U of Illinois SRL celebrates 30th anniversary, announces new seminar in Balkan Studies, conference on Vasilii Rozanov

[Lynda Park]

Please announce.  Thank you.

CELEBRATING 30 YEARS
OF THE RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN CENTER
SUMMER RESEARCH LABORATORY
University of Illinois

For more information and application, see http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/srl.htm


HIGHLIGHTS

THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Wednesday, June 18, 5:00 PM, Temple Buell Hall Gallery
30 Years of the Summer Research Lab on Russia and Eastern Europe: Looking
to the Future

Ralph Fisher, Professor Emeritus of History, founder and former director of
the Russian and East European Center, and founder of the Summer Research
Lab, UIUC
Marianna Tax Choldin, Professor Emeritus of Library and Information
Science, former director of the Summer Research Lab, the Russian and East
European Center, and the Mortenson Center, UIUC
Laurence Miller, Senior Slavic Bibliographer and Collection Development
Officer, and Professor of Library Administration, UIUC
Mary Zirin, Independent scholar-translator; longtime associate and
supporter of the Summer Research Lab, and co-founder of the Women in Slavic
Culture and Literature discussion group
Ann Kleimola, Professor of History, University of Nebraska; organizer of
the Early Russian History discussion group

Reception immediately following in the Temple Buell Hall Atrium.


NEW INITIATIVE: SUMMER SEMINAR IN BALKAN STUDIES
July 8-12, 2003
Travel and Housing grants available for participants.

Professor Stephen Batalden (Department of History, Arizona State
University), a leading scholar and teacher of Balkan studies will moderate
a seminar advanced doctoral students, junior and senior faculty, and other
professionals (with PhDs) with a teaching and/or research interest in the
Balkan Studies.

The seminar will combine discussion of critical issues in the field -- such
as the debate of "transition" in Southeastern Europe, the Yugoslav
succession wars and their aftermath, and an examination of recent
scholarship in Balkan history and culture for the undergraduate audience --
with critical discussion of works-in-progress by seminar participants as
well as information on individual research fellowship and institutional
support for projects involving the Balkans. Sessions are scheduled for the
morning leaving the afternoon for research in the Slavic and East European
Library's rich Balkan collection.

DOMESTIC TRAVEL GRANTS: Seminar participants who are U.S.
citizens/permanent residents are eligible for travel (round-trip airfare)
and housing grants (up to 28 days for graduate students; 14 days for all
others).

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Submit the regular SRL application (including the
required attachments) indicating that you are applying for the Summer
Seminar on Balkan Studies. A registration fee or housing deposit need not
be submitted AT THIS TIME. However, if accepted, you are required to pay
the registration fee (graduate students, $15; all others, $30) and a
refundable housing deposit of $60.

DEADLINE: April 30, 2003 (Applicants will be notified by May 15)


ANNUAL SUMMER SYMPOSIUM: The Young and the Restless: Youth in Russia,
Eurasia, and Eastern Europe
Saturday, June 28, 1:005:30 PM, 210 Illini Union
Panelists will address the youth culture and its implications for the
future of Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe.
No registration required.


INAUGURAL RALPH AND RUTH FISHER FORUM: International Conference on Vasilii
Rozanov
June 19-23, 101 International Studies Building

Harriet Murav, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, and
Comparative Literature, UIUC
Henrietta Mondry, Department of French and Russian, University of
Canterbury, New Zealand
Evgenii Bershtein, Department of Russian, Reed College
Edith Clowes, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of
Kansas
Anna Lisa Crone, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University
of Chicago
Alexander Etkind, Literature, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Douglass Greenfield, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
Columbia University
Brian Horowitz, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, University
of Nebraska
Leonid Katsis, Jewish Studies, Russian State Humanities University, Moscow,
Russia
Konstantin Kloutchkine, Department of German and Russian, Pomona College
Efim Kurganov, Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages,
Renvall-Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
Nina Perlina, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Indiana University
Richard Tempest, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, UIUC



Lynda Y. Park
Assistant Director
Russian and East European Center
104 International Studies Building, MC-487
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 333-6022; fax (217) 333-1582
lypark at uiuc.edu
http://www.reec.uiuc.edu

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