CFA: Medieval Slavic Summer Institute

[Daniel Collins]

MEDIEVAL SLAVIC SUMMER INSTITUTE
The Ohio State University
June 29-July 26, 2003

The Hilandar Research Library (HRL)/Resource Center for Medieval
Slavic Studies (RCMSS) and the Department of Slavic and East European
Languages and Literatures (DSEELL) at The Ohio State University will
host a four-week intensive Summer Institute for qualified graduate
students in Columbus, Ohio, June 29-July 26, 2003.  The Medieval
Slavic Summer Institute (MSSI) will offer: Practical Slavic
Palaeography (Slavic 870) and Readings in Church Slavonic (Slavic
812).  All lectures will be in English.  Manuscript material on
microform from the Hilandar Research Libraryís extensive holdings
forms a large part of the lectures and exercises.  Participants will
also have the opportunity to work with original manuscripts and to
conduct their own individualized research in the HRL.  Also planned
is a program of lectures on related topics and other activities.

Applicants must be graduate students with a B.A. degree and with a
reading knowledge of Cyrillic and of at least one Slavic language.
Preference will be given to applicants with reading knowledge of Old
Church Slavonic or some other pre-modern Slavic language.

The Hilandar Research Library, the largest repository of medieval
Slavic Cyrillic texts on microform in the world, includes the
holdings from over 100 monastic, private, museum, and library
collections of twenty-one countries.  There are over 5,000 Cyrillic
manuscripts on microform in the HRL (more than a million pages), as
well as over 700 Cyrillic early printed books from prior to 1800 on
microform (more than half a million pages).  The holdings range from
the eleventh to twentieth centuries, with a particularly strong
collection of manuscripts from the fourteenth to sixteenth
centuries.  About half of the manuscripts are East Slavic, with much
of the remainder South Slavic in provenience.

For further information about the HRL/RCMSS, visit its website at
www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/cmrs/rcmss/. See issues of the HRL/RCMSS
newsletter, Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage, on the HRL/RCMSS website
for an account of MSSI 1999 (issue #6) and of MSSI 2001 (issue #10).
The OSU Slavic Department website address is
www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/slavic.

For further information on eligibility, credit, housing, financial
aid, and to obtain an application to the MSSI, please contact the
HRL/RCMSS at hilandar at osu.edu or Hilandar Research Library and
Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, 225/227 OSU Main
Library, 1858 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, Ohio  43210-1286.

Deadline for receipt of application:  March 14, 2003.

--
Daniel E. Collins, Chair
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
232 Cunz Hall
1841 Millikin Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1215
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