DOCSLIB.ORG

Summer 2005 [2005 22-02.Pdf]

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Summer 2005 [2005 22-02.Pdf] ISSN 1536-4003 University of California, Berkeley Newsletter of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Summer 2005 Volume 22, Number 2 Notes from the Director In this issue: My first year as director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies has been extremely stimulating and enjoyable. And Notes from the Director ................... 1 probably no event this year has been more stimulating, enjoyable, and Elena Morabito personally gratifying to me than the forum on the development of Slavic Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian studies at UC Berkeley. Drawing on the experience, wisdom, and knowl- Electronic Corpora in Light of the edge of some of our most distinguished and admired colleagues, we Current Linguistic Situation ................ 3 presented a program of reminiscences about the life of the Slavic and East Jonathan Stone European program from the 1950s until the end of the Cold War. Our A Symbolist Palette: The Aesthetics speakers were Gregory Grossman, Joan Grossman, David Hooson, Olga of Andrei Bely’s Zoloto v lazuri .......... 7 Hughes, Hugh McLean, and Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (unfortunately, Faculty and Student News ............ 10 Robert Hughes, who had planned to participate, was out with the flu). Ivana Jelic Montenegro, Oasis in the Balkans: Following the February forum, ISEEES hosted the joint Berkeley- An Overview of Human Rights and Stanford Conference. This year, the theme was “The Caucasus: Culture, Diversity ........................................... 12 History, Politics.” The day-long event featured presentations by Stephan Outreach Programs....................... 16 Astourian (UC Berkeley), Daniel Brower (UC Davis), John Dunlop Upcoming Events .......................... 18 (Hoover Institution), Harsha Ram (UC Berkeley), Erik R. Scott (UC Zelnik Publication .......................... 18 Berkeley), Kathryn Stoner-Weiss (Stanford), Andrei P. Tsygankov (SF Events Sponsored in 2004–05 ...... 23 State), and Edward Walker (UC Berkeley). It has been 29 years since Associates of the Slavic Center .... 26 Stanford and Berkeley started this joint venture, and it is still as vibrant as Fellowship Opportunities .............. 27 ever. Recent Publications ...................... 28 In early April, ISEEES cosponsored a panel on “The Celebration of Newsletter of the Institute of Slavic, Russian Music in History and Culture” with Cal Performances and the East European, and Eurasian Department of Music. It was the sequel to the November program on Studies Russian dance. Linked to the half-day event was a two-day conference on University of California, Berkeley “Glinka and His Legacies.” The conference was cosponsored by several Institute of Slavic, East European, and units on campus and organized by two Ph.D. candidates in the Department Eurasian Studies of Music, Anna Nisnevich and William Quillen. 260 Stephens Hall # 2304 On April 23rd we had our Annual Teachers Outreach Conference. The Berkeley, CA 94720-2304 title was “Keeping the Faith: The Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe.” [email protected] Victor Zhivov (UC Berkeley) focused on the differences in religious http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~iseees/ experience in Eastern and Western Christianity; Jack Kollmann (Stanford) discussed the role of the iconostasis in a Russian Orthodox church; Anton Editors: Stella Bourgoin and Barbara Vrame (GTU) surveyed the history of Byzantine iconography; Olga Voytek. Hughes (UC Berkeley) presented an overview of the Orthodox Church in America; Milica Bakic-Hayden talked about the place of Orthodoxy in Subscriptions are free of charge. Serbian life; and Marika Kuzma (UC Berkeley) discussed—and played— Submit mailing changes to the above Orthodox spiritual music. address or call (510) 642-3230. Our last and largest conference was held at the very end of the spring semester. Entitled “The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture in 1950s and Please send suggestions, corrections, 1960s,” the conference included thirty-five presenters and discussants or inquiries to the Newsletter editors from the US, Canada, France, Great Britain, and Germany. The event was at the address above. We welcome funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Humanities and your comments and suggestions. several other campus and non-campus entities. Two Ph.D. candidates, Eleonory Gilburd (History, UC Berkeley) and Denis Wittenberg (Political Science) will join us next year. Kozlov (History, University of Toronto) conceived the Another piece of good news is that the Mellon Founda- conference and organized the three-day event. tion has responded positively to our proposal for a Sawyer In addition, ISEEES presented two endowed lecture- Seminar award on the topic, “Private Wealth and Public ships in the spring. The first was our Annual Colin Miller Power: Oligarchs, Tycoons, and Magnates in Comparative Memorial Lecture. Istvan Deak, Seth Low Professor Perspective.” The seminar series is likely to be launched in Emeritus at Columbia University, spoke on “The Post– the spring semester of next year. World War II Political Purges in Europe.” In March, our Finally, I would like to thank our outstanding visitors Annual Peter N. Kujachich Lecture featured Robert for contributing so much to the work of the Institute. They Hayden, University Professor of Anthropology, Law and included two scholars in the Junior Faculty Development Public and International Affairs at the University of Program administered by the American Councils for Pittsburgh and my counterpart in their Center for Russian International Education who came from Serbia and and East European Studies. The title of his lecture was Montenegro. Ivana Jelic, law and legal studies, and Milos “Hagueiography: Uncritical Legal Studies of the Interna- Besic, sociology, were excellent resources for our faculty tional Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.” and students. Vadim Volkov, associate professor of sociol- The Carnegie research and graduate training project on ogy at the European University of St. Petersburg and Extremism in the New Eurasia held six seminars in the Carnegie Foundation Research Fellow, gave two brown spring. The presenters included David Laitin, professor of bag lunch talks and one seminar on his research on “early political science at Stanford University; John Dunlop, capitalism” in the US and Russia. senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; Georgi Derluguian, Let me also take this opportunity to welcome our associate professor of sociology, Northwestern University; newest employee, Ms. Kalynn Yastro, who is the new Margaret Anderson, professor of history, UC Berkeley; administrative assistant for programs (BPS, CCAsP, ASP). John Lie, dean of International and Area Studies and If you have not yet met Kalynn, please come by and say professor of sociology, UC Berkeley; and Ronald Hassner, hello. assistant professor of political science at UCB. On behalf of all of us at the Institute, I wish you a Five graduate student working groups were active last happy summer. semester: the BPS Graduate Student Seminar; the Identity in Central Asia Working Group; the Kruzhok Russian History Working Group; the Post-Communist Political Yuri Slezkine Economy Working Group; and the Sozhok Graduate Director, ISEEES Student Working Group in Sociology. Professor, Department of History I am very happy to report two new faculty additions to our community. Victoria Frede (History) and Jason ISEEES Newsletter Summer 2005 / 2 Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian Electronic Corpora in Light of the Current Linguistic Situation Elena Morabito Elena Morabito is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. This is an abbreviated version of a seminar paper under the same title, written for Professor Ronelle Alexander in 2004. During the existence of Yugoslavia—and of the language and pronunciation—these state languages are for the most Serbo-Croatian—there were complications and disputes part mutually intelligible. pertaining to linguistic matters. Since the bloody breakup The present study is a comparison of electronic of the nation in 1991, three national “ethnic” languages linguistic corpora of the language formerly known as have been declared: Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian (also Serbo-Croatian, and intends to show how the construction 1 referred to as Bosniac). There is a fourth potential lan- and use of various post–Serbo-Croatian corpora reflect the guage, Montenegrin, and it is possible that a separate current linguistic situation. A corpus is usually a body of Montenegrin language could be declared in the near future, randomly-sampled texts that as a whole is intended to depending whether Serbia-Montenegro will split into two represent a language. The digitized, computer-accessible 2 states or remain one. texts can include newspapers, books, or transcribed Whereas the “ethnic” criterion is the one correspond- conversations, to name a few examples.5 Those who create ing most closely to what people in the former Yugoslavia the corpus have control over text selection and thus its use officially, and what they fought wars about, it is not the content; therefore, motives of the designers are often only one or the completely agreed-upon criterion for the reflected in the corpora themselves. In addition, different differences between the Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian linguists can come to different conclusions about BCS, languages. There are many intricacies to this issue: the depending on which corpus they use or which interpreta- question of what people speak
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Explore Unknown Music with the Toccata Discovery Club
    Explore Unknown Music with the Toccata Discovery Club Since you’re reading this booklet, you’re obviously someone who likes to explore music more widely than the mainstream offerings of most other labels allow. Toccata Classics was set up explicitly to release recordings of music – from the Renaissance to the present day – that the microphones have been ignoring. How often have you heard a piece of music you didn’t know and wondered why it hadn’t been recorded before? Well, Toccata Classics aims to bring this kind of neglected treasure to the public waiting for the chance to hear it – from the major musical centres and from less-well-known cultures in northern and eastern Europe, from all the Americas, and from further afield: basically, if it’s good music and it hasn’t yet been recorded, Toccata Classics is exploring it. To link label and listener directly we run the Toccata Discovery Club, which brings its members substantial discounts on all Toccata Classics recordings, whether CDs or downloads, and also on the range of pioneering books on music published by its sister company, Toccata Press. A modest annual membership fee brings you, free on joining, two CDs, a Toccata Press book or a number of album downloads (so you are saving from the start) and opens up the entire Toccata Classics catalogue to you, both new recordings and existing releases as CDs or downloads, as you prefer. Frequent special offers bring further discounts. If you are interested in joining, please visit the Toccata Classics website at www.toccataclassics.com and click on the ‘Discovery Club’ tab for more details.
    [Show full text]
  • The Main Features of the E-Glava Online Valency Dictionary
    The Main Features of the e-Glava Online Valency Dictionary Matea Birtić, Ivana Brač, Siniša Runjaić Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Ulica Republike Austrije 16, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia E.mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract E-Glava is an online valency dictionary of Croatian verbs. The theoretical approach to valency follows the German tradition, particularly that of the VALBU dictionary, with some minor changes and adjustments. The main principle of our valency approach is to link valency patterns to specific verb meanings. The verb list is compiled semi-automatically on the basis of the Croatian Frequency Dictionary and Croatian language textbooks. Currently, e-Glava contains descriptions of 57 psychological verbs with 187 meanings and 375 valency patterns. The lexicographic articles are written in Tschwanelex. A Document Type Definition editing module has been used, and the description of verbs follows a three-level linguistic schema prepared for lexicographers. Verbs are distributed throughout 34 semantic classes, and examples are extracted manually from Croatian corpora. Fully processed data for each semantic class will be publicly available in the form of a browsable HTML dictionary. The paper also presents a comparison between e-Glava and other cognate resources, as well as a summary of its main advantages, disadvantages, and potential applied uses. Keywords: Croatian language; valency dictionary; e-dictionary; syntax 1. Introduction Sentence structure and the syntactic behaviour of verbs were perhaps the most intriguing and interesting topics for early grammatical descriptions and, later, linguistic descriptions of language. Valency properties are relevant to both theoretical and applied linguistic considerations.
    [Show full text]
  • Toccata Classics Cds Are Also Available in the Shops and Can Be Ordered from Our Distributors Around the World, a List of Whom Can Be Found At
    Recorded in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire on 25–27 June 2013 Recording engineers: Maria Soboleva (Piano Concerto) and Pavel Lavrenenkov (Cello Concerto) Booklet essays by Anastasia Belina and Malcolm MacDonald Design and layout: Paul Brooks, [email protected] Executive producer: Martin Anderson TOCC 0219 © 2014, Toccata Classics, London P 2014, Toccata Classics, London Come and explore unknown music with us by joining the Toccata Discovery Club. Membership brings you two free CDs, big discounts on all Toccata Classics recordings and Toccata Press books, early ordering on all Toccata releases and a host of other benefits, for a modest annual fee of £20. You start saving as soon as you join. You can sign up online at the Toccata Classics website at www.toccataclassics.com. Toccata Classics CDs are also available in the shops and can be ordered from our distributors around the world, a list of whom can be found at www.toccataclassics.com. If we have no representation in your country, please contact: Toccata Classics, 16 Dalkeith Court, Vincent Street, London SW1P 4HH, UK Tel: +44/0 207 821 5020 E-mail: [email protected] A student of Ferdinand Leitner in Salzburg and Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa at Tanglewood, Hobart Earle studied conducting at the Academy of Music in Vienna; received a performer’s diploma in IGOR RAYKHELSON: clarinet from Trinity College of Music, London; and is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where he studied composition with Milton Babbitt, Edward Cone, Paul Lansky and Claudio Spies. In 2007 ORCHESTRAL MUSIC, VOLUME THREE he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of the Academy of Music in Odessa.
    [Show full text]
  • Tchaikovsky Rachmaninoff Piano Trio Trio Élégiaque No.1
    95632 Tchaikovsky Rachmaninoff Piano Trio Trio élégiaque No.1 Klára Würtz · Dmitri Makhtin · Alexander Kniazev Tchaikovsky’s negative sentiments towards the piano trio were clearly set out in a letter of October 1880 to his patron, Nadezhda von Meck, in response to her enthusiastic praise for one composed by her resident pianist – a young Frenchman Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) called Claude Debussy (a piece long thought lost but rediscovered in 1985). In Piano Trio in A minor Op.50 “In 4. Trio élégiaque No.1 rejecting her hint that he should write something similar, Tchaikovsky elaborated on memory of a great artist” in G minor 13’16 his antipathy to the format, not only on principle – the characteristics of violin, cello 1. Pezzo elegiaco: Moderato assai – and piano being in his view inherently incompatible – but for the purely subjective Allegro giusto 18’26 reason that their combination would be “pure torment” for him (notwithstanding 2. Tema con variazioni: the passages for exactly those instruments in the second movement of the recently Andante con moto 18’16 completed Second Piano Concerto). While conceding that other composers, notably 3. Variazione finale (Allegro Beethoven Mendelssohn and Schumann, had produced excellent examples, he could risoluto e con fuoco) e coda not be tempted in that direction. And that seemed to be that. (Andante con moto-Lugubre) 7’33 The sudden death in Paris of Nikolai Rubinstein on March 23rd 1881 seems to have been the catalyst for an abrupt change of mind. Although their relationship had always been prickly – Rubinstein had famously damned the First Piano Concerto as, among other things, badly written and vulgar – it was based on solid friendship and mutual respect and Tchaikovsky was devasted by the news.
    [Show full text]
  • Mr. Ms. First Name FAMILY NAME Section Or Unit/Title/Position/Rank
    Mr. First Name FAMILY NAME Section or Unit/Title/Position/Rank Ms. DELEGATIONS ALBANIA Albania Mr. Alqiviadhi PULI Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Albania Mr. Spiro KOÇI Ambassador, Permanent Representative Albania Ms. Ravesa LLESHI Advisor Albania Mr. Glevin DERVISHI Advisor Albania Mr. Xhodi SAKIQI Counsellor GERMANY Germany Dr. Guido WESTERWELLE Minister Germany Mr. Rüdiger LÜDEKING Ambassador, Head of Permanent Mission to the OSCE Germany Mr. Juergen SCHULZ Deputy Political Director Germany Mr. Thomas OSSOWSKI Deputy Head of Minister’s Office Germany Mr. Martin SCHÄFER Deputy Federale Foreign Office Spokesperson Germany Mr. Thomas Eberhard SCHULTZE Head of OSCE Division Germany Ms. Christine WEIL Deputy Head of Permanent Mission to the OSCE Germany Mr. Hans-Henning PRADEL Senior Military Adviser Germany Mr. Steffen FEIGL Bagage Master Germany Mr. Bernd PFAFFENBACH Military Adviser Germany Ms. Heike JANTSCH Counsellor Germany Mr. Detlef HEMPEL Military Adviser Germany Mr. Holger LEUKERT Desk Officer Ministry of Defence Germany Ms. Anne DR. WAGNER-MITCHELL Counsellor Germany Mr. Jean P. FROEHLY Counsellor Germany Mr. Julian LÜBBERT First Secretary Germany Ms. Annette PÖLKING First Secretary Germany Mr. Anna SCHRÖDER First Secretary Germany Mr. Stephan FAGO Second Secretary Germany Ms. Anna-Elisabeth VOLLERT Assistant Attacheé Germany Mr. Sören HEINE Assistent Senior Military Adviser Germany Mr. Joerg Emil GAUDIAN Protocol desk officer Germany Mr. Bruno WOBBE Communication Germany Mr. Thomas KÖHLER Official Fotograph Germany Mr. Christof WEIL Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Germany Ms. Anka FELDHUSEN Minister Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission Germany Ms. Daniela BERGELT First Secretary Germany Mr. Christopher FUCHS First Secretary Germany Ms. Tanja BEYER First Secretary Germany Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • Religious Studies 1.800.405.1619/Yalebooks.Com
    2019 RELIGIOUS STUDIES 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com Radical Sacrifice Restless Secularism TERRY EAGLETON Modernism and the Religious Inheritance Terry Eagleton pursues the concept of MATTHEW MUTTER sacrifice through the history of human Through a study of Wallace Stevens, thought, from antiquity to modernity, in Virginia Woolf, and other major writers, religion, politics, and literature. He sheds this thoughtful and provocative survey skewed perceptions of the idea, honing in of modernist literature explores how on a radical structural reconception that modernism understood the far-reaching relates the ancient world to our own in consequences of secularism for key fields terms of civilization and violence. of experience: language, aesthetics, Hardcover 2018 216 pp. emotion, and material life. 978-0-300-23335-3 $25.00 HC - Paper over Board 2017 336 pp. 978-0-300-22173-2 $85.00 & The New Cosmic Story Inside Our Awakening Universe & Before Religion JOHN F. HAUGHT A History of a Modern Concept In this inviting and thought-provoking BRENT NONGBRI book a foremost thinker on the intersec- Examining a wide array of ancient tion of science and religion argues that writings, Nongbri demonstrates that in an adequate understanding of cosmic antiquity, there was no conceptual arena history cannot be based on science that could be designated as “religious” alone. It must also take into account as opposed to “secular.” Surveying the implications of the awakening of representative episodes from a two- interiority and religious awareness. thousand-year period, Nongbri offers Hardcover 2017 240 pp. a concise and readable account of the 978-0-300-21703-2 $25.00 emergence of the concept of religion.
    [Show full text]
  • UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations
    UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title The History of Predicative Possession in Slavic: Internal Development vs. Language Contact Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23r8p63b Author McAnallen, Julia Publication Date 2011 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California The History of Predicative Possession in Slavic: Internal Development vs. Language Contact By Julia McAnallen A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Slavic Languages and Literatures in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Johanna Nichols, Chair Professor Alan Timberlake Professor Richard Rhodes Spring 2011 ! ! Abstract The History of Predicative Possession in Slavic: Internal Development vs. Language Contact by Julia McAnallen Doctor of Philosophy in Slavic Languages and Literatures University of California, Berkeley Professor Johanna Nichols, Chair The languages of the world encode possession in a variety of ways. In Slavic languages, possession on the level of the clause, or predicative possession, is represented by two main encoding strategies. Most Slavic languages, including those in the West and South Slavic sub- groupings, use a ‘have’ verb comparable to English have and German haben. But Russian, an East Slavic language, encodes predicative possession only infrequently with its ‘have’ verb imet'; instead, Russian uses a construction for predicative possession originating in a locative phrase, e.g. u menja est' kniga, which literally means ‘at me is a book’ for ‘I have a book’. This locative construction for predicative possession in Russian is often singled out as an aberrant construction in Slavic and attributed to contact-induced influence from Finnic languages.
    [Show full text]
  • Nation Making in Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast: Initial Goals
    Nation Making in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast: Initial Goals and Surprising Results WILLIAM R. SIEGEL oday in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Yevreiskaya Avtonomnaya TOblast, or EAO), the nontitular, predominately Russian political leadership has embraced the specifically national aspects of their oblast’s history. In fact, the EAO is undergoing a rebirth of national consciousness and culture in the name of a titular group that has mostly disappeared. According to the 1989 Soviet cen- sus, Jews compose only 4 percent (8,887/214,085) of the EAO’s population; a figure that is decreasing as emigration continues.1 In seeking to uncover the reasons for this phenomenon, I argue that the pres- ence of economic and political incentives has motivated the political leadership of the EAO to employ cultural symbols and to construct a history in its effort to legitimize and thus preserve its designation as an autonomous subject of the Rus- sian Federation. As long as the EAO maintains its status as one of eighty-nine federation subjects, the political power of the current elites will be maintained and the region will be in a more beneficial position from which to achieve eco- nomic recovery. The founding in 1928 of the Birobidzhan Jewish National Raion (as the terri- tory was called until the creation of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in 1934) was an outgrowth of Lenin’s general policy toward the non-Russian nationalities. In the aftermath of the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks faced the difficult task of consolidating their power in the midst of civil war. In order to attract the support of non-Russians, Lenin oversaw the construction of a federal system designed to ease the fears of—and thus appease—non-Russians and to serve as an example of Soviet tolerance toward colonized peoples throughout the world.
    [Show full text]
  • Serbian Romantic Lied As Intersection of the Austro- Hungarian and Serbian (Con)Texts
    zbornik-2-3-kor 13/6/07 9:26 Page 99 T. MARKOVIĆ • SERBIAN ROMANTIC LIED AS ... UDK 784.3.035.51(497.11) Tatjana Marković University of Arts, Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology, Belgrade Univerza za umetnosti, Fakulteta za glasbo, Oddelek za muzikologijo, Beograd Serbian Romantic Lied as Intersection of the Austro- Hungarian and Serbian (con)texts Srbski romantični samospev kot presek avstro-ogrskih in srbskih (kon)tekstov Ključne besede: samospev, Srbija, 19. stoletje, Keywords: Lied, Serbia, 19th century, Josif Josif Marinković Marinković IZVLEčEK ABSTRACT Avtorica se v članku posveča opazovanju za- The authoress focuses on detecting Viennese znamovanosti samospevne ustvarjalnosti srb- cultural influences of the second half of the skega skladatelja Josifa Marinkovića z vplivi 19th century upon the composing of Josif dunajske kulture druge pol. 19. st., znotraj ka- Marinković’s solo song, the culture in which tere se je izobraževal, in značilnimi elementi he educated himself, and on revealing ele- srbske glasbene kulture, znotraj katere je ust- ments characteristic of Serbian culture within varjal. which he composed. Nineteenth-century Serbian history was very tempestuous because of numerous liberating uprisings and wars against Ottoman, Austrian and Austro-Hungarian invaders. After the three great migrations of the Serbian people retreating before the Ottoman conquerors from Kosovo and Southern Serbia northwards since 1690, the centers of Serbian culture had been formed in the cities under the Austrian rule, and later on in free royal cities on the territory of Vojvodina (Novi Sad, Sombor, Subotica). Consequently, Serbs were divided between two empires, Austrian and Ottoman, and Serbian culture thus developed in the two very different contexts.
    [Show full text]
  • Threatening Archipelagos. Serbian Enclaves and Minorities in Kosovo
    Journal of Geography, Politics and Society 2018, 8(4), 13–26 DOI 10.4467/24512249JG.18.024.9011 THREATENING ARCHIPELAGOS. SERBIAN ENCLAVES AND MINORITIES IN KOSOVO Marcoandrea Spinelli Via Bellingera 4, Busto Arsizio, Lombardy, Italy, e-mail: [email protected] Citation Spinelli M., 2018, Threatening archipelagos. Serbian enclaves and minorities in Kosovo, Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, 8(4), 13–26. Abstract Enclaves are like islands in the middle of a sea they do not belong to. Seeing that the enclaves I wish to examine are several and all close together, the comparison with an archipelago does seem the most befitting. Enclaves represent, in my opinion, the very essence of the Balkan Peninsula, which, until as recently as twenty years ago, was almost entirely composed of groups of enclaves. The Nineties wars contributed to partially eliminate these Balkan peculiarities. Most of these groups are now utterly harmless; nevertheless, some of them were, admittedly, the trigger for the last conflict. Others still pose a threat to peace; among those, I believe the Serbian enclaves in Kosovo are the best example. My project will focus mainly on inhabitants of Serbian villages in Kosovo, which are the first victims of a process of integration the country they live in failed to enable. For this reason, I will not pay close attention to villages of Northern Kosovo, namely those which are north of the river Ibar, since they have a Serbian majority. My field of research will rather thoroughly analyse Southern enclaves in particular, where, through interviews, I will try to find out what it means to be part of a country withouy ethnically identifying with it.
    [Show full text]
  • The Workshop Programme
    The Workshop Programme Monday, May 26 14:30 -15:00 Opening Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers 15:00 -15:30 SIGANN Shared Corpus Working Group Report Adam Meyers 15:30 -16:00 Discussion: SIGANN Shared Corpus Task 16:00 -16:30 Coffee break 16:30 -17:00 Towards Best Practices for Linguistic Annotation Nancy Ide, Sameer Pradhan, Keith Suderman 17:00 -18:00 Discussion: Annotation Best Practices 18:00 -19:00 Open Discussion and SIGANN Planning Tuesday, May 27 09:00 -09:10 Opening Nancy Ide and Adam Meyers 09:10 -09:50 From structure to interpretation: A double-layered annotation for event factuality Roser Saurí and James Pustejovsky 09:50 -10:30 An Extensible Compositional Semantics for Temporal Annotation Harry Bunt, Chwhynny Overbeeke 10:30 -11:00 Coffee break 11:00 -11:40 Using Treebank, Dictionaries and GLARF to Improve NomBank Annotation Adam Meyers 11:40 -12:20 A Dictionary-based Model for Morpho-Syntactic Annotation Cvetana Krstev, Svetla Koeva, Du!ko Vitas 12:20 -12:40 Multiple Purpose Annotation using SLAT - Segment and Link-based Annotation Tool (DEMO) Masaki Noguchi, Kenta Miyoshi, Takenobu Tokunaga, Ryu Iida, Mamoru Komachi, Kentaro Inui 12:40 -14:30 Lunch 14:30 -15:10 Using inheritance and coreness sets to improve a verb lexicon harvested from FrameNet Mark McConville and Myroslava O. Dzikovska 15:10 -15:50 An Entailment-based Approach to Semantic Role Annotation Voula Gotsoulia 16:00 -16:30 Coffee break 16:30 -16:50 A French Corpus Annotated for Multiword Expressions with Adverbial Function Eric Laporte, Takuya Nakamura, Stavroula Voyatzi
    [Show full text]
  • The Church, the Serbs, and the Kosovo
    Tihomir Popovic: 'So there be Lords in ye Land with us even in olden times' The Church, the Serbs, and the Kosovo Many Central and Western Europeans apparently believe that today, nationalist mythological thinking in Europe is mainly the part of the Serbs, the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) being regarded as partly responsible for this situation: Many believe that the Church is a bulwark of Serbian nationalism, promoting the mythologisation especially of the Kosovo as the birthplace of today's Serbian nation. This author feels obliged to present a more differentiated view of the facts, with a special emphasis on investigating the way in which the Serbs perceive and deal with their history. There are at least three reasons why the SOC is interested in the Kosovo: One is the large number of Serbian Orthodox places of worship in the region, including the monastery of Pec, the historical and spiritual centre of the Serbian patriarchate. Of special importance in this context, however, is the Kosovo Polje situated close to Pristina, on which a battle took place between an Ottoman and a Christian army in 1389, the former led by Sultan Murat I and the latter by the Serb Lazar Hrebeljanovic. The winners of the battle, in which both army leaders were killed, were the Ottomans who, however, did not immediately take possession of Lazar's principality: Under Lazar's son, the despot Stefan Lazarevic, it even experienced a cultural boom. It was not until seventy years after the battle of the Kosovo that the territory of today's Serbia south of the the rivers Danube and Save passed to the Turks.
    [Show full text]