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Finally, with co-editors Mariusz-Jon Mimi is exploring the potential to integrate Radlo and Wojtek Bienkowski, Brada Great Bustard conservation biology with NEWSLETTER published Reaganomics Goes Global last land-use planning. year. SPRING 2007 “War in Slovenia: Doctrine and Defeat” by Eugene Clay (Religious Studies), Laurie ASU alumnus and Ph.D. candidate at Boston Manchester (History), and Agnes Kefeli College Robert Niebuhr appeared in the FROM THE DIRECTOR CLI NEWS IN THIS ISSUE Clay (Religious Studies) received a $15,000 September issue of the Journal of Slavic Mili- seed grant from the ASU Center for the tary Studies. Niebuhr presented “Yugoslavia: Study of Religion and Conflict for a grant The Final Showdown” at the Annual Great e celebrate this spring our new Summer is the perfect time for students to From the Director...... 1 proposal to the National Endowment for Lakes History Conference in Grand Rapids, identity as The Melikian Center: learn new languages and travel abroad, and Events Calendar...... 1 the Humanities to explore the potential for Mimi Kessler with Valerii Khrokov on expedition Michigan last year. Russian, Eurasian, and East Euro- the ASU Critical Languages Institute is the north of Almaty, Kazakhstan W perfect way for them to do it! Critical Languages News...... 1 conflict and cooperation among Christians, Beginner’s Serbian and Beginner’s Croa- pean Studies at ASU. The renaming honors two of the Center’s Since 1991 the Critical Languages Institute Muslims, and the secular Russian state. Jeanette Owen (Languages and Literatures) tian, which he co-authored with Aida Vidan, Melikian Center News...... 2 great friends and benefactors, Gregory and (CLI) has offered summer language and study left ASU in December for a position with Ameri- are expected to appear this year. Niebuhr has Emma Melikian, whose $1 million contribu- abroad programs in the less commonly taught Affiliate News...... 3 Agnes Kefeli Clay (Religious Studies) has can Councils for International Education. also signed a book contract United States been awarded an IREX fellowship to pursue Passport to Croatia: A Travel Guide. tion to the Center will expand research and languages of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Student News...... 4 scholarship opportunities for faculty and stu- This summer the CLI is offering more lan- research on her project on “Islamic Educa- Regents’ Professor Emeritus Christy G. dents working with the languages and peoples guages at more levels than ever before, with Staff News...... 4 tion, Religious Revival, and the Contest over Turner II and his wife Olga Pavlova, retired Please send student news to melikian- of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. intensive, eight-week courses in Elementary Tatar Identity, 1800 to the Present.” translator and interpreter for the Institute of [email protected]. She was invited to Princeton University Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbi- CALENDAR OF EVENTS Archaeology and Ethnography, spent the sum- an (BCS), Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Tatar, this year to read: “From Death to the Escha- mer of 2006 in Siberia. ton: Tatar Eschatological Manuals and Their STAFF NEWS and Uzbek and in Intermediate Albanian, Turner and Pavlova spent the time working Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), March 29 Mary Choncoff Lecture Readership in Imperial and Contemporary on their book about bone damage caused by “The Macedonian Russia.” We would like to welcome our new Macedonian, and Tatar, and a six-week, six- Immigration Narrative” humans and hyenas in Siberian archaeological credit course in advanced mastery Albanian. In September Kefeli Clay read “The and paleontological sites of the late Pleisto- Research Administrator, Kathleen Evans- George Mitrevski Passion of Zuleykha: Ideal Women in Romaine, our new Accounts Specialist, The 2007 CLI summer program runs from 7:30 p.m., Coor 4403 cene. June 4 to July 27 on the Tempe campus of Al- Rabghuzi’s ‘Tales of the Prophets’” at The pair made two trips into the field, first Michael McLendon, and this year’s gradu- Arizona State University. Classes are held April 11 Center Affiliates Meeting the annual meeting of the Central Eur- to the Altai Mountains near the Mongolian ate assistant, Diana Potapenko. asian Studies Society at the University of Evans-Romaine (Ph.D., University of daily from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm Monday 12:30 p.m., Coor 3301 border and then to an archaeological district through Friday with cultural sessions in the Michigan. Michigan) was technology manager for the Emma and Gregory Melikian named Kurtak, upriver from Krasnoyarsk. In afternoons. Students earn eight credits for the April 18 “Kosovo after the War” In November she presented “Current Kurtak they examined recovered stone tools, Middlebury Russian School from 2001-2006 Many of you know the Melikians from courses and all tuition is waived. Ramiz Livoreka, Transformations of Islamic Education in some possibly 400,000 years old, and 5,000 and Assistant Director of the Ohio Univer- the historic San Carlos Hotel in downtown In August the CLI offers students of Alba- 12:30 p.m., Coor 3301 Tatarstan and Former Soviet Republics” at pieces of animal bones. sity Institute for Applied and Professional Phoenix and their contributions to the Arme- nian, Armenian, BCS, Macedonian, and Pol- the Middle East Studies Association’s 40th Ethics from 1998-2006. Evans-Romaine has May 14 “Cross Cultural Disability anniversary meeting in Boston. published and presented papers in linguis- nian Cultural Center in Scottsdale, but the ish the opportunity to continue their studies on Please send faculty affiliate news and Services in Armenia & US” tics (phonetics and speech perception) and philanthropic work of Emma and Gregory three-week practicum programs abroad while publication citations to melikiancenter@ Parzanush Lambaryan, MD Cliff Shultz (Agribusiness Marketing) is computer science (artificial intelligence and covers a broad range of activities, from earning an additional two tuition-free credits. 9:00 a.m., Matthews Center co-PI for a USDA-fundied project to explore asu.edu. case-based reasoning). the arts and opera to immigrant education These special study abroad programs, running trade and socioeconomic development among McLendon has worked in Accounts Pay- and advancement. Their support for Center from July 30 to August 17, combine intensive programming, begun six years ago as The immersion language instruction with cultural Greece, Romania, the countries of the former STUDENT NEWS able, the ASU Travel Office, and most recently MAJOR FELLOWSHIP AND Melikian Fund for advancement of Eastern opportunities during in-country travel. Yugoslavia, and the United States. as an instructional specialist for the Advantage GRANT DEADLINES Several students and professors from the financial system Helpline. This is all valuable Armenian language and cultural studies, has 2006 was a banner year for the CLI. Enroll- ASU Morrison School of Management and Steven Gillen, a ’93 Russian and East experience that we will put to use immediately. been a source of inspiration for everyone in ment was up, with 60 students attending sum- Agribusiness visited the Balkans in Septem- European Studies Certificate recipient and an Potapenko is the Center’s graduate as- Eurasian and East European studies at ASU. mer sessions and a record 25 traveling abroad Kennan Institute Short-Term Grants: ber to conduct field research. An overview alumnus of the ’92 and ’93 CLI program, is sistant. Diana is a first-year Ph.D. student in Our challenge now is to be wise stew- on practicum programs. In addition, the CLI June 1, Sept 1, Dec. 1 currently serving as the Political Officer at the ards of this legacy of support for interna- was one of a handful of programs funded by of the longitudinal project is available at: European history with emphasis on Eastern NEH Fellowships: Embassy of the United States of America in tional studies. At a dinner honoring them the American Council of Learned Societies to http://agb.poly.asu.edu/balkans/ Europe and Russia. She received her under- May 1, 2007 Minsk, Belarus. graduate degree from Eastern Washington in January, both Emma and Greg Melikian pilot an advanced mastery course (Albanian in Danko Sipka won the Dean’s Distin- University. commented on the importance of “global the case of the CLI). guished Teaching Award in 2006. Mimi Kessler, a graduate student in the engagement” and cross-cultural study, espe- With funding from the 2006 Fulton Chal- Over the summer he held seminars at the School of Life Sciences, is participating cially the study of less commonly taught lan- lenge the CLI presented the Paulsen Interna- The Melikian Center Warsaw School of Social Psychology, and a project involving the endangered Great guages, at this moment in the history of the tional Distinguished Engagement Award to Coor Hall 4465 gave invited lectures at University of Bel- Bustard in Central Asia. Mimi received a United States. This is the vision we need to four outstanding students. The Fulton Chal- PO Box 874202 grade and at the Serbian Academy of Arts three-year NSF Predoctoral Fellowship this keep before us as we expand our program- lenge also increased scholarship funds for CLI Tempe, AZ 85287-4202 and Sciences. year. She complemented this with an IREX ming and enrich the lives of our students. Armenia practicum participants and provided Sipka published a dictionary, Leksicka Individual Advanced Research Opportunities We are proud to salute Greg and Emma in the first CLI overseas scholarship funds for Tel. 480-965-4188 lista 2 in Belgrade, and he performed Fellowship for work in Kazakhstan and Rus- this, our first newsletter since the renaming students participating in practicum programs Fax: 480-965-1700 linguistic and cross-cultural research in sia, and a NSEP Boren Graduate Fellowship of the Center. Congratulations to both of you to Albania, Macedonia, Poland, and Serbia. [email protected] Five 2006 CLI students are now continu- Poland, Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia. for language studies in Mongolia. The Great Bustard and to your wonderful family as we join you http://melikian.asu.edu in advancing The Melikian Center. ing their studies in Yerevan, Armenia, and – SKB Kazan (Tatarstan), Russia. A sixth student spring 2007 page 2 spring 2007 page 3 has a fellowship from the ACTR-ACCELS Over the next few months the Center will religious studies at the University of Sara- Philology, for the 2007/2008 UKIM exchange. Public Affairs Director Robert Denhardt’s IN MEMORY OF DORA BURTON Southeastern European Program to study be working to identify and recruit quali- jevo. The proposal has been accepted by the widely used work on public organization, Janeva-Mihajlovska is working on a textbook, in Macedonia, where he is also serving as fied students for ASU’s intensive one-year Sarajevo Faculty Senate. Theories of Public Organization, came off A Modern English Grammar. She intends We regret to report that Me- the Melikian Center’s UKIM exchangee for Master of Accountancy and Information Later this year ASU faculty will conduct the presses. to incorporate into her text research she will likian Center Affiliate Dora Bur- 2006-2007. Three CLI students are cur- Systems (MAIS) degree. Students will begin seminars and oversee the implementation of The Melikian Center also arranged for the perform during her stay at ASU. ton passed away this March. rently finalists for Fulbright fellowships to their MAIS studies, augmented by a special the new academic program in Sarajevo. translation into Armenian of other English- Albania, Bosnia, and Macedonia and another seminar on international accounting standards, The ASU-University of Sarajevo educa- language materials on public administration. AFFILIATE NEWS Born in 1922, Dora was is a Truman Scholarship finalist. in 2008. tional partnership is supported in part by The compilation was made available on CD- educated as a medical doc- tor at the prestigious I. Pavlov Upon completing their degrees, this new a grant from the U.S. Department of State ROM exclusively to the YSU MPA graduate The new book by Emil Volek (Languages Leningrad Medical Institute. generation of Kosovar degree holders will Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. students and faculty. Partnership partici- and Literatures) Znak, funkce a hodnota: Es- MELIKIAN CENTER NEWS After serving in a medical return to Pristina to assume instructional pants Vahagn Aglyan, Gayane Buniatyan, tetika a sémiotika umĕní Jana Mukařovského capacity during the three-year leadership in a revised and revitalized UP YEREVAN partnership Aram Karapetyan, Seryozha Khachatryan, v proudech současného myšlení has received baccalaureate accountancy program. Anna Maksudyan, Alexander Markarov, Nazi seige of Leningrad during 2007 Choncoff lecture The Center has completed the final year extensive reviews in Česká literatura, Svět Gohar Shahnazaryan, and Aghasi Yenokian World War II, she was evacu- of its project with Yerevan State University literatury, and SEEJ, among others. George Mitrevski of Auburn Univer- SARAJEVO Partnership contributed translations to the reader. ated to Tashkent in 1944. sity delivered this year’s Mary Choncoff (YSU) to develop a new YSU master’s Dan Fellner (Journalism) spent the spring After the war she made her Memorial lecture: “The Macedonian Im- Syllabi developed by seven visiting scholars degree program in public administration Moscow Partnership 2006 semester teaching journalism and public way to the United States, migration Narrative: From Here to There from Bosnia and Hercegovina—Amel Alic, (MPA). This project was supported by the relations at Moldova State University as a where she married and had a -- And Back” at the Center in March. Sead Fetahagic, Nedzad Grabus, Vuk Milja- U.S. State Department Bureau of Educa- In 2005 the Center received a $200,000 Fulbright Scholar. While living in Chisinau, daughter, Irene. Mitrevski received his B.A. in Russian novic, Amra Pandzo-Djuric, Entoni Seperic, tional and Cultural Affairs. grant from USAID Moscow to form a part- he wrote a series of articles about Moldova from SUNY Stony Brook and his M.A. and and Zilka Siljak-Spahic—have been included In October 2006 a product of this project, nership with the School of Public Admin- In Seattle with her pharma- for the Arizona Republic. Fellner returned Ph.D. in Russian/Slavic from The Ohio State in a proposal for a new M.A. program in the Armenian translation of ASU School of istration (SPA) at Moscow State University cist husband and daughter, de- to Moldova for the spring 2007 semester University. He is now an associate professor for the purpose of building a think tank for termined to devote herself to on a Fulbright renewal grant. He also has in the Department of Foreign Languages and policy research on workforce information “the positive side of life,” she previously taught at universities in Latvia and Literatures at Auburn University where he and to create the Russian Workforce Infor- left medicine and enrolled in Lithuania. has taught courses on Russian language and 2007 Mary Choncoff Lecture mation System (RWIS), an online resource the University of Washington, culture since 1983. In the spring of 1997, he for policymakers, employers, NGOs, and when she earned a Ph.D. in was a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Skopje, researchers. 19th Century Russian Litera- Macedonia. His research interests focus In 2006 Melikian Center director Stephen ture. on Macedonian literature and folklore, on Batalden traveled to Moscow to review the “The Macedonian Dora joined ASU in 1976. She computational linguistics, and on corpus progress of the work on the project. While taught Russian and Russian linguistics. in Moscow Batalden also presented on the ASU Institute for Social Scienc Research’s literature here for 27 years, Immigration retiring at the age of 81. In ASU teams up with univer- Workforce Innovations in Regional Eco- nomic Development (WIRED) program at 1991 she won the College sity of pristina to reform of Liberal Arts and Sciences accountancy education Narrative: “Public Administration in the Twenty-First Century: Traditions and Innovations,” an Dean’s Quality Teaching Award. The Melikian Center has embarked on a international conference hosted by the SPA. Dora’s legacy is large and three-year, $350,000 project to transform From There Work proceeds on the project as SPA she will be missed. accountancy education at the University of continues to develop the RWIS. Dan Fellner in Latvia in 2001, during a previ- Pristina (UP) in Kosovo. The project is funded ous stint as a Fulbright scholar by the United States Agency for International to Here — macedonia exchange War Years,” in Connections. European Stud- Development through the Higher Education ies Annual Review of the Rocky Mountain Development program. Collaborating on the This academic year the Center sent Politi- Lee Croft (Languages and Literatures) has European Scholars Consortium. (Available project are the ASU School of Accountancy, and Back” cal Science Ph.D. student Michael McIntyre authored the first book in the Biography Series online at http://europe.byu.edu/connections/ GateWay Community College (GCC), the to the University of Ss. Kiril and Metodij of the new Institute for Issues in the History vol2_2006.pdf). CARANA Corporation, and the Society of Professor George Mitrevski, Auburn University (UKIM) in Skopje, Macedonia, as part of its of Science. Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich: Certified Accountants and Auditors of Kosovo. ongoing exchange program with the univer- Terrorist Rocket Pioneer is the first biogra- Josef Brada (Economics) spent most ASU Accountancy School director Charles George Mitrevski (Ph.D., Ohio State University) teaches Foreign Languages and Literatures at Auburn sity. The ASU-UKIM program is the longest phy in English of the explosives technician of 2006 as a co-chair of the Macedonian University. His research interests include Macedonian literature and folklore and computational linguis- unbroken academic exchange between a Christian, GCC’s Shahin Berisha, and tics. He was born in the village of Podmochani (Подмочани), Macedonia, and tries to spend time each for the “People’s Will” party, responsible Blue Ribbon Commission, a panel of Melikian Center director Stephen Batalden summer in Macedonia with people from the village. Balkan and an American university. for the assassination of Tsar Aleksandr II in Macedonian and international econo- traveled to Pristina in March to launch the McIntyre is using his time at UKIM to 1881. While in prison awaiting execution, mists charged by the UN Development program before an enthusiastic crowd of Immigrants’ stories are defined not by why research Macedonia’s compliance with Kibalchich designed the first rocket-powered Program with creating recommendations Thursday, March 29 they left home (there are only two reasons: per- NATO and EU standards for appropri- over 500 Pristina students. secution or lack of opportunity), but by how human-piloted flying device, thus becoming a for improving Macedonia’s economic The first phase of the project includes the 7:30 p.m. they left. For immigrants returning home the ate defense behavior among prospective “terrorist rocket pioneer.” performance. situation is reversed: how they returned is less member-states. translation of fundamental texts on auditing Coor Hall Room 4403 interesting than why. Brada also developed a program with In the other direction, the University of and taxation into Kosovar Albanian, a task reception follows In his presentation Mitrevski explores the hows Aleksandra Gruzinska (Languages and ASU’s Czech partner, the Prague Uni- and whys in narratives of Macedonian immi- Ss. Kiril and Metodij has nominated Marija Literatures) published a paper, “E.M. Cioran versity of Economics, in which 22 ASU the Center expects to complete by the end of http://melikian.asu.edu/events.php gration and return. the year. Janeva-Mihajlovska, professor of English and Constantin Noica: An Epistolary Dialogue students took introductory international Phonetics and Phonology in the Faculty of Between Two Romanian Writers in the Cold business courses in Prague. spring 2007 page 2 spring 2007 page 3 has a fellowship from the ACTR-ACCELS Over the next few months the Center will religious studies at the University of Sara- Philology, for the 2007/2008 UKIM exchange. Public Affairs Director Robert Denhardt’s IN MEMORY OF DORA BURTON Southeastern European Program to study be working to identify and recruit quali- jevo. The proposal has been accepted by the widely used work on public organization, Janeva-Mihajlovska is working on a textbook, in Macedonia, where he is also serving as fied students for ASU’s intensive one-year Sarajevo Faculty Senate. Theories of Public Organization, came off A Modern English Grammar. She intends We regret to report that Me- the Melikian Center’s UKIM exchangee for Master of Accountancy and Information Later this year ASU faculty will conduct the presses. to incorporate into her text research she will likian Center Affiliate Dora Bur- 2006-2007. Three CLI students are cur- Systems (MAIS) degree. Students will begin seminars and oversee the implementation of The Melikian Center also arranged for the perform during her stay at ASU. ton passed away this March. rently finalists for Fulbright fellowships to their MAIS studies, augmented by a special the new academic program in Sarajevo. translation into Armenian of other English- Albania, Bosnia, and Macedonia and another seminar on international accounting standards, The ASU-University of Sarajevo educa- language materials on public administration. AFFILIATE NEWS Born in 1922, Dora was is a Truman Scholarship finalist. in 2008. tional partnership is supported in part by The compilation was made available on CD- educated as a medical doc- tor at the prestigious I. Pavlov Upon completing their degrees, this new a grant from the U.S. Department of State ROM exclusively to the YSU MPA graduate The new book by Emil Volek (Languages Leningrad Medical Institute. generation of Kosovar degree holders will Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. students and faculty. Partnership partici- and Literatures) Znak, funkce a hodnota: Es- MELIKIAN CENTER NEWS After serving in a medical return to Pristina to assume instructional pants Vahagn Aglyan, Gayane Buniatyan, tetika a sémiotika umĕní Jana Mukařovského capacity during the three-year leadership in a revised and revitalized UP YEREVAN partnership Aram Karapetyan, Seryozha Khachatryan, v proudech současného myšlení has received baccalaureate accountancy program. Anna Maksudyan, Alexander Markarov, Nazi seige of Leningrad during 2007 Choncoff lecture The Center has completed the final year extensive reviews in Česká literatura, Svět Gohar Shahnazaryan, and Aghasi Yenokian World War II, she was evacu- of its project with Yerevan State University literatury, and SEEJ, among others. George Mitrevski of Auburn Univer- SARAJEVO Partnership contributed translations to the reader. ated to Tashkent in 1944. sity delivered this year’s Mary Choncoff (YSU) to develop a new YSU master’s Dan Fellner (Journalism) spent the spring After the war she made her Memorial lecture: “The Macedonian Im- Syllabi developed by seven visiting scholars degree program in public administration Moscow Partnership 2006 semester teaching journalism and public way to the United States, migration Narrative: From Here to There from Bosnia and Hercegovina—Amel Alic, (MPA). This project was supported by the relations at Moldova State University as a where she married and had a -- And Back” at the Center in March. Sead Fetahagic, Nedzad Grabus, Vuk Milja- U.S. State Department Bureau of Educa- In 2005 the Center received a $200,000 Fulbright Scholar. While living in Chisinau, daughter, Irene. Mitrevski received his B.A. in Russian novic, Amra Pandzo-Djuric, Entoni Seperic, tional and Cultural Affairs. grant from USAID Moscow to form a part- he wrote a series of articles about Moldova from SUNY Stony Brook and his M.A. and and Zilka Siljak-Spahic—have been included In October 2006 a product of this project, nership with the School of Public Admin- In Seattle with her pharma- for the Arizona Republic. Fellner returned Ph.D. in Russian/Slavic from The Ohio State in a proposal for a new M.A. program in the Armenian translation of ASU School of istration (SPA) at Moscow State University cist husband and daughter, de- to Moldova for the spring 2007 semester University. He is now an associate professor for the purpose of building a think tank for termined to devote herself to on a Fulbright renewal grant. He also has in the Department of Foreign Languages and policy research on workforce information “the positive side of life,” she previously taught at universities in Latvia and Literatures at Auburn University where he and to create the Russian Workforce Infor- left medicine and enrolled in Lithuania. has taught courses on Russian language and 2007 Mary Choncoff Lecture mation System (RWIS), an online resource the University of Washington, culture since 1983. In the spring of 1997, he for policymakers, employers, NGOs, and when she earned a Ph.D. in was a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Skopje, researchers. 19th Century Russian Litera- Macedonia. His research interests focus In 2006 Melikian Center director Stephen ture. on Macedonian literature and folklore, on Batalden traveled to Moscow to review the “The Macedonian Dora joined ASU in 1976. She computational linguistics, and on corpus progress of the work on the project. While taught Russian and Russian linguistics. in Moscow Batalden also presented on the ASU Institute for Social Scienc Research’s literature here for 27 years, Immigration retiring at the age of 81. In ASU teams up with univer- Workforce Innovations in Regional Eco- nomic Development (WIRED) program at 1991 she won the College sity of pristina to reform of Liberal Arts and Sciences accountancy education Narrative: “Public Administration in the Twenty-First Century: Traditions and Innovations,” an Dean’s Quality Teaching Award. The Melikian Center has embarked on a international conference hosted by the SPA. Dora’s legacy is large and three-year, $350,000 project to transform From There Work proceeds on the project as SPA she will be missed. accountancy education at the University of continues to develop the RWIS. Dan Fellner in Latvia in 2001, during a previ- Pristina (UP) in Kosovo. The project is funded ous stint as a Fulbright scholar by the United States Agency for International to Here — macedonia exchange War Years,” in Connections. European Stud- Development through the Higher Education ies Annual Review of the Rocky Mountain Development program. Collaborating on the This academic year the Center sent Politi- Lee Croft (Languages and Literatures) has European Scholars Consortium. (Available project are the ASU School of Accountancy, and Back” cal Science Ph.D. student Michael McIntyre authored the first book in the Biography Series online at http://europe.byu.edu/connections/ GateWay Community College (GCC), the to the University of Ss. Kiril and Metodij of the new Institute for Issues in the History vol2_2006.pdf). CARANA Corporation, and the Society of Professor George Mitrevski, Auburn University (UKIM) in Skopje, Macedonia, as part of its of Science. Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich: Certified Accountants and Auditors of Kosovo. ongoing exchange program with the univer- Terrorist Rocket Pioneer is the first biogra- Josef Brada (Economics) spent most ASU Accountancy School director Charles George Mitrevski (Ph.D., Ohio State University) teaches Foreign Languages and Literatures at Auburn sity. The ASU-UKIM program is the longest phy in English of the explosives technician of 2006 as a co-chair of the Macedonian University. His research interests include Macedonian literature and folklore and computational linguis- unbroken academic exchange between a Christian, GCC’s Shahin Berisha, and tics. He was born in the village of Podmochani (Подмочани), Macedonia, and tries to spend time each for the “People’s Will” party, responsible Blue Ribbon Commission, a panel of Melikian Center director Stephen Batalden summer in Macedonia with people from the village. Balkan and an American university. for the assassination of Tsar Aleksandr II in Macedonian and international econo- traveled to Pristina in March to launch the McIntyre is using his time at UKIM to 1881. While in prison awaiting execution, mists charged by the UN Development program before an enthusiastic crowd of Immigrants’ stories are defined not by why research Macedonia’s compliance with Kibalchich designed the first rocket-powered Program with creating recommendations Thursday, March 29 they left home (there are only two reasons: per- NATO and EU standards for appropri- over 500 Pristina students. secution or lack of opportunity), but by how human-piloted flying device, thus becoming a for improving Macedonia’s economic The first phase of the project includes the 7:30 p.m. they left. For immigrants returning home the ate defense behavior among prospective “terrorist rocket pioneer.” performance. situation is reversed: how they returned is less member-states. translation of fundamental texts on auditing Coor Hall Room 4403 interesting than why. Brada also developed a program with In the other direction, the University of and taxation into Kosovar Albanian, a task reception follows In his presentation Mitrevski explores the hows Aleksandra Gruzinska (Languages and ASU’s Czech partner, the Prague Uni- and whys in narratives of Macedonian immi- Ss. Kiril and Metodij has nominated Marija Literatures) published a paper, “E.M. Cioran versity of Economics, in which 22 ASU the Center expects to complete by the end of http://melikian.asu.edu/events.php gration and return. the year. Janeva-Mihajlovska, professor of English and Constantin Noica: An Epistolary Dialogue students took introductory international Phonetics and Phonology in the Faculty of Between Two Romanian Writers in the Cold business courses in Prague. spring 2007 page 4