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Contents Michael Henry Heim (21 January 1943 – 29 September 2012) .....1 Message from the AATSEEL President ...... 1 Letter from the Editor ...... 1 Balkan Café ...... 3 Recent Publications ...... 3 Technology & Language Learning .....5 Member News ...... 9 Psychology of Language Learning ..10 Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Grammar But Were Afraid to Ask ...... 12 Russian at Work ...... 17 Domestic Summer Programs ...... 21 International Summer Programs .....26 Professional Opportunities ...... 27 AATSEEL Membership Form ...... 28
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AATSEEL NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL STAFF AATSEEL POINTS OF CONTACT Editor: BETTY LOU LEAVER President: Assistant Editor: CARMEN FINASHINA NANCY CONDEE Contributing Editors: VALERY BELYANIN University of Pittsburgh MOLLY THOMASY BLASING [email protected] President-Elect: ELENA DENISOVA-SCHMIDT THOMAS SEIFRID KATHLEEN EVANS-ROMAINE University of Southern California SIBELAN FORRESTER [email protected] ALINA ISRAELI Past President: KATYA JORDAN CARYL EMERSON Ferit Kiliçkaya Princeton University ANI KOKOBOBO [email protected] NATAŠA MILAS Vice-Presidents: KATYA HOKANSON MILA SASKOVA-PIERCE University of Oregon CURT WOOLHISER [email protected] KAMILA ZAPLETÁLKOVÁ ELENA KOSTENKO-FARKAS Anchorage School District NL Coordinates: [email protected] Editor: [email protected] JAMES LAVINE Assistant Editor: [email protected] Bucknell University Layout/Advertising: [email protected] [email protected] JULIA MIKHAILOVA AATSEEL Office: University of Toronto Elizabeth Durst [email protected] Executive Director, AATSEEL VALERIA SOBOL 3501 Trousdale PKY., THH 255L University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353 USA [email protected] REBECCA STANTON E-mail: [email protected] Barnard College, Columbia University Layout/Advertising: CDL Services [email protected] Editor, SLAVIC & EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL: Submitting Copy: GERALD JANECEK University of Kentucky (1) Foreign languages are accommodated if prepared on Ma- [email protected] cIntosh with a truetype or postscript font that can be shared. Editor, AATSEEL NEWSLETTER: (2) Eps or pdf with embedded fonts, Indesign, PageMaker, BETTY LOU LEAVER and Quark Express documents can be accommodated. [email protected] Conference Program Committee Chair: (3) Please do not double-space between sentences in elec- ALEXANDER BURRY tronic submissions. Ohio State University (4) Please query the editor about formatting, content, graph- [email protected] Executive Director: ics, or language. ELIZABETH DURST (5) The AATSEEL Newsletter is not copyrighted. Authors AATSEEL of U.S., Inc. wishing to protect their contributions should copyright their University of Southern California materials. [email protected] Conference Manager: (6) Full specifications are available at the AATSEEL web site. DIANNA MURPHY AATSEEL Conference Manager [email protected] AATSEEL Web site AATSEEL Web Master: For current online information about AATSEEL DAVID GALLOWAY and its activities, visit AATSEEL on the web: Hobart and William Smith Colleges http://www.aatseel.org [email protected] December 2012 Vol. 55, Issue 4 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER
Message from the Translation. To these awards must be added a mention of his induction into Letter from the Editor AATSEEL President the American Academy of Arts and Dear AATSEEL Members: Sciences (2002) and a Guggenheim As most of you know, in the early It hardly seems possible that we are Fellowship (2006). approaching the end of another calendar fall our field lost a major figure, Mi- December is often a time when chael Henry Heim (21 January 1943 year and looking forward to another we consider donating to our chosen annual meeting. Yet, that is indeed the – 29 September 2012). He did not be- causes. A fitting tribute to Michael’s long to us alone, of course; we tended case. work would be a donation to the very Time seems to move faster and to consider him ours because of his Pen Fund he had founded. Informa- foundational work in Russian, Croatian, faster. Keeping up seems to have been tion on that fund can be found at Pen a difficulty not only for me but also Serbian, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, and American Website under Donations at Hungarian, beyond his “foreign” work for some of our column editors for this the link “Support Specific Programs,” issue. Therefore, you will notice a few in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, where Translation Fund is listed as the Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Italian, columns missing. We have included all last of fifteen programs at https://www. that were sent to us, including those Latin, and Chinese. Through him, the pen.org/donateDetail.php. English speaker had access to major sent very late. I hope we will be able to We are very grateful to a former stu- celebrate a return to full columnry in the works of Central and Eastern Europe, dent of Michael Heim’s, Russell Scott including those by Milan Kundera, next issue. I also hope that you will not Valentino (Indiana University Bloom- find your favorite column, whatever it Danilo Kiš, Karel Čapek, Péter Es- ington), who has graciously agreed terházy, George Konrad, Jan Neruda, might be, missing from this issue. to give the AATSEEL 2013 Keynote I would like to point out, as I do Sasha Sokolov, and Bohumil Hrabal, address in honor of Michael’s work. as well as invaluable new translations occasionally, that we would very much That keynote, entitled “New Frontiers like to hear about your publications so of Anton Chekhov. st for Translation in the 21 Century that we may include them in the Recent Shortly after Michael’s death, he (The Globe, The Market, The Field)” was identified as the anonymous donor Publications column. That column is is scheduled for Saturday, 5 January at maintained by Associate Newsletter to the Pen Translation Fund. Established 11.00 and will include selections from in 2003, the Pen Translation Fund was Editor, Carmen Finashina of North- Michael’s writing, read by his fellow western University. You may send established with money that was the translators, former students, and admir- result of a benefit that Michael Heim’s information about your publications to ers. Michael himself—a gifted transla- her at [email protected] family had received upon the death of tor who could mediate among sixteen his father. The original $734,000 led to western.edu. languages, substituting the figures of Finally, your fellow members the support of over 100 book translation one language system for the figures projects in thirty languages (otherwise would like to know what you are do- of another with a clarity and precision ing! Please keep us all informed by at risk for being insufficiently profit- unmatched in English—is irreplace- able to contract), ranging from Russian, dropping a note about each of your able among our colleagues, but I hope great accomplishments, as they occur, Lithuanian, Armenian, and Estonian to nevertheless that you will join us in Basque, Farsi, and Mongolian. Michael to the Membership News column editor, Boston, where his students, colleagues, Molly Thomasy Blasing (thomasy@ himself was awarded the 2010 PEN and admirers will remember his work. Translation Prize for his translation wisc.edu). She will be happy to report of Hugo Claus’s Wonder (Archipelago, on your great and wonderful feats. Nancy Condee (University of Pitts- And now really finally, it is time to 2009), as well as the 2009 PEN Ralph burgh), AATSEEL President (2011- Manheim Medal for a Lifetime in start planning for the Annual Meeting. 2012) This year, it will be in Boston (my home area, yay!). Information can be found throughout the newsletter. I hope to see Want a Past Issue of the you all there! In the interim, I wish all of you a AATSEEL Newsletter? very happy holiday season! Past issues of the AATSEEL Newsletter Betty L. Leaver, Editor dating back to 2002 are available in PDF format on the AATSEEL website: http://www.aatseel.org
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th silver, bronze and honorable mention ribbon have attended school for fewer than 14 Annual National awards (certificates) will be presented for the 5 years in Russia or the former Soviet Post-Secondary best essays at each level. Union and may have had to relearn read- Teachers may not substitute students for ing and writing skills after emigration. Russian Essay those registered by the deadline. No refunds Level Three: students who speak Contest are available for students who don’t show up Russian with their families and who for the essay contest. have attended school for 5 or more years Students taking Russian in accredited col- Essays will be ranked according to levels in Russia or the former Soviet Union leges and universities are invited to participate as follows: and have not had to relearn reading and in the fourteenth annual National Post-Sec- writing skills after emigration. ondary Russian Essay Contest sponsored by Judges will evaluate essays accord- the American Council of Teachers of Russian. Category 1: ing to content (the ability to express All students must pay a registration fee NON-HERITAGE LEARNERS ideas in Russian and communicate in- of $5.00. Students can only be registered by (those learners who do not and did not formation about the topic) and length, a teacher. Please note that one teacher at each ever speak Russian in the home. Please lexicon, syntax, structure (grammatical participating institution must be a current take the time to calculate the number of and orthographic accuracy), and origi- member of ACTR. Be sure to indicate this hours that your students have studied nality or creativity. person on your registration form. To register Russian to place them in the proper Awards will be announced in the your students, please send a registration form category.) ACTR Letter and Web site, and the (below) and one check made out to “ACTR” Level One: students who at the AATSEEL Web site. The best gold to Tony Brown, Department of Germanic and time of the essay contest will have had ribbon essays will be published in the Slavic Languages, Brigham Young University, fewer than 100 contact hours of instruc- ACTR Letter. 3093 JFSB, Provo, Utah 84602. All registra- tion in Russian (whether in college Teachers with questions about the tions must be received by January 31, 2013. alone or in college and high school). essay contest should contact: Registrations received after the deadline will (Please note that heritage learners of any not be accepted. (Payment can be received Slavic language, including Russian, are later since we understand that approval for Tony Brown not allowed to participate in this level final payment may take several weeks at your Department of Germanic and and category of the contest.) institution.) Slavic Languages Level Two: students who at the When registering your students, please Brigham Young University time of the essay contest will have had consult the criteria below to select the ap- 3093 JFSB more than 100 contact hours, but fewer propriate level. Provo, Utah 84602 than 250 contact hours of instruction. Teachers whose students are participating 801-422-7012 (This is mostly students in second-year in the contest will receive directions and the [email protected] Russian.) essay topic in late January 2013. Students will Level Three: students who will NPSREC write their essays between Feb. 1 and Feb. 15, have had more than 250 contact hours, ACTR National Post- 2013 at a time selected by the instructor at but fewer than 400 contact hours of Secondary Russian Essay each institution. Students should not receive instruction. (This is mostly students in Contest the essay topic until the time scheduled to third- or fourth-year Russian.) write the essay. Judges will review the essays Level Four: students who will in March 2013 and winners will be announced have had more than 400 contact hours by April 15, 2013. of instruction. (This is mostly students Please note that students cannot use any in fourth- or fifth-year Russian.) books or notes and may not work together. Essays must be written legibly in blue or AATSEEL black ink (pencil is not acceptable as it will Category 2: not photocopy) and on lined paper provided by Website instructors. The time limit for writing the es- HERITAGE LEARNERS says will be one hour. After students complete For current online Level One: students who speak the essay, teachers will make four photocopies information about AATSEEL of each essay as per the directions and then Russian with their families and who send the originals and three photocopies to have NOT attended school in Russia and its activities, visit Tony Brown within 48 hours of the test date. or the former Soviet Union and have AATSEEL on the web: All essays will be evaluated anonymously: to learn reading and writing skills after no essay will be identifiable by the name or emigration. http://www.aatseel.org institution of the student who wrote it. 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Editor: Nataša Milas, Balkan Café Yale University
Balkan Café is a new column dedicated to research and teaching issues pertaining to the countries of the Balkan Region. This is a place for students, teachers, and scholars to come together and exchange ideas, concerns, and questions on vari- ous aspects of Balkan Culture. I am using this opportunity to invite short articles, translations, and reviews, as well as announcements of conferences, book publications, and other material relevant to Balkan Studies. Please send questions or submissions to the editor, Nataša Milas, at [email protected].
and Diana Nenadić’s talk with the docu- the issue’s highlights, is a short story In Contrast: mentary filmmaker Nenad Puhovski. by Semezdin Mehmedinović entitled Croatian Film Today As Birgit Beumers of Kino Kultura Me’med. Other works in this issue notes, “The editors have energetically from the region of the Former Yugo- Edited by Aida Vidan and bravely mastered a tall order and slavia include, Borivoje Adašević’s and Gordana P. Crnković compiled an excellent collection that “For a Foreign Master,” (Serbia) Mi- Published by the Croatian Film As- could become a textbook for teaching rana Likar Bajzelj’s “Nada’s Table- sociationin association with Berghahn Croatian cinema.” cloth” (Slovenia), Dragan Radulović’s Books, September 2012. “The Face” (Montenegro), and Žarko Kujundžijski’s “When Glasses are Lost” In Contrast: Croatian Film Today is Best European (Macedonia). While Rumen Balabanov the first full-length volume dedicated to from Bulagria is making an appearance Croatian cinema. Edited by Aida Vidan Fiction 2013 in Best European Fiction with his story (Harvard University) and Gordana P. Edited by Aleksandar Hemon. “The Ragiad,” representing Romania Crnković (University of Washington), With an Introduction by is Dan Lungu’s “7 p.m wife.” Dalkey this book features articles by some of John Banville. Archive Press finds that 2013 “may be the most prominent scholars of Croatian Dalkey Archive Press, November the best year yet for Best European Fic- film. While IvoŠ krabalo discusses Cro- 2102. tion” as “the inimitable John Banville atian film in the context of Yugoslavia in joins the list of distinguished preface the second half of the twentieth century, In November 2012 Dalkey Archive writers for Aleksandar Hemon’s series.” Jurica Pavičić focuses on new Croatian Press published its fourth issue of the film and its movement from “cinema of Best European Fiction series, edited by hatred” to “cinema of consciousness.” Bosnian-American writer, Aleksandar The rest of the articles from this vol- Hemon. Best European Fiction fea- Recent ume offer insight into the Croatian film tures writers from across the European Publications industry, Croatian documentaries and continent, making it a great platform animated films, as well as gender issues for literature in translation. As always, in contemporary Croatian cinema. An this collection of short stories offers an The Recent Publications column in- impressive number of reviews, which array of writers from the Balkan Penin- cludes books published in 2011-2012. account for almost the entire Croatian sula. Best European Fiction in the past Authors and publishers are invited to tradition, further investigate the works has brought us stories from Igor Štiks, submit information about their new of some of the most prominent Croatian Muharem Bazdulj (Bosnia), Georgi publications. directors, including Matanić, Brešan, Gospodinov (Bulgaria), Maja Hrgović Please be sure to include the date of Nuić, Sviličić, Nola and others. One of (Croatia), Blaže Minevski (Macedonia), publication and the publisher. the highlights of In Contrast: Croatian Anderj Nikolaidis (Montenegro), David Culture Film Today is a section that offers in Albahari, Vladimir Arsenijević, Marija depth interviews with Croatian direc- Knežević (Serbia), and many others Chatterjee, C., & Holmgren, B., eds. tors. While the editors of this volume great writers. This year the readers will 2012. Americans Experience Russia: share their insightful conversation with have the pleasure to encounter a number Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to Vinko Brešan, and Rajko Grlić, also of new works from the Balkan region. the Present. London, UK: Routledge. presented here is an interview with an Representing Bosnia in the 2013 issue acclaimed animated-filmmaker Joško of Best European Fiction, and one of Marušić, conducted by Sanja Bahun, Continued on page 9
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Editor: Ferit Kiliçkaya, Technology & Kocaeli University Language Learning http://kilickaya.scienceontheweb. net/
Submissions for future editions of this column should be sent electronically to Ferit Kılıçkaya ([email protected])
Creating Online ESL Video Quizzes: Eslvideo.com Do you remember the very old days when you, as a teacher or most probably as a student of any foreign language, strived to find affordable authentic and/or adapted materials in the target language you are teaching or studying? Well, “Those were the days, my friend”. I count the new generation of teachers and students alike lucky that there is a wide variety of tools avail- able on the Internet (Duffy, 2008; Manning, & Johnson, 2011). YouTube undoubtedly leads the world in the authentic/adapted materials provided through videos, an invaluable resource of educational benefits, particularly in listening, as well as other purposes. Readers are strongly advised to refer to the article (Duffy, ibid., pp. 125-126) for a comprehensive list of how to use YouTube in educational contexts. Readers of the AATSEEL Newsletters will remember that in the technology column of the volume 53 (Kılıçkaya, 2010), I provided an overview of QuizStar, which provides teachers with the opportunity to create online quizzes. However, as for adding or attaching media to the quizzes, I stated that there was a limitation of 1 MB for each file. In the current column, I hope to present a solution to this drawback through using a different website: ESLvideo.com.
ESLvideo.com ESLvideo.com (http://www.eslvideo.com) aims to provide the opportunity for language teachers to create educational quizzes that are based on videos available at YouTube and many other websites that offer a wide variety of videos.
The first step, as always, will be to create a user name and password to create video-based quizzes onESLvideo.com . On the main page, find the ‘Register’ link, and click on it, alternatively, you may click on ‘Create a quiz’ link, which will refer to the registration process. When you are finished with registration, log in toESLvideo .
Logging in, you will see the link to create your first quiz, ‘Click here to Create a Quiz’. Clicking on that, the following page will appear.
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On this page, you will provide some info about your quiz as well as the link for the video that you may find on video- sharing websites. In this case, as an example, I will be using the song called ‘Ka-Ching’ by Shania Twain.
When you click on ‘next’, you will be finished with the first step. In the next step, you will add questions, transcript, and notes.
In this step, the following page will appear, providing options to change the properties of the quiz such as title, descrip- tions, and video. You can change these at any time you like using the link ‘My Account’. Now, we will add our questions using the link ‘Add a question’.
For this song, I will create questions that have students focus on the first and last rhymes. There are some websites that offer free rhyming dictionaries such as http://www.rhymer.com and http://www.rhymezone.com. When you want to add more than one question, click on ‘Questions’ link under the thumbnail of your video.
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When you are done with writing your questions, you can view your quiz using the link in ‘When finished, click here to view your quiz.’ The preview will be like the following.
Using the link ‘Quizzes’ under ‘My Account’ tab, you can see your quizzes and edit them.
Moreover, it is also possible to add a ‘Teacher Code’ that allows your students to send the results to you after they answer the questions, which I think is a nice option.
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When your students answer the questions and click on ‘See how you did’, they will be provided with the results, together with an option to send them to you.
Evaluation Considering the technical work required to create quizzes using software available on the market and to upload these quizzes, ESLvideo provides a free yet powerful website that allows language teachers to motivate and engage their students. I hope that the future updates will provide more options such as synchronizing the transcript with the video and various types of questions.
ESL video has considerable potential for listening activities in a language classroom. Moreover, I could not agree more with Yoneda (n.d., para. 5), who puts forward that “Carefully selected videos can be a wealth of visual information for pre-reading and post-reading setup and discussion as well as generation of ideas for writing and oral presentations”.
Resources
Video portals ClipFish, http://clipfish.de College Humor, http://collegehumor.com Google Video, http://video.google.com TeacherTube, http://teachertube.com/ VeryFunnyAds, http://veryfunnyads.com Yahoo Video, http://video.yahoo.com YouTube, http://youtube.com
References Duffy, P. (2008). Engaging the YouTube Google-eyed generation: Strategies for using Web 2.0 in teaching and learning. Electronic Journal of eLearning, 6(2), 119–131. Retrieved from http://www.ejel.org/issue/download.html?idArticle=64 Kılıçkaya, F. (2010, December). Creating language quizzes: QuizStar. The AATSEEL Newsletter, 53(4), 5–6. Retrieved from http://www.aatseel.org/100111/pdf/aatseeldec10nlfinal.pdf Manning, S., & Johnson, K. E. (2011). The technology toolbelt for teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Yoneda, S. (n.d.). Real (teacher) world application of ESLvideo.com. Retrieved from http://www.eslvideo.com/eslvideo_re- alworldapp.php
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Helena Goscilo (Ohio State Uni- erary Studies at Eugene Lang College / Member News versity) announces the following pub- The New School. lications: Editor: Molly Thomasy Blasing Celebrity and Glamour in Con- Justin Wilmes (Ph.D. candidate, (University of Wisconsin-Madison) temporary Russia: Shocking Chic, co- Ohio State University) is publishing an ed. Helena Goscilo and Vlad Strukov article titled “Anticipating Chekhov: The AATSEEL Newsletter likes to keep (Routledge 2011; paperback 2012) Tragicomic Elements in Griboedov’s its members informed about important Putin as Celebrity and Cultural Woe from Wit” in a forthcoming Gri- events and professional milestones! If Icon, ed. Helena Goscilo (Routledge boedov edition of the Pushkin Review. you or an AATSEEL member you know 2012) has recently defended a dissertation, Embracing Arms: Cultural Repre- From our institutional members: been hired, received a promotion or sentations of Slavic and Balkan Women The School of Russian and Asian retired, please send the member’s name, in War, co-ed. Helena Goscilo and Yana Studies (SRAS) is pleased to welcome accomplishment and affiliation to: Hashamova (Central European Univer- Kim Frankwick, the new Student Ser- Molly Thomasy Blasing, thomasy@ sity Press, 2012) vices Coordinator. Based in Moscow, wisc.edu Kim will be working with students in all Jane Hacking (University of Utah) SRAS locations as they settle into their The AATSEEL Newsletter would has been appointed co-director of the host cities and study programs, helping like to recognize the following members newly established Second Language them to navigate culture shock, explore for their recent professional milestones: Teaching and Research Center at the and engage in new opportunities, and University of Utah. L2TReC will pro- overall maximize their experience Radha Balasubramanian (Uni- file the university’s unique strengths in abroad. She will also assist in reviewing versity of Nebraska Lincoln) received foreign language education, coordinate and advising students’ written work for a 2012 STARTALK grant as Program with Utah State Office of Education’s some locations. Kim earned a B.A. in Director of the Critical Language Sum- foreign language initiatives, and provide Russian Language and Literature from mer Camp in Chinese and Russian. a focal point for research in Second Beloit College, studied at the Russian Language Acquisition (SLA). State University for the Humanities, and David Borgmeyer is now Director earned a M.Ed. in Student Development of the Center for International Studies The “Books Behind Bars” course Administration from Seattle University. at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, taught by Andrew Kaufman, currently Missouri. a lecturer in the University of Virginia Recent Publications Slavic Department, was recently fea- Continued Edith Clowes, formerly at the tured in the Chronicle of Higher Edu- University of Kansas, has joined the cation. Continued from page 3 University of Virginia Slavic Depart- Dance Beginning this fall, Anne Loun- ment, where she now holds the Brown- Ezrahi, C. 2012. Swans of the Kremlin: Foreman Endowed Chair. sbery is serving as Chair of New York Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia. University’s Department of Russian and Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pitts- Katarzyna Dziwirek recently Slavic Studies. became the Chair of the Department of burgh Press. Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Karen Ryan has left the Univer- University of Washington. sity of Virginia for Stetson University, Education where she will serve as the Dean of Arts Maximova-Mentzova, T. 2012. The Ellen Elias-Bursac taught Interme- and Sciences and Professor of Russian. Changing Russian University: From diate Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian at the State to Market. London, UK: Rout- Critical Languages Institute at Arizona Mila Shevchenko has accepted the ledge. State University this summer. position of Assistant Professor of Rus- sian at Ohio University. Ethnic & Gender Studies Independent scholar Anne O. Fisher’s translation of Ilya Ilf and Evg- Melissa T. Smith has retired from Akturk, S. 2012. Regimes of Ethnicity eny Petrov’s The Twelve Chairs (2011, the Department of Foreign Languages at and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, Northwestern University Press) was Youngstown State University, effective and Turkey. Cambridge, UK: Cam- awarded the 2012 Northern California July 1, 2012. bridge University Press. Book Award for Fiction in Translation. Val Vinokur has been promoted to Continued on page 20 Associate Professor with tenure in Lit-
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Editor: Valery Belyanin PSYCHOLOGY OF (Kaluga State University) LANGUAGE LEARNING
This column is intended to promote a dialogue for teachers of Slavic languages regarding the psychological aspect of language learning. Submissions for future editions of this column should be sent electronically to the impossible. But these examples may Valery Belyanin ([email protected]) amount to more than a motivational paragon to aspiring learners. A highly What can L2 writing tell us ing be geared towards communication talented individual able to overcome about L2 teaching? and passive comprehension? the disadvantages of a non-native One powerful example to the speaker in terms of vocabulary, gram- Eugenia Kelbert, Yale Univer- contrary is that of novelists and poets mar or expression is, indeed, a paragon sity
in a bilingual person’s brain4, and not merely their achievement but the purpose and the end result of successful neuroscientific studies such as Kim ways in which their multi-competence language learning. et al. (1997)5 launched a still ongoing has infl uenced and often enriched their This does not mean, of course, that debate on whether language process- style, allowing them, in turn, to enrich we should train students to become ing may not happen in different parts their chosen literary idiom. great writers, or any kind of writers – of the brain for highly profi cient late Needless to say, the example of no more than in any class of English bilinguals compared to childhood bi- a Conrad or a Nabokov may seem very composition. Nor should we forget the linguals or, indeed, monolinguals. This far from the concerns of an average be- dangers of confusing ‘creativity’ with relatively recent trend is probably best ginner in a Russian class. Yet, the ques- unidiomatic and ungrammatical use of summed up in Vivian Cook’s notion of tions it raises are of direct relevance to a language, and of one’s intermediate multi-competence, which sums up the the very endeavor of language learning. interlanguage with fl uency. Yet, it seems general change in the paradigm: a bi- First, it naturally invites us to rethink that more research is necessary on how lingual person is not a sum total of two the process of learning a new language an L2 speaker’s lexical, syntactical and monolinguals sharing the same mind, for already bilingual students. But this grammatical choices within the accepted and should be studied accordingly. Re- is not all, because many of the issues norm may lead to a personal style in that turning to second language writers, what raised by research on multi-competence, language, and perhaps to a smoother ought to interest the researcher is, then, such as linguistic interference, become learning process. Such research could relevant to any student of a second lan- prove helpful for teachers; and more 4 Wartenburger, I., Heekeren, H. R., guage. It seems that students ought to talented advanced students may benefi t Abutalebi, J., Cappa, S. F., Villringer, be made aware in a new way of factors greatly from a model of grammatical A., & Perani, D. (2003). Early setting that may affect the learning process and yet original use of language informed, of grammatical processing in the bi- how to turn them to their advantage. rather than inhibited, by their bilingual lingual brain. Neuron, 37(1), 159-170. And perhaps most important of all, the background. 5 Kim et al., Distinct cortical areas as- example of translingual literature offers, sociated with native and second languag- as well as a revealing subject of class es, Nature, Vol 388, 10 July 1997 discussion, a new perspective on the
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Q. I am interested in the synonymic историко-художественный музей // In addition, there is an imperfective group of verbs родить – рождать «Наука и жизнь», 2007] verb родить, which is typically used to – рожать, which are considered syn- То ли сама власть рождала ис- describe the bounty of the earth which onymic by various dictionaries, for ключительно для себя пролетарских has a different stress: example the four-volume dictionary of неучей, то ли сами неучи сварганили Все равно без хлеба теперь не Russian (MAS) and Ushakov. механизм, называемый обществом, сидят, все равно эта земля родит в A. I wonder if some form of puden- только для собственного пользования последний раз, а могло случиться cy is at play here. Even the more recent ― сейчас уже не разберёшь, запута- так, что и нынче б уже не роди́ ла ― БТС defines рождать (разг. рожать) ешься в клубке причин и следствий. все равно… [Валентин Распутин. as: Произвести — производить на [Анатолий Азольский. Облдрамтеатр Прощание с Матёрой (1976)] свет подобных себе путём родов, and // «Новый Мир», 1997] Poems show the stress: for both рожать and рождать it sends The closest we can come to ‘giving Чтоб от зависти загнулся бы the reader to родить. I find this highly birth’ is in the context of earth or land: враг, чтоб от радости роди́ла земля! inadequate. Сама уральская земля рождала (Столяр. Воробьев. Крапива‒лебеда) Рождать and рожать have clearly легенды и сказки. П.П.Бажов учился So while Brodsky personifies the separated semantically in contemporary видеть и понимать богатство и earth, which gives birth to people, Kol- Russian: рожать has the meaning given красоту горного Урала. (http://www. pakova and Loginov2 (sic!) in the next in БТС, i.e. physically give birth to hobbitaniya.ru/bajov/bajov.php?id=2) examples treat people as a crop: a child, while рождать is relegated Since рожать means ‘give birth to Соберу свою белую силу strictly to abstract language, and birth a baby’, one would not expect any mas- И размою из грязи плотину! is not physical but metaphorical. It culine examples, but Russian grammar Чтоб роди́ла земля весносоких, most commonly refers to the birth of demands masculine form in some cases: Солнцерылых и солнечнооких! (Г. thoughts, feelings and ideas: Девочки, прошу тех, кто рожал Колпакова. Убежать из жизни убогих) Мне импонировала эта тональ- дома написать какие документы Других поэтов роди́ла Земля, ность, она рождала надежды, а са- нужны для регистрации ребенка в Других героев незабвенных. мое главное ― доверие к человеку. загсе. [Наши дети: Малыши до года Тебя забыли и меня, [Александр Яковлев. Омут памяти. (форум) (2004)] И кровь застила в венах! (Дм. Логи- Т.2 (2001)] And of course there are some нов2 (sic!)) Всё, что возникало между ними, strange instances, where a presumed This, however, does not exhaust the было правдой, естественной, не за- male gives birth: problem. While in the Bible we read висящей от них, как не зависит от Он мне сказал, что с кошками ― Авраам родил Исаака; Исаак родил человека дневной свет, и в то же беда. Но это ― кот, дарю тебе как Иакова and so on, more recently, in время эта правда рождала неизбеж- другу. «Бери кота, ― сказал он, ― бе- Gogol’s “Тарас Бульба” we find “Я ную ложь, фальшь, жестокость по реги». Принес в четверг, а кот рожал тебя породил, я тебя и убью.” отношению к самым близким людям. во вторник. [Александр Городниц- The same породить is the perfec- [Василий Гроссман. Жизнь и судьба, кий. «И жить еще надежде» (2001)] tive of рождать in abstract contexts we часть 3 (1960)] Родить has its own complications. saw earlier. Оглушительная лестница в го- There is a perfective verb, which is a Но сумма этих коротких со- лове юноши рождала образ огром- counterpart to рожать and рождать, if бытий породила ощущение боль- ного расстроенного инструмента. we are speaking of earth: шого времени, вместившего всю [Евгений Водолазкин. Соловьев и Родилá царица в ночь, не то сына, радость человеческой жизни. Ларионов (2009)] не то дочь. (Пушкин. Сказка о царе [Василий Гроссман. Жизнь и судьба, It can mean ‘generate, produce’, as Салтане) ч. 1 (1960)] in the following examples: Что ковыряться зря в рваных Первая мировая породила Такая техника имела название корнях глаголом? желание спрятаться в безумие «шитье по карте» и рождала игру све- Вас родилá земля, грунт, от кошмара, который сотворен тотени. [Н. Артемова. Егорьевский чернозём с подзолом. (И. Бродский. человеком разумным. [Александр На независимость Украины) 12 December 2012 Vol. 55, Issue 4 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER
Архангельский. 1962. Послание к find the core meaning we need to look белые крахмальные скатерти блестели Тимофею (2006)] at parallel examples that are close to под лучами солнца, а свежий воздух Очень скоро стало ещё хуже: minimal pairs: рождал аппетит, который, кажется, места тех, кто с коррупцией дол- Нагретый сорокоградусной не утолить. (Ф. Икшин. Лиля Брик) жен был бороться, заняли те, кого жарой пыльный воздух порождал In these examples, порождать коррупция породила и вскормила. темное марево скрывавшее город. means ‘trigger’ and is used literally, [Борис Руденко. Убить дракона. Воз- (www.newsland.ru/news/detail/ while рождать is used metaphorically, можно ли победить коррупцию в id/838146/) as if the air gave birth, created a melody России // «Наука и жизнь», 2009] Воздух порождал ураганный or an appetite. And then there is another imperfec- ветер и бесчисленные торнадо, … The following is a good example of tive: порождать, for which dictionaries (А. Стерхов. Миниатюры. http://www. the distinction; love gave birth to beauti- typically do not have a separate entry proza.ru/2012/09/12/1280) ful creations but triggered awful events: and refer to породить. Examples of Та музыка, что показалась ему Любовь рождала самые порождать can be found in the same знакомой, доносилась из павильона прекрасные творения, в то же Grossman novel: с обширной террасой, на которой время любовь порождала самые Но, конечно, полная и ясная покачивались в медленном танце ужасные события. (vk.com/ безнадёжность порождала не одни пары, но ее источника он не note6641784_11046901) восстания и сопротивление, она обнаружил — казалось, сам воздух порождала и неведомое нормаль- рождал мелодию: гитарные переливы, © 2012 by Alina Israeli ному человеку стремление быть источающие аккордами испанскую Please send questions to: Prof. подвергнутым казни. [Василий грусть. Впрочем, в равной степени Alina Israeli, WLC, American Univer- Гроссман. Жизнь и судьба, ч. 1 грусть могла быть и таларской, и sity, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW., (1960)] неизвестномирской. (А. Бушков. Washington DC 20016-8045; or via So the obvious question is: How Печать скорби) e-mail to: [email protected] is рождать different from порождать? Речной ветерок разносил Clearly there is some overlap, but to синеватый дым ресторанной плиты,
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Russian at Work: Editor: Katya Jordan, Interviews with Professionals University of Virginia Who Use Russian on the Job
This is Part Two of my interview with Centre congress in Washington, DC. enormously. Naturally some of my Dr. Laura Wilhelm. Since the time of There I was able to translate publicly fondest memories are of major land- publication of Part One, Dr. Wilhelm for a museum curator from Moscow marks such as the Hermitage Museum, won the Robert Novak Journalism who was describing one of her cultural which surprised me with its amazing award and assisted with press for the exhibits. Later delegates from many Picasso collection. Global Independence Day that took different nations watched fireworks and Some of the best times I had in St. place on September 8th and 9th, 2012 in disco danced together on the same boat Petersburg were spent simply riding Beverly Hills, CA. The event was at- used by the mayor, which was definitely the metro and exploring sites like the tended by dozens of global dignitaries, a peak experience. Summer Garden and the canals on foot. as well as Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor What is your experience in visit- I grew up in California port cities and of Los Angeles, with Bill Clinton as the ing Slavic countries? always love being near the water. I saw keynote speaker. In graduate school I went to Zagreb, the spectacular Church on the Blood at Yugoslavia during the summers of 1989 the end of my dormitory’s canal street and 1990 on a work/study arrangement every day during my first visit and wit- Part 2 between the University of Kansas and nessed the site of Rasputin’s murder at Did you think that your interest in Matica iseljenika hrvatske. My knowl- the splendid Yusupov Palace during the Russian would continue? edge of Russian made it quite easy to second. Bus tours of the Pushkin Hills I wasn’t sure since my father hoped master Croatian, and many of the people and Novgorod gave me a little taste of I would follow his path into science. I I met in Yugoslavia also spoke Russian. Russian provincial life. did win some science fairs and took a Yugoslavia was in a state of war at As a scholar, there is no substitute lot of math enrichment classes amidst the time, and this condition spurred my for visiting archives in your target many trips to youth science centers in interest in doing translation work for the country even during the Information the Bay Area and Southern California. non-profit relief organization Women Age. Pushkin House treasures a guest However, language and literature were for Women International. At the time book signed by all the shining lights of always my first love and I was also do- WWI was active only in the former the Silver Age that I was privileged to ing a great deal with world art, dance, Yugoslavia, but has since expanded to see. I wrote my doctoral dissertation and music. other areas in need such as Africa. on the Russian literary fable (basnya) Ultimately my passion for interna- During the summers of 1993 and and was able to work with hand-colored tional relations won out. I really wanted 1994 I finally visited Russia during illustrated texts as well as key primary to make a difference so maybe the Great the first two years that the Academy and secondary sources in the Pushkin Powers would not annihilate the world of Sciences in St. Petersburg offered House library. Both the PH professors in nuclear warfare. It sounds impos- study abroad courses at Pushkin House. and librarians were an absolute joy to sibly naive, I know. In college I took Based upon my performance during work with--unfailingly courteous and intensive third-year Russian at Nor- the 1993 session I was invited to help incredibly erudite. wich University in Vermont, which is administer the program from the USA My first Russian instructor in St. Pe- a military academy, and attended some the following year. This was possible tersburg was not much older than I was, conferences at other military schools. primarily because of the launch of the and we became quite friendly during the My scientific bent re-emerged in gradu- World Wide Web. course of the summer. We corresponded ate school through study of linguistics My American compatriots agreed throughout the following year and got and literary theory. I also became a that our summers in Russia were the together many times in Russia during proponent of existentialist philosophy best of times and the worst of times. my second summer there although she and logotherapy. My graduate work The inflation rates in Russia were insane was no longer teaching in my program. with semiotics has greatly influenced right after the fall of Communism and We went to the Russian Museum and my analyses of the arts and politics. I wish I had had more money to spend, she took me to meet her parents. They On July 4th in the year 2000 I made but don’t we all. My many years of all invited me to visit their dacha, which my first big bid for world peace speak- language study prepared me well for didn’t happen to my everlasting sorrow. ing at the annual American Biographi- encounters with the natives and no I had a similar experience with a male cal Institute/International Biographical doubt improved the overall experience tour guide I met in Zagreb. A Russian-
17 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 55, Issue 4 December 2012 speaking Czech friend from Harvard which can be applied quickly and easily self-confidence to master challenges I met my second time in Yugoslavia with a brush after long rides to nowhere and be a pioneer. reconnected with me my second time on public transportation. Talcum pow- Try your best to find ways to finance in Russia. Friendships formed abroad der was cool and refreshing in a humid your studies without bankrupting your- can be unusually intense and fulfilling. city with hot and crowded trains and self for life. While law, medical, and Command of the local language was buses. science programs are soon over, gradu- key in all cases. Handi Wipes are great for all sorts ate degree work in Slavic can stretch To this day I still remember having of travel situations and can also be used on for well over a decade. I was able to scramble around to several farewell to clean tables and sinks if necessary. to graduate debt free from KU in six events at the end of my first summer in Ziploc bags allow you to pilfer yummy years’ time by living within my means Russia and say tearful goodbyes to all Russian leftovers and are otherwise on a four-year Graduate School Honors my new friends, some of whom greeted useful in many different ways. I have Fellowship and stipends from many me ecstatically at the beginning of the even done laundry in them. other funding sources. I also worked next summer. So much for the Evil My own Westernizing tendencies in KU’s Watson Library during the six Empire. Without a doubt this was one emerged in a strong preference for cash months prior to graduation with honors. of the happiest times of my entire life. and carry kiosk purchases versus the far Be sure you can dedicate your best What would be your advice to less efficient socialist method of stand- efforts to your degree program without those who are considering making an ing in several lines to buy something. undue interference from the outside educational/cultural exchange trip to I sneaked my way into several luxury world. I was married to another gradu- a Russian speaking country? hotels to use the rest rooms. ate student and we had no children, Learn the language as well as you Genevra Gerhart’s classic The Rus- which was probably the best possible can, expect the unexpected, and be sian’s World: Life and Language is a family situation short of independent ready to benefit from experience. I was superb resource for day to day needs. wealth. During my time at KU I was in Russia both times during the White Be sure to bring a journal or sketchbook inducted into Dobro Slovo and received Nights, which are as deliriously disori- to record your impressions. I went way departmental awards for Outstanding enting yet exhilarating as Dostoevsky over budget on essentials such as books, Student of Croatian and Outstanding had led me to expect. I first glimpsed ice cream, and jewelry. Живы бу́дем MA Candidate. Amusingly, I received the Bronze Horseman of Pushkinian -- не помрём. my Outstanding PhD Candidate award myth in a surrealistic haze produced I would check out both dormitory shortly before my dissertation defense. by jet lag and slight culture shock. In and homestay accommodations rather I also got very active with AATSEEL that state I really did expect him to run carefully. Hosts often just want the and AAASS from the outset and started after me. money and don’t honor agreements publishing in both American and Rus- I found Petersburg’s climate to be made with guests. They may also ex- sian literary journals. very changeable and wish I had brought pect additional funds and favors above As I have seen, a track record like more sweaters and maybe a terrycloth and beyond the formal contract and this can really take you places later on bathrobe. I was glad to have hoods and make other unreasonable demands. and is worth every sacrifice. Mine is scarves to protect against the rain since The best advice I can offer overseas opening doors for me in Hollywood, umbrellas just blow away in the strong travelers generally is to enjoy the target Washington, DC, and all over the world. winds that come off of the Venice of the culture on its own terms. Consider People genuinely appreciate my educa- North’s fabled canals. the following quotation from the Best tion and expertise and the depth I am Other urban warrior wardrobe items Exotic Marigold Hotel: “Resist and able to bring to subject areas of many I would recommend are sturdy shoes, you’ll be knocked over, but dive into it different kinds. A new journalist friend shawls, and sunglasses. I tended to and you’ll swim out to the other side.” who knows me as a fashion and lifestyle dress in layers of generic knit clothing I What advice would you give to reporter said there was more to me than cared nothing about and left the expen- students who wish to become special- met the eye, which was a total riot given sive one of a kind pieces at home. Dark ists in Russian? what a grind I was in college and grad colors are best because of the soot and If you are naturally the sort of per- school. need to hand wash most items. I bought son who needs a lot of approval and/or If you work outside of academia, the most wonderful all-purpose Ital- discourages easily, you will probably be be sure your employer is receptive to ian trench coat during my first visit to less successful. Russians can be very the development of your interests and Russia that I own to this day. It helped suspicious and mistrustful in their deal- talents. In 2003 I taught a well-received me blend in and remain inconspicuous ings with others, and you cannot take course on Russian life and language at on the street where us foreigners were this personally. This is not always an the Beverly Hills Adult School. Based sometimes harassed. easy language and culture for Western- upon this I applied for and received a I am very attached to lip gloss and ers to penetrate. It might be just right six-week American Councils teacher liquid eye shadow in bottles, both of for you if you have the curiosity and training fellowship at MGU that I sadly
18 December 2012 Vol. 55, Issue 4 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER had to decline because it didn’t dovetail monitoring all sorts of atrocities thanks the center have a duty to restore bal- with my government work situation. to the miracles of technology. We can ance to a world spinning wildly out of As with any career, it helps to take all do so much if we are willing to make control. the long view and be open to different our voices heard. During these difficult times in kinds of opportunities. Those of us I would recommend that those with America we all need to remember that with PhDs understand that learning is a Russian interests keep on top of world our voice counts no matter what lan- lifelong process. I have had to master economic trends and position them- guage we speak. Citizen diplomacy multiple social media programs and get selves accordingly. The energy sector puts a human face on broader political up to speed in unfamiliar fields such as with emphasis upon green technology concerns. The average ESL teacher fashion and entertainment very quickly. is definitely emerging at present. Of or student could probably straighten The job I am doing now is not so differ- course the language and culture will out the U.N. in a matter of moments. ent from an academic position in that I always keep changing and us Slavists Founding Father Thomas Jefferson spend a great deal of time on research, will never come to the end of it. knew that the price of eternal freedom writing, and youth development. Readers are invited to consult fur- was eternal vigilance. Justice should be I wish I had understood from the ther with me at any time about interna- blind to everything but beautiful truth. beginning how vital networking was to tional career tracks. My Washington, Human beings must always adapt success in any sort of career. As we get DC media company wants to make a to survive. Globalization has made older, who we know is at least as impor- series of videos that will help orient language study more critical to career tant as what we know. I am very active military families and others to overseas success than ever before. My abilities with many Russian groups such as the postings. We also plan to create youth in Russian, Croatian, French, Greek, American-Russian Business Council oriented world culture summer camps. and Italian have won me clients and and the Los Angeles-St. Petersburg We would LOVE to promote any books commendations from all over the world. Sister City Committee. Fellow Reed on cross-cultural topics, too. Last year my LA company was nomi- alumna Janet Fitch, author of popular How has your understanding of nated for a West Hollywood Chamber of novels White Oleander and Paint it Russian culture changed over the Commerce Creative City Award (Cat- Black who teaches fiction at USC, is years? egory: Creative Communications). a close associate. I also write regular Everything I do with Russian In graduate school it was my private updates for both my college and gradu- seems to enter my professional sphere hope to one day be worthy of a Nobel ate alumni bulletins. It always pays to eventually. Not long ago two of my Prize in Literature or Peace. With ma- advertise. Lastly, I have made some American-Russian Business Council turity, such accolades cease to matter donations to the fund established in friends who produce a Hollywood talk much and one’s life becomes all about memory of my former KU dissertation show on a Russian channel comped me the work. My developing capabilities adviser, Dr. Joseph Conrad. tickets to the Addams Family Musical have allowed me to take part in activities What advice would you give to that I ended up reviewing for Cold Heat of serious global significance that have those with Russian interests who wish News. This year I helped set up an enriched my life beyond belief. to work in either the private or the ARBC Russian Old New Year mixer at I am totally obsessed with The Hun- public sector? a Mexican cantina on the Sunset Strip ger Games trilogy, finding it to be full Obviously the Internet and social where an Orthodox priest gave a great of allegories about world hunger and the media are here to stay. These resources talk on Russian holiday customs over Cold War. The young talents I mentor have nearly infinite potential to make festive vodka cocktails surrounded by appear to have inherited my genera- the world your oyster and effect mean- sombreros. I was very proud of that tion’s idealistic concern for the planet ingful social change. One of my best- little low budget cross-cultural coup. and its people. Several young adults loved company projects to date is a Even wild and sexy fashion shows can have requested to intern with my LA multi-lingual PSA for Finding Freedom sometimes seem like work, but I try to company, and I have appointed some of International, a non-profit organization shoulder my burden gracefully. them to the Youth Advisory Council for that seeks to address the worldwide The many changes brought about by my company in Washington, DC. With problem of human trafficking. the fall of Communism and rapid intro- their honest responses to guide me, I feel My Runglish associate spoke her duction of Western free market practices certain of ultimate success. FFI piece in Russian and invited friends in Russia are reflected in the work of my My youth mentoring efforts can from China and Kenya to participate two media companies. Human traffick- be considered repayment of the debt I along with others fluent in English, ing and high fashion occur at the poles owe to the many fine colleagues who French, German, and Spanish. The of this pivotal socioeconomic transition. have helped to shape and mold me. I final piece was shot on Hollywood This polarity is also being seen in the am particularly grateful to Dr. Judson Boulevard and Hope Street. It packs US with the virtual disappearance of Rosengrant for taking such an interest in quite an emotional wallop and reminds the middle class. I strongly believe that my work and life as a visiting professor us that the eyes of the world are now those of us who are still somewhere in at Reed College right after my parents
19 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 55, Issue 4 December 2012 had gotten divorced and I needed a new Recent Publications History direction. Dr. Marc Greenberg and the Neuburger, M. 2012. Balkan Smoke: other members of the KU Slavic Depart- Continued Tobacco and the Making of Modern ment faculty have likewise continued to Continued from page 9 support me from a distance and nurture Bulgaria. Cornell, NY: Cornell Uni- my many intellectual interests. Pallot, J., & Piacentini, L. 2012. Gender, versity Press. The real reward of continuous Geography, and Punishment: The Richard, C. 2012. When the United renewal is continuous rediscovery. Experience of Women in Carceral States Invaded Russia: Woodrow Mighty talents like Michelangelo and Russia. New York City, NY: Oxford Wilson’s Siberian Disaster. Lanham, Pushkin never stay in one place for long. University Press. MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc. I am so glad to have been rediscovered Shmelev, A. 2012. Tracking a Diaspo- by AATSEEL and the profession I have Film ra: Émigrés from Russia and Eastern endeavored to serve in one way or an- Hicks, J. 2012. First Films of the Europe in the Repositories. London, other since the 1970s. This is a long Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the UK: Routledge. interview based upon the experiences Genocide of the Jews, 1938-1946. Usitalo, S. 2012. The Invention of and insights of over 30 years. Many Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pitts- Mikhail Lomonosov: A Russian Na- thanks for your kind attention. burgh Press. tional Myth. Brighton, MA: Academic Dr. Laura Wilhelm Moore, T. 2012. Kozintsev’s Shake- Studies Press. 1236 North Sweetzer Avenue speare Films: Russian Political Suite 19 Language and Linguistics West Hollywood, CA 90069 Protest in Hamlet and King Lear. 323.654.3589 Jefferson, NC: McFarland. Waldenfels, R. 2012. The Grammati- LauraWil Intercultural is also on calization of Give + Infinitive A Com- Facebook parative Study of Russian, Polish, and Czech. Berlin, DE: Walter de Gruyter. Continued on page 25 Come to Boston for the Annual AATSEEL Conference January 3-6, 2013
Annual AATSEEL Conferences are energetic gatherings that focus on the aesthetic, creative, and communicative aspects of Slavic cultures —long considered to be among the world’s richest and most provocative. e 2013 AATSEEL Conference will feature scores of scholarly panels, supplemented by less formal roundtables, master classes, workshops, informal co ee conversations with leading scholars, and other special events: receptions, poetry readings and a lm screening. In 2013, the AATSEEL Conference will be held on January 3-6 in Boston, Massachusetts at the Hyatt Regency Boston in downton Boston. e Annual Conference of AATSEEL, the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages is held on the rst ursday-Sunday following January 2 of each year. e AATSEEL Conference is held concurrently with the meeting of the Modern Language Association. For more information go to http://www.aatseel.org
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DOMESTIC SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
AATSEEL compiles information onU.S.-based summer programs in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian languages and cultures. The information below was provided in late 2012 and is subject to change. Please contact programs directly for details and updates. These listings include only Slavic, East European, and Eurasian offerings. Many of the programs listed offer additional languages, e.g. Chinese or Arabic. See individual program sites for details. Many institutes have multiple programs, with different dates, locations, etc. The information below shows broadest range possible. Individual courses and levels may have different dates, prices, etc. Be sure to check the program site for details. Program directors; send updates for future Newsletters to [email protected]. – Kathleen Evans-Romaine, Arizona State University
International of-town trips, language pledge, Institutions Offering Distinguished and internships. Multiple East-European/ Engagement Awards, • Yerevan, Armenia: Advanced Eurasian Languages: Project GO (ROTC Armenian students only) • Kazan, Russia: Elementary or Institution: Arizona State Intermediate Tatar University Grad funding: Title VIII Fellowships, • Kiev, Ukraine: Ukrainian, all Languages: Albanian, Armenian, levels BCS, Polish, Russian, International Tatar, Ukrainian, Distinguished CLI courses are open to graduates, Uzbek Engagement Awards undergraduates, and non-students alike. Website: http://cli.asu.edu Funding is available for graduate Locations: Tempe AZ, Tirana, students through the Department of Yerevan, Sarajevo, Contact: [email protected]; 480- State’s Title VIII program, for under- Kazan, Kiev, 965-4188 graduates through the Melikian Schol- Samarqand The Arizona State University Criti- ars program, for ROTC students through Dates: June 3 – July 19 in cal Languages Institute (CLI) offers in- the Project GO effort, and for all CLI Arizona + July 23 – tensive summer language programs in students through the International August 16 Abroad Arizona and abroad. Distinguished Engagement Awards st nd June 24 – August 16 1 - and 2 -year courses in Alba- program. in Kazan, Kiev, or nian, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/ See http://cli.asu.edu/fellowships Yerevan Serbian (BCS), Polish, Russian, and Uz- for details. bek are offered in “hybrid,” programs, Credits: 8 for courses in combining 7 weeks on the ASU campus Arizona and 4 (optional) weeks abroad. Institution: CESSI (University 8+3 for Hybrid For more advanced students, CLI of Wisconsin, courses offers the following 8-week programs Madison) abroad: 8 for 2-month courses Languages: Kazakh, Tajik, in Kazan, Kiev, • Kazan, Russia: Intermedi- Uyghur, Uzbek Yerevan ate Russian (3rd and 4th year): Location: Madison WI 8-credit faculty-led program with Tuition/Fees: Courses in Arizona: Dates: June 17 - Aug 9 homestays, individual excursions, $850 peer guides, extensive cultural Credits: 8 Study-abroad fees program, language pledge, and Tuition/Fees: UW tuition ($3,500 vary. See website for out-of-town trips. resident, $8,800 non- details. • Kiev, Ukraine: Advanced Rus- resident) th Ugrad funding: Melikian Scholars sian (5 year and up): 8-credit Ugrad funding: FLAS Program, program with homestays, individ- ual excursions, peer guides, out- Grad funding: FLAS
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Website: http://www.creeca. Ugrad funding: FLAS, Project GO UC grad and visiting wisc.edu/cessi/ for ROTC cadets students http://www. Contact: [email protected]. and midshipmen; summer.ucla.edu/fees/ edu; 608-262-3379 Pilot LTC for military fees.htm language and culture Website: http://www.slavic. The Central Eurasian Studies Sum- specialists. mer Institute (CESSI) offers intensive ucla.edu/summer- Central Eurasian language courses Grad funding: FLAS, Title VIII; programs.html alongside a cultural enhancement pro- Pilot LTC for military Contact: [email protected]. gram which introduces students to the language and culture edu ; 310-825-3856 rich world of Central Eurasian history specialists. and culture. Website: http://www.indiana. In summer 2013, we will offer edu/~swseel/ Institution: university of Pittsburgh instruction in first- and second-year Contact: [email protected]; Kazakh, Uyghur, Uzbek, and Tajik. 812-855-2889 Program: Russian and East Scheduling of classes is contingent on European Summer sufficient enrollment. Please apply to Intensive language training has Language Institute been offered at the Bloomington cam- CESSI as early as possible to help en- Languages: BCS, Bulgarian, pus of Indiana University since 1950. sure that your class will be offered. With Czech, Estonian, The Summer Workshop provides up sufficient enrollment, other Central Hungarian, Latvian, over 200 participants in Slavic, East Eurasian languages may be offered on Lithuanian, Polish, European, Central Asian and Middle demand. Please contact the CESSI pro- Russian, Slovak, Eastern languages the opportunity to gram coordinator if you are interested Turkish, Ukrainian in a language not listed above. complete a full year of college language Locations: Pittsburg, Moscow, CESSI is a joint initiative of 17 instruction during an eight or nine-week summer session. Prague, Montenegro, U.S. Department of Education-funded Krakow, Debrecen, National Resource Centers at 11 U.S. Utilizing the resources of Indiana Bratislava universities and is supported by U.S. University’s own specialists as well as native speakers from other universities Dates: June 3 – July 12, or Department of State Title VIII resources July 27, or August 9 through the Social Science Research and abroad, the Summer Workshop has Credits: 6–10 Council. developed and maintained a national For further information about program of the highest quality. Al- Tuition/Fees: $3930–$7900 CESSI 2012, please contact Nancy lowing all participants to pay in-state Ugrad funding: Tuition Scholarships, Heingartner, CESSI program coordi- tuition fees, the program has as its goal FLAS, Project Go nator, [email protected], 1-608- the enhancement of speaking, reading, (ROTC, Russian), 262-3379. listening and writing skills through stipends classroom instruction and a full range of Grad funding: Tuition Scholarships, extra-curricular activities. The priority FLAS, stipends Institution: Indiana University application deadline is March 1, 2013. Website: http://www.slavic.pitt. Languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Go to www.indiana.edu/~swseel for edu/sli/ BCS, Czech, more details and to apply. Contact: SLIadmin@pitt. Georgian, Hungarian, Fellowships and funding are avail- edu; 412-624-5906 able. Kazakh, Mongolian, University of Pittsburgh offers ac- Persian, Polish, credited summer immersion programs Romanian, Russian, Institution: UCLA in Pittsburgh and/or abroad in Slavic Tatar, Turkish, and East European languages. Languages: Russian, Romanian, Uyghur, Uzbek, The Russian Summer Language Serbian-Croatian Yiddish Program includes an 8-week, 8-credit Dates: 3 Jun - 26 July; Location: Los Angeles intensive language option (June 3-July May 28 - 26 June for Dates: June 24 - August 2/ 26, 2013) in beginning, intermediate, Arabic and first-year August 16 advanced, and fourth-year intensive Russian Russian, as well as a 5+5 Pitt-Mos- Credits: 12 cow option with five weeks in Pitts- Credits: 6-10 Tuition/Fees: $271/unit for UC burgh (June 3-July 5) and five weeks Tuition/Fees: $2,434 - $3,425 undergrad. students in Moscow (July 8-August 9). Housing: $28/day and $339/unit for
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The East European Summer Lan- The Intensive Summer Language intensive language courses in Arabic, guage Program includes six-week Program has advantages for students in Chinese, Japanese, and Russian (1st intensive programs carrying six cred- a variety of situations: through 4th-year). Eight- and four-week its in Pittsburgh (June 3-July 12) in It enables undergraduates who sessions are available. The full eight- Beginning Bulgarian, Czech, Turkish, begin their study of Russian after their week program runs from early June Hungarian and Ukrainian; Beginning freshman year to complete the four-year through early August; the four-week and Intermediate Estonian, Latvian, program in as little as two years and two program runs from Mid June to early Lithuanian, and Polish; and Beginning summers (eight quarters). July. Advantages: Personalized instruc- through Advanced Bosnian/Croatian/ It provides an opportunity for stu- tion, small classes, superb teachers, Serbian and Slovak, as well as programs dents from colleges and universities twelve semester hours of credit, lan- with four-week/four-credit add-on with limited offerings in Russian to guage tables, extracurricular activities, abroad components (July 14-August complete the four years of language pleasant summer on a lovely campus 9) in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, that are required by many graduate in southern Wisconsin with easy access Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Mon- programs. to Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago. tenegro. In addition, 6-week/6-credit It allows graduate students in any Applications are accepted beginning in Prague-only Czech immersion courses discipline whose research requires October and continuing until classes at the intermediate and advanced levels knowledge of Russian to begin study are filled. CLS Director’s scholarships are offered, as well as a 6-week/6-credit of the language, or to continue it at an are available to all qualified applicants Krakow-only Advanced Polish immer- appropriate level. through April. sion course (July 1-August 9). All of The Intensive Summer Language the summer language programs consist Program is open to non-UW students of five hours per day of instruction and registering through the UW Summer Institution: Bryn Mawr College are proficiency based. Scholarships are Quarter. The program includes extracur- Languages: Russian available (scholarship deadline: March ricular activities such as films, language Location: Bryn Mawr, PA 15, 2013). FLAS fellowships, which tables for conversation practice, sing- cover tuition and provide a stipend, are ing, poetry-reading and drama perfor- Dates: Mid-Jun – Mid-Aug available for undergraduates and gradu- mances, and lectures on Slavic cultures. Credits: 4-8 ate students. New funding opportunities A number of recreational activities are for students of the Baltic languages and usually organized, depending on the Ugrad funding: need based for ROTC students of Russian language interests of the student group, ranging Grad funding: need based (both for Pittsburgh-only and the Pitt- from hikes and bicycle rides to museum Website: http://www. Moscow program) through Project GO visits, concert outings, and even the brynmawr.edu/ are available in 2013. culinary arts! russian/rli.htm Contact: [email protected]; Institution: University of Institutions Offering 610-526-5187 Washington Russian: Founded in 1977, the Russian Languages: Russian, Ukrainian Language Institute (RLI) at Bryn (TBD) Institution: Beloit College Mawr seeks to support the study and Location: Seattle, WA Languages: Russian teaching of Russian in the United States Location: Beloit, Wisconsin by providing an intensive-immersion Dates: June 24 – Aug 23 setting for both teachers and learners Credits: 15 Dates: TBA of the language. RLI offers both four- and eight-week programs for male and Tuition/Fees: $8,264–$9,187 Credits: 12 female high school, undergraduate, and Website: http://depts. Ugrad funding: Director’s graduate students, concentrating on lan- washington.edu/ Scholarship guage training. Specialized seminars are slavweb/academics/ Grad funding: Director’s also periodically offered for high school summer-language- Scholarship and college Russian teachers of Russian intensives/ Website: http://www.beloit. under the auspices of RLI. Contact: slavicll@ edu/cls/ The eight-week Russian Language Institute offers a highly-focused curricu- uw.edu; 206-543- Contact: [email protected]; 608- 6848 lum and a study environment conducive 363-2277 to the rapid development of the four The Center for Language Stud- language skills (oral, aural, writing, ies at Beloit College offers summer reading) as well as cultural awareness.
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The program draws participants from a in Russian based on research in Russian Russian-only environment comple- broad spectrum of academic fields, oc- newspapers and on the Russian web. mented by rich co-curricular offerings. cupations, ages, and interests. Course The cultural program includes weekly Dates: 21 June – 16 August 2013 (8- offerings are designed to accommodate excursions and an overnight trip to week program), 2 July – 16 August 2013 a full range of language learners, from Vladimir and Suzdal. (6-week graduate program) the beginner to the advanced learner (three levels total). The highly inten- sive nature of the coursework and the Institution: Middlebury College Institution: Monterey Institute culturally-rich immersion environment Languages: Russian for International have proven very successful in provid- Studies Location: Middlebury, VT ing the equivalent of a full academic Languages: Russian year of college Russian to participants Dates: June 21 – Aug 16 Location: Monterey, CA who complete the program. (8-week undergrad program) Dates: June 17 – August 9, July 2 – Aug 16 (6- 2013 Institution: Georgia Institute of week grad program) Credit: 4-12 Technology Credits: 12 semester hours Tuition/Fees: tuition: $3,950, MIIS Languages: Russian (8-week undergrad application fee $50, Location: Moscow program) Housing & Meals: not included Dates: May 26-July 21, 2013 Tuition/Fees: $6,885 (8-week Ugrad funding: financial aid Credit: 9 credits undergrad program) Grad funding: scholarships Tuition/Fees: In-state tuition, fees, $5,169 (6-week grad Website: http://www.miis.edu/ and $4500 program program) academics/language/ fee Housing: $3,265 (mandatory; summer Room/Board: Homestay includes meals for Contact: [email protected]; 831- (accommodation, 8-weeks) 647-4115 breakfasts and dinners $2,652 (mandatory; included in program includes meals for Language plays a very important fee) 6-weeks) role at the Monterey Institute. Our non-degree language programs offer Ugrad funding: Scholarships for Ugrad funding: Merit-based intensive language instruction for par- ROTC cadets through fellowships, Davis ticipants with a variety of academic or Project GO Fellowship non-academic goals. Whether you are Website: http://www.modlangs. Grad funding: Merit-based planning to study or work abroad, wish gatech.edu/lbat/russia fellowships, Davis to strengthen your skills so you can Contact: sgoldberg@gatech. Fellowship enroll in higher-level courses at your edu; 404-894-9251 Website: http://www. home institute, or are looking for an edge in this competitive job market, our The Georgia Tech Russian Lan- middlebury.edu/ls/ russian non-degree language programs might be guages for Business and Technology just what you are looking for. (LBAT) program is an 8-week faculty- Contact: jstokes@middlebury. We offer a Summer Intensive Lan- led intensive Russian program taught in edu; 802-443-5230 guage Program (http://www.miis.edu/ Moscow at the 3rd and 4th year levels. The Kathryn Wasserman Davis academics/language/summer), as well Students live in homestays with Rus- School of Russian at Middlebury Col- as customized one-on-one and small sian families and take a pledge to speak lege offers intensive Russian language group language training programs in a only Russian with families, teachers, instruction at seven levels in its eight- variety of common and less-commonly staff and student helpers (except in week program and courses in language taught languages (http://www.miis.edu/ case of emergency). Coursework in- and linguistics, literature, culture, film, academics/language/custom). These cludes 6 credits (128 contact hours) of history, and pedagogy in its six-week programs are open to anyone interested advanced Russian and a 3-credit course graduate program. Graduate courses can in language study and development of on contemporary Russian politics and lead to MA or DML degrees in Russian. cross-cultural understanding. economics with lectures by top Moscow All courses are taught in an intensive specialists in English and a course paper
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Institution: University of Contact: Shanna Ratashak, Michigan Project GO-NCSU, Institution: University of Languages: Russian [email protected], Wisconsin, Madison 919-513-0119 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Languages: Russian The intensive language and culture Dates: June 17 - Aug 9 Dates: May 3–June 20, June course covers two semesters and offers 29–Aug 16, May 7– eight academic credits in sessions of six Credits: 8 June 25, June 27–Aug weeks each. It is open to all students na- Tuition/Fees: UW tuition ($3,500 16 tionally. It includes morning classroom resident, $8,800 non- Credits: 8 per class sessions (three hours) and afternoon resident) cultural engagements (two and a half Tuition/Fees: $2,800–$3,200 Room/Board: Not included hours) animated by native-speaking Website: http://lsa.umich.edu/ cultural specialists and consisting of Ugrad funding: FLAS (intermediate sli films, authentic situational scenarios, level and up) Contact: [email protected] interactive skits, individual tutoring, Project GO (ROTC 734-764-5355 lab work, and guest speakers on con- only) http:// temporary topics including daily life Summer Term intensive language rotcprojectgo.wisc. overseas, political issues, stereotypes of edu/ courses provide students the opportu- Americans, music and sports, religious nity to rapidly increase their level of practices, women and women’s rights, Grad funding: FLAS fluency. Intensive courses condense one dating and marriage, minority commu- Website: http:// or two terms of language study into an nities, perceptions of government, etc. languageinstitute. eight- or ten-week format; they pro- wisc.edu/content/ vide an excellent means for students to languages_ prepare for a study, internship, or work Institution: University of programs/2013_ abroad experience, graduate school, or Virginia summer. for expanded career opportunities. Lan- Languages: Russian html#offerings guage teaching at the UM is proficiency- oriented and aims to develop four basic Location: Charlottesville, VA Contact: Anna Tumarkin, [email protected], skills: speaking, reading, writing, and Dates: June 9 – Aug 2, 2013 aural comprehension. Courses are de- (608) 262-3498 Credits: 12 signed to teach language within a cul- The University of Wisconsin-Mad- tural and social context, so that students Tuition/Fees: $4,235–$13,870 ison is an international leader in foreign deepen their knowledge of the relevant (depending on language instruction. For information country as they develop language skills residency and grad/ on other summer language offerings and undergrad status) institutes on our campus, please visit the UW-Madison Language Institute’s site. Institution: North Carolina Housing: $22 per night State University (optional) Languages: Russian Website: http://www.virginia. Recent Publications edu/summer/SLI/ Location: Raleigh, NC index.html Continued Continued from page 20 Dates: Elementary: May 15 – Contact: [email protected]; Literature June 22, Intermediate 434-243-2241 June 25 - July 31 Ayers, D. 2012. Modernism, Interna- The Summer Language Institute Credit: 8 credits per session, offers eight-week courses in Russian. tionalism and the Russian Revolution. 2 sessions Students attend classes five days a week, Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh Univer- sity Press. Tuition/Fees: resident: $1,850, seven and a half hours a day. Listening, non-resident $5,900. speaking, reading, and writing skills Costlow, J. 2012. Heart-Pine Russia: are developed in a student-centered Walking and Writing the Nineteenth- Room/Board: Not included environment. Students are expected to Century Forest. Cornell, NY: Cornell Ugrad funding: Project GO (ROTC attend all classes and evening cultural University Press. only) activities. Individuals who successfully Website: http://gold.chass.ncsu. complete the Institute earn 12 credits, edu which satisfies the foreign language re- Continued on page 27 quirement at the University of Virginia. 25 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 55, Issue 4 December 2012
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
Cosmopolitan Educational be considered as an INTERNSHIP with Dubravushka School Center, Novosibirsk, Russia all necessary paperwork and an on-site Getting potential Russian language internship supervision provided. The major benefits to join our pro- students to Russia helps get students to International participants have an gram are as follows: begin the Russian language and/or to opportunity to attend Russian languages We organise an exciting cultural, continue with it. A prestigious 19 year classes every day. Russian classes are social and excursion program for inter- old college preparatory boarding school taught by well-educated native speakers national participants of the camp, which located outside Moscow has a summer trained to teach foreigners. Students are- is a very enriching experience. You camp program where English is taught placed in a group according to their level will be involved in interaction with the to high school aged Russians. Because of Russian. No previous knowledge of Russian children, youth and adults all the school is eager to expose these Russian is required. the time. This is the kind of experience students to native English speakers, it We will also be happy to arrange you will never get if you go as a tourist. offers a program which includes begin- courses on the Russian culture, history, You will gain a first-hand experi- ning and intermediate Russian lessons music, etc., if required. ence of the Russian culture and life at what is in effect a subsidized rate to We are dedicated to providing a stu- style and particularly the Siberian one. native English speaking high school dent with the most excellent supervision They say if you want to know what real aged students. (185 Euros/wk in 2008) possible. All the students are supervised Russia is like you should go to Siberia. This may be the only program where the and each group has a group leader who This is a not-for-profit program. American students are socializing and is normally responsible for 10 students Participation fee covers expenses on living mainly with Russian children. and stays with the group 24 hours a accommodation and ALL meals, and The fee includes room and board, Rus- day. Everyone can expect a warm, sup- tuition fee for students as well. If you sian lessons, inclusion in all the camp portive and friendly atmosphere along come to Russia (Siberia) on your own or activities and airport pick up and drop with professional service. Our goal is through a travel agency you will spend off. Watervaliet, NY Russian language that a student has the most enjoyable much more money compared to what HS teacher Steve Leggiero had 5 of his and worthwhile experience possible you would pay to participate in our pro- students in the program in 2008. Thru during the stay with us. We are deter- gram. Participating in our program you local fund raising including obtaining mined to ensure that everyone benefits won’t need much pocket money, you funds from service clubs, Steve was fully from the interaction with other may only need some spending money able to reduce costs for his students. students and the staff. The Head of Stud- to buy souvenirs and gifts to take back For additional information, see www. ies, Psychologist, the Social Program home. dubravushka.ru or contact Bill Grant, Coordinator and the Program Director All the local services (airport pick- volunteer US Agent, at 941-351-1596 are constantly monitoring the program up, local transportation, excursions) or [email protected] to assure that everyone is enjoying the are provided by our school without any stay and taking advantage of the many additional payment. IQ Consultancy Summer School activities offered by the school. Parents You don’t have to be a professional of the Russian Language are allowed to the program. teacher in order to volunteer for the pro- We also offer excursion packages IQ Consultancy offers an intensive gram. The most important aspect is your which include trips to Moscow, St. Pe- two or three week summer program willingness to participate and share your tersburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, for studying the Russian language to knowledge and culture, as well as your Lake Baikal, the Altai Mountains, foreign students majoring not only in enthusiasm and good will. Teaching at TransSiberian Railroad, ‘Welcome to the Russian language and literature but the camp is not like an academic teach- Siberia’ program. All the details and also in history, economics, engineer- ing routine, it’s more like fun where tour descriptions are available upon ing or any other subjects. The summer emphasis is made on communication. request. school is the right option for everyone Our school will provide you with the We provide all our foreign partici- willing to develop their language skills daily topical schedule for the classes pants with an invitation to obtain a Rus- and get an unforgettable international and will be happy to assist with lesson sian visa and arrange their registration experience while exploring St. Peters- planning and teaching materials. Uni- on arrival. burg, one of the world’s most exciting versity students are eligible to apply as For further details please email cos- and fascinating cities. This short term volunteer teachers. You will gain valu- [email protected] or cosmoschool2@ immersion program ensures not only able practical experience, proven ability mail.ru intensive language practice but also a and contacts that you can use to get a great opportunity to soak up the atmo- future job.Teaching at the camp can also sphere of Russian life and culture.
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Your students can come to Russia ing. Cost estimate: $2,771, including to study the Russian language with IQ tuition, room, and board, and 5 UWM Professional Consultancy any time suitable for them. credits, plus round air trip transporta- There are two- or three-week summer tion Chicago-Warsaw-Chicago. The Opportunities programs on fixed dates or we can ar- program is open to students and the range a course for the students of your general public. Grants & Fellowships university only, if they come in group Also being offered are two, three, of 6-10 students. Students can prolong four, five, six, seven, and eight-week July 15 Annually their stay and study the Russian lan- courses as well as two, three, four, Kluge Center Fellowships for guage with IQ Consultancy in a one- five, six, seven, eight-week intensive Library of Congress on-one format or joining any current and highly intensive courses of Polish Library of Congress Invites Appli- group of students. language in July and August. cations for Kluge Center Fellowships. The summer program is comprised For information and application The Library of Congress (http://www. of the following activities which are materials contact loc.gov/) invites qualified scholars to included in tuition fees: 20 academic Professor Michael J. Mikoś conduct research in the John W. Kluge hours of General Russian a week in a Department of Foreign Center using the Library of Congress group; 40 hours for 2 weeks and 60 for Languages and Literature collections and resources for a period 3 weeks respectively. University of Wisconsin- of up to eleven months. IQ Consultancy offers different Milwaukee Up to twelve Kluge Fellowships supplementary services to our students Milwaukee, WI 53201 will be awarded annually. Fellowships (they are charged extra), such as pro- are tenable for periods from six to viding visa support, arranging different (414) 229-4151 or 4948, eleven months, at a stipend of $4,000 types of accommodation, transfer and fax (414) 229-2741 per month. Visit the Library of Congress an entertainment program. On your Web site for complete fellowship pro- wish, we will fill in your afternoon e-mail: [email protected] gram information and application pro- hours with cultural program after the cedures Location: USA Deadline: July language classes. We will show you the www.lrc.uwm.edu/tour/ 15 each year. Website: http://www.loc. evening and night life of the city and gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/kluge.html arrange an entertainment program on Recent Publications the weekends. We cooperate with dif- Continued Conferences & Workshops ferent reputable and established agen- Continued from page 25 cies which provide these services and October 23-26, 2013 14th CGSI Genealogical and Cul- guarantee our students a comfortable Herzen, A., & Parthe, K. 2012. A Herzen tural Conference in Illinois stay in St. Petersburg. Reader. Evanston, IL: Northwestern For further information on summer University Press. The Czechoslovak Genealogical language programs offered by IQ Con- Society International (CGSI) will hold Kleespies, I. 2012. A Nation Astray: its 14th Genealogical and Cultural Con- sultancy you can contact us at any time Nomadism and National Identity by e-mail, skype, phone or ICQ listed: ference at the Westin Lombard Hotel in Russian Literature. Chicago, IL: in Lombard, Illinois on Wednesday Tel: +7 (812) 3225808, + 7 (812) University of Chicago Press. 3183390, +7 (911) 206 85 78 E-mail: October 23 through Saturday October Peschio, J. 2012. The Poetics of Im- 26, 2013. natalia.pestovnikova@iqconsultancy. pudence and Intimacy in the Age of ru or [email protected] IСQ: Pushkin. Madison, WI: University of 418528066 Skype: RussianinRussi Wisconsin Press. UWM Announces Summer Segel, H. 2012. The Walls Behind the Politics Curtain: East European Prison Lit- Study in Poland Gustafson, T. 2012. Wheel of Fortune: erature, 1945-1990. Pittsburgh, PA: The Battle for Oil and Power in Rus- The University of Wisconsin- University of Pittsburgh Press. sia. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press Milwaukee announces its 2013 annual Shepherd, D. 2012. The Contexts of of Harvard University Press. Summer Study program in Poland at Bakhtin: Philosophy, Authorship, the John Paul II Catholic University Krózser, A. 2012. The Role of Energy Aesthetics. London, UK: Routledge. of Lublin. Transit in Turkish Foreign Policy: Weisskopf, M. 2012. The Veil of Moses: The five-week Polish language The Case of Turkish-Russian Rap- Jewish Themes in Russian Literature course (July 6-August 12) includes prochement. Saarbrucken, DE: LAP of the Romantic Era. Leiden, NL: 100 hours of instruction at beginning, LAMBERT Academic Publishing. intermediate or advanced lavers, plus Brill Academic Publishers. lectures of Polish culture and sightsee-
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