330-263-2482 mherrmann at wooster.edu http://discover.wooster.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 alex.rudd at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 2 07:17:23 2014 From: alex.rudd at GMAIL.COM (Alex Rudd) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 00:17:23 -0700 Subject: Job Announcement - Central European University Message-ID: >From time to time someone who is not subscribed to this list asks me to post a message that might be of interest to some of you on his or her behalf. This is such a post. If you would like to respond, please do not reply to the entire list, but instead reply only to lukacsi at ceu.hu. Thank you. - Alex, list owner of SEELANGS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AT CEU Assistant Professor, Department of History Starting date: As soon as possible (from August 2015) Application deadline: November 9, 2014 Full Or Part Time: Full-Time The Department of History at Central European University (CEU) invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in the field of Soviet and Post-Soviet History. Scholars with Central Asian and/or Caucasian research interest are encouraged to apply. In keeping with the Department’s strong emphasis on interdisciplinary, comparative and cross-cultural studies, we seek applicants whose teaching and research accommodate contemporary approaches in social, political, gender, or cultural history. Applicants should hold a PhD degree and have excellent command of the Russian language. About CEU and the History Department: Central European University (CEU) is a research-intensive university specializing primarily in the social sciences and humanities and offering both Master's and Doctoral programs. It is located in Budapest and is accredited in both the United States and Hungary. CEU's mission is to promote academic excellence, state-of-the-art research, and civic engagement. The university is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. The language of instruction is English. The History Department encompasses the entangled histories of Habsburg, Ottoman, and Tsarist empires and their successor states. Several research centers and specializations extend the Department’s topical and geographical reach. Support is available for individual research, with participation in European and global projects encouraged. The Department enrolls about 40 new Master's students and 6 doctoral students annually, with about 50 students in each program overall. Further information about the department is available at www.history.ceu.hu Compensation: The initial appointment as assistant professor is for four years and renewable; salary is negotiable and competitive. How to apply: Applications should include ● a C.V., ● a list of publications, ● a sample publication, ● a letter of application including a short statement about the applicant’s research and teaching plans, ● the names and addresses of at least three references. Please submit your complete application package to positions at ceu.hu including job code in subject line: 2014/052. 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I'm looking for things beyond the obvious (Gilyarovsky, Bulgakov, Erofeev, Rybakov, etc.) especially shorter pieces which I might easily overlook. Please reply off-list to galloway at hws.edu. Thanks in advance, DJG ______________________________ David J. Galloway Associate Professor Russian Area Studies Program Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva, New York 14456-3397 Phone: (315) 781-3790 Fax: (315) 781-3822 Email: galloway at hws.edu http://www.hws.edu/academics/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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From R.A.Chitnis at BRISTOL.AC.UK Thu Oct 2 12:57:41 2014 From: R.A.Chitnis at BRISTOL.AC.UK (Rajendra Chitnis) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 07:57:41 -0500 Subject: CfP Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations Message-ID: As part of our new AHRC-funded project, Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations, we are pleased to launch the following call for papers. Alongside a conventional invitation for full, original research papers from scholars throughout the world, we also invite applications from UK-based doctoral students to join a small working group at the conference (see below for details). We aim to meet in full the travel, accommodation and delegate costs for all those selected to speak. Please feel free to circulate to colleagues working in other national literatures, comparative literature, translation studies etc. All best wishes, Rajendra Chitnis Call for Papers: Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations International Conference, University of Bristol, September 8th-10th 2015 Conference Organisers: Dr Rajendra Chitnis (Bristol), Dr Rhian Atkin (Cardiff), Professor Zoran Milutinovic (SSEES, University College London) and Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (University College London) The literatures of smaller European nations, written in less well-known languages or from less familiar traditions, all depend on linguistic and cultural translation to be heard by the wider world. Researchers in individual national literatures, comparative literature or translation studies, however, generally work in parallel and even in competition, divided along linguistic, geographical and disciplinary lines, and are unused to examining the precise nature and implications of this shared situation. As a result, some may view the situation of a given national literature too narrowly, while others, in imagining a supranational organisation of literature, fail to consider how the literatures of Europe's smaller nations might become part of it. The aim of this conference is to bring these groups together to explore comparatively the mechanisms through which the literatures of small European nations endeavour to reach the cultural mainstream, and to examine the extent to which these literatures may constitute a specific ‘literary system’ in their relationship with that mainstream. We invite papers that address the following questions: 1. How are the literatures of small European nations translated across borders? Who are the main actors in the translation of the literature of small nations? How do they perceive their role? What role do national and international institutions, funds and prizes play? 2. What are the opportunities for and barriers to wider European dissemination through translation of the literatures of smaller nations or peripheral regions? 3. How valid is the ‘centre and periphery’ model when applied to the cultural dynamics of translation in European literature? How far and in what ways do perceived ‘peripheries’ interact without recourse to the ‘centre’? 4. How does the international reception of the literatures of small European nations influence canon formation, the writing of literary history and a nation’s perception of its literature and literary status? What is the status and experience of writers who migrate and/or ‘self-translate’? 5. What is the role played by cultural stereotypes, defining historical episodes, dominant single figures or genres and other ‘international shorthand’? To what extent do they hinder or facilitate the translation process? Papers may approach these questions from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, including but not limited to literary and cultural history and theory, sociology and translation studies, and may draw on the current or historical experience of one or more national literatures. The conference organisers also invite applications from current UK-based doctoral students who do not wish to give a full paper, but would like to attend the conference as a fully funded delegate and work with other selected postgraduates on a group presentation to be prepared during the conference and delivered on the final day. Applicants should submit a statement (c.500 words) outlining their current research and its relevance to the themes of the conference, and two academic letters of recommendation to Dr Rajendra Chitnis (R.A.Chitnis at bris.ac.uk) by December 5th 2014. This conference is a core part of an AHRC-funded Translating Cultures research project, and organisers aim to meet in full the travel, accommodation and conference fee costs for all speakers chosen by the organisers. The organisers will invite selected speakers to revise their papers for inclusion in chapter form in an edited volume arising from the project. Please send paper titles, abstracts (c.300 words) and a short CV to Dr Rajendra Chitnis (R.A.Chitnis at bris.ac.uk) by December 5th 2014. For further details about the AHRC Translating Cultures Research Innovations Grants, see http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/News/Pages/Eight-new-Innovation-Awards-to-explore-Translating-Cultures.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mtsmith02 at YSU.EDU Thu Oct 2 13:43:16 2014 From: mtsmith02 at YSU.EDU (Melissa T Smith) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 13:43:16 +0000 Subject: texts about Moscow In-Reply-To: <006101cfde3a$b9187150$2b4953f0$@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: I'm sure that Giliarovsky?'s Moskva i Moskvichi is at the top of your list. Master and Margarita is a natural Vladimir Voinovich's MOSKVA 2042 also comes to mind, and maybe Moskva-Petushki (translate as Moscow to the End of the Line) and of course the film Moscow Doesn't believe in tears. Anna Karenina contrasts Moscow and Petersburg ________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list on behalf of David J. Galloway Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2014 8:16 AM To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [SEELANGS] texts about Moscow Dear Seelangers, I'm searching for texts (in the broadest sense) for a senior seminar based on Moscow as a topos. This could include literature, history, film, cultural studies, and so on, but the most suitable would engage Moscow as a dominant theme. (A colleague previously offered the same seminar using Petersburg as the focus; this would be a companion to that course.) Any suggestions of materials in Russian or English would be most welcome, especially if you have taught such a course previously. Most desired would be texts which give differing views of Moscow life over the centuries. I'm looking for things beyond the obvious (Gilyarovsky, Bulgakov, Erofeev, Rybakov, etc.) especially shorter pieces which I might easily overlook. Please reply off-list to galloway at hws.edu. Thanks in advance, DJG ______________________________ David J. Galloway Associate Professor Russian Area Studies Program Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva, New York 14456-3397 Phone: (315) 781-3790 Fax: (315) 781-3822 Email: galloway at hws.edu http://www.hws.edu/academics/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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ieubanks at PUSHKINIANA.ORG Thu Oct 2 15:02:26 2014 From: ieubanks at PUSHKINIANA.ORG (Ivan S. Eubanks) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 19:02:26 +0400 Subject: texts about Moscow In-Reply-To: <006101cfde3a$b9187150$2b4953f0$@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: You might find this site interesting... it has pictures of Moscow at different points in time: https://pastvu.com/ Ivan S. Eubanks, Ph. D. Editor, Pushkin Review www.pushkiniana.org Director, Center for Writing and Communication New Economic School, Moscow www.nes.ru On 02/10/14 16:16, David J. Galloway wrote: > > Dear Seelangers, > > I'm searching for texts (in the broadest sense) for a senior seminar > based on Moscow as a topos. This could include literature, history, > film, cultural studies, and so on, but the most suitable would engage > Moscow as a dominant theme. (A colleague previously offered the same > seminar using Petersburg as the focus; this would be a companion to > that course.) Any suggestions of materials in Russian or English would > be most welcome, especially if you have taught such a course previously. > > Most desired would be texts which give differing views of Moscow life > over the centuries. I'm looking for things beyond the obvious > (Gilyarovsky, Bulgakov, Erofeev, Rybakov, etc.) especially shorter > pieces which I might easily overlook. > > Please reply off-list to galloway at hws.edu . > > Thanks in advance, > > DJG > > ______________________________ > > David J. Galloway > > Associate Professor > > Russian Area Studies Program > > Hobart and William Smith Colleges > > Geneva, New York 14456-3397 > > Phone: (315) 781-3790 > > Fax: (315) 781-3822 > > Email: galloway at hws.edu > > http://www.hws.edu/academics/russian/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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I felt more alive there than I have ever felt before.” (Adam Treml, ASB participant, March 2012) VLADIMIR: Help several community organizations, including the Youth Health and Education Center, Karl Liebnicht Orphanage, Russian Orthodox Church, Handicapped Children's Association “Light” and others, while interacting with Russian university students and experiencing the delight and wonder of provincial Russia. MUROM: Help university students at the Murom Institute (an affiliate of Vladimir State University) to improve their English language skills; prepare audio and video materials for their English language program. During the Soviet period Murom was a closed city. Today it remains isolated from traditional tourist routes. Foreign language faculty and students are eager for contact with native English speakers. Links to pictures, participant blogs, and television news reports are below. They may give you a sense of some of the things that students can do, see, and experience while participating in the Alternative Spring Break program. Participants do not have to speak Russian to join the program. If you have questions about any aspect of the American Home's work, please do not hesitate to contact me. 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 --- Blog: http://theamericanhome.blogspot.com/ http://theamericanhome.blogspot.com/2012/05/our-first-alternative-spring-break.html Pictures: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151290800166290.1073741825.184076861289&type=1 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150585601736290.373606.184076861289&type=1 Russian Television Reports: http://www.6tv.ru/news/view/17102/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQu_46YZPnw&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Yx0VcoQ7w&feature=related ---- OTHER PROGRAMS AND DEADLINES: INTENSIVE RUSSIAN PROGRAM – 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 $3,990 $3,228 - 2,536 Six weeks $5,522 $4,563 - 3,556 Eight weeks $7,053 $5,898 - 4,576 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 AMERICAN ENGLISH PROGRAM TEACHING POSITIONS – Application Deadline March 1, 2015 (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 four (possibly five) classes that meet twice a week, hold office hours, present a brief lecture on any aspect of American culture, airfare to Moscow, visa fee, obtain TESOL certification. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 olga.livshin at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 2 20:55:39 2014 From: olga.livshin at GMAIL.COM (Olga Livshin) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 16:55:39 -0400 Subject: Stress marks: Word, from PC to a Mac Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers, I know this might be fairly basic, but am having finding out the appropriate information. Have you found a system for putting in stress marks in Russian, in Microsoft Word, on a PC computer, in which the file opens easily and with the same look on a Mac platform? We have run into this problem in our program: one of us marks stress on a PC and the other one opens the file on a Mac, and encounters, in place of stress marks, slashes, hieroglyphics and other arcana. :-) Your help would be appreciated; thank you very much in advance. Best, 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From russellv at INDIANA.EDU Thu Oct 2 23:22:25 2014 From: russellv at INDIANA.EDU (Valentino, Russell Scott) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 23:22:25 +0000 Subject: 3-year Lectureship in BCS language and culture In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Language and Culture The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington, announces an opening for a lecturer position in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language and culture, starting in Fall 2015. Initial three-year appointment, renewable annually. The successful candidate should have native or near-native BCS, fluent English as well as BCS language teaching experience. Standard course load is three courses per semester, and while we anticipate language instruction to be the primary responsibility, the successful candidate should also be able to teach introductory courses in culture and literature. We expect the lecturer to take the lead in extracurricular BCS programming. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. or be ABD in a relevant field. Familiarity with the American university system is preferred. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, CV, three letters of reference, three sample syllabi (two for language courses and one for a culture/literature course), and a list of extracurricular programming ideas to: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/. Questions regarding the position or application process can be directed to: iuslavic at indiana.edu, subject line: BCS Search Committee, or via postal mail to BCS Search Committee, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave - BH 502, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103. The application deadline is November 15, but candidates will be considered until the position has been filled. We plan to conduct initial interviews at AATSEEL in Vancouver, after which we hope to invite finalists to Bloomington for on-campus interviews. Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status. ________________________________ Russell Scott Valentino Professor and Chair Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Indiana University 503 Ballantine Hall Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-3272 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 gheith at DUKE.EDU Fri Oct 3 00:48:09 2014 From: gheith at DUKE.EDU (Jehanne Gheith, Ph.D.) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 00:48:09 +0000 Subject: For your amusement In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I like the commentary under the signs. This made me laugh hard-thanks! Jehanne M Gheith Associate Professor, Duke University MSW, LCSW-A Interim Social Worker, Duke HomeCare and Hospice On Oct 1, 2014, at 11:40 PM, "Natalie Kononenko" > wrote: My favourites are things like: Сосиски в тесте - sausage in the father-in-law Мороженое в асс. Ice cream in ass. On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Svetlana Grenier > wrote: Thank you, Anne Marie! Those are great! Svetlana Grenier On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:07 PM, anne marie devlin > wrote: http://www.adme.ru/svoboda-kultura/35-fatalnyh-oshibok-perevoda-601855/?image=2656255&utm_campaign=art-images-share#image2655355 Enjoy Anne Marie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Vira Donska-Prysiazhniuk plays the lead role, with vocals by Kyiv Opera soprano Lilia Lobanova. Opera lovers should not miss this extraordinary production. The film is a treasure trove of folk art traditions, including a spectacular traditional Ukrainian wedding scene. Introduction by Lubow Wolynetz, Curator of Folk Art at The Ukrainian Museum. Admission (includes reception after the lecture and access to exhibition galleries) is $15; $10 for members and seniors; $5 for students. Tickets online: http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/shop/display.php?&psku=tkt141004-7&mode=sp Visitor information: http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/visit.html This film screening is in conjunction with the Museum's current exhibition "Taras Shevchenko: Poet, Artist, Icon" http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/exhibitions/2014/shevchenko/ The Ukrainian Museum's film program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Hanya Krill hanya.krill at ukrainianmuseum.org Coordinator of Programs The Ukrainian Museum 222 East 6th Street New York, NY 10003 212-228-0110 http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org https://www.facebook.com/UkrainianMuseum Check the Museum's website and Facebook page for additional event listings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 jw at KANADACHA.CA Fri Oct 3 02:32:01 2014 From: jw at KANADACHA.CA (J.W.) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 22:32:01 -0400 Subject: Stress marks: Word, from PC to a Mac Message-ID: Ottawa, Thursday 2/10/2014 22h25 EDT Dear Olga, I find the most efficient way to indicate stress in Russian words is simply to use the *underline* option, which is automtically reproduced regardless of type of computer. For example: Ж*и*знь прож*и*ть -- не п*о*ле перейт*и*. It is less distracting to those who already know the stress, but is helpful to newcomers to the language. And this feature is available on any word-processor. John Woodsworth, Member LTAC http://kanadacha.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jw at KANADACHA.CA Fri Oct 3 02:44:36 2014 From: jw at KANADACHA.CA (J.W.) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 22:44:36 -0400 Subject: Stress marks: Word, from PC to a Mac Message-ID: Ottawa, Thursday 2/10/2014 22h40 EDT As a follow-up note, I realise the underline feature to show stress doesn't necessarily work in e-mail (or listservs), but in Word or pdf documents there should be no problem. J.W. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 emilka at MAC.COM Fri Oct 3 03:01:26 2014 From: emilka at MAC.COM (Emily Saunders) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 20:01:26 -0700 Subject: Stress marks: Word, from PC to a Mac In-Reply-To: Message-ID: If you don't need the receiving party (the Mac user) to be able to edit the document, then consider saving and sending as a PDF. All the handouts I make available for my students are PDFs to avoid any font/accent cross-platform issues. IF the person on the Mac needs to be able to edit the document, then I'm not so sure, but would be interested to know! Emily Saunders On Oct 2, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Olga Livshin wrote: > Dear SEELANGers, > > I know this might be fairly basic, but am having finding out the appropriate information. Have you found a system for putting in stress marks in Russian, in Microsoft Word, on a PC computer, in which the file opens easily and with the same look on a Mac platform? We have run into this problem in our program: one of us marks stress on a PC and the other one opens the file on a Mac, and encounters, in place of stress marks, slashes, hieroglyphics and other arcana. :-) Your help would be appreciated; thank you very much in advance. > > Best, > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 e.gapova at GMAIL.COM Fri Oct 3 06:14:04 2014 From: e.gapova at GMAIL.COM (Elena Gapova) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 02:14:04 -0400 Subject: contact details for Anatol' Sidorevich / =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=90=D0=BD=D0=B0=D1=82=D0=BE=D0=BB=D1=8C_=D0=A1=D1=96=D0=B4?= =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=B0=D1=80=D1=8D=D0=B2=D1=96=D1=87=3F?= In-Reply-To: <4135364108372181.WA.wim.coudenysarts.kuleuven.be@listserv.ua.edu> Message-ID: This is his FB page: https://www.facebook.com/cnaibobryk e.g. On 3 October 2014 01:34, Wim Coudenys wrote: > Dear Seelangers, > I'm looking for contact details, preferably e-mail address, of the > Belorussian historian and political activist Anatol' Sidorevich (Анатоль > Сідарэвіч). Can anyone help? > Thanks in advance, > Wim > > Prof. W. Coudenys > University of Leuven > wim.coudenys at arts.kuleuven.be > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 rmcleminson at POST.SK Fri Oct 3 07:59:22 2014 From: rmcleminson at POST.SK (R. M. Cleminson) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 09:59:22 +0200 Subject: Stress marks: Word, from PC to a Mac In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Without knowing how your colleague is indicating the stress marks in the Word document, it is impossible to answer this question, but it sounds very much like non-Unicode characters being interpreted differently on different systems. In principle, ANY Unicode character should appear exactly the same in any Unicode-conformant system (and unless you are using very antiquated software, one must assume that your systems are Unicode-conformant). The problem is that there are no precomposed characters for cyrillic stressed vowels in Unicode (nor will there ever be, because of the Consortium's policy in this area), which means that the character and the diacritic have to be encoded separately. In other words, you have to type first the vowel, then the combining acute accent. It is possible to insert characters by their Unicode character references in Word: the instructions for doing it are at http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/word-help/type-characters-by-using-unicode-and-code-page-values-HP003084929.aspx and the reference for the combining acute accent is 0301. (The result may not be displayed perfectly in Word, but this is another issue, which will not be resolved until Word implements OpenType technology.) It should then be possible to open it on a different platform without turning it into anything else. ----- Pôvodná správa ----- Od: "Olga Livshin" Komu: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Odoslané: štvrtok, 2. október 2014 21:55:39 Predmet: [SEELANGS] Stress marks: Word, from PC to a Mac Dear SEELANGers, I know this might be fairly basic, but am having finding out the appropriate information. Have you found a system for putting in stress marks in Russian, in Microsoft Word, on a PC computer, in which the file opens easily and with the same look on a Mac platform? We have run into this problem in our program: one of us marks stress on a PC and the other one opens the file on a Mac, and encounters, in place of stress marks, slashes, hieroglyphics and other arcana. :-) Your help would be appreciated; thank you very much in advance. Best, Olga Livshin Boston University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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The pre-registration deadline for participants is *Oct. 15*; for non-participants, Dec. 15. In addition to over sixty panels and roundtables on Slavic languages, literatures, and cultures, the conference will feature a number of special events, including: - a keynote address, “Movement and Generation: Towards Nominalism in Art and Literature,” by Mikhail Iampolski (NYU); - two advanced seminars, "From Benya Krik to Pussy Riot: Tricksters in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture," led by Mark Lipovetsky (University of Colorado-Boulder) and "Approaches to 18th Century Literature," led by Marcus Levitt (USC); - three Presidential Panels, featuring recent books by John Burt Foster and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (tr. Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov), and a roundtable discussion on "Changing Contexts and New Outcomes for the Languages and Cultures of the Post-Soviet Space"; - a translation workshop with Boris Dralyuk, Sibelan Forrester, Maria Khotimsky, and Margo Rosen; - coffee breaks with leading scholars: Eric Naiman (Berkeley), Donna Orwin (University of Toronto), and Ilya Vinitsky (Penn); - poetry readings by Polina Barskova and Vasyl Makhno; and more! For detailed program information and registration links, please see the AATSEEL website at http://www.aatseel.org/program/ . The MLA Convention in Vancouver at the same time also features a number of panels on Slavic topics, listed at http://mlaslavic.blogspot.com/. 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Организаторы марафона – компания Google и музей-усадьба «Ясная Поляна». http://www.youtube.com/user/KareninaLive Elena Gapova ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU Fri Oct 3 18:30:35 2014 From: pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU (Peter Scotto) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:30:35 -0400 Subject: Karenina: readers' marathon In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This is great! Thanks! Some people even dress up! 2014-10-03 13:53 GMT-04:00 Elena Gapova : > Interesting: > http://www.psychologies.ru/events/events/_article/karenina-zhivoe-izdanie/ > > Более 700 человек в течение 30 часов в режиме онлайн будут читать отрывки > из романа «Анна Каренина». Организаторы марафона – компания Google и > музей-усадьба «Ясная Поляна». http://www.youtube.com/user/KareninaLive > > Elena Gapova > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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Davidson College - Charlotte, NC The Russian Studies Department at Davidson College, a highly-selective, small liberal arts college near Charlotte, North Carolina, invites applications for a tenure-track position in Russian Studies, beginning August 1, 2015 (Ph.D. in hand by 31 July 2015). We seek a gifted language instructor with an active and promising research agenda, a commitment to mentoring undergraduate students, and enthusiasm for supporting the growth of Russian Studies on campus as well as ongoing transdisciplinary collaboration with Davidson's programs in Theatre, Global Literary Theory, and Writing. Teaching load is 4 courses in the first year, 5 courses annually thereafter, including one first-year seminar in the Writing Program. Area of specialization is open. Native or near-native proficiency in Russian is required. To apply, please visit jobs.davidson.edu to submit a cover letter, c.v., copy of your graduate school transcript, statement of teaching philosophy, writing sample, and the names and contact information for three references who have agreed to provide letters of recommendation. Completed applications received by October 10th will be guaranteed full consideration. We will be conducting interviews at the ASEEES meeting in San Antonio in November. 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URL: From vchernetsky at KU.EDU Sat Oct 4 15:49:00 2014 From: vchernetsky at KU.EDU (Chernetsky, Vitaly A) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:49:00 +0000 Subject: University of Kansas: tenure-track position in Ukrainian and Second Language Acquisition/Language Pedagogy In-Reply-To: <3CD59C0A4CAD5341B5BB7FBCE00163A80884671E@EXCH10-MBX-02.home.ku.edu> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Below please find the announcement of a tenure-track position opening at the University of Kansas. Sincerely, Vitaly Chernetsky --------------------------------------------------------- Vitaly Chernetsky Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Associate Director, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies University of Kansas 2140 Wescoe Hall & 320G Bailey Hall Lawrence, KS 66045 (785) 864-2359 vchernetsky at ku.edu --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assistant Professor - Ukrainian and Second Language Acquisition/Language Pedagogy The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Kansas seeks to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position in Ukrainian and Second Language Acquisition/Language Pedagogy expected to begin as early as August 18, 2015. The successful candidate must be able to teach Ukrainian Language at all levels as well as teach courses and carry out research in any area of Slavic Second Language Studies. Additional professional competence in Russian as well as teaching experience at a North American University is required. We are interested in a candidate who is eager to contribute to developing the Ukrainian program and the interdisciplinary graduate certificate program in Second Language Studies at the University of Kansas. Duties will include teaching a 2/2 course load. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active research program, serve on thesis and dissertation committees, direct theses and dissertations, perform advising responsibilities, and serve on departmental, College, and University committees. Additional duties include participation in program assessment through data collection and analysis and assistance in coordinating the Russian language program as needed by the department. The University of Kansas is especially interested in hiring faculty members who can contribute to four key campus-wide strategic initiatives: (1) Sustaining the Planet, Powering the World; (2) Promoting Well-Being, Finding Cures; (3) Building Communities, Expanding Opportunities; and (4) Harnessing Information, Multiplying Knowledge. For more information, see http://www.provost.ku.edu/strategic-plan/initiatives. The University of Kansas is a major public Research 1 (RU/VH) and teaching institution that operates through a diverse, multi-campus system. KU's many parts are bound together by a mission to serve as a "center for learning, research, scholarship and creative endeavor" in the state of Kansas, the nation, and the world. The university fosters a multicultural environment in which the dignity and rights of individuals are respected. KU is located in Lawrence, a city of approximately 90,000, in the rolling hills of eastern Kansas, 35 miles west of the Kansas City metropolitan area and 20 miles east of Topeka, the state capital. Home to Haskell Indian Nations University as well as KU, Lawrence offers endless opportunities for historical explorations, beautiful scenery, incredible arts and entertainment venues, and many popular restaurants. Kansas City International airport, The Plaza, and access to world-renowned attractions are less than an hour away. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Evaluation of the following requirements will be made through (1) descriptions of educational and work experiences in letter of application; (2) record of scholarly and teaching accomplishments and productivity addressed in c.v.; (3) peer evaluation by three professional references; and (4) congruence with areas of strength and research and teaching needs of the Slavic Languages & Literatures Department: 1. Ph.D. or ABD in Slavic Languages and Literatures and/or other relevant Second Language Studies fields (e.g. Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition) is expected by the start date of the appointment 2. Specialization in Ukrainian and any area of Slavic Second Language Studies 3. A promising research program in Slavic Second Language Studies, as evidenced by scholarly productivity in c.v. 4. Demonstrated excellence in teaching at the university level 5. Native or near-native command of Ukrainian, Russian and English For a complete announcement and to apply on-line, go to: https://employment.ku.edu/academic/1935BR, or go to https://employment.ku.edu/academic-jobs click on "Search openings", and search by key word "UKRAINIAN". A complete on-line application includes the following materials: cover letter that includes research interests and teaching approach; curriculum vitae; and the names, e-mail, and contact information for three references. Initial review of applications begins November 5, 2014 and will continue as long as required to identify a qualified pool. For further information please contact Dr. Stephen M. Dickey, Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas, 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Room 2134, Lawrence, KS 66045-7594, (785) 864-2348, smd at ku.edu. The University of Kansas prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, ancestry, disability, status as a veteran, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, retaliation, gender identity, gender expression and genetic information in the University’s programs and activities. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies and is the University’s Title IX Coordinator: the Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, IOA at ku.edu, 1246 W. Campus Road, Room 153A, Lawrence, KS, 66045, (785)864-6414, 711 TTY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 adamovitchm at GMAIL.COM Sat Oct 4 22:24:13 2014 From: adamovitchm at GMAIL.COM (Marina Adamovitch) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 17:24:13 -0500 Subject: 7th Russian Documentary Film Festival in NYC Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, I would like to bring you up to date on a unique event that will take place next weekend: the 7th Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York (October 10-12). The festival’s program consists of 20 documentaries which could be useful for your classes on Russian culture, history and literature. Please pay your attention to these particular screenings: In the Beginning Was the Word, in honor of Russian literature and contemporary writers. This program consists of two documentaries, Russia’s Open Book in the Age of Putin (USA) and Writer ‘P’. The Attempt of Identification (Russia), and Q&A with the American film team and film directors. Writer ‘P’ is obviously Victor Pelevin. Moscow beau monde is not talking about his prose but about Pelevin himself - and reveals its own face. Very exciting! “Russia’s Open Book” (Peter Kaufman’s project) shows six of the most popular Russian writers of the last decade. Stephen Frye is reading their texts in English. This is a very intellectual and intriguing movie. Special program dedicated to Vasily Grossman, the author of “Life and Fate”. Russian director of the documentary I Knew That I Was Dead will participate in Q&A after the screening. Special program Remembering Holocaust in the Contemporary World. The focus is on the word remembering. The program is on how we do not remember the Holocaust. There are two screenings: a rather provocative Russian documentary The Holocaust – is it a Wallpaper Paste? and American documentary …with God against Man, devoted to a Portugal diplomat in Bordeaux who helped Jews to survive during the WWII. Q&A sessions with the Russian and American film teams will be held after the films. Russian Dream (my first choice!) is an ironical story about American illusions and fantasies, Russian men and Russian winter. The story is about sympathy and misunderstanding between people belonging to different cultures and countries. Mother, Children and Law tells a story about adoption of a paralyzed Russian girl by an American married couple. This little girl was among the last 64 Russian orphans adopted by foreign parents before the law named after Dima Yakovlev prohibited any US adoption from Russia. Film Blokada is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of The Siege of Leningrad. Twenty documentaries will have their American premieres. The festival will be held October 10-12 at Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street, Manhattan), DCTV (Downtown Community Television Centre - 87 Lafayette St., Manhattan), and Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn). All documentaries will be screened with English subtitles. For additional details please go to: www.rusdocfilmfest.org. Best, and have a wonderful next weekend, Marina Adamovitch The New Review ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Sun Oct 5 06:09:43 2014 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 07:09:43 +0100 Subject: texts about Moscow In-Reply-To: <006101cfde3a$b9187150$2b4953f0$@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: Dear all, I’m surprised that no one has yet mentioned (at least, not on-list) Andrey Platonov’s novel, HAPPY MOSCOW. The NYRB Classics edition of our translation also includes other related works, including “Love for the Motherland, or The Sparrow’s Journey”, in which the Pushkin Monument plays an important role. Platonov submitted the story to a journal in late 1936, evidently hoping it would be published to coincide with the 1937 Pushkin celebrations. There is also a remarkable short poem by Khlebnikov, which begins, “Moskva, kto ty?” All the best, Robert On 2 Oct 2014, at 13:16, David J. Galloway wrote: > Dear Seelangers, > > I’m searching for texts (in the broadest sense) for a senior seminar based on Moscow as a topos. This could include literature, history, film, cultural studies, and so on, but the most suitable would engage Moscow as a dominant theme. (A colleague previously offered the same seminar using Petersburg as the focus; this would be a companion to that course.) Any suggestions of materials in Russian or English would be most welcome, especially if you have taught such a course previously. > > Most desired would be texts which give differing views of Moscow life over the centuries. I’m looking for things beyond the obvious (Gilyarovsky, Bulgakov, Erofeev, Rybakov, etc.) especially shorter pieces which I might easily overlook. > > Please reply off-list to galloway at hws.edu. > > Thanks in advance, > DJG > > ______________________________ > > David J. Galloway > Associate Professor > Russian Area Studies Program > Hobart and William Smith Colleges > Geneva, New York 14456-3397 > Phone: (315) 781-3790 > Fax: (315) 781-3822 > Email: galloway at hws.edu > http://www.hws.edu/academics/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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Sun Oct 5 09:27:55 2014 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 10:27:55 +0100 Subject: Wooden churches: The Russian North Message-ID: Dear all, I am forwarding this message from Daryl Hardman, someone whose work I greatly admire. R. * Dear friends, I have spent the past two summers in the White Sea area of Russia, travelling with a small group of people interested in conserving old Russian wooden churches. One of them, English photographer Richard Davies, is giving a talk at Pushkin House (London) on the evening of 7th October, about his most recent book "Russian Types", and will also be mentioning his previous book "Wooden Churches: Travelling in the Russian North". If you would be interested, it would be lovely to see you there. Needless to say, Richard and I have set up a charity to help promote the cause of saving these beautiful buildings http://www.waar.org.uk/ information about the talk: http://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/2014/10/7/pushkin-club-richard-davies As ever, Daryl Ann Hardman Trustee Wooden Architecture At Risk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU Sun Oct 5 09:41:30 2014 From: frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU (Francoise Rosset) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 05:41:30 -0400 Subject: texts about Moscow In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I find poetry is always a convenient "in." There's Pavlova, Pushkin, Lermontov anout Borodino, Tsvetaeva, then Barskova etc etc. Along with Khlebnikov's poem, there's Karolina Pavlova's poem on Moscow: http://poetrylibrary.ru/stixiya/all-121.html#den-tixix-grez and Pushkin's, from Evgenii Onegin, 7-XXXVI ff. http://www.pushkins-poems.com/Yev704.htm and Tsvetaeva's "Poems for Moscow" ... ("У меня в Москве ...") There must be a site somewhere of poems about Moscow here's the city hymn, anyway :) http://www.mos.ru/about/symbols/hymn/ from the "official" site: http://www.mos.ru/about/# -FR On 2 Oct 2014, at 13:16, David J. Galloway wrote: > > > Dear Seelangers, > > > > I’m searching for texts (in the broadest sense) for a senior seminar > based on Moscow as a topos. This could include literature, history, film, > cultural studies, and so on, but the most suitable would engage Moscow as a > dominant theme. (A colleague previously offered the same seminar using > Petersburg as the focus; this would be a companion to that course.) Any > suggestions of materials in Russian or English would be most welcome, > especially if you have taught such a course previously. > > > > Most desired would be texts which give differing views of Moscow life > over the centuries. I’m looking for things beyond the obvious (Gilyarovsky, > Bulgakov, Erofeev, Rybakov, etc.) especially shorter pieces which I might > easily overlook. > > > > Please reply off-list to galloway at hws.edu. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > DJG > > > > ______________________________ > > > > David J. Galloway > > Associate Professor > > Russian Area Studies Program > > Hobart and William Smith Colleges > > Geneva, New York 14456-3397 > > Phone: (315) 781-3790 > > Fax: (315) 781-3822 > > Email: galloway at hws.edu > > http://www.hws.edu/academics/russian/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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There's Pavlova, Pushkin, > Lermontov anout Borodino, Tsvetaeva, then Barskova etc etc. > > Along with Khlebnikov's poem, there's Karolina Pavlova's poem on Moscow: > http://poetrylibrary.ru/stixiya/all-121.html#den-tixix-grez > > and Pushkin's, from Evgenii Onegin, 7-XXXVI ff. > http://www.pushkins-poems.com/Yev704.htm > > and Tsvetaeva's "Poems for Moscow" ... ("У меня в Москве ...") > > There must be a site somewhere of poems about Moscow > here's the city hymn, anyway :) http://www.mos.ru/about/symbols/hymn/ > from the "official" site: http://www.mos.ru/about/# > > -FR > > > On 2 Oct 2014, at 13:16, David J. Galloway wrote: >> >> > Dear Seelangers, >> > >> > I’m searching for texts (in the broadest sense) for a senior seminar >> based on Moscow as a topos. This could include literature, history, film, >> cultural studies, and so on, but the most suitable would engage Moscow as a >> dominant theme. (A colleague previously offered the same seminar using >> Petersburg as the focus; this would be a companion to that course.) Any >> suggestions of materials in Russian or English would be most welcome, >> especially if you have taught such a course previously. >> > >> > Most desired would be texts which give differing views of Moscow life >> over the centuries. I’m looking for things beyond the obvious (Gilyarovsky, >> Bulgakov, Erofeev, Rybakov, etc.) especially shorter pieces which I might >> easily overlook. >> > >> > Please reply off-list to galloway at hws.edu. >> > >> > Thanks in advance, >> > DJG >> > >> > ______________________________ >> > >> > David J. Galloway >> > Associate Professor >> > Russian Area Studies Program >> > Hobart and William Smith Colleges >> > Geneva, New York 14456-3397 >> > Phone: (315) 781-3790 >> > Fax: (315) 781-3822 >> > Email: galloway at hws.edu >> > http://www.hws.edu/academics/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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription >> options, and more. 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URL: From Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK Sun Oct 5 10:30:38 2014 From: Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK (Alexandra Smith) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 11:30:38 +0100 Subject: texts about Moscow In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear David, Here is a list of additional items: * Andrey Belyi: 1926 The Moscow Eccentric (1st of trilogy of novels) (1926) and Moscow Under Siege (2nd of trilogy of novels)(1926) * Tsvetaeva, Marina. Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922, ed. & trans. Jamey Gambrell (Yale University Press, 2011. * Ivan Shmelev: "Niania iz Moskvy" (novel, 1934); "Leto Gospodne" (collection of stories; 1927-1944); "Bogomol'e" (1931). *Tolstaya, Tatyana. The Slynx. * Petrushevskaya, Liudmila. The Time: Night (1992) and "Kukol'nyj roman" (1996). Films: Marlen Khutsiev (dir.)"Zastava Il'icha" (Mne dvadtsat' let), 1965. Georgy Daneliia (dir.)"Ia shagaiu po Moskve" (1963) Aleksandr Zeldovich (dir.) "Moskva" (2000). All best, Alexandra ===================================== Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London) Reader in Russian Studies Department of European Languages and Cultures School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures The University of Edinburgh 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LH UK tel. +44-(0)131-6511381 fax: +44- (0)0131 651 1482 e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 besserglik at WANADOO.FR Sun Oct 5 17:54:21 2014 From: besserglik at WANADOO.FR (Bernard Besserglik) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 19:54:21 +0200 Subject: texts about Moscow In-Reply-To: <006101cfde3a$b9187150$2b4953f0$@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: I'd suggest Alexander Kaletski's novel Metro (1985), a youthful-dissident's-eye-view of late-Soviet Moscow. Kaletski was a contemporary (and, I believe, an acquaintance) of the young Eduard Limonov and followed the same path to a new life in the United States. He's now better known as a painter but still turns out the occasional novel, apparently. I know little about the book's history (notably, when and where written) but remember enjoying immensely it as a convincing portrayal of the Moscow underground - in both senses - at that time. Bernard Besserglik On Oct 2, 2014, at 14:16, David J. Galloway wrote: > Dear Seelangers, > > I’m searching for texts (in the broadest sense) for a senior seminar based on Moscow as a topos. This could include literature, history, film, cultural studies, and so on, but the most suitable would engage Moscow as a dominant theme. (A colleague previously offered the same seminar using Petersburg as the focus; this would be a companion to that course.) Any suggestions of materials in Russian or English would be most welcome, especially if you have taught such a course previously. > > Most desired would be texts which give differing views of Moscow life over the centuries. I’m looking for things beyond the obvious (Gilyarovsky, Bulgakov, Erofeev, Rybakov, etc.) especially shorter pieces which I might easily overlook. > > Please reply off-list to galloway at hws.edu. > > Thanks in advance, > DJG > > ______________________________ > > David J. Galloway > Associate Professor > Russian Area Studies Program > Hobart and William Smith Colleges > Geneva, New York 14456-3397 > Phone: (315) 781-3790 > Fax: (315) 781-3822 > Email: galloway at hws.edu > http://www.hws.edu/academics/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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 oprokop at TEMPLE.EDU Sun Oct 5 18:03:15 2014 From: oprokop at TEMPLE.EDU (Olia Prokopenko) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 14:03:15 -0400 Subject: texts about Moscow In-Reply-To: Message-ID: You may want to add the controversial " Москва, я люблю тебя!" (2010) consisting of 18 short films about Moscow created by contemporary Russian film directors. Among its authors: Bondarchuk (son); Konchalovsky (son), Mikhalkov (son), Paradzhanov (nephew), Ibragimbekov (son and nephew), etc. Olia On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Robert Chandler wrote: > Dear all, > > I’m surprised that no one has yet mentioned (at least, not on-list) Andrey > Platonov’s novel, HAPPY MOSCOW. The NYRB Classics edition of our > translation also includes other related works, including “Love for the > Motherland, or The Sparrow’s Journey”, in which the Pushkin Monument plays > an important role. Platonov submitted the story to a journal in late 1936, > evidently hoping it would be published to coincide with the 1937 Pushkin > celebrations. > > There is also a remarkable short poem by Khlebnikov, which begins, > “Moskva, kto ty?” > > All the best, > > Robert > > > On 2 Oct 2014, at 13:16, David J. Galloway wrote: > > > Dear Seelangers, > > > > I’m searching for texts (in the broadest sense) for a senior seminar > based on Moscow as a topos. This could include literature, history, film, > cultural studies, and so on, but the most suitable would engage Moscow as a > dominant theme. (A colleague previously offered the same seminar using > Petersburg as the focus; this would be a companion to that course.) Any > suggestions of materials in Russian or English would be most welcome, > especially if you have taught such a course previously. > > > > Most desired would be texts which give differing views of Moscow life > over the centuries. I’m looking for things beyond the obvious (Gilyarovsky, > Bulgakov, Erofeev, Rybakov, etc.) especially shorter pieces which I might > easily overlook. > > > > Please reply off-list to galloway at hws.edu. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > DJG > > > > ______________________________ > > > > David J. Galloway > > Associate Professor > > Russian Area Studies Program > > Hobart and William Smith Colleges > > Geneva, New York 14456-3397 > > Phone: (315) 781-3790 > > Fax: (315) 781-3822 > > Email: galloway at hws.edu > > http://www.hws.edu/academics/russian/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 sdsures at GMAIL.COM Sun Oct 5 19:35:19 2014 From: sdsures at GMAIL.COM (Stephanie Briggs) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 20:35:19 +0100 Subject: Stress marks: Word, from PC to a Mac In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Olga, I use a PC, with Microsoft Word 2007. Have you looked in the Symbols tab, under "Insert"? I've used that to put stress marks in, but I don't know how well it would translate to a Mac. PDFs sound like the most reliable option. LibreOffice or OpenOffice should also work. Hope that helps a little. Regards, Stephanie ***************************** ~Stephanie D. (Sures) Briggs *Shorn Lambs: Hand-Knitted Scarves, Afghans, Throws and Baby Blankets * http://shornlambs.etsy.com My blog: http://stephaniebriggs.co.uk Twitter: @stephbriggsuk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stephanie.briggs3 On 2 October 2014 21:55, Olga Livshin wrote: > Dear SEELANGers, > > I know this might be fairly basic, but am having finding out the > appropriate information. Have you found a system for putting in stress > marks in Russian, in Microsoft Word, on a PC computer, in which the file > opens easily and with the same look on a Mac platform? We have run into > this problem in our program: one of us marks stress on a PC and the other > one opens the file on a Mac, and encounters, in place of stress marks, > slashes, hieroglyphics and other arcana. :-) Your help would be > appreciated; thank you very much in advance. > > Best, > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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Melissa Frazier __________________________________ 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 alexey.vdovin1985 at GMAIL.COM Sun Oct 5 19:48:34 2014 From: alexey.vdovin1985 at GMAIL.COM (Alexey Vdovin) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 23:48:34 +0400 Subject: texts about Moscow In-Reply-To: <006101cfde3a$b9187150$2b4953f0$@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: Dear David, if consider the earlier - romantic - epoch, Лафертовская маковница Антония Погорельского should be mentioned. Best, Alexey Vdovin 2014-10-02 16:16 GMT+04:00 David J. Galloway : > Dear Seelangers, > > > > I’m searching for texts (in the broadest sense) for a senior seminar based > on Moscow as a topos. This could include literature, history, film, > cultural studies, and so on, but the most suitable would engage Moscow as a > dominant theme. (A colleague previously offered the same seminar using > Petersburg as the focus; this would be a companion to that course.) Any > suggestions of materials in Russian or English would be most welcome, > especially if you have taught such a course previously. > > > > Most desired would be texts which give differing views of Moscow life over > the centuries. I’m looking for things beyond the obvious (Gilyarovsky, > Bulgakov, Erofeev, Rybakov, etc.) especially shorter pieces which I might > easily overlook. > > > > Please reply off-list to galloway at hws.edu. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > DJG > > > > ______________________________ > > > > David J. Galloway > > Associate Professor > > Russian Area Studies Program > > Hobart and William Smith Colleges > > Geneva, New York 14456-3397 > > Phone: (315) 781-3790 > > Fax: (315) 781-3822 > > Email: galloway at hws.edu > > http://www.hws.edu/academics/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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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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For all the vowels + ~ you entered, you should now get the vowel plus the accent. If fact, I myself *do not* use this method, because it doesn't work outside Word. The best way allows you to type accent marks over anything anywhere in any program like putting a stress mark on, say, *ń* or *ḿ*. But to do this with a single keystroke, you have to create your own personal Windows keyboard. You can do this by using a little known Windows utility called MS Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC). Google it and download it from Microsoft. Import your Russian keyboard and pick a junk key to change. (For me it's the "^" on top of the 6. I replaced it with the stress mark.) And while I was at it, I changed a bunch of things I've always hated about the native Госсстандарт keyboard, exiling Ю to a lower-rent district and doing a рокировка with Б and some punctuation marks so that periods and commas are now in the exact same place in both languages. MSKLC makes the whole procedure a bit more complicated than it should be. But from start to finish it's about a 20 minute process — something I do every time I buy a new Windows computer. But once you do it, you can acute-accent anything in any language for any platform. There's only one disadvantage. This kind of accenting will kill any hopes your Russian spellchecker if you have accented words to check. Rich Robin On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Stephanie Briggs wrote: > Hi Olga, > > I use a PC, with Microsoft Word 2007. Have you looked in the Symbols tab, > under "Insert"? I've used that to put stress marks in, but I don't know how > well it would translate to a Mac. PDFs sound like the most reliable option. > > LibreOffice or OpenOffice should also work. > > Hope that helps a little. > Regards, > Stephanie > > ***************************** > ~Stephanie D. (Sures) Briggs > > *Shorn Lambs: Hand-Knitted Scarves, Afghans, Throws and Baby Blankets * > http://shornlambs.etsy.com > > My blog: http://stephaniebriggs.co.uk > Twitter: @stephbriggsuk > Facebook: > http://www.facebook.com/stephanie.briggs3 > > > On 2 October 2014 21:55, Olga Livshin wrote: > >> Dear SEELANGers, >> >> I know this might be fairly basic, but am having finding out the >> appropriate information. Have you found a system for putting in stress >> marks in Russian, in Microsoft Word, on a PC computer, in which the file >> opens easily and with the same look on a Mac platform? We have run into >> this problem in our program: one of us marks stress on a PC and the other >> one opens the file on a Mac, and encounters, in place of stress marks, >> slashes, hieroglyphics and other arcana. :-) Your help would be >> appreciated; thank you very much in advance. >> >> Best, >> 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 davidecrawford at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 6 00:23:10 2014 From: davidecrawford at GMAIL.COM (David Crawford) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 20:23:10 -0400 Subject: Stress marks: Word, from PC to a Mac In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Some caveats: 1. U+0301 is more specifically known as the "combining acute accent" mark; there is a "non-combining", identical-looking character also whose behavior will be different. The combining diacritic marks are essentially "zero width", i.e. they appear over the preceding character after which they are inserted rather than advancing horizontally and occupying its "own character space" following the previous character. Just be sure you're inserting combining marks by whatever method you use. This also goes for graves, umlauts, and some of the OCS squiggles as well, should one venture further afield than just verbal stress for Russian. 2. Make sure whatever font you use is Unicode compliant and has both the combining accents and Cyrillic (a statement of the self-evident). If you stick with the "standards" (i.e. boring, like Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, etc) you should be OK. There are a lot of nice looking Russian fonts around that have never been brought up to full unicode compliance, or don't have the combining diacritics. 3. If you're using Windows fonts, make sure they are up-to-date versions. Those shipped with Office 2007 and XP did not behave well with vertical placement of combining accents, usually placing them way too high on a line of text and thereby forcing an increase in spacing between vertically adjacent lines of text. The resulting look was unacceptable. If you have either Office 2010+ or Win7+, you should be OK. If you observe the symptoms, find someone who does have the up-to-date software, copy their ttf/otf files for the fonts you wish to use, and manually install them on your computer, which will over-write the old fonts. You've paid for them already, IMHBCO, but MS hasn't been pushing updates for just fonts. 4. Printing to pdf from MSWord etc has its own set of problems due to rendering of fonts and combining diacritics. Out of the Windows freebies, we've had the best results using BullZip pdf printer. Microsoft's own pdf printer completely trashed the layout even using Times New Roman fonts at last attempt in the Office 2010 era; I haven't tried it again since Office 2013 erupted onto the market. 5. No advice to offer for Mac users, sorry. FWIW, I can report that Thunderbird mail 31 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 is rendering accented я́блоко correctly. And, in response to the last post, I have fond memories of my brief stay at the GWU dorms en route to Moscow with ACTR, except for the part about food poisoning picked up at a nearby eating establishment that took most of the way to Frankfurt from which to recover. ;-) dc On 10/05/2014 04:51 PM, Richard Robin wrote: > The solution for PCs is Unicode character U+301, acute accent mark. This is a universal accent mark, understood by nearly all > platforms and nearly all programs (except some Kindle devices), e.g. you should be able to see the accent mark over *я́блоко*. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies. The Robber Baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated: but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis David E. Crawford Unoccupied Zone, Indian River City, Florida United States of America 28.51N 80.83W ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 rm56 at COLUMBIA.EDU Mon Oct 6 00:43:09 2014 From: rm56 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Ronald Meyer) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 19:43:09 -0500 Subject: Moscow Message-ID: Krizhanovsky's "Postmark: Moscow" in the collection "Autobiography of a Corpse" is brilliant. And brilliantly translated by Joanne Turnbull. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Mon Oct 6 05:16:04 2014 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 06:16:04 +0100 Subject: Moscow In-Reply-To: <4051416991705125.WA.rm56columbia.edu@listserv.ua.edu> Message-ID: YES!! R. On 6 Oct 2014, at 01:43, Ronald Meyer wrote: > Krizhanovsky's "Postmark: Moscow" in the collection "Autobiography of a Corpse" is brilliant. And brilliantly translated by Joanne Turnbull. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK Mon Oct 6 10:40:23 2014 From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK (John Dunn) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 10:40:23 +0000 Subject: Moscow In-Reply-To: <064FB992-F86C-43C6-A875-95090A070CBE@dial.pipex.com> Message-ID: If you are willing to go back a little further in time and can cope with the language of the period, then there are some interesting insights into daily life in seventeenth-century Moscow contained in the documents published in the collection Московская деловая и бытовая письменность XVII века (ed. S.I. Kotkov et.al., M., Nauka, 1968). John Dunn. ________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mgorham at UFL.EDU Mon Oct 6 10:55:20 2014 From: mgorham at UFL.EDU (Gorham,Michael S) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 10:55:20 +0000 Subject: Call for Papers: Verbal Prohibition in Putin's Russia Message-ID: ***Call for Papers*** for a special issue of Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, dedicated to: Mat, Slander, Blasphemy, Propaganda, and Extremism: The Culture and Politics of Verbal Prohibition in Putin’s Russia Guest Editors: Prof. Michael S. Gorham (U. of Florida) Prof. Daniel Weiss (U. of Zürich) Since the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s third presidential term, Russian society has been on the receiving end of a flood of legislative initiatives that in some manner attempt to regulate language and speech in the public sphere. Among them, a May 2012 law re-criminalizing slander, the August 2012 law “On the Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development,” the July 2013 “Law on Punishment for the Defamation of Religious Feelings” (otherwise known as the “anti-blasphemy law”), a series of laws penalizing vaguely defined notions of “extremism,” and, most recently, the April 2014 law regulating the use of obscenity in the mass media, theater, literature, and film. How do we best understand this trend? How does it reflect broader attitudes toward language, speech, public morals, and relationships between the individual and society? Does it reflect a new moral conservatism and if so, to what extent does it enjoy popular support, or have roots in more time-honored traditions? What are the intended and unintended consequences of such legislative prohibitions? To what extent are they feasible from a jurisprudential perspective? How, if at all, does it impact the language culture of Russian society and subgroups therein? Are there ways in which such attempts at verbal regulation may serve as a positive, civilizing force? To what extent, and in what ways, do the debates over public language reflect broader concerns about, or visions of, Russian national identity? To provide fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on these questions, Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie invites manuscript submissions for a special issue devoted to the culture and politics of verbal prohibition in Putin’s Russia. Submissions may focus on a broad range of interrelated topics, which may include (but need not be limited to): · Cultural, linguistic, legal, and/or conceptual histories of the targeted areas of language prohibition; · Analyses of court cases and juridical proceedings involving the application of the laws in question; · Studies of the literary, historical, and/or political contexts, precedents, or manifestations of language monitoring and control; · Critical discourse analyses of keywords, media, or genres as they relate to various forms of verbal prohibition; · Profiles of individuals, laws, events, or media central to the current trend of verbal prohibition; · Studies investigating the impact of verbal prohibition in Russia either historically or in the contemporary context. Deadlines · December 15, 2014: 250-word abstract proposal · March 15, 2015: completed draft of article (max. 9000 words) Papers may be submitted in English, Russian, or German, and will go through double-blind peer review. Those accepted for publication will likely appear in the second 2015 issue of the journal. Please send abstracts and draft submissions to: to Prof. Tilman Berger (tberger at uni-tuebingen.de). For detailed submission guidelines, please see: http://www.slavistik.uni-tuebingen.de/m/berger/zeitschrift-fuer-slavische-philologie.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dassia2 at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 6 14:58:01 2014 From: dassia2 at GMAIL.COM (Dassia Posner) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 09:58:01 -0500 Subject: Lyubimov In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Seelangers, For those who may not have heard, the renowned director Yuri Lyubimov has died... http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/legendary-russian-theater-director-yury-lyubimov-dies-at-97/508433.html Best, Dassia Dassia N. Posner, Ph.D Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, Northwestern University Faculty Fellow, Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, 2014-2015 Co-editor: Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance > On Oct 6, 2014, at 05:55, Gorham,Michael S wrote: > > ***Call for Papers*** > > for a special issue of Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, dedicated to: > > Mat, Slander, Blasphemy, Propaganda, and Extremism: The Culture and Politics of Verbal Prohibition in Putin’s Russia > > Guest Editors: > Prof. Michael S. Gorham (U. of Florida) > Prof. Daniel Weiss (U. of Zürich) > > Since the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s third presidential term, Russian society has been on the receiving end of a flood of legislative initiatives that in some manner attempt to regulate language and speech in the public sphere. Among them, a May 2012 law re-criminalizing slander, the August 2012 law “On the Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development,” the July 2013 “Law on Punishment for the Defamation of Religious Feelings” (otherwise known as the “anti-blasphemy law”), a series of laws penalizing vaguely defined notions of “extremism,” and, most recently, the April 2014 law regulating the use of obscenity in the mass media, theater, literature, and film. How do we best understand this trend? How does it reflect broader attitudes toward language, speech, public morals, and relationships between the individual and society? Does it reflect a new moral conservatism and if so, to what extent does it enjoy popular support, or have roots in more time-honored traditions? What are the intended and unintended consequences of such legislative prohibitions? To what extent are they feasible from a jurisprudential perspective? How, if at all, does it impact the language culture of Russian society and subgroups therein? Are there ways in which such attempts at verbal regulation may serve as a positive, civilizing force? To what extent, and in what ways, do the debates over public language reflect broader concerns about, or visions of, Russian national identity? > > To provide fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on these questions, Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie invites manuscript submissions for a special issue devoted to the culture and politics of verbal prohibition in Putin’s Russia. Submissions may focus on a broad range of interrelated topics, which may include (but need not be limited to): > · Cultural, linguistic, legal, and/or conceptual histories of the targeted areas of language prohibition; > · Analyses of court cases and juridical proceedings involving the application of the laws in question; > · Studies of the literary, historical, and/or political contexts, precedents, or manifestations of language monitoring and control; > · Critical discourse analyses of keywords, media, or genres as they relate to various forms of verbal prohibition; > · Profiles of individuals, laws, events, or media central to the current trend of verbal prohibition; > · Studies investigating the impact of verbal prohibition in Russia either historically or in the contemporary context. > > Deadlines > · December 15, 2014: 250-word abstract proposal > · March 15, 2015: completed draft of article (max. 9000 words) > > Papers may be submitted in English, Russian, or German, and will go through double-blind peer review. Those accepted for publication will likely appear in the second 2015 issue of the journal. > > Please send abstracts and draft submissions to: to Prof. Tilman Berger (tberger at uni-tuebingen.de). > > For detailed submission guidelines, please see: http://www.slavistik.uni-tuebingen.de/m/berger/zeitschrift-fuer-slavische-philologie.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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You can find out more details here: http://www.ideas-idees.ca/about/about-the-federation We invite proposals for individual papers, panels and roundtable discussions on a broad spectrum of topics in all disciplines within Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies. Any interdisciplinary panels with other organizations in attendance are welcome. All information and submission guidelines are available on our website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~csp/cas/conference.html Deadline for all proposals is February 01, 2015. All presenters must be members of the Canadian Association of Slavists. You can join CAS online at: http://www.ualberta.ca/~csp/Membership.html Ottawa is a splendid city with a lot to offer, and is particularly lovely at this time of year. The site of the conference, the University of Ottawa, is the world's largest French-English bilingual University, and is conveniently located in the downtown core within walking distance to the historic Parliament buildings and other attractions. Ottawa is a short traveling distance from other major Canadian cities, such as Montreal and Toronto, as well as the bordering US states. More on the city of Ottawa tourism: http://www.ottawatourism.ca/en/visitors/what-to-do Some limited funding from our association is available for graduate students only, we encourage interested participants to apply for travel funding with their home institutions. For any questions please contact the program chairs Volha Isakava: isakavav at cwu.edu and Arkady Klioutchanski: aklioutc at uottawa.ca We look forward to seeing you in beautiful Ottawa! 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U+0301 is more specifically known as the "combining acute accent" > mark; there is a "non-combining", identical-looking character also whose > behavior will be different. The combining diacritic marks are essentially > "zero width", i.e. they appear over the preceding character after which > they are inserted rather than advancing horizontally and occupying its "own > character space" following the previous character. Just be sure you're > inserting combining marks by whatever method you use. This also goes for > graves, umlauts, and some of the OCS squiggles as well, should one venture > further afield than just verbal stress for Russian. > > 2. Make sure whatever font you use is Unicode compliant and has both the > combining accents and Cyrillic (a statement of the self-evident). If you > stick with the "standards" (i.e. boring, like Times New Roman, Arial, > Verdana, etc) you should be OK. There are a lot of nice looking Russian > fonts around that have never been brought up to full unicode compliance, or > don't have the combining diacritics. > > 3. If you're using Windows fonts, make sure they are up-to-date > versions. Those shipped with Office 2007 and XP did not behave well with > vertical placement of combining accents, usually placing them way too high > on a line of text and thereby forcing an increase in spacing between > vertically adjacent lines of text. The resulting look was unacceptable. > If you have either Office 2010+ or Win7+, you should be OK. If you observe > the symptoms, find someone who does have the up-to-date software, copy > their ttf/otf files for the fonts you wish to use, and manually install > them on your computer, which will over-write the old fonts. You've paid for > them already, IMHBCO, but MS hasn't been pushing updates for just fonts. > > 4. Printing to pdf from MSWord etc has its own set of problems due to > rendering of fonts and combining diacritics. Out of the Windows freebies, > we've had the best results using BullZip pdf printer. Microsoft's own pdf > printer completely trashed the layout even using Times New Roman fonts at > last attempt in the Office 2010 era; I haven't tried it again since Office > 2013 erupted onto the market. > > 5. No advice to offer for Mac users, sorry. > > FWIW, I can report that Thunderbird mail 31 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 is rendering > accented я́блоко correctly. And, in response to the last post, I have fond > memories of my brief stay at the GWU dorms en route to Moscow with ACTR, > except for the part about food poisoning picked up at a nearby eating > establishment that took most of the way to Frankfurt from which to > recover. ;-) > > dc > > On 10/05/2014 04:51 PM, Richard Robin wrote: > >> The solution for PCs is Unicode character U+301, acute accent mark. This >> is a universal accent mark, understood by nearly all >> platforms and nearly all programs (except some Kindle devices), e.g. you >> should be able to see the accent mark over *я́блоко*. >> >> > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of > its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under > robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies. The Robber > Baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be > satiated: but those who torment us for our own good will torment us > without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." > -- C.S. Lewis > > David E. 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Please share with graduate students and colleagues, who may have an interest in attending. Thanks! Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ghettlinger at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG Mon Oct 6 16:43:58 2014 From: ghettlinger at AMERICANCOUNCILS.ORG (Graham Hettlinger) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 16:43:58 +0000 Subject: American Councils (ACTR) Russian Language Programs in Russia and Central Asia Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, American Councils (ACTR) is currently accepting applications for its Russian language study-abroad programs, including the Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP), the Business Russian Language and Internship Program (BRLI), and the Heritage Speakers Program. The deadline for spring semester applications is October 15, 2014. Students admitted to American Councils programs are eligible to receive financial support from a wide range of sources, including the U.S. Department of State (Title VIII), FLAS, and the American Councils Outbound Scholarship Fund. Operating since 1976, American Councils Russian language programs are conducted in partnership with Moscow International University, the Russian State Pedagogical (Herzen) University in downtown St. Petersburg, the KORA Russian Language Center in Vladimir, and the Al Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty. All American Councils programs are uniquely designed to maximize participants' language gain by combining intensive, small-group instruction with a rich array of immersion activities to ensure participants break out of the 'study abroad bubble' and truly engage with local communities. Highly dedicated and experienced resident directors provide ongoing logistical support, twenty-four hour emergency aid, and personal guidance to participants throughout their time abroad. A few key features of American Councils programs include: * Expert university faculty who combine innovative pedagogy with a unique understanding of U.S. students and American academic culture; * Classrooms of only 1 to 5 participants to maximize individual attention to each learner's needs; * Twenty hours per week of in-class Russian language instruction in grammar, phonetics, conversation, mass media, and area studies; * Guided opportunities to attend regular Russian classes at host universities in more than 20 subjects ranging from biology to fine arts; * Individual research projects conducted under the mentorship of a Russian faculty member and culminating in a seminar-length paper in Russian; * U.S. Academic credit for coursework in history or political science as well as advanced Russian language; * Housing in conveniently located university dormitories or with carefully vetted host families who provide private rooms, two meals per day, and a friendly, supportive environment for language practice; * Carefully managed, substantive internships at such locations as the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, Yandex, and the St. Petersburg Cultural Center; * Peer tutors who assist U.S. students with language learning and help them find a niche in their university communities; * Russian-American discussion groups that meet weekly to explore contemporary social mores and cultural issues; * Extended trips (5-6 days) with Russian peers and faculty to explore new regions and cities, including such locations as Kizhi, Nizhni Novgorod, Sochi, Solovki and Volgograd; * Creative weekly excursions that go beyond typical tourist destinations and offer students new insights into Russian life and culture; * Ongoing activities with Russian peers, including camping trips, ice-skating, ultimate Frisbee, soccer, cooking, yoga classes, ballroom dancing, hockey, choral singing, theater, gardening, and dacha-visits; * Program monitoring and evaluation through rigorous pre- and post-program testing; * Comprehensive, two-day pre-departure orientation in Washington, D.C. as well as on-site orientation in each host city; * An active and extensive alumni network that includes current and former diplomats, international business consultants, professional translators, area-studies experts, and journalists reporting from the region. For program applications and detailed information, please visit: http://acStudyAbroad.org or email: outbound at americancouncils.org. American Councils staff will also be glad to speak with you, your students, and your colleagues directly; we can be reached at 202-833-7522. With best wishes, Graham Hettlinger Graham Hettlinger Director, Higher Education Programs Division American Councils for International Education 1828 L Street N.W., Suite 1200 Washington, D.C. 20036 T (202) 833-7522 F (202) 833-7523 www.americancouncils.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... 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Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mtblasing at GMAIL.COM Mon Oct 6 21:07:50 2014 From: mtblasing at GMAIL.COM (Molly Thomasy Blasing) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 17:07:50 -0400 Subject: Second CFP: KFLC submission deadline November 10 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting a paper or panel proposal to the annual *KFLC: The Languages, Literatures and Cultures Conference (**April 23-25, 2015**)*, now in its 68th year at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Papers on any aspect of Slavic/Eastern European culture, literature, language, linguistics (theoretical or applied), folklore, or language pedagogy are most welcome. The KFLC hosts about 800 attendees each year who enjoy a congenial and intellectually engaging atmosphere at a lovely time of year in the Bluegrass. *A limited number of travel grants are available* for graduate students and contingent faculty for use toward registration, travel or accommodations. Requests for KFLC travel grants should be submitted to Molly Blasing ( mtblasing at uky.edu) by November 10. Abstracts are due *November 10, 2014*. More information on the conference and submission guidelines are available at kflc.as.uky.edu Please direct any questions to Molly Blasing (mtblasing at uky.edu). -- Molly Thomasy Blasing Assistant Professor of Russian KFLC Division Head for Russian and Slavic Studies Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures 1053 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506 mtblasing at uky.edu Office: 859-218-5337 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, Robert 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 pilshch at GMAIL.COM Tue Oct 7 07:27:53 2014 From: pilshch at GMAIL.COM (Igor Pilshchikov) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:27:53 +0300 Subject: A stupid question, asked in desperation In-Reply-To: <148E0F84-8739-4473-B059-82C0C349097B@dial.pipex.com> Message-ID: Dear Robert, It's from Melnikov-Pechersky, Na gorakh, book 1. Best, Igor Pilshchikov 07.10.2014 10:20 пользователь "Robert Chandler" написал: > Dear all, > > I once noted this down, about the Russian sect known as the Skoptsy: > "Before undergoing an initiation rite that entailed castration, men used > to say a prayer that began, ‘Goodbye sky, goodbye earth, goodbye sun, > goodbye moon, goodbye stars, goodbye lakes, rivers and hills, goodbye all > elements of heaven and earth.’ " > > I have no idea where I found this, not even whether it was a Russian or > English-language source. And now I need to cite it. Does anyone recognize > this? > > All the best, > > Robert > > Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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If they demonstrate an ability above what we expect in intermediate Russian, they then meet with us for an oral proficiency test. If they pass this, they are not required to take any more language classes. Finally, if you have a language requirement, do students have a way to demonstrate a disability in language learning? If they demonstrate a disability, are they expected to make up for the language requirement in another way (for example, culture courses?) Thanks in advance for any information you can share. All best, Sarah -- Sarah Clovis Bishop Associate Professor of Russian Willamette University sbishop at willamette.edu 503 370 6889 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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In many iterations (like this one), > зна́ки ударе́ния пока́зываются на непра́вильной бу́кве. > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 8:23 PM, David Crawford > wrote: > >> Some caveats: >> >> 1. U+0301 is more specifically known as the "combining acute accent" >> mark; there is a "non-combining", identical-looking character also whose >> behavior will be different. The combining diacritic marks are essentially >> "zero width", i.e. they appear over the preceding character after which >> they are inserted rather than advancing horizontally and occupying its "own >> character space" following the previous character. Just be sure you're >> inserting combining marks by whatever method you use. This also goes for >> graves, umlauts, and some of the OCS squiggles as well, should one venture >> further afield than just verbal stress for Russian. >> >> 2. Make sure whatever font you use is Unicode compliant and has both the >> combining accents and Cyrillic (a statement of the self-evident). If you >> stick with the "standards" (i.e. boring, like Times New Roman, Arial, >> Verdana, etc) you should be OK. There are a lot of nice looking Russian >> fonts around that have never been brought up to full unicode compliance, or >> don't have the combining diacritics. >> >> 3. If you're using Windows fonts, make sure they are up-to-date >> versions. Those shipped with Office 2007 and XP did not behave well with >> vertical placement of combining accents, usually placing them way too high >> on a line of text and thereby forcing an increase in spacing between >> vertically adjacent lines of text. The resulting look was unacceptable. >> If you have either Office 2010+ or Win7+, you should be OK. If you observe >> the symptoms, find someone who does have the up-to-date software, copy >> their ttf/otf files for the fonts you wish to use, and manually install >> them on your computer, which will over-write the old fonts. You've paid for >> them already, IMHBCO, but MS hasn't been pushing updates for just fonts. >> >> 4. Printing to pdf from MSWord etc has its own set of problems due to >> rendering of fonts and combining diacritics. Out of the Windows freebies, >> we've had the best results using BullZip pdf printer. Microsoft's own pdf >> printer completely trashed the layout even using Times New Roman fonts at >> last attempt in the Office 2010 era; I haven't tried it again since Office >> 2013 erupted onto the market. >> >> 5. No advice to offer for Mac users, sorry. >> >> FWIW, I can report that Thunderbird mail 31 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 is >> rendering accented я́блоко correctly. And, in response to the last post, I >> have fond memories of my brief stay at the GWU dorms en route to Moscow >> with ACTR, except for the part about food poisoning picked up at a nearby >> eating establishment that took most of the way to Frankfurt from which to >> recover. ;-) >> >> dc >> >> On 10/05/2014 04:51 PM, Richard Robin wrote: >> >>> The solution for PCs is Unicode character U+301, acute accent mark. This >>> is a universal accent mark, understood by nearly all >>> platforms and nearly all programs (except some Kindle devices), e.g. you >>> should be able to see the accent mark over *я́блоко*. >>> >>> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> "Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of >> its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under >> robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies. The Robber >> Baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be >> satiated: but those who torment us for our own good will torment us >> without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." >> -- C.S. Lewis >> >> David E. Crawford >> Unoccupied Zone, Indian River City, Florida >> United States of America >> 28.51N 80.83W >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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. 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He has written more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, many of which chronicle youth, punk, and street culture in the perestroika-era Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia and Belarus. Several of his novels have been long-listed for awards such as the National Best Seller and Big Book in Russia. He was also nominated for GQ Russia's Writer of the Year in 2011 and 2012. His most recent novel *Voina *("War") was released in Fall 2013, and since then he's begun making independent films, including a documentary about the legendary Siberian punk movement of the 1980s. His short stories have appeared in translation in AGNI, Hayden's Ferry Review, 3AM Magazine, Guernica, BODY, the Tin House anthology *Rasskazy *and *Best European Fiction 2015*. If anyone has any ideas or knows someone who might be interested, please let me know. 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We bring together EUSPb students and graduate students conducting archival research in Russia and neighboring countries. The primary goal of the workshop is twofold: first, to enrich participants' research projects and promote an exchange of knowledge about relevant historiographies, theories, methodologies, and archival and other sources; and second, to create a larger and international academic community for participants, and thus to offer them a network of international contacts on which to draw for intellectual as well as professional ends. Since the inauguration of the workshop in 2013, presenters have included doctoral candidates from Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, Georgetown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, the University of Sheffield, the University of Sienna, the European University Institute in Florence, and the EUSPb. We hope the workshop has been useful for the presenters; it has certainly been useful for our students and faculty. This year's workshop will begin in late October and meet roughly once a month through mid-May. Ideally, each meeting will feature two graduate students – one from the EUSPb and one from a foreign institution – who would precirculate works in progress, in either English or Russian. Works might be grant proposals, conference papers, or dissertation chapters on related topics. We welcome proposals from disciplines other than history, including art history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and Slavic studies. Carryover has produced a fully-booked fall semester. Graduate students interested in presenting their work in the spring should submit a 300-word English- or Russian-language abstract of their papers and a CV to Sam Hirst (hirst at eu.spb.ru) by November 20. Funding for travel and accommodations is available for presenters not based in St. Petersburg. We ask that anyone interested in attending the workshop send their contact information so that we can add you to the seminar's mailing list. Anyone interested in learning more about the EUSPb and its History Department are invited to visit us online at http://www.eu.spb.ru/ or http://www.eu.spb.ru/history. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Yours sincerely, Sam Hirst Assistant Professor of the Imperial History of Russia and the Soviet Union Anatoly Pinsky Assistant Professor of Late Soviet and Contemporary Russian History ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. 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For further details, please see: https://www.facebook.com/backtotheussr For registration, please see: http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=244&catid=60&prodid=297 For further information, please contact: Professor Julie Curtis: julie.curtis at wolfson.ox.ac.uk ************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 yuliya.komska at DARTMOUTH.EDU Wed Oct 8 15:20:53 2014 From: yuliya.komska at DARTMOUTH.EDU (Yuliya Komska) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 10:20:53 -0500 Subject: Call for edited volume essay proposals =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CEastern_Europe_Beyond_Contiguity=E2=80=9D?= Message-ID: The edited volume "Eastern Europe Beyond Contiguity" aims to introduce an Eastern Europe that resists the cartographic mandate as much as other contiguities: linguistic, temporal, intellectual, ethnic, and religious. Instead, the contributors will uncover and reflect upon alternative categories, images, histories, and self-designations, which Eastern Europeans and their non-neighbors devised or borrowed to situate the region in a new set of coordinates, tacitly or quite explicitly resisting the traditional ones. History has born out that more than many other world regions, the area to the east of Western Europe and to the west of Russia, with the Baltic Sea to the north and the Adriatic, Aegean, and Black Seas to the south has been defined by its location on the map. For centuries, rulers, politicians, and military strategists partitioned its expanses among neighbors. Since the “long nineteenth century,” ideologues relied on borderland-derived toponyms to justify the changes, as Ukraine’s case demonstrates. Generations of present-day intellectuals, for their part, conceptualized the area in terms of adjacency (Edward Said), continental centrality (Milan Kundera, György Konrád, Andrzej Stasiuk, Yuri Andrukhovych), or betweenness. But how imperative are such geographic conventions, we ask? Can we get away from the notion of Eastern Europe as "the lands between" (Prusin)? Can we think beyond geography even as it resonates in the region’s very name—Eastern Europe? Likely, these new models won't be easily mappable in either geographical or historical terms. That is to say, they will outline cartographic chasms (engagement with non-Western European and non-Russian actors; cultural, political, or intellectual traditions; populations, etc.) as well as chronological discontinuities (ruptures in historiographies, memory cultures, religious worship, etc.). Frequently, these chasms asserted themselves against the intentions of the "powers that be" or "were." The resistance to contiguity thus often shaped political struggles over a diverse set of issues, from self-determination to internationalism. What kind of struggles were these and why do they matter? In part, the volume will draw on invited contributions. With this call we would like to reach out to scholars who can add to the conversation. Working title, abstract of 200-300 words (max; in English), one page c.v. or statement of interest in/qualifications for this topic, due to both editors by November 4: Irene.kacandes at dartmouth.edu and yuliya.komska at dartmouth.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 peter.j.thomas at LAWRENCE.EDU Wed Oct 8 20:34:52 2014 From: peter.j.thomas at LAWRENCE.EDU (Peter-John Thomas) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 15:34:52 -0500 Subject: Lawrence University: tenure-track position in Russian Message-ID: Lawrence University’s Russian Department invites applications for a full-time faculty position at the Assistant Professor level (tenure track) with an expected start date of September 1, 2015. The successful applicant should demonstrate excellence in teaching both language and culture, and provide evidence of both scholarly accomplishment and a serious scholarly agenda. We seek someone with native or near-native fluency in both Russian and English, and PhD in hand by August 2015. Field of specialization is open, but we are looking for someone comfortable teaching courses in both 19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture, and who will complement and add to existing course offerings. Interest in contemporary Russian literature and culture is welcomed. Applicants who could contribute to one or more of Lawrence’s Interdisciplinary Areas (e.g. Film Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies) should indicate this interest. Duties include teaching courses in the Russian language at all levels, as well as English-language courses on Russian culture; teaching load is two courses per trimester. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in differentiated instruction, including teaching students at different levels of proficiency in the same advanced course. Other duties include advising students, the redesign of the Russian Studies major, and the assessment of department curriculum. All Lawrence faculty members are expected to participate periodically in Lawrence’s Freshman Studies program. Lawrence University, located in Appleton, Wisconsin, is a highly selective undergraduate liberal arts college and conservatory of music, known for the quality of both its classroom and tutorial education, research opportunities for undergraduates, and faculty of teacher/scholars and teacher/artists. Founded in 1847, Lawrence is a community of 1,500 intellectually curious students that bring a diversity of experience and thought from nearly every state and 50 countries outside the U.S. Lawrence has a strong commitment to increasing the diversity of its faculty — a commitment recently ratified by an all-faculty vote. We especially encourage qualified candidates from diverse communities constituted by race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation to apply to our position. Candidates are encouraged to read more about Lawrence at https://lawrencecareers.silkroad.com/lawrenceuniversity/About_Us.html and to address in their letters of application the ways in which they could contribute to Lawrence’s institutional mission and goals. This website also includes informational resources about the University and the surrounding community. Interested applicants should apply online and submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, statements of teaching philosophy and research plans at https://lawrencecareers.silkroad.com. Applicants should also have three letters of reference sent to search_<>@lawrence.edu. Electronic submission of application materials is preferred. Review of applications to begin immediately; for full consideration, all materials should be submitted by October 31, 2014. First-round interviews will be conducted at the ASEEES conference in San Antonio, TX (November 20-23). Candidates unable to attend the conference may request an interview via Skype. Please direct such requests, and any questions, to peter.j.thomas at lawrence.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 agregovich at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 9 00:47:23 2014 From: agregovich at GMAIL.COM (Andrea Gregovich) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 16:47:23 -0800 Subject: The gulag and "zones" Message-ID: I'm translating an article about mothers and children in the Gulag and there are many instances of "зоны". Wikipedia gives me this as a definition: "*the zone* (зона, *zona*), usually singular — for the labor camp system and for the individual camps." This article seems to be making broader, perhaps even metaphorical use of the term at times, and there are phrases like this: *"Зоны матери и ребенка"* and this: "Рожали тут же: в тюрьмах, на этапе, в зонах." I'm struggling to compose a question, but I guess I'm wondering what other people have done to make the gulag term "зона" make sense in English translation without a lot of footnoting or explanation, which I don't know that I can do here. Also, one other question: is there an accepted translation for "спецпереселенец" or is that one that simply requires explanation to the reader? Спасибо! 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... URL: From peter.j.thomas at LAWRENCE.EDU Thu Oct 9 03:00:58 2014 From: peter.j.thomas at LAWRENCE.EDU (Peter-John Thomas) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 22:00:58 -0500 Subject: CORRECTION: Lawrence University: tenure-track position in Russian Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, My earlier post does not include the link for submitting letters of recommendation. That link is: search_russian at lawrence.edu My apologies for the error. The full job description, with correct links, is below. Lawrence University’s Russian Department invites applications for a full-time faculty position at the Assistant Professor level (tenure track) with an expected start date of September 1, 2015. The successful applicant should demonstrate excellence in teaching both language and culture, and provide evidence of both scholarly accomplishment and a serious scholarly agenda. We seek someone with native or near-native fluency in both Russian and English, and PhD in hand by August 2015. Field of specialization is open, but we are looking for someone comfortable teaching courses in both 19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture, and who will complement and add to existing course offerings. Interest in contemporary Russian literature and culture is welcomed. Applicants who could contribute to one or more of Lawrence’s Interdisciplinary Areas (e.g. Film Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies) should indicate this interest. Duties include teaching courses in the Russian language at all levels, as well as English-language courses on Russian culture; teaching load is two courses per trimester. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in differentiated instruction, including teaching students at different levels of proficiency in the same advanced course. Other duties include advising students, the redesign of the Russian Studies major, and the assessment of department curriculum. All Lawrence faculty members are expected to participate periodically in Lawrence’s Freshman Studies program. Lawrence University, located in Appleton, Wisconsin, is a highly selective undergraduate liberal arts college and conservatory of music, known for the quality of both its classroom and tutorial education, research opportunities for undergraduates, and faculty of teacher/scholars and teacher/artists. Founded in 1847, Lawrence is a community of 1,500 intellectually curious students that bring a diversity of experience and thought from nearly every state and 50 countries outside the U.S. Lawrence has a strong commitment to increasing the diversity of its faculty — a commitment recently ratified by an all-faculty vote. We especially encourage qualified candidates from diverse communities constituted by race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation to apply to our position. Candidates are encouraged to read more about Lawrence at https://lawrencecareers.silkroad.com/lawrenceuniversity/About_Us.html and to address in their letters of application the ways in which they could contribute to Lawrence’s institutional mission and goals. This website also includes informational resources about the University and the surrounding community. Interested applicants should apply online and submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, statements of teaching philosophy and research plans at https://lawrencecareers.silkroad.com. Applicants should also have three letters of reference sent to search_russian at lawrence.edu. Electronic submission of application materials is preferred. Review of applications to begin immediately; for full consideration, all materials should be submitted by October 31, 2014. First-round interviews will be conducted at the ASEEES conference in San Antonio, TX (November 20-23). Candidates unable to attend the conference may request an interview via Skype. Please direct such requests, and any questions, to peter.j.thomas at lawrence.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 rifkin at TCNJ.EDU Thu Oct 9 11:51:58 2014 From: rifkin at TCNJ.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 07:51:58 -0400 Subject: Essay on Ulitskaya Message-ID: Dear SEELANGers: There is a good essay by Masha Gessen on Ukitskaya in the Oct 6 issue of The New Yorker. (The cover is a blurred view from one car looking forward to a taxi with raindrops on the windshield.) Best wishes Ben Rifkin The College of New Jersey Sent from my iPhone: Please forgive my typos. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 extraclass at LEARNRUSSIAN.RU Thu Oct 9 12:53:06 2014 From: extraclass at LEARNRUSSIAN.RU (Extra Class Language Centre) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 16:53:06 +0400 Subject: One nation, one book ((( Message-ID: Russia might have one-standard-for-all Russian language and literature school books. Stanislav Chernyshov http://top.rbc.ru/politics/09/10/2014/54364b32cbb20f12690b7428 -- Extra Class Language Centre St. Petersburg, Russia +7 812 315 27 20 www.learnrussian.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ybinvt at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 9 13:58:09 2014 From: ybinvt at GMAIL.COM (Yuliya I. Ballou) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 09:58:09 -0400 Subject: The gulag and "zones" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: *Andrea,* *I am a native Russian speaker, but not an expert on translation, although have done a bit here and there...* *here are my two cents, maybe it will help* *"Зоны матери и ребенка" - *a special area (of a building, etc.) devoted to (usually traveling) mothers with children *зона * 2. Закрытая территория концлагеря, места заключения (разговорное) http://www.vedu.ru/expdic/10214/ zona is basically a conversational or jargon word for the prison/ territory of the prison/ gulag-type camps (although not as often) not sure how exactly you would word it in English as for *этап* Пункт для ночлега в пути партий арестантов; путь следования арестантов, ссыльных, а также сама такая партия. *По этапу или этапом* — под конвоем (о способе пересылки арестантов, ссыльных). *http://www.vedu.ru/expdic/40037/ * so they were giving birth in transit on the way to camps, etc. but I think you would have to explain how exactly prisoners, etc. were transported, since conditions were horrible. below is something from wikipedia, but hopefully it helps with *спецпереселе́нец *question *Спецпоселе́нец* (*спецпереселе́нец*) — лицо, выселенное из места проживания, преимущественно в отдалённые районы страны без судебной или квазисудебной процедуры. Особая категория репрессированного населения СССР . В 1930-е — это были «кулаки » и «подкулачники», с конца 1930-х начались выселения по национальному (немцы, финны, итальянцы и др.) и социальному признаку, в том числе в присоединённых государствах Прибалтики, в Молдавии и Белоруссии, на Западной Украине. После Второй мировой войны на положение спецпереселенцев были переведены «власовцы», а во время войны — те, кто подозревался в коллаборационизме . On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Andrea Gregovich wrote: > I'm translating an article about mothers and children in the Gulag and > there are many instances of "зоны". Wikipedia gives me this as a > definition: "*the zone* (зона, *zona*), usually singular — for the labor > camp system and for the individual camps." This article seems to be making > broader, perhaps even metaphorical use of the term at times, and there are > phrases like this: > > *"Зоны матери и ребенка"* > > and this: > > "Рожали тут же: в тюрьмах, на этапе, в зонах." > > I'm struggling to compose a question, but I guess I'm wondering what other > people have done to make the gulag term "зона" make sense in English > translation without a lot of footnoting or explanation, which I don't know > that I can do here. > > Also, one other question: is there an accepted translation for "спецпереселенец" > or is that one that simply requires explanation to the reader? > > Спасибо! > Andrea Gregovich > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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[X] RT’S “SECOND OPINION” ADS TOO PROVOCATIVE FOR UK, REDACTED LONDON, OCTOBER 9, 2014 – Posters for RT’s “Second Opinion” ad campaign was rejected for outdoor posting by many London platforms and authorities due to “political undertones.” Instead, the “redacted” version of the posters will appear at locations throughout the city, and RT’s “augmented reality” mobile app, RTplus, will reveal the campaign in its entirety. The campaign uses the example of the Iraq War to draw attention to the importance of diversity in the news media. [X] “RT’s motto has always been to Question More. This is what these ads are asking the viewer to do – essentially, to ask themselves what happens when there is no second opinion in the news media,” commented Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor in chief. “It is an important, straightforward question, and it is disappointing that some people are too afraid of it even being asked.” London ads feature the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair and President of the United States George W. Bush. Many advertising displays, including London’s trademark booths and large-format posters in railway and underground stations are off-limits for the RT ads in their original form, according to the rules and regulations of the platform operators. As a result, posters with large “REDACTED” signs appear in those locations, and RT’s custom mobile app, RTplus, will enable users to scan the REDACTED posters and see the original creative design, learn more about the campaign itself, and watch the RT live stream. The images and the full campaign story can be viewed at secondopinion.rt.com. [X]The campaign is also going live in the UK market with wild postings of uncensored images in more than 100 London locations, including spots in Canary Wharf, City of London, Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Kensington and Notting Hill. “RT: For the Second Opinion” campaign draws attention to the importance of having a diversity of voices in the global news media space, and posits RT as the place to go for alternative viewpoints on current events. The first wave of the advertisement debuted in New York City in August 2014 with posters of former the US Secretary of State Colin Powell, then expanded with images of President Bush on outdoor platforms in New York and Washington, DC. Right away the campaign attracted attention of many media outlets, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and Buzzfeed, as well as of the general public. Robert Mackey of the Times observed that with these ads RT “tries to persuade New Yorkers to view it as an alternative to American channels,” while The Huffington Post called it “provocative” for taking “a serious dig at the way the US media reported on the Iraq war.” RT is a global news network that broadcasts 24/7 in English, Arabic and Spanish from its studios in Moscow and Washington, DC, and is available to 700 million viewers worldwide. RT is the first TV news channel in history to cross the billion views mark on YouTube. RT is the winner of the Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards for best 24-hr broadcast, and the only Russian TV channel to garner three nominations for the prestigious International Emmy Award for News. 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Thanks, Tony On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Prokhorova, Elena V wrote: > In case some of us missed it. Ребята работают с размахом... > > *RT’S “SECOND OPINION” ADS TOO PROVOCATIVE FOR UK, REDACTED* > *LONDON, OCTOBER 9, 2014** – **Posters for* *RT’s “Second Opinion” ad > campaign was rejected for outdoor posting by many London platforms and > authorities due to “political undertones.” Instead, the “redacted” version > of the posters will appear at locations throughout the city, and RT’s > “augmented reality” mobile app, **RTplus,** will reveal the campaign in > its entirety. The campaign uses the example of the Iraq War to draw > attention to the importance of diversity in the news media.* > > “RT’s motto has always been to Question More. This is what these ads are > asking the viewer to do – essentially, to ask themselves what happens when > there is no second opinion in the news media,” commented Margarita > Simonyan, RT’s editor in chief. “It is an important, straightforward > question, and it is disappointing that some people are too afraid of it > even being asked.” > London ads feature the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony > Blair and President of the United States George W. Bush. Many advertising > displays, including London’s trademark booths and large-format posters in > railway and underground stations are off-limits for the RT ads in their > original form, according to the rules and regulations of the platform > operators. > As a result, posters with large “REDACTED” signs appear in those > locations, and RT’s custom mobile app, RTplus, will enable users to scan > the REDACTED posters and see the original creative design, learn more about > the campaign itself, and watch the RT live stream. The images and the full > campaign story can be viewed at secondopinion.rt.com. > > The campaign is also going live in the UK market with wild postings of > uncensored images in more than 100 London locations, including spots in > Canary Wharf, City of London, Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Kensington and > Notting Hill*.* > “RT: For the Second Opinion” campaign draws attention to the importance of > having a diversity of voices in the global news media space, and posits RT > as the place to go for alternative viewpoints on current events. The first > wave of the advertisement debuted in New York City in August 2014 with > posters of former the US Secretary of State Colin Powell, then > expanded > with images of President Bush on outdoor platforms in New York and > Washington, DC. > Right away the campaign attracted attention of many media outlets, > including The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and > Buzzfeed, as well as of the general public. Robert Mackey of the Times > observed that with these ads RT “tries to persuade New Yorkers to view it > as an alternative to American channels,” while The Huffington Post called > it “provocative” for taking “a serious dig at the way the US media reported > on the Iraq war.” > RT is a global news network that broadcasts 24/7 in English, Arabic and > Spanish from its studios in Moscow and Washington, DC, and is available to > 700 million viewers worldwide. RT is the first TV news channel in history > to cross the billion views mark on YouTube. 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RT’S “SECOND OPINION” ADS TOO PROVOCATIVE FOR UK, REDACTED LONDON, OCTOBER 9, 2014 – Posters for RT’s “Second Opinion” ad campaign was rejected for outdoor posting by many London platforms and authorities due to “political undertones.” Instead, the “redacted” version of the posters will appear at locations throughout the city, and RT’s “augmented reality” mobile app, RTplus, will reveal the campaign in its entirety. The campaign uses the example of the Iraq War to draw attention to the importance of diversity in the news media. “RT’s motto has always been to Question More. This is what these ads are asking the viewer to do – essentially, to ask themselves what happens when there is no second opinion in the news media,” commented Margarita Simonyan, RT’s editor in chief. “It is an important, straightforward question, and it is disappointing that some people are too afraid of it even being asked.” London ads feature the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair and President of the United States George W. Bush. Many advertising displays, including London’s trademark booths and large-format posters in railway and underground stations are off-limits for the RT ads in their original form, according to the rules and regulations of the platform operators. As a result, posters with large “REDACTED” signs appear in those locations, and RT’s custom mobile app, RTplus, will enable users to scan the REDACTED posters and see the original creative design, learn more about the campaign itself, and watch the RT live stream. The images and the full campaign story can be viewed at secondopinion.rt.com. The campaign is also going live in the UK market with wild postings of uncensored images in more than 100 London locations, including spots in Canary Wharf, City of London, Mayfair, Knightsbridge, Kensington and Notting Hill. “RT: For the Second Opinion” campaign draws attention to the importance of having a diversity of voices in the global news media space, and posits RT as the place to go for alternative viewpoints on current events. The first wave of the advertisement debuted in New York City in August 2014 with posters of former the US Secretary of State Colin Powell, then expanded with images of President Bush on outdoor platforms in New York and Washington, DC. Right away the campaign attracted attention of many media outlets, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and Buzzfeed, as well as of the general public. Robert Mackey of the Times observed that with these ads RT “tries to persuade New Yorkers to view it as an alternative to American channels,” while The Huffington Post called it “provocative” for taking “a serious dig at the way the US media reported on the Iraq war.” RT is a global news network that broadcasts 24/7 in English, Arabic and Spanish from its studios in Moscow and Washington, DC, and is available to 700 million viewers worldwide. RT is the first TV news channel in history to cross the billion views mark on YouTube. RT is the winner of the Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards for best 24-hr broadcast, and the only Russian TV channel to garner three nominations for the prestigious International Emmy Award for News. 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Gallagher) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 16:50:37 -0400 Subject: RT=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99S_=E2=80=9CSECOND_OPINION=E2=80=9D_?=ADS TOO PROVOCATIVE FOR UK, REDACTED In-Reply-To: <02905FBBD69AEB41A0668EAA3CA21F890110FB4BDD@MBJ1.campus.wm.edu> Message-ID: Prokhorova, Elena V wrote: > In case some of us missed it. Ребята работают с размахом... > > *RT’S “SECOND OPINION” ADS TOO PROVOCATIVE FOR UK, REDACTED* ... The > images and the full campaign story can be viewed at > . I was especially impressed by this series of comments at the website: @RT_PressOffice_ In fact 10 times victims more! An this is not finished yet! @shaunwalker7 [The Guardian] Fully agree with the sentiment, not sure about the messenger. @DDERSS When was the last time Russia has started a war on false pretense? (Hint: it has never happened). So your sentiment is FALSE. [end quote] Hmm, let's see, was it 2013? Doesn't Ukraine count? I recall quite a few "false pretenses" used to justify that. The most common seem to be the accusation that Ukraine has been taken over by fascists (what we call "Nazis") in an illegal coup against the will of the people. Not to mention Georgia in August 2008, a follow-up to the 1991–92 South Ossetia war of aggression. Then of course there was the war on Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. By now, I've forgotten the excuse for that. "Never"? I think not. I'm with @shaunwalker7 -- the Bushies did lie, but the Putinites are no saints, either. -- 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. 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Iepuri, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Russian Director of the Russian Language Program Study Abroad Advisor for the Russian Language Department of Modern Languages The University of Mississippi Phone: (662) 915-7715 E-mail: vbiepuri at olemiss.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 kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM Fri Oct 10 06:58:49 2014 From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:58:49 +0100 Subject: The gulag and "zones" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Andrea, I think the general lack of response to your question is simply an indication of how very difficult it is. Foreign borrowings are nearly always the hardest words to translate, and “zona” is one of the worst of all, with its sinister resonance. I don’t think there is a general answer to your question. Most likely, you WILL have to use a note or an introduction, or find some way to help the reader. Using “zona” (in italics) or “zone” (in inverted commas) is possible, and the more times the word occurs the better. Then the reader will come to accept it. Sorry not to be more helpful. All the best, Robert On 9 Oct 2014, at 01:47, Andrea Gregovich wrote: > I'm translating an article about mothers and children in the Gulag and there are many instances of "зоны". Wikipedia gives me this as a definition: "the zone (зона, zona), usually singular — for the labor camp system and for the individual camps." This article seems to be making broader, perhaps even metaphorical use of the term at times, and there are phrases like this: > > "Зоны матери и ребенка" > > > and this: > > "Рожали тут же: в тюрьмах, на этапе, в зонах." > > I'm struggling to compose a question, but I guess I'm wondering what other people have done to make the gulag term "зона" make sense in English translation without a lot of footnoting or explanation, which I don't know that I can do here. > > Also, one other question: is there an accepted translation for "спецпереселенец" or is that one that simply requires explanation to the reader? > > Спасибо! > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 agregovich at GMAIL.COM Fri Oct 10 07:05:55 2014 From: agregovich at GMAIL.COM (Andrea Gregovich) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 23:05:55 -0800 Subject: The gulag and "zones" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Robert, Thank you so much for your response. I'm realizing you're right, there is no good solution. But I like your idea about inverted commas, that might in fact give it context as a borrowed idea (if not a borrowed word). Best, Andrea Gregovich On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Robert Chandler wrote: > Dear Andrea, > > I think the general lack of response to your question is simply an > indication of how very difficult it is. Foreign borrowings are nearly > always the hardest words to translate, and “zona” is one of the worst of > all, with its sinister resonance. > > I don’t think there is a general answer to your question. Most likely, > you WILL have to use a note or an introduction, or find some way to help > the reader. Using “zona” (in italics) or “zone” (in inverted commas) is > possible, and the more times the word occurs the better. Then the reader > will come to accept it. > > Sorry not to be more helpful. > > All the best, > > Robert > > On 9 Oct 2014, at 01:47, Andrea Gregovich wrote: > > > I'm translating an article about mothers and children in the Gulag and > there are many instances of "зоны". Wikipedia gives me this as a > definition: "the zone (зона, zona), usually singular — for the labor camp > system and for the individual camps." This article seems to be making > broader, perhaps even metaphorical use of the term at times, and there are > phrases like this: > > > > "Зоны матери и ребенка" > > > > > > and this: > > > > "Рожали тут же: в тюрьмах, на этапе, в зонах." > > > > I'm struggling to compose a question, but I guess I'm wondering what > other people have done to make the gulag term "зона" make sense in English > translation without a lot of footnoting or explanation, which I don't know > that I can do here. > > > > Also, one other question: is there an accepted translation for > "спецпереселенец" or is that one that simply requires explanation to the > reader? > > > > Спасибо! > > Andrea Gregovich > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription > options, and more. 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URL: From John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK Fri Oct 10 10:34:06 2014 From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK (John Dunn) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:34:06 +0000 Subject: RT=?windows-1251?Q?=92S_=93SECOND_OPINION=94_?=ADS TOO PROVOCATIVE FOR UK, REDACTED In-Reply-To: <5436F51D.7030700@pbg-translations.com> Message-ID: There is an interesting irony here. Russians are wont to complain about foreigners who allegedly fail to take into account 'Russian traditional values', but, strange as it may seem, Britain also has its traditional values, one of which is a public reticence about political matters. This is reflected, inter alia, in a long-standing convention that, with the obvious exception of party political advertising in election campaigns, potentially contentious political issues are not used in advertising. The other irony, though, is that banning advertisements inevitably rebounds by giving the advertisers more publicity than they would have got had the campaign been allowed to go ahead in the intended form. Had it been up to me, I would certainly have rejected the posters – not, however, because of the supposed assault on 'traditional British values' (tempting as it is to give Ms Simon'jan and her boss Dmitrij Kiselev a taste of their own medicine), but for the aesthetic offence caused by the execrable quality of the art work. John Dunn. ________________________________________ From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul B. Gallagher [paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM] Sent: 09 October 2014 22:50 To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] RT’S “SECOND OPINION” ADS TOO PROVOCATIVE FOR UK, REDACTED Prokhorova, Elena V wrote: > In case some of us missed it. Ребята работают с размахом... > > *RT’S “SECOND OPINION” ADS TOO PROVOCATIVE FOR UK, REDACTED* ... The > images and the full campaign story can be viewed at > . I was especially impressed by this series of comments at the website: @RT_PressOffice_ In fact 10 times victims more! An this is not finished yet! @shaunwalker7 [The Guardian] Fully agree with the sentiment, not sure about the messenger. @DDERSS When was the last time Russia has started a war on false pretense? (Hint: it has never happened). So your sentiment is FALSE. [end quote] Hmm, let's see, was it 2013? Doesn't Ukraine count? I recall quite a few "false pretenses" used to justify that. The most common seem to be the accusation that Ukraine has been taken over by fascists (what we call "Nazis") in an illegal coup against the will of the people. Not to mention Georgia in August 2008, a follow-up to the 1991–92 South Ossetia war of aggression. Then of course there was the war on Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. By now, I've forgotten the excuse for that. "Never"? I think not. I'm with @shaunwalker7 -- the Bushies did lie, but the Putinites are no saints, either. -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 karenporteresq at GMAIL.COM Fri Oct 10 10:49:33 2014 From: karenporteresq at GMAIL.COM (Karen Porter) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:49:33 +0400 Subject: RT=?windows-1252?Q?=92S_=93SECOND_OPINION=94_?=ADS TOO PROVOCATIVE FOR UK, REDACTED In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An article in The Moscow Times yesterday gets to the root of this issue: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/newsletter/508653.html? On Oct 10, 2014, at 2:34 PM, John Dunn wrote: > There is an interesting irony here. Russians are wont to complain about foreigners who allegedly fail to take into account 'Russian traditional values', but, strange as it may seem, Britain also has its traditional values, one of which is a public reticence about political matters. This is reflected, inter alia, in a long-standing convention that, with the obvious exception of party political advertising in election campaigns, potentially contentious political issues are not used in advertising. The other irony, though, is that banning advertisements inevitably rebounds by giving the advertisers more publicity than they would have got had the campaign been allowed to go ahead in the intended form. > > Had it been up to me, I would certainly have rejected the posters – not, however, because of the supposed assault on 'traditional British values' (tempting as it is to give Ms Simon'jan and her boss Dmitrij Kiselev a taste of their own medicine), but for the aesthetic offence caused by the execrable quality of the art work. > > John Dunn. > ________________________________________ > From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul B. Gallagher [paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM] > Sent: 09 October 2014 22:50 > To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] RT’S “SECOND OPINION” ADS TOO PROVOCATIVE FOR UK, REDACTED > > Prokhorova, Elena V wrote: > >> In case some of us missed it. Ребята работают с размахом... >> >> *RT’S “SECOND OPINION” ADS TOO PROVOCATIVE FOR UK, REDACTED* ... The >> images and the full campaign story can be viewed at >> . > > I was especially impressed by this series of comments at the website: > > @RT_PressOffice_ In fact 10 times victims more! An this is not finished yet! > > @shaunwalker7 [The Guardian] Fully agree with the sentiment, not sure > about the messenger. > > @DDERSS When was the last time Russia has started a war on false > pretense? (Hint: it has never happened). So your sentiment is FALSE. > > [end quote] > > Hmm, let's see, was it 2013? Doesn't Ukraine count? I recall quite a few > "false pretenses" used to justify that. The most common seem to be the > accusation that Ukraine has been taken over by fascists (what we call > "Nazis") in an illegal coup against the will of the people. > > Not to mention Georgia in August 2008, a follow-up to the 1991–92 South > Ossetia war of aggression. > > Then of course there was the war on Afghanistan from December 1979 to > February 1989. By now, I've forgotten the excuse for that. > > "Never"? I think not. > > I'm with @shaunwalker7 -- the Bushies did lie, but the Putinites are no > saints, either. > > -- > 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. 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