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OHIO SLAVIC & £sr £uROPEAN NewsLETTER Pu bl ished for the Slavic Studies Community .in the S�ate of Ohio by the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, The Ohio State University, 230 W. 17th Avenue Colum bus , Ohio 43220 {614) 422-8770 Kenneth Naylor & Miriam Schwartz Co-Editors OHIO SLAVIC CALENDAR Autumn Quarter 1983 - RADIO AND TELEVISION PROGRAMS "Russian Language and People" - BBC Telecourse Saturday mornings 8:00-8:30 AM WOSU Channel 34 Mon., Wed., Fri. 6:30-7: 00 PM QUBE Channel 18 Thurs. 11: 00- 11: 00 PM QUBE Channel 18 Tues. 4:30-5:00 PM Channel 3 on all cable systems Thurs. 10:00-10:30 PM Channel 3 on all cable systems "Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in Perspective" - Television Thurs. 11:30 AM Channel 3 on all cable systems Fri. 8:00 PM Chann.el 3 on all cable systems "Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in Perspective" - Radio Tues. 2:05 PM WOSU Radio AM 820 ************************************************************************** LECTURES November 3 "Labor Supply Constraints on .Soviet Economic (Thursday) Performance" Warren W. Eason (OSU), 4:00 PM, Mershon Center, 199 w. 10th Ave., Columbus. November 10 "Soviet Society" Vladimir Shlapentokh, Dept. of (Thursday) Sociology (Michigan State University), 3:00 PM, University Hall, Room 14, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus. November 16 "Soviet Economic Situation and Prospects for (Wednesday) Reform" Joseph s. Berliner (Brandeis University), 4:00 PM, Mershon Center, 199 W. 10th Ave., Columbus. November 18 "Recent Developments in the Situation of the (Friday) Romanian Minority in the Soviet Union,11 Nicholas Dima (George Mason University), 4: 00 PM, Dulles Hall, Room 009, 230 w. 17th Ave., Columbus. -2- RESEARCH SUPPORT WILSON CE NTER PROGRAM IN WASHINGTON. Short-term grants intended for post doctoral level research on topics related to Russia and the Soviet Union are awarded to scholars who have a particular need for the many unique sc holarly resources of the Washington area. Preference is given to younger, junior scholars. The stipend is $40.00 per day for up to one month. There is no separate allowance for either travel or housing. Closing dates for competitions are December 1, March 1, June 1, and September 1. To apply for a short-term grant, please submit a copy of your most recent curriculum vitae, a project proposal, and one letter of recommendation. WILSON CENTER FELLOWSHIPS. An annual international competition (deadline: ·October 1) is held for mature scholars with major projects in any field of the social sciences or humanities having to do with Russia or the USSR. Fel 1 owships are residential and last from one semester to one calendar year. Within limits established by the Board and by its resources, the Center attempts to meet the fellow's earned income of the previous year (not including honoraria, lecture fees, and fringe benefits) . To apply for a fellowship, please obtain application forms and further information from Professor Herbert Ellison, Secretary, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution Building, Washington D. C. 20560. r· NE H PROGRAM TO SUPPORT TRAVEL TO RESEARCH COLLECT IONS. The National Endowment for the Humanities has established a new Travel to Collections Program to enable Amert can scholars to travel to research collections of libraries, archives, museums, and other repositories in North America and Western Europe. The program provides grants of $500 for consultation of materials essential to a scholar' s research but not readily available near the sc holar's home or regular place of work. Applicants for these grants may be members of college and university faculties as well as other individuals who conduct advanced research in the humanities. Applicants need not be employed by an academic institution to be eligible. The researc h involved cannot be for work leading to an academic degree, and the grants cannot support travel to professional meetings or conferences. Awards wi 11 be made to help defray travel costs, subsistence and lodging, reproduction and photoduplication costs, and certain other associated research expenses. The �rants cannot support salary replacement or released time from the applicant s regular employment. Applications for grants of less than $500 are ineligible due to the disproportionately high administrative costs of processing such proposals. Proposals must be received on or before January 15, 1984 for travel to begin after June 15, 1984. Late or incomplete applications cannot be accepted. For further information, applications, and instructions, please call or write: Program Officer, Travel to Colletions, Div. of Researc h Programs, Room 319-GT, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. , Washington D. C. 20506. (202) 786-0207. - 3 - VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION PROGRAM. A grant opportunity that may have escaped the notice of many sc holars working in Eastern Europe is the Volkswagen Foundation1 s program, Research on Contemporary Problems in Eastern Europe. These are avai 1 able to foreign as well as German scholars. In the past, the program has supported projects primarily in contemporary history, political science, sociology and economics in post- 1917 USSR and post-1945 Eastern Europe. But many of the problems which interest American ethnologists - worker migration, interethnic relations, 11modernization11, rural-urban relations, etc. - fit squarely within their scope. For further information, write to Dr. N. Marakrens, Striftung Volkswagenwerk, Postfach 81 05 09, 8000 Hannover 31, West Germany. -Source Newsletter of the East European Anthropology Group Vol. 2, No.2 SUt14ER PROGRAMS The RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN INST ITUTE OF IND IANA UN IVERS ITY will again offer financial support for research on the IU-Bloomington campus during summer 1984. Awards are a maximum of $2000 and are made to people holding a doctoral degree or having equivalent scholarly or scientific experience. A new Teaching Fellow award is also open for (especially) mid-career faculty who want to upgrade or improve teaching ski 11 s and content for courses in the Russian and East European area. Applications are due February 1, 1984. For futher information write Richard Sutton, Russian and East European Institute, Ballantine Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47045. POSITIONS AVAILABLE WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERS ITY, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Position and rank: Russian. Full-time, tenure track, academic year. Assistant Professor. Salary: Competitive; co11111ensurate with rank, qualifications, and experience. Effective Date: August 16, 1984. Qualifications: Ph. D. , demonstrated teaching ability, publications in 19th century Russian literature, evidence of professional involvement, and native or near native fluency required. 1) teach courses at all levels in Russian language and literature leading to the B.A. degree with a major in Russian; 2) teach courses on civilization of Russia up to the 20th century (not including the Soviet period}; 3) engage in research; 4) par ticipate in department and university faculty responsibilities; 5) par ticipate in interdisciplinary programs for the university community to foster cultural awareness of Russia today. Application deadline: January 1, 1984. Applications: Please send a letter of ap lication, vita (please include a telephone number where you can be reached f, and three letters of reco11111endation dated within the last six months. At least one letter should include first hand comments by a colleague on teaching effectiveness. Send all materials to: Birgitta M. Ingemanson, Chair, Search and Screening Committee, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Washington State University, Pullman, Was hington 99 164-26 10. (509) 335-8811. -4- PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Def}artment of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Position: Assistant Professor of Russian, a full-time, tenure-track. 10-month appointment. Date available: August 15, 1984. Responsibilities: Teaching undergraduate Russian language and literature courses. Appointee is expected to maintain a program of research and publication. Qualifications: Appointee must have the Ph. D. by the time of appointment and should be able to demonstrate scholarly potential. Application deadline: December 1, 1983. To apply: Please send letter of application, curriculum vitae, confidential placement file, and three letters of reference to: John J. Cootreni, Interim Head, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. NEW PUBLICATIONS Horak, Stephan M., comp. Russia, the USSR, and Eastern Europe: A Bibliographic Guide to English Language Publications, 1975-1980. Libraries Unl1m1ted, P.O. Box 263 Littleton, CO 80160-0263, 1982. 279 pages. $25.00 in the U. S., $30.00 elsewhere, cloth. This volume, a supplement to Russia, the USSR, and Eastern Europe: A Bibliographic Guide to English Language Publications, 1964-1974 (Libraries Unl1m1ted, 1978) extends its listings to cover the years 1975- 1980. Hungarian Studies Newsletter: Index for Numbers 1 through 30. A 30-page index of numbers 1 through 30 has been prepared and is now available in limited copies. It contains three lists of reference: a name index of some 2,000 entries, a list of 30 periodicals, and a list of some 150 organizations mentioned in the Hungarian Studies Newsletter. Order: Hungarian Research Center, American Hungarian Foundation, P. O. Box 1084, New Brunswich, NJ 08903. Resources for Soviet, East European and Slavonic