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AATSEEL NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL STAFF AATSEEL POINTS OF CONTACT Editor: BETTY LOU LEAVER President: Assistant Editor: ANNA JACOBSON NANCY CONDEE Contributing Editors: VALERY BELYANIN University of Pittsburgh MOLLY THOMASY BLASING [email protected] President-Elect: ELENA DENISOVA-SCHMIDT THOMAS SEIFRID KATHLEEN EVANS-ROMAINE University of Southern California SIBELAN FORRESTER [email protected] ALINA ISRAELI Past President: Ferit Kiliçkaya CARYL EMERSON ANI KOKOBOBO Princeton University MILA SASKOVA-PIERCE [email protected] RACHEL STAUFFER Vice-Presidents: JULIE BUCKLER CURT WOOLHISER Harvard University NL Coordinates: [email protected] KATYA HOKANSON Editor: [email protected] University of Oregon Assistant Editor: [email protected] [email protected] Layout/Advertising: [email protected] JAMES LAVINE Bucknell University AATSEEL Office: [email protected] PATRICIA ZODY JULIA MIKHAILOVA Executive Director, AATSEEL University of Toronto P. O. Box 569 [email protected] Beloit, WI 53512-0569 USA JANE SHUFFELTON Phone: 608-361-9697 Brighton HS, Rochester, NY (retired) E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] VALERIA SOBOL Layout/Advertising: CDL Services University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [email protected] Submitting Copy: Editor, SLAVIC & EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL: GERALD JANECEK (1) Foreign languages are accommodated if prepared on Ma- University of Kentucky cIntosh with a truetype or postscript font that can be shared. [email protected] (2) Eps or pdf with embedded fonts, Indesign, PageMaker, Editor, AATSEEL NEWSLETTER: and Quark Express documents can be accommodated. BETTY LOU LEAVER [email protected] (3) Please do not double-space between sentences in elec- Conference Program Committee Chair: tronic submissions. ALEXANDER BURRY (4) Please query the editor about formatting, content, graph- Ohio State University ics, or language. [email protected] Executive Director: (5) The AATSEEL Newsletter is not copyrighted. Authors PATRICIA L. ZODY wishing to protect their contributions should copyright their American Councils for International Education: materials. ACTR/ACCELS [email protected] (6) Full specifications are available at the AATSEEL web site. Conference Manager: DIANNA MURPHY University of Wisconsin-Madison [email protected] AATSEEL Web site AATSEEL Web Master: For current online information about AATSEEL DAVID GALLOWAY and its activities, visit AATSEEL on the web: Hobart and William Smith Colleges [email protected] http://www.aatseel.org April 2011 Vol. 54, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER
Message from the the 2008 initiative of Polina Barskova Letter from the Editor (Hampshire College), continued last AATSEEL President year by Olga, together with Maria This newsletter wraps up the issues Khotimsky (Harvard University), and for this academic year. I want to thank Dear colleagues: Keren Klimovsky (Brown University). all the column editors for their contin- First, this newsletter must wish god They will soon ask for submissions from ued steadfastness and assistance in put- speed to Executive Director Pat Zody. both US-based and international con- ting together a newsletter that addresses The presidential council, together with tributors for the 2012 conference. These a wide variety of topics of interest to the Pat, is pleased to announce our new Ex- readings of contemporary poetry add a readership. I also want to thank them for ecutive Director, who will begin work vital dimension to AATSEEL’s profile being willing to move up their deadlines on 1 July 2011. Elizabeth Durst is a lec- as a key site for the creative humanities, in order to meet earlier requirements turer in the Writing Program at Univer- pedagogy, and linguistics that makes a for submission of the newsletter to the sity of Southern California, where she distinctive contribution to our field. printer in order to return to a paper earned a doctoral degree in Russian lit- As for the second effort, two 2012 version, as we have done this year. I erature. Her research includes women’s advanced seminars are modeled on would ask the readership to indicate if fashion in early 20c. Russia, and the role the workshop and master class offered there are other topics that would sustain of dress in conveying western notions at the AATSEEL 2011 conference by columns. I would also mention that we of the new woman in a modern urban Irina Paperno (University of California, are still looking for a replacement editor context. Until 1 July, Pat will continue Berkeley) and William Mills Todd III for the Ukrainian column, which has not to shepherd us through the upcoming (Harvard University) on Tolstoi and on run for nearly two years now for lack changes with her characteristic commit- the nineteenth-century novel respec- of an editor. ment and anticipation of directions that tively. Encouraged by these seminars, In researching new publications we must consider moving. which were themselves follow-ups to for this issue, I noticed that there are Among those new directions is the Caryl Emerson’s (Princeton University) many forthcoming books that are quite selection of a stable institutional home. outstanding contribution on Bakhtin the exciting. I hope to capture a number Together with Pat, the presidents—Past year before—Katya Hokanson (Univer- of them for the fall issue and hope that President Sibelan Forrester, Outgoing sity of Oregon) is continuing the superb this is a sign of a return to more robust President Caryl Emerson, Incoming work begun by Julie Cassiday (Williams Slavic and East European programs. For President (yours truly), and President College) in organizing two 2012 AAT- certain, at my institution, Russian is a Elect Tom Seifrid—have looked long SEEL advanced seminars that we hope making a slow but steady comeback. and hard at our options, in hopes of find- to announce shortly. The other Slavic and East European ing a good academic institution where Finally, Julie Buckler (Harvard Uni- languages continue to languish, but AATSEEL might work on a long-term versity) is leading this year’s effort to perhaps future years will find resurgent basis, under terms grounded in a memo- organize several teaching workshops for interest in them, at least within aca- randum of agreement for a proposed AATSEEL 2012. Together with Anna demic halls. five-year period. We are currently in the Berman (Princeton University), the I know it is a bit early to wish every- process of finalizing the details of that graduate-student representative to AAT- one a great summer since most of your draft memorandum and hope to update SEEL, and Julia Mikhailova (University are just returning from spring break, the Executive Council and AATSEEL of Toronto), Julie is planning two events if, indeed, you took a break. However, members in the next few weeks. We an- in particular: a syllabus workshop and a since we have no summer or late spring ticipate that this institutional home will pedagogy workshop that we hope will issues, this is my only chance to send provide office space, technical support, be especially productive for beginning that wish, so I shall risk being too early and a potential pool of extra hands when and early career colleagues, as well as with it. needed, so as to move the organization those of us who are always looking for toward a new level of logistical security new ideas. Betty Lou Leaver and professional visibility. I wish you a productive end-of- In these early months leading up semester and interesting plans for Sum- to next year’s conference, three AAT- mer 2011. SEEL projects in particular are mov- Nancy Condee (University of ing steadily ahead: the 2012 poetry Pittsburgh), AATSEEL President (2011- readings, the advanced seminars, and 2012) teaching workshops. The first, orga- nized by Olga Livshin (University of AATSEEL is now on FACEBOOK! Alaska Anchorage), Stephanie Sandler (Harvard University), and Sibelan For- rester (Swarthmore College), carries on
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Editors: Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh & State of the Field Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern Ca.
In this issue, we offer you David of appreciation has become one of media hosts behind in a cloud of MacFadyen’s (UCLA) resource-rich production. Folks once happy with dust and mp3s. insight into the contemporary music a karaoke set, the words to Vladi- Add to that the mashups, re- scene, as it resides on a broad range mirskii Tsentral, and an electrical mixes, and growing international of music and verse portals across Rus- outlet are now hell-bent on sharing participation of Russian amateur sia. We are grateful to him and other their skills with the world. Beware performers in web-based compi- colleagues who have responded to our the bored Slav with a modem and lations, and we have before us a invitations to produce these thumbnail mouse. decentering of musical or lyrical sketches of their fields. For other such Maksim Moshkov’s aestheti- production never seen before. Tor- sketches on film studies, Slavic linguis- cally challenged yet seminal text- rent sites, to make things worse tics, intellectual philosophy, contempo- portal Lib.Ru (http://lib.ru/) has (i.e., better for the morally lax), then rary poetry and other topics, see http:// long included an offshoot known subvert all sense of chronology by www.aatseel.org/publications/newslet- brilliantly as Music.Lib.Ru (http:// gathering and uploading decades ter/. Our thanks, too, are extended to music.lib.ru/). Before the invention of legal CDs, rare vinyl from Soviet Sibelan Forester (Swarthmore College) of pictures, Mashkov opened his vaults, and bewildering qualities for co-editing these contributions for doors to songwriters of all towns of antique samizdat recordings. the past several years. Thomas Seifrid and styles, but then - with faint wis- Monitoring it all on the humblest (University of Southern California) dom - abandoned any pretense to of scales takes all day, every day. now joins Nancy Condee (University of editorial control. Currently the site (Believe me...) Pittsburgh) in editing this column. holds over four million songs and Even within those antedilu- spoken-word narratives. If we were vian proto-portals, a problem soon to exclude prepubescent rappers emerged that has now attained epic *** from that morass, bad-mouthing proportions: the lack of accurate Contemporary Russian Music their girlfriends to a couple of pi- tagging and/or systemization. Networks rated loops, the total would drop Today’s leveling of literary and There’s a good (or good-na- considerably. Nonetheless, an ar- musical production demands expert tured) argument to be made for song chival precedent was set. Long-tail filtering, for the following reasons. as the most socially consequential activity, gathered in dusty corners of Slavdom’s song-driven sites usu- and entertaining form of Russian the runet, began to trouble the main- ally allow contributors to tag their literature. Until recently, collecting stream. Pimply boys and pinstripe own material. Bad idea. Transferred, that heritage in any meaningful suits went head-to-head. say, to the realm of dance music at way meant frequent (and physi- Other archives appeared. Of PromoDJ (http://promodj.ru/), cal) involvement with three major similar dimensions and provenance the consequences of a laissez-faire access points: purveyors, archives, has been RealMusic (http://www. admin mean that a slack-jawed and collectors. The first group will realmusic.ru/), a huge project that hipster from Magadan will prob- soon be extinct, the second ceased allowed for greater functionality ably tag his tub-thumping master- evolving with the invention of vinyl, and marginally more visual ap- pieces as everything from trip-hop and grumpy representatives of the peal. And yet, as with all the early to trance and back again, simply third have no intention of sharing. songwriting aggregators, no finan- in order to increase the likelihood All three, though, whatever their cial gain was forthcoming - as a of an inquisitive click. And so we behavioral quirks, have now been result of which the site has barely the visitors and scholars all suffer: forced to reconsider their standing. developed, despite some attempts although these sites can be trawled With the emergence of the web, at generating advertising revenue. in some similarly Neanderthal song’s claim to “social consequence” Gaudy banners, pop-ups, and mail- fashion for their entire contents - is no longer measured in terms of order brides do not a museum make. dolphins and all - they will continue samogon-fueled caroling: it today Nowadays, in any case, conscien- to have academic value for only involves the same people recording tious artists have spawned countless the most patient researchers. Or for themselves (sober or not). A culture blogs, mini-portals, webzines, and text-mining software operating at netlabels; they’ve all left the early Chilean depths.
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And thus we encounter Problem scholars can construct with their of the globe, it will soon allow for #1 for Russian literature today, be students, working as equals. college-approved, audio-visual col- it sung or read aloud: prior to any The decimation of the Slavic laborations plus archived socializa- appreciation of available material, music industry by piracy has meant tion with native speakers or artists especially of new works, what’s that the nouns “song” and “profit” overseas. This will be done using desperately needed is expert ag- are unlikely to appear in the same tools such as Facebook, Twitter, gregation. The nationally popular sentence. Musicians must tour – and Flickr, and Russian equivalents like verse portal Стихи.Ру (http://www. do so endlessly. Embarking upon Vkontakte. Students will be able af- stihi.ru/) currently houses over 12 that activity in the world’s biggest ter this spring to build and manage million (!) texts. Where to begin? country during the worst recession media-rich locations of importance Let’s continue with the example for decades is an almost laughable both to local arts in Russia and their of song, given the speed of its pro- endeavor. In a tragic, penniless own spoken skills. Not appreciate, duction and cultural resonance - sort of way. Both online and across but build. They’ll become conse- both online and off. With the death physical geography, today’s po- quential members of a real-world of MySpace expected any moment etry, songwriting, and music have community, helping to plan and soon, yet another major aggregator been thrown mercilessly to the four publish online song, music, and will tumble, bringing more disorder winds. Even bestselling paperbacks verse with Russian performers in to the field. Although MySpace has are scanned and uploaded online their real towns, villages, and ven- always shown scant interest in geo- within hours of their publication. ues. A freshman in Oregon will help graphic indexing, at least perform- Consequently, a couple of prob- to stage and archive live events in ers were assembled with generic lems stand front and center – such as Orenburg. (Other options will be considerations in mind, not to men- law and order. We need to establish available outside the constraints of tion creative kinships. Those link- that order on campus; it’s not devel- alliteration.) ages will be lost. It is possible that oping naturally in the digital field In order to initiate the map’s Facebook will now become a prime whither we send our students. Once significance as a place of voluntary center of musical/lyrical activity more I suggest that songwriting and socialization, I presently embed text, (i.e., a monolith fronted by a man music are a fine place to start if we images, audio, and video into daily who never blinks), yet within the hope to systematize “post-paper” articles, using a collection of roughly Slavic world, of course, songwriters literary production. In managing 600,000 Creative Commons music and performers often prefer Vkon- this realm, what’s needed are expert files. In its current form, the project takte. The reason? Giddy degrees of tracking mechanisms and detailed contains geo-tagged media and ar- lawlessness. tagging. Not only in order to filter ticles on more than 1,300 amateur With more than 100 million quality media from chaff, but also to musicians from all around Russia, users, Vkontakte is currently the store it beyond the average lifespan Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic most popular site in Europe if we of a webpage, currently between nations. It’s a start. The site auto- calculate things on the basis of page 44 and 77 days. How, though, do matically generates mini-podcasts views and – more importantly – we get our student web-users and - while both daily articles and the data transfers. Vkontakte is also cultural practitioners in one reli- fresh audio operate perfectly over becoming increasingly significant able, expertly assessed and media- an iPhone. Tools are being added as a center for local concert informa- rich environment? In a top-quality, this season to let our students step tion, and therefore associated texts bounded, yet challenging location, into the mediated environments of or media (more so, for example, so that students study, assist, and approved native speakers and work than http://www.lookatme.ru/). archive cultural practices - both for on linguistically or visually-driven Millions of other, legally suspect themselves and the next generation projects. As the traditions of Russian files can also be found at the same of students? (Rather than write term literary production fall apart, we are location. Three options result: sink, papers of no interest to anyone once all offered the chance of a lifetime to swim, or systematize. vacation starts.) help out - with the arbiters of that Greater media production in the It is in this context that I will take same shell-shocked heritage. runet leads only to more disorder. the liberty of describing my own The healthier literary and musical project, “Far from Moscow” (http:// —David MacFadyen (UCLA) production becomes, the less we www.farfrommoscow.com/). It’s are able to follow or understand all working towards a media-dense it. What’s lacking, once again, are and socially networked music/ expert/academic aggregation and poetry map for language, film, and systemization. A well-built sense of literature students. Working first order is precisely the kind of thing within the Russian-speaking area
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Editor: Ferit Kiliçkaya, Technology & Middle East Technical Language Learning University
Microsoft Mouse Mischief requires a computer with at Submissions for future editions of this column should be least 1 GB ram running on Windows 7, Vista and XP with sent electronically to Ferit Kılıçkaya ([email protected]. service pack 3. Windows 7 and Vista are recommended as they tr, [email protected]) allow 20-25 mice to be connected to the computer through Microsoft Mouse Mischief: powered USB hubs. Creating Interactive Language Using Microsoft Mouse Mischief Lessons Using PowerPoint Microsoft Mouse Mischief can be downloaded using the following link on the main page of the software (http://www. microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/en-us/download. aspx). The file is 10 megabytes (MB). When downloading is finished, click on the file and install the software. When PowerPoint is run, locate the Multiple-Mouse tab on the main menu.
Most teachers will subscribe to the opinion that the most difficult part of their profession is to engage and excite each and every student in their classrooms. Using a variety of materials such as interesting examples and engaging activi- On the multiple-mouse tab, you will see the buttons such ties, teachers try to make their lessons interesting so that each as “New Slide”, “Yes/No” and Multiple Choice. Using “Yes/ student can get involved in and benefit from these lessons as No” and “Multiple Choice” buttons, you can create questions much as s/he can. However, this is sometimes not possible in these formats. Using “Assign Answer”, you can specify without using one of the tools provided by technology. Mi- the answers to the questions you have created. In Multiple crosoft Mouse Mischief is one of these simple but powerful Choice questions, you can use media files. Using “Drawing”, tools that will help teachers get more out of what they plan students can draw anything using their mice. When you have to cover in their lessons. created your questions, the final step will be to chick on “Play Slide Show” and your students can, using their mice, interact with the questions or even with the media files while seeing Microsoft Mouse Mischief their answers on the display with colorful mouse pointers in the form of shapes such as a robot and a guitar.
Microsoft Mouse Mischief is a freely available add-in to PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 users, allowing teachers to create lessons based on PowerPoint presentations. Using this add-in, teachers can prepare presentations in ‘Yes-No’ and “Multiple Choice” formats. These presentations can help students in- teract on a projector or display by using their own mice both individually and in groups. Mouse Mischief is available in the following languages: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Simpli- fied Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, and Turkish.
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Microsoft Mouse Mischief Resources
Home page http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/ en-us/default.aspx Sample Lessons http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/ en-us/lessons.aspx Case Studies http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/ en-us/learn-more.aspx#CaseStudies Clickers in the classrooms Articles http://www.lifescied.org/cgi/content/full/6/1/9 Evaluation http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0729.pdf http://people.uncw.edu/lowery/NSSA%20ms.pdf Microsoft Mouse Chief can be considered as a cost ef- fective add-in for PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 to provide lan- guage teachers with a free tool to create interactive language exercises that will spark curiosity among students. It does not require any programming skills and it is a good alternative to Recent Publications some expensive authoring tools. Mouse Mischief also proves to be a good alternative to expensive student response sys- tems known as clickers. Microsoft Mouse Chief is limited to The Recent Publications column includes books published Yes/No and Multiple Choice questions and does not include in 2010-2011. Authors and publishers are invited to submit other types of questions such as matching. Moreover, some information about their new publications. “clever” students can wait for other students to answer and Please be sure to include the date of publication and the can choose the most popular answer provided on the screen, publisher. which can be seen a disadvantage for the software. Art Dace, L. 2011. The age of symbolism in Latvia. Silvana How to use Microsoft Mouse Mischief Editoriale. with students Hilton, A. 2011. Russian folk art. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. With Microsoft Mouse Mischief, you can easily spark student curiosity by integrating interactive technology into the Culture curriculum using Yes/No and Multiple Choice questions. Language teachers can create informal summative or Ioffe, D., & White, J. 2011. The Russian avant-garde and formative quizzes to test students and monitor their progress radical modernism (cultural syllabus). Academic Studies in groups or individually. Press. Students can collaborate with other students in groups Redlich, S. 2011. Life in transit: Jews in postwar Lodz, 1945- while answering the questions and discussing the answers. 1950. Academic Studies Press. Teachers can create TV-show like activities in which Weisser, K. 2011. Jewish people, Yiddish nation: Noah Pry- students can form groups and compete against each other. lucki and the folkists in Poland. Toronto, Ontaria, CA: Uni- Teachers can also create polls and get feedback immedi- versity of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. ately through the responses provided by each student using Williams, Isobel/Amor, Stuart. 2010. Working in Russia his/her mouse. and Eastern Europe. Series Editor: Bob Dignen. Adviser: Students themselves can create activities on the topic Elena Denisova-Schmidt. Intercultural Business English. discussed in the classroom or any topic that might be inter- Berlin: Cornelsen, esting and share them with their classmates. Continued on page 7
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Szymborska, Here, was published by Member News Harcourt in 2009, and her translation of Adam Zagajewski, Unseen Hand, is Czech Corner forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Editor: Molly Thomasy Blasing Giroux in May. Editor: Mila Saskova-Pierce (University of Wisconsin-Madison) (University of Nebraska) Nancy Condee (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Editor's Note: This corner is for teach- The AATSEEL Newsletter likes to University of Pittsburgh) has been ap- ers of the Czech language, and I would keep its members informed about im- pointed the inaugural Director of the like to invite them to share their news, portant events and professional mile- Global Studies Center at the University views, and experience related to the stones! If you or an AATSEEL mem- of Pittsburgh. Pitt Global Studies, a teaching of various kinds of courses ber you know has recently defended Department of Education National dealing with Czech culture, language, a dissertation, been hired, received a Resource Center supported by Title VI and literature. Contributions do not promotion or retired, please send the funds, is one of ten such centers at major have to be limited to the United States; member’s name, accomplishment and research universities in the US. they can and should include issues of affiliation to: Czech language and culture instruction Molly Thomasy Blasing, thomasy@ Helena Goscilo (Professor and throughout the whole world. Contri- wisc.edu Chair, Slavic Languages and Litera- butions to the Czech Corner may be tures, Ohio State University) announces sent to the column editor at msaskova- The AATSEEL Newsletter would the publication of Celebrity and Glam- [email protected]. like to recognize the following mem- our in Contemporary Russia: Shocking bers for their recent professional mile- Chic (London: Routledge, 2011), edited The Czech Corner column was not stones: by Goscilo and Vlad Strukov. ready at the time that this newsletter went to press. We expect it to return Natasha Anthony, Director of the Congratulations to Irina Kostina, next issue. Please consider sending a International Language Laboratory at Lecturer in Russian Language and Lit- contribution to the Czech Corner col- Hudson Valley Community College has erature, who was selected to receive The umn editor. co-authored (with Carla Meskill, Pro- University of Iowa President and Pro- fessor of Educational Theory and Prac- vost Award for Teaching Excellence. tice, SUNY-Albany) a new textbook for Recent Publications instructors of online language courses, Valeria Nollan has been promoted Teaching Languages Online. The book, from Associate Professor to Professor in Continued published by Multilingual Matters, UK the Department of Modern Languages Continued from page 5 in 2010, serves as a guide to best prac- and Literatures at Rhodes College. tices in online language instruction for Economics novice and experienced educators who Colleagues write to acknowledge Zweynert, J. 2011. A history of Russian are entering into the world of online Patricia Zody as the recipient of the economic thought in the 19th century. language instruction. American Council of Teachers of Rus- London, UK: Routledge. sian Service Award. Zody received a Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern) plaque at the ACTR Membership meet- Education writes with news of several recent ing in January during the AATSEEL professional accomplishments. Dr. Vogelli, B. R., & Karp. A. 2011. Russian conference in Pasadena. The award mathematics education: Programs Cavanagh has received an NEH Fel- acknowledges her many contributions lowship for 2011-2012 to pursue work and practices. World Scientific Pub- to the Russian profession and to ACTR, lishing Company. on an authorized biography of Czeslaw including her role in running the ACTR Milosz, currently under contract at Far- Post-Secondary National Russian Es- Geography rar, Straus, and Giroux. Her book, Lyric say Contest. With her leadership, the Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, contest has grown to involve over one Teissier, B. 2011. Russian frontiers: Poland, and the West (Yale UP, 2010) thousand essays submitted by students Eighteenth century British travellers is a finalist for the National Book Crit- in sixty-four colleges and universities in the Caspian, Caucasus, and Cen- ics Circle Award in Criticism. This in 2010. tral Asia. Signal Books. work previously received the ASEEES/ Orbis Book Prize in Polish Studies for 2010. Cavanagh’s translation, with Continued on page 13 Stanislaw Baranczak, of Wislawa
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Alina Israeli Everything You Always Wanted (American University) Please send questions to: Prof. Alina to know about Russian Grammar Israeli, LFS, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW., Washington DC but were afraid to ask 20016-8045; or via e-mail to: aisrael@ american.edu
Q. In some instances the modern language has a base валик — roller noun with a diminutive and secondary diminutives (such as стрела, стрелка, стрелочка), and a dictionary (say, Ozhegov пестик — pistil and Shvedova) may give a complex set of lexical meanings дождик — (gold or silver) Christmas tree garlands in which some meanings can be used with more than one of the dictionary forms. How certain are persons whose primary котик — seal (animal) language is Russian about which forms, historically diminu- tives, should be used with which meanings? персик — peach A. Very certain. These are separate dictionary entities and for good reason: diminutive suffixes in these cases are used рожок — baby bottle not for form formation but for word formation whose connec- сырок — individually wrapped sweet or processed tion could be traced back metaphorically or metonymically. cheese In fact, many Russians would probably not think of the con- nection between спинка кресла and спина человека, just as листок — piece of paper when we say граф Орлов we do not think of the bird орёл. Most of these independent diminutives are formed with хоботок — proboscis (of insects) the suffix -к- for feminine and neuter, -ик- and -ок- for masculine. The following list is not exhaustive but probably волчок — top (a toy) represents the bulk of such nouns. яблочко — target стрелка (часов) (стрелочка is simply diminutive) — hand There is a particular group related to human anatomy: скобка — parenthesis головка — head, knob булавка — pin ножка — foot (of a table, for ex.) наживка — bait ручка — pen, knob водка — vodka шейка — (narrow part of something) cervix, neck карточка — photograph, (business, credit) card спинка — back (of a chair) змейка — serpentine (do speakers think of serpent, when they say serpentine?) носик — spout колонка — gas station, (stereo) speaker глазок — eyehole коронка — (dental) crown горлышко (бутылки) — neck (of a bottle), spout горка — china buffet (with glass door) (игольное) ушко — eye of a needle птичка (галочка) — check mark It seems to me that the more common the word is, the less the connection is felt. Where it is more felt is in the description лисичка (гриб) — chanterelle of fabrics: в ёлочку, в горошек, в клеточку, в цветочек. тумбочка — night table Q. Where there is variation among speakers in the gender of nouns ending in ‑ль (скальпель), how conscious штучка (о человеке) — hottie is an “average” educated speaker of this variation, and how seriously is that speaker likely to take it? кашка — clover
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A. I don’t think there was any variation or change in First Biennial SRS Book Prize the word скальпель; one would expect an instrument to be masculine, unless ending in –a. The nouns that still show The Society for Romanian Studies invites nominations variation are рояль, канифоль, гель and possibly some oth- for the *First Biennial SRS Book Prize* awarded for the best ers (щавель, ягель, шрапнель). While рояль is now firmly book published in English in any field of Romanian studies masculine, educated people would have the feminine forms (including Moldova) in the humanities or social sciences. To of the noun in their passive knowledge because classical be eligible, books must be in English and published between writers used them: 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2010 as indicated by the ― В нашей зале с роялью, стульями по стенам и copyright date. Edited books, translations and non-scholarly висячими грустными лампами, ― она так и сказала: books are not eligible. «грустными лампами», ― отец мой читал его новый роман в «Русском вестнике» моей матери. [И. А. Бунин. The prize will be presented at the ASEEES National Освобождение Толстого (1937)] (RNC) Convention in 2011 and carries with it an award of $500. Она садилась в угол, за роялью, и чужими глазами Nominations will be due to the SRS prize committee by 1 смотрела оттуда, кутая, по привычке, грудь свою газовым June 2011 . шарфом. [Максим Горький. Жизнь Клима Самгина. Часть 1. (1925)] (RNC) Books should be sent directly to each committee member. Google <12.II.2011> has 142,000 hits for роялем and Please address all questions or inquiries to the chair of the 14,300 for роялью. So the feminine has not vanished yet. committee. Does this bother anyone? Probably not. Are they aware? Not necessarily. Take a look at how Herzen treated the word *Book Prize Committee Members:* дуэль in the paragraph below: feminine at first, masculine Margaret Beissinger (Chair) later (throughout the entire text дуэль is usually feminine, Department of Slavic Languages& Literatures and only occasionally masculine): 249 East Pyne Отказаться от дуэли — дело трудное и требует Princeton University или много твердости духа, или много его слабости. ... Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Доказывать нелепость дуэля не стоит — в теории его [email protected]
Q. Sometimes we see неполногласие in lexical forms Lavinia Stan that are not generally used in standard Russian (for ex- Department of Political Science ample, in Derzhavin’s line “Рев крав, гром жолн и коней St. Francis Xavier University ржанье”). How does an educated speaker who is not espe- Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5, Canada cially familiar with pedagogy or the history of the literary [email protected]
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Editor: Elena Denisova-Schmidt Cross-Cultural Communication University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland
This column deals with cross-cultural issues. Topics covered will include teaching culture through language, cross-cultural communication in business environment and cross-cultural communication in academic settings. Any suggestions are wel- comed. Please contact Elena Denisova-Schmidt ([email protected])
There are some particularities of the Russian language, which could have an influence on communication between Western and Russian partners, regardless of the language used during communication might include slang and ambiguous jokes. Russians often use consciously or unconsciously ambiguous expressions in their language, even in public. Example: one popular band is called ‘ВИА Гра’ (see pictures). The man- agers of this band assure that this name has nothing to do with the medicine ‘VIAGRA’, since ВИА is a rather old-fashioned abbreviation for a music band designation: VIA stands for вокально-инструментальный ансамбль (Engl: Vocal-Instrumental Ensemble), and Гра has no other meaning. The fact that they explain it shows the opposite, however. Some parents even try to name their young daughters Виагра. This is not a common practice, and many registry offices do not allow this phenomenon. The Russian language offers many words with double meanings, which es- pecially male individuals will sometimes use, even in the presence of women:
Photos: http://www.via-gra.ru/
Russian English кончил дело, гуляй смело Work done, have fun кончил: done: 1) выполнил, завершил; 1) to finish, end, complete; 2) сексуальный контекст. 2) to climax in the sexual context. Вся сила в плавках. All the power is in melts плавки: Melt: 1) например, плавление слитка; 1) for example, the melting operation of an ingot; 2) мужские трусы. 2) men’s pants.
This feature of language and mentality should be more or less integrated into Russian language classes, especially at the advanced level.
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Russian College & Pre-College Enrollments, fall 2010; Summer 2011 Programs College/University Level Although data is still being gathered and a more detailed report will be forthcoming at the end of the spring semester, enrollments in 1st- and 2nd-year Russian for AY 2010-11 again reveal a general trend. (For those reading this article on line, select this link to see the web page national summary of enrollments: http://ww1.american.edu/research/CCPCR/ COLLEGEENROLL.) Note that data for other Slavic and East European language courses is also provided. One year ago, data collected by the Committee on Col- lege and Pre-College Russian for Fall 2009 presented a mixed bag of results--which appeared to indicate a general trend of growth across the country. At the college level, of the 65 programs that had responded by March 2010, 50 of those programs had submitted data in consecutive years. Over a third--22 programs-- reported increases in 1st-year Russian and half of the programs had growth in 2nd-year Russian. Though 15 reported loss of enrollment in 1st year and 13 in 2nd year, the losses were signifi cantly less than the gains. This fall, 77 programs responded with their data by the end of December. Of these programs, 61 have provided data over consecutive years which resulted in the following enroll- ment patterns in 1st-year Russian: 43 remained essentially stable with minimal gains or losses in 1st-year Russian; 11 programs made gains--some quite signifi cant (e.g., Texas Tech, from 44 to 70, Penn State from 55 to 75); while 7 programs experienced losses from 15% to as high as nearly Summer Translation Institute 50%. In 2nd-year Russian, 44 programs maintained stable The Summer Translation Institute (STI), hosted by enrollments, 11 saw increases as much as two or three times the Department of Foreign Languages at Western previous levels (in many cases due to a signifi cant increase Michigan University, offers a unique opportunity in 1st-year Russian in 2009), and six programs reported de- for advanced language learners and those thinking creases ranging from 20% to 50%. From the data collected this fall, it appears that for 2010- about a career in translation. Participants will 11, the trend was more one of stability than of growth. Ten improve their translation skills while working of the programs that had reported signifi cant increases in 1st- on their language proficiency. The program will year Russian in 2009--as high as 40%--essentially returned to provide intensive training in: previous lower levels in 2010. Still, an encouraging number • Arabic of programs--half as many as in 2009-- did report increases • Japanese this year. As a consequence, while 2010 did not continue • Russian the trend of growth that characterized the previous academic year, lower level Russian classes, the “feeders” of our upper The Institute will take place July 5 – 29, level course and majors and minors, refl ect at least a stable, with applications due by April 1, 2011. rather than declining enrollments. Visit www.wmich.edu/languages/ If your institution’s data are missing from the site, we encourage you to send them to CCPCR at ccpcr@american. summertranslation for more information. edu. PRE-COLLEGE TRENDS AND ISSUES College of Arts and Sciences As of this writing, 80 programs that have consistently Department of Foreign Languages participated in CCPCR’s annual survey have submitted their data. (For those reading this article on line, select this Continued on page 13 11 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 54, Issue 2 April 2011
Editor: Ani Kokobobo Graduate Student Forum Columbia University
The AATSEEL and the editors of the AATSEEL Newsletter would like to thank our place, because they might attract non- colleagues who serve as advisors to the Graduate Student Forum. They include specialist readers. And, of course, some Marina Balina (Illinois Wesleyan University); Margaret Beissinger (Princeton topics are “hotter” than others. Third, University); Thomas Beyer (Middlebury College); Robert Channon (Purdue comparative works might appeal to University); Halina Filipowicz (University of Wisconsin at Madison); and Sibelan search committees, but whether they are Forrester (Swarthmore College). Look for their responses to new questions in more publishable depends upon what future issues of the AATSEEL Newsletter. Please send your questions to Ani at they are comparing, the accessibility [email protected]. of their writing, and the importance of their themes. Do they propose a com- parison that amounts to no more than a “I am PhD student in a non-Russian heavily on publishing in all areas alike. clever intellectual exercise, or does the Slavic literature and as I begin to think First, whereas fifteen years ago library comparison create a whole greater than about my professional future, I imagine sales for academic titles in the social the sum of the parts (the “so what?” that I would like to and will likely also sciences and the humanities might have question again)? Fourth, novice authors be required to eventually write a book in approached as many as seven hundred should keep in mind that, while a dis- my field. I have heard some tidbits about copies, at present library sales typically sertation is famously not a book, a book the state of publishing in fields such a amount to only two hundred or so copies is not a dissertation. Less is more: prune Polish and Czech literary studies, which of a given scholarly monograph, making out the underbrush. Finally, young prompt me to ask: Is there any kind of it exceedingly hard for presses. Second, authors should keep in mind that the reliable market in publishing for mono- scholarly publishing is every bit as much single most important feature bearing on graphs on non-Russian Slavic or Eastern a “business” as commercial publishing the publishability of a book manuscript European literature? Does this process with the so-called “trade presses”; and under current economic conditions is its in any way differ from publishing a therefore, regardless how intelligent, word length. Scholarly and trade aca- book on Russian literature? Would writ- well researched, or sophisticated a demic publishers vary a bit in the upper ing a comparative study of some sort work, books need to stand a chance of limits they set for manuscripts they can render publication somewhat easier?” being bought in order to be published. consider for publication, but the ideal So (in the words of Chernyshevsky--and length of a book manuscript at present is John J. Bukowczyk: For the Lenin), what is to be done? about ninety thousand words (including past ten years I have served as the Within the harsh realities of contem- front matter, text, notes, bibliography-- general editor of the Ohio Univer- porary academic publishing, authors do everything) and probably no more than sity Press Polish and Polish-American make choices (and mistakes) that render 120,000 words depending on the topic Studies Series (http://www.ohioswal- it harder to publish their manuscripts. and the publisher. low.com/series/Polish+and+Polish- First, young scholars need to ensure Authors now may find subventions American+Studies+Series). Series that the manuscripts they submit to are required as a condition of publica- books have won prizes from the AAASS, publishers clearly answer the perennial tion, particularly in the case of books on the ASEEES, the American Catholic question posed about dissertations and extremely arcane topics, and university Historical Association, the Polish Amer- theses: “so what”? Why and how is the offices of research often can help with ican Historical Association, and PIASA, work significant and, more specifically, such support. This is a topic that stu- marking Ohio University Press as a why and how is it significant beyond dents usefully might raise with prospec- major publishing venue in the Polish the often very narrow confines of an tive employers, when they are tendered and Polish-American Studies sub-fields. often rather small sub-field. Second, in a job offer. Meanwhile, it would help all While my own experience therefore is selecting a dissertation topic, graduate of us writing in the field if authors actu- confined to publishing in this specific students should be aware that, from a ally tried to market their books once area, I suspect that observations about marketing standpoint, literary criticism they are published--adopting them for publishing Polish-content works apply is a difficult genre, because it discusses courses, promoting them on blogs and equally well to other non-Russian East- (often in dense, albeit erudite, techni- listservs, and distributing order blanks ern European and Slavic Studies areas cal and theoretical language) literary for them at conference sessions and and likely to Russian Studies too. works that the majority of prospective invited lectures. While the field of Russian Stud- readers (read: buyers) may have heard But I should temper this sobering ies is vastly larger than all of the other of but probably haven’t read. For this picture with one final note. Although non-Russian East European Slavic areas reason, I think, literary histories and only a fraction of the inquiries and combined, two economic realities weigh cultural studies probably are easier to proposals our series received eventu-
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ally resulted in books, virtually all of of a teaching position, a point of real languages on its website. 16 universi- the manuscripts we reviewed but could concern for the profession. ties have posted the information for not publish eventually found their way The implementation of explor- their summer 2011 programs thus far into print. Tenacity is the watchword! atory programs presents yet another area on the CCPCR Summer Programs list. Meanwhile, given the constriction of of concern--not that we have them, but We encourage you to forward your in- publishing opportunities for manu- that the large numbers often generated formation to CCPCR if your program scripts on highly specialized topics, by school districts and reflected in the is missing. (For those reading this tenure committees need to recognize-- annual census of k-8 Russian study tend article on line, select or copy this link and authors need to consider--other non- to give us a false sense of how many stu- to see the web page summary of Sum- traditional forms of book “publication”- dents are actually initiating a course of mer Programs http://www1.american. -electronic and others. study of Russian. Often, these programs edu/research/CCPCR/Summer%20 expose students to several weeks of programs.htm.) If your program is not John J. Bukowczyk, Wayne State introduction to a variety of languages- listed, please e-mail your info to the University -Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc., but address below! they appear in our data as K-8 Russian study. We need these programs. Their John Schillinger, Emeritus Prof. of Russian College “feeder” function opens the door to the Russian Russian language and culture, and the Chair, CCPCR--Committee on Col- Enrollments Continued impact on enrollment at higher levels lege and Pre-College Russian in districts that have such programs e-mail: [email protected] Continued from page 11 is obvious and is reflected in our data. website: http://www1.american. link to see the one-page, state-by-state But when we include these numbers in edu/research/CCPCR summary of enrollments at all levels: the national total of the number of pre- http://www1.american.edu/research/ college students studying Russian, we CCPCR/statfall10.htm.) Still, many must be aware that they make a signifi- Recent Publications schools have yet to respond, and a cant contribution to that figure. Continued concerted follow-up effort during the Some programs, particularly Continued from page 7 spring semester will be needed to pro- in Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, vide a more accurate picture of the AY continue to flourish and even grow. At History 20010-2011 enrollment trends. While the end of the spring semester, CCPCR Kelly, M. 2011. Russian motor vehicles: stability in enrollment is clearly evident will provide a more extensive account of Soviet limousines 1930-2003. Veloce in most programs and gains in others, such areas of success, and a detailed ex- Publishing. the most disconcerting trend at this point amination of program growth, stability, Klier, J. 2011. Russian, Jews, and the is the incipient resurgence of program and loss on a state-by-state basis. This termination. As documented on the analysis can be completed after data pogroms of 1881-1882. Cambridge, CCPCR website, 227 pre-college Rus- from some of our largest programs has UK: Cambridge University Press. sian programs have disappeared since been received, which will be the focus Porshnev, B. F., Dukes, P., & Pearce, 1998. In recent years, this erosion had of CCPCR’s efforts this spring. If you B. 2011. Muscovy and Sweden in the nearly ceased; but in 2010 ten schools are in doubt as to whether your school’s Thirty Years’ War, 1630-1635. Cam- thus far have reported that their pro- data has been received and posted, just bridge, UK: Cambridge University grams were discontinued, and as many select the website link bellow, or google Press. as a half-dozen more reported no level CCPCR and click the link to the state Smith, S. B. 2011. Captives of revolu- 1 enrollment--generally a harbinger of a enrollment data page. If your program tion: The socialist revolutionaries program being phased out. Some states, is missing, please select the census form and the Bolshevik dictatorship, 1918- like Colorado and Utah which previ- link on our home page, and let us know 1923. Pittsburgh, PA: University of ously had pre-college Russian programs about it! Pittsburgh Press. in abundance, appear to have lost their Williamson, D. G. 2011. Poland be- very last Russian programs this year. To trayed: The Nazi-Soviet invasions of be sure, in some cases school districts Summer Stateside 1939. Stackpole Books. consolidated programs, as was the Programs Linguistics case in Alaska where Juneau-Douglas As in the past, to help students find students--46 of them in 2009--were Bennett, B. P. 2011. Religion and lan- such programs and to assist institutions incorporated into the Thunder Moun- guage in post-Soviet Russia. London, tain program. With consolidation, of offering them, CCPCR is posting a list UK: Routledge. course, most frequently comes the loss of stateside summer programs in Rus- sian, other Slavic and East European Continued on page 23
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Rodeo Clowns versus social realism, proclaimed in the 1930s as the only literary method in the Soviet BelarusICA Belarusian Martyrology Union. As the dominant style of a com- Maryia Martysevich munist empire, social realism followed Editor: Curt Woolhiser classicism and acted similarly. So there (Harvard University) Belarus is a crazy country: every- was a tacit description of what could body’s too serious here. be funny in Belarusian creative writing The Belarusica column editor is look- Siarhej Michalok, a popular Belaru- and what could not. One was obliged ing for contributions to this column. sian rocker to be extremely serious when writing Contributions from North American about The Nation, The Language, The colleagues are especially appreci- The film Brokeback Mountain by Revolution, The Nature, The War, The ated. (Contributions should be no Ang Lee gave me an experience its Harvest and The Village. Women were more than 1-2 pages in length.), dead- creators hardly expected anybody to sometimes allowed to write about The line 6-8 weeks in advance of the issue have. While I could easily bring together Love, but also with proper pathos. In month. For more information, contact homosexual and ranch aesthetics, one the 1990s, after the Soviet Union col- Dr. Curt Woolhiser, cwoolhis@fas. aspect was totally surprising to me. lapsed, the topics of Chernobyl, Faith, harvard.edu. There’s a scene in which the protago- God and National History were added nist takes part in a rodeo and suddenly to this unpublished list. Maryia Martysevich (b. 1982) is falls off a bull. A rodeo commentator Satire and irony could be used only a Belarusian poet, essayist, literary announces: “This guy seems to be in in definite genres marked as “comic”: critic and translator. She is the author trouble. It’s high time for a cowboy comic poetry, comic song, a fable. They of a book of essays in verse and prose clown!” And indeed, the audience were treated as a low, trifling genre entitled Tsmoki lyatuc’ na nerast (Drag- watches a rodeo clown run around the worth publishing only in the last pages ons Fly for Spawning) (Minsk, 2008) ring in order to distract a furious ani- of magazines. And only an external and is a frequent contributor to various mal’s attention from a fallen cowboy. enemy or a dishonest worker could be Belarusian-language media projects, in- As I have never been to a rodeo, I was ridiculed. It’s interesting that authors cluding “34” (www.34mag.net), “Novy completely unaware that there were any of all the most popular satirical poems chas” (www.novychas.org), RFE/Radio dramatis personae apart from a cowboy, describing Belarusian society in the Liberty (www.svaboda.org), the arts a bull and a popcorn seller. Thus, a gay 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries preferred and literature magazines pARTisan, cowboy as compared to a clown cowboy to remain anonymous. The main point, ARCHE (www.arche.by), and Dze- seemed to be less controversial. Later, I think, was not to have a “trifling jaslou (www.dziejaslou.by), as well as thinking about this character, I made up genre” mentioned in one’s biography. numerous blogs. She has also published my mind that a rodeo clown is a good It looked like the only possibility of translations of contemporary Czech, metaphor for describing the functions writing ironically about “serious“ topics English, Polish and Ukrainian poetry of contemporary literature. in Belarusian Soviet literature was to and prose. Ms. Martysevich graduated The tradition of European literature write for children. This is probably the from Belarusian State University in that I belong to has had two basic ways reason why the Belarusian philosopher 2004 and completed her MA in Phi- of dealing with laughter. The first way is Valiantsin Akudovich recently mentio- losophy and Literature at the Belarusian a total separation of tragedy and comedy ned the book Mikolka-Paravoz (Mike- Collegium, a Minsk-based independent, as a canon of ancient literature, as well Locomotive) by Mikhas’ Lynkou among semi-underground university, in 2005. as the literature of classicism. The sec- the modernistic Belarusian canon. This In the fall of 2010 Ms. Martysevich was ond one is a mixture of satire and irony book, beloved by many generations of a writer-in-residence in the International with grief and melancholy, as is the Belarusian children, describes adventu- Writing Program at the University of case in baroque and romantic literature. res of a railwayman’s son during World Iowa, and gave readings of her work The best example of such a mix, in my War I and the Soviet Revolution. at the University of Iowa, the City of opinion, is Simplicius Simplicissimus While in Russian society in the Asylum Jazz Poetry Concert in Pitts- written in 1668 by Hans Jakob Christ- 1980s such a cultural situation made burgh, and Harvard University (see offel von Grimmelshausen and inspired satire and humor the forte of some her IWP profile for other examples of by the events and horrors of the Thirty postmodern dissidents, Belarusian her work in English translation: http:// Years’ War, which devastated Germany dissident writers remained extremely iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/). In February from 1618 to 1648. serious, talking about the absurdity 2011 Ms. Martysevich was elected As for Belarusian literature of of Soviet reality. Some psychologists First Vice-President of the Belarusian the twentieth century, known mainly attribute this to the national mentality: PEN Center. as “Belarusian Soviet” literature, and in Belarusian dictionaries one can find which still forms a basis for contempo- about 20 synonyms for grief and just rary writers, it is strongly influenced by one or two for happiness.
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In spite of the changes within the last 20 years, serious- Finnish sauna, swimming pool, ness is a main feature of what I call “traditional Belarusian TV set, pool table literature.” This seriousness is described by some critical and everything is free of charge. intellectuals as a “Belarusian martyrology.” As a result, the only thing an average Belarusian knew about native literature Who knows how far into Heaven is that it’s dull and not worth reading. That it’s something we would have gone you are forced to study at school to forget forever soon after if not for the check out time? finals. So, a reaction came: around the Millennium, satire, The receptionist´s name was Peter; humor and irony became the most important means of post- but we didn´t pay attention to his badge modernistic authors in their attempts to stimulate readers’ when giving him our keys interest. This is not surprising, as, in my opinion, irony is the and getting into a taxi1. first language of a smart person, when one faces the contem- porary world, full of contradictions and absurdness. When giving a report on this topic at the conference in One of the most ironical authors in contemporary Belaru- my alma mater university, I faced an audience of literature sian literature is the poet Andrei Khadanovich. His poetry is studies professors, laughing at every quotation as if they closely related to the European literary tradition. Three years were watching a sitcom. After I finished, one of them came ago it became the basis material for my postgraduate research up to me and kindly said: “Dear girl, take it easy! All your of classical code in post-modernistic Belarusian poetry. I research is in vain, as I can’t see any “classical codes” in what believe this English translation from Khadanovich’s book Khadanovich does. The only function of his “comic writing” Berlibres would introduce you the style of his poetry: is to entertain such serious authors as me.” The most terrible thing about this reaction was that I never laughed when reading or listening to those poems. COMMEDIA Sometimes I may have smiled. But mostly I had tears in my eyes, as the irony of modernistic or postmodernistic authors Which cirle concerns very deep archetypes of Belarusian life. of Dante´s Hell In my own writing, I (sometimes unconsciously) match is meant for the drunkards tragic and ironic pathos within one text. And almost all the time I feel dissonance between my writing and the average who the day before were mixing reader‘s feedback. Very often I hear people say that I’m a sweet wine with beer “stand-up poet.” I think these readers can hardly imagine and missed their chance to repent before death? the sorrow that usually makes my writing. Is this sort of misunderstanding good or bad? I still don’t know. I can only In this very circle note the ambivalence of contemporary Belarusian writing. we woke up in the morning, Laughter is a primary and natural emotion; furthermore, it can though formally speaking lead you toward thinking. It‘s up to you. I’m sure, that what they call “real literature” must act in two ways: to entertain we were in Poland people while working with rather tough topics, like facing a the city of Wroclaw bull at a rodeo. The literature which I believe is now neces- hotel Wodnik. sary for my Reader, is the job of a rodeo clown.
The spring sun soothed our pain a little Translated from Belarusian by the author with assistance but didn´t evoke any desire of Zaina Arafat. to talk in tercets. Created for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in September, 2010. Morining coffee transfered us to Limbo – 1 Translated from Belarusian by Valzhyna Mort. as pagan bastards (meaning virtuous pagans),
or maybe even unbaptized infants? (you should have seen the infantile physiognomy Looking for Employment of a poet sitting in front of me!) Opportunities? Try the AATSEEL Website! We kept ascending the Dante´s ladder http://www.aatseel.org and here we were in the hotel Purgatory:
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DOMESTIC SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
AATSEEL compiles information on U.S.-based summer programs in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian languages and cultures. The information below was provided in late 2010 and is subject to change. Please contact programs directly for details and updates. These listings include only Slavic, East European, and Eurasian offerings. Many of the programs listed offer additional languages, e.g. Chinese or Arabic. See individual program sites for details. These listings include only programs where instruction is offered either wholly or primarily in the United States. Many institutes have multiple programs, with different dates, locations, etc. The information below shows broadest range possible. Individual courses and levels may have different dates, prices, etc. Be sure to check the program site for details. Program directors; send updates for future Newsletters to [email protected]. – Kathleen Evans-Romaine, Arizona State University Institutions Offering Multiple East- Institution: BALSSI (University of Wisconsin, Madison) European/Eurasian Languages: Languages: Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian Institution: Arizona State University Dates: June 13 - Aug 5 Languages: Albanian, Armenian, BCS, Macedonian, Credits: 8 Hebrew, Persian, Polish, Russian, Tajik, Tatar, Uzbek, Yiddish Tuition/Fees: $3,300 Dates: May 31-Jul 22 (plus 3-week optional Ugrad funding: FLAS, ACLS study-abroad) Grad funding: FLAS, ACLS Credits: 8-10 Website: http://www.creeca.wisc.edu/balssi/ Tuition/Fees: $675 Website: [email protected]; 608-262-3379 Housing: optional, $15/day ($850/summer, est.) The University of Wisconsin at Madison will host the Funding: International Distinguished Engagement Baltic Summer Studies Institute for its third consecutive Awards summer in 2011. The Baltic Studies Summer Institute, sponsored by a http://cli.asu.edu Website: consortium of U.S. universities and the Association for the Contact: [email protected]; 480-965-4188 Advancement of Baltic Studies, offers students in the U.S. The ASU Critical Languages Institute offers summer the only domestic opportunity to study intensive Estonian, intensive language courses and short-term summer study Latvian, and Lithuanian during the summer. Due to the intense abroad programs for 11 languages in up to 5 levels. CLI pace of the courses and the quality of the instructors, students courses begin with 8 weeks of instruction on the ASU main learn a full year’s worth of language in just eight weeks. campus. In week 9, students have the option to travel with BALSSI 2011 will offer two levels each of Estonian, their instructors to the country whose language they are study- Latvian, and Lithuanian, a lecture series on Baltic history ing for a 3-week study-abroad program (in Tirana, Yerevan, and culture, and a program of cultural events related to the Sarajevo, Ohrid, Poznan, or Kazan). Baltic countries. CLI courses provide 8 to 10 semester credits and instruc- Recent participants have praised their Madison training, tion equivalent to a year’s study in a typical academic-year reporting that their language progress was strong enough to program. Extensive cultural programming is offered in both allow them to perform field research in the region. A number the ASU and the overseas portions of CLI. of recent BALSSI alumni have received Fulbright awards for CLI courses are tuition free for all participants and are research in the Baltics. open to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to Due to a generous grant from the American Council of non-students over the age of 18. Learned Societies, tuition for first-year Estonian and second- Applications are considered on a rolling basis. year Latvian will be waived for grad students specializing in East European studies.
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Institution: CESSI, Central Eurasian Studies Grad funding: FLAS, Title VIII; tuition is waived for Summer Institute (University of graduate students in Czech, Macedonian, Wisconsin, Madison) Polish, and Romanian Languages: Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tajik Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~swseel/ Dates: June 13 - Aug 5 Contact: [email protected]; 812-855-2608 Credits: 8 Intensive language training has been offered at the Tuition/Fees: $3,300 Bloomington campus of Indiana University since 1950. The Summer Workshop provides up to 200 participants in Slavic, Ugrad funding: FLAS, ACLS East European and Central Asian languages the opportunity Grad funding: FLAS, ACLS to complete a full year of college language instruction during an eight-week summer session. Website: http://www.creeca.wisc.edu/cessi Utilizing the resources of Indiana University’s own Email: [email protected]; 608-262-3379 specialists as well as native speakers from other universities The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia and abroad, the Summer Workshop has developed and main- (CREECA) and the Department of Languages and Cultures tained a national program of the highest quality. Allowing all of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proud participants to pay in-state tuition fees, the program has as to announce the inaugural session of the Central Eurasian its goal the enhancement of speaking, reading, listening and Studies Summer Institute (CESSI). Instruction in intensive writing skills through classroom instruction and a full range first- and second-year Kazakh and Uyghur, intensive first- of extra-curricular activities. year Uzbek, and intensive second-year Tajik will be offered Fellowships and funding are available. this year. CESSI 2011 will also feature lectures (in English) on Central Eurasian history and culture and a rich program Institution: UCLA of cultural events and field trips related to the countries of Central Eurasia. Languages: Russian, Romanian, Serbian-Croatian CESSI 2011 will run from June 13-August 5. Dates: June 21 – July 30/Aug 13 Information and application materials are available on the CESSI Web site: www.creeca.wisc.edu/cessi. The pri- Credits: 12 ority deadline for admission and the fee remission grant is Tuition/Fees: $350 + $289 per credit March 15, 2011. Website: http://www.slavic.ucla.edu/summer- CESSI is a joint initiative of 22 U.S. Department of programs.html Education-funded National Resource Centers at 12 U.S. universities, along with Nazarbayev University (Astana, Contact: [email protected]; 310-825-3856 Kazakhstan). For further information about CESSI 2011, please con- tact Nancy Heingartner, CESSI program coordinator, cessi@ Institution: University of Chicago creeca.wisc.edu, 1-608-262-3379. Languages: BCS, Czech, Polish, Russian Dates: June 20 – Aug 19 Institution: Indiana University Tuition/Fees: $3,085 Languages: Azerbaijani, BCS, Czech, Georgian, Housing: $220/$273 per week (optional) Greek (Modern), Hungarian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Meal Plan: $222 per week (optional) Russian, Tajik, Tatar, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Website: http://languages.uchicago.edu/ Uzbek, Yiddish summerslavic/index.html Dates: 17 Jun - 12 Aug; 13 Jun - 12 Aug for Contact: [email protected]; 773-702-8567 Russian level 1 and all levels of Arabic Credits: 6-10 Tuition/Fees: $2,434 - $3,425 Housing: $27/day (on-campus housing is optional and off-campus housing may cost considerably less) Ugrad funding: FLAS, Project GO for ROTC cadets and midshipmen
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Institutions Offering Russian: also periodically offered for high school and college Russian teachers of Russian under the auspices of RLI. Institution: Beloit College The eight-week Russian Language Institute offers a Languages: Russian highly-focused curriculum and a study environment con- ducive to the rapid development of the four language skills Dates: 11 Jun - 5 Aug (oral, aural, writing, reading) as well as cultural awareness. Credits: 12 The program draws participants from a broad spectrum of Tuition/Fees: $4,980 academic fields, occupations, ages, and interests. Course of- ferings are designed to accommodate a full range of language Housing: $620/summer learners, from the beginner to the advanced learner (three Meal Plan: $1,318 levels total). The highly intensive nature of the course work and the culturally-rich immersion environment have proven Ugrad funding: Director’s Scholarship very successful in providing the equivalent of a full academic Grad funding: Director’s Scholarship year of college Russian to participants who complete the Website: http://www.beloit.edu/cls/ program. Contact: [email protected]; 608-363-2277 The Center for Language Studies at Beloit College of- Institution: Middlebury College fers summer intensive language courses in Arabic, Chinese, Languages: Russian Japanese, and Russian (1st through 4th-year). Eight- and Dates: June 17 – Aug 13 four-week sessions are available. The full eight-week pro- gram runs from June 11 through August 5; the four-week Credits: 12 program runs from June 11 through July 9. Advantages: Tuition/Fees: $6,427 (8 week undergrad program) personalized instruction, small classes, superb teachers, twelve semester hours of credit, language tables, extracur- $4,828 (6 week grad program, June 28 - ricular activities, a pleasant summer on a lovely campus in Aug. 12) southern Wisconsin with easy access to Madison, Milwau- Housing: $3,048 (mandatory; includes meals for 9 kee, and Chicago. Applications are accepted beginning in weeks) October 2010 and continuing until classes are filled. Reading $2,475 (mandatory; includes meals for 6 of complete applications and rolling admissions will begin weeks) January 1, 2011. CLS Director’s scholarships are available to all qualified applicants through April 22, 2011. Ugrad funding: Merit-based fellowships, Davis Fellowship Grad funding: Merit-based fellowships, Davis Fellowship Institution: Bryn Mawr College Website: http://www.middlebury.edu/ls/russian Languages: Russian Contact: [email protected]; 802-443-5230 Dates: 15 Jun - 10 Aug The Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian at Middlebury College offers intensive Russian language Credits: 4-8 instruction at seven levels in its eight-week program and Tuition/Fees: $3,500 courses in language and linguistics, literature, culture, film, Housing & Meal Plan: $2,800 history, and pedagogy in its six-week graduate program. Graduate courses can lead to MA or DML degrees in Russian. Ugrad funding: need based All courses are taught in an intensive Russian-only environ- Grad funding: need based ment complemented by rich co-curricular offerings. Dates: 17 June – 12 August 2011 (8-week program), 28June – 12 Website: http://www.brynmawr.edu/russian/rli. htm August 2011 (6-week graduate program). Contact: [email protected]; 610-526-5187 Institution: Monterey Institute for Int’l Studies Founded in 1977, the Russian Language Institute at Bryn Mawr seeks to support the study and teaching of Rus- Languages: Russian sian in the United States by providing an intensive-immersion Dates: 14 Jun - 10 Aug setting for both teachers and learners of the language. RLI offers both four- and eight-week programs for male and Credit: 4-12 female high school, undergraduate, and graduate students, Tuition/Fees: $3,500 concentrating on language training. Specialized seminars are Housing & Meals: not included
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Ugrad funding: financial aid Housing: $25 per night (optional) Grad funding: scholarships Website: http://www.virginia.edu/summer/SLI/ Website: http://www.miis.edu/academics/ index.html language/summer Contact: [email protected]; 434-924-3371 Contact: [email protected]; 831-647-4115 The Summer Language Institute offers eight-week Language plays a very important role at the Monterey courses in Russian. Students attend classes five days a week, Institute. Our non-degree language programs offer intensive seven and a half hours a day. Listening, speaking, reading, language instruction for participants with a variety of aca- and writing skills are developed in a student-centered environ- demic or non-academic goals. Whether you are planning to ment. Students are expected to attend all classes and evening study or work abroad, wish to strengthen your skills so you cultural activities. Individuals who successfully complete the can enroll in higher-level courses at your home institute, or Institute earn 12 credits, which satisfies the foreign language are looking for an edge in this competitive job market, our requirement at the University of Virginia. non-degree language programs might be just what you are looking for. Institution: University of Washington We offer a Summer Intensive Language Program (http://www.miis.edu/academics/language/summer), as Languages: Russian well as customized one-on-one and small group language Dates: June 20 – Aug 19 training programs in a variety of common and less-commonly Credits: 15 taught languages (http://www.miis.edu/academics/lan- guage/custom). These programs are open to anyone inter- Tuition/Fees: $8,082 (non-res undergrad); $7,982 (non- ested in language study and development of cross-cultural res graduate) understanding. Website: http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/ academics/summer-language-intensives/ Institution: University of Michigan Contact: [email protected]; 206-543-6848 Languages: Russian The Intensive Summer Language Program has advan- tages for students in a variety of situations: Dates: May 3 – June 20, June 29 – Aug 16 It enables undergraduates who begin their study of Credits: 8 per class Russian after their freshman year to complete the four-year Tuition/Fees: $2,800 per class program in as little as two years and two summers (eight quarters). http://lsa.umich.edu/sli Website: It provides an opportunity for students from colleges and Contact: http://lsa.umich.edu/sli universities with limited offerings in Russian to complete the Summer Term intensive language courses provide four years of language that are required by many graduate students the opportunity to rapidly increase their level of programs. fluency. Intensive courses condense one or two terms of It allows graduate students in any discipline whose re- language study into an eight- or ten-week format; they pro- search requires knowledge of Russian to begin study of the vide an excellent means for students to prepare for a study, language, or to continue it at an appropriate level. internship, or work abroad experience, graduate school, or The Intensive Summer Language Program is open to for expanded career opportunities. Language teaching at the non-UW students registering through the UW Summer UM is proficiency-oriented and aims to develop four basic Quarter. The program includes extracurricular activities such skills: speaking, reading, writing, and aural comprehension. as films, language tables for conversation practice, singing, Courses are designed to teach language within a cultural and poetry-reading and drama performances, and lectures on social context, so that students deepen their knowledge of the Slavic cultures. A number of recreational activities are usually relevant country as they develop language skills organized, depending on the interests of the student group, ranging from hikes and bicycle rides to museum visits, concert outings, and even the culinary arts! Institution: University of Virginia Languages: Russian Dates: June 12 – Aug 5 Credits: 12 Tuition/Fees: Undergraduate: $11, 400; Graduate: $8,400; Non-Credit: $3,336 (+ $415)
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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
Cosmopolitan Educational be considered as an INTERNSHIP with Dubravushka School Center, Novosibirsk, Russia all necessary paperwork and an on-site Getting potential Russian language internship supervision provided. The major benefits to join our pro- students to Russia helps get students to International participants have an gram are as follows: begin the Russian language and/or to opportunity to attend Russian languages We organise an exciting cultural, continue with it. A prestigious 19 year classes every day. Russian classes are social and excursion program for inter- old college preparatory boarding school taught by well-educated native speakers national participants of the camp, which located outside Moscow has a summer trained to teach foreigners. Students are- is a very enriching experience. You will camp program where English is taught placed in a group according to their level be involved in interaction with the Rus- to high school aged Russians. Because of Russian. No previous knowledge of sian children, youth and adults all the the school is eager to expose these Russian is required. time. This is the kind of experience you students to native English speakers, it We will also be happy to arrange will never get if you go as a tourist. offers a program which includes begin- courses on the Russian culture, history, You will gain a first-hand experi- ning and intermediate Russian lessons music, etc., if required. ence of the Russian culture and life style at what is in effect a subsidized rate to We are dedicated to providing a stu- and particularly the Siberian one. They native English speaking high school dent with the most excellent supervision say if you want to know what real Rus- aged students. (185 Euros/wk in 2008) possible. All the students are supervised sia is like you should go to Siberia. This may be the only program where the and each group has a group leader who This is a not-for-profit program. American students are socializing and is normally responsible for 10 students Participation fee covers expenses on living mainly with Russian children. and stays with the group 24 hours a accommodation and ALL meals, and The fee includes room and board, Rus- day. Everyone can expect a warm, sup- tuition fee for students as well. If you sian lessons, inclusion in all the camp portive and friendly atmosphere along come to Russia (Siberia) on your own or activities and airport pick up and drop with professional service. Our goal is through a travel agency you will spend off. Watervaliet, NY Russian language that a student has the most enjoyable much more money compared to what HS teacher Steve Leggiero had 5 of his and worthwhile experience possible you would pay to participate in our pro- students in the program in 2008. Thru during the stay with us. We are deter- gram. Participating in our program you local fund raising including obtaining mined to ensure that everyone benefits won’t need much pocket money, you funds from service clubs, Steve was fully from the interaction with other may only need some spending money able to reduce costs for his students. students and the staff. The Head of Stud- to buy souvenirs and gifts to take back For additional information, see www. ies, Psychologist, the Social Program home. dubravushka.ru or contact Bill Grant, Coordinator and the Program Director All the local services (airport pick- volunteer US Agent, at 941-351-1596 are constantly monitoring the program up, local transportation, excursions) or [email protected] to assure that everyone is enjoying the are provided by our school without any stay and taking advantage of the many additional payment. IQ Consultancy Summer School activities offered by the school. Parents You don’t have to be a professional of the Russian Language are allowed to the program. teacher in order to volunteer for the pro- We also offer excursion packages IQ Consultancy offers an intensive gram. The most important aspect is your which include trips to Moscow, St. Pe- two or three week summer program willingness to participate and share your tersburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, for studying the Russian language to knowledge and culture, as well as your Lake Baikal, the Altai Mountains, foreign students majoring not only in enthusiasm and good will. Teaching at TransSiberian Railroad, ‘Welcome to the Russian language and literature but the camp is not like an academic teach- Siberia’ program. All the details and also in history, economics, engineer- ing routine, it’s more like fun where tour descriptions are available upon ing or any other subjects. The summer emphasis is made on communication. request. school is the right option for everyone Our school will provide you with the We provide all our foreign partici- willing to develop their language skills daily topical schedule for the classes pants with an invitation to obtain a Rus- and get an unforgettable international and will be happy to assist with lesson sian visa and arrange their registration experience while exploring St. Peters- planning and teaching materials. Uni- on arrival. burg, one of the world’s most exciting versity students are eligible to apply as For further details please email cos- and fascinating cities. This short term volunteer teachers. You will gain valu- [email protected] or cosmoschool2@ immersion program ensures not only able practical experience, proven ability mail.ru intensive language practice but also a and contacts that you can use to get a great opportunity to soak up the atmo- future job.Teaching at the camp can also sphere of Russian life and culture.
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Your students can come to Russia ing to familiarize themselves with the Greifswalder Ukrainicum to study the Russian language with IQ Rusyn language and Carpatho-Rusyn The Greifswalder Ukrainicum is an Consultancy any time suitable for them. history and culture. The language of international summer school for science There are two- or three-week summer instruction for both the language and and research of Ukraine. It is financed programs on fixed dates or we can ar- history segments, in parallel courses, by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und range a course for the students of your is either English or Rusyn. University Halbach-Stiftung, Essen, Germany. university only, if they come in group professors, distinguished Slavists, and Language courses and seminars on of 6-10 students. Students can prolong specialists in Carpatho-Rusyn studies the history and literature of Ukraine in their stay and study the Russian lan- provide 30 hours of language instruc- German, English and Ukrainian held guage with IQ Consultancy in a one- tion at beginning, intermediate, and by international renowned instruc- on-one format or joining any current advanced levels, as well as 30 hours of tors provide the unique opportunity to group of students. history lectures. Students may request learn about the culture and varieties of The summer program is comprised college credit from their home institu- Ukraine. of the following activities which are tions based on their transcripts at the The Alfried Krupp Wissen- included in tuition fees: 20 academic close of the program. Excursions and schaftskolleg Greifswald awards 25 hours of General Russian a week in a extracurricular events acquaint students short-time travel stipends for students group; 40 hours for 2 weeks and 60 for with Rusyn history and life in eastern and PhD candidates to support their par- 3 weeks respectively. Slovakia, including the region’s unique ticipation in the Greifswalder Ukraini- IQ Consultancy offers different wooden churches, museums, and folk cum 2011 from August 12 to 24, 2011 supplementary services to our students festivals, as well as films and theater in Greifswald, Germany. (they are charged extra), such as pro- performances. Housing is provided in a The Alfried Krupp Wissen- viding visa support, arranging different university dormitory. Dates of the pro- schaftskolleg Greifswald awards: types of accommodation, transfer and gram are June 12 through July 2, 2011. an entertainment program. On your Cost for the entire program (tuition, 10 stipends at 200 € for German wish, we will fill in your afternoon accommodations, three meals a day, applicants hours with cultural program after the extracurricular program) is 1200 Euros 10 stipends at 400 € for European language classes. We will show you (approximately $1668 U.S./exchange applicants the evening and night life of the city rate $1.39). The 100-Euro ($139) non- and arrange an entertainment program refundable administrative fee, due by 5 stipends at 800 € for non- onthe weekends. We cooperate with dif- April 15, 2011, is applied to the total European applicants ferent reputable and established agen- cost of the program, with the remainder cies which provide these services and of the total cost due by May 15, 2011. Application requirements: guarantee our students a comfortable For further information, contact Dr. Sufficient Knowledge of German stay in St. Petersburg. Patricia Krafcik of The Evergreen State and/or English For further information on summer College ([email protected]). Distinct interest in Ukraine language programs offered by IQ Con- Student or PhD candidate sultancy you can contact us at any time Russian Academy of Sciences: by e-mail, skype, phone or ICQ listed: Custom Study-Abroad with RLI Application: Tel: +7 (812) 3225808, + 7 (812) “Russian in Moscow: a Program Please submit your application by 3183390, +7 (911) 206 85 78 E-mail: in Russian Language and Culture” is e-mail only to: tagungsbuero@wiko- natalia.pestovnikova@iqconsultancy. an individually tailored program of greifswald.de ru or [email protected] IСQ: Russian language and culture. Hosted Please enclose in your application 418528066 Skype: RussianinRussia by the Russian Language Institute of - a personal data sheet (CV) the Russian Academy of Sciences, it Presov University: Summer provides an individualized study-abroad - a short summary of your School of Rusyn Language and experience. Students pick and chose studies Culture from a wide range of academic and cul- - a short presentation of your The Carpatho-Rusyn Research tural activities to build a curriculum; to choose housing options; and even to set distinct interest in Ukraine and Center and the Institute for Rusyn your motivation to participate Language and Culture at Presov Uni- their start and end dates. Applications for Summer 2011 are due April 1. For in the Ukrainicum of not more versity (Presov, Slovakia) announce than 2500 words. the second annual Studium Carpato- details, see http://russianinmoscow.rus- Ruthenorum Summer School of Rusyn lang.ru/ or contact Valentina Apresjan at The stipends are awarded according Language and Culture for summer [email protected]. to individual circumstances. 2011. This program is the only one of Application deadline is April 30, its kind for scholars and students wish- 2011.
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Olha, Peter Jarosewycz of Kansas City, ing on the intellectual enrichment that Professional Mo., a retired attorney, is establishing the Palij Fund has brought, and the the Jarosewycz Family Scholarship in various partnerships CREES has had Opportunities Ukrainian Studies at CREES. over the years with the Kansas National Mr. Jarosewycz immigrated to the Guard and the US Army’s Foreign Area United States in 1949 at the age of one Officers Program, the Jarosewycz Fam- with his parents and aunt, who taught ily Scholarship will help attract the best Grants & Fellowships him an appreciation of his Ukrainian and the brightest to graduate study at heritage. KU. We are grateful to have a friend Kathryn Davis Fellowships for “I decided to set up the scholarship like Mr. Jarosewycz with a compelling Peace at KU in their honor because it is one of vision of the future that includes strong Kathryn Davis Fellowships for the few universities in the United States expertise on Ukraine.” Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical with a graduate program in Ukrainian The gift will be managed by KU Languages – Full Scholarships Avail- Studies,” Jarosewycz said. “There are Endowment, the official fundraising and able for Intensive Russian Language several faculty members from Ukraine, fund-management foundation for KU. Study at the Middlebury Summer and there is a frequent exchange of Founded in 1891, KU Endowment was Language Schools. We are pleased to students and faculty between KU and the first foundation of its kind at a U.S. announce the continuation of the Kath- universities in Ukraine, especially Ivan public university. ryn Davis Fellowships for Peace for the Franko University, from which both July 15 Annually fifth year in a row. The fellowship will of my parents received their medical Kluge Center Fellowships for cover the full cost of one summer of degrees.” Library of Congress language study, from the beginner to the As part of the Ukrainian Studies Library of Congress Invites Appli- graduate level, in any of six languages, Program, CREES conducts a summer cations for Kluge Center Fellowships. including Russian. For more informa- school in Ukrainian Studies at Ivan The Library of Congress (http://www. tion, please visit http://go.middlebury. Franko University in Lviv, Ukraine. loc.gov/) invites qualified scholars to edu/ls/kwd. Lviv is the largest city in western conduct research in the John W. Kluge Need-based Financial Aid Available Ukraine and attracts university students Center using the Library of Congress to All Students – 42% of summer 2010 from all over the world. Alex Tsiovkh, collections and resources for a period Language Schools students received professor of Russian, East European of up to eleven months. a financial aid award, and the average and Eurasian Studies who also is on the Up to twelve Kluge Fellowships award granted was $5,454. To learn faculty of the University of Lviv, has will be awarded annually. Fellowships more about financial aid, visit http:// been the director of the summer school are tenable for periods from six to go.middlebury.edu/ls/finaid. since its inception in 1994. eleven months, at a stipend of $4,000 For complete information on all Another activity at KU related to per month. Visit the Library of Congress Language Schools programs and to ap- Ukrainian Studies has been the Maria Web site for complete fellowship pro- ply online – Visit http://go.middlebury. Palij Memorial Lecture, a yearly lecture gram information and application proce- edu/ls. on the subject of Ukraine by leading dures Location: USA Deadline: July 15 Middlebury College Language scholars from around the world. Pro- each year. Website: http://www.loc.gov/ Schools fessor Michael Palij established it more loc/kluge/fellowships/kluge.html Middlebury College than 25 years ago as a memorial to his Sunderland Language Center wife. Although Palij died in 2009, his 356 College Street friends and supporters of Ukrainian Call for Papers Middlebury, VT 05753 Studies have continued to fund the Palij 802.443.5510 Lectureship. [email protected] The Ukrainian Club of Greater Kan- Conferences & Workshops sas City, which has contributed to the Scholarship Established for June 20-24, 2011 Palij Memorial Lecture for many years, The Ohio State University, Ukrainian Studies at KU is now generously contributing to the Columbus, Ohio LAWRENCE, Kan.—The Cen- Jarosewycz Family Scholarship. Linguistics Institute for Language ter for Russian, East European and Professor Edith W. Clowes, Direc- Teachers Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the tor of CREES, expressed appreciation LILT is a weeklong summer pro- University of Kansas is announcing a for the scholarship: “The whole CREES gram designed specifically for language scholarship in support of its Ukrainian community joins in thanking Mr. Jaros- teachers. The goal is to provide lan- Studies Program, one of the few in ewycz for establishing this scholarship, guage teachers with greater linguistic the United States. In honor of his late which will support top students in the awareness and understanding, with the parents, Dmytro and Maria, and aunt KU Ukrainian Studies Program. Build- ability to think critically about language,
22 April 2011 Vol. 54, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER and with a deeper appreciation for all welcome all scholars who work with Peter Kosta (Universität Potsdam) aspects of language and language study. phonology and morphology of Slavic [email protected] The program is not a general introduc- languages regardless of theoretical tion to language, nor is it an introduction framework. Palæoslavists, dialectolo- to linguistics, nor is it about second lan- gists and accentologists are especially March 9-10, 2012 guage pedagogy. Rather, the philosophy welcome. CLAC Conference behind the program is that language Please save the date for the next teachers and learners can be well served Invited speakers CLAC conference: March 9-10, 2012, by knowledge that offers them insight Paul Garde (Aix-en-Provence) at the University of Minnesota. into the structure and use of their own Marc L. Greenberg (University The planning committee (Diana language, so that they will be able to of Kansas) Davies, Cynthia Evans, Suronda Gonza- see more clearly how the language that Peter Kosta (Universität Pots- lez, Tanya Kinsella, Carol Klee, David they are teaching or learning differs dam) Wright, Dan Soneson and I) agreed that from it and be able to profit from this Radoslav Večerka (Masaryk Uni- there was no suitable date available at understanding. In short, the objective is versity in Brno) the U of M during Fall 2011, and se- to provide the teacher/learner with what lected this weekend. s/he needs to know about language in Workshops general in order to study a particular Two workshops are planned: Recent Publications language more effectively. Continued Slavic accentology Continued from page 13 Course credit: 3 Ohio State University Dialectology continuing education credits (CEUs) Biskup, P. 2011. Adverbials and the Course times: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Mon- Conference fee phase model. Philadelphia, PA: John day, June 20th – Friday, June 24th 100 Euro, the fee is payable in cash Benjammins Publishing Company. at the registration desk . Brown, Wayles. 2011. Annual workshop Tuition: $395.00, includes cost of five on formal approaches to Slavic lin- days of lectures, all workshop materi- Submission of abstracts guistics. Ann Arbor, MI: University als, 3 Ohio State Continuing Educa- Abstracts are invited for 20-minute of Michigan Press. tion Units (CEUs) and participation talks followed by 10 minutes of discus- Ginsburgh, V., & Weber, S. 2011. How certificate. sion. Abstracts must be at most two many languages do we need: The Application deadline: April 30th, pages long. An optional third page is economics of linguistic diversity. 2011 permitted for data and references. The Princeton, NJ: Princeton University deadline for submision is 31. Septem- Contact: [email protected] Press. ber 2011. Griegyl, M., & Janda, L. 2011. Slavic Webpage: http://linguistics.osu.edu/ linguistics in a cognitive framework. newsEvents/lilt/yr2011/default Organizing committee Germany: Peter Lang. Roman Sukač (Silesian University in November 8-11, 2011 Jung, H. 2011. The syntax of the be- Opava) [email protected]. possessive: Parametric variation and The Sound of Slavic cz surface diversities. Philadelphia, PA: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morpho- Ondřej Šefčík (Masaryk University in John Benjamins Publishing Com- phonemics Brno) [email protected] The Institute of Czech Language pany. and Library Science of the Silesian Uni- versity in Opava and the Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages, Masaryk University in Brno, are pleased AATSEEL is now on FACEBOOK! to announce that The Sound of Slavic conference will take place in Opava, Become a Fan of the AATSEEL Facebook page. Czech Republic, 8.-11. November Keep updated on news of the organization and 2011. profession, and find other AATSEEL fans. Meeting description Phonetic, phonemic, and morpho- phonemic questions relating to either Common Slavic or to individual Slavic languages including their dialects. We
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