The AATSEEL NEWSLETTER American Association of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages

Contents Letter from the President ...... 3 Letter from the Editor ...... 3 AATSEEL 2001 Awards ...... 5 Special: Call for Papers AATSEEL 2002 ...... 7 Advertising Guidelines ...... 11 Call for Papers The Communicative Classroom ..... 13 AATSEEL Election Results ...... 14 AATSEEL Annual Ukrainian Issues ...... 15 Summer Programs ...... 19 Meeting 2002 Awards...... 21 Notes from Counterparts ...... 18 Czech Corner ...... 23 Belarusica ...... 24 Everything You Always Wanted to New in This Issue: Know About Russian Grammar But Were Afraid to Ask...... 25 Ukrainian Issues Notes from Counterparts ...... 27 Graduate Student Forum ...... 29 (new column) Psychology of Language Learning ...... 31 Professional Opportunities ...... 33 Recent Publications...... 39 Employment Opportunities ...... 41

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AATSEEL NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL STAFF AATSEEL POINTS OF CONTACT Editor: BETTY LOU LEAVER President: Assistant Editor: KRISTIN HILLER SARAH PRATT Contributing Editors: LYNNE DEBENEDETTE University of Southern California ALINA ISRAELI [email protected] ALLA NEDASHKIVSKA President-Elect: MARK NUCKOLS BENJAMIN RIFKIN MILA SASKOVA-PIERCE University of Wisconsin MATT TITTLE [email protected] CURT WOOLHISER Past President: NL Office: AATSEEL Newsletter, c/o TESOL FRANK MILLLER Monterey Institute of International Studies Columbia University [email protected] 425 Van Buren Street Monterey, CA 93940 USA Vice Presidents: Telephone: 831-674-5060 LAURA JANDA Fax: 831-647-6650 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] JAMES SWEIGERT Executive Director: GERARD (JERRY) ERVIN University of Northern Iowa-Price Lab. School 1933 N. Fountain Park Drive [email protected] Tucson, AZ 85715 USA HARLOW ROBINSON Phone/fax: 520-885-2663 Northeastern University E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] CYNTHIA RUDER Printer: Crouse Printing, Urbana, IL University of Kentucky [email protected] The AATSEEL Newsletter is prepared in PageMaker, using JOAN CHEVALIER Transcyrillic fonts for Cyrillic alphabet languages and Times Brandeis University for Latin. Languages of the AATSEEL Newsletter are English, [email protected] Belarusian, and Russian. Other languages will be accommo- CAROL UELAND dated, based on copyediting and DTP capabilities. Submis- Drew University sions should be made in accordance with published dead- [email protected] lines (see back cover). Specifications for submitting ad copy Program Coordinator: are also on the back cover; greater details are at the AAT- KAREN EVANS-ROMAINE SEEL website. Please note that camera-ready copy is no Ohio University longer used. Electronic files are required. Please embed fonts [email protected] with graphics. Please do not double-space between sentences Editor, Slavic and East European Journal: in electronic submissions of articles. Please query the editor GERALD J. JANECEK ([email protected]) about formatting, content, graphics, or lan- University of Kentucky guage. [email protected] The AATSEEL Newsletter is not copyrighted. Authors wish- Editor, AATSEEL Newsletter: ing to protect their contributions should copyright their ma- BETTY LOU LEAVER terials. The AATSEEL Newsletter will publish copyright no- [email protected] tice. Executive Director: GERARD L. (JERRY) ERVIN Ohio State University (emeritus) AATSEEL WEB SITE [email protected] For current online information about AATSEEL Co-Webmasters: and its activities, visit AATSEEL on the web: DAVID GALLOWAY MARTA DEYRUP http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/. Hobart & William Smith Colleges Seton Hall Univ. [email protected] [email protected]

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roughly every two months for the next ing vice presidents, Beth Holmgren and Message from the two years. Now is the time to submit Olga Kagan for their efforts and wel- President articles and to urge colleagues and come the incoming vice presidents graduate students to do the same. Carol Ueland and Joan Chevalier. And Dear Colleagues, In the face of the recent closing of finally, this conference could not have The genuinely good news is that the Russian programs at a number of sec- happened without myriad arrangements AATSEEL convention did take place ondary schools, AATSEEL will be being made by a jolly fellow in a red and was a real, full-fledged event. Was working jointly with ACTR to find vest and hat. No, this is not Santa Claus, it colored by the events of September ways of supporting the Russian pro- but our own Jerry Ervin. Many, many 11th? Of course it was. Was it gutted of grams that do exist. Our intent is to pro- thanks! its substance, leaving only a shell of the vide information for the use of princi- As ever, usual interaction and conviviality that pals and teachers who need to convince reinvigorate our field every year? By beleaguered school boards of the rel- no means. The convention was well at- evance of our field not just in general, tended by Slavists at many different but in relation to the overall profile and stages in their careers and from all dif- success of their own students. Editor's Note I would like to encourage AAT- ferent parts of the country and abroad. A very happy New Year to one and The panels were of high quality and SEEL colleagues to support the presses, all—albeit by the time this issue reaches programs, and others who take the stirred up plenty of conversation and readers' hands, the new year will be well trouble to come and set up exhibits at debate. An array of well-attended recep- underway. That is always a problem AATSEEL conventions or advertise in tions (not to mention the stunning ar- with newsletters; the actual composi- our newsletter or SEEJ. Some of these ray of restaurants in New Orleans) tion occurs much in advance of read- brought us together for food, drink, and enterprises, too, are under siege for the usual financial reasons and the per- ers' receipt, and sometimes many things still more conversation. At a time when change in the interim. Along those lines, ceived marginal status of Slavic stud- travel is difficult and nerves are frayed I would note that the Call for Papers ies. We need their contributions to our for good reason, the fact we actually for the AATSEEL Annual Meeting field, and we should do what we can to went beyond our expected levels of con- 2002, which will take place in New contribute to their viability. Some of the ference registration and hotel bookings York City, is current as of the date that provides evidence that our field is as presentations at the conference session "Vision 20/20: The Future of Slavic the February issue of the AATSEEL lively as ever and that we are as com- Newsletter went to press. For more cur- Studies" touched on these issues. The mitted to our field as ever. This bodes rent information about this and other newsletter will publish the presentations well for us. As a small field that is rarely topics that change or expand with the in the next issue. perceived as profitable by university passage of time, check the AATSEEL In closing, I would like to thank a administrators or as more than margin- website (the URL is on the opposite ally relevant by colleagues in other number of people who keep this orga- nization cooking and urge AATSEEL page). I recently had a chance to look fields, we need this vitality to assure our at what Marta Deyrup, David Galloway, members to respond to the upcoming survival. Moreover, our strength bodes and those who have assisted them have call for nominations so that we can keep well for the rest of the world at a time constructed and updated, and the site is up the momentum. The conference is when understanding languages, cul- beginning to look very professional, as only as good as its panels, and in this tures, and, simply put, understanding well as to contain much useful infor- people in different parts of the world is area we owe the Program Committee and its chair, Karen Evans-Romaine, a mation. menacingly important. Along similar lines, I would note huge debt of gratitude not to mention To turn from the conference to that it is a continuing problem for me the panelists and presenters themselves. some smaller news items: to get the newsletter to you in a timely In addition, we must thank the outgo- Most readers probably didn't know fashion because much of the informa- that our mail permit had been put in tion arrives after the deadlines. Observ- jeopardy by the recent lag in the publi- Renewal ing them would help me very much. cation rate of SEEJ. Thanks to the ef- Reminder Finally, I would note that we are forts of the new editor, Gerald Janecek, still having difficulties with Belarusian and AATSEEL Executive Director, Ger- Don't forget to renew your mem- font compatibility for "Belarusica"— ard Ervin, we are on our way to being bership for 2002. The inside back but we are working on it and hope to be once again "in compliance." The solu- cover contains the form for renew- able to include full columns again soon. tion to the problem has an added ben- ing if you have not done so already. efit: SEEJ will be publishing issues

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AATSEEL 2001 Association and Book Awards

The following awards were pre- of graduate students has raised the level to treat a syntactic phenomenon com- sented at the AATSEEL 2001 Annual of language instruction in his entire pletely within a single Slavic language. Meeting in New Orleans, LA in Decem- department. Its clear introduction to Minimalism, its ber 2001. The citations that were read thorough survey of other approaches, at the presentations are also provided. Distinguished Contribution to the Profession: Alex Rudd and its analytical strength has led to a Excellence in Teaching (Secondary): renewed interest in the genitive of ne- Judith Wobst Since its creation in 1991, gation in Russian and the other Slavic SEELANGS has been a valuable e-mail languages. For general linguists the "I felt like a novice being initiated based forum for communication over value of the work lies in its clear expli- into a tradition of strange and wonder- the Internet for both teachers and stu- cation of negation in Russian and its ful mysteries. As my fellow novices and dents of Russian and other Slavic and contribution of reliable data to the theo- I stumbled along the way, Jude always East European Languages and Litera- retical discussion. For Slavists it serves encouraged us to laugh at the apparent tures. Because whatever is sent over both as an introduction to a new theo- capriciousness of Russian grammar and SEELANGS is distributed to the entire retical approach as well as an accessible at the apparent masochism we demon- list membership, everyone benefits demonstration of how Minimalist strated in our willingness to learn and from the exchanges, even if they do not theory can solve old problems in a new obey its whims. At the same time, Jude participate actively. By administering and insightful way. instilled in us a tremendous respect this list since 1993, ALEX RUDD has for—and curiosity about—both large- made an invaluable contribution to the Best Book in Literature/Cultural C and small-c . I think profession. Scholarship: Eliot Borenstein her approaches to teaching both lan- In elegant and lucid prose, Eliot guage and culture are distinguished by Outstanding Achievement in Schol- arship: Caryl Emerson Borenstein’s Men without Women: Mas- a very effective strategy of confronta- culinity and Revolution in Russian Fic- tion with the 'difference' of things Rus- Caryl Emerson is a leading, signifi- tion, 1917-1929 (Durham, NC: Duke sian. She lets her students know from cant figure in Russian literary and criti- University Press, 2000) offers a detailed the very beginning—and reminds them cal scholarship. As the premier transla- analysis of the masculinist ethos of at various points along the way—that tor of Mikhail Bakhtin, she has also Russian revolutionary culture as re- they are really learning new ways of written (with Gary Saul Morson) the de- flected in the prose fiction of the 1920’s. thinking. And she makes each advance finitive study of Bakhtin’s philosophy. In the wake of the revolution, argues toward mastery of that different way of Beyond her work on Bakhtin, she has Borenstein, social relations assumed a thinking rewarding both in and of itself, published widely on Pushkin, new vision of comradeliness predicated and as a step toward understanding a Mussorgsky, Tolstoy, Lotman, and on male bonding, one that effectively big, very wonderful picture." Czech literature. Caryl Emerson is an eroded family ties, the worth of hetero- Excellence in Teaching (Postsecond- involved and active member of our pro- sexual romance and the exigencies of ary)" Thomas Garza fession — her presence at conferences reproduction. The Soviet “man ques- as speaker, discussant, and reader of tion” emerged alongside the older In his more than 10 years at the keynote addresses is a reliable guaran- “zhenskii vopros” and survived as the University of Texas, Tom Garza has tee of stimulating scholarly exchange phenomenon of “fratriarchal commu- taught at almost every level of the un- and the ongoing development of ideas nism” until high Stalinism’s discursive dergraduate program as well as a wide in our field. Furthermore, Caryl Emer- return to family values in the 1930’s. range of graduate level courses. He has son has been a mentor of extraordinary Since the “man question” was never transformed the entire language pro- generosity and vitality to our younger conceptualized as systematically or gram by establishing competency-based generation of scholars. consciously by contemporary thinkers curricula, by creating and implement- as the gender issues raised by Russian ing video-based labs for upper-level Best Book in Linguistics: Sue Brown feminists, it is to Borenstein’s credit that language courses, and by conducting Sue Brown’s monograph, The Syn- he has been able to tease out the rami- oral proficiency interviews for gradu- tax of Negation in Russian (Stanford, fications of what was more a rhetorical ating seniors. Students comment on his CA: Center for the Study of Language and cultural tendency than a fully energy and enthusiasm, his broad range and Information, 1999), is a highly fo- fledged theory. This he does not by dis- of knowledge, and his excellent guid- cused discussion of negation and related solving literature into culture, but by ance and encouragement. His training issues in Russian and is one of the first reading the works of Babel, Olesha, and

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Platonov as critical engagements in the marily the work of Weissbort himself, but most of all—of the editors them- culture of Boleshvik masculinity, texts although there are a few by Robin selves. With this volume, they have cre- that ultimately expose the dystopian Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi. The ated a bridge reaching back to a similar consequences of a society from which volume incorporates poems from every effort published by colleagues 15 years the feminine has been excluded. stage of Zabolotsky’s career—over ago, and reaching forward to the next eighty shorter lyrics and all four of his generation of teachers, to whom they Best Translation into English: Daniel long poems. Taking a variety of ap- dedicate their book with the hope that Weissbort proaches to translation, ranging from a they will compile the next such volume. The Selected Poems of Nikolay high degree of formal faithfulness to The book gives a broad overview of Zabolotsky, edited by Daniel Weissbort more semantically precise renderings, what is happening in pedagogy and sec- (Manchester: Carcanet, 1999), is the the volume as a whole accomplishes the ond language acquisition not only in first representative collection of seemingly impossible, delivering a Slavic but also in the field at large, with Zabolotsky’s poems in English transla- composite image that accurately con- each section of refereed papers being tion. For this alone, this volume earns veys the overall tone and tenor of introduced by a prominent non-Slavist. accolades, for Zabolotsky is undoubt- Zabolotsky’s works to the English In addition to the extensive collection edly a poet of great significance. The reader. of essays, the volume also includes a comprehensive review of textbooks, somewhat mystifying absence of any Best Contribution to Language Peda- previous systematic attempt to render references and other resources currently gogy,: Olga Kagan, Benjamin Rifkin, available to students and teachers of his poetry into English might be ex- Susan Bauckus plained by its sheer linguistic complex- and cultures. The ity in the original, for Zabolotsky was Olga Kagan, Benjamin Rifkin and Learning and Teaching of Slavic Lan- fond of grotesques, intricate and ob- Susan Bauckus’s The Learning and guages and Cultures offers a snapshot scure metaphors, and eccentric turns of Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cul- of the field at the beginning of the 21st speech and style. In this light, this vol- tures is truly “a volume of breadth and century and it will remain an invaluable ume becomes even more worthy of ac- complexity that required the time, en- resource and starting point for further claim. The translations included are pri- ergy, and enthusiasm of many people,” discussion and research in the years to come.

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Call for Papers AATSEEL National Meeting New York, 27-30 December 2002 For additional information, and for Pedagogy panel would welcome papers on any the most current Call for Papers, please Dr. Eloise Boyle aspect of language and ethnicity, par- see the AATSEEL conference web site: Department of Slavic Languages and ticularly language as a means to pres- htttp://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/ Literatures ervation of ethnic groups, both politi- aatseel.html. University of Washington cally and socially. Since some panels overlap among Box 353580 divisions, but we list them under only Seattle, WA 98195 Title: Slavic Gender Linguistics one because of limited space, we en- Phone: 206-543-7580 Chair: Carole Greene courage authors to read the entire Call Fax: 206-593-0053 Affiliation: University of Alberta for Papers. Email: [email protected] Address: 200 Arts Building, Edmonton, This year we are listing only those Alberta T6G 2E6 Canada panels for which we received panel dec- Submissions by e-mail are pre- Telephone: 780-492-4926 larations by 10 January. Panel propos- ferred, but submissions by regular post Fax: 780-492-9106 als submitted after that date will be and fax are also acceptable. Email: [email protected] posted on the AATSEEL conference Chairs are invited to submit brief descriptions of their panels, if a panel web page, together with the panels Literature and Culture listed below. title alone might not be sufficiently spe- cific. In addition to the following panels, The Program Committee welcomes we welcome abstracts and further panel suggestions for other panels. (See be- Linguistics proposals in all areas of Russian and low under each division for further de- Papers in all areas of Slavic linguis- Central and East European literature tails.) Please contact one of the follow- tics are welcome. Authors may propose and culture, including art, architecture, ing committee members if you would papers for any of the general panel top- music, popular culture, and the mass like to propose a panel. ics: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, media. Linguistics Historical Linguistics, Discourse and Dr. Alla Nedashkivska Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and Lin- Title: Avtorskaja pesnja Department of Modern Languages guistics and Pedagogy. Chair: Rachel S. Platonov (coordinator) University of Alberta In addition to these broad themes, Affiliation: Harvard University 200 Arts Building two specialized panels have been pro- Address: Harvard University Slavic Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E6 posed: Department, Barker Center, 3rd Floor, Canada 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 780-492-6800 Title: Language as a Means to Ethnic Telephone: [e-mail contact preferred] Fax: 780-492-9106 Identity Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Chair: Mica J. Hall Description: This panel will seek to Affiliation: Defense Language Institute examine various aspects of avtorskaja Literature and Culture Foreign Language Center (Monterey, pesnja; potential papers may address Dr. Karen Evans-Romaine CA), avtorskaja pesnja as a whole (genre Department of Modern Languages Medina Joint Language Center (San characteristics, socio-cultural aspects, Ohio University Antonio, TX). etc.) as well as individual bardy. Gordy Hall 283 Address: 6101 Whitby Rd., #1510, San Athens, OH 45701-2979 Antonio TX 78240 Title: Contemporary Russian Poetry Phone: 740-593-2791 (office), 740- Telephone: 210-671-4577 (work), 210 Chair: Gerald Janecek 593-2765 (dept) 690-5821 (home) Affiliation: University of Kentucky Fax: 740-593-0729 Fax: 210-671-0766 Address: Dept. of Russian & Eastern Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Studies, University of Kentucky, Lex- Description: Language is used increas- ington, KY 40506 ingly in the political sphere to establish Telephone: 859-257-3761 ethnic identity and group rights. This Fax: 859-257-3743

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Email: [email protected] Seattle, WA 98195 Address: Hepburn, 103; Bloomington, Description: This panel will focus on Telephone: 206-543-7462 IN, 47408 Russian poetry of the most recent de- Email: [email protected] Telephone: 812-857-7828 cades in any style or from any critical Email: [email protected] approach. Title: Eighteenth-Century Russian Lit- Description: The panel will explore the erature and Culture diverse connections between literature Title: Definitions of Self in Post-Soviet Chair: Marcus Levitt (coordinator) (or the literary and the verbal) and the Cinema Affiliation: University of Southern visual arts (or the visual) in the Slavic Chair: Natalie Smith California cultures. Possible topics can be—but Affiliation: University of Texas at Aus- Address: Department of Slavic Lan- are not limited to—the ability of litera- tin guages and Literatures, 408 Taper Hall, ture to represent visual phenomena; Address: Department of Slavic Lan- Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353 synesthesia in the arts; verbal represen- guages and Literatures, Telephone: 213-740-2736 tations of the visually unthinkable; the Calhoun Hall 415, University of Texas Fax: 213-740-8550 translatability of literature into the vi- at Austin, Austin, TX 78713 Email: [email protected] sual arts and vice versa; poetry about Telephone: 512-471-3607 paintings, films, etc.; narrativity in the Fax: 512-471-6710 Title: Fairy Tales In Contemporary Rus- visual arts and literature; common semi- Email: [email protected] sian Fiction otic features between literature and the Description: Post-Soviet film offers a Chair: Tatiana Osipovich visual arts; writers who are painters, rich opportunity to view cultures in Affiliation: Lewis and Clark College film and/or theater directors and vice transition. Questions about the self, es- Address: Box 30, Lewis and Clark Col- versa; illustrations of literature; visual pecially on the nature of gender and eth- lege, Portland, OR 97219 poetry; spectacles; verbal criticism of nic identity, are treated in many recent Telephone:(503)768-7442 the visual arts; staging of novels or turn- films. This panel is soliciting papers on Email: [email protected] ing them into films, libretti and screen- Post-Soviet film and film theory that plays; etc. address self-definition in either intra- Title: International Vladimir Nabokov cultural or intercultural contexts. Society Title: Literary Cults and the Myth of the Chair: Priscilla Meyer Poet Title: Dostoevskij and World Cinema Affiliation: Wesleyan University Chair: Catherine O’Neil (coordinator) Chair: Lily Alexander (coordinator) Address: Russian Department, 262 Affiliation: University of Denver Affiliation: University of Toronto High Street, Fisk Hall, Middletown, CT Address: Department of Languages and Address: Munk Centre for International 06459 Literatures, 2000 Asbury Avenue, Den- Studies, 1 Devonshire Place, University Telephone: 860-685-3127 ver, CO 80208 of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7 Fax: 847-685-3465 Telephone: 303-871-2147 Canada Email: [email protected] Fax: 303-871-4555 Telephone: 416-544-0079 Email: [email protected] Fax: 416-946-8939 Title: Issues in Twentieth-Century Pol- Description: This panel seeks to inves- Email (preferred): lily.alexander@ ish Literature tigate the effect of “poetic canoniza- utoronto.ca Chair: Andrzej Karcz tion” and popular perception of poets Description: In addition to dozens of Affiliation: The University of Kansas on scholarship and readership. adaptations of his novels in many na- Address: Department of Slavic Lan- tional cinemas, Dostoevskij has pro- guages and Literatures, The Title: Literary Geographies: Concepts foundly influenced many outstanding University of Kansas, Wescoe Hall, of Space and Place in Russian/Soviet directors, such as Kurosawa, Hitchcock, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2134, Literature Scorcese and others, as many of them Lawrence, KS 66045-7590 Chair: Cynthia Ruder acknowledged. The proposed panel will Telephone: 785-864-2351 Affiliation: University of Kentucky focus on direct and indirect influences Fax: 785-864-4298 Address: Russian & Eastern Studies, of Dostoevskij on world cinema. Email: [email protected] 1055 Patterson, Lexington, KY 40506- 0027 Title: Eduard Liminov Title: The Literary and the Visual: In- Telephone: 859-257-7026 Chair: Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya terdisciplinary Approaches Email: [email protected] Affiliation: University of Washington Chair: Nikita Nankov Description: The notion behind the Address: Department of Slavic Lan- Affiliation: Indiana University, Bloom- panel is to encourage submissions that guages and Literatures, Box 353580, ington delve into the function—thematic,

8 February 2002 Vol. 45, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER metaphorical, spiritual, ideological, Address: Munk Centre for International Title: Princess E. R. Dashkova Revis- etc.—that space and place play in Rus- Studies, 1 Devonshire Place, University ited sian/Soviet literature. of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7 Chair: Marcus Levitt (coordinator) Canada Affiliation: University of Southern Title: "Mens sana in corpore sano:" the Telephone: 416-544-0079 California Healthy Body in Russian Culture Fax: 416-946-8939 Address: Dept. of Slavic, University of (1861-1930) Email (preferred): lily.alexander@ Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Chair: Otto Boele utoronto.ca 90089-4353 Affiliation: University of Groningen, Description: Lev Manovich, an immi- Telephone: 213-740-2736 the Netherlands grant from the former , has Email: [email protected] Address: Ruyschstraat 30-II, 1091 CC become a new guru in North American Amsterdam, The Netherlands new media theory. It is clear that he Title: Russian Literary Criticism Telephone: 31-20-6931378/ 50- himself has been influenced by theory Chair: Marcus Levitt (coordinator) 3636029 and practice of Russian avant-garde and Affiliation: University of Southern Email: [email protected] experimental narrative and visual lan- California Description: The panel invites papers guages developed in Russian culture, as Address: Department of Slavic Lan- that explore the ’ growing pre- well as by theoretical breakthroughs of guages and Literatures, 408 Taper Hall, occupation with physical health and Russian thought on art, language, and Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353 corporal beauty at the turn of the nine- culture. The propsed panel will trace Telephone: 213-740-2736 teenth century (the rise of sport, veg- and discuss the connection between Fax: 213-740-8550 etarianism, nudity etc.). current developments in new media Email: [email protected] theory and theory/practice of experi- Title: Mixail Bulgakov Society mental art in the history of Russian cul- Title: Russian Poetry Reading Chair: Katherina Filips-Juswigg ture. Chair: Dr. Andrei Gritsman Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Affiliation: Independent Scholar Milwaukee Title: North American Dostoevskij So- Address: 14 Carol Lane, River Edge, Address: 3338 N. Downer Ave., Mil- ciety NJ 07661 waukee, WI 53211 Chair: Gary Rosenshield Telephone: 201-225-0090 Telephone: 414-962-3953 Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Fax: 201-447-8657 Fax: 414-229-2741 Madison Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Address: Department of Slavic Lan- Description: Annual poetry reading by guages and Literatures, 1442 Van Hise several Russian poets in diaspora. There Title: Modernisms in 20th-Century Hall, Madison, WI 53706 will be new collections of poetry and Czech Literature, Music and Culture Telephone: 608-262-3499 anthologies presented. Chair: Geoffrey Chew Email: [email protected] Affiliation: Royal Holloway, University Title: Slavic Semiotics of London Title: North American Pushkin Society Chair: Karina Ross Address: Department of Music, Royal Chair: Olga Peters Hasty Affiliation: Ohio State University Holloway, University of London, Affiliation: Princeton University Address: Department of Slavic and East Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 Address: Slavic Department, 028 East European Languages and Literatures, 0EX, UK Pyne, Princeton, NJ 08544 232 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Road, Telephone: +44-1784-443537 (w, direct Telephone: 609-258-4734 Columbus, OH 43210 line); +44-1784-435664 (h) Fax: 609-258-2204 Telephone: 614-292-6733, 614-292- Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 4235 (GTA office) Description: Exploration of all the var- Email: [email protected] ied forms of “modernism” in Czech Title: North American Tolstoy Society 20th-century culture; crossovers and Chair: Andrew Wachtel Title: Song in Russian and East Euro- comparisons with other national cul- Affiliation: Northwestern University pean Culture and Society tures would also be welcome. Address: Dept. of Slavic Languages and Chair: Philip Ross Bullock Literatures, Evanston, IL 60208-2206 Affiliation: Oxford University Title: New Media Theory and Experi- Telephone: 847-491-5636 Address: Wolfson College, Oxford, mental Languages in Russian Art Fax: 847-467-2596 OX2 6UD, United Kingdom Chair: Lily Alexander Email: a-wachtel@northwestern. edu Telephone: 01865 284298 Affiliation: University of Toronto Fax: 01865 274125

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Email: [email protected]. Address: MCLL, P.O. Box 2900, IWU, Description: The purpose of the round- ac.uk Bloomington, IL 61702 table is to develop methods for solving Telephone: 309-556-3082 problems associated with the collection Panel: Totalitarianism and Translation Fax: 309-556-3284 of teaching resources and the develop- Chair: Angela Brintlinger Email: [email protected] ment of curricula for the Slavic and East Affiliation: Ohio State University Description: This roundtable will ad- European languages other than Russian Address: Department of Slavic and East dress major issues related to the evolu- through the presentation of case stud- European Languages and Literatures, tion of literature for children in the ies, group discussion, and establishment 232 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Road, former Soviet Union and in to- of personal contacts between instruc- Columbus, OH 43210 day. It will focus on particular genres tors of less commonly taught languages. Telephone: 614-292-6326, 292-6733 of children’s literature, as well as ma- Fax: 614-688-3701 jor literary figures/events that contrib- Title: Issues in Pre-College Russian Email: [email protected] uted to its development. Chair: James W. Sweigert Description: Translations and transla- Affiliation: Price Laboratory School - tors have had a very specific role under Pedagogy U. Northern Iowa Russian and East European totalitarian In addition to the above-proposed Address: 1901 Campus Street, Cedar regimes and have commented, overtly panels, we invite papers in the areas Falls, IA 50613-3593 in essays, letters, etc. and covertly in of second language acquisition; effi- Telephone: 319-273-7675 their translated works, on the role of lit- cacy of study abroad; teaching of indi- Fax: 319-273-6457 erature and translation under repressive vidual skills (pronunciation, reading, Email: [email protected] social and political conditions. This listening, writing, speaking) and con- Description: This panel is for those pro- panel invites papers to explore the tent areas (culture, literature, film) in fessionals interested in issues related to nexus of translation and totalitarianism the language classroom at all levels and the teaching of Russian language, cul- in the 20th century. for all Slavic and East European lan- ture, and area studies at the pre-college guages; and teaching Russian for spe- level. Title: Translating Czech Literature cial purposes. (Roundtable) Title: Roundtable: New (Innovative) Chair: Neil Bermel Title: Film, Culture and Models of Lan- Trends in Study Abroad Affiliation: University of Sheffield guage Instruction Chair: Marc Robinson Address: Department of Russian and Chair: Alla Akishina Affiliation: St. Olaf College Slavonic Studies, Affiliation: Rutgers University Address: 1520 St. Olaf Avenue, Dept. University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 Address: Slavic Department, Rutgers of Russian, Northfield, MN 55057 2TN England University, Scott Hall 227, College Telephone: 507-646-3160 Telephone: 011-44-114-222-7405 Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Fax: 507-646-3732 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 732-932-7619 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Description: The roundtable will focus Title: Vladimir Jabotinsky’s “Russian” Description: The panel will include dis- on new or untraditional developments Novels cussion of new forms and models of in study abroad programs in Russia. Chair: Michael R. Katz teaching language in cultural context The chair will present information on Affiliation: Middlebury College using films and TV programs. The pan- St. Olaf’s study/service program and Address: 209 Sunderland, Middlebury elists will also discuss using films in work program at a Russian orphanage. College, Middlebury, VT 05753 teaching culture to heritage speakers. Telephone: 802-443-2447 Title: Roundtable: Language Program Fax: 802-443-2075 Title: Roundtable: Material and Cur- Administration and Teacher Email: [email protected] riculum Development for Languages Education Description: New perspectives on Other Than Russian (Sponsored by The Chair: William J. Comer Jabotinsky’s Samson and Pyatero. Committee for Testing and Affiliation: University of Kansas Professional Development) Address: EGARC, Wescoe Hall, 1445 Title: Roundtable: Vse luchshee det’am: Chair: Jeffrey D. Holdeman Jayhawk Boulevard, Room 4069 Soviet/Post-Soviet Literature for Chil- Affiliation: The Ohio State University Lawrence, dren Address: 232 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin KS 66045-7590 Chair: Marina Balina Road, Columbus, OH 43210-1215 Telephone: 785-864-4701 Affiliation: Illinois Wesleyan Univer- Telephone: 614-299-2718 Fax: 785-864-4298 sity Fax: 614-688-3107 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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Editor: Lynne deBenedette THE COMMUNICATIVE CLASSROOM (Brown University) Editor's note: This issue's contri- make statements related to possession. in order to facilitate students’ compre- bution describes an game used in a first Pictures of various objects should be hension (chiefly the verb‚ ËÏÂÚ¸, to year Russian class; the activity pro- spread out on a table or the floor, pref- make the concept of direct object more posed is a good example of how instruc- erably in a setting that allows students tangible). In addition to reviewing the tors using specific textbooks or other some mobility. Each student is given a accusative case of both nouns and modi- language input materials work with the list of objects which s/he has ‘lost’ and fiers before the activity, we introduced sometimes limited language resources is paired with another student so that the accusative case pronouns Â„Ó and available to students in the early stages everyone is looking both for one’s own Âfi. Other necessary components of the of acquisition to allow for cooperative and another’s things. The role of the task were very familiar to students at and creative interaction. Submissions administrator may be played by the in- this point: most of the vocabulary was for the Communicative Classroom col- structor or, ideally, a confident student taken from Chapter 2 (clothing, tech- umn should be submitted to Lynne_ who is given some language help in the nology, some basic adjectives) as were [email protected]. form of written model responses. Stu- the concepts of grammatical gender and dents should be able to ask the admin- possession (Û ÏÂÌfl ÂÒÚ¸). Thus, while istrator - do you have my (e.g.) book (ì students were being asked to balance Lost and Found: ‚‡Ò ÂÒÚ¸ ÏÓfl ÍÌË„‡?) They may re- multiple language tasks, some of the ceive a negative response or be directed tasks were familiar, and the new ones A Game for the to the wrong object; having an indiffer- were modeled both prior to the activity Introductory ent or semi-hostile administrator can and in the written instructions. make the game more challenging. Stu- Given that the linguistic task of Russian Classroom dents may be prompted to give more obtaining a lost object lends itself to details about the object sought in order variation, this activity need not be to distinguish it from others; if several linked to Golosa or even to the chapter Kerry Sabbag of the pictures used look similar, stu- we chose. Students could rely on vari- dents will be more likely to have longer ous question words and statements to Brown University exchanges before getting their objects achieve the same goal Ð for example, back. Partners may help by indicating ɉ ÏÓfl ÍÌË„‡? / ü Ì Á̇˛, „‰Â One challenge involved in teaching that they see missing items (ü ‚ËÊÛ ÏÓfl ÍÌË„‡. / ì ‚‡Ò ÂÒÚ¸ ÏÓfl ÍÌË„‡? an Introductory Russian class is plac- Ú‚Ó˛ ÍÌË„Û.). In terms of targeted lan- Focusing on the task rather than the ing activities in new and interesting guage structures students are working grammatical elements or specific vo- contexts when students have a limited with the accusative case of nouns, ad- cabulary items opens up an array of vocabulary on which to draw. Text- jectives and pronouns. possible adaptations and opportunities books necessarily offer limited con- Props for the activity: for recontextualization. texts, frequently in the form of dia- As with any activity, this one has ¥ Pictures of the lost objects Ð logues; however, this input can be built both potential pitfalls and benefits. The they should be large enough to upon when it is synthesized in new ways students’ natural tendency is to resort be easily identifiable and in by the instructor. The following activ- to more familiar grammatical forms color if students will be using ity, “Lost and Found,” was developed (ÇÓÚ Ó̇. vs. ü ‚ËÊÛ Ú‚Ó˛ ÍÌË„Û.); color adjectives to describe with my colleague Heather Daly; it was if desired the former construction can them. used to recontextualize familiar vocabu- be avoided by forbidding students to lary while reinforcing some grammati- ¥ List of objects to be obtained. touch or pick up the pictures. Alterna- cal concepts. It was used in conjunc- ¥ Space and a flat surface on tive forms should be modeled by the tion with Chapter 4 of Golosa (vol.1), which to display the pictures. instructor, either in the capacity of a with some modifications. circulating observer or the administra- Activity Skills tor. In addition, preparation may include a brainstorming session on the various The students’ goal is to obtain de- Some topics were introduced be- ways to accomplish the linguistic task sired objects; they must rely on a vari- fore encountered in Golosa (for ex- ety of language tasks and interaction ample, colors, which are covered in and what kind of responses may be re- ceived or the distribution of cards with with each other and the instructor. They Unit 6), and several points were added model questions and answers. A ben- should be able to ask questions and in conjunction with the accusative case efit inherent in such an activity is that

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it allows students a structured opportu- ÎËÏÓÌ, ÍÓÙÂ seem willing to suspend nity to explore with the target language disbelief in order to expand their lin- AATSEEL even at an elementary level. It also re- guistic horizons. This role play also en- Election Results inforces familiar vocabulary and struc- courages attending to aspects of cultur- tures at a point where students may be ally appropriate behavior, specifically, Last fall's fall elections resulted in overwhelmed by the knowledge that it allows for the exploration of differ- the election of two new vice-presidents: they are being introduced to yet another ences in attitude toward and expecta- case. In practice this activity allows stu- tions of customer service between stu- Vice President: Carol Ueland, Drew dents of all levels to explore their lim- dents’ native cultures and the target cul- University (2002-2004) its with the language without forcing ture. This point need not be overempha- Vice President: Joan Chevalier, individuals into the spotlight. The class sized; however, it can be demonstrated Brandeis University (2002-2004) should come to see communication with in the activity by the way in which the Outgoing vice-presidents are Beth their peers and instructor as a positive administrator interacts with the stu- Holmgren (UNC) and Olga Kagan experience and one in which they can, dents. In addition, speaking with an ad- (UCLA). AATSEEL thanks them for at least on some level, genuinely ex- ministrator who may not be helpful in their service. press themselves. locating the lost object or may produce the wrong object prompts students to Variations take the lead in communication and to Changes may be made to this ac- rephrase their statements when possible Yevgeny tivity based on group size, classroom (I see my umbrella; that’s my umbrella; space, and ability or ease with the tar- I have a red umbrella not a black one...). Yevtushenko Papers get language. If many of the students Finally, while the opportunity for hu- Now Available to are still struggling with the required lan- mor and playfulness is not necessarily guage tasks, one may remove some of built into role play, it may manifest it- Researchers the flurry of movement from the exer- self. For example, one need not distrib- cise and structure it so that students can ute the lists of objects with regard to Stanford University Libraries now hear each other’s statements, the re- traditional gender expectations, and stu- offer access to the papers of Yevgeny sponses, and the instructor’s corrections dents invariably delight in locating a Yevtushenko from ca. 1945 to 1997, a through restatement. In one such case, "pink dress" for a male student or an collection purchased from the poet in the teacher can act as administrator and "ugly tie" for a female. Humor can both 1999. The finding aid, prepared by have students look for objects of their reinforce vocabulary by creating asso- Stanford CREES graduate Maria Kiehn, choice individually rather than in pairs, ciations with certain words and support can be found on the Special Collections so that they can hear both questions and a positive classroom environment in website http://library.stanford.edu/ answers quite clearly. The instructor can which students feel comfortable with depts/spc./spc.html. claim not to see what the student is look- each other and their ability (and the The collection includes correspon- ing for or direct him/her to the wrong group’s willingness) to use Russian cre- dence, political papers, manuscripts by object; this encourages other students atively. Yevtushenko and others, material from to assist the original speaker. Again, the performances and exhibits, personal tasks are accomplished and the targeted Call for papers, photographs and audiovisual language structures come into play, but materials. Also included are a large clip- in that instance a more controlled ap- Nominations pings file and books from his library, proach may be more productive. many with inscriptions to Yevtushenko The AATSEEL Committee on from their authors. For information on Role Play in the Nominations, Elections, and Awards is access to the collection, contact Special Communicative Classroom calling for nominations for the follow- Collections at speccoll@sulmail. ing positions: President Elect 2003- It should be acknowledged that the stanford.edu. 2004, and Vice President (2003-2005). situation of a "Lost and Found" that An article on the collection by Nominations should be sent to Frank contains computers, televisions, and Maria Kiehn will appear in Slavic & Miller, Past President of AATSEEL, every article of clothing imaginable is East European Information Resources Chair of the Committee on Nomina- a stretch in any cultural context. How- 3:4. tions, Elections and Awards (fjm6@ ever, the linguistic task is authentic Ð - submitted by Karen Rondestvedt columbia. edu), Laura Janda (janda@ retrieving a lost object. Generally, stu- Curator for Slavic and East European unc.edu), or James Sweigert (sweigert dents who have just begun to leave be- Collections @uni.edu). hind familiar cognates like tigr, Stanford University Libraries

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UKRAINIAN ISSUES Alla Nedashkivska University of Alberta

Dear Readers, both teachers and learners is that the Specific Activities for I would like to initiate this column return on investment for publishing Different Levels of Instruction as a medium of discussion for all those houses is not particularly high, which, who are involved and/or interested in in turn, means that not only are few To demonstrate how the Internet teaching Ukrainian as a foreign lan- Ukrainian textbooks published, but could be an important learning and guage. I would like to encourage ques- there are even fewer materials that are teaching tool in a task-based or content- tions, topics for discussion, and insights current. This situation creates a num- based teaching environment, I would related to issues of learning and teach- ber of hurdles, especially for the ad- like to offer a few examples of language ing Ukrainian. It is my hope that those vanced levels of instruction, which con- activities that stem from the use of this of us involved in this endeavour will tinues to be plagued by a lack of texts. new medium. One common example of share some specific methodologies, Therefore, there is a need to search for current web activities for language ac- techniques, and issues related to cur- materials elsewhere. One answer, I find, quisition is to “plan a trip” to a country ricula development, as well as specific is the Internet. or city using travel resources, such as questions that repeatedly arise in Ukrai- hotel advertisements, restaurant re- nian language classrooms. Please send The Internet as a Pedagogical views, and transportation schedules of your questions, comments or sugges- Tool the target country, found on the Inter- tions to the address below. There are net. Another popular activity is visiting The Internet is a gateway for instan- historical sites, museums, and cultural several questions that await discussion, taneous communication with a target among them dialectal/regional varia- events by researching resources on the culture. The use of the Internet in the Internet that deal with tourism. The tions of Ukrainian, the never-ending foreign language classroom can serve questions of orthography and its stan- topic of food and cuisine is another one a variety of purposes. At the most basic that is covered extensively on web dardization, the diversity of registers, level, the Internet constitutes an exten- changes and innovations in the lan- pages. sive, up-to-date, textual, visual, and Even though it may seem necessary guage, and the integration of cultural audio research library for the teacher information in the classroom. that students possess at least an inter- and the student (maps, photographs, mediate, or preferably an advanced, works of art, literature, audio and video Situating level of knowledge of the target lan- of newscasts, TV programs, advertise- guage in order to utilize Internet re- Teaching and Learning in the ments, songs and speeches, games, car- Age of the Internet sources, the medium can nevertheless toons, surveys, language tutorials and be utilised in a beginner-level class- To begin the discussion, I propose dictionaries—the list is endless). It pro- room. I will illustrate how a particular my thoughts on situating Ukrainian lan- vides myriad opportunities to consult topic, in this case food, can be adapted guage teaching and learning in the age authentic sources and to practice using easily to multiple levels. of the Internet, in particular, how the the target language. It can also be a com- Tasks for a beginner level could be Internet could be utilized as a tool for municative tool (e-mail), and it can pro- the following: Students are provided the acquisition of language and inter- vide the user with interactive activities with a list of possible sites to visit and cultural awareness. (discussion groups). Thus, the Internet are asked to look for advertisements for Our teaching methodologies have resources allow access to a broad spec- various food items sold in Ukraine. progressed from focusing on reading trum of materials previously not obtain- They are asked to list the names and and writing skills to developing stu- able and allow for both the receiving of organize the food items into categories. dents’ ability to speak, understand, and input and producing of output, which Students may also collect information be functional in the target language. We are essential for the foreign language on names of stores in which particular continue to strive in our attempts to in- learning process. food items can be purchased. (Note: stu- corporate cultural material into the lan- My hope is to communicate a spirit dents will encounter some cultural dif- guage classroom. An important prob- of information-sharing and to show how ferences, such as supermarkets vs. spe- lem for those teaching Ukrainian is that, concrete examples involving the re- cialized grocery stores.) These activi- unlike French, Russian, or Spanish, sources found on the Web can impact ties may be conducted either individu- Ukrainian is not a language that has a the teaching and learning of foreign lan- ally or in groups. By pursuing these broad base of learners in North guages and culture, in this case, Ukrai- tasks, students have a chance to gain a America. The implications of this for nian. visually enhanced practice of everyday

15 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 45, Issue 1 February 2002 vocabulary. lenged with a narrative situation, which and quality of language resources vary Note: students should be allowed asks them to describe (in the form of depending on level, advanced students to have a choice of a Ukrainian and/or an essay and/or oral class presentation) are certainly at a vantage point from an English interface. The English inter- their imaginary visit to a city/town in which there is ample opportunity to face should not be seen as a hindrance Ukraine of their choice, concentrating delve deeper into the target culture. For to Ukrainian instruction, but rather as a on the question of food/nutrition. Ques- this reason I will concentrate on activi- quick reference, a ready-made transla- tions such as food types found, brand ties, which are possible in an advanced tion tool, which facilitates reading com- names, prices, nutritional information, language classroom. prehension. as well as questions of eating habits, Tasks for an intermediate level dieting, and the like, may be suggested. Language Activities in an could be the following: Students are as- Students may also be asked to prepare Advanced Language Class signed a budget with the request that a comparison between food prefer- Currently, I teach a fourth-year lan- they plan a weeklong stay in a specific ences, cuisine in general, and table guage and culture course, “Advanced Ukrainian city. They are asked to search manners of Ukrainians in Ukraine and Ukrainian: Pop Culture, Media and In- for stores where they can do their shop- those of their own culture(s). Students ternet.” The course curriculum is task- ping and buy a variety of grocery items. are also asked to express and support and cultural project-based. The objec- Based on the information gathered, stu- their own opinion about the informa- tive of this course is to broaden the stu- dents prepare their plans for grocery tion they find and can be assigned the dents’ cultural understanding of con- shopping, demonstrating among other preparation of questions for class dis- temporary Ukraine, thereby enhancing things when and where a specific item cussion. their reading, speaking, listening, and will be purchased, its quantity and price, These are just a few samples of how writing skills. their personal preferences, meal ar- one topic can be treated at different lev- Since there are no textbooks that rangements, etc. els of student proficiency, utilizing the could be used for such a course, ad- Tasks for an advanced level could Internet as a tool for language activi- vanced Ukrainian is therefore an area be the following: Students may be chal- ties. Despite the fact that the quantity of study in which the Internet could and

16 February 2002 Vol. 45, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER needs to be integrated successfully. municating in “real-world” contexts with opportunities to personal- During the semester students work on succeeds the traditional, in a way arti- ize instruction with respect to three to four cultural projects, with the ficial, classroom settings. students’ interests and needs; number of projects depending on the Class engagements with Internet ¥ Using the Internet as a peda- number of students enrolled. The choice resources are expanded by live broad- gogical tool encourages stu- of topics is entirely up to the students, casts, downloaded from the Internet, dent-centred, task-oriented ac- stemming from their personal interests, which bring Ukrainian current events tivities that foster communica- ranging from the official former KGB into the classroom. These are prepared tion and use of the language sites to "alternative" groups in today’s by the instructor and are utilized for while interacting with authen- Ukraine. Students are encouraged to short, warm-up type, class discussions. tic documents, other students, primarily consult Internet resources (Please note that in North America, and even native speakers; since in Ukrainian these are the most there are currently no Ukrainian satel- readily accessible and available mate- lite television broadcasts available.) ¥ This, in turn, creates an engage- rials. Cultural projects are both pre- Other ideas that could be incorpo- ment in meaningful socio-cul- sented in class and submitted in writ- rated into the advanced language class- tural exchange in an authentic ten form. room: context; A plethora of materials obtained *Students may take part in projects ¥ An engagement with the Inter- from the Web is a definite enhancement that explore the history of a particular net creates a nuanced cultural to the students’ projects and their pre- city through street names or the names context for the students, one in sentations. The information is timely, of metro-stations (this will allow stu- which they become active par- easily obtained, and free of cost to the dents to learn about important person- ticipants; student. The incorporation of multi- ages and places in Ukrainian history); media accompaniments, be it *In a “Business Ukrainian” class, ¥ By entering into the specific for- PowerPoint demonstrations, audio-files students could be virtually buying eign culture, students acquire a downloaded from the Net, interesting houses/apartments in Ukraine, practic- great deal of cultural knowl- graphics, or short video vignettes pro- ing the formalities and paperwork as- edge and delve into a type of jected to the entire class, elicits much sociated with purchasing or leasing, ob- "e-mersion;" enthusiasm on the part of both the pre- taining a loan, arranging for utilities, ¥ An increase in cultural under- senters and their audience. It also stimu- etc. standing results in greater con- lates a great deal of interest and encour- I would like to note here that the fidence on the part of the ages collaboration among students. The type of class described above creates a learner and a deeper apprecia- variety of multi-media elements allows new social dynamic. Students are no tion of the target culture; for the creation of an environment that longer passive learners and become makes learning fun, engaging, and pro- quite independent of the teacher. In this ¥ As students tailor assignments ductive. scenario, students are encouraged to to their particular interests, they To take advantage of the commu- teach themselves, thus changing tradi- pursue a topic that intrigues nicative possibilities of the Web, stu- tional roles: The student becomes the them personally, which, in turn, dents participate in on-line discussion teacher, while the teacher’s role trans- stimulates interest and self- groups of their choice. They are asked forms from a top-down instructor to that motivation. The learning pro- first to choose a discussion group and of a guide, a listener, a facilitator, a cess (and indeed its teaching) then post their question(s) to their helper and a challenger. becomes fun and productive as group. This on-line engagement moti- it occurs in real-world kinds of vates students to check the discussion Benefits of Incorporating the activities; forums regularly in expectation of re- Internet Resources for ¥ By researching their own top- sponses. By participating in on-line fo- Students and Teachers ics, students even acquire rums, they are exposed to the ‘real lan- The benefits of implementing Inter- knowledge not associated with guage,’ with its colloquialisms, idioms, net-based activities in Ukrainian pro- the course; and slang (this exposure has also led to grams are significant: ¥ Students who major in disci- interesting discussions on existing lan- plines not directly connected to guage registers). In class, students re- ¥ The multimedia nature of the languages gain language com- port on their on-line activities, facili- Internet appeals to today’s gen- petence and cultural knowledge tating discussions with their classmates. eration of students; specific to their areas of career The fact that virtual talk is an authentic ¥ A multitude of teaching re- interest; way of practicing language and com- sources provide the instructor

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¥ Easy access to Internet-re- Beauvois, Margaret. 1998. Write to Meunier, Lydie E. 1998. "Personality sources provides a powerful in- speak: The effects of electronic com- and motivational factors in computer- centive for students to use and munication on the oral achievement mediated foreign language commu- learn the language; of fourth semester French students. nication (CMFLC)." In Judith A. ¥ As students have different learn- In Judith A. Muyskens (Ed.), New Muyskens (Ed.), New ways of learn- ing styles, Internet activities ways of learning and teaching: Fo- ing and teaching: Focus on technol- allow students to learn at their cus on technology and foreign lan- ogy and foreign language education own pace, avoiding pressure guage education (pp. 93Ð115). (pp. 145Ð198). AAUSC Issues in from either the instructor or AAUSC Issues in Language Program Language Program Direction. Bos- their peers; Direction. Boston: Heinle & Heinle. ton: Heinle & Heinle. Bush, Michael D. 1997. “Implement- Warschauer, Mark. 1996. "Motivational ¥ The interesting and stimulating ing technology for foreign language aspects of using computers for writ- nature of instruction can readily teaching. In Michael D. Bush and ing and communication." In Mark serve to increase enrolments. Robert M. Terry (Eds.), Technology- Warschauer (Ed.), Telecollaboration The significant lack of materials for enhanced language learning (pp. in foreign language learning: Pro- the study of Ukrainian places the Inter- 287Ð350). ACTFL Foreign Language ceedings of the Hawaii Symposium net in a unique position to fill the Education Series. Lincolnwood, IL: (pp. 64Ð81). Honolulu: University of vacuum of teaching and learning aids. National Textbook Company. Hawaii, Second Language Teaching I am confident that together with a care- Lee, Lina. 1997. "Using Internet tools and Curiculum Center. as an enhancement of L2 cultural ful orchestration of curricula, the Inter- Please send contributions to the net can be a key to a successful process teaching and learning." Foreign Lan- guage Annals, 30, 410Ð427. Ukrainian Issues column to Profes- of language and intercultural awareness sor Alla Nedashkivska, 200 Arts acquisition. —. 1998. “Going beyond classroom learning: Acquiring cultural knowl- Building, University of Alberta- For information on how Internet is Modern Languages, Edmonton, AL implemented into other foreign lan- edge via online newspapers and in- tercultural exchanges.” CALICO, AB T6G 2E6 Canada or via email guage curricula, please consult the fol- to: alla.nedashkivska@ ualberta.ca lowing: 16(2), 101Ð120.

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19 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 45, Issue 1 February 2002 its environs, to the ancient city of Pskov, gust 9-August 17, 2002. Deadline: April Contact Director. 502 Ballantine and to the Pushkin estate at 3. For K-12 foreign language teachers Hall, Indiana U., Bloomington, IN Mikhailovskoe are longer. See http:// and teacher educators who prepare K- 47405, e-mail: [email protected]; www. cas.muohio.edu/~greal/forst/ 12 teachers. http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/ novgorod.html or contact Prof. Irina To receive more information about swseel.shtml. Goncharenko: Dept. of GREAL, Mi- our 2002 Summer Institutes, visit the ami University, Irvin Hall 127, Oxford, University of Iowa Web site (http:// Programs in Russia OH 45056; tel. 513-529-2526; e-mail: www.educ.iastate.edu/nflrc) or contact Indiana University [email protected]. the National K-12 Foreign Language The Indiana University Russian Resource Center, N131 Lagomarcino Language Program in St. Petersburg Summer Institutes for Language Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA offers students an opportunity to attend Educators 50011, Email: [email protected]. to study and travel in Russia from July University of Iowa 13 to August 23, 2002. Morning classes; (1) Action Research in Foreign Summer Workshop in Slavic, East afternoon excursions. Visits to Pskov, Language Education. Institute Leader: European, and Central Asian Lan- St. Petersbugh, Valaam Monastery on Dr. Richard Donato. June 27-July 3, guages Lake Ladoga, and Kizhi on Lake 2002. Deadline: April 30. For experi- Indiana University Onega. enced and practicing K-12 foreign lan- From June 14-August 9. Intensive Participants may (beginners must) guage teachers and teacher educators at Russian, first- through sixth-year. Intro- attend an intensive four-week pre-de- institutions of higher education who ductory Czech, Polish, Serbian/Croat- parture language program in Blooming- prepare K-12 foreign language pre-ser- ian, Hungarian, Romanian, and Slovene ton. vice and in-service teachers. (pending funding). Cultural and extra- Contact L. Richter, 510 Ballantine (2) Integrating Technologies in the curricular programs. Four- week and Hall, Indiana U., Bloomington, IN Foreign Language Classroom. Institute eight-week courses. Fellowship dead- 47405, e-mail: [email protected]; Leaders: Karen Willetts, Cindy Ken- line: 1 April, thereafter rolling admis- http://www.indiana.edu/~iuskavic/ dall, and Dr. Carine Feyten. Dates: Au- sions. swseel.shtml.

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AWARDS

2001 Outstanding Achievement tion to her work in Gender studies: Dr. AWSS Graduate Essay Prize Award of the Association for Women Yokoyama pioneered gender studies at The Graduate Essay Prize Commit- in Harvard University with a course for tee of the Association for Women in This year for the first time the Out- graduate students, presently teaches an Slavic Studies is pleased to announce standing Achievement Award is pre- analogous course at UCLA for under- the winner of this year’s Graduate Es- sented in recognition of a specialist in graduates, and has presented papers and say Prize, Kelly Miller, who received Linguistics: Olga Tsuneko Yokoyama. organized panels on gender at AAASS the award at the luncheon meeting on As many of you know, her accomplish- and AATSEEL. In the 1999 volume Saturday, November 17, at AAASS in ments are too numerous and varied to Slavic Gender Linguistics (Margaret Crystal City. This year’s submissions list here in any way that might approach Mills, ed., Johns Benjamins) three ar- were greater than ever in number (23), completeness—this is merely a brief ticles are written by former students written by both men and women, and summary. who wrote dissertations under Dr. covered a heartening range of disci- Olga Yokoyama is a native speaker Yokoyama’s supervision (she contrib- plines, themes, and institutions. of Japanese whose mother tongue is uted another article to the collection Kelly Miller’s essay, “Iconography Russian; her gifts as a student of lan- herself). Her Transactional Discourse of the Poet as Intercessor: The Russian guages appear to be exceeded only by Model offers a productive and exciting Painting Subtexts in ‘Requiem,’” is a her ability as a teacher. She is both an way to approach that, suggesting the chapter from her dissertation, “Painting unusually effective instructor and a last- existence of male and female and the Poetry of Anna Akhmatova.” ing inspiration to her students. She be- “genderlects” in Russian and examin- Miller’s essay is beautifully written, gan to study Slavic linguistics at the ing their connections to Russian lan- clear, and persuasive. She treats the in- University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- guage and society. tersection of aesthetics and ethics with paign, then completed her doctoral de- Dr. Yokoyama demands and ob- grace and insight. Her sources are im- gree at Harvard University, where she serves the highest academic standards pressively broad in range, while her own became the first woman to be hired by as a scholar and teacher, with a con- interpretations are strikingly original. that department after completing a de- stant personal commitment to her stu- Miller meticulously and compellingly gree there. Since 1995 she has been dents and colleagues and rigorous per- demonstrates the connections between Professor of Slavic Languages and Lit- sonal integrity. Students and colleagues Akhmatova’s Requiem and the artistic eratures at the University of California speak of her vast energy, her concern works identified, as well as Nikolai at Los Angeles. for justice and for the emotional as well Punin’s writings, and her discussion of Dr. Yokoyama has made particular as intellectual well-being of others. the poema in terms of the iconostasis, contributions to the field of discourse Russians she visited years ago doing as an artistic monument of Russian analysis, with broad applications to the field research remember her with fond- courage composed of beauty, suffering, field of linguistics as well as to litera- ness and admiration. One former stu- faith and love, is powerful and elegantly ture. Her fundamental book, Discourse dent who works in a field not directly focused. and Word Order, was published by related to Slavic Linguistics summed The members of the committee all Johns Benjamins in 1986; she has ed- up: “For me personally, she remains an felt that we learned a great deal from ited or co-edited four books, and au- inspiration.” this essay, and we look forward to en- thored, at last count, 44 book chapters For all these reasons, AWSS is de- countering more of Kelly Miller’s and articles. Her scholarly work has lighted to present Olga Yokoyama the scholarship. supported colleagues and students, as Outstanding Achievement Award for Miller is a PhD Candidate at the she has offered comments and encour- 2001, and we wish her all the best in University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, agement for countless papers, articles her life and work. where she expects to defend her disser- and dissertations, and otherwise made tation next year. life and work more possible for others - submitted by Sibelan Forrester in her part of the field. She has also been AWSS Past President (2001-2002) - submitted by Sibelan Forrester. active as a scholarly translator, includ- Swarthnmore College Swarthmore College ing works by Roman Jakobson and (into for the committee: Hilary Fink, for the Committee: Hilary Fink, Japanese) Ivan P. Pavlov. William G. Wagner, and Sibelan William G. Wagner, Sibelan Forrester We would like draw special atten- Forrester

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The Association for Women in Slavic The award for “Best Book by a poetry, titled Miracle Fair: Selected Studies (AWSS) 2001 Heldt Prizes Woman in Slavic Studies” went to: Poems of Wislawa Szymborska. With a foreword by Czeslaw Milosz. (New The Heldt award for “Best Book in Alaina Lemon York, London: W. W. Norton & Co., Slavic/East European/Eurasian Wo- Between Two Fires: Gypsy Perfor- 200) men’s Studies” went to two winners this mance and Romani Memory from Push- year: kin to Post- (Durham, NC: “In Miracle Fair, Joanna Trzeciak Duke University Press, 2000) renders the Nobel Prize-winning Pol- (1) Susan Gal and Gail Kligman ish poet’s texts into English with almost The Politics of Gender: A Comparative- “Alaina Lemon elaborates an excel- perfect pitch, beautifully transmitting as Historical Essay (Princeton, NJ: Prin- lent, provocative ethnographic study of well Szymborska’s distinctive persona ceton University Press, 2000) the Moscow Roma. Based on exten- and tone. sive fieldwork and shaped by sophisti- Susan Gal and Gail Kligman’s co- Packaged deftly, with witty illustra- cated theoretical considerations of the tive and organizational accents and a authored volume presents a first-rate construction of race, ethnicity, and gen- synthesis of the gender issues, construc- pithy foreword by Czeslaw Milosz, der, her ethnography analyzes the at Trzeciak’s translation works as real po- tions, and concerns manifest in once typecasting and empowering role postsocialist East Central Europe. etry and is sure to expand Szymborska’s of theatricality and theatrical tropes in general English-speaking readership. Intelligently organized, clearly Romani life. Lemon’s analysis engages written, and systematically argued, this Miracle Fair is a treat to read and re- with a fascinating range of texts, from read.” "comparative-historical essay covers all nineteenth-century Russian poetry to the right topics Ð reproductive rights, contemporary interviews, proffering The award for “Best Article in reconstitution of the private and public important insights to literary scholars Slavic/East European/Eurasian Wo- spheres, and changing and determining and historians as well as anthropolo- men’s Studies” went to: gender relations in the postsocialist gists. Between Two Fires smartly household, workplace, market, and explciates both the understudied com- Douglas Northrop politics. munity of the Moscow Roma and their “Subaltern Dialogues: Subversion and By comparing well-grounded East contemporary Russian cultural con- Resistance in Soviet Uzbek Family European case studies to Western ex- text.” Law.” Slavic Review, 60, 1 (Spring amples and placing them in the larger 2001): 115-39. context of contemporary feminist analy- The award for “Best Translation in sis, Gal and Kligman have produced Slavic/East European/Eurasian Wo- “Douglas Northrop’s article lays what promises to be a seminal study for men’s Studies” went to two winners: out a finely textured, carefully docu- scholars within and outside our field.” mented analysis of the sometimes sur- (1) Angela Livingstone prising interaction between Soviet (2) Christine Worobec Translation of Marina Tsvetaeva’s The power and Uzbek society on issues of Possessed: Women, Witches, and De- Ratcatcher: A Lyrical Satire (Evanston, gender inequality and family law. mons in Imperial Russia (Dekalb, IL: IL: Northwestern University Press, Northrop delineates both the val- Northern Illinois University Press, 1999). iance and Eurocentric self-righteous- 2001) ness of Soviet women’s activists and the “In her version of Tsvetaeva’s varying subversions Uzbeks (both “Christine Worobec’s monograph is Ratcatcher, Angela Livingstone deliv- women and men) and even Uzbek party exceptionally well-researched and ex- ers a virtuoso performance as critic and cadres assayed against Soviet laws haustive in its coverage, drawing on a translator. criminalizing such customs as forced wide array of sources (religious, legal, Her critical framework includes a marriages, brideprice, polygyny, and literary, ethnographic, psychiatric) and gracious, excellent introduction and women’s forced seclusion. mapping the various intriguing diag- thoroughgoing notes; her translation of His close examination of Soviet- noses and interpretations (spiritual, cul- Tsvetaeva’s extraordinarily difficult Uzbek relations complicates and en- tural, psychological, biological) of work manages precision, sophisication riches women’s history with its atten- klikushestvo. and readability. The Ratcatcher proffers tion to inter-ethnic tensions and a com- Possessed represents a fundamen- a superbly framed and translated text plex Soviet orientalism. tal, richly detailed contribution to our for both academic use and a general understanding of Russian women’s his- audience. WE WELCOME NEWS tory, Russian peasant culture, and Rus- ABOUT AWARDS AT sian spirituality.” (2) Joanna Trzeciak Translation of Wislawa Szymborska’s YOUR INSTITUTE!

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Editor: Mila Saskova- CZECH CORNER Pierce (University of Nebraska) Reception of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences will be included Editor's Note: This corner is for Teach- tional Echo (Personality and Works of in the program. At the end of the Con- ers of the Czech language and I would Roman Jacobson), Changes in Czech gress the organizers will prepare two like to invite them to share their news, Puppet Shows, Czech and Slovak Mu- alternative group excursions into West- views, and experience dealing with the sic of the 20th Century, Jewish and ern Czech spa cities (Karlovy Vary, teaching of various courses dealing Czech Culture: Mutual Influences, and with Czech culture, language and lit- The Beginnings of Czech State in In- Marianske Lazne, Frantiskovy Lazne), or into regional, architecturally and his- erature. It does not have to be limited ternational Context. torically magnificent castles and cha- to the USA; it can and should include Problems of the sciences, educa- teaus. issues of Czech language and culture tion, and the economy will be intro- Accommodation will be provided instruction in the whole world. duced in discussion panels as Univer- for interested people in the local hotels Subjects that I would like to sug- sities and their Role of Education in the gest concern the use of technology in 21st Century, Possibilities of Current and pensions, or in student dormitories. Regarding meals, the Congress attend- the teaching of Czech, resources avail- Medical Science, Informational Tech- ees can choose from a variety of high able, and experience that can be shared. nology, and Economic Views of the quality and inexpensive restaurants, lo- Contributions to the Czech corner Czech Republic, History of Czech Beer, cated in the city center (reservations will may be sent to the column editor at and History of Skoda Factory: World be arranged prior to the Congress with mzs@unlserve. unl.edu. and Czech Industrial Tradition. Topics regarding present Czech and the restaurants' owners). Significant authorities of Czech and Call for Papers Slovak societies, political and spiritual Slovak political, cultural, intellectual, life and destinies, past, present, and fu- and spiritual life, including the Presi- Czechoslovak ture Czech and Slovak communities dent of the Czech Republic, the Prime abroad will be addressed in discussion Society of Arts and minister, and Presidents of both cham- panels including: Media and Democ- racy, European Integration: Euro skep- bers of the Parliament will attend. In- Sciences terest and active attendance of the pub- ticism and Euro optimism, Belief and lic at large is expected. The 21st SVU World Congress of Czech Society, Czechs and Slovaks in Organizers of the Congress, in co- the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and America, Czech and Slovak Museums, operation with the SVU Executive Sciences will take place in Pilsen, June Czech and Slovak Library Archives and Board, are hopeful of creating an inspi- 24-30, 2002. This Congress will be un- Collection Development, Role of Eth- der the auspices of the Rector of the nic Organizations in Preserving Our rational and friendly environment in Pilsen. They hope that this exchange of University of West Bohemia and the Cultural Heritage, Genealogy, and The ideas will contribute to a deeper under- Mayor of the City of Pilsen. Constitution and Voting Systems: standing of the larger challenges of civi- The overall theme of the Congress Czech and American experiences. lization, in front of which the Czech and is "The Transformation of Czech and Special discussion panels will be Slovak societies are standing, on the Slovak Societies on the Threshold of the focused on various problems of young New Millennium, and their Role in the generation including lectures devoted threshold of the 21st century. Finally, they wish to further the relationships Present Global World." to The Assimilation and between domestic Czechs and Slovaks The Congress themes will be de- of Youth, Youth Movement, Student and those Czechs and Slovaks living voted to general civilization and histori- Exchange Programs, and Teaching abroad. cal questions, which will include dis- Czech Language. Other panels can be If you are interested in panel chair- cussion panels on Multiculturalism and added. many others. There will be lectures dis- For Congress attendees, a rich and ing or presenting papers, please regis- ter on the Czechoslovak Society of Arts cussing different cultural themes in the attractive evening cultural program will and Sciences website: http://www. frame of panels: Czech Literature at the be prepared, where interested persons svu2000.org/headlines/b20.htm. 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Q. My suggestion for your column is Ska'ew; emu tohno po knige, use of opqt; in such examples is im- the distinctions within the class of ad- a on: ^Hto vy imeete v vidu?& possible: Ona opqt; po knige, a on verbs meaning ‘again,’ ‘anew,’ ‘once : ^?x, lopuxi, lopuxi@& — by- more,’ and so on. Many are clear (or at ^Rasska'ite svoimi slova- stro podumal on, zara'aqs; least appear to behave like their coun- mi&. A kakie mogut byt; svoi azartom boq, snova verq v terparts in English), but at times I see slova v matlogike? (I. Greko- svo[ shastlivu[ zvezdu. (G. these in the written language and am va. Kafedra) Baklanov. Mertvye sramu ne not quite sure what has motivated the imut) choice of one over another—semantics, In the following example with snova stylistics, or something else. I have in , it is easy to see that the There are instances where meaning mind adverbials like opqt;, snova, protagonist’s being in the familiar place changes dramatically with a change of zanovo, syznova, and e]e raz. I find is actually a new event: the adverbial. In the next example, Vershinin desires to start living his life myself hesitating, although I seem to Da i ohen; soskuhilsq on po anew, all over again, consciously: use (and hear) opqt; more than the oth- Velikomu, po osobomu, ni s ers. Still, I have a nagging feeling that hem ne sravnimomu zdewne- Verwinin. Q hasto duma[, hto, there are register differences with snova mu vozduxu, po toj vnutren- esli by nahat; 'it; snova, and zanovo to which I am not attuned. nej sosredotohennoj tiwine, pritom soznatel;no? (Hexov. kaku[ on ispytyval tol;ko Tri sestry) A. These adverbials are, indeed, diffi- zdes;. Sejhas, snova okazav- If we replace snova with opqt;, it cult. In all instances involved, there is wis; v milom, privyhnom would mean ‘consciously resume liv- some kind of repetition or reference to okru';e, ponql on ponastoq- ing.’ repetition. In oral speech, we probably ]emu, kak ploxo i neshastno On the other hand, much depends do hear opqt; more often, and there are 'il vs\ poslednee vremq. On on the speaker’s/author’s view of the reasons for this which I will touch upon i k domawnim utratil svoe events described. Occasionally we can later. But in writing this is not neces- obyhnoe dobroe vnimanie. find parallel examples with opqt; and sarily the case: The Uppsala data base ({. Nagibin. Pogonq) snova search turned up 378 examples of snova , where one of the authors per- and 287 examples of opqt;. In the next example, putting on a ceived the event as an old one, part of a In order to understand what is go- military uniform after being wounded continuous, ongoing alternating action, ing on, we need to use a concept that is and having surgery also constitutes a and the other author perceived the event intuitively clear: old event vs. new new event: as a new one: event. The distinction between opqt; Kogda ee prooperirovali i Veher sovsem pohernel. Garu- and snova seems to be precisely that perevqzali, na nee snova na- sov to wel, to opqt; be'al, (although I admit that there are some deli gimnasterku, potomu ili emu kazalos;, hto be'al, very tricky cases). Opqt; refers to an- hto ranenie pozvolqlo /to, i po kakoj-to strannoj ulice other in a series of old events, while ee pis;mo, napisannoe Sin- bez domov, gde stoqli odni snova establishes a new event. covu, po-pre'nemu le'alo v zabory, splow; pokrytye Here are two examples with opqt; karmane. (K. Simonov. Po- belym barxatom. Kogda wel, where substitution with snova is impos- slednee leto) on tixo krihal: ^Mama&, — sible, in the first because of the explicit a kogda be'al — umolkal. (I. continuity of the years, and in the sec- The meaning of some verbs is such Grekova. Malen;kij Garusov) ond because the repetition involves a that a new occurence of the action could continuous event: take place only if the previous one had On be'al po pol[ v temnote, run its course. For example, in order to padal, vskakival i snova be- ?toj vesnoj opqt; byl sil;nyj believe again, one has to have stopped 'al. Natknuvwis; na stog se- golod — u'e vtoroj god wla believing previously. Consequently be- na, ostanovilsq. (G. Baklanov. vojna. (M. Ganina. Bestoloh;) lieving would be a new event, and the Karpuxin)

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So, the way the speaker sees the stoivwem stol;ko trudov i obreta[t dlq nas svoj events affects the choice of adverbials. nervov bol;wom dome — zabytyj, sterwijsq ser;ez- Both of the following examples de- ka'dyj raz prinima[s; nyj smysl. Spisok takix slov scribe speakers as hospital patients: shitat; zanovo. (M. Ganina. dostatohno velik, no v nahale Poka 'ivu — nade[s;) ego — demokratiq, pravo, Soznanie prixodilo, migalo i vybor, sobstvennoe mnenie. propadalo opqt;. (I. Grekova. On razvival punkty i delal (Ne podvodq itogov. ^Moskov- Vdovij paroxod) pometki v skobkax ^ne za- : skie novosti&, 25.12.1988) byt; sprosit;&, ^ne zabyt; Inogda q prixodil v sebq, skazat;&, ^sdelat; vid, hto Odnako operediv ves; mir v raz- htoby pohuvstvovat; v sebe zabyl&. Posle hego on vspo- rabotke idei, v sozdanii per- oznob i gluxu[ bol;, i snova vyx promywlennyx obrazcov, vpadal v tq'eloe, tupoe minal e]e odno, hut; li ne samoe va'noe delo, i spiso- my ne uder'ali pervenstva. zabyt;e. (V. Rasputin. Natawa) hek prixodilos; perepisy- Delo zastoporilos;, i teper; However, in the case of a negative vat; zanovo, htoby /to delo my vnov; glqdim na Zapad, ku- event, the tendency is to connect it with zanqlo svoj porqdkovyj saq lokti i klqnq sobstven- the strings of previous similar negative nomer. (A. Bitov. Dahnaq nu[ nerastoropnost;. (A. events rather than to represent it as a mestnost;) Emel;qnov. Opqt; prowlqpili. new event. That is why in the case of ^Texnika i nauka& ! 7, 1988) So if we compare the following unpleasant or negative circumstances Odna iz umerwix cerkvej vnov; opqt; is used and cannot be replaced similar sentences, we will see the dif- ferent connotations: voskresla. Na ee kolokol;ne with snova: zazvenel 'idkim konservnym On snova perepisal spisok. Opqt; dvojka@ (title of a painting) — zvonom ucelevwij kolokol. He once again rewrote the list (V. Tendrqkov. Hrezvyhajnoe) Opqt; prowlqpili (title of an (another new action of rewriting). article in ^Texnika i nauka&) Liw; posle vojny, v pqtidesq- On opqt; perepisal spisok. tyx, imq ego vnov; vsplylo, Hto grexa tait;, mnogie He yet again rewrote the list ob=qvilis; l[di, znavwie nastoqteli moskovskix xra- (there may be a certain annoyance ego, ... (N. Ko'evnikova. mov vpali v somnenie. in the statement, the rewriting is Vnutrennij dvor) ^Perestrojka perestrojkoj, viewed as connected to the pre- a nas opqt; na porog bol;nic vious rewritings). Syznova, the rarest of them, is ne pustqt. Otvergnut protq- somewhat similar to snahala—‘from On zanovo perepisal spisok. nutu[ ruku...& (Miloserdie. the very beginning’ or ‘all over again,’ ^Ogonek& ! 38, 1988) He rewrote the list anew (throw- and has a low style connotation (the ing the old one out or making it highly colloquial nasmarku in the first This possibly explains why opqt; obsolete). example and the choice of words in the is more common is colloquial speech, On e]e raz perepisal spisok. second underscore this): while snova is more common in narra- tives. He rewrote the list one more time Su]estvoval odin wans iz The connotation of zanovo is that (reference to a countable previ- hetyrnadcati. Ne povezet, either the previous effort must be com- ous number). togda pridetsq nahinat; syz- nova, i celyj den; nasmarku. pletely erased or a completely new en- Vnov; is similar to snova in many (D. Granin. Do'd; v hu'om go- tity or state created: respects. The difference is that the pre- rode) Sperva on sxodil posmotret; vious event was either a very long time Kreml;, vosstanovlennye za- ago and/or was considered the last one — Net. Bat[wka, q est; bol;- novo bawni, belu[ gromadu of its kind. This idea of a new begin- wevik, xot; nigde i ne zapi- Sofijskogo sobora, kupil ning often produces a connotation of sannyj. Q slova tovari]a bilet v Granovitu[ palatu, high style (and vice versa, high style Lenina narodu pereda[ i tak vnov; no do'dat;sq vpuska terpe- calls for ): shita[, hto zeml[ nado syz- niq ne xvatilo. (D. Granin. Edva li ne samaq va'naq nova podelit;. Porovnu. (B. Do'd; v hu'om gorode) primeta i dvi'u]aq sila Vasil;ev. Vy h;\, starih;\?) nawix dnej v tom, hto Q dejstvitel;no ne zna[, The hardest of them is e]\ raz. Its mnogie vysokie slova vnov; skol;ko komnat v nawem, simplicity is deceptive, for it seems that

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anything countable can be counted. Not From CAS so. There are many verbs that resist NOTES FROM The following information is provided counting for some reason. You can write about the activities of the AATSEEL counter- one more time, or call one more time, AATSEEL part in Canada, the Canadian Association of but not buy something one more time. COUNTERPARTS Slavists. If going someplace one more time—it CAS maintains a website at http:// sxodit; pojti can be only and not . You www.utoronto.ca/slavic/cas/. At the on cannot get married one more time (* website one may find information about e]e raz 'enilsq ), and cannot fall one From BASEES the journal published by CAS, Cana- on e]e raz upal more time (* ). Often dian Slavonic Papers, along with a table the closest translation of e]e raz is The following information is provided about the activities of the AATSEEL counter- of contents from the current issues. ‘once again.’ part in the UK, the British Association for Other items available at the website in- Slavonic and East European Studies. Skejtbording — /to vid cludes previous issues of the CAS sporta. Samostoqtel;nyj, (1) The BASEES Annual Confer- Newsletter and information about the razviva[]ijsq, uvlekwij ence will take place from April 6-8, CAS Annual Conference. u'e tysqhi molodyx l[dej, 2002 at Fitzwilliam College in Cam- The CAS participates in the Con- hto e]e raz podtverdili vse- bridge, England. gress of the Social Sciences and Hu- so[znye sorevnovaniq, koto- All paper-givers, panellists, discus- manities, which will take place at the rye vtoroj raz prowli v sants and chairs are expected to regis- University of Toronto from May 25- Moskve. (Skejtboard — /to ter as conference participants and to June 1, 200. The Congress is sponsored interesno. ^Sovetskij sport& confirm their attendance by sending a by the University of Toronto, with sup- 3.7.1988) non-refundable deposit by 14 February port from Ryserson Polytechnic Univer- sity. The theme of the Congress is Ne dumala Ol;ga, hto e]e raz 2002. A provisional programme including "Boundaries." More information is uvidit korabl;-fl[ger tak available at the CAS website. blizko, snova kosnetsq ego a booking form will be sent to all rukami, a on posluwnyj BASEES members and to other panel ka'domu prikosnoveni[, members during January, and will be budet otklonqt;sq ot svoego available on the BASEES website: Accelerated http://www.gla.ac.uk/external/basees/ kursa. (E. Vorob;ev. Nebo v conference2002.htm. blokade) Publication A conference registration form is E]e raz is often used in the titles available at the website (in .pdf format). Schedule for SEEJ It should be mailed with payment to Mrs of articles that address some old topic The Slavic and European Journal Jacqueline Bowman, 9 Brookside, or problem: is now running a little over a year be- Headington, Oxford OX3 7PJ, England, hind its cover date. The new SEEJ edi- E]e raz o narkomanii. (^Iz- UK. (BASEES does accept credit and torial team and the Executive Director vestiq& 23.11.1987) debit card payments.) Please note that are committed to returning it to sched- all forms have to be send by mail; email E]e raz o l[bvi (title of a film) ule, as required by the US Postal. Ac- applications cannot be accepted. cordingly, for the next two years a SEEJ But once again, e]e raz is the ad- Questions about booking and prac- issue will appear every two months. verbial that requires the most caution tical matters can be addressed to Jackie Prospective authors are advised that and causes the most mistakes in the pa- Bowman at the above address, tele- early submission of manuscripts for pers of my students. phone (44) 01865 761316. consideration is necessary. (We suggest In 2002, as in previous years, © 2002 by Alina Israeli a minimum of 9-12 months before the BASEES will be making the conference mailing date.) papers available from mid-January at its Please send questions to: For accepted manuscripts prompt website. Prof. Alina Israeli turnaround on editorial suggestions and LFS, American University (2) BASEES has established on proofs is required. 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW., "Slavophilia," a comprehensive guide Since SEEJ must restore its sched- Washington DC 20016-8045 to Internet resources on Russia and ule or lose its mailing permit, delayed or via e-mail to [email protected]. Central/Eastern Europe, on its website. manuscripts—whatever the reason—will Slavists with webpages for listing may at the editor's sole discretion to be contact BASEES on its website for this. shifted to subsequent issues of SEEJ.

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GRADUATE STUDENT FORUM Editor: Mark Nuckols (Ohio State University)

Graduate students! This is your column. opportunities for shorter stays, serving What is it you have always wanted to know as a volunteer or an intern. The Ameri- Apologia but were afraid to ask? Take advantage of can Council of Teachers in Russian Our sincerest apologies to our the opportunity to have some very knowl- (ACTR) runs a summer program for readers and to Dr. Ben Rifkin for an edgeable people answer those questions for teachers of Russian of all levels (includ- error in the December Forum. Dr. you! Send your questions to the editor, ing graduate students) at Moscow State Rifkin had been asked to respond to Nuckols@ hotmail.com. University. Participants receive full a question specifically on the role of Q. I really cannot afford (timewise scholarships to participate in the pro- technology in career preparation; the gram. This program is a great deal, but and moneywise) to spend a semester in question as it appeared in the News- admission is competitive as it is lim- Russia, and I did not have the chance letter was on general career prepara- ited to between 10Ð15 teachers a year. to do so as an undergraduate. Will that tion. Both the original question re- hurt my chances of employment? What Q. Recent studies have pointed to sponse are reprinted below. can I do to compensate? a salary discrepancy countrywide be- A. (Joan Chevalier) The fact that tween male and female professors. How Q. Is it important for job-searching to have technological skills? If so, how you have not been able to spend time much sense, then, does it make for a much and how precisely would they in Russia may not weaken your appli- woman to enter the academic commu- nity? What can she do to position her- help? cation. Lack of experience in Russia is self for equal treatment with and by less likely to affect your application if A. (Rifkin) As everyone knows, male colleagues? your language skills are strong. If your today’s academic job market is tight, es- Russian language skills need improve- A. (Halina Filipowicz) The easy pecially the market for scholars trained ment and circumstances will not per- way out of this question would be to in Slavic languages and literatures. Any mit you to go to Russia for a semester, say, “We don’t enter this field to get scanning of the jobs listed in the MLA you should consider participating in a rich, and excellence has no gender.” I Job Information List or the AATSEEL summer language study immersion pro- do know, though, that women in aca- Newsletter or on SEELANGs shows the reader that there are not many jobs in gram in the US. deme (as elsewhere) have traditionally any given year. Nohing can replace the Job candidates who have not spent and inappropriately lagged behind their importance of excellent training in one’s any time in Russia might be at a disad- male colleagues at many points. Salary academic or research discipline (be it vantage in applying for positions to discrepancies based on factors other Slavic linguistics or one or more Slavic teach Russian culture courses. You than merit are unfair and demoralizing. literatures) as well as superior profi- could compensate for your lack of ex- When you negotiate the terms of a job ciency in speaking, reading, listening perience by developing a well thought offer, I would suggest the following: (1) and writing in one or more Slavic lan- out curriculum design for a culture Check how the proposed salary com- guage and English. It is also of critical course to bring to interviews. As long pares with the mean as cited for a par- importance to have excellent prepara- as you demonstrate that you are famil- ticular school in The Chronicle of tion to teach in the field since virtually iar with the literature on the topic and Higher Education; (2) inquire if the pro- every job listing features phrasing such that you can competently teach such a as “able to teach language X, X-litera- course it should not affect your appli- posed salary and benefits are in line ture and culture at all levels.” That be- cation. with the salary and benefits of other ing said, training to use technology can While it is difficult to ascertain how junior faculty in the humanities who help graduate students with excellent much lack of experience in Russia will have a comparable record of teaching preparation in the areas just described affect your search, it is true that time and publication. After you are hired, I distinguish themselves on the job mar- spent in Russia (particularly for non- would suggest working closely with ket and may help them land if not the native speakers of Russian) will colleagues across campus to make sure job of their dreams, then perhaps at least strengthen your application. If you have that there is a campus-wide committee an academic job. Moreover, there are not had an opportunity to go to Russia on gender equity—in the spirit of fair- many jobs in academia that are not tra- for a semester, you should try to take ness, integrity, and collegiality. ditional tenure-track positions that are advantage of the numerous interesting

29 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 45, Issue 1 February 2002 rewarding and fulfilling but that do re- good, it’s out there, as evidenced by the quire expertise in the use of technolo- recent contributions on SEELANGs to Nominations for gies. These include positions in lan- a query about Saints’ Lives on the web. AATSEEL Awards guage laboratories and directors of tech- Level Three: Graduate students nology projects such as the T^4 Project who want to be able to offer something The AATSEEL Committee on at UW-Madison (http://imp.lss.wisc. more in the area of technological train- Nominations, Elections, and Awards is edu/t4flp/). ing should learn how to digitize sounds calling for nominations for the follow- As I see the field, there are three and still and moving images and how ing awards: levels of expertise in technology, the to create web pages. While learning 1) Excellence in Secondary Teach- first two of which are essential for ev- and using these skills, graduate students ing; ery candidate for a position, while the should be careful to consider how their 2) Excellence in Post-Secondary third might be considered “expend- web pages will be viewed by others Teaching; able.” using both Netscape, Explorer or other 3) Service to AATSEEL; Level One: Graduate students browsers as well as others using 4) Contribution to the Profession; should be familiar with the basic tech- Macintosh, PC or other platforms. 5) Contribution to Scholarship. nologies we use as scholars, including Graduate students should also consider classroom technologies (overhead studying web design: the best designed Please forward all nominations to transparency projection, projection web pages do not read like a book, but Frank Miller, Chair of the Committee from a computer), as well as the soft- rather take advantage of all the possi- on Nominations, Elections and Awards ware most scholars use for writing and bilities for conveying information avail- ([email protected]) or to one of the communication needs (Microsoft Of- able to the worldwide web. Some insti- two members of the Nomination Com- fice Suite or Correl Office Suite, Out- tutions offer courses (some for credit, mittee: Laura Janda ([email protected]) look or Eudora for e-mail, Netscape or others not) that graduate students can or James Sweigert ([email protected]). Explorer for web-browsing.) In addi- take to help prepare themselves at this tion, graduate students must be famil- level of technological expertise. The - submitted by Frank Miller iar with the use of Cyrillic character sets Center for Educational Technology, a Columbia University in these programs. While it is not nec- Mellon-funded project at Middlebury essary for everyone to be a whiz at in- College (http://www.cet.middlebury. Dobro Slovo stalling Cyrillic keyboards and using edu/) offers short programs in the sum- Cyrillic even in e-mail messages, it is mer of this nature, but admission to the Dobro Slovo, the Slavic honor so- essential for every graduate student to program is competitive. It does not mat- ciety, has an e-mail address now: be able to create documents (in a word ter how one gets this training, but rather [email protected]. processing program) with text consist- that one has the training and can dis- If there are any institutions that ing of both Latin and Cyrillic charac- play evidence of this expertise. Some would like to apply for a Charter, they ters in such a way that the document individuals are lucky enough to be able can send inquiries to that email address. can be read by others. This means that to make sense of computer manuals and - submitted by Sanford Couch graduate students must be able to use can, therefore, train themselves in the standard encodings. use of software at this level. (This Level Two: Graduate students writer, alas, is admittedly not of that should be familiar with ways to search lucky group!) AATSEEL the internet for resources relevant for The mastery of technology and Now Takes their research and for their teaching. software at level three is NOT enough This includes familiarity with resources to guarantee one an academic job. Such Credit Cards such as SEELANGs, Sher’s Index, mastery can help on the job market, but AATSEEL can now accept pay- Slavophilia, Language Links, the essays as noted above, nothing can replace ments (such as membership or con- cataloguing and describing resources excellence in scholarship and teaching ference registration) via credit card. for the teaching of Slavic languages (an and proficiency in the language(s) in We accept Visa, Mastercard, Ameri- electronic version of the chapters in Part question. can Express, and Discover. We an- 8 of the volume I edited with Olga Ka- ticipate that this development will be Advisory group for GSF: Thomas Beyer, gan, The Learning and Teaching of of particular use to our non-US mem- Robert Channon, Joan Chevalier, Halina Slavic Languages and Cultures), elec- bers and subscribers. Filipowicz, Beth Holmgren, James Le- tronic dictionaries, Slavic-world media Checks in U. S. funds are, of vine, Benjamin Rifkin, Ernest Scatton, outlets, and so forth. One never knows course, still welcome. what one will need, but chances are and Irwin Weil.

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PSYCHOLOGY OF Editor: Matt Tittle LANGUAGE LEARNING (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Putting Psychology instrument and the constructs it repre- This column is intended to pro- sents, contributes to an increasingly mote a dialogue for teachers of into Practice for flexible toolbox for teachers, program Slavic languages regarding the psy- managers, and, ideally, for learners. The chological aspect of language Language Learners drawback to this situation is that it de- learning. and Teachers pends almost entirely on the sophisti- Submissions for future editions cation and flexibility of the user. The of this column should be addressed following describes an attempt to insti- to Matt Tittle, Campus Honors Pro- tutionalize research findings to add to Madeline E. Ehrman gram, University of Illinois at Ur- the flexibility of the sophisticated but bana-Champaign, 1205 W. Oregon, Foreign Service Institute provide support for teachers and learn- Urbana, IL 61801 or sent electroni- ers who need it. (A more complete de- cally to [email protected]. scription is available in Ehrman, 2001.) At the US State Department’s For- Mainstream psychology has played eign Service Institute (FSI), over 60 lan- some of their teachers asked us to pro- a key role in theories of learning and guages are taught to members of the vide special consultation to them and teaching. Second language acquisition foreign affairs community and their students who were having particular has adapted a variety of models from adult family members who are prepar- difficulty. By the mid-90’s, we had an cognitive, humanistic, and educational ing for an overseas tour of duty. Instruc- established set of instruments and in- psychology. There is even a small body tion is intensive, long-term (24-88 terpretations that we could use with any of work that uses concepts from clini- weeks depending on the difficulty of the student, and so began to offer diagnos- cal psychology. Among these are cog- language for English speakers), and tics and an individual session to receive nitive styles, especially field indepen- focused on ability to communicate ef- interpretation to all incoming students, dence; language aptitude studies; ap- fectively at levels needed for diplomatic on a voluntary basis. With strong sup- proaches based on humanistic philoso- functioning. port from FSI management, the initia- phies such as Counseling-Learning; FSI has had a history of adopting tive has spread to the entire School of exploitation of general educational psy- methodologies and theories like the Language Studies, and most incoming chology for learning strategies, motiva- ones listed above but finding that they students and their teachers participate tion and learner autonomy; and explo- fail to become established. For ex- in Language Learning Consultation ration of ego boundaries and defensive ample, I attempted a learning strategies Service (LCS) activities. style to language learning (e.g., Curran, workshop for students but found that a) Students take a set of diagnostic 1972; Ehrman, 1998; Ehrman & their needs were so different that we instruments, usually on their first day, Dörnyei, 1998; Leaver, 1997; Oxford, could not reach everyone; and b) the receive a group explanation of what the 1990; Williams & Burden, 1997). information was provided outside the instruments mean, and then can sign up Most of these sources in general classroom and thus was often unavail- for individual interpretation sessions. psychology have offered hypotheses for able when needed. Something different Individual sessions examine the results research that is well documented in the was needed, and I decided not to op- of the diagnostics in the light of the SLA literature. However, relatively few pose the differences among learners, but student’s validation of them and the of these research projects have resulted to make use of it. student’s current and past language in systematic applications to language For this purpose, I undertook a learning experience. The affective do- learning. multiyear research project sponsored by main is a key element in these discus- Various interventions such as meth- FSI aimed at establishment of indi- sions and may override the cognitive odologies (e.g., Community Language vidual learner profiles during the factors, for example, when a student Learning, strategies workshops, student 1990’s. The project tried and discarded presents with extreme anxiety about grouping by learning preference) have a variety of constructs and measurement learning, class dynamics, or the very been tried but none with so much suc- instruments. As more and more students high-stakes end-of-training test. cess that it has taken over the field. In- participated in the research project, The diagnostics include: stead, each research finding, each new

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Idnstrument Msain constructs for which use Comment and standard English, immigration Myers Briggs Type Personality & learning style: extraversion- Counselors are receiving MBTI and the Unz Initiative (pp. 41-58). Indicator (Myers, introversion, sensing-intuition, thinking- qualification training Washington DC: Georgetown Uni- McCaulley, et al., 1998) feeling, judging-perceiving versity. Hartmann Boundary Ego boundaries, tolerance for ambiguity, Requires briefing of students to Ehrman, Madeline E. and Dörnyei, Questionnaire receptivity to language and culture avert reactions to somewhat Zoltán (1998a). Interpersonal dynam- (Hartmann, 1991) phenomena clinical questions ics in second language education: Modern Language General aptitude, field independence-like The peaks and valleys of the Aptitude Test (Carroll abilities, metacognition subscale are more useful than the The visible and invisible classroom. & Sapon, 1959) total score Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publica- E&L Learning Styles Cognitive styles, such as random- The cognitive style pairs are tions. Questionnaire v. 2 sequential, field independent-field subscales of a higher-order Ehrman, Madeline E. and Betty Lou (Ehrman & Leaver, dependent, field sensitive-field insensitive, opposition between ‘ gestalt’ Leaver (forthcoming). “Development forthcoming) global-particular, impulsive-reflective, and ‘ atomistic’ processing leveling-sharpening, synthetic-analytic of a profile approach to learning style Motivation & Strategies Self-efficacy, motivation, anxiety; Used to confirm findings from diagnosis.” Unpublished manuscript. Questionnaire (Ehrman, classroom learning preferences; study other questionnaires and Hartmann, Ernest (1991). Boundaries 1996) strategies information gained in feedback in the mind: A new psychology of per- interview sonality. New York: Basic. Leaver, B. L. (1998). Teaching the We see this program as a route to to understand the model and be able to whole class: Fifth Ed. Dubuque, IA: increasing learner autonomy, as learn- use it in discussions with colleagues and Kendall/Hunt. ers gain more self-knowledge and can students, as well as apply some of the Oxford, Rebecca L. (1990). Language apply it to managing their own learn- insights to just-in-time interventions. learning strategies: What every ing, and as teachers expand their per- References: teacher should know. New York: ception of their role to include enhanc- Newbury House. ing learner self-regulation and building Williams, Marion, & Burden, Robert L. true partnerships with their students. Briggs Myers, Isabel, Mary H. McCaulley, Naomi L. Quenk, and (1997). Psychology for language The Learning Consultation Service teachers: A social constructivist ap- has developed into a systematic appli- Allen L. Hammer (1998). A Guide to the Development and Use of the My- proach. New York: Cambridge Uni- cation of insights from cognitive, hu- versity Press. manistic, clinical, education, organiza- ers-Briggs Type Indicator, Third Edi- tional, and even Skinnerian psychology. tion. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psy- It builds on the understanding that ev- chologists Press. Seeking AATSEEL ery student is different from all the oth- Carroll, John & Sapon, Stanley M. ers, but at the same time, the differences (1959). Modern Language Aptitude Chapters fall into a limited set of functional cat- Test. New York: Psychological Cor- egories that permit ‘shortcuts’ when poration. Are you a member of an active designing interventions for those indi- Curran, Charles A. (1972). Counsel- regional, state, or local AATSEEL viduals. ing learning. New York: Grune and chapter? If so, the AATSEEL Ex- The intensity, length of training, Stratton. ecutive Director would like to hear and high stakes of FSI language train- Ehrman, Madeline E. (1996d). Under- from your group so that we can com- ing justify this kind of resource invest- standing second language learning pile a list of active chapters, includ- ment. Other institutions and programs difficulties: Looking beneath the sur- ing their contact information. may be able to establish more limited face. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Pub- And here’s another good reason interventions. In any event, new pro- lications. to let us hear from you: Paragraph grams probably work best with small Ehrman, M. E. (1998b). The learning 3c of the AATSEEL Bylaws states, beginnings, as this one did. alliance: Conscious and unconscious “The charter of a chapter shall be au- Although what we do is shaped by aspects of the second language tomatically suspended if a chapter FSI’s context, some of the concepts teacher’s role. System 26(1), 93-106. fails to remain active, that is, if it fails might well work for other teaching and Ehrman, M. E. (2001). Bringing learn- to hold at least one meeting a year learning settings. For example, teach- ing strategies to the learner: The FSI and forward minutes of such meet- ing staff at a university might begin with language learning consultation ser- ing or meetings to the Executive Di- one model, and selected staff would vice. In J.E. Alatis and A. Tan (Eds.), rector and to the Editor of the learn to interpret and apply it to real in- Language in our time: Bilingual edu- Association’s Newsletter by Decem- dividual situations. Others would learn cation and official English, Ebonics ber 15 of any given year.”

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tity and War; School of Historical Stud- ferences; and Mysterious Island or PROFESSIONAL ies, Monash University; Clayton 3800; Treasure Island: Cultural Communica- Victoria, Australia or by -mail to tions and Personal Contacts. OPPORTUNITIES [email protected]. Send abstracts or full texts (up to 12,000 characters), preferably by e- February 28, 2002 mail, to Prof. Dr. Tatiana V. Artemieva Calls for Papers “The Russo-Japanese Qar & the 20th or Dr. Michael I. Mikeshin, P. O. Box Century: An assessment from a cen- 264, B-358, St.Petersburg 194358 Rus- February 5, 2001 tennial perspective” sia. Tel: +7-812-514-9380; fax: +1-603- “Reconfiguring The Humanities in In February 2004 Japanese and 297-3581; e-mail: [email protected] or the Post-Soviet World” Russians will commemorate a century [email protected];http:// The Havighurst Center for Russian to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese ideashistory.org.ru. and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami Uni- War. The objectives of the conference April 15, 2002 versity of Ohio invites papers from ad- are to discuss the following issues: the Heccrbq zpsr d rheue vbhjds[ vanced graduate students on the theme international context of the war; was the zpsrjd b zpsrjdjt gkfybhjdfybt of “Reconfiguring The Humanities in Russo-Japanese war the first modern d XXI dtrt 3nhflbwbb6 byyjdf- the Post-Soviet World.” This confer- war; the effect of the war on political wbb6 gthcgtrnbds3 ence will be held March 21Ð24, 2002. and social issues; the war in literature The Irkutsk State Linguistic Uni- Proposals on any topic in Russian lit- and popular culture; the media and the versity and the Irkutsk Pedagogical erature will be considered. Proposals war; was the war a conflict between University, in conjunction with should include a two-page abstract and ‘East’ and ‘West’; far-reaching impacts MAPRIAL, will conduct a conference c.v. Please send to Dr. Zara Torlone, of the war on the 20th century. October 5-9 in Irkutsk on language Miami University Department of Clas- An abstract within 200 words or planning, language teaching and test- sics, [email protected]. correspondence should be sent to Dr. ing, literature, culture, technology in February 15, 2002 Rotem Kowner, Japan and Asia Pro- education, and other methodological Frontlines: Gender, Identity, and gram; Dept. of Multidisciplinary Stud- topics. War ies, The University of Haifa; Mt. More information is available by e- mail: islu@isluru or tel. 011-7-395-2- “Frontlines: Gender, Identity, and Carmel 31905, Haifa, ISRAEL; fax: 51-27-40. War,” hosted by the School of Histori- 972-4-824-9155; tel.: 972-4-824-0559; cal Studies, Monash University, e-mail: [email protected]. July 1, 2002 Melbourne, Australia, July 12Ð13, Or Prof. Ben Ami Shillony, Dept. of 2002 AATSEELÐWisconsin Confer- 2002, is a multi-disciplinary conference East Asian Studies, The Hebrew Uni- ence that will bring together researchers with versity of Jerusalem; Jerusalem 91905, David Danaher and Halina an interest in the social and cultural as- ISRAEL; fax: 972-2-532-2545; phone: Filipowicz, co-chairs of the AATSEELÐ pects of war. It will invite particularly 972-2-588-3728; e-mail: shillony@h2. Wisconsin, invite abstracts on any as- an exploration of the ways that national, hum.huji.ac.il. pect of Slavic literatures and cultures cultural, and personal identities inter- (including film) and on issues in the March 1, 2002 sect at times of major upheaval. Dis- learning and teaching of Slavic lan- cussions of migrant and indigenous ex- “Russia and Britain in the Enlight- enment” guages and literatures. Individual pa- periences of war will be encouraged, as The All-Russian Museum of Alex- pers will be combined into panels by will papers that take a comparative ap- ander S. Pushkin, St. Petersburg Branch the conference co-chairs. The confer- proach to the social and cultural aspects of Institute of Human Studies RAS, St. ence will be held at the University of of conflicts across time. Petersburg Centre for the History of Wisconsin, Madison, on October 5, Organizers invite papers from all Ideas will hold an international confer- 2002. disciplines including the Humanities, ence on June 6–8, 2002: “Russia and Abstracts can be sent via e-mail Law, Science, Medicine, and Nursing. Britain in the Enlightenment.” (text-only format, i.e., without attach- Papers from postgraduate students who The following spheres will be dis- ments). Abstracts sent by regular mail wish to present their research in an in- cussed (see website for more details: or fax should include four copies pre- ternational forum are welcomed. http://ideashistory.org.ru/scot/conf206. pared for an anonymous review: Only Abstracts of no more than 200 htm): How Ideas Move: Problems in one copy should have the author’s name words should be sent to The Organising Philosophical Comparativistics; Images and address. Committee, Frontlines: Gender, Iden- and Styles: Problems of Literary Inter-

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Those who wish to submit an ab- Conference to be held at the April 18Ð21, 2002 stract should refer to guidelines on the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale Uni- Thirteenth Biennial Conference on AATSEEL website: http://clover.slavic. versity. Contact [email protected] or Balkan and South Slavic Linguistics, pitt.edu/~aatseel/index.html. [email protected]. Literature, and Folklore The Thirteenth Biennial Confer- The selection committee, consist- March 8, 2002 ing of panel chairs, panel secretaries, ence on Balkan and South Slavic Lin- Workshop for the Exploration of guistics, Literature, and Folklore will and the conference co-chairs, expects Religious and Spiritual Themes in to notify those proposing papers of its be held at the University of North Caro- RUssian Cultural History lina-Chapel Hill. Contact Ivana Vuletic, decision by August 15, 2002. Workshop to meet at the University ivuletic@email. unc.edu; Curt Ford, All abstracts should be sent to Pro- of Surrey to bring together established [email protected]. edu; or Robert fessor Halina Filipowicz; Department and young scholars (including gradu- Greenberg, [email protected]. of Slavic Languages and Literatures; ate students) from various disciplines, University of Wisconsin; 1220 Linden who are interested in the role of spiri- April 19Ð20, 2002 Dr.; Madison, WI 53706; fax: 608-265- tual and/or religious aspects of Russian “The Over-examined Life: New Per- 2814; e-mail: [email protected]. culture, history, art and thought. Con- spectives on Tolstoy” edu. tact Dr Irina Paertm Department of His- The Harvard University Depart- tory and Welsh History, University of ment of Slavic Languages and Litera- Deadline Unspecified Wales at Bangor, Bangor, Gwynedd tures and Davis Center for Russian Special Issues of The Silver Age of LL57 2DG, e-mail: [email protected]. Studies will host a two-day conference, Russian Literature and Culture uk (term time) or [email protected]. devoted to new perspectives on Lev Papers are solicited for two issues: Tolstoy. For more information, please Special Issue: The Revolutions of 1917: March 9, 2002 contact the Department of Slavic Lan- The Poetic Response in Russia and Spe- NSGSA Conference guages and Literatures, Harvard Uni- cial Issue: Women in the Silver Age In The Northeastern Slavic Graduate versity, Barker Center, 12 Quincy addition, any submissions relevant to Student Association presents The Third Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. the Silver Age are welcomed. The Sil- Annual NSGSA Conference to take ver Age is an annual journal that pub- place on Saturday, March 9, 2002 at May 3Ð5, 2002 lishes scholarly articles, translations, Brown University. Lodging with Brown FASL 11: Eleventh Annual Workshop book reviews, and bibliographies de- graduate students will be provided. For on Formal Approaches to Slavic Lin- voted to the Russian Silver Age. Send information, contact Kerry_Sabbag@ guistics submissions to: Eric Laursen, Editor, brown.edu All who are interested in attending The Silver Age, Dept. of Languages and April 5-7, 2002 FASL 11 at the University of Massa- Literature, University of Utah, 255 So. CARTA chusetts, Amherst should see the web- Central Campus Drive, Room 1400, The annual conference of the Cen- site: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/ Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0490, tral Association of Russian Teachers of FASL11/FASL11.html. Immediately [email protected]. America will take place in Tulsa, Okla- following the FASL 11 conference there homa. The theme of the 2002 confer- will be a two-day Workshop on the se- Conferences and ence is: "The Importance of Russian in mantics and syntax of possessive con- a Shifting World." For more informa- structions (including but not limited to Workshops tion, please contact Professor Mara Slavic). A call for abstracts can be Sukholutskaya, who can be reached at found at http://www.umass.edu/lin- February 14Ð17, 2002 guist/Possessive Workshop.html. The Future of Cultural Memory [email protected]. This conference addresses issues at April 16Ð20, 2002 May 8Ð11, 2002 the intersection of cultural/literary World Congress on Language Poli- The Second Chicago Conference on Caucasia study, political philosophy, and interna- cies The Second Chicago Conference tional relations. Contact Dr. Meili The Linguapax Institute is organiz- on Caucasia will be held on the cam- Steele, Comp. Literature Program, ing a World Congress on Language pus of the University of Chicago. There Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Policies that is to be held in Barcelona. will be a Linguistics Session and a Cul- 29208. E-mail: [email protected]. There will be six keynote addresses and ture Session For more information, five workshops. More information is March 1-2, 2002 please contact Chicago Conference on available at http://www.linguapax.org. Slavic Theory Today: Between His- Caucasia, Department of Slavic Lan- The deadline for registration is March tory and System guages and Literatures, University of 31, 2002.

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Chicago, 1130 East 59th St., Chicago, lyndan @umich.edu; www.umich.edu/ stipend is awarded with the summer IL 60637; tel.: 773-702-8033; e-mail: ~iinet/crees. fellowships. In addition to the slavic-department@ uchicago.edu. stipend,both summer and academic year February 4, 2002 fellowships cover the costs of tuition Grants and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fel- and fees. Fellowships may be used for lowship in the Humanities study at OSU or other U.S. or foreign Fellowships Yale University announces the first institutions. Applicants must be U.S. Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fel- citizens or permanent residents. Con- February 1, 2002 lowship in the Humanities for a two- tact: Bill Wolf, Slavic & East European Social Science Research Council year period, to begin July 2002. The Studies, 303A Oxley Hall, 292-8770, The Global Security and Coopera- Fellow will teach one course each se- [email protected], www.osu.edu/csees. tion Program of the Social Science Re- mester and devote other time to indi- search Council announces a new fund- February 8, 2002 vidual research. The Mellon Fellowship ing opportunity for research and train- Five College Women’s Studies Re- will offer extensive opportunities for ing on the underlying causes and con- search Center mentoring relationships with Yale fac- ditions of conflict and insecurity: Grants A collaborative project of Amherst, ulty and for intellectual exchanges for Research Collaboration in Conflict Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith among other postdoctoral fellows, fac- Zones. There are no citizenship or na- Colleges and the University of Massa- ulty, and visitors. Applicants must have tionality requirements. Applications are chusetts, Amherst. The Center invites received the Ph.D degree in Humani- invited from teams of researchers work- applications for its Research Associate- ing or living in a zone of widespread or ties after September 1997 and before ships for 2002Ð2003 from scholars and intractable violent conflict for short re- July 1, 2002. teachers at all levels of the educational search projects of 4Ð6 months in length. Submit application form, available system, as well as from artists, commu- Contact Global Security and Coopera- at http://www.yale.edu/whc or by tion Program, Social Science Research phone/fax request; curriculum vitae; nity organizers and political activists, Council, 810 Seventh Ave. 31st Floor, statement of current research interests both local and international. Applica- NY, NY 10019. Phone: 212-377-2700; in 2Ð4 pages, which should outline the tions are accepted for either a semester fax: 212-377-2727; e-mail: gsc@ssrc. research to be undertaken during the or the academic year. The Center sup- org; web site: http://www.ssrc.org. term of the fellowship; dissertation ports projects in all disciplines so long summary in one page; one-page state- as they focus on women or gender. February 1, 2002 ment of teaching interests and sample Applicants should submit a project Vaclav Havel Fellowship in Czech syllabi; three letters of recommenda- proposal (up to 4 pages), curriculum Studies tion; one copy of an official transcript vitae, two letters of reference, and ap- This fellowship provides five years for all graduate studies. Send all mate- plication cover sheet. Submit all appli- of support for an incoming student to a rials to Dr. Norma Thompson, Associ- Rackham doctoral program at the Uni- cations to Five College Women’s Stud- ate Director, Whitney Humanities Cen- ies Research Center, Mount Holyoke versity of Michigan who expects to fo- ter; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships; cus his/her studies on Czech lands and College; 50 College Street; South Had- Yale University; P.O. Box 208298; New ley, MA 01075-6406. culture. Departments and professional Haven, CT 06520-8298; Tel.: 203-432- For further information, contact the schools are invited to submit nomina- 0670; Fax: 203-432-1087. tions for the Vaclav Havel Fellowship Center at tel.: 413-538-2275; fax: 413- to the Center for Russian and East Eu- February 8, 2002 538-3121; e-mail: fcwsrc@wscenter. ropean Studies, [email protected]. Foreign Language and Area Studies hampshire.edu; web site: http:// Anyone interested in additional in- (FLAS) Fellowships wscenter.hampshire.edu/. formation should contact Kirsten Willis, The Ohio State University's Title VI February 11, 2002 International Institute; University of Slavic and East European National Re- The American Association of Univer- Michigan, Room 2632; 1080 S. Univer- source Centers will award fellowships sity; Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106; tel.: for Summer Quarter 2002 and Aca- sity Women: Recognition Award for 734-763-3297; e-mail: kbakke@ demic Year 2002-2003 FLAS fellows. Emerging Scholars umich.edu or Lynda Norton, Student Full-time graduate and professional stu- This award honors an untenured Services Associate; Center for Russian dents pursuing a course of study in ad- woman scholar who has a record of and East European Studies; 1080 S. vanced foreign language and area stud- exceptional early professional accom- University Ave., Suite 4668; Ann Ar- ies training are eligible to apply. A sti- plishments and demonstrated promise bor, MI 48109-1106; tel: 734-936- pend of $11,000 is awarded with the of future distinction. The award carries 1842; fax: 734-763-4765; e-mail: academic year fellowships and a $2,400 an honorarium of $5,000 and travel ex-

35 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 45, Issue 1 February 2002 penses to the June 2002 Foundation For information, contact Kirsten These grants will support elemen- awards banquet in Washington, DC. Willis, International Institute; Univer- tary or intermediate study in the US (in Candidates must be women who have sity of Michigan, Room 2632; 1080 S. exceptional cases, proposals to study in earned a PhD or equivalent on or after University; Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106; Eastern Europe will also be considered) tel.: 734-763-3297; e-mail: kbakke@ January 1, 1997; are untenured; and are or advanced study in Eastern Europe. umich.edu. U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Eligible languages are Albanian, The Foundation strongly encourages February 15, 2002 Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian, nominations of women of color and American Council of Learned Soci- Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, other underrepresented groups. Candi- eties grants Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Roma- dates must be nominated for the award The American Council of Learned nian, Slovak, and Slovene. Funding for in compliance with the requirements. Societies will offer grants in amounts these grants is provided by the U.S. Questions about the award may be di- up to $2,500 to individuals for use at Department of State under the Research rected to the Foundation by phone, 202- intensive summer language programs in and Training for Eastern Europe and the 728-7601, or e-mail at emergingscholar 2002 for training in East European lan- Independent States of the Former So- @aauw.org. guages. Preference will be given to stu- viet Union Act of 1983 (Title VIII). dents (1) who cannot study their cho- Graduate students (including those February 13, 2002 sen language (at the appropriate level) applying to graduate programs), post- The Vaclav Havel Fellowship for In- at their home institution; (2) who will doctoral scholars, and others who need coming Graduate Students be continuing the study of this language the language in their professional ca- This fellowship for residents of the in the following year; and (3) who have reers are eligible to apply. U.S. citizen- Czech Republic provides five years of begun or are beginning language study ship or permanent legal residence is support for an incoming student at the early in their academic careers. Appli- required. Applications may be obtained University of Michigan. Departments cants should explain particular circum- at www.acls.org. and professional schools are invited to stances that would constitute exceptions Applicants must apply directly to submit nominations to the Graduate to this general rule. the language study program they wish Board of the International Institute. Summer 2002 American Councils has managed summer, semester, and academic year study abroad programs in the NIS for over 25 years, Advanced supporting more than 3,000 students, faculty & scholars. Russian GROUP PROGRAMS FEATURE: Intensive language training at Pre-departure orientation Language leading Russian universities in 8 undergraduate or 10 graduate & Area Studies Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vladimir hours of credit Housing with a Russian host family Scholarships available or in university dormitories Program Application deadline: Peer tutoring March 1, 2002 Internships For more information and an Experienced full-time resident application, contact: Outbound directors Programs, American Councils for Cultural excursions International Education: ACTR/ ACCELS, 1776 Massaschusetts Ave., Round trip international airfare NW, Ste. 700, Washington, DC from Washington, D.C. 20036. Phone: (202) 833-7522, [email protected]

36 February 2002 Vol. 45, Issue 1 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER to attend, applying to the ACLS only Funding priority will go to teach- hance their ability to promote democ- for financial assistance. Applicants ers who have not been to Russia in the racy. should therefore contact the appropri- past three years, who are non-native ReaganÐFascell Fellows will be in ate institutions regarding course offer- speakers of Russian, and who support residence at the International Forum for ings and admission procedures. This fledgling programs or plan to launch Democratic Studies in Washington, DC. should be done as soon as possible. new programs for the instruction of The International Forum hosts 12Ð15 Applicants may apply for ACLS awards Russian. Graduate students, professors, fellows per year for three to ten months before being admitted to a language and schoolteachers at all levels are en- each. couraged to apply. Current and future program, but the awards will be made Each fellow will receive a monthly Russian-language teachers who wish to contingent upon admission. stipend for living expenses plus health participate in the program with fund- insurance and reimbursement for travel February 25, 2002 ing sources other than the Department to and from Washington, DC. Fellowships in Peace and Security of Education grant administered by The ReaganÐFascell fellowship The Women and Public Policy Pro- ACTR are also encouraged to apply program is intended primarily to sup- gram (WAPPP) of Harvard Univ- (FLAS fellowships, for example, can be port practitioners and scholars from ersity’s John F. Kennedy School of applied to this program). For more information, contact Out- new . Distinguished schol- Government is offering pre- and post- bound Programs, American Councils ars from established democracies are doctoral Fellowships in Peace and Se- for International Education: ACTR/ also eligible to apply. curity for the year 2002Ð3. These fel- ACCELS, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, For more information, visit http:// lowships are designed to promote ba- NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036; www.ned.org/forum/fellowship_ sic research in the broad area of gender tel.: 202-833-7522; e-mail: outbound program.html or contact Kristin Helz, and international security, with a par- @actr.org. Program Assistant, Fellowship Pro- ticular focus on prevention, grams; International Forum for Demo- peacebuilding, and sustainable security. March 15, 2002 cratic Studies; National Endowment for The WAPPP Fellows can be either Carter Manny Award for Doctoral ; 1101 15th Street, N.W.; residential or non-residential. Research on Architecture For more information, please see The Carter Manny Award, offered Washington, DC 20005; tel.: 202-293- the complete description on the Women by the Graham Foundation for Ad- 0300; fax: 202-293-0258; e-mail: and Public Policy Web site at http:// vanced Studies in the Fine Arts, sup- [email protected]. ports research for academic disserta- www.ksg.harvard.edu/wappp/research/ April 15 fellowship.html or contact Victoria tions by promising scholars whose doc- toral projects focus on topics directly IREX Budson, Executive Director of the John J. and Nancy Lee Roberts Fel- Women and Public Policy Program, at concerned with architecture and arts immediately contributive to architec- lowship Program: A single grant of up 617-495-1981 or victoria_budson to $50,000 for research projects lasting @harvard.edu. ture. For further instructions, visit the Foundation’s website at http:// up to 18 months. March 1, 2002 www.grahamfoundation.org or contact This program supports research in Summer 2002 Russian Language them directly: Graham Foundation for the social sciences in Eastern Europe, Teachers Program Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 4 the NIS, China, Mongolia, Turkey, Af- The American Council of Teachers West Burton Place, Chicago, IL 60610. ghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran for schol- of Russian (ACTR) is currently accept- Tel. 312-787-4071; fax 312-787- ars with PhD or equivalent terminal ing applications for the Summer 2002 6350;or, contact us by e-mail: degrees. Collaborative research pro- Russian Language Teachers Program. [email protected]. grams involving international col- The program provides full tuition leagues are strongly encouraged. for six weeks of study in Russian lit- April 1, 2002 For more information, see the erature, culture and language at Mos- Reagan-Fascell Fellowships IREX web site at http://www.irex.org/ cow State University; housing and International NED Democracy Fel- programs/roberts/index.htm. meals with a Russian host family; lows Programme May 1 round-trip international airfare from The National Endowment for De- IREX Washington, DC, to Moscow, Russia; mocracy announces the establishment Black and Caspian Sea Collabora- insurance; visa; and a living stipend. of the ReaganÐFascell Democracy Fel- tive Research Program: Grants of up to Tentative program dates are June 19 to lows Program to enable democracy ac- $25,000 to a collaborative team of August 5, 2002. tivists, scholars, and journalists to en- graduate and/or postgraduate scholars

37 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 45, Issue 1 February 2002 conducting research for up to one year, gram. The program offers fellowships for six weeks. Graduate students with a focusing on issues of practical relevance to scholars from the U.S. to conduct re- commitment to the teaching profession and current interest to academic, cor- search for three to nine months in Bul- are also eligible to apply. Tentative pro- porate, and policymaking communities. garia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hun- gram dates are June 19 to August 5, The collaborative team must consist of gary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Al- 2002. Funded by the U.S. Department a minimum of three people: at least one bania, Moldova, and the Baltic States. of Education. Application deadline: US citizen or permanent resident and Applicants must be either US citi- March 1. at least two citizens and current resi- zens or permanent residents with the dents of two different countries of the necessary academic background for (3) Scholarships for language Black and Caspian Sea region. conducting advanced, independent, in- study on American Councils language For more information, see the country research in one of the follow- programs: Graduate students partici- IREX web site at http://www.irex.org/ ing fields: humanities, social sciences, pating in the American Councils Rus- programs/black-caspian-sea/index.htm literature and linguistics, and area stud- sian Language and Area Studies pro- ies. gram or the NIS Regional Language Various Closing Dates/Rolling Dates For more information contact program are eligible for full or partial American Councils for International American Councils for International scholarships from the U.S. Department Education Education, East-Central Europe Re- of State Program for Research and American Councils for Interna- search Scholars Program, tel. 202-833- Training on Eastern Europe and the In- tional Education: ACTR/ACCELS is 7522, e-mail [email protected]. dependent States of the former Soviet currently accepting applications for the Union. Undergraduates who intend a following fellowship programs: (2) Summer Russian Language career in teaching are eligible for full Teachers Program: Provides full sup- or partial scholarships from the U.S. (1) Fellowships to Central, Eastern, port for teachers of Russian at the uni- Department of Education for their par- and Southern Europe. American Coun- versity, high school, and secondary ticipation in the Russian Language and cils for International Education an- school level to study Russian literature, Area Studies Program. nounces the Central, Eastern, and language, culture and second language Southern Europe Research Scholar Pro- pedagogy at Moscow State University continued on p age 39

Research Scholar Program: Provides full Central, Eastern and Southern European Grants support for field research in the NIS. Total Summer Language Program: Provides full estimated value of awards: $5,000-$15,000 for support for intensive language study at Central, for Research four to nine months. Eastern and Southern European universities for up to three months. Open to graduate students, post and Language Combined Research and Language Training docs and faculty. Program: Provides full support for 8-10 hrs/week of intensive language study in addition to field All programs funded by the Program for Research Study in research in the NIS. Total estimated value of and Training on Eastern Europe and the awards: $5,000-$15,000 for four to nine months. Independent States, U.S. State Department (Title Russia, Eurasia VIII). Applicants must be U.S. citizens or Central Asian Special Initiatives Research permanent residents. and Eastern Program: Provides full support for field research on policy-relevant topics in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Application deadlines: For Summer, Fall and Europe Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Total value of Academic Year Programs, January 15; for Spring awards: up to $35,000. Applicants must hold a Programs, October 15. Ph.D. in a policy-relevant field, have held an academic research position for at least five years. For more information and an application, contact: Outbound Programs, American Councils Central, Eastern and Southern European for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, 1776 Research Program: Provides full support for Massaschusetts Ave., NW, Ste. 700, Washington, DC field research in Central, Southern and Eastern 20036. Phone: (202) 833-7522, Europe. Optional 8-10 hrs/week intensive [email protected] language study. Total estimated value of awards: $5,000-$15,000, for four to nine months. Open to graduate students, post docs and faculty.

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Biography mental’nosti ta natsional’noi Dutka, June. The Grace of Passing: svidomosti.Kyiv: Instytut istorii RECENT Constantine H. Andrusyshen: The Ukrainy NAN Ukrainy, 2001. PUBLICATIONS Odyssey of a Slavist. Edmonton: Ca- Tsurganov, Iu. Neudavshiisia revansh: nadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Belaia emigratsiia vo Vtoroi mirovoi The list below includes books pub- Press, 2000. voine. Moskva: Intrada, 2001. lished in 2001-2002. Authors and pub- lishers are invited to submit informa- Business and Economics Language and Linguistics tion about new publications in the cat- Maleva, Tatyana, red. Zarplata I Andrews, Edna. Russian. Munich: egories below. rasplata: Problemi zadolzhennosti po Lincom Europa, 2001. oplate truda. Moskovskiy Tsentr Brill Olcott, Martha i Ilya Semenov, red. Art Karnegi, 2001 Iazyk i etnicheskiy konflikt. Moskov- Kutsenkov, P.A. Nachalo: Ocherki Trenin, Dmitri. The end of Eurasia: skiy Tsentr Karnegi, 2001 istorii pervobytnogo i traditsionnogo Russia on the border between geo- Danylenko, Andrii, and Serhii Vaku- iskusstva. Moskva: Aleteiia, 2001. politics and globalization. lenko. Ukrainian. Munich: Lincom Dubova, O.B. Mimesis i poiesis: Moskovskiy Tsentr Karnegi, 2001 Europa, 2001. Antichnaia kontseptsiia “podrazh- Gasparov, Boris. Old Church Slavonic. History/Sociology aniia” i zarozhdenie evropeiskoi Munich: Lincom Europa, 2001. Bakhturina, A.Iu., red. Rossiia i SShA: teorii khudozhestvennogo tvor- Glovinskaia, M.Ia. Mnogoznachnost’ i Ekonomicheskie otnosheniia 1933- chestva. Moskva: Pamiatniki sinonimiia v vido-vremennoi sisteme 1941: Sbornik dokumentov. istoricheskoi mysli, 2001. russkogo glagola. Moskva: Azbu- Moskva: Nauka, 2001. Turchin, V.S. Aleksandr I i neo- kovnik; Russkie slovari, 2001. Chikalova, I.R., red. Zhenshchiny v klassitsizm v Rossii: Stil’ imperii ili Katsnel’son, S.D. Kategorii iazyka i istorii: vozmozhnost’ byt’ uvidennymi: imperiia kak stil’. Moskva: Zhiraf, myshleniia: Iz nauchnogo naslediia. Sbornik nauchnykh statei. Vypusk 1. 2001. Moskva: Iazyki slavianskoi kul’tury, Minsk: BGPU, 2001. 2001. Grosul, V.Ia. Mezhdunarodnye sviazi Lifanov, Konstantin Vasilievich. Gen- rossiiskoi politicheskoi emigratsii vo Professional Opportunities, esis of the Slovak Literary Language. 2-i polovine XIX veka. Moskva: continued Munich: Lincom Europa, 2001. ROSSPEN(Rossiiskaia politicheska- Takács, Gábor. Development of AfroÐ ia entsiklopediia), 2001. The American Councils Russian Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) Compara- Language and Area Studies Program Gus’kova, E.Iu. Istoriia iugoslav-skogo tiveÐHistorical Linguistics in Russia provides intensive Russian language in- krizisa (1990-2000). Moskva: and the Former Soviet Union. Mu- struction in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Algoritm, 2001. nich: Lincom Europa, 2001. Vladimir, Russia. Healey, D. Homosexual Desire in Revo- Vorozhtsova, I.B., red. Lingvisticheskie The NIS Regional Language pro- lutionary Russia: The Regulation of issledovaniia. K 75-letiiu prof-essora gram offers instruction in virtually any Sexual and Gender Dissent. Univer- Vladimira Grigor’evicha Gaka. of the languages of the former Soviet sity of Chicago Press, 2001. Dubna: Feniks, 2001. Union at leading institutions through- Latyshev, I.A. Iaponiia, iapontsy i out the region. Fellowship information iaponovedy: Kak skladyvalis’ i Literary Studies and applications are included in regu- osveshchalis’ v pechati vo vtoroi Dinega, Alyssa. A Russian Psyche: The lar application materials for both pro- polovine XX-go veka sovetsko- Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva grams. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Application deadlines: October 15 iaponskie i rossiisko-iaponskie Wisconsin Press,2001. (spring semester programs); March 1 otnosheniia. Moskva: Algoritm, 2001. (summer programs); April 1 (fall se- Religion Osadchii, I.P. Dramaticheskie stranitsy mester and academic year programs). Malashenko, Aleksei. Islamskie istorii. Kniga 1: Kak i pochemu soz- For more information, contact: Out- orientiry Severnogo Kavkaza. davalas’ kompartiia RSFSR (1990- bound Programs, American Councils Moskovskiy Tsentr Karnegi, 2001 for International Education: ACTR/AC- 1991 gg.). Moskva: ITRK, 2001. Malashenko, Aleksei i Martha Brill CELS, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Smolii, V.A. ta in. Ukrains’ke Olcott, red. Islam na postsovietskom NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036; suspil’stvo na zlami seredn’ovichchia prostranstve: vzglyad isnutri. (202) 833-7522, [email protected]. i novoho chasu: Narysy z istorii Moskovskiy Tsentr Karnegi, 2001.

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“I have become much more adventurous VIRGINIA TECH in my teaching this year as a result of my experiences at the New Technologies Institute.” Summer Study at Moscow State University --SPANISH TEACHER June 10 – August 5, 2002 Six credits hours 2002 Summer Institutes Program features: Action Research in Foreign Language Education • Six-week intensive language study at June 27-July 3 Lomonosov State University (MGU) APPLICATION DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2002 • Stay in single occupancy rooms at MGU K-8 Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, dormitory and Japanese: Teacher Preparation July 8-July 18 • Excursions in and around Moscow APPLICATION DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2002  Orientation/bus tour around the city Integrating Technologies  in the Foreign Language Classroom Guided walking tours August 9-17  Kremlin APPLICATION DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2002  Armory  Tretyakov Art Gallery Technology-Based Classroom  Chocolate factory “Red October” Activities

• Side trips • Submit a successful classroom activity  St. Petersburg – 4 days to an on-line collection designed to help teachers integrate new technolo-  Sochi (Black Sea resort) – 6 days gies into their curriculum at:  Tallinn, Estonia – 3 days www.educ.iastate.edu/nflrc/project/collection/html

During the eight-week program, students will engage For more information contact: in intensive study of Russian language and culture, National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center and experience various aspects of modern Russian N131 Lagomarcino Hall life while traveling throughout the country. Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 For additional info and an application: 515-294-6699 • Fax: 515-294-2776 [email protected] • www.educ.iastate.edu/nflrc www.fll.vt.edu/Russian/Summer98.html or Irina Makoveeva, Program Leader National K-12 331 Major Williams Hall Virginia Tech Foreign Blacksburg, VA 24061-0225 Language Phone: (540) 231-5361 Resource Center Fax: (540) 231-4812 Iowa State University E-mail: [email protected]

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Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences and/or plan is desirable. Application Vice President, the Director provides University of Wisconsin at Green materials should include c.v., three ref- leadership for Berea’s International Bay erence letters (sent separately), state- Center. The Director teaches at least two The University of Wisconsin-Green ment on teaching philosophy, and port- courses per year, provides oversight and Bay invites nominations and applica- folio (including student evaluations). guidance for the Study Abroad Adviser tions for the position of Dean of Lib- Submit complete application by and the International Student Adviser, eral Arts and Sciences. Qualifications: February 15, 2002, to Professor Ewa and has responsibility for creating cur- Terminal degree in a field of study rep- Thompson, Chair of the Search Com- ricular and co-curricular campus activi- resented in the liberal arts and sciences; mittee; Department of German and ties and for helping to plan and assess administrative experience at baccalau- Slavic Studies - MS 32; Rice Univer- international dimensions of faculty de- reate level or beyond and at the level of sity; 6100 Main St.; Houston, TX velopment programs and activities. chairperson or beyond; record of teach- 77005-1892. E-mail: [email protected]. Preferred qualifications include ing, scholarship,and service appropri- Rice University is an equal opportunity employer. strong interpersonal, supervisory, and ate for appointment as a tenured full oral and written communication skills; professor; experience in budget, re- Chair, Associate or Full Professor, successful teaching experience in lib- source, and personnel management; History eral arts environment; Ph.D. in interna- commitment to promote a culturally Winthrop University tional studies or specific cultural area; diverse learning environment; and evi- Winthrop University invites appli- advocacy of the international dimension dence of interdisciplinary engagement. cations for a tenure-track position as of student learning; broad international Applicants should send a vita; the History Department chair, with the rank experience; bilingual skill; leadership names, addresses, and telephone num- of associate or full professor, to begin style that promotes teamwork, enhances bers of five persons who can later serve August 2002. creativity, and builds consensus; and the as references; and a letter of interest that Candidates must have a PhD in his- capacity to work in support of faculty includes a statement highlighting the tory and demonstrated evidence of ef- colleagues and students. abilities and experiences that they can fective college-level teaching, scholar- Applicants should submit a letter of bring to this position. ship, and administrative skills and ex- application that includes a statement Applications should be sent to Pro- perience, as well as an area of exper- describing her/his qualifications for this fessor Gregory Davis, Chair, Search and tise that complements fields already position, a complete curriculum vitae, Screen Committee; c/o Judy Parins, represented in the department. Prefer- and three letters of reference. Applicant Office of the Provost, CL 805; Univer- ence will be given to candidates with review will begin February 15. The pro- sity of Wisconsin-Green Bay; 2420 specializations in pre-1800 United jected starting date is August 21, 2002. Nicolet Drive; Green Bay, WI 54311- States history or pre-1800 European Applications should be submitted to Jim 7001; e-mail: [email protected]; tel: history. Strand, Provost and Dean’s Office; CPO 920-465-2369; fax: 920-465-5044; Web Submit by February 15, 2002, a let- 2204; Berea College; Berea, Kentucky site: www.uwgb.edu. ter of application; c.v.; and the names, 40404. Initial screening begins on Febru- addresses, and telephone numbers of Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition ary 11, 2002. five professional references who may of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all The University of Wisconsin is an Affirmative Ac- be contacted directly to Search Com- peoples of the earth to learn and work here. tion, Equal Opportunity employer and actively seeks mittee, Department of History; 357 and encourages applications from women, Bancroft Hall; Winthrop University; Modern European History minorities,and persons with disabilities who are em- Rock Hill, SC 29733. Tel.: 803-323- Mount Royal College ployees or applicants for employment. 4692; fax: 803-323-4023; e-mail: The Department of Humanities in- [email protected]. vites applications for a tenure-track po- Lecturer, Slavic Studies Winthrop University is an Equal Employment/Affir- sition in History which will commence Rice University mative Action employer. August 15, 2002, subject to final bud- High proficiency in Russian is re- getary approval. The College is seek- quired. Candidates should have a doc- International Center Director ing candidates with a focus on teach- torate in Slavic Languages and Litera- Berea College ing and learning. The College provides tures. Knowledge of Czech and/or Pol- Reporting directly to the Academic the opportunity for participation in ini- ish is desirable. Good research record

41 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 45, Issue 1 February 2002 tiatives related to the integration of tech- Gardiner, Chair, Department of Hu- from beginners to those with significant nology and learning, the development manities, at 403-240-6541 or mgardiner experience and experience in program of an outcomes-based curriculum, and @mtroyal.ca. and/or education management. international education. The successful candidate will teach introductory and Central Intelligence Agency East European Summer Language intermediate courses in modern Euro- Foreign Language Teachers Institute pean history. Preference will be given The Central Intelligence Agency is University of Pittsburgh to candidates with the ability to teach hiring qualified and motivated individu- The Department of Slavic Lan- and develop advanced courses in social, als as full-time language instructors of guages and Literatures at the Univer- cultural, and/or women’s history. Ap- Russian and Serbo-Croatian to work in sity of Pittsburgh is soliciting resumes plicants must have a completed Ph.D. the Washington, D.C. area. from native speakers of Bulgarian, with a major concentration in modern General qualifications include na- Croatian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Pol- European history. tive fluency in the language; a gradu- ish, Serbian, Slovak, and Ukrainian A complete dossier including cur- ate degree in the foreign language, lin- with teaching experience to develop a riculum vitae, a brief statement of teach- guistics, education, or a related field; pool of potential instructors for the 2002 ing philosophy, writing samples, three two to five years advanced teaching ex- Summer Language Institute in Pitts- letters of reference, and evidence of perience at university level; demon- burgh. teaching excellence should be submit- strated knowledge of history, culture, Send resume and cover letter to ted quoting competition #WS9892H. politics, and economy of the area(s) of Christine Metil, Assistant Director, Send applications to Mount Royal Col- the world where the language is spo- Summer Language Institute, Depart- lege; Human Resources Department; ken as a native/first language; and bility ment of Slavic Languages and Litera- 4825 Richard Road S.W.; Calgary, to use instructional/information tech- tures, University of Pittsburgh, 1417 Alberta T3E 6K6; fax: 403-240-6629; nologies. Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA e-mail: webapply@ mtroyal.ca; web Desired qualifications include the 15260. Tel.: 412-624-5906; fax: 412- site: http://www. mtroyal.ab.ca. For ability to teach and evaluate language 624-9714; e-mail: [email protected]; web further information, contact Mark skills for a wide range of adult students, site:http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic.

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How to Submit AATSEEL Newsletter Information Newsletter Copy The AATSEEL Newsletter is published in October, December, February, and April. Advertising and copy are due six weeks prior to issue date. The next dead- There are ways that advertisers line is December 15, 2001. Queries taken, without guarantee, until January 3, 2002. can help to make sure that their ads look right and are included in the is- PUBLICITY AND ADVERTISING POLICY sues they desire. Free of Charge: Full scholarship study tours and stateside study programs, First, follow the deadlines. They meetings, job information, new classroom materials, and similar announcements. are announced on the right. While we can sometimes take copy until the last Advertising Rates: Commercial ads of interest to the profession are accepted minute, we cannot guarantee to do so. at the following rates and sizes: (Other sizes, such as vertical half-pages and quar- If you have copy that might cut close ter pages, can sometimes be accepted; please query first.) to the deadline, please let the editor Full page $160 7 5/8" x 9 3/8" know in advance. Half page $95 7 5/8" x 4 11/16" or 3 7/8 x 9 3/8 Second, follow the established Quarter page $80 3 7/8 x 4 11/16 (check on availability first) sizes. We have a limited capacity to Column inch $20 Approx. 6 lines resize. Ads that are 1/2 page horizon- Design work $50 ad preparation, changes to typeset ads tal or full page are easy to accommo- date. Other sizes must be negotiated. Questions on advertising fees and determination of whether an announcement Since we use a 3-column format, quar- is an advertisement should be addressed to the Executive Director. ter pages can only be handled in batches of two; the same is true for Format: Required formats for advertisements are eps with included fonts, print- half-page vertical ads. optimized pdf files with embedded fonts, or PageMaker files (either Macintosh or The NL is produced entirely elec- PC). Advertisements without graphics may be sent as word files; rtf is preferable if tronically. Files must be electronic, using programs other than Word or WordPerfect. Files may be e-mailed to the and all fonts must be embedded or we Newsletter Office (see address on masthead, page 2) or sent by e-mail. Camera- must receive all pieces of the ad, in- ready copy generally cannot be used because of grey-scale problems in scanning. cluding a folder with fonts. Advertis- Query before sending. Questions on formats, graphics, sizes, and how to prepare ers who need help should contact us. electronic files for import to the Newsletter should be addressed to the Editor.

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