TheAATSEEL NEWSLETTER American Association of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages

Contents Message from the President ...... 3 Letter from the Editor ...... 3 SEEJ Updates ...... 3 Summer Language Programs ...... 4 The Future of Special in This Issue: (Papers from Vision 2020)...... 5 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Russian Grammar Vision 20/20 Reprieze But Were Afraid to Ask ...... 13 Ukrainian Issues ...... 15 (AATSEEL Annual Notes from AATSEEL Counterparts...... 16 Meeting 2001) Psychology of Language Learning ...... 17 Czech Corner ...... 19 Learning Framework ...... 19 Belarusica ...... 21 Professional Opportunities ...... 23 New Website for Students ...... 29 Awards...... 31 Graduate Student Forum ...... 33 Employment Opportunities ...... 35 Call for Nominations ...... 37 Slava ...... 38 New Executive Director Contacts ... 38

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AATSEEL NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL STAFF AATSEEL POINTS OF CONTACT Editor: BETTY LOU LEAVER President: Associate Editor: KRISTIN HILLER-EMELYANOV SARAH PRATT Contributing Editors: LYNNE DEBENEDETTE University of Southern California ALINA ISRAELI [email protected] ALLA NEDASHKIVSKA President-Elect: MARK NUCKOLS BENJAMIN RIFKIN MILA SASKOVA-PIERCE University of Wisconsin MATT TITTLE [email protected] CURT WOOLHISER Past President: NL Office: AATSEEL Newsletter, c/o TESOL FRANK MILLLER Monterey Institute of International Studies Columbia University [email protected] 425 Van Buren Street Monterey, CA 93940 USA Vice Presidents: Telephone: 831-674-5060 BETH HOLMGREN Fax: 831-647-6650 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] OLGA KAGAN Executive Director: GERARD (JERRY) ERVIN University of California at Los Angeles 1933 N. Fountain Park Drive [email protected] Tucson, AZ 85715 USA LAURA JANDA Phone/fax: 520-885-2663 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] JAMES SWEIGERT Printer: Crouse Printing, Urbana, IL University of Northern Iowa-Price Lab. School [email protected] The AATSEEL Newsletter is prepared in PageMaker on the HARLOW ROBINSON Macintosh. Languages of the AATSEEL Newsletter are Northeastern University Belarusian, Czech, English, Russian, and Ukrainian. Other [email protected] languages will be accommodated, based on copyediting and CYNTHIA RUDER DTP capabilities. Please query the editor about formatting, University of Kentucky content, graphics, or language. [email protected] Submitting Copy: Electronic files (eps with embedded fonts) Program Coordinator: KAREN EVANS-ROMAINE are preferred. However, we can accommodate a wide range Ohio University of programs, as well as both Macintosh and PC platforms. [email protected] Camera-ready copy (which will be scanned) is acceptable, as are faxes, e-notes, and even handwritten or typewritten Editor, Slavic and East European Journal: contributions. Please do not double-space between sentences IRENE MASING-DELIC in electronic submissions. Submissions should be made in Ohio State University [email protected] accordance with published deadlines (see back cover). The AATSEEL Newsletter is not copyrighted. Authors wishing Editor, AATSEEL Newsletter: to protect their contributions should copyright their materi- BETTY LOU LEAVER als. The AATSEEL Newsletter will publish copyright notifi- [email protected] cation. Executive Director: GERARD ERVIN KATHLEEN DILLON Ohio State University (emeritus) AATSEEL WEB SITE [email protected] For current online information about AATSEEL Co-Webmasters: and its activities, visit AATSEEL on the web: DAVID GALLOWAY MARTA DEYRUP Hobart & William Smith Colleges Seton Hall Univ. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/. [email protected] [email protected]

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Message from the President Letter from the

No one will tell you that the elected getting the programs printed and deliv- Editor officers of AATSEEL don't work hard, ered, and major trouble shooting in all but pretty much everyone will acknowl- sorts of contexts. But possibly even First, I would like to reiterate Sally edge that the work is sporadic and fo- more than that, we are grateful for your Pratt's thank-you to Jerry Ervin. He has cused on specific tasks and policies. solutions to myriad little problems that been especially helpful to me in the The continuity of this organization and, none of us knew about. Such "invis- transferral of the AATSEEL Newsletter indeed, the organization of this organi- ible" problems can be a greater threat from the University of Iowa to the zation, depend not so much on the of- to an organization than the visible ones, Monterey Institute of International ficers as on the presence of an energetic which, by virtue of their obviousness, Studies (MIIS). His support has been person with tact, good sense, and a wide draw people's attention and get re- very important to me during the past knowledge of the field in the person of solved. two years, and it would have been dif- the Executive Director. Jerry Ervin has In short, Jerry, we thank you for all ficult to get the newsletter out at all, let served as AATSEEL Executive Direc- kinds of things we never even knew alone on time, without his involvement. tor and supplied that energetic presence about, as well as for lots of things we This is also the last issue for Kristin for six years. He is now stepping down do know about, and we wish you a ful- Hiller-Emelyanov, the graduate assis- to focus on other interests. filling retirement, whatever that may tant at MIIS who has been serving these We can hardly begrudge him this mean in your own terms. past two years as associate editor. She change or the desire to be out from un- We hope that you will still come to graduates in April with her MATFL der the daily organizational grind of AATSEEL conventions, and we will try degree in English as a Second Lan- AATSEEL. At the same time, we would not to bug you about missing micro- guage. So, many thanks, Kris, and good be lying if we claimed that we would phones, room rates, lost registrations, luck in whatever endeavors you become not miss Jerry. We will miss him a lot. or anything at all. involved in next. It has been a pleasure And we are profoundly grateful for Yours, on behalf of numerous AAT- working with you. all that he has brought to this organiza- SEEL Executive Boards and many oth- In this period of transition to a new tion. We are grateful for the obvious big ers, with fondness, gratitude, and re- associate editor, I would ask all column things setting up the AATSEEL con- spect, editors, advertisers, and other contribu- ventions, arranging for the exhibitors, tors to correspond directly with me to make sure that nothing slips through the cracks. If you plan to snail-mail some- thing, please contact me by e-mail first since I travel constantly. Important Updates Regarding the Slavic and East European Journal Important note: If your The Slavic and East European Prospective SEEJ authors and re- AATSEEL membership first began Journal (SEEJ) is now running a little viewers are advised that early submis- in 2002, your address label should over a year behind its cover date. sion of manuscripts is necessary. We bear *2002. You will receive all AATSEEL and the new SEEJ editorial suggest submission a minimum of 9-12 2002 publications (such as this team are committed to returning SEEJ months before the anticipated mailing newsletter and the membership di- to schedule, as expected by our mem- date of an issue. rectory), but please do not expect bers and subscribers and as required by For accepted manuscripts, prompt to receive any 2002 issues of SEEJ the US Postal Service. turnaround on editorial suggestions and right away. Because of the delays Accordingly, for the next two years on proofs is likewise essential. in SEEJ publication (see article on a SEEJ issue will appear approximately Since we must restore SEEJ to its the left), the 2002 issues won't start every two months (rather than once ev- expected publication schedule or lose to appear until very late in 2002. If ery three months) until we have caught our mailing permit, delayed manu- you'd like to receive 2001 SEEJ is- up. scripts—whatever the reason—may at sues even though you were not a By the time you read this, SEEJ the editor's sole discretion be shifted to member of AATSEEL in 2001, 44.4 will have been mailed and SEEJ subsequent issues of SEEJ. please contact the Executive Direc- 45.1 will be at the printer's. tor.

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selves in the language but also study the tact Dr. Ludmilla A. Trigos, Director, Summer Language target culture through a series of lec- The Russian Practicum, tel.: 212-854- Programs tures, movies, and excursions to sur- 3133, e-mail: [email protected]. For rounding areas. Superb teachers, per- information on admissions, fees and Russian and East European Lan- sonalized instruction, small classes, and housing, please check the Summer Ses- guage Courses a peaceful summer in Wisconsin are just sion web site at http://www.ce. Arizona State University a few of the many benefits offered by columbia.edu/summer The Arizona State University Rus- the program. sian and East European Studies Con- Scholarships are available for third- Russian for Heritage Speakers sortium will again offer intensive el- and fourth-year Russian, and tuition Indiana University ementary and intermediate language waivers are available to graduate stu- The Summer Workshop at Indiana instruction in Macedonian, Serbian/ dents specializing in East Europe (Po- University is pleased to offer a four- Croatian/Bosnian, and Tatar and will in- land, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hun- week (June 14–July 12) intensive five- troduce elementary Armenian in its an- gary, Romania, Bulgaria, and all the credit course intended for those speak- nual Critical Languages Institute (CLI), countries of former Yugoslavia, and ers who possess a home knowledge of June 3–July 26, 2002, in Tempe, Ari- Albania) in any discipline. Russian, but who do not have a native zona. Tuition charges will be waived for Applications are being accepted Russian’s full educational background. CLI classes. Competitive fellowship now. For more information about the Since heritage speakers are already able support is available for Tatar language program, please visit the website at to speak Russian and possess a good students. http://beloit.edu/~cls or contact Patricia grammar base, this course will focus on An optional practicum is available L. Zody, Director, Center for Language quickly developing reading and writing for students studying Macedonian Studies, Beloit College, 700 College skills. (Ohrid, Macedonia), Serbian/Croatian/ Street, Beloit, WI 53511; tel.: 608-363- The latter parts of the course are Bosnian (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia) and 2277; e-mail: [email protected]. designed to focus on filling in students’ Armenian (Yerevan, Armenia). Aca- gaps in grammar and cultural back- demic year study abroad programs are The Russian Practicum ground. The course will meet for 20 offered in Macedonia, Tatarstan, and Columbia University hours per week and it will use the new Armenia. The Russian Practicum combines text Russkii dlia Russkikh by Akishina, For additional information, please courses in with con- Kagan, and Robin. see “Critical Languages Institute” at tent courses in and Following the course, students may http://www.asu.edu/ipo/reesc. Ques- specially designed research courses on wish to sign up for a four-week third- tions can be sent via e-mail to Anne “Working in Russian Archives” and or fourth-year Russian course and re- Fredrickson (anne.fredrickson@ “Russian Internet Resources.” Lan- ceive an additional five hours of trans- asu.edu) or Carol Withers (carol.withers guage and content courses can be taken ferable credit from Indiana University. @asu.edu), or call the REESC office at in combination or individually. The See http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/ 480-965-4188. Practicum consists of two four-week swseel.shtml for more information. sessions, running from June 10 to July Summer 2002 Intensive Language 5 and July 8 to August 2. Literature and The Middlebury Russian School Program research courses are targeted at upper- Middlebury College Beloit College level undergraduate and graduate stu- The Middlebury Russian School The Center for Language Studies dents. Language courses accommodate will offer expanded programming at the at Beloit College is pleased to announce both undergraduate and graduate stu- undergraduate and graduate levels in the its intensive language program for Sum- dents with a variety of backgrounds and summer 2002 session. mer 2002. Slavic and East European reasons for studying Russian. Undergraduate instruction will take languages offered this summer are first- Extracurricular activities will be place in the nine-week program, June year Czech (June 30–August 9, 2002), provided to reinforce language learn- 14–August 16, 2002. Classes will be of- first-year Hungarian (June 9–August 9, ing and to give greater exposure to Rus- fered at every level of instruction from 2002), and first- through fourth-year sian culture. They include weekly Rus- first through fourth year, with courses Russian (June 9–August 9, 2002). For sian language lunchtime conversation at the midpoints between each major the nine-week course, students receive hour, visits to Russian art and manu- course level. Classes meet four hours a 12 semester hours of credit; four-and- script collections in the New York area day, five days a week. For more infor- a-half-week sessions are also available. museums and libraries, a Russian film mation, see http://www.middle- Language and culture are vital com- series, and other cultural events. bury.edu/~ls/Russian/curriculum/ ponents of the Beloit summer program. For more information, please con- courses.html. Participants not only immerse them- - continued on page 12

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THE FUTURE OF SLAVIC STUDIES VISION 20/20, AATSEEL ANNUAL MEETING NEW ORLEANS, DECEMBER 2001 yet to traverse on its way to an opening The Vision 20/20 session at the 2001 is to come in the profession,for its fu- towards the future, and these are not Annual Meeting of the American Asso- ture. exhaustive. The end of the nation state ciation of Teachers of Slavic and East In order to proceed with minimal as we know it; the questioning of sov- European Languages produced some precision, I will make a distinction be- ereignty, be it of the subject, the nation, interesting thoughts about the future of tween the future and what may be or the president; the fissured self Slavic studies. For readers who were called, in French, avenir, what is to sameness of national cultures and lin- unable to attend that panel, the papers come. The future, in this first sense, still guistic identities, the fissured identity from the session are presented here. carries in itself notions of programma- bility, expected development, the future of national languages themselves; the of the present. With avenir, I would like multiple questioning of identity that The Future of Slavic to suggest an event or advent for which proceeds from the imperatives of psy- we have no concept, no name and no choanalysis, deconstruction, theory and Studies formula, yet, and may never have, and philosophy; discourses on gender and that comes to us to puncture the ex- other borders of the body; dramatic Dragan Kujundzic pected, programmed, teachable, pre- transformations that put parts of the Univ. of Calif., Irvine dictable. That avenir, that other future, Slavic world, Russia and Serbia, among other than future others, at the front line with the Mus- Please let me start by saying how or , belongs to the opening which accepts risks, the unpre- lim world in ways that are paradigmatic honored I am to speak in such an illus- dictable and the unprogrammable, a of a more general global confrontation; trious company, all the more so that the discourses stemming from the invitation to speak on this occasion profession for which a syllabus has yet to be written. conflation between global and local, came from Helena Goscilo. I find this In some ways, the situation I am what may be called glocalization; ques- a fortunate and welcome occasion to say tions of academic labor, and work in that Helena Goscilo has represented for trying to describe briefly here would resemble a potential always already at general; problems arising from the me, long before I ever had a chance to work in the long tradition of Socratic world-widezation (globalization) of the meet her, the very possibility of the fu- Phaedrus telecommunications; war crimes and ture of the profession that we are talk- majeutic, most notably in , where Socrates says that he is not teach- international justice, including in ing about today. I know that Lena’s ing anything, but asks questions; or to Chechnya, Bosnia and Kosovo; larger good taste will be offended for draw- School for Wives ethical questions pertaining to the no- ing attention to her as I should be speak- that of Moliere’s [L’Ecole des Femmes], which suspends tion of hospitality, be it academic, na- ing about the future of Slavic Studies. the certainty of knowledge and femi- tional or international, the hospitality of But I do not know anyone in the Slavic the city and the dominance or even vio- field in the United States who has done nizes the pedagogical scene which, pulled between the two masters, the two lence or hostility of sovereignty of the more to welcome the unexpected, the men who know, Arnolphe and Horace, state or the states, and yes, I am also novel, innovative, what is yet to come, talking about the City and the States, who made more openings, not only with suspends the phallic mastery in the fig- ure of Agnes and, as Barbara Johnson the New York City and the United her pioneer venture in various un- noted in her essay “Teaching Igno- States; the loss of a certain primacy of charted disciplines from women stud- Russia that still is predominantly rep- ies to film, from post-modernism to rance” “retains the plurality of forces and desires within a structure that would resented in the Slavic Studies in the Tolstoy to Tolstaya and back, but also displace the One-ness of individual West and tends to stand, who has made more openings for jun- 1 synechdochically, for the entire, hetero- ior scholars in this profession, than Lena mastery." Let me enumerate a few conditions geneous and pluricultural world of Goscilo, in ways for which we, all of for which our field has yet to invent a Slavs; this last one would then include us at and in the AATSEEL, have yet to a reflection on Russian (post) colonial- invent means of institutional recogni- meaningful and systematic rhetoric, a reserve of names and concepts, a future ism or colonialism tout court that has tion. So, while I am talking about Lena if you will, which Slavic studies in also been reproduced here in the United Goscilo and thanking her, I have actu- States in many Slavic Departments; all ally already well advanced towards cre- many ways share with other disciplines of the humanities. Those theoretico- of these phenomena, the transforma- ating or describing an opening for what political landscapes our discipline has tions that actually formulate our field

5 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 45, Issue 2 April 2002 of studies, and the transformations of 1 Barbara Johnson, “Teaching Igno- country of the relevant language. the technologies and methodologies of rance: L’Ecole des Femmes,” in The After that session various col- knowledge, most of all philosophies of Pedagogical Imperative: Teaching as a leagues representing the Graveyard the event to come, have yet to receive Literary Genre, Yale French Studies, School of Academia confided that their their attention in the discipline of Slavic number 63, 1982, 181. training in Slavic had prepared them to studies in an extensive and most rigor- 2 Friedrich Nietzsche, Jenseitz von Gut teach nothing but Russian literature and ous way. That attention will be also a und Boese [Beyond Good and Evil]. that impassioned exhortations to branch sign of hospitality for the unpredictable, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1968, out into film, TV, art, etc. smacked of unprogrammable, for the Other. 150. quixoticism at best and relentlessly I could proceed by saying where I ambitious Jewish mothers at worst. In think the field has sometimes failed, and translation, this wail presupposes that why, and why sometimes the failure Vision 20/20 the start of teaching inevitably marks belongs exactly to that notion of the the end of learning. The only tenable Arnolphian one-ness or Bakhtin’s criti- Helena Goscilo response to this cemetery of pseudo- cal notion of the unitary language of University of Pittsburgh thought is, of course, requiescat in pace. mastery and knowledge, of what I tend Anathema, as it turns out, has much to call the logocentric premise of area Given mortality and immediate to recommend it: approximately half of studies. time constraints, my vision of the the twenty-odd tenure-track or full-time But I would prefer to limit myself Svetlyi put’ stretching before us mod- jobs advertised in Slavic this year seek today, or in these propaedeutic remarks, estly targets three areas in what bucolic candidates able to teach film or culture. remarks preceding pedagogy, to the enthusiasts conventionally call “our This development would be more heart- many signs of affirmation that I see field”: (1) enrollment in undergraduate ening, of course, if programs in Slavic developing; there is an increasing in- courses and its relationship to the actually trained graduates in these ar- terest in the Slavic world in general, an Slavist’s survival kit; (2) logistics and eas. No one who remains awake during active investment by many of our col- psychosis in hiring; and (3) the her working hours at the university fails leagues in film, philosophy, theory, etc, landmined terrain of scholarly publica- to realize that undergraduates, for bet- that come out of the Slavic world; con- tion – or vox clamantis in deserto (un- ter or worse (and to opt for living real- ferences are organized on Slavic topics related, alas, to just desserts). ity over sighing nostalgia makes sound even by colleagues who have no first (1) Undergraduate enrollment, or how sense), favor breadth over depth. And hand knowledge of the Slavic disci- to teach what we know to an empty individuals and departments that antici- plines; conferences on topics such as classroom: pated this paradigm shift, and adjusted Polish cinema attract hundreds, as I their curricular corsets accordingly, have recently had a chance to witness; At our Vision 20/20 session in have bloomed, while the sleepers con- but most of all these signs of affirma- 1998, Richard Brecht, with his signa- tinue to gloom and shrivel. tion belong to my junior colleagues ture zest and humor, threatened to ex- Various units and colleagues at sev- coming out of graduate schools. Well communicate me from the church of eral colleges/universities have revolu- versed in theory, philosophy, visual American Slavic Studies for my per- tionized the status of Slavic at their in- studies and psychoanalysis, well aware ceived apostasy: And understandably stitutions precisely by opting for the of the complexities of the intellectual so: as a renegade Slavist and mongrel excommunication-risk model (the vi- market place, inquisitive and knowl- Slav, I had blasphemously proposed that ability of this label depends on Richard edgeable, they bring hope and dynam- dwindling enrollments in Slavic lan- Brecht’s presence and readiness to Per- ics that I do not remember from my guage courses did not herald the Apoca- form the Deed). During the last few graduate student days. Not because I lypse, but did require a rethinking of years, as various Slavic departments believe in the mechanical progress of our decades-old Russian major (which across the nation closed or shrank to generations, but because the signs are peculiarly combined Cold War policies near-evanescence, Yana Hashamova visible all throughout our conference and Martha Stewart symmetries), so as transformed a temporary position at program as it has been for the past sev- to take into account empirical changes Union College into a tenure-track slot eral years, I believe that the profession, in politics, borders, and relations be- by repeatedly devising imaginative the- often against itself, like the Nietzschean tween the U.S. and Eastern Europe, not matic courses combining film and lit- laughter, which is the marker of the to mention more comprehensive erature; partly through symbiosis with unexpected event itself, yet has a fu- changes in the world. Then, as now, I other departments, Susan Kalina’s in- ture: “doch gerade unser L a c h e n noch advocated an embrace of interdiscipli- defatigable efforts at the University of Zukunft hat!”2 nary studies, in combination with lan- Alaska/Anchorage have placed the Rus- guage-learning partly conducted in the sian program there on the university

6 April 2002 Vol. 45, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER map; at Ohio State University Daniel ential professional organizations as the cisive in the hiring process (49). Famil- Collins and George Kalbouss have MLA: although the MLA conference iarity with academic guts leaves no drawn hundreds of students to their sur- runs simultaneously with AATSEEL, doubt that we may be dealing here with veys, respectively, of Vampirism in only a minuscule percentage of Slavists an open season on excellent applicants. multiple cultures and genres, and of have cognizance of that fact. As another article in the issue notes, Russian culture at large. At the Univer- Scrooginess may play a role here (i.e., envy undermines objectivity, and so, I sity of Pittsburgh our multi-media, in- reluctance to pay membership and reg- would add, does the insecurity of those terdisciplinary courses in the Russian istration fees), for, as several university appraising dossiers. It would be Fairy Tale, Vampirism, and Science Fic- press editors have lamented over the Pollyanishly myopic to ignore the tion enroll approximately one thousand years, Slavists buy fewer books than dispiriting fact that unproductive ten- undergraduates a year and have added specialists in any other “modern lan- ured colleagues feel threatened by two new Teaching Assistantships to our guage or area.” If not financial consid- highly active younger members of the fund of support for grads. Moreover, erations, then perhaps “fear of theory” profession who are only too eager to two faculty members in our department deters Slavists from leaping into the publish and present at conferences. actually teach Russian film and culture cauldron of MLA, which for academ- Such psychological factors, in my view, on a regular basis, and our visiting pro- ics in English, French, Spanish, Italian, constitute part of our profession’s “un- fessor, Il’ia Vinitskii, is about to launch German, African Studies, etc. repre- said.” To acknowledge them is deemed what I consider a meta-course, titled sents the Mecca and Olympus of pro- equivalent to passing gas in public. “Madness”—in Russian literature and fessional public presentations (and self- culture, if not explicitly in Slavic Stud- presentation). My question is: what do (3) Scholarly publication, or “I don’t ies. Slavists have to gain by replicating the want to waste money on books, but I Now, what card-carrying Slavist Iron Curtain isolation from the rest of don’t understand why everyone isn’t will deny the desirability of attracting the political and intellectual world reading my monograph”: students to first-, second-, and third- around and beside them? Several years ago at a AAASS ses- year Polish, Slovak, Czech, Ukrainian, sion on scholarly publication, then cur- and Russian? How does that standard (2) Logistics and psychosis of hiring, or the Anxiety of Lack of Influence: rent and former editors of Slavic Review agenda, however, militate against less and Russian Review, as well as Janet traditionally conceived courses struc- In this year’s issue of Profession, Rabinowitch from Indiana UP and Pa- tured around broad cultural phenomena the MLA annual publication reporting tricia Kolb from M.E. Sharpe, spoke that cut across national divisions? It on developments in lang’n’lit depart- with extraordinary frankness about the doesn’t. Average undergraduates who ments throughout the country, a survey Gutenberg future of our field. Patricia spend a minimum of four hours daily of recent hiring patterns titled “What Kolb subsequently published in surfing the Internet, unsurprisingly, do Search Committees Want” maintains NewsNet (AAASS’s quarterly newslet- not become intellectually ignited by a that criteria in the following order of ter) an impressively balanced, informa- fifty-minute explication de texte of a importance currently determine tive article, devoid of rosy-glassed cir- poem by Tred’iakovskii, Slowacki, rankings of job applicants: : (1) teach- cumlocution, detailing the dilemmas of Heine, or Verlaine (I can’t vouch for ing ability and experience; (2) research producing books that do not sell (i.e., Rod McKuen), but they may respond potential or accomplishments; (3) “in- volumes in Slavic). Anyone familiar to such texts when presented in a larger, terpersonal” skills; and (4) service— with the cliché of “kill the messenger” vividly-delineated cultural context. To which trails far behind the first three can anticipate what happened: Patricia iterate the all too obvious, an intellec- (and, incidentally, makes one wonder bore the slings and arrows of outraged tual can teach Plato, Hegel, and Lacan who does “serve” in these depart- Slavists who accused her of nay-say- via analysis of anything from silence ments.). In the application package that ing and cruelty, as if her trenchant as- (Lacan’s specialty) to silos (rural dia- undergoes initial screening, the commit- sessment of a painful situation were a lectics or the ascent to the ineffable). tee supposedly pays most attention to single-handed assassination of Kenotic In short, I urge all of us to jettison (1) potential for making a positive con- Genius. provincialism, and not isolate Eastern tribution to the institution as a whole (a At the half-dozen or so academic Europe behind an intellectual/ desideratum vague enough to cover a presses with which I have regular con- pedagogic Iron Curtain. Slavists’ reluc- plethora of academic sins); (2) a tact, the educated and hard-working tance to venture beyond the defen- candidate’s letter of application; (3) acquisitions editors unanimously con- sively-drawn boundaries of their disci- general teaching experience; and (4) firm that publishing materials in Slavic pline not only limits course offerings, letters of recommendation. Yet, at the is a losing proposition; they publish, but but for more than a decade has same time, 73% of respondents con- readers don’t buy. The targeted readers, marginalized Slavic within such influ- curred that gut-level reactions are de- I might note, are the group assembled

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here–not geeks in Silicone Valley, not this approach appropriate; after all, inherited the binary thought patterns cashiers at Bloomingdales, nor janitors speculations about the future of Slavic that Lotman and Uspensky attribute to at our universities. Since presses, un- Studies tend to oscillate wildly between the culture so many of us study. All too like charity organizations, need to turn these two modes. Either a new day is often, both traditionalists and Young a profit, what does this scenario of fun- dawning, when every American girl and Turks get a sense of satisfaction out of damental incompatibility augur for the boy will be breaking down our doors, being embattled: defending the classics field? Nothing sunny, unless we hon- desperate to enroll in courses on the is never more righteous than when the estly confront our mode of being for the Slavophile/Westernizer debate and Rus- barbarians are at the gates, and what’s last dozen or more years and revise our sian pre-post-modernist prose, or the the fun in tipping over the sacred cows writing and spending habits. sky is falling, and lack of interest in our if no one is indignantly harumphing? In short, my vision prompts the fol- field is going to force us to close up In reality, the stakes are not all that high, lowing Polonius-like counsel: teach shop altogether and go wandering the and the battle is far less interesting that across broad areas, and in the process streets carrying signs that say “Will it might first seem. Part of what passes improve your own education; hire the parse Slavic syntax for food.” More for cultural studies, in Slavic and else- applicant who truly impresses you, even often than not, such prognostication is where, suffers from the tendency to if she plunges you into a state of trem- a pointless exercise, so rather than make chase after the latest fashion, but the bling insecurity–if you cannot control predictions, I prefer to focus on two basic premise, that highbrow literature envy, then channel it into other areas areas of particular importance for the does not exist in a vacuum, that it is part —envy your neighbor’s lawn or dog; next generations of Slavic scholars: the of a continuum of literary and extra-lit- consider co-producing scholarship with curriculum and the world of scholarly erary texts and contexts where aesthet- junior colleagues, including your gradu- publishing. ics and ideology necessarily intersect, ate students, who can bring new per- When it comes to undergraduate is so patently obvious as to verge on spectives to bear on topics that you offerings and in particular graduate pro- the banal. For graduate students, the ad- might not even have contemplated. Buy gram design, the last decade has seen a dition of cultural studies to the curricu- books in Slavic instead of daiquiris or number of positive trends, even if they lum can provide an even greater intel- supplementary collision insurance. often amount to desperate measures in lectual breadth, as well as a much- Consider voting in the Eliot Borenstein response to a perceived crisis. Though needed sense of versatility to the young Tax on Tenure. some might wince at the rise of courses scholar’s CV (one need only look at the Chapter XI of Voltaire’s Candide, with deliberately catchy (indeed, cutesy number of job announcements asking a salutary vade mecum of skepticism titles) such as “Dracula” or “Love and for someone who can also teach film and clear-headed sobriety, contains a Death in Russian Literature,” when and “culture” to see the importance line that academics in areas under threat done right, these attempts to appeal to here). cannot afford to ignore: “O che sciagùra an undergraduate sensibility still expose In my department at NYU, we are d’essere senza coglioni!”–“Oh, what students to traditional high culture in the process of completely overhaul- misfortune to be without balls!” Indeed, through the tried and true “bait and ing our undergraduate and graduate and not only in the world of Candide. switch” method. Traditionalists need curriculum, transforming it into an in- In sum, then, I passionately believe that not be so concerned that this is always terdisciplinary program for Russian and bringing one’s brains in alignment with a matter of “dumbing down,” that we Slavic cultural studies. We are about to one’s metaphorical balls and courting are offering the Slavic equivalent of experiment with a two-track system of excommunication by Richard Brecht is “Rocks for Jocks” (“Slavs for Slobs?”). graduate courses, where traditional the way for Slavic Studies to thrive in Though it might seem rather obvious, classes that hold little appeal for stu- the new millennium. new Slavic courses on sex and gender, dents from other departments ( women’s writing, popular culture, and immediately comes to mind) are offered film do not have to be part of a zero- by our professors as tutorials: under this Vision 20/20 sum game. Indeed, if my talk has a mes- “pay-per-view” model, students theo- sage to those who are reluctant to see retically pick any of these tutorials for Eliot Borenstein the curriculum change, it is this: cul- full credit at any time in their career, New York University tural studies is not your enemy. while the faculty member will get some By the same token, my appeal to course release after providing a certain I choose to see the title “Vision my fellow practitioners of cultural stud- number of tutorials. Classes that draw 2020” as an exercise in speculative time ies is: you have fewer enemies than you on a base larger than our department, travel rather than corrective think, or than you would like to believe. classes that bring in other arts and me- opthamology. As a teacher of both uto- Slavic Studies is a field that is used to dia than simply literature, will be of- pian and apocalyptic literature, I find polarization, a field that has, perhaps, fered in the traditional seminar format,

8 April 2002 Vol. 45, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER following the standard “cafeteria-style” has cut back, things do not look good than one new generation of North model (choosing from what is offered for strong, solid literary analysis, espe- American Slavists, who will end their at any given time). Through experimen- cially for such unsexy but important abbreviated careers as so much aca- tation with curricular format and con- topics as poetry. demic road kill. And one hardly needs tent, we intend to strike a balance that There is, however, at least one pos- 20/20 vision to see just how unappeal- allows us to do comparative studies, sible solution. We, as Slavists, and par- ing a picture that is. film, art, philosophy, gender studies, ticularly as AATSEEL members, must and, yes, television and popular culture, recognize that we have a corporate in- without neglecting the classics. terest in the publication and sales of Turning Tables on My second subject is completely Slavic scholarly books. We cannot just different, but of no less importance: the rely on the kindness of university the Future of Slavic pathetic state of scholarly publishing, presses. By the same token, even if we and its impact on the careers of young had the resources to set up a publishing Sven Spieker and future Slavists. As we all know, this arm, the result would probably not look University of California, is a realm in which the sky really is fall- reputable enough to satisfy a P&T com- Santa Barbara ing. As university presses implode and mittee at a research university or a se- cut back, Slavic Studies is often one of lective liberal arts college. If at all pos- My first thought after I was invited the first areas to be jettisoned, for rea- sible, AATSEEL should form an alli- to participate in the MLA roundtable sons that are economically understand- ance with a strong, reputable university about the “future of Slavic” was that it able, but nonetheless lamentable. The press in order to promote a Slavic se- would have been easier to write another economics of the business simply do not ries that has just a small element of the paper than to entertain the profession allow for the publication of the requi- Book-of-the-Month-Club to it. A press with ideas about the future of the pro- site number of new Slavic scholarly needs to guarantee a certain minimum fession. I had never thought of myself books, while tenure requirements con- level of publication, while AATSEEL as an academic fortune teller. The very tinue to inflate. It would be a lost cause needs to guarantee a minimum level of way the theme of this “roundtable” for Slavic Departments to crusade sales. The plan is as follows: Univer- (which turned out not to be round at all) against tenure drift or to try to be inno- sity Press X establishes the “AATSEEL was worded—an elliptical phrase vators in the world of electronic pub- Slavic Series.” The press operates in- whose second half appears to be miss- lishing: we are too small and too insig- dependently and retains its full rights ing, as in: “The future of Slavic […]”— nificant to bring the winds of change to to approve and reject manuscripts, but initially sounded intimidating in that it our colleges and universities. Proclaim- commits to publishing a certain num- suggested that there is a future for ing that a book is not always necessary, ber of books per year. And the key here Slavic, but that we do not know what or that electronic publishing is just as is that the books be published in paper- that future might be. Other options for legitimate as paper and cloth, is a quick back as well as cloth. AATSEEL, mean- a title would have included the follow- path to total marginalization (however while, drums up a subscription cam- ing: “Is there a future in Slavic?” In worthwhile both causes might be in paign, targeting primarily (but by no some ways such a question would have principle). If we are to continue as a means exclusively) tenured faculty. If presented me with less of an obstacle field, if young scholars are to get ten- we are aware of our corporate interest because at least that question would ure, we must publish books with repu- in the future of our discipline, should have allowed for a clear-cut answer, as table university presses. And, more and we not be willing to commit to buying, in “yes” or “no”. The not-so round more, these reputable presses simply say, three Slavic books a year by a cer- roundtable functioned like the game the don’t want us. tain press at $25 a pop, even if they Germans call, not for nothing, Stille For the past several years, North- might not be on a subject in which we’re Post, or secret mail: Someone begins a western University Press had admira- interested? Consider it a tax on tenure, phrase that he whispers into his or her bly stepped up to the plate, saving more or an acknowledgment of the debt we neighbour’s ear, the neighbour tries to than one career by publishing a strong, owe to the presses that publish us and repeat the phrase, whispering it into his good, but not very marketable first book to the scholars who will one day replace nerighbours ear, and so forth. At every by a newly-minted, tenure-track PhD. us. If we do nothing, we are complicit step along the way, the message is reis- But the situation was financially unten- in producing more and more graduate sued in ways that forever defy precise able: there was not enough perceived students who, even if they are lucky reconstruction. When I sketched out my demand to justify paperbacks, while enough to get tenure-track jobs, will be contribution to the discussion, I did not few of us are willing to shell out $80 sacrificed to the harsh realities of the yet know if I would be sitting at the be- for a book that we hope our libraries market. The 18 years to come will en- ginning or at the end of the line. If I will purchase. Now that Northwestern compass the entire lifecycle of more were to sit at the end, I reasoned, it

9 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 45, Issue 2 April 2002 would be up to me to say the complete perious—theory. In the more mundane will catch a cold.” Literally , of course, phrase aloud, delivering the mail as it realm of undergraduate teaching, such the term translates as something like were. That was the moment I dreaded. an attitude may result, among other “pulled air”). I am worried that many (As it turned out, I was not the last things, in the same class on the Rus- of our graduate students are turning out speaker, someone came after me). sian novel being offered year after year, dissertations and articles that are in- The future of Slavic studies is in- regardless or, perhaps more precisely, creasingly irrelevant to audiences out- tertwined with the future of other fields. in spite of steadily decreasing student side the Slavic field, not because they A recognition of this fact might go some enrollments. The mistaken belief im- are somehow intrinsically uninteresting way to address the problems in Slavic plicit in this way of conducting aca- but because they do not take account of studies, too. In the past, Slavic distin- demic business is that the profession the fact that the very nature of special- guished itself from other disciplines by goes through cycles, and that all we ization is shifting all around us. I would the fact that it had someone or some- need to do is what was always said to go even further and say that much of thing to blame its misery on: the end of be the former German Chancellor the future of Slavic—and the future of the cold war—a long time ago—, the Kohl’s greatest strength, a.k.a., his abil- other disciplines in the so-called hu- demise of Russia, etc. To be sure, no ity to deal with problems through aus- manities—will depend on whether we one in French or English would blame sitzen, literally “sitting them out”, or, will be able to rethink and reformulate low enrollment figures in undergradu- in plainer terms, by waiting until they what it means to be a specialist (in the ate survey courses on the Russian real- go away. As my students say, “I don’t humanities and elsewhere) in the twenty ist novel on the demise of the British think so.” first century. Like any other specializa- Empire. If there is a lesson to be learnt I have heard it said that the Slavic tion, ours is not oblivious to historical here, then perhaps that it may be time field is not good at (as in “not interested changes, not to even mention the much for us to recognize that the problems in”) assimilating the intellectual trends more crucial changes in the media that facing Slavic studies are not systemi- that rock the boat for a day or two in channel our knowledge. (And by this I cally different from those facing other other fields. This is of course not alto- do not only mean that we should be- disciplines, never mind the demise of gether true, even if we are perhaps not come acquainted with the digital me- the Soviet empire, or of any other em- always the first to pull the trigger. (I dia, even though of course we should). pire for that matter. (Which is not to say myself wrote a book on postmodernism The insularity of Slavic studies— that empires and their demise do not in modern Russian prose at a time when by which I mean our reliance on com- affect the way undergraduates pick their the very word made whole audiences forting but largely unquestioned na- academic flavor of the day. They do, of theoretically minded scholars of lit- tional traditions identified with the lan- and demonstrably so. What I am say- eratures other than Slavic reach for the guage we happen to represent—is a now ing is that it may be [high] time we give door). But there is perhaps nevertheless often deplored fact. (For some reason, up on the idea that the CIA and other something to it. Every once in a while we like to say that we cannot commu- agencies funded our courses during the you overhear a graduate student from a nicate with scholars in other disciplines cold war because they wanted Ameri- Slavic department talking to a colleague because Russian, Polish, and Czech are cans to read more Chekhov). from another discipline who, at some hard languages to learn.) Yet the solu- One of the things that strike me point in the conversation, begins to roll tion to breaking up this isolation is quite about the Slavic field, if I may permit her eyes and says, with a tinge of mock- simple: we should seek contact with myself such a generalization, is what I ery in her voice, as if she were imitat- scholars from other disciplines, team would like to call its inverse ing someone else, “well, as you know, teach seminars or upper division messianism. Where other disciplines, we in Slavic don’t do such things.” Are courses, organize conferences with top- most notably English and some parts of we perhaps too proud of our—alto- ics that allow scholars from a variety comparative literature, are often gether more Anglo-Saxon than of disciplines to participate. To give but viewed, from inside the Slavic citadel, “Slavic”—pragmatism and delibera- one example, the Slavic department at as proselytizing evangelists who are tion, our suspicion of Gallic flourishes, the Humboldt university in Berlin now forever busy trying to sedate themselves our slowness? Other disciplines may regularly convenes conferences to with theoretical opiates, we Slavic have moved from all theory to no which it typically invites about 15 scholars continue to count on the eter- theory, and from media to post-media, scholars—five or six Slavists, and the nally stimulating values of the canoni- but in Slavic graduate programs it is all rest from other disciplines. The confer- cal treasures of which we see ourselves too often as if these things were noth- ences whose themes are typically not in charge. In this Slavic fortress, the ing but so much Zugluft (this German specific to a national literature, have efforts of what is sometimes called anti- term is very dear to me. It means proved enormously stimulating espe- theory assume themselves the status of “draft”, as in “Go and put your sweater cially to graduate students. a new—and sometimes even rather im- on, there is a draft in this room. You The vision we as Slavists have of

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ourselves as the guardians of a treasure in the substance of our comments, but shape a complex situation like the one house of a national canon too often pre- also in the pleasure we find in analysis in Afghanistan. In short, there’s reason cludes any emphasis on the material and debate in an open and collegial set- to hope that the combination of a gradu- conditions that allow for the preserva- ting. Truly, this is a joy and a privilege. ally improving economy and wisdom tion and transmission of that canon. My thoughts form a mosaic made gained through tragedy will create a set There is for example hardly any seri- up of pieces internal and external to the of circumstances favorable to the de- ous media studies research in our field, field, pre- and post-September 11 in velopment, rather than dismemberment, even though Eastern Europe is one of timing, and positive and negative in ef- of our field. the most fascinating fields for such in- fect. Before September 11, Slavic Stud- It is not only external factors that quiries. The interface of science and lit- ies were under the sway of two major will pull us along, however. We need to erature is an equally uncharted conti- external and predominantly negative consider “How the Steel Was Tem- nent. Other aspects of material culture forces. One was the economy. High pered” – but not the book. The field has in the and Russia, on the schools, colleges, and universities were come through fire, has been hammered other hand, have attracted serious and feeling strapped. In an era of tight bud- and bent, and has ultimately come out innovative scholarship in recent years. gets, small programs are among the first stronger. If you look at the AATSEEL Many professors of Russian litera- to go. The list of closed high school convention in December, you will see ture now offer classes that are or that programs that came out in late fall over three main groups of participants. One are called “interdisciplinary”. What we the seelangs listserv was particularly is a core of scholars approaching retire- mean by this is that we now do, or at disheartening. The second external ment who are anything but retired in least teach, what goes by the name of negative factor was a particularly in- terms of their lively minds and their “cultural studies”. It seems to me that tense phase of traditional American lin- dedication to the field. Another is a this is a good idea, even though the guistic and cultural isolationism. “All group of mid-career scholars who have Slavic version of cultural studies is by those guys in the rest of the world just chosen to make participation in AAT- and large as canonical and as inflected oughtta speak English,” goes the basic SEEL a major part of their professional by the old “imperial” (a.k.a, literary) hi- premise of this ideology. The premise lives, serving on committees and com- erarchies as the studies we taught be- is then accompanied by the corollary: ing to conferences, even though many fore we went cultural. It is important, “Anyone who speaks English oughtta of them are heavily involved in their in other words, not to view see that we’re right. We just need to own institutions, not to mention the interdisciplinarity as a new “packaging” explain it to ‘em.” complexities of family life and life in for what is essentially the same old hat, Since September 11, a few cracks general. Finally, you will see a group so that ideally we would let go of the have appeared in the isolationist wall. of striking younger colleagues. These films and the slides once our students When network newscasters start opin- are people who did not fall into the field are able to appreciate the eternal val- ing that someone somewhere in the gov- by accident, or choose it because of se- ues we hide behind all the media equip- ernment really ought to know Pashto, cure funding. Our younger colleagues ment. Arabic, or Uzbek, we’ve made some are smart, sophisticated, and they know headway. With luck and a little help language and culture with more depth from reality, the powers that be will and immediacy than preceding genera- 20/20: The Future come to realize that even languages tions. In addition to their deep knowl- used by very small populations can be edge of things Slavic, they have wide- of the Field crucial to our national security. And ranging and flexible minds. They teach with still more luck, they will come to popular culture, gender studies, com- Sarah Pratt realize that Russian is the lingua franca parative literature, general education… USC of the former Soviet republics that bor- you name it. They are committed to In their discussion of the future of der Afghanistan. They might also no- both teaching and research. They know Slavic Studies, my colleagues on the 20/ tice that IREX, the organization that has how to use technology and have exper- 20 panel tend to consider the field from supported so many of us over the years, tise across disciplines. They have had a fairly lofty height, and, to a greater or is uniquely positioned to train special- to be enterprising and resilient. If these lesser degree, in the context of a de-cen- ists in key areas because it has field of- are the people shaping it, the future must tered, poststructuralist universe. My fices throughout the region. And finally, truly be bright. own comments are very much down to they might see that Slavic Studies can As Slavists, we hardly have an easy earth. They are rooted in logocentric, provide not only much needed linguis- row to hoe, but we do have the right political and economic reality. But we tic and cultural knowledge, but also an people and the right tools. We will cul- agree far more than we disagree. Our understanding of the way cultures in- tivate our garden, and we will see our exchange represents the field not only teract, of the cultural variables that field grow and bear fruit.

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Summer Language Programs, ian. FLAS Fellowship opportunities are Ukrainian Through its Living Cul- continued from page 4 available for all listed courses. ture The Summer Workshop also offers University of Alberta (in L’viv, Russian (first to sixth year); languages Ukraine) Graduate instruction will take place of Central Asia (first- and second-year The Ukrainian Language and Lit- in the six-week program, July 1–August Azeri, Kazak, Turkmen, and Uzbek); erature Program at the University of 16. Courses are offered in the areas of and first-year Georgian and Tibetan. Alberta is pleased to announce the sec- history, culture, language, and literature. 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For more information, contact Marc units from UA. These eight-week courses offer ten L. Greenberg, Chair and Professor, For further information, please con- hours of credit and they are tuition-free Dept. of Slavic Languages and Litera- tact Professor Del Phillips (dphillip@u. to graduate students in the East/Central tures University of Kansas—Wescoe arizona.edu) or Christine Erkman in the European area. Hall, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2134, Study Abroad office (erkmanc@u. In addition to the courses listed Lawrence, KS 66045-7590; tel. and arizona.edu); website: http://gg.russian. above, Indiana University will offer voice-mail: 785-864-2349; fax: 785- arizona.edu/ara/index.htm first-year Czech, Polish, and Hungar- 864-4298; e-mail: [email protected]. continued on page 14

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EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED Alina Israeli TO KNOW ABOUT (American University) RUSSIAN GRAMMAR Send questions to: BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK [email protected]

Q. vezde vs. vs[du. I had thought Dvorcu. ... V samoj detskoj dva Tonkoj razvetvlennoj set;[ that the former would be more appro- raskrawennyx stula i tq- ruh;i i malye reki pokry- priate in contexts that are NOT move- 'elyj larhik, obityj po vsem va[t praktiheski vs[ terri- ment in a direction, but I see them used uglam 'elezom. I vezde igruw- tori[ strany. Ob]aq pro- in ways that seem interchangeable to ki. Oni i na lavkax, i v lar;kax, tq'ennost; ix 3,9 milliona me. i po uglam; oni zapolnqli vs[ kilometrov. Oni bukval;no komnatu, i oni zapolnqli vs[ vs[du, vsegda rqdom, i po/- A. Indeed there are many instances 'izn; malen;kogo Petra. (Gr. tomu rol; malyx rek v nawej that for all intents and purposes could Al;twuller. Car; i doktor) 'izni tak velika. (B. Wtepa. be perceived as interchangeable. The Tret;q 'en]ina prinesla Reki malye — problemy trick is to find examples where they are [ ] sluckie b/ry, mestnyj sort bol;wie. ^Nauka i 'izn;& !4, not interchangeable. The difference be- gruw ix nel;zq est;, sole- 1986) tween vezde, vs[du and povs[du lies — nye ot pyli. Otkawlqvwis;, reki bukval;no vs[du in the way that the given space is per- Saying dobavila tq'elo dywat;, vez- ceived or described. : means that in any given subdivision of de sol;. (Sol; na ranu. ^Li- First of all, vezde is about twice as geographic space there is a river. A teraturnaq gazeta&, 2-03-88) reki bukval;no vezde common as vs[du and povs[du. An statement would Uppsala database search turned up 60, Compare these examples with the mean that rivers are ubiquitous, wher- 35 and 32 examples respectively. In idea that one can find samovars in Iran ever you look there are rivers which addition, only vezde was used nega- everywhere. One cannot say that samo- may even contradict the concept of a tively (18 examples out of 60 as op- vars are present throughout the entire river — a flow of water within two posed to none for the other two): space or literally anywhere one looks: banks. In case of a flood one would say voda bukval;no vezde. Primery izvestny — vyrubka na ?? V Irane vezde vstreha[tsq The next three sentences seem more drevesinu tropiheskix lesov, samovary. acceptable than the questionable ones /tix ^zelenyx legkix& pla- The next sentence means that he has above. The first sentence means that nety. A ved; oni krajne been literally everywhere: wherever one would expect to find medlenno vosstanavliva[tsq, samovars in Iran, one would find them; On vezde pobyval. da i to daleko ne vezde ix the second one means more or less that mo'no vozobnovit;. Me'du he visited all the places worth visiting tem produktivnost; takix The following sentence is question- or all the places on his list; the third one lesov vo mnogo raz vywe, hem u able because it means that one could means that one could live anywhere sel;skoxozqj-stvennyx ugodij. live absolutely anywhere, including in (wherever it is appropriate to live): (V. Sokolov. My zeml[ vzqli fields and ditches (and I am sure some v dolg. ^Nauka i 'izn;& !4, people could use it in this sense): V Irane vs[du vstreha[tsq 1988) samovary. ?? "it; mo'no vezde. On vs[du pobyval. Vs[du discribes space as discrete Vezde describes space as continu- "it; mo'no vs[du. ous, as in the next examples where or as appropriate for the given issue. Povs[du masses of soldiers, toys or salt are seen There is one of the following items per describes space as a sum throughout one continuous space: given subdivision of space, not a mul- of little spaces, best exemplified by enu- titude throughout a continuous space as merations: Vezde — speredi, sprava i sleva with vezde: vidnelis; vojska. (L. Tolstoj. Povs[du — i na ulicax, i za Vojna i mir) [Treplev:] Kuda by q ni smotrel, gorodom — wel za nim sladkij, vs[du mne predstavlqetsq vawe ne'no–vkradhivyj aromat Carevih 'il v osobyx xoromax, lico, /ta laskovaq ulybka. cvetu]ej beloj akacii. pristroennyx k Bol;womu (Hexov. Hajka) (Kuprin. Poedinok)

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Inoe delo — novye goroda, One can say only one of the fol- Summer Language Programs, voznika[]ie povs[du v SSSR: lowing: continued from page 12 v Povol';e, Zapolqr;e, Sibi- ri, na Dal;nem Vostoke... (A. V Irane povs[du vstreha[tsq samovary. Smmer Language Institute Aleksandrov. Poezda idut v University of Michigan On povs[du pobyval. trubax. ^Sputnik& !4, 1986) * The University of Michigan Sum- Bylo netrudno ob=qsnit;, hto *"it; mo'no povs[du. mer Language Institute 2002 will offer gnil; i vorovstvo, cvetu]ie v The first one describes the com- the following Slavic language courses sibirskoj flotilii, est; bined appropriate places in Iran where during the Spring and Summer terms: liw; malen;kaq detal; ob]ej one would find samovars. However, Spring term, April 30–June 21, 2002, kartiny razlo'eniq. Te 'e because visiting or living are discrete first year intensive Ukrainian; Summer vorovstvo, proda'nost;, ta 'e and cannot be viewed as a sum (sim- term, June 26–August 16, 2002, first spajka xudwix l[dej, ubienie ply put, one cannot be in more that one year intensive Russian, second year in- luhwix carqt povs[du: v place at a time, and pobyval implies tensive Russian, third year intensive armii, v ministerstvax, v ‘one place after another’),the second Russian, and second year intensive sudax, v zemskix uhre'deniqx. and the third sentences are impossible. Ukrainian. ({. Trifonov. Neterpenie) One other thing: I should mention These eight credit hour, proficiency- However, enumerations are not re- that there are several common phrases: oriented courses are designed to develop quired. Instead there could be a few ex- vsegda i vezde, vezde i vs[du, vezde the four basic skills: speaking, reading, amples of what is meant by povs[du i vo vs\m, and also vezde, vs[du i writing, and aural comprehension. Ex- or none at all: vsegda: tra-curricular programs will augment classroom instruction in all courses. Est; zapaxi, kotorye ne Disciplina i porqdok nu'ny For application materials, contact menq[tsq iz veka v vek, — vsegda i vezde. Osobenno oni [email protected]. For more informa- zapaxi pehej, dorog, xleba va'ny v usloviqx sovremen- tion visit the web site at www.umich. Povs[du paxnut odinakovo nogo slo'nogo proizvodstva, edu/~iinet/sli stolovye, ob]e'itiq, vo vsem primeneniq novejwix texno- mire odinakovo paxnut logij. (Kollektivnaq garantiq Summer courses 0 002 gostinicy, oteli — i v discipliny. ^Pravda&, 6-05- University of California at Los Qponii, i v Arxangel;ske. (D. 87) Angeles Granin. Obratnyj bilet) Ved; priroda /to pre'de The following Russian courses will — be offered at the University of Califor- Ego brosili na biblioteku vsego i vsegda h;e-nibud; nia, Los Angeles, in summer 2002. Rus- (ohen; pohetnaq rabota ) ne mesto i h;e-nibud; vremq, no ! — sian 10 and Russian 20, each worth 12 uder'alsq. Brosili na kadry helovek vseqden i v otno- units, will meet four hours daily, Mon- to'e konec. I tak povs[du, wenii togo i v otnowenii — day–Friday, for a eight-week sessions, kuda by ego ni naznahali, ni drugogo. On obitaet vezde, po June 24–August 16, 2002. Russian 10, stavili. I v konce koncov vsej Zemle, i v Arktike, i na Intensive Elementary Russian, is konhilos; tem, hto ego /kvatore, on obitaet, po equivalent to first year Russian; Russian iskl[hili iz partii... (F. nekotorym dannym, vot u'e 20, Intensive Intermediate Russian, is Abramov. A u papy byli tridcat; millionov let i equivalent to second year Russian. Rus- druz;q) zimoj i letom, a ved; /to sian 30, Russian Literature and Film, is Kakim-to osobym u[tom 'utkoe delo — obitat; vezde, vs[du i vsegda. ?to nemysli- worth three units and meets for a six- napolnqlos; ot nepogody ego week session, June 24–August 2, 2002. obitali]e, i emu u'e nihego mo samo po sebe. (S. Zalygin. Mistika) For more information please con- ne xotelos; by ni izmenit;, ni tact Olga Kagan, 310-825-2947, popravit; v nem. I torha]ie © 2002 by Alina Israeli [email protected]. The Russian rebra doma, i wlak pod nogami, program web page is located at http:// i pautina povs[du, i kuhki Please send questions to www.humnet. ucla.edu/russian. zapylennogo musora — vse /to Prof. Alina Israeli, LFS For information about registration kazalos; edinstvennym rewe- American University and housing: summer@ ucla.edu; web niem. (A. Bitov. Dahnaq 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. site: http://www.saonet. ucla.edu/sum- mestnost;) Washington DC 20016-8045 mer. or via e-mail to [email protected] continued on page 20

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Editor: Alla Nedakivska UKRAINIAN ISSUES University of Alberta

Note from the editor: This column Writers) to the complexities of culture in the classroom while simultaneously serves as a medium of discussion for and identity in the (“Ni- complementing more formal work de- all those who are involved and/or in- kolai Gogol / Mykola Hohol'”) to Ukrai- voted to discrete grammar points or terested in teaching Ukrainian as a for- nian Futurism in the context of Euro- lexical material or cultural practices. eign language. I would like to encour- pean avant-garde movements (“Futur- Inasmuch as the names of imported age questions, topic for discussion, and ism: East and West”). products are adapted to the Ukrainian insights related to issues of learning and Not all students study a foreign lan- sound system, I have found TV com- teaching Ukrainian. It is my hope that guage in order to become scholars of mercials especially useful for the intro- those of us involved in this endeavor literature or linguistics. Cognizant of ductory level when illustrating the dif- will share some specific methodologies, this fact, my colleagues—Oleh ferences between English and Ukrai- techniques, and issues related to cur- Ilnytzkyj and Alla Nedashkivska—and nian phonetics. Thus, to complement ricula development, as well as specific I have introduced language offerings explanations why Tracy and John be- questions that repeatedly arise in that attract students who wish to explore come Treisi and Dzhon, I turn to com- Ukrainian classrooms. topics which more traditional programs mercials that refer to, for example, Xe- Please send your questions, com- are inclined to neglect. We offer, for rox, Wrigley Spearmint, and Pepsi as ments and suggestions to the address example, content-based language Kseroks, Rigli Spermint, and Pepsi. at the end of this column. courses on children’s literature, busi- Textbooks as a rule overlook the There are several questions that ness, the media and the internet, and world of household appliances, every- await discussion, among them dialec- television and film, all of which empha- day products, computers, office furnish- tal/regional variations of Ukrainian, the size communicative competence. Thus, ings, etc. Thus I turn to advertisements neverending questions of orthography it becomes imperative for introductory and television commercials when intro- and its standardization, the diversity of and intermediate offerings to effectively ducing useful vocabulary and basic registers, changes and innovations in develop the skills necessary to succeed structures. Consider, for example, the the language, and the integration of at more advanced stages of the program, following excerpt from a Motorola ad- cultural information in the classroom. whether the student selects a literary vertisement: orientation or a more general cultural ·Motorola proponu[ dyspe/er- one. s'ke radio — dvostoronn[, Television One very useful ancillary tool in the portatyvne, mobil'ne. language classroom, especially at the Zv'qzok dlq odnoho z bahat'ma Commercials in the introductory and intermediate levels is prystosovanyj do potreb su- the television commercial. Like the Ukrainian Language /asnoho biznesu.‚ * printed advertisement in popular maga- Classroom zines, the TV commercial is dependent It is the function of commercials to on pictorial representation that fre- sell and thus rather than merely show quently facilitates comprehension of the Natalia Pylypiuk products they often describe them in verbal text. But, unlike the printed ad- superlative terms. Consider, for ex- (University of Alberta) vertisement, the TV commercial has ample, the following excerpts drawn Approximately three years ago the sound and often depicts motion as well from one Motorola and two Xerox com- Ukrainian Language and Literature Pro- as interaction between speakers. Often mercials: gram at the University of Alberta be- relying on a single vocable, commer- gan reformulating its curriculum in the cials can also be brief and to the point. ·My robymo vse, =ob direction of multiple-literacy. The cur- All this makes them ever more usable zaproponuvaty vam najkra=u rent program does not eschew a histori- in the language classroom than the fea- elektroniku u sviti.‚ cal perspective, offering courses that ture film and documentary, both of ·Ce odyn z najmen;yx represent the full spectrum of writings which demand considerable preparation vysokoqkisnyx kopi\va/iv u from Kyivan Rus' to post-Soviet and class time for their proper presen- sviti¿‚ Ukraine. But it also has special thematic tation, and which often frustrate first- ·?y ne najproduktyvni;yj ce courses that investigate topics ranging and second-year students with their dif- kopi\va/ sered sobi from women’s issues (“Women in Cul- ficulty. In our program the television podibnyx¿‚ ture: Fictional Characters / Feminist commercial is used to introduce levity

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I find such commercials and simi- but the exercise also instills the shape lar ones very helpful when addressing of the imperative of some imperfec- the differences between the compara- tive verbs. NOTES FROM tive and superlative degrees. Needless Ukraine’s rapidly changing politi- AATSEEL to say, the same commercials can be cal culture is often captured in commer- used when teaching other structures. At cials prepared by various government COUNTERPARTS the introductory and lower-intermedi- and private institutions. I have found the ate levels, however, I focus on only one series of commercials prepared by the or two points when using commercials various organizations lobbying for From BASEES as ancillary tools. privatization especially useful to illus- The following information is provided Exhortations and commands also trate both grammar and changing val- about the activities of the AATSEEL counter- frequently recur in commercials. Con- ues. For example, one commercial, part in the UK, the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. sider the following excerpts from ad- poses a set of questions—e.g., ·?omu vertising by the newspaper Dilova na;i hro;i ni/oho ne varti¿‚—which (1) The annual BASEES confer- Ukraiina and by the Pepsi and Wrigley are then followed by exclamations such ence will take place at Fitzwilliams Spearmint Gum companies: as: ·Ce [i.e., pryvatyzaciq] qk College in Cambridge, UK April 6-8. operaciq — bolq/e, ale neobxidno!‚ ·?ytaj hazetu ^Dilova Ukrawna& 2002. A number of AATSEEL members i ty znajde; vidpovid' na vsi Yet another commercial shows a group are participating in this conference. For svow zapytannq.‚ of young children playing, while the more information about the conference, narrator exhorts the viewing audience readers are referred to the BASEES ·Skorystajmosq mikroskopom i to help them fulfill their dreams and webpage, http://www.gla.ac.uk/Exter- dovedemo, =o ...‚ grow into property owners: ·Bez va;ow nal/basees/index.html. ·Dopomogit' meni, bud' laska.‚ dopomohy, wm ne zdijsnyty svow mriw. Dopomogit' wm vyrosty vlas- From CAS ·Proba/te, zaly;te meni troxy nykamy.‚ pepsi.‚ I have used the cited excerpts The following information is provided to illustrate the genitive of negation, about the activities of the AATSEEL counter- ·Ne xvyl\jsq, pepsi vysta/yt' part in Canada, the Canadian Association of adverbs, and the use of the instrumen- dlq vsix. ‚ Slavists. tal to signal states of becoming. ·Poznajomtes'$ ^Merinda& — When judiciously employed TV (1) The CAS annual meeting will novyj osviga\/yj napij.‚ commercials are a pleasant intervention take place in Toronto, May 26-28. Ses- ·Teper smaku[ dov;e. Sprobuj and a multi-purpose tool in the language sions include literature, language, and ww zaraz!‚ classroom, regardless of its level. It is pedagogy in relationship to the coun- well worth the effort to have them re- tries of the former Soviet Union and of Students find many of the commer- corded throughout the year and cata- Eastern Europe, as well as discussions cials inventive and enjoy the change of logued for future use. Advertisements centering on issues of immigration/ pace they bring to classroom activities. of a political nature can also serve learn- emigration and national identity forma- More importantly, however, they often ers who wish to embark on projects that tion. Presentations will be made by rep- use the newly acquired structures in combine the study of language with the resentatives from Canadian and Euro- conversations among themselves and in study of contemporary culture. pean universities. More information can be found at the CAS website: http:// compositions of their own. One com- * Abbreviated version of paper presented mercial that brings much mirth to the on 28 December at the round table devoted to www.utoronto.ca/slavic/cas/. introductory classroom advertises “Materials and Curriculum Development for From the Association of Scandina- Snickers and shows an energetic game Languages Other than Russian” (AATSEEL 2001, New Orleans). vian Slavists and Baltologists of table tennis during which one of the players grows very hungry but is afraid Please send your questions, comments The following information is provided about the activities of the AATSEEL counter- to interrupt the match. While the player and suggestions to: part in Sandinavia. fantasizes about various meals, an in- Professor Alla Nedashkivska visible narrator urges him not to stop 200 Arts Building Volume 46 (2000) of Scando- but to have a Snickers bar: Ne hal’mui. University of Alberta Slavica, published by the association, Snikersui! Naturally, the narrator’s sec- Modern Languages, is now available to the public. A no- ond command draws a smile when the Edmonton, AL AB T6G 2E6 Canada charge electronic copy, published by students are lead to reconstruct the in- or via email to: Imgenta, may be available through uni- finitive of the hypothetical snikersuvaty, alla.nedashkivska@ ualberta.ca. versity libraries. More information is available at http://www.imgenta.com.

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PSYCHOLOGY Editor: Matt Tittle OF (University of Illinois LANGUAGE LEARNING at Urbana-Champaign) Fostering Student is usually given is that of babies and This column is intended to pro- their caretakers. mote a dialogue for teachers of Slavic Conversation When babies are born, their parents languages regarding the psychologi- typically talk to them even though as cal aspect of language learning. through Scaffolding adults they do not really expect babies Submissions for future editions of to answer. In fact, parents often conduct this column should be addressed to Elaine K. Horwitz entire conversations with their babies, Matt Tittle, Campus Honors Program, University of Texas at accepting a facial movement, a kick, or University of Illinois at Urbana- a movement of the hand as the baby’s Champaign, 1205 W. Oregon, Ur- Austin response. Thus, the parent builds and bana, IL 61801 or sent electronically (This paper is a revised and reduced maintains the scaffold of the conversa- to [email protected]. version of a presentation at the eighth tion and allows the baby to participate Consider this conversation re- annual symposium on English Teach- in very small ways. Scaffolding com- ported by Hatch (1976) as reported in ing. Taipei: English Teaching Associa- monly occurs in conversations with Peck (1976) between an English-learn- tion of the Republic of China, 1999.) children throughout their linguistic de- ing child, Takahiro, and a native-speak- velopment. ing adult: Simply put, saying that language Scaffolding is an important schol- students must want to talk to their lan- arly concept in the study of first lan- Takahiro: This guage teacher encompasses the essence guage acquisition and the fundamental broken of our job as language teachers. More component in second language teach- than implementing curriculum, setting ing and learning from the perspective Adult: Broken. standards, and preparing examinations, of discourse analysis theorists. In fact Takahiro: broken language teachers must foster conver- scholars in the area of second language This /ez/ broken. sation with their students. The commu- discourse analysis tend to view the broken nicative language teaching movement learning of second languages very dif- of the 1970’s taught language teachers ferently than most language teachers. Adult: Upside down. that the student must have the opportu- Most language teachers—and probably Takahiro: upside down nity to use language spontaneously in most language learners as well—tend this broken personally relevant interchanges. In or- to believe that learners must first learn der for students to participate in com- to speak the foreign language and when upside down municative activities, they must want their speaking ability is adequate, they broken. (p. 385) to talk about the topics we propose and are then capable of participating in sec- they must want to talk to us. ond language conversations. From a We see two instances of how scaf- When language teachers think discourse perspective, the opposite is folding functions in this conversation. about how to react to learner speech, believed to be true; learners participate First of all, the adult repeats the most we typically think about error correc- in conversations, and in the conversa- important element of Takahiro’s sen- tion and wonder about which errors to tions they learn to speak. In the baby tence, “broken.” This action represents correct and how to correct them. How- example, the parent is teaching the im- an agreement as to what Takahiro’s sen- ever, “scaffolding” offers a powerful portant conversational skill of turn-tak- tence is about and encourages the child approach to fostering language devel- ing through the process of scaffolding. to expand his utterance. Indeed, opment that goes beyond simple error The parent talks to the baby and then Takahiro offers a much more complex correction. By scaffolding I mean the pauses as if it were the baby’s turn to English utterance the second time, “bro- act of creating a structure for a conver- speak. As the child grows older and has ken. This /ez/ broken. broken.” The sation through which the more profi- some control of language, the parents’ adult now understands what Takahiro cient speaker, in our case language speech is used to expand the child’s ut- means by “broken” and acts to inter- teachers, maintains the conversation terances. In some cases, the scaffolder vene. The adult offers the phrase, “Up- and encourages the less proficient even provides the actual utterance the side down.” The child had been trying speakers, our students, to enter the con- learner is seeking. to communicate that there was some- versation as they can. The example that thing wrong with the object he was de- 17 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 45, Issue 2 April 2002 scribing but did not know the correct dents in active meaningful conversation to understanding their thoughts? If phrase. He used, instead, the more ge- have the opportunity to clarify, expand, learners compromise what they want to neric term, “broken.” It is easy to un- and subtly teach the precise word or say with what they can say, there is less derstand how a child could perceive an phrase that the learner is searching for. pressure on their linguistic system to object which was upside down to be The phenomenon of scaffolding improve. Wanting to communicate an broken. Fortunately, the adult in this demonstrates clearly why we need stu- idea exactly and precisely causes lan- conversation is able to understand dents to want to talk to us. In a guage to improve as it did in the case Takahiro’s true intent and offer the cor- scaffolded conversation between of Takahiro. Takahiro stops using the rect phrase. mother and child, the mother is com- imprecise term “broken” in favor of the This is the essence of scaffolding. mitted to understanding what the child exact term “upside down.” If students The adult in this example closely moni- has to say. Just as in the example above, want to talk to us, and if we truly want tors the child’s utterances, determines the mother then expands and clarifies to hear what they have to say, scaffolded his communicative intentions, and of- her child’s language in an effort to es- conversations offer the possibility of the fers the needed language. The child rec- tablish true communication between kind of fine-tuned personalized feed- ognizes the excellent feedback and im- them. The child is confident that the back that will lead to authentic and mediately incorporates the phrase “up- mother wants to understand because meaningful L2 proficiency. side down” into his utterance, “upside they are connected emotionally. Typi- down, this broken, upside down broken. cally, however, language learners do not References: It appears to me that this conversation have such faith in their teachers; that Peck, S. 1976. Child–child discourse in taught Takahiro that the kind of “bro- is, they are not sure that their teacher second language acquisition. In E. ken” that he was talking about is called actually wants to listen to what they Hatch (Ed.), Second language acquisi- “upside down.” By creating a scaffold have to say. Too often, language learn- tion: A book of readings (pp. 383–400). for the conversation, the adult is able ers make a crucial compromise; they Rowley, MA: Newbury House. to clarify the child’s thoughts and sup- substitute what they can say for what Elaine K. Horwitz is Professor of Curricu- ply the specific piece of language the they want to say. Why should what they lum and Instruction and Director of the gradu- child needs. Thus, from a discourse per- want to say matter, if they are not con- ate program in Foreign Language Education spective, teachers who engage their stu- vinced that their teacher is committed at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Editor: Mila Saskova- Polish Language CZECH CORNER Pierce Learning (University of Nebraska) Framework Editor's Note: This corner is for teach- Slovak Societies on the Threshold of the Published ers of the Czech language, and I would new Millensium and Their Role in the like to invite them to share their news, Present Global World." The Polish Language Learning views, and experience related to the More details about the conference Framework (PLLF), developed by teaching of various courses dealing can be found in issue 45:2 of the Leonard A. Polakiewicz, Joanna with Czech culture, language and lit- AATSEEL Newslewtter (p. 23), as well Radwanska-Williams and Waldemar erature. It does not have to be limited as in the Call for Papers section of this Walczynski under the auspices of the to the USA; it can and should include issue of the newsletter. National Council of Organizations of issues of Czech language and culture For further information, readers the Less Commonly Taught Languages instruction in the whole world. may also contact Mila Saskova-Pierce, (NCOLCTL) has been published on Subjects that I would like to sug- 1133 Oldfather Hall, University of Ne- NCOLCTL's website: www.councilnet. gest concern the use of technology in braska at Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588- org/papers/pllf.doc. the teaching of Czech, resources avail- 0315, USA, or by phone at (402) 472- The PLLF provides (1) a survey and able, and experience that can be shared. 1336. assessment of the current state of Pol- Contributions to the Czech corner ish teaching and learning; (2) a frame- may be sent to the column editor at work of theoretical and pedagogical mzs@unlserve. unl.edu. Panel Submissions guidelines for Polish language learning, Two interesting conferences are for the and (3) recommendations to further fa- slated for the Czech Republic in upcom- cilitate the teaching and learning of Pol- ing months. One is on technology, and 2002 AATSEEL ish in the United States. the other is on arts and sciences. The PLLF includes an analysis of (1) An International Conference on Annual Meeting the results of a comprehensive survey Electronic Publishing will be held at Missing from the Call for Papers of Polish language programs at Ameri- Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic. in the February issue of the AATSEEL can universities. It also includes an ex- Hosted by the Institute for Print and Newsletter was the following informa- tensive list of resources for the teach- Media Technology of Chemnitz Tech- tion: The conference program commit- ing and learning of Polish. nical University, Germany and by the tee welcomes the submission of entire The broad goal of the PLLF is to Department for Computer Science and panels for the conferences. Potential serve the cause of facilitating, promot- Engineering, University of West participants should not feel themselves ing and coordinating the teaching and Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic , the restricted only to single papers. learning of Polish, and especially to fa- conference will take place November Updated information about the An- cilitate individualized study and new 6-9, 2002. nual Meeting and the most recent spe- program design. The objective of the conference is cifics about the various panels, as well Anyone interested in obtaining an to bring together researchers, manag- as an updated Call for Papers, can be expanded, hard copy of the PLLF ers, developers, and users working on found at the AATSEEL Website: http:// should contact Prof. Leonard A. the issues related to electronic publish- clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/. Polakiewicz, ILES, 215 Nolte Center, ing for public, scientific and commer- Specific questions may be directed 315 Pillsbury Dr. SE, University of cial applications. to the Annual Meeting Program Coor- Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. (2) The 21st World Congress of the dinator, Karen Evans-Romaine, at Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sci- [email protected] or from ences will taker place in Pilsen, June the specific committee member respon- Help us help you! 240-30, 2002. sible for the three broad areas covered The AATSEEL Newsletter peri- This congress is under the auspices at the Annual Meeting: Linguistics odically receives membership que- of the Rector of the University of West (Alla Nedashkivksa; alla.nedashkivska ries. Although we do forward these, Bohemia and the Mayor of the City of @ualberta.ca), Literature and Culture it is more efficient for members/read- Pilsoen. (Karen Evans-Romaine; evans-ro@ ers to send their queries about mem- The overall theme of the conference ohio.edu), and Pedagogy (Eloise Boyle; bership directly to the Executive is "The Transformation of Czech and [email protected]). Director.

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Summer Language Programs, Europe to Central Asia,” and a research Classroom, August 5–9; (6) Meeting the continued from page 14 workshop, which provides practical in- Challenges of Immersion Education: formation on conducting research in the Focus on Reading; August 5–9; (7) Cul- Summer Study Tour at Catholic region. ture as the Core in the Second Language University, Lublin, Poland Other activities include thematic/ Classroom, August 12–16; (8) Immer- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee regional workshops and discussion sion 101: An Introduction to Immersion The University of Wisconsin-Mil- groups, lectures and films. Teaching, August 12–16; and (9) Tech- waukee announces the Summer Study Free housing awards are provided: nology in the Second Language Class- Tour at Catholic University, Lublin, Po- 28 days for graduate students and 14 room, August 12–16. land. The Summer Study Tour consists for all others. (Associates are welcome For more information, contact the of ive weeks (July 13 to August 19, to stay longer at their own expense.) CARLA office at carla@tc. umn.edu. 2002) in historic Lublin, with a Polish Graduate students and independent language course (100 hours) at begin- scholars are encouraged to apply. Summer Institutes for Language ning, intermediate, and advanced lev- The application deadline is April 1, Educators els (5 UWM credits); lectures, films, 2002 (firm for international applicants University of Iowa and cultural performances; excursions and rolling for US scholars). For more (1) Action Research in Foreign to Warsaw, Kazimierz, and other places information contact the Russian and Language Education. Institute Leader of interest; and an optional trip to East European Center, University of Il- is Dr. Richard Donato. Dates: June 27- Krakow and Bialowia Forest. linois, 104 International Studies Build- July 3, 2002. Application Deadline: This study tour is led by Dr. ing, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign, IL April 30. Descriptions: Understanding Michael Mikoœ, Professor of Polish 61820; tel: (217) 333-1244; fax: (217) how we teach, how students learn and language and literature and leader of 21 333-1582; [email protected]; www.reec. how we can best assist this learning in study tours to Poland. uiuc.edu/srl.htm our own local teaching situations is the Also available are two-, three-, and purpose of the Action Research Insti- four-week as well as intensive and CARLA Summer Institutes tute. highly intensive two-, three-, four- and University of Minnesota (2) Integrating Technologies in the five-week language courses. CARLA is pleased to announce its Foreign Language Classroom. Institute For detailed information contact seventh annual series of summer insti- Leaders are Karen Willetts, Cindy Prof. Michael Mikoœ; Dept of Foreign tutes at the University of Minnesota. Kendall, and Dr. Carine Feyten. Dates: Languages and Linguistics/Slavic Lan- This series reflects CARLA’s com- August 9-August 17, 200. Application guages; University of Wisconsin-Mil- mitment to connecting research with Deadline: April 3. Description: This in- waukee; P.O. Box 413; Milwaukee, WI practice and the center’s ongoing mis- stitute will include two interacting 53201-0413; tel.: 414-229-4948; fax: sion to share what it has learned with strands for K-12 foreign language teachers and their second language 414-229-2741; e-mail: mikos@uwm. teachers and teacher educators that are learners. edu. designed to enhance effective technol- Each of the institutes is a highly in- Summer Research Laboratory on teractive blend of theory and practical ogy-based instructional practices in K- Russia and Eastern Europe application. 12 foreign language classrooms. University of Illinois, Urbana- Teachers will be engaged in discus- To receive more information about Champaign sion, networking, theory-building and our 2002 Summer Institutes, please visit The University of Illinois offers its hands-on activities that relate to the the University of Iowa Web site annual Summer Research Laboratory topic of the day. (www.educ.iastate.edu/nflrc) or contact on Russia and Eastern Europe, June 10 The institutes offered during sum- the National K-12 Foreign Language to August 2, 2002. mer 2002 include the following: (1) Resource Center, N131 Lagomarcino Associates are given full library Developing Materials for Less Com- Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA privileges to conduct research in the monly Taught Languages, July 29–Au- 50011, Tel: 515-294-6699, Email: University Library, which holds the gust 2; (2) Proficiency Oriented Lan- [email protected]. largest Slavic collection west of Wash- guage Instruction & Assessments, July Programs wishing to be listed in the ington, DC, and is staffed by Slavic ref- 29–August 2; (3) Basics of Second Lan- Summer Language Programs listings erence librarians. guage Acquisition for Teachers, July should send their information to the Beyond research opportunities, the 29–August 2; (4) Practical Course in AATSEEL Newsletter editor no later Lab offers programs from June 10 to Styles- and Strategies-Based Instruc- than December 15 for the February July 5, which include an annual sum- tion, August 5–9; (5) Developing As- newsletter and February 15 for the mer symposium, “Islam from Eastern sessments for the Second Language April newsletter.

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BELARUSICA Editor: Curt Woolhiser (University of Texas)

The North American For additional information about Newsletter Editor/Webmaster: Mr. Peter Kasaty Association for Belarusian NAABS and its organizational struc- ture, membership information (includ- CTS, San Diego, California (creator of Studies (NAABS) ing an application form in PDF format), “A Miscellany” website; cre- The North American Association and information on the Association’s ator and moderator of “Belarus” internet for Belarusian Studies (NAABS) is a current projects and upcoming discussion group and usenet newsgroup non-profit scholarly organization which NAABS-sponsored events, please see soc.culture. belarus promotes teaching, research and publi- the NAABS Web site at http:// cation in all areas of Belarusian stud- www.belarusian studies.org/. Executive Council: ies, including history, language and lin- Questions may be directed to Curt guistics, literature and the arts, cultural Woolhiser (NAABS President): e-mail: Dr. Thomas Bird studies, sociology, anthropology and [email protected], tel. 512- Dept. Slavic Languages, Queens Col- ethnography, political science, econom- 471-3607, fax 512-471-6710. lege, CUNY ics, and international relations. Mailing address: Department of Field: Slavic Languages and Literature; NAABS seeks to foster communi- Slavic Languages and Literatures, Box Research interests: ; religion cation and interdisciplinary collabora- 7217, The University of Texas, Austin in Belarus; Belarusian Drama; literature tion between teachers and scholars en- TX 78713-7217. of the Belarusian diaspora gaged in Belarusian studies and related fields by publishing a biannual news- Dr. Zina Gimpelevich letter, sponsoring conferences, panels NAABS Officers Dept. of Slavic Languages, Waterloo and workshops at the regional, national 2001–2004 University, Canada and international levels, and supporting President: Dr. Curt Woolhiser Field: Slavic Languages and Litera- the publication of research by North Dept. of Slavic Languages, University tures; Research interests: Belarusian American Belarusianists. Established in of Texas at Austin language and literature; the works of 2001 as an affiliate of the International Vasil Bykau Association of Belarusianists (IAB/ Field: Slavic Linguistics; Research in- MAB), NAABS joins other IAB na- terests: Belarusian and East Slavic his- Dr. Vitaut Kipel tional and regional affiliates in Belarus, torical linguistics, dialectology and so- Director, Belarusian Institute of Arts Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, the ciolinguistics; language attitudes and and Sciences (Belaruski instytut navuki Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, Ger- language ideology; language planning i mastactva, BINiM), New York many, France and Great Britain and policy Field: History, Cultural Studies; Re- Current NAABS projects include Vice-President: Dr. Maria Paula search interests: Belarusian history; his- an interdisciplinary conference on Be- Survilla tory and culture of the Belarusian larusian studies (tentatively scheduled Dept. of Music, Wartburg College, Iowa diaspora for the spring of 2003) and an Internet- Field: Ethnomusicology; Research in- Dr. David Marples based Belarusian Studies Resource terests: Belarusian traditional and urban Center with specially commissioned ar- Dept. of History, University of Alberta, music; music and national identity ticles and essays on various aspects of Canada Belarusian studies, an electronic anthol- Secretary-Treasurer: Dr. Alicja Field: History; Research interests: His- ogy of Belarusian literature in English Boruta-Sadkowska tory of Belarus (20th century empha- translation, and various useful links and Dept. of Modern Languages, University sis); the impact of Chernobyl; health other Belarus-related resources for of Northern Iowa and social-demographic issues; contem- porary Belarusian politics teachers, researchers, journalists and the Field: Slavic languages and literatures; general public. Research interests: history of the Be- Dr. Jan Zaprudnik, Member, Board of NAABS invites all researchers, larusian literary language; morphologi- Directors, BINiM, New York teachers, students and other individu- cal variation in Belarusian journalistic Field: History; Research interests: Be- als with an interest in Belarus and its prose in the 1920s and 1930s) larusian history; Soviet and post-Soviet multicultural heritage to join the Asso- Belarusian society and politics ciation and participate in its activities.

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M IDDLEBURY C OLLEGE NEW AND RECENT BOOKS • Genevra Gerhart. The Russian’s World. 3rd, corrected ed., 420 p., 2001 (ISBN 0-89357-293-4), paper, $34.95. The Russian Slavica is proud to restore this classic of our field to print for the third millenium. The new edition reprints the School 2nd edition, with corrections and a few additions to the text. The new price is $34.95 (a $15 reduction from the price of the previous edition). A full description of the • Study Russian in Vermont next summer book, together with samples and many other materials, is • Nine-week intensive language session equivalent to a available at http://www.members.home.net/ggerhart. year of college Russian • Eloise M. Boyle and Genevra Gerhart, eds. The Russian Context: The Culture behind the Language. 688 p. + CD- • Six-week graduate session leading to an M.A. in Russian ROM, 2001 (ISBN 0-89357-287-X), paper, $49.95. from Middlebury This companion to The Russian’s World is a collectively authored monograph which sets itself the daunting task of • Summer 2002 graduate courses in history,sociology,film quantifying the minimum level of cultural literacy studies, language, and literature, including E.A. Zemskaya necessary for serious foreign learners of Russian to on word formation and A.P.Logunov on 20th century appreciate and function properly in the Russian cultural context. Chapters are devoted to History, Poetry, Prose, Russian history Children’s Literature, Proverbs, Theater, Art, Popular • Financial aid available Entertainment, Geography, Government, and Science. The bundled CD-ROM disk includes the full text of the book in cross-platform Acrobat Reader format, enriched by about 1,700 graphic and sound files which could not be included in the printed book. The CD will run on any computer with at least a Pentium- or PPC-level processor The School and basic media support installed. • Slava Paperno, Alexander D. Nakhimovsky, Alice S. in Russia Nakhimovsky, and Richard L. Leed. Intermediate Russian: The Twelve Chairs. 2nd ed., 340 p., 2001 ( ISBN 0-89357- • Semester and academic year programs in 294-2), paper + 3 CD-ROM disks (Windows/Mac), $59.95. Moscow,Irkutsk,Voronezh, and Yaroslavl A brand new, completely revised edition of this popular • Graduate study in Moscow textbook for 2nd- and 3rd-year courses. In addition to its enhanced presentation and substantial new material, the • Internships available textbook is now bundled with The Twelve Chairs Interac- tive, a multimedia course for intermediate and advanced learners (two hours of full-motion digital video). A full de- scription of the book is at http://www.slavica.com/ texts/twelve.html; details on the CDs are at http://www. lexiconbridge.com/12Chairs/12c_des.htm. • Anna Lisa Crone. The Daring of DerÏavin: The Moral and Aesthetic Independence of the Poet in Russia. 258 p., 2001 (ISBN 0-89357-295-0), paper, $24.95. In this revisionist study of DerÏavin’s poetic art and his contribution to the emerging importance of the role of “leading poet” in Russian culture and throughout the Rus- sian Empire, the author paints a new picture of what is meant by DerÏavin’s “heavy lyre.” She traces how the very modest conception of the poet’s role he held in the 1770s was systematically rendered more authoritative, powerful, and independent. Middlebury College • Robert Orr. Common Slavic Nominal Morphology: A New Language Schools & Synthesis. 224 p., 2001 (ISBN 0-89357-288-8), paper, Schools Abroad $24.95. Middlebury,Vermont 05753 • (802) 443-5510 Slavica Publishers www.middlebury.edu/~ls Indiana University 2611 E. 10th St. [email protected] Bloomington, IN 47408–2603 USA [Toll-free] 1–877–SLAVICA (752–8422) [Tel.] 1–812–856–4186 [Fax] 1–812–856–4187 [Email] [email protected] [WWW]

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ter of Raska and the Resource Center and a talk by noted Russian actor and PROFESSIONAL for Medieval Slavic Studies of The director, Veniamin Smekhov. The Sym- Ohio State University. The conference posium program committee invites pro- OPPORTUNITIES theme will be Love of Learning and posals on all topics related to the pecu- Devotion to God in Orthodox Monas- liarities and changes in the perception teries. Papers are solicited on any topic and representation of the United States Calls for Papers relating to learning, culture, or monas- in Russian literature, cinema, or phi- tic life in medieval Slavia Orthodoxa. losophy. Papers must be given in Rus- 21st Anniversary SVU World Con- Please send a title, one-page ab- sian. For more information, please con- gress of the Czechoslovak Society of stract, and brief curriculum vitae to the tact Dr. Ilya Vinitsky, Symposium Con- Arts and Sciences Resource Center for Medieval Slavic by vener, by e-mail: [email protected]. Pro- The 21st SVU World Congress of email ([email protected]) or fax (614- posals for papers of about 10 ,ines must the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and 292-7859) no later than May 1, 2002. be received by May 15,, 2002. It is ex- Sciences will take place in Pilsen, June Additional inquiries should be di- pected that Symposium papers will be 24–30, 2002. rected to The Resource Center for Me- published in English translation. Sym- This Congress will be under the dieval Slavic Studies, The Ohio State posium participants are responsible for auspices of the Rector of the Univer- University, 225 Main Library, 1858 Neil all expenses for transportation to and sity of West Bohemia and the Mayor of Avenue Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210- from Middlebury, as well as room and the City of Pilsen. The overall theme of 1286; phone: 614-292-0634. board at Middlebury. Low-cost accom- the Congress is “The Transformation of modations will be available in the col- Czech and Slovak Societies on the May 15, 2002 lege dormitory. Threshold of the New Millennium, and “Problems of the History of Govern- their Role in the Present Global World.” ment (for the Bicentennial of the Min- May 31, 2002 The Congress themes will be de- istry System in Russia)” Studies in Modern and Contempo- voted to general civilization and histori- The Faculty of Law of St. Peters- rary Fiction: Aleshkovsky’s Kanga- cal questions, which will include dis- burg State University and the Russian roo cussion panels on Multiculturalism and Society of Legal History (RSLH) will Seeking original essay submissions many others. Topics regarding cultural conduct the international scholarly con- for a web-based casebook on Yuz themes; the sciences, education, and the ference “Problems of the History of Aleshkovsky’s vastly underappreciated economy; present Czech and Slovak Government (for the Bicentennial of the novel Kangaroo to be published in fall societies, political and spiritual life and Ministry System in Russia)” Septem- 2002 on the Center for Book Culture’s destinies, past, present, and future ber 16–17, 2002, and invite all legal his- website (http://www.centerforbook Czech and Slovak communities abroad torians to take part in it. Please see the culture.org) as part of its Studies in will be addressed in lectures and dis- web site for more information about the Modern and Contemporary Fiction se- cussion panels. Special discussion pan- conference: http//www.jurfak.spb.ru. ries (ed. by Robert Mclaughlin). els will be focused on various problems Synopses of papers must not be more The purpose of this series is to open of the young generation. than three pages. up avenues for exploring each novel and Individuals interested in chairing a U.S. Contact Person (RSLH): Cheri to open up a dialogue of ideas among panel or presenting a paper should reg- Wilson, Assistant Professor, Dept. of our contributors and each new reader. ister on the Czechoslovak Society of History, Loyola College in Maryland, Each casebook contains an introduction Arts and Sciences site: http://www. 4501 N.Charles Street, Baltimore, MD by the casebook editor that offers an svu2000.org/headlines/b20.htm. For 21210-2699; tel.: 410-617-2017, fax: overview of the novel, its place in the further information, contact Mila 410-617-2832, e-mail: CWilson3@ author’s oeuvre, and its critical recep- Saskova-Pierce, 1133 Oldfather Hall, loyola.edu. tion. The other four essays offer differ- UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-0315, USA; ent approaches to the novel and differ- tel.: 402-472 1336. May 15, 2002 ent interpretive strategies with which to Second Russian Symposium understand it. There is also a bibliogra- May 1, 2002 The Middlebury Russian School phy of the most important critical work Fifth International Hilandar Confer- will host its Second Russian Sympo- on the novel. ence sium (a continuation of the Norwich Submissions will be peer-reviewed The Fifth International Hilandar Russian Symposium tradition) Jluy 12- and the entire volume, once completed, Conference will be held in Raska, Yu- 14, 2002. The theme of this year's will be refereed by the editors at Dalkey goslavia, September 8–14, 2002 (with sumposium is "Amerika glazami Archive Press prior to publication on presentations September 9–12), under russkikh." The symposium will begin the Center for Book Culture website. the co-sponsorship of the Cultural Cen- with a concert of Russian jazz music

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All interpretive approaches to the index.html. The selection committee, September 15, 2002 novel are welcome and some departure consisting of panel chairs, panel secre- International Conference on Trans- from the traditional academic essay taries, and the conference co-chairs, lation Studies form is encouraged—although not re- expects to notify those proposing pa- The Fedorov Center for Translation quired—by the online format. Please pers of its decision by August 15, 2002. Studies announces its annual Interna- refer to http://www.centerforbook All abstracts should be sent to Pro- tional Conference on Translation Stud- culture.org/casebooks/ fessor Halina Filipowicz; Department ies, “The 4th Fedorov Readings,” Octo- casebook_tunnel/Introduction_302.htm of Slavic Languages and Literatures; ber 24–26, 2002. The conference will for an example of a previous casebook University of Wisconsin; 1220 Linden be held at the Faculty of Philology, De- in this series. Any quotations and cita- Dr.; Madison, WI 53706; fax: 608-265- partment of English Philology and tions would need to be translated into 2814; e-mail: hfilipow@facstaff. Translation, of St Petersburg State Uni- English, but Slavist approaches are wisc.edu. versity, Russia. warmly welcomed. The range of issues to be discussed Abstracts and/or informal prospec- August 1, 2002 will include various aspects of transla- tuses of potential submissions are wel- Journal of Women’s History tion and interpreting theory and prac- come and encouraged in advance, but The Journal of Women's History is tice. Presentations may concern any lan- completed articles (20–25 double- soliciting articles for a special issue on guage. The working languages of the spaced pages in length) must be re- women’s labors throughout the world, Conference are Russian and English. ceived by May 31, 2002, for consider- under diverse economic and gender sys- Conference panels include the fol- ation. Mail or e-mail (as attachments) tems, and in all historical periods. lowing: Theoretical Issues in Transla- submissions, abstracts, or queries to Manuscripts are sought on all forms of tion Studies; Psychological Aspects of Derek Maus, Assistant Professor of women’s work, both paid and unpaid, Translation and Interpretation; Practi- English and Communications, SUNY including but not limited to family, cal Aspects of University Translation College at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY household or domestic labor; carework Studies; Literary Translation; Italian 13676; e-mail: [email protected]. and motherwork; non-traditional and fe- Studies and Translation; Technical male dominated occupations, as well as Translation; Practical Aspects of Teach- July 1, 2002 on a broad range of topics, such as gen- ing Translation and Interpretation; and 2002 AATSEEL–Wisconsin Confer- der and informal economies; unioniza- Translation Criticism. ence tion, organizing, and forms of resis- Please submit abstracts or complete David Danaher and Halina Fili- tance; workplace cultures, self-percep- papers in Russian or English either via powicz, co-chairs of the AATSEEL– tions, and social constructions; labor e-mail to Svetlana Shilova at Wisconsin Conference, invite abstracts and the state; rights at work; and the [email protected] as attached on any aspect of Slavic literatures and relation of women’s labors to both the MS Word files or by regular mail with cultures (including film) and on issues family and polity. a hard copy and a file on a floppy disk in the learning and teaching of Slavic Also of interest are the difference enclosed. In your e-mail subject line, languages and literatures. Individual pa- that age, race, citizenship status, moth- please indicate “The 4th Fedorov Read- pers will be combined into panels by erhood, sexuality, and related factors ings.” the conference co-chairs. make in women’s labors and discourses Abstracts may not exceed 1,800 The conference will be held at the around them. characters. Complete papers can be of University of Wisconsin, Madison, on The issue, guest edited by Eileen any length. If your paper is not written October 5, 2002. The deadline for sub- Boris, will appear in early 2004. The in English it should be supplied with mitting abstracts is July 1, 2002. deadline for submissions is August 1, an English summary not exceeding 800 Abstracts can be sent via e-mail 2002. Send four one-sided, double- characters. The deadline for abstracts (text-only format, i.e., without attach- spaced copies of your manuscript (no is September 15, 2002, and for papers ments). Abstracts sent by regular mail more than 10,000 words, including is October 26, 2002. or fax should include four copies pre- endnotes) to Women’s Labors, Journal For further information please con- pared for an anonymous review: Only of Women’s History, c/o Department of tact Dr. Vadim Goloubev or Dr. one copy should have the author’s name History, The Ohio State University, 230 Svetlana Shilova at perevod@ and address. W. 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210- AK4883.spb.edu. It is strongly recommended that 1367. those who wish to submit an abstract For more details on submission September 15, 2002 refer to guidelines for writing abstracts policy, e-mail or see the Notice to Con- Slovenski jezik—Slovene Linguistic posted on the AATSEEL website: http:/ tributors page in any recent issue of the Studies /clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/ Journal of Women’s History. The mission of Slovenski jezik—

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Slovene Linguistic Studies is to publish Please send abstracts of 20-minute ety of experiential activities, group dis- articles concerned primarily with papers by 30 September 2002 to Paul cussions, and presentations on relevant Slovene or of interest to Slovene lin- Allen Miller, Chair, Comparative Lit- theory and research. guistics. Articles will be published as a erature Program, Humanities, Building, During this lively two and a half rule in Slovene or English with abstracts Columbia, SC 29208. day workshop you will learn about the in the both languages. Papers sent to the philosophy and principles behind lan- Editorial Board by the beginning of November 1, 2002 guage and culture learning strategies; each even-numbered academic year Women, Family, Private Life, and gain practical experience in using a va- will be considered for publication in the Sexuality riety of exercises designed to improve following spring issue. The International Federation for your students’ ability to use language Manuscripts should not exceed 18 Research in Women's History will host and culture learning strategies; get an double-spaced typewritten pages (or a conference on Women, Family, Pri- overview of the variety of resources 30,000 characters). vate Life, and Sexuality from Auguust available in the new series of guide- All articles, in addition to a paper 11-14, 2003. The conference organiz- books for students, program coordina- copy, must be submitted in a computer- ers invite proposals for papers on any tors, and language instructors and a set file format, either on diskette or trans- aspect of this topic. For more informa- of guidelines for possible uses in a va- ferred over the Internet. tion, contact [email protected], or riety of study abroad program contexts; Please contact one of the Editors for check out the web site: www. and receive a copy of each of the guide- details on preferred format and style: historians.le/women. books (one intended for students to use Marc L. Greenberg, Chair and Profes- on their own; one targeted at study sor, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Lit- abroad professionals; and one targeted eratures, University of Kansas–Wescoe Conferences and at language instructors) to use in your Hall, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 2134, own program. Lawrence, KS 66045-7590, USA; tel. Workshops For more information see the web- and voice-mail: 785-864-2349; fax: April 12–13, 2002 site at http://carla.acad.umn.edu/ 785-864-4298; e-mail: [email protected] “The Russians in Hollywood” studyabroad/information.html “The Russians in Hollywood,” a September 30, 2002 May 3–5, 2002 symposium of lectures, screenings, Fifth Annual University of South FASL 11: Eleventh Annual Workshop anddiscussion on the work of Russian Carolina Comparative Literature on Formal Approaches to Slavic Lin- emigre artists and images of Russian- Conference guistics ness in studio-era Hollywood film, will “The Desire of the Analysts: Psy- All who are interested in attending be held April 12–13,2002, at Univer- choanalysis and Cultural Criticism in FASL 11, May 3–5, 2002, at the Uni- sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. the Twenty-First Century” is the theme versity of Massachusetts, Amherst, are For more information, contact Beth of this conference, which will take place invited to register their e-mail and/or Holmgren, [email protected]. February 13-15, 2003. mailing addresses at the conference The keynote speaker will be Slavoj May 2–4, 2002 address above. E-mail is the preferred Zizek (Lubijana), and plenary speakers Maximizing Study Abroad means of communication. will be Julia Kristeva (Paris VII), Toril This special workshop at the Cen- For more information, please see Moi (Duke) and Kaja Silverman (Ber- ter for Applied Research in Language the FASL 11 website: http://www. keley) Acquisition (CARLA), Minneapolis, umass.edu/linguist/FASL11/ This conference initiates a conver- MN, will give study abroad program FASL11.html sation about the relevance of psycho- coordinators/advisors and language in- Immediately following the FASL analytic ideas in the twenty-first cen- structors involved with facilitating 11 conference, there will be a two-day tury. study abroad opportunities, background Workshop on the semantics and syntax Presentations should be broadly in- information, and a set of tools designed of possessive constructions (including terdisciplinary. The conference will end to improve their students’ language and but not limited to Slavic), May 5–7. Yhe with a roundtable in which we try col- culture learning strategies. Built around two-day workshop proceedings will be lectively to pull together the threads of a set of new guidebooks entitled Maxi- published both in Moscow and in our discussion—and to assess where mizing Study Abroad: Language and Amherst. our desires have led us. Culture Learning and Use Strategies for A call for abstracts will soon be We plan to publish selected papers Students, Study Abroad Coordinators, found on the workshop website: http:// from the conference in a collection of and Language Instructors, the work- www.umass.edu/linguist/ essays with a major university press. shop will engage participants in a vari- PossessiveWorkshop.html.

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May 8–11, 2002 June 6–8, 2002 June 26–30, 2002 The Second Chicago Conference on 18th Conference on Baltic Studies “St. Petersburg and Northwest Rus- Caucasia Johns Hopkins University (Home- sia: History. Culture. Present” The Second Chicago Conference wood campus: 3400 N. Charles Street), St. Petersburg State University, the on Caucasia will be held on the cam- Baltimore, MD, is hoting the 18th Con- Pushkinsky Project Cultural Enlighten- pus of the University of Chicago. There ference on Baltic Studies June 6–8, ment Society, and the center Piligrim will be a Linguistics Session and a Cul- 2002. Conference information, includ- are pleased to invite you to take part in ture Session. ing a preliminary program, travel and the International Scientific Conference The Linguistics Session will deal accommodations page, registration “St. Petersburg and Northwest Russia: with languages presently or historically form, and useful links, may be found at History. Culture. Present,” which is spoken in the Caucasus. the website: www.aabsconference.org. planned to be held June 26–30, 2002, The Culture Session will deal with in St. Petersburg and Staraya Ladoga. all areas of the folklore, literature, art, June 6–9, 2002 The working language of the Confer- music, ethnography, and social sciences “Women in Civil Society: Philosophy. ence is Russian. of the peoples of the North and South Politics. History” For more information, please con- Caucasus. The Educational-Scholarly Gender tact the organizing committee: Prof. The working language of the con- Center is pleased to invite you to attend Popova St., 25, Saint Petersburg, Rus- ference is English. the international conference “Women in sia, 197022; tel. + 7 812 2380394, tel/ For more information, please con- Civil Society: Philosophy. Politics. His- fax + 7 812 2339932, e-mail confer- tact Chicago Conference on Caucasia, tory.” The Conference will be held June ences @piligrim.com. Department of Slavic Languages & 6–9, 2002, at the Faculty of Philosophy, Literatures, University of Chicago, Saint Petersburg State University, St. 1130 East 59th St., Chicago, IL 60637; Petersburg, Russia. Grants and tel.: 773-702-8033; fax: 773-702-7030; For more information, contact the e-mail: slavic-department@uchicago. head of the Educational-Scholarly Gen- Fellowships edu. der Center, Prof. Grigory A. Tishkin, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg April 15, 2002 June 2002 State University, Mendel-eevskaya linii Postdoctoral Appointment, History American Councils: Teaching On- 5, St. Petersburg, 199034 Russia; tel. of Medicine Line Business Russian 7-812-328-94-21, 7-812-328-94-22, or Johns Hopkins University American Councils is planning a 7-812-233-75-35; fax 7-812-328-44- The History of Science, Medicine, three-day training seminar in June 2002 08; e-mail genderspbun @lycos.com or and Technology Department at The on the use of its on-line Business Rus- genderspbun@ pochtamt.ru. Johns Hopkins University is seeking to sian course and authoring tools which make a two-year postdoctoral appoint- will enable teachers to develop their June 19–21, 2002 ment beginning in July 2002. The de- own on-line materials for language Heritage Learners and National Lan- partment is interested in persons whose learning (such as text presentation with guage Needs work looks broadly at the social and links, multiple-choice exercises, drag- This symposium is part of the 2002 cultural history of medicine, medical and-drop, fill-ins). All of these activi- line-up of Summer Institutes at the Na- science, healing and disease. Scholars ties are created with score-keeping and tional Foreign Language Resource Cen- with degrees in history, as well as other data-tracking features. Absolutely no ter (NFLRC) at the University of Ha- disciplines, are encouraged to apply. programming necessary. waii at Manoa. It will provide practical Time period and geographical specialty The training seminar will take place information, theoretical considerations, are open. at American Councils in Washington, and program/curriculum models for lan- The successful candidate will teach DC, and all expenses (travel, accommo- guage education that utilizes existing one course each year and help develop dation, and training) will be covered. heritage language resources. It will of- a series of events around their field of If you teach Business Russian or fer a range of language, culture, literacy, interest for the spring of 2004. Candi- expect to teach it in the near future and and technology workshops by experts dates must have their PhD in hand by are interested in this free state-of-the- who have extensive knowledge and June 2002. Applicants should send a art training opportunity, please contact experience in developing innovative K- letter describing their research and Dr. Barbara Mozdzierz at mozdzierz@ 16 heritage language programs. Special teaching interests, a CV, and three let- actr.org; fax: 202-833-7523; 1776 Mas- pre-registration rates in effect through ters of recommendation to Dr. Randall sachusetts Ave, NW, Suite 700, Wash- May 20, 2002. For more information, M. Packard, Chair, Department of the ington, DC 20036. visit http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ History of Science, Medicine and Tech- prodev/si02h/.

26 April 2002 Vol. 45, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER nology, The Johns Hopkins University, ciation (ABA) designed to advance the May 1, 2002 1900 East Monument Street, Baltimore, rule of law by supporting the law re- Distinguished Chair in Central and MD 21205. Review of applications will form process underway in Central and East European and Russian Studies begin April 15, 2002 Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Fulbright–Warsaw University Union. Each year, CEELI awards a lim- Announcing a grant opportunity April 15, 2002 ited number of resident Fellowships for available during the 2003–04 academic 2002 Humanities Focus Grants intensive legal research, analysis, and year through the Fulbright Distin- Division of Education Programs, writing. guished Chairs program: the Fulbright– National Endowment for the Hu- Fellows will work in Washington, Warsaw University Distinguished Chair manities DC, at CEELI’s Legislative Assistance in Central and East European and Rus- The Division of Education Pro- and Research Program conducting leg- sian Studies. The new Distinguished grams announces the next deadline for islative analysis of draft laws from CEE Chair at Warsaw is very broadly defined the Humanities Focus Grants competi- and the former Soviet Union. Fellows and is open to scholars working on vari- tion. Humanities Focus Grants encour- will organize and manage working ous issues in the region including na- age collaborative study of significant groups of judges, law professors, and tionality issues. humanities topics and enable educators attorneys to comment on the draft laws, To be considered for this position, to map institutional directions for teach- and then write the final analysis. please submit the following materials ing the humanities. Humanities Focus Fellows will also research and write to the address listed below: (1) a de- Grants are particularly appropriate and discussion papers relating to legal re- tailed letter of interest (about three are encouraged for first-time applicants. form in the region, focusing on topics pages), including a statement outlining The NEH staff encourages consul- concerning judicial independence, the your suitability for the position and pro- tation with program staff prior to sub- legal profession, gender issues, environ- fessional reasons for seeking the ap- mitting an application. mental law, and criminal law. pointment: (2) a curriculum vitae (limit The National Endowment for the Fellows are fully integrated into of eight single-sided pages): and (3) a Humanities supports school teachers CEELI’s day-to-day operations, and are sample syllabus (limit of four pages) for and college faculty in the United States encouraged to participate in appropri- a course you would propose to teach or who wish to strengthen teaching and ate discussion forums hosted by CEELI a syllabus for a course you have previ- learning in history, literature, foreign and other institutions in Washington, ously taught that you would adapt to languages and cultures, and other areas DC. teach as the Distinguished Chair (limit of the humanities. Fellows must hold a law degree of four single-sided pages). If you pro- Application deadline: April 15, from either a U.S. or a foreign law vide a syllabus for a previously taught 2002. Funding available up to $25,000. school. They must be highly motivated, course, please address in your letter of Guidelines and application forms are able to work independently, and pos- interest how you might adapt the course available from the NEH Web site at sess both excellent interpersonal and to meet the requirements of the host http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html. writing skills. Experience in interna- institution. For more information about this tional law and comparative legal sys- If you have questions about the grant opportunity, or if you have ideas tems is strongly preferred. 2003–04 Distinguished Chairs program about developing a project, please e- Successful applicants will demon- or the submission/review process, mail, write or call the Division of Edu- strate the ability to strengthen the Leg- please contact Daria Teutonico, Assis- cation Programs, National Endowment islative Assistance & Research tant Director, Europe/NIS Fulbright for the Humanities, Room 302, 1100 Program’s capacity to conduct substan- Scholar Program, Council for Interna- Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washing- tive research and analysis. tional Exchange of Scholars, 3007 ton, DC 20506; tel.: 202-606-8380; fax: Applications will be accepted until Tilden Street, NW Suite 5L, Washing- 202-606-8394; TDD (for hearing im- April 30, 2002. To apply, please com- ton, DC 20008-3009; tel.: 202-686- paired only): 202-606-8282; e-mail: plete an application packet, which can 6245, fax: 202-362-3442, e-mail: [email protected] be downloaded from http:// dteutonico@ iie.org. Or contact Holly April 30, 2002 www.abanet.org/ceeli/positions/ Williams, Program Associate, e-mail: The American Bar Association Cen- fellowship.html. hwilliams@ cies.iie.org, tel.: 202-686- tral and East European Law Initia- Applications must be mailed to 6232. tive (CEELI) Legislative Fellowships CEELI Fellowship Program, Attn: An- drew Solomon, Esq., 740 Fifteenth In addition, you can visit the web The Central and East European site at www.cies.org/cies/us_scholars/ Law Initiative (CEELI) is a public ser- Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20005- 1022. No phone calls please. DisChairs for more information about vice project of the American Bar Asso- the Distinguished Chairs Program.

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June 15, 2002 hours per week of advanced language mately $8,000 to $25,000. Application Medieval Studies Program Fellow instruction for three to nine months in deadline: October 1 (Spring Program); The Fordham University Medieval Russia, Central Asia, the Southern January 15 (Summer, Fall and Aca- Studies Program: Medieval Fellows Caucasus, Ukraine, Belarus, and demic Year Programs). offers a limited number of posts avail- Moldova. Fellowships include round- able for post-graduate researchers. This trip international travel, housing, tu- Monthly Closing Dates affiliation with Fordham University of- ition, living stipends, visas, insurance, Inner Asian and Uralic NRC Re- fers library privileges, including a car- affiliation fees, archive access, research search Grants rel; a research-oriented e-mail account; advising, and logistical support in the The Inner Asian and Uralic Na- use of the gym at faculty rates; partici- field. Open to graduate students, post- tional Resource Center at Indiana Uni- pation in seminars and other Medieval docs, and faculty. Total value of awards versity announces research grants for Studies events such as workshops, ranges from approximately $8,000 to scholars who wish to go to Blooming- graduate prize competitions, and $25,000. Funded by the U.S. Depart- ton to utilize IU’s unique resources on Fordham’s annual Medieval Studies ment of State, Program for Research Central Eurasia, including the Research conference; photocopy privileges; pro- and Training on Eastern Europe and the Institute for Inner Asian Studies gram stationery. Each fellow will be Newly Independent States. Application (RIFIAS) library. Grants may be used expected to offer one lecture to deadlines: October 1 (Spring Program); to cover or defray travel expenses or Fordham medievalists per semester of January 15 (Summer, Fall and Aca- other direct research costs (e.g., photo- residence. For further details and infor- demic Year Programs.) copying). While IAUNRC Research mation regarding the application pro- Grants are limited to $300, additional cedure, contact Prof. Thelma Fenster, October 1, 2002 funding may be available to scholars Medieval Studies Program, FMH 305, Title VIII Special Initiatives Fellow- who give a public presentation or par- Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458; ship ticipate in a similar outreach activity. email: [email protected]. Appli- This program provides grants of up Application information is available at cation deadline: June 15, 2002. http:// to $35,000 for field research on policy- http://www. indiana.edu/~iaunrc. www.fordham.edu/gsas/mvst/ relevant topics in Kazakhstan, Eligibility Criteria: IAUNRC re- mvst.html. Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and search grants are available to faculty Uzbekistan. Applicants must hold a who are U.S. citizens or permanent resi- October 1, 2002 Ph.D. in a policy-relevant field, have dent aliens. Unfortunately, Title VI Title VIII Research Scholar Program held an academic research position for regulations do not allow us to make This program provides full support a least five years, and have sufficient these awards to graduate students. for three to nine-month research trips language-ability to carry out proposed Review Procedure: Applications to Russia, Central Asia, the Southern research. Scholars must conduct re- will be reviewed at the end of each Caucasus, Ukraine, Belarus, and search for at least four months in the month. All applicants will be notified Moldova. Fellowships include round- field. Application deadlines: October 1 as to whether their applications have trip international travel, housing, living (Spring Program); January 15 (Summer, been funded. Applications should be re- stipends, visas, insurance, affiliation Fall and Academic Year Programs.) ceived no later than 30 days before the fees, archive access, research advising, time that the scholar intends to come to and logistical support in the field. Total October 1, 2002 Bloomington. value of awards ranges from approxi- Title VIII Central Europe Research mately $8,000 to $25,000. Open to and Language Study Programs Various closing dates graduate students, post-docs, and fac- This program provides full support Fulbright-Hays Programs ulty. Funded by the U.S. Department of for three to nine months of research and/ The Fulbright-Hays programs offer State, Program for Research and Train- or language study in East-Central Eu- fellowships to pre-doctoral students, ing on Eastern Europe and the Newly rope. visiting lecturers, and senior scholars. Independent States. Application dead- Fellowships include round-trip in- There are a number of programs. Infor- lines: October 1 (Spring Program); ternational travel, housing, living sti- mation on requirements, dates, and pro- January 15 (Summer, Fall and Aca- pends, visas, insurance, tuition, and af- gram content is avialable at http:// demic Year Programs). filiation fees. Funded by the U.S. De- www.iie.org/cies. partment of State, Program for Research October 1, 2002 and Training on Eastern Europe and the Quarterly closing dates Title VIII Combined Research and Newly Independent States. Kennan Institute Language Training Program Fellowships are pen to graduate stu- The Kennan Institute offers Short- This program provides full support dents, post-docs, and faculty. Total term Grants (up to one months’ dura- for research and approximately eight value of awards ranges from approxi- tion) to scholars whose research

28 April 2002 Vol. 45, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER in the social sciences or humanities fo- For more information, please con- form by cooperating with institutions cuses on the former Soviet Union, and tact Jennifer Giglio via e-mail at of higher education in Central and East- who demonstrate a particular need to [email protected], call 202-691- ern Europe and the former Soviet utilize the library, archival, and other 4246, or fax 202-691-4247. Union. CEP collaborates on the selec- specialized resources of the Washing- tion and placement of Visiting Lectur- ton, DC, area. Various closing dates ers, who commit to teach and perform Academic participants must either Short-term Grants outreach activities for a minimum of possess a doctoral degree or be doctoral With funding provided by Title VIII one academic year. candidates who have nearly completed (Soviet and East European Research Eastern Scholars are local academ- their dissertations. For non-academics, and Training Act), East European Stud- ics who have been to a Western institu- an equivalent degree of professional ies offers short-term grants to scholars tion for substantial graduate training in achievement is expected. having particular need for the library, theri social science field. Short-term Grants provide a stipend archival, and other specialized re- CEP provides them with a montly of $100 per day. sources of the Washington, DC, area. stipend, teaching materials and aca- There is no official application form This program is limited to American demic programs allowance, participa- for short-term grants. The applicant is citizens (or permanent residents) at the tion in various CEP events and activi- requested to submit a concise descrip- advanced graduate and post doctoral ties, and access to CEP's network of tion (700-800 words) of his or her re- level and to an equivalent degree of pro- Fellows teaching through the region. search project, a curriculum vitae, a fessional achievement for those from CEP currently works in twenty statement on preferred dates of resi- other fields. countries and supports approximately dence in Washington, DC, and two let- Short-term grants provide a stipend 200 Fellows in a variety of social and ters of recommendation specifically in of $100 per day for one month (for a policy science disciplines, including support of the research to be conducted maximum of $3,000). This is a residen- fields such as international relations, so- at the Institute. tial program requiring visiting scholars ciology, political science, law, history, Applicants should also note their to remain in the Washington, DC, area economics, puvblic administration, citizenship or permanent residency sta- and to forego other academic and pro- enviornmental policy, and journalism/ tus in their materials. fessional obligations for the duration of media studies. Applications should be submitted the grant. No office space, however, is Visit the Civic Education Project at in clear dark type, printed on one side provided. http://www.cep.org.hu/ or contact the only, without staples. The applicant is requested to sub- offices at Civic Education Project, Grant recipients are required to be mit a concise description of his/her re- Nador u. 9, Budapest 1051, Hungary, in residence in Washington, DC, for the search project; a curriculum vitae; a Tel: (36-1) 327-3219, Fax (36-1) 327- duration of their grant. statement on preferred and alternate 3221. In the United States, contact the Four rounds of competitive selec- dates of residence in Washington, DC; Civic Education Project, 1140 Chapel tion for Short-term Grants are held each and two letters specially in support of Street, Suite 2A, New Haven, CT year. Closing dates are December 1, the research to be conducted at the Cen- 06511, Tel. (203) 781-0263, Fax (203) March 1, June 1, and September 1. Ap- ter. Applications are reviewed by mem- 781-0265, plicants are notified of the competition bers of the East European Academic results roughly six weeks after the clos- Council at regular intervals throughout ing date. U.S. citizens, permanent resi- the year. New Website for dents, and non-Americans are eligible Closing dates are December 1, Students for Short-term Grants, although fund- March 1, June 1, and September 1. Ap- ing for non-American applicants is lim- plicants are notified approximately four The National Security Education ited. weeks after the closing date. Program has announced the release of Approximately one in three Ameri- For more information, contact East a new website deisgned to encourage can applicants and one in six non- European Studies at One Woodrow Wil- more American students to consider the American applicants are awarded Short- son Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., idea of international study and study term Grants in each of the four compe- NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027. E- abroad (www.worldstudy.gov). tition rounds. mail: [email protected]; Website: The website was developed as a Please send all application materi- http://www.wilsoncenter.org/ees/. way to connect with students—even at als to The Kennan Institute, One Open the high schoole level—to make them Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsyl- Civic Education Project understand why and how area and lan- vania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC The Civic Education Project (CEP) guage study is important to careers and 20004-3027. is dedicated to assisting democratic re- other areas of their lives.

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Summer 2002 American Councils has managed summer, semester, and academic year study abroad programs in the NIS for over 25 years, Advanced supporting more than 3,000 students, faculty & scholars. Russian GROUP PROGRAMS FEATURE: Intensive language training at Pre-departure orientation Language leading Russian universities in 8 undergraduate or 10 graduate & Area Studies Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vladimir hours of credit Housing with a Russian host family Scholarships available or in university dormitories Program Application deadline: Peer tutoring March 1, 2002 Internships For more information and an Experienced full-time resident application, contact: Outbound directors Programs, American Councils for Cultural excursions International Education: ACTR/ ACCELS, 1776 Massaschusetts Ave., Round trip international airfare NW, Ste. 700, Washington, DC from Washington, D.C. 20036. Phone: (202) 833-7522, [email protected]

Summer, semester and academic year programs for language study NIS in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine or Uzbekistan. Students with at Regional least two years of study in Russian or the host country language are eligible. Language PROGRAM COSTS INCLUDE: Full tuition at leading NIS 16 undergraduate or 15 graduate Program universities hours of credit per semester Round trip international airfare from (8 per summer) Washington, D.C. Scholarships available Housing with a host family or in For more information and an university dormitories application, contact: Outbound Health insurance and visa processing Programs, American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ Pre-departure orientation ACCELS, 1776 Massaschusetts Logistical support from ACTR/ACCELS Ave., NW, Ste. 700, Washington, regional offices DC 20036. Phone: (202) 833- 7522, [email protected]

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The award was conferred upon Dr. or any of the major Western languages Lekic by the Russian First Lady, Mrs. (English, French, or German). Submit- AWARDS Liudmila A. Putin, who is herself a lin- ted papers will not be returned. guist and philology graduate of St. Pe- Submitted by Dr. Vera Borkovec, SVU tersburg University, during the official Vice President visit of Russian President V. Putin in 2002–2003 AWSS Pre-Dissertation November 2001. AWSS Heldt Prize Competition Fellowship Winner Submitted by Dr. Barbara Mozdzierz, The Association for Women in The Association for Women in Senior Publication Specialist, Slavic Studies (AWSS) will award the 2002 Heldt Prizes for works of schol- Slavic Studies is pleased to announce American Councils for International arship and translation at their meeting the winner of the 2002–2003 AWSS Education: ACTR/ACCELS Pre-Dissertation Fellowship. Jill at the AAASS National Convention in Massino is a PhD Candidate in History Czechoslovak Society of Arts and November. To be eligible for nomina- at Indiana University, Bloomington. Sciences Dr. Joseph Hasek tion, all books and articles for the four Her project, “Women in Commu- Student Awards prizes listed below must be published nist Romania: The Case of Brasov,” is The Czechoslovak Society of Arts between 31 May 2001 and 31 May ambitious but well-grounded, building and Sciences (SVU) is announcing a 2002. on the work of eminent scholars who competition for the 2002 Dr. Joseph Nominations are invited in the fol- have written on Romania (Kathleen Hasek student awards. lowing categories for scholarship: Verdery, Gail Kligman, and others), The names of the winners will be (1) Best book in Slavic/East Euro- while promising to add new areas and announced in the Society’s various pean/Eurasian women’s studies; levels of understanding to patterns of newsletters. (2) Best article in Slavic/East Eu- gender, nationality, and identity in East- The main purpose of the Society’s ropean/Eurasian women’s studies; ern Europe. awards is to generate and encourage (3) Best book by a woman in any Massino will travel to the ethnically scholarly interest in Czech and Slovak area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian and religiously complex city of Brasov affairs among university students liv- studies. to conduct the interviews that will serve ing outside the Czech and Slovak re- You may nominate works in more as the basis of her narrative, using gen- publics. than one category, and you may nomi- der as her central focus. There will be one prize for the best nate more than one item in each cat- By combining documentary and undergraduate and one for the best egory. Articles included in collections oral history approaches, she aims to graduate study dealing with some as- will be considered for the “best article” generate a more diverse and nuanced pect of Czech and/or Slovak history, Prize only if they are individually nomi- picture of the lives of women under politics, or culture. nated. communism. Her proposal is thought- The winners will receive $250; a To nominate any work, please send ful and elegantly written, lucid and per- year’s membership in the Society, or request that the publisher send one suasive, and very promising. which includes a year’s subscription to copy of the work to each of the four This year’s competition received a the Society’s newsletter; and a certifi- members of the Prize committee: (1) strikingly excellent group of proposals, cate of merit. Professor Julie Brown, Sociology De- and we wish all the entrants good luck, The paper must be submitted by the partment, P.O. Box 26170, UNC- plentiful inspiration, and adequate fund- professor in whose class it was pre- Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27420- ing. sented and should be accompanied by 6170; (2) Professor Beth Holmgren, Submitted by the committee: the professor’s recommendation. It Slavic Languages and Literatures, Dey Halina Filipowicz, Sibelan Forrester, must have been written for an under- Hall 421, CB #3165, UNC-Chapel Hill, Adele Lindenmeyr graduate or graduate course during the Chapel Hill, NC 27599; (3) Professor academic year 2001–2002. Chapters of Anastasia Kara-kisidou, Department of Pushkin Medal Recipient theses or dissertations are not admis- Anthropology, Wellesley College, Dr. Maria Lekic (Associate Profes- sible. Wellesley, MA 02481; (4) Professor sor, University of Maryland, and Direc- The deadline for submission is May Natasha Kol-chevska, University of tor of Publication and Materials Devel- 15, 2002. New Mexico, Foreign Languages and opment, American Councils: ACTR/ Three copies of the paper should be Literatures, 229 Ortega Hall, Albuquer- ACCELS) was awarded the A. S. Push- sent to Professor Vera Borkovec, 12013 que, NM 87131. kin Medal in recognition of her contri- Kemp Mill Road, Silver Spring, MD A separate Heldt prize will be butions to the study and teaching of 20902. They must be typed, double- awarded for the best translation, schol- Russian language and culture. spaced, and written in Czech, Slovak, arly or literary, in Slavic/East European/

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Eurasian women’s studies. To nominate sity of Wisconsin in Madison, has re- an English-language translation, please ceived the Xenia Gasiorowska Fellow- Seeking AATSEEL send or request that the publisher send ship for the spring semester 2002 to do one copy of the translation to each of research for her dissertation on Polish Chapters the three members of the Translation and Russian women writers. Are you a member of an active Prize committee: (1) Professor Carol The Xenia Gasiorowska Fellow- regional, state, or local AATSEEL Flath, Box 90259, Duke University, ship was estblished by the first women chapter? If so, the AATSEEL Ex- Durham, NC 27708; (2) Professor professor in the Slavic Department at ecutive Director would like to hear Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College, the UW-Madison. A pionerring scholar from your group so that we can com- Department of Modern Languages and in the field of Slavic Women's Studies, pile a list of active chapters, includ- Literatures, 500 College Avenue, Xenia Gasiorowska completed her ing their contact information. Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397; (3) Pro- Ph.D. at the University of California in And here’s another good reason fessor Beth Holmgren, Slavic Lan- Berkeley in 1949. She taught at Wis- to let us hear from you: Paragraph guages and Literatures, Dey Hall 421, consin from 1949 until her retirement 3c of the AATSEEL Bylaws states, CB #3165, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel in 1981. In 1958-1959, she was a visit- “The charter of a chapter shall be au- Hill, NC 27599. ing professor at Wellesley College. She tomatically suspended if a chapter All questions pertaining to these died in 1989. fails to remain active, that is, if it fails awards should be addressed to Profes- Submitted by Dr. Halina Filipowicz to hold at least one meeting a year sor Beth Holmgren at the above address University of Wisconsin-Madison and forward minutes of such meet- or via email [email protected]. ing or meetings to the Executive Di- Submitted by Dr. Beth Holmgren Other Awards? rector and to the Editor of the University of North Carolina If your program presents awards Association’s Newsletter by Decem- that you would like to have featured in ber 15 of any given year.” (Note: Xenia Gasiorowska Fellowship this column, please send pertinent de- The AATSEEL Constitution and By- Anke Ziolkowska, a graduate stu- tails to the AATSEEL Newsletter. Coor- laws were published in SEEJ 42,3 dent in the Department of Slavic Lan- dinates for the newsletter editorial staff [Summer 1999], pp. 427-32.) So, guages and Literatures at the Univer- can be found on page 2. please, send in your information!

Pre- and in-service teachers of Russian at the high school and Summer university level are encouraged to apply to the 2002 Summer Russian Language Teachers Program. Selected candidates will 2002 receive full funding for: Russian Six weeks of specially arranged Application Deadline: seminars in Russian language, March 1, 2002 Language culture and pedagogy at Moscow For more information and an State University application, contact: Outbound Teachers Housing with a Russian host family Programs, American Councils for Round trip airfare from Washing- International Education: ACTR/ ton, D.C. to Moscow ACCELS, 1776 Massaschusetts Ave., Program NW, Ste. 700, Washington, DC Pre-departure orientation in 20036. Phone: (202) 833-7522, Washington, D.C. [email protected] Living stipend Ten hours of graduate credit from Bryn Mawr College

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GRADUATE STUDENT FORUM Editor: Mark Nuckols (Ohio State University) Graduate students! This is your column. ample of such innovative bridge-build- time of the search. A department with What is it you have always wanted to ing, I would like to mention Antony strong graduate programs and scholarly know but were afraid to ask? Take ad- Polonsky’s proposal, “How Should We distinction will be more likely to look vantage of the opportunity to have some Integrate Jewish History and Culture at the scholarly potential of candidates very knoweldgeable people answer into the History and Literatures of Cen- and, increasingly, I’m afraid, their those questions for you! Send your tral and Eastern Europe?” (NewsNet: record of conference presentations and questions to the editor, Nuckols@ The Newsletter of AAASS, September publications. At the other extreme, de- hotmail.com. 2001). partments without graduate programs, or small ones—particularly at smaller, Q: In terms of career advancement Q: Which course is going to be liberal arts institutions—traditionally and publishing, what are the really “hot” more beneficial in terms of getting an have put more emphasis on undergradu- dissertation topics in Slavic/Russian academic job: taking 5–7 years to fin- ate teaching, attracting and advising Literature nowadays? Are there any ish the Ph.D. with relatively little teach- majors, and other forms of program ser- trends in the literary field generally (in- ing experience, or taking 7–9 years and vice. But, there are plenty of “small” cluding Comparative Lit. and other lan- teaching not only language classes but schools and programs that have very guages) of which one should be aware also assisting with other programs, such high scholarly standards for retention when choosing a topic? as discussion sections for Great Books and promotion. And, as budgets have survey classes, Russian History classes, been squeezed and enrollments have A: (Halina Filipowicz) I would ar- Women’s Studies, etc.? become a, if not the, measure of fac- gue that it’s up to us, authors, to define In other words, all other things ulty productivity, even major doctoral “a hot topic.” That is to say, it’s up to (namely dissertation quality) being granting institutions have begun to be us to convince our audience that a par- equal, are academic employers more concerned about the quality of under- ticular topic (a dissertation topic, a book likely to be impressed by the fact that graduate teaching, enrollments, and re- proposal, whatever) is really hot. And we finished quickly, or by a resume that tention. it’s up to us to make sure that those hot shows a broad teaching background and So, what’s a student do? My advice topics stay hot—that they don’t lose experience? would be (1) to give lots of thought to their value and relevance—by doing A: (Ernest Scatton) Five to seven what kind of academic environment you cutting-edge research that includes new years without teaching experience or want to work in; (2) to make choices, ideas, new angles, new combinations. seven to nine with...I wish the alterna- to the extent that you have any, that re- It’s a truism that while choosing a dis- tives were that simple and that it were flect your personal goals; (3) to finish sertation topic one should be aware of simple to predict what mix of graduate your degree as quickly as possible, so critical theory relevant to the project and school variables would optimize a that you can get started with your post- of broader theoretical issues outside the student’s job prospects. In reality, to graduate career as soon as possible. Slavic field in order to enter the con- judge by my experiences on search versations and debates of other schol- committees in a lot of different disci- ars. It’s another truism that established plines and areas of our university, the Conference Books borders among fields and disciplines situation is much more complicated. blur, shift, become reconfigured. What The criteria set by search commit- Available is less obvious is that all of this shifting tees, say, for entry level positions can A limited number of program also affects the position of Russian lit- be very diverse, reflecting the charac- books from recent years’ annual erary studies vis-a-vis the so-called ter of a given academic program or de- conferences are still available from other Slavic literatures. Specialization partment and its specific needs at the AATSEEL. in a single area is no longer enough. To order one or more volumes, I believe it’s important to join this The editors thank the following specify the year(s) desired, and send whole process of productive colleagues who serve as an advisory $5 each (US funds; checks payable reconfiguration by integrating Slavic group to the GSF: Thomas Beyer, to AATSEEL) to AATSEEL, 1933 literatures and cultures more fully not Robert Channon, Joan Chevalier, N. Fountain Park Dr., Tucson, AZ only into comparative literature, but Halina Filipowicz, Beth Holmgren, 85715. also into fields such as cultural studies, James Levine, Benjamin Rifkin, Requests for specific-year program books film and performance studies, gender Ernest Scatton, and Irwin Weil. studies, and Jewish studies. As an ex- will be honored while supplies last.

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Preferred: Demonstrated ability to students evenings and weekends. EMPLOYMENT work in non-alphabetic script and ex- Minimum qualifications for senior perience working with people of diverse instructors include an M.A., teaching OPPORTUNITIES language and cultural backgrounds. experience preferably in an immersion A complete application must in- environment, superior proficiency in Assistant Professor, Information clude the following: a letter of applica- Russian and advanced proficiency in Literacy tion stating qualifications, experience, English. An advanced degree in Rus- Arizona State University and research plans and teaching inter- sian, applied linguistics, or foreign lan- The Department of Languages and ests; a complete curriculum vitae; guage education is desirable. (For Literatures seeks an assistant professor graduate school transcripts; three letters graduate teaching assistants, an M.A. who will do the following: (1) Teach of reference; and samples of research in progress is required). model courses integrating technology and writing. Employment is contingent upon and information literacy skills in a lan- The deadline for applications is new employees providing documents guage-related field; (2) assist language March 31, 2002 or every two weeks verifying U.S. citizenship or, for non- and literature faculty and graduate stu- thereafter until position filled. citizens, documents verifying legal per- dents in designing and implementing Position starting date is August 15, mission to work in the US. technological components in language, 2002. All applications acknowledged. Send letter of application, curricu- literature, or culture courses; and (3) Send to Pier R. Baldini, Chair, In- lum vitae, and list of three references make connections in research between formation Literacy Search Committee, to Patricia L. Zody, Center for Lan- information literacy and broader cul- Department of Languages and Litera- guage Studies, Beloit College, 700 Col- tural concepts. tures, Arizona State University, Box lege Street, Beloit WI 53511. You may In addition to disciplinary expertise, 870202, Tempe, AZ 85287-0202. also submit your application electroni- the successful candidates will have ex- Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/ cally as an attached document to pertise in information literacy and in- dl. [email protected]. formation technology. They will con- Arizona State University is an Equal Op- Applications will be accepted until portunity, Affirmative Action Employer. tribute to the implementation of a col- the positions are filled, but review will lege-wide curricular initiative dedicated Summer Russian Language Teach- begin April 1, 2002. to achieving information technology ing Positions For more information about the and information literacy for all under- Beloit College’s Center for Lan- summer language programs, please call graduate college students. guage Studies 608-363-2277 or visit the web site at Faculty recruited for this initiative Senior instructors and graduate http://beloit.edu/~cls. will provide leadership for individual teaching assistants are needed for Beloit AA/EEO Employer. departments to restructure degree pro- College’s summer intensive Russian Open & Multiple Ranks Faculty, grams and existing courses, as well as program (June 9–August 9, 2002), International Politics develop new courses to help achieve the which expects to offer first- through Portland State University goals and competencies of this initia- fourth-year Russian. The Division of Political Science tive. The Department of Languages and Each level, with an average enroll- in the Hatfield School of Government Literatures consists of 66 faculty, 120 ment of six to eight students, has one at Portland State University seeks ap- graduate students, and 400 majors. instructor and one graduate teaching plicants for a tenure track position in Required qualifications include a assistant who share teaching and evalu- international politics beginning Fall Ph.D. in Chinese, French, German, Ital- ation responsibilities with a lead in- 2002. Rank is open. ian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Com- structor. Primary teaching responsibilities parative Literature, Linguistics, or re- Instructors collaborate with each will be for courses at the upper divi- lated fields. Native or near-native pro- other, the language coordinator, and the sion and graduate levels in world poli- ficiency in English and one of the CLS director on curriculum, syllabi, tics, international relations theory, and above-mentioned languages; strong and instruction. national and international security. In background in the humanities, demon- Duties include classroom teaching addition, some preference will be given strated experience in designing and and evaluation, and assistance with or- to candidates with the ability to teach implementing technological compo- ganizing cultural activities for the pro- one or more of the following: interna- nents in language, culture, or literature gram. tional law, international organizations, classes; evidence of strong research Instructors will be expected to live and international environmental law commitment integrating information on-campus (single occupancy), eat and politics. literacy with broader humanities ques- meals with the students at lunch in the The Mark O. Hatfield School of tions. dining commons, and be available to Government is part of the College of

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Urban and Public Affairs, and the fac- Chair, Search Committee, Women’s sition for this rabbinic, academic, edu- ulty are encouraged to participate in Studies Program, 352 Murray Krieger cation, and professional development interdisciplinary scholarship within the Hall, University of California, Irvine, college serving the Progressive Move- college. CA 92697-2655.Website: http://www. ments in the UK and Europe. Candidates should show a strong humanities.uci.edu/WomensStudies/ The ideal candidate will have ex- potential for excellence in research and The University of California is an Equal perience in the teaching of Jewish Stud- teaching and those at the associate level Opportunity Employer committed to excellence ies at graduate level and have an earned through diversity. should have a strong publication record. PhD. A Ph.D. in political science must be Founding Faculty, Social Sciences/ Applicants should send CV, ex- completed by September 1, 2002. Humanities/Arts amples of published work, and letter of Send letter of application, curricu- University of California, Merced application to Rhona Lesner, Head of lum vitae, graduate transcripts, writing UC Merced, tenth campus of the Administration, Leo Baeck College- sample, teaching evaluations, and three University of California, is particularly Centre for Jewish Education, 80 East letters of recommendation to Birol seeking senior and mid-career faculty End Rd, Finchley, London N3 2NR. Yesilada, Search Committee Chair, Di- for the division of Social Sciences/Hu- Enquiries and job description: vision of Political Science, P.O. Box manities/Arts. [email protected] 751, Portland State University-PS, Port- For detailed information, please see land, OR 97207-0751; website: http:// the website at http://www.ucmerced. Project Manager, Partnerships and www.upa.pdx.edu/POLISCI/ edu/employ/ff.htm Training Division Review of applicants will begin Faculty nominations and applica- IREX, Pristina, Kosovo April 15, 2002 and continue until the tions at all faculty ranks and in all dis- IREX seeks applicants for the po- position is filled. ciplines are invited to apply. Applica- sition of Project Manager for a substan- Portland State University is an Affirma- tions may be submitted electronically tial anti-trafficking project to be based tive Action, Equal Opportunity institution and, to [email protected]. Applications/ in Kosovo. His/her services will be so- in keeping with the President’s diversity initia- nominations will be considered starting licited on a full-time basis for fifteen tive, welcomes applications from diverse can- months to manage a program increas- didates and candidates who support diversity. immediately and continuing until all po- Women and minority candidates are especially sitions at all levels are filled. ing efforts in human trafficking preven- encouraged to apply. The University of California is an Equal tion and protection. Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The Prevention of & Protection for Associate Professor, Women’s Trafficking Victims in Kosovo compo- Studies Russian Teacher nent of the Kosovo Assistance Plan will University of California, Irvine Noble Street Charter High School, continue USAID’s initiatives to im- The Program in Women’s Studies Chicago prove sustainability of social services at the University of California, Irvine, Be part of an exciting, high profile, and enhance contribution by civil insti- anticipates a tenured position at the be- Chicago charter high school! Noble tutions in Kosovo. ginning or mid-Associate level with a Street Charter High School has a Fall The Project Manager will direct and hire date of January or July of 2003. 2002 opening for a Russian teacher. oversee all work performed under the An interdisciplinary scholar in Long hours, but good pay and great project and will be the primary point of feminist theory or feminist cultural kids. contact with the USAID/Kosovo Assis- studies working on globalization or Fax resume to Michael Milkie, tance Program. transnationality is sought. Focused ar- principal, at 773-278-0421 or e-mail to This position is available pending eas of expertise include theories of state [email protected]. For more infor- funding from USAID. or civil society, religious movements, mation call Mr. Milkie at 773-862-1449 The position will be based in or histories and philosophies of science or check out the website at www. Pristina but will involve significant and technology. Strong record of inter- goldentigers.org. travel to other cities within Kosovo to disciplinary research and teaching at un- work with local NGOs to coordinate dergraduate and graduate levels are nec- Director of Jewish Studies Depart- ment anti-trafficking initiatives under this essary. Candidates must demonstrate program. engagement with Women’s Studies as Leo Baeck College-Centre for Jewish Education Responsibilities include, but are not a field of knowledge. Qualification: limited to, management of the program Seeking director of Jewish Studies Ph.D. in appropriate field. including supervising local staff, man- Review of applications will begin Department at the Leo Baeck College- Centre for Jewish Education in London. aging office operations, and providing May 1, 2002. To apply, send cover let- monthly fiscal and program reports; This position as senior lecturer and ter, curriculum vitae, writing sample, manage and monitor all program com- director of the department is a new po- and three letters of recommendation to ponents: outreach and awareness cam-

36 April 2002 Vol. 45, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER paigns, training, grant-giving, and tech- sian Language Teachers Program. Please send cover letter and resume nical assistance; conduct program out- The program officer reports directly immediately to [email protected] refer- reach and recruitment; approve and sub- to the program manager for Russian and encing “civil society project” in the sub- mit to USAID all proposed work plans, Eurasian Outbound Programs. ject of the message. Inquiries held in staffing plans, and budgets; and respon- Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree strictest confidence. sible for the quality, cost, and timeli- in Russian-related field or equivalent ness of performance of all work per- work experience, graduate degree formed under this project. strongly preferred; excellent written and Call for Candidates must be well organized, oral communication skills; proficiency able to work independently, skilled at in Russian; outstanding organizational Nominations handling multiple tasks, and able to ad- skills; previous program administration The AATSEEL Committee on here to deadlines. experience; database and spreadsheet Nominations, Elections, and Awards is Other qualifications required at a skills preferred; expertise in Central calling for nominations for the follow- minimum: demonstrated knowledge of Asian Republics preferred; knowledge ing positions: President Elect 2003- the trafficking issue in the region, pref- of budgetary procedures, especially 2004, and Vice President 2003-2005. erably Kosovo; familiarity with train- with regard to government grants pre- Nominations should be sent to Frank ing and technical assistance with re- ferred. Miler, Past President of AATSEEL, gards to gender issues-related pro- For more information see the web- Chair of the Committee on Nomina- grams; coalition-building and advocacy site: www.actr.org tions, Elections and Awards experience preferred; international ex- Send letter/resume and salary re- ([email protected]), Laura Janda perience, preferably in Kosovo or quirements to PO-Outbound Search, ([email protected]), or James Sweigert Balkans; experience working with USG American Councils, 1776 Massachu- ([email protected]). funding agencies (USAID experience setts Avenue, Suite 700, Washington, strongly preferred); excellent interper- DC 20036; fax: 202-872-9178 or 202- sonal and organizational skills, and the 833-7523; email: [email protected]. Thanks for Cutting ability to negotiate with local and in- Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Em- ternational officials, NGO representa- ployer. AATSEEL's tives, and community stakeholders to Project Director for Civil Society ensure the successful completion of Program Expenses! project activities; solid understanding AED Many thanks to those of you who of political and social issues in Kosovo AED, a Washington, DC-based received, and promptly responded to, and the Balkans; knowledge of Alba- non-profit organization, is immediately AATSEEL's 2002 personalized re- nian very useful; a master’s degree in a seeking candidates for director of a newal/verification mailing that was sent relevant discipline. USAID-funded civil society project in out in January 2002. Such mailings are Send cover letter and resume to Ukraine. a very costly, but necessary, expense to IREX/HR/YF, 1616 H Street, NW, This position is for an individual your organization (about $1 each, or Washington, DC 20006; fax: 202-628- with specific experience with USAID- over $1,000, for printing, handling and 8189. funded assistance projects in the NIS postage). Your early cooperation has en- Or send an e-mail message to region, preferably Ukraine, and expe- sured that an additional—and expen- IREX/HR/YF at [email protected]. rience managing complex international sive—"stragglers" mailing need not in- EOE civil society programs, including grant clude you. Program Officer, Russian and management and capacity building of Eurasian Outbound Programs civil associations. American Council of Teachers of Candidates must have a minimum Conference Books Russian of five years experience with civil so- Washington, DC ciety development, NGO management, A limited number of program Based in Washington, DC, the pro- technical assistance experience, train- books from recent years' annual gram officer for Russian and Eurasian ing and grant making; knowledge of/ conferences are still available. Outbound Programs administers lan- experience in the NIS, preferably To order, specific the year(s) de- guage study and research programs for Ukraine; USAID experience; excellent sired, and send $6 each in US funds U.S. scholars and students in the NIS management, supervisory, and commu- as checks payable to AATSEEL. and central Europe, in particular, the nication skills; regional language skills Address all orders and inquir- Advanced Russian Language and Area desirable; and advanced degree desir- ies to AATSEEL, 1933 N. Fountain Studies Program and the Summer Rus- able. Park Drive, Tucson, AZ 85715.

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versity High School and the University Teachers wishing to obtain infor- SLAVA Annual of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA; mation about forming a chapter of Meeting and (13) Marian Walters of Toledo, OH. SLAVA at their school, or for further Twenty-four chapters inducted a information regarding the SLAVA SLAVA (the national high school total of 214 student members, two hon- scholarships, contact Marian Walters, Slavic honor society) advisors held their orary members, and one new faculty Ex. Sec./Treas., 5159 Sandra Drive, annual breakfast meeting in conjunction member, and six students were pre- Toledo, OH 43613; tel. 419-474-3827; with the Olympiada committees at 8:00 sented with Certificates of Achieve- fax 419-474-2317; BabaMasha@ a.m. on December 29, 2001, in New Or- ment. aol.com. leans. Present were (1) Renate Bialy of No new chapters were inducted, Submitted by Marian Walters, McKinley High School, Baton Rouge, although five schools requested infor- Executive Secretary/Treasurer, SLAVA LA; (2) Halina Danchenko of Hughson- mation on forming chapters. ville, NY; (3) Armen Dedekian of Recipients of the $500 SLAVA Buckingham, Browne & Nichols, Cam- Scholarships for the ACTR summer New Executive bridge, MA; (4) Ruth Edelman of program were (1) Erin McElligatt of Tenafly High School in Tenafly, NJ; (5) Northern University High School in Ce- Director Contact Yitka Kraharoun of Universitka dar Falls, IA (teacher Jim Sweigert), (2) Karlova, , Czech Republic; (6) Amy Luxemberg of Thomas Jefferson Information Raissa Krivitsky of Vestal High School, High School for Science and Technol- Beginning July 1, 2002, the new Vestal, NY; (7) Masha Lekic of ACTR, ogy in Alexandria, VA (teacher Eliza- contact information for AATSEEL's Washington, DC; (8) Erin McGuffee of beth Sandstrom), and (3) Abberly Executive Director will be AATSEEL, Bailey Middle School, Austin, TX; (9) DeBellis of Sparta High School in Attn. Kathleen Dillon, P. O. Box 7039, Peter Merrill of Phillips Academy, Sparta, NJ (teacher Eric Hood). Berkeley, CA 94707-2306 USA. Andover, MA; (10) George Morris of Thanks to judges Halina The general AATSEEL e-mail ad- St. Charles, MO; (11) Jane Shuffelton Danchenko, George Morris, and John dress ([email protected]) of Brighton High School, Rochester, Sheehan for reading the applications. remains unchanged. NY; (12) Jim Sweigert of Northern Uni-

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Is This Your Last AATSEEL Newsletter Information Newsletter? The AATSEEL Newsletter is published in October, December, February, and April. Advertising and copy are due six weeks prior to issue date. The next dead- Please take a moment to look at the line is August 15, 2002. address label on this AATSEEL News- letter. There should be two numbers above your name. The first is your (per- PUBLICITY AND ADVERTISING POLICY manent) membership/subscription Free of Charge: Full scholarship study tours and stateside study programs, number. The second is the year through meetings, job information, new classroom materials, and similar announcements which your membership is paid. If that are published free of charge. second number is not 2002 or higher and you have not recently sent in a re- Advertising Rates: Commercial ads of interest to the profession are accepted newal, this is the last issue of the at the following rates and sizes: (Other sizes, such as vertical half-pages and quar- AATSEEL Newsletter that you will re- ter pages, can sometimes be accepted; please query first.) ceive. All AATSEEL members from 1999, Full page $160 7 5/8" x 9 3/8" 2000, and 2001 should have received a Half page $95 7 5/8" x 4.5 11/16" personalized membership renewal/di- Column inch $20 Approx. 6 lines rectory update form in January 2002 to Questions on advertising fees and determination of whether an announcement help us ensure accuracy in handling re- is an advertisement should be addressed to the Executive Director. newals and contact information up- dates. If you no longer have that form, Format: Preferred format for advertisements is eps with included fonts. Either you may use the form in the back of Macintosh or PC format is acceptable. Advertisements without graphics may be this newsletter. sent as word files; rtf is preferable if using programs other than Word or WordPerfect. As always, if you have any ques- Files may be e-mailed to the Newsletter Office (see address on masthead, page 2). tions about your membership status, Detailed instructions for advertisers on how to prepare advertisements for the please write, call, or e-mail the Execu- AATSEEL Newsletter can be found on the AATSEEL website: http://clover. tive Director. Contact information can slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/.Questions not answered there and requests for exceptions be found on page 2. should be addressed to the Editor.

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