T · H · E Ohio Slavic & OHIO East European SD\TE UNIVERSITY Newsletter

Volume 22, No. 6 March 1994 Columbus, Ohio

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By Matthew R. Schwonek

Schindler's Ust. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Produced by Steven Spielberg, GemldR. Moren, and Branko Lustig. Hollywood: Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment. 1993.

Korczak. Polish with English subtitles. Directed by Andnej Wajda. Produced by Regina Ziegler, Janusz Morganstem, and Daniel Toscan. Warsaw: Studio rlbnowe "Perspettywa,• 1990; New York: New YorkerFilms Artwork {video), 1993.

Despite extensive tteatment and the use of innovative ancient Jewish precincts. Jewish laborers are paid less than methods scholars havebeenunableto gain the full meamre of the Poles, and Schindler is chiefly interested in profiL However, Holocaust For thisreason an's contribution to understanding of soon the Final Solution is implemented and Schindler undergoes theHolocaust and disseminating this isparticularly valuable, and a metamorphosis. The ghetto is liquidated and its inhabitants the writings of Tadeusz Borowski and Primo Levi find theirway moved, fmt, fO a labor camp at nearby Plaszdw and. then, after into history classes. Added to the catalogue of woib which dley can no longer work. to the death camp at Auschwitz­ convey what recitation of facts and analysis can not are two Birlrenau. The violentliquidation of theghetto, which is themost films--the new Schindler's Ust by Steven Spielberg and the hmrowing act in the fihn and which Schindler wiuiesses, is a recently released on video Korczalc by Andrzej Wajda. turningpoint Alive now fOthe fare awaiting his Jews, Schindler Spielberg's Schindler's Li.st is the fictionalized story of systematically thwarts the processes of the rmal Solution. OskarSchindler, a German Catholicbusinessman, and"his Jews.• Spielberg takes someliberties with Keneally's novel. {Schindler Based on the novel of the same name by , the was more ambiguous.) However, it faithfully adheres fO the film examines Schindler"s effons to save the lives of Jews in the premisethe rbat same talents which serve Schindlerwell as a war slave labor system of Nazi-occupied Schindler, played profiteer allowhim so save his workers' lives. The real Schind­ by Liam Neeson, is a swindler. He is first introduced in a ler saved 1,200 men, women, and children. Cracow cabaret where he ingratiateshimself with loutish Gennan Wajda's Korczak, the subder of the two films, is the functionaries. Afterward he opens a factory founded OD Jewish story ofeducalOr and autlHr Henryk Goldszmit, betterknown by capiral and relying on the labor of those herded into Cracow's hisnom de plumJanusz Kora.ak,and the story of "his children. n The author of How to Love a Child and King Matt tM First is betterknown forhis ovwork erseeingWarsaw orphanages for the Inside OSEEN children of Jewish and Polish workers. The fihn begins OD the eve of the Second World War, but it is chiefly concerned with Korcz.ak's work with orphans in the Warsaw ghetto and is based Amost Lustig to Speak OD his own diaryfrom this period {adapted by directorAgnieszka Noted Holocaust Author Visits Columbus 3 Holland). At war' s outbreak Korc7.ak donshis old Polish Anny Calendar of Events 3 Medical Corps uniform and volunteers for service despite the obvious outcome of the struggleand the urging of his friends rbat Study and Research Opportunities he dee. A champion of children's rights and welfareposses- and Summer and Academic Year Study Abroad 3 sing his own heightened morality, KOl'C7.ak is unable fO abandon U.S. Summer Language Study 4 his charges as well Played by Woj• Pszcmiak, who left Other Opportunities 5 retirement to act in this fihn and who also resembles the doctor, Institutes for Teachers 5 Koreastruggles to protect his children from starvation, despair,

---- preserve dleir digruty. Ultimately __ _ -Employment Opportunities ---·---- �5�--an-d--worseana to Korczaf prepares them for death. All in a sense is a run up the Opportunities for Support 6 to moment when K.orczak and his children were Jast seen-an Meetings 6 Continued on page 2, column 1 2 OSEEN March 1994

arbitrarily andeven randomly; the most innocuous encounter with camp personnel may be deadly. Morailty is also suspended for OSEEN the victims. The ghetto in Korczak bears no resemblance to that of television miniseries: men and women die on sidewaJks Matthew R. Schwonek, Editor unattended, ghetto police hound children for stealing food, and the blackmalteteer is king. Here morality has no place. In Allan Wildman, Director, CSEES conttast to the amoral Schindler, K.orczak is quite Wlable to save a single life. For these reasons bothfilms have morein common OhioSlavic andEuropean East Newsletter (OSEEN) is published widl Levi's writings or the unconventional Europa, Europa than monlhly, October throughJune, by theCemer for Slavic and East films lite Triumph '1f the Spirit and Holocaust with which they European Studies of the Ohio Srare University. It is provided will most likely be compared. Also, they convey the enormity free of charge to subscribers. Submissions to all depanments are and the bestial nature of the evil perpetrated by the Germans. welcome. Direct subscription requests and submiss ions to: Both Schindler' s Ust andKo rczakare complex filmsand nowhere is this more evident than in their characters. Neither OSEEN Schindlernor Korczak are traditional cinema heros. Schindleris Center for Slavic and East European Studies most interested in profit. When he turns is 303 Oxley Hall hero there no 1712 Neil Ave. bravado; he ultimately buys the safety of his Jews. Moral to a The Ohio State University fault, Pszoniak's harried Korczak nevertheless treats with the Columbus, OH 43210-1219 ghetto's underworld collaborators. "I have no dignity, I have children to feed," he tells a resistance fighte.r. Inside Itzak Stem, Phone (614) 292-8770 Schindler'saccountant, beats a hero's heart. It is he who initially 292-4273 FAX (614) transforms Schindler's plant into a refuge. Stem, however, as played by Ben Kingsly is evasive, frequendy fearful, 8?'1ever apprehensive. This complexity even extends to the Nazts. The Film and the Holocaust Commandantof the Plasz6wcamp AmonGoeth, played by Ralph Fiennes, does notbum visibly with a comic-book hattedfor Jews elderlyPolish Annysurgeon leading a parade of children through nordevotion to theNazi cause . He is in a way ordinary orbanal . the madness of the Ulilschlagplatz and deportation to Treblinka, Spielberg suggests Goeth's actions are inexplicable, although it "the first Jewish ranks that went to death, with dignity, casting may be that Goeth has adjusted, as most men would, to the role contempbl<>us looks to the barbarians." of tonnentorin theNazi's "world turnedupside-down." Although Neither Schindler's Ust or Korczak is antidote to the an both films survey a great procession of humanity, neither Spiel­ ttoubling denials of the Holocaust. (There is none.) Both films, berg nor Wajda reducecharacters into a mass of undifferentiated however, are strong medicine for Holocaust indifference or victims. In Spielberg's film as the "list makers" do their work, ignorance. Both Schindler's Ust andKorczak relate in a detailed recording who will be deported and who will live another day, fashion the grim workings of the Holocaust despite their telling each name is matched with a face. And each film relates how the stories of two individuals who were rays of light in this daik individuals met their separate fates. history. To lend the films a documentary character Wajda and In its penultimate scenes Schindler's List descends into then · Spielberg chose to work in black and white. Wajda also melodrama. Schindler's speech at war's endand his leave taking integrateS newsreel footage and adds the appearance of Gennan seem out of place after what have gone before. Wajda similarly Propaganda Company fdm crews. In neither· film does the ends Korczak on an awkward note. The criticisms of Wajda's Holocaust begin at the Birkenau gateand end at thecrematorium. bestowing sainthood on Korczak are fussy if not mean. Yet the The stages of the Holocaust arepatiently presented. TheJews of ascension is unnecessary. Most of the movies ' faults are minor europe are first deprived of their rights and expropriated. Next ones, however. In comparison with their enormous strengths, they are removed to ghettos, then to labor camps when the their lapses areof small importance. Thal they appear at theend ghettos are liquidated in an orgy of violence. Finally, they are of each film suggests they are as much a problem of the subject sent to death camps. Details such as the use of headstones from as the failings of lhe directors or their art form. The terrible Jewish cemeteries for paving stones and the Nazis' macabre reality of the Holocaust rendersa denouementunneces sary, while attempts to hide their crimes are not overlooked. the vastness of the tragedy makes any final wonl inadequate. Both films show how the Nazis attempted to strip their victims of dignityand dehumanize them. The Gennans takefrom victims their place in society, their possessions, and their Matthew R. Schwonek is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of identities. Ultimately, strippednaked , they aremade to trotabout History and assistant director ofthe Center for Slavic and East and are inspected like cattle. Unswerving in his presentation of European Studies of The Ohio State University. theNazi plan Spielberg does not spare the audience this dreadful * * * �- k isoneef-th&-mevie's most ham>wing.sc:enes.-and---�TUSI -coiilinues ils run az theaters nutionwiM. ------the audience shares the feeling of shame. In the ghettos and Korc7.8k can be bo"owed 11y institutions, educators, andstudents camps the Nazis created a "world turned upside-down," where from the CSEES Film and Videotape Library. social mores and morality are suspended. Violence is meted out March 1994 OSEEN 3

Arnost Lustig to Speak Roadmap to Ourselves: The Rise of Yiddish Language and Civilization," Bexley High School, 326 Cassingham Rd.

Authorand film scholar AmostLustig will visit the Ohio Saturday, April 16 1994. State University on Thursday, March 3, Lustig is best CONFERENCE: "The Post-Soviet Era: Politics and Society in known for his no s of celebrated vel the Holocaust, which are for the Newly Independent States," Drake Union,9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. theirpoignant portrayals of its victims. He will give a talk on the Holocaust a historical epoch which gave to new measures as rise Wednesday, April 20 of morality. The talk will follow a showing of the ftlm "Transp­ BROWN BAG DISCUSSION: Prof. Barbara Clements, Univer­ ort fran Paradise," which is based on his novel Night and Hope. sity of Akron, "BolshevikWomen During theRussian CivilWar," "Transport from an psychological drama set Paradise" is intense 122 Oxley Hall, 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto. Directed by Zbynek Brynych whose works include The Fifth Horseman is Fear, what Wednesday, May 11 makes the film remarkable is not only its visual dynamism, but BROWNBAG DISCUSSION: Prof. Dmitri Shlapentokh, Indiana the humanization of its characters, which makes it all the more University--South Bend, "Emasianism: the Case of Russian hawiting. The film begins at 7:30 p.m. Both the film and talk Nationalism," lOlA Oxley Hall, 12:30-2:00 p.m. will lake pJace in the Wexner Center for the FilmArts and Video Theater. Admission is free. Sundays Lustig grew up in Prague and was interned in the TIDS WEEK IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND Theresienstadt, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz during the Second EASTERN EUROPE: Adjunct Prof. Miriam Schwartz, Depart­ World War. In the 1950s and 1%0s he played a major role in ment of Slavic Languages and Literatures, discusses current crealing the Czech New Wave cinema. Lustig left Czechos­ events in Russia and Eastern Europe with Ohio Slavic specialists lovakia in the wake of the 1968 Soviet invasion. He is now and foreign visitors, 3:00 to 3:30 p.m., WOSU 820 AM professor of film at American University in Washington, D.C. His other books include Darkness Casts No Shadow, Diamonds of the Night, Street of Lost Bothers, and Dita Saxova. New English editions of several of his novels, including the haunting Dita Saxova have recently been released. Lustig's visit is sponsored by The Ohio State University Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Melton Center for Jewish Studies. Department of Slavic and East European Lan­ guages and Literatures, andWexner Center for the Arts. Summer and Academic Year Study Abroad

Belarus State University Program in Russian. One-month or extended programs of insbUCtion in Russian. Cost is $100- $200.00/mo. Contact: Department of International Studies; Belarus State University; Fr. Slcaryny, #4 (Room 214); Minsk, 220050, Belarus; root%[email protected]. Thursday, March J SPECIAL EVENT: Film "Transport from Paradise" (Czech International School of Ukrainian Studies. A six-week w/English subtitles) lecture tig, Department of and by Amost Lus program in Kiev, including instruction in be�nning' �term� Cinema, University, "The Ho t and Morality," . American 1ocaus and advanced Ukrainian as well as courses m Ukrairuan history, and Video Theater, Wexner Center for the 8:30 Film Arts, p.m. literature and art Total cost, including room and board but excludin� air transportation, is $1,150. Deadline forapp �ns 18-Sunday, March Friday, March 20 is April l, 1994. Contact: Ukraine, Kiev; ul. YaroslaVlv Val., CONFERENCE: "Centtal Asia and Azerbaijan: From C7.8rist 26; International School of Ukrainian Studies; Ihoc Ostash, Rule to Independent States," University Ramada Inn and Con­ Director; (044) 212-23-92. ference Center, 3110 Olentangy River Rd, times vary. Ko5ciuszk.o Foundation Year Abroad at Wednesday, March 30 the Ja1iellonian University. An academic- BROWN BAG DISCUSSION: Prof. Sergei Berkner, Voronezh year, undergraduate-level Polish language Differentiation Pedagogical Inslitute, "Political in the Contem- scholarship program which covers tuition, 122 2 00 porary Russian Press," Oxley Hall, 1 : p.m.-1:30 p.m. s nd 0 lodging, and monthly tipe _:___ Open_�------stUoeniS 1R junwr-orseruoryearsas well as Wednesday, April 6 graduate students who have not reached the LECTURE: Prof. Neil Jacobs, The Ohio State University. "A dissertation stage. Contact: The Kokiuszko Foundation; 4 OSEEN March 1994

Domestic Grants Office; 15 East 65th SL; New York, NY Ave.; The Ohio State University; columbus. OH 43210; (614) 10021-6595; (212) 734-2130. 292-8770.

Russian Economics Academy Moscow Summer Business U.S. Summer Language Study Program. A six-week programof addressing the major econom­ ic and political issues affecting Russiatoday. Intensive Business Duke University-University of North Carolina Summer Russian is a mandatory component of the program, mid-June to Institute in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Instruction in early AugusL Cost is: $3,975.00. For more infonnation contact: elementaryto advanced Russian, Russian stylistics and elementary University Programs Dept; CIEE; 205 East 42d SL; New York, Ukrainian, June 27 to Aug. 6, 1994. Cost: $2,641. For more NY 10017; (212) 661-1414. information contact: Prof. Edna Andrews; Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies; Box 90260; Duke Univer­ Novosibirsk State University Cooperative Russian Language sity; Durham, NC 27708-0260. Programs in the Natural and Social Sciences. A six-week program of practical Russian and translation work in scientific Indiana University Summer Workshop in Slavic and East Russian at Novosibirsk State University, early June to early European Languages. Instruction in first- tosixth-year Russian; AugusL Cost is $ 4,250. Contact: University Programs fust-year Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, and Uzbek;

Department; CIEE; 205 East 42nd St.; New York, NY 10017; and second-year Czech, Polish, and Uzbek, June 17-Aug. 12. (212) 661-1414. Pending funding fust-year Azeri, Bulgarian. Estonian, Georgian. Kazakh, Kyrgyz. Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, and Turkmen. Ohio State-Purdue-Emory Summer Russian Study Program. Deadline for Russian is March 28; other languages, May I. A three-week study tour consisting of intensive language study Contact: Director; SWEEL; 50'2 Ballantine Hall; Indiana and exposme to Russian culture, June 18-Aug. 6, 1994. Open to University; Bloomington, IN 47405; (812) 855-2608. students who have completed some second-year Russian. Deadline for applications is april 1. 1994. Contact: Dept of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures; 232 Dieter Cunz Hall of Languages; 1841 Millikin Rd.; The Ohio State University; Columbus, OH 43210; (614) 292-8770.

Ohio StateSummer Program in the Czech The Ohio State University Republic. A six-week program at Prague Center for Slavic and East European Studies Agricultural University at Suchdol. presents a conference Participants sbldy the changes which have taken place in the Czech Republic since the The Post-Soviet Era: "Velvet Revolution" of 1989 and focus on agricultural development and economic change m well m the Politics and Society In The history and culture of the Czech Republic. Total cost TBA. Financial aid available. Contact: Office of International Educa­ Newly Independent States tion; Oxley Hall; 1712 Neil Ave.; The Ohio State University; Columbus, OH 43210; (614) 292-6101. Columbus, Ohio April 16, 1994 Ohio State Summer Study Abroad Proaram at Babes Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. An intensive Romanian language The conference will provide a framework for exam­ program including six weeks of intermediate or advanced iningthe political and social developments since 1989 Romanian instruction and a two-week culture tour of Romania. and the problems of independence in the Baltic Total cost is $3,700 (subject to change). Contact: Deparament of states, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Annenia, Azer­ Slavic and East European Languages andLiteratures; 232 Cunz baijan, and Georgia. Featured speakers include Hall; 1841 Millikin Rd; The Ohio State University; Columbus, Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak (Ukraine), Darrell OH 43210; (614) 292-6733. Slider (Georgia), and Andrejs Plakans (Lithuania). For further information contact: University of Silesia at Katowice Summer School of Polish Language and Uterature. Summer inlensive introductory and Matthew R. Schwonek intermediate Polish course in Cieszyn, Aug. 1-28, 1994. Cost is Center for Slavic and East European Studies $495. Deadline forapp lications is April 30. Four-month Polish 303 Oxley Hall language and literature courses and one-month summer intensive 1712 Neil Ave. - --1>11smess-PoliSDcourse atso avaitabte. cunr.acc Matthew R;--­ ------+he Ohio State University ______Schwonek; AssistantDirector; CSEES; 303 Oxley Hall; 1712 Neil Columbus, OH 4321 O (614) 292-ano March 1994 OSEEN 5

Monterey Institute ofInternational StudiesSummer Intensive methods for global education. Contact Dr. Soheir Stolba, Language Program. Intensive instruction in first- through third­ Director; International Studies Program; American River College; year Russian, June IS-August 17, 1994, and first- and second­ 4700 College Oak Dr.; Sacramento, CA 95841. year Hungarian, June 22 -August 17, 1994. Cost is $4,S20 and $4,220. Contact: SummerLanguage Program, M onterey lnstiblte "Teaching ror ProrlCiency and Performance." Sponsored by of International Sbldies, 42S Van Buren SL, Monterey, CA the Indiana University Summer W

Illinois University Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and F.astem Europe. A program for scholars and students who English Teachers. Eastern Europe and Russia. Peace Corps. wish to use the University of Illinois Library for independent The Peace Corps seeks applications for secondary-level teachers research, June 13-Aug 5, 1994. Associates receive housing (300 exp.) of English in Eastern Europe beginning in SUJDJDC'J' awards for up to 14 nights (scholars) and 28 nights (sbldents). 1994. Requirements are B.S./B.A. in any discipline with 6 Contact: Vicki Miller; Russian and East European Center; months of English as a Second Language Tutoring experience.

University of Illinois; 104 International Sbldies Bldg . ; 910 S. Volunteers receive paid uavel, medical/dental care, living Fifth SL; Champaign, Il. 61820; (217) 333-1244. allowance, $5,400 at end of 27 months. Contact: Peace Corps, Detroit Office, 1-800-521-8686, ex. 453. SSRC Fourth Summer Workshop in Underrepresented Fields in the Study or the Former Soviet Union: Sociology and English Teache�terns. Russia. Adventures in Education, Anthropology. A program of seminar discussions of Inc. seeks 20 interns to teach English at SL Petersburg schools. participants's resean::h, research issues, strategies, and techniques Interns receive full salary and accommodations with Russian in anthropologyand sociology, June 19-25, 1994 at theU niversity families. Program cost is $1,965 (not including air ttanspor­ of Michigan. All costs paid by SSRC . Contact: Workshop in tation). Contact: Adventures in Education, Inc.; 129 Oakcrest Sociology and Anthropology; Joint Committee on the Soviet Rd., #6; Ithaca, NY 14850; (607) 257-3599. Union; Social Science Research Council; 605 Third Ave.; New York, NY 10IS8. A wide range of government agencies and educational foun­ dations seek teachers of English as a Second Language in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Slovak Republic, and Russia. Bachelor's degree/student status is often. only requirement. For more iriformation contact: Margarita Nafpa/ctitis; Career Services; The Ohio Sta� University; 05 Brown Hall; 190 West 17th Ave.; The Ohio State University; Columbus, OH 43210.

"Teaching a Global Perspective: The Curriculum or the Student Program Assistants. The Ohio State University Office of International Education (OIE) seeks 7-10 s Future." Sponsoredby the AmericanRiver College International tudent assistants foc--­ Studies- Program,-hekt-at1he Radisson Hote1, Sacramemo,--cx,­ its EngliSh---C onversatron--program, 1Dternation81Livmg and March 16-18, 1994. Features presentations on internationalizing Leaming Center, and other programs and 2-3 assistants for Sbldy curricula, developing courses, learning theory, and teaching Abroad programs for 1994-1995. Assistants must be full-time or 6 OSEEN March 1994

undergraduate students and haveattended Ohio Stare forat least Successor States; Social Science Research Council; 605 1bin1 2 quarters. Wage is $5.00/hr. Infonnational sessions will be Ave.; New York, NY 10158. held: Tuesday, March 29, 1994, 3:00 p.m.-4:30p.m., 122 Oxley Hall. and Thursday, March 31, 1994; 3:00-4:30 p.m., 122 Oxley. UCIS Graduate Student Grants. Sonkin Family Scholarship for International Peace for study at Ohio State and Krumm Memorial International Scholarships for research in Europe m China for Ohio Stare graduate students. Amount is $500. Conditions and tenns vary. Deadline is April 15, 1994. Send statement of pwpose, research proposal, tranSCript. and letter of supponfrom advisorto: Sonkin orKrumm Scholarship Cmnmit­ teeS; UCIS; 322 Oxley Hall; 1112-NeilAve.; The Ohio State Council of Higher Education James and Helen Hovorka University; Columbus, OH 43210. Scholarships. Scholarships for C7.CCh and Slovak immigrants and their descendants. Deadlineis July 1. Contact: Council of University of Michigan Faculty Enrichment Program in HigherEducation; Jamesand Helena Hovorka EndowmentFund; Russian and East European Studies Grants. Short-tenn ttavel P.O. Box 136; Brookfield. Il. 60513. grants to conduct research at the University of Michigan. Deadline is March 15, 1994. Contact: Dr. Donna Parmalee; CSEES Faculty Travel and Research Grants. Grants for Ohio University of Michigan; Center for Russian and F.ast European State language and area studies faculty for ttavel to professional Studies; 210 Lane Hall; Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290. meetings and for research in the United States. Amounts vary. Contact: Maryann Keisel; Cent.er for Slavic and East European Woodrow Wilson International Center and Kennan Instit ute S tudies; 303 Oxley Hall; 1712 Neil Ave.; The Ohio Stare for Russian Studies Fellowships and Grants. Wilson Cent.er University; Columbus, OH 43210; (614) 292-8770. Fellowships of 4-10 months duration for research in the human­ ities or socialsciences; Kennan InstiruteResearch Scholarships of CSEES Summer and Academic-Year Title Foreip Language 3-9 months duration for scholars in their early career; Kennan

and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS). Fellowships for Ohio Institute Shon-Term Grants of one mo nth's duration to use State graduate students for summer int.ensive study and academic resources in the Washington, D.C. area. Contact: Fellowships year srudy of advanced Russian and other slavic and east and Grants; The Woodrow Wilson International Center; The ) european languages at all levels. Students in non-language Kennan Instirute for Advanced Russian Srudies; 370 L 'Enfant disciplines and professional fields are encouraged to apply. Promenade, S.W.; Suite 704 SI MRC 930; Washington, D.C. Deadline for summer awards is March 1; for academic-year 20024-2518; (202) 287-3400. grants is March 1. Contact: Maryann Keisel; Center for Slavic andEast European Studies; 303 Oxley Hall; 1712 Neil Ave.; The Ohio State University; Columbus. OH 43210; (614) 292-8770.

International Research Exchanges Board (IREX) Grants. Short-Tenn Travel Grants. Ph.D required. Deadline i s June 1. Contact: Matthew Sch won ek; Campus Rep.; CSEES; 303 Oxley Hall; 1712 Neil Ave.; The Ohio State University; Columbus, OH 1994 43210; (614) 292-8770. March 18-20, "Central Asia and A7.erbaijan from Czarist Library of Congre. Junior Fellows Program: European Rule to Independent States." Sponsored by the Middle East Division. Fellowships for college juniors, seniors and graduate Studies Center, CSEESand Mershon Center, held at the Univer­ students to assist in organizing and documenting archival sity Ramada Inn, Columbus, Ohio. Contact: Middle East Studies collections, producing findingaids, and bibliographicrecord<; for Center; 322 Oxley Hall; 1712 Neil Ave.; Columbus, OH 432210; Russia and East Europe, summer 1994. Contact Dr. Michael (614) 292-9660. Haltzel,Chie f; EuropeanDivision; Library of Congress; Washing­ ton. D.C. 20540, (202) 707-5414. March 20·21, "Culture and Society: The Third Annual Graduate Conference in Difference and Turkish in the Social Science Research Council Fellowships and Grants. Language Arts." SponSCX'ed by theInstitute of Turkish Studies Faculty Professional Development and Rettaining Grants, and The Ohio Stare University Department of Near East.em, Fellowships forRe search andTraining, Fell owships for Sociology Judaic,and Hellenic Languages and Literatures,held at The Ohio and Anthropology, Support for Research and Development State University. Contact: Prof. Victoria Holbrook; NJH; 256 Initiative; Grants for Summer Russian Language Institutes and Cunz Hall; Columbus, OH 43210; (614) 292-9255. - -- umnts fOi Summer Non-Russum Language lriSbtutes. 1enns vary. Contact: Joint Committee on the So viet Union and its March 19, 19th Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference. To be held at Villanova University. Contact: March 1994 OSEEN 7

DonaldD. Barry;Departmen t ofGovernment; LehighUnivenity; April8, Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Russian, East 302 Maginnes Hall; Bethlehem, PA 18105. European andEurasian Studies. Callfo r Papers. Heldat the University of Viqima. Deadline for proposals is February 1. March 25-27, 9tb International Conference of Europeanists. Send poposais to Laura Botta; Cente.r for Russian and East Held in Chicago. Contact The Council for European Studies; European Smdies; 103 Levering Hall; University of Virginia; Box 44 Schermerhorn; Columbia University; New Ycrk, NY Charlottesville, VA 22903. 10027; (212) 854-2172. April 16, "The Post Soviet Era: Politics and Society in tbe March 26-April 1, " Russian Local Government and Politics Newly Independent States," Sponsored by theCenter for Slavic Today." Call for Papers. Sponsored by the Mayor of SL and East European Studies, held at The Ohio State Univenity, Petersburg, SL Petersburg University, and die Center forInter· Columbus, Ohio. Coot.act Matthew R. Schwonelt; CSEES; 303 national Education. Held in SL Petersburg, Rmsian Republic. Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave., 1be Ohio State Univenity; Colum­ Cost is $1,790. Deadline for applications is March 1. Send bus, Ohio, (614) 292-8770 applications with $100 deposit to: Russian-American Center for International Education, Eastern Division; 1433 B N.Van Dom April 21-24, "Cballenps for a New Era." Sponsoredby the SL; Ale:xaildria, VA 22304. Cemral States Conference and ForeignLanguage Assoc iation of Missouri, held in Kansas City. Contact Jody Thrush; CSC Director; 3550 Anderson SL; Madison, WI 53704.

April 29-May 1, Midwest Slavic Ccmfereace AnnualMeedDI. The Ohio State University Call for Papen. Held in Chicago. Send poposaJsto: P. Craig Middle East Studies Center Smith; Department of Histmy; Northeasrem Dlinois Univenity; Center for Slavic and 5SOO North SL Louis Ave.; Chicago, ll. 6062S. East European Studies Mershon Center present a conference

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Ramada University Hotel RU5.9ian 514 3110 Olentangy River Road 1 Credit Hour Columbus, Ohio March 18-19, 1994 Spring Quarter 1994 The Ohio State University The conference will examine politics and society in Central Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Cen­ Study Russian inthe splendor of rural Ohio this turies. Featuredspeakers include Yuri Bregal, Indiana springat Lager'Gorizont (CampHorizon). Directed University,and Kemal Karpat,U niversityof Wisconsin. by The Ohio State University's own Prof. George Conference sessions embrace History, Religion, Politics Kalbouss this total immersion language camp and State Policy, Global Issues in a Central Asian features lectures, films, sing-alongs, andmore, all in Context, and Identity and Language. A registration Russian. The specialprogram $35.00fee of includes and banquet fee of $25.00 is requested of all non­ room and board. Simply sign up for Russian 541 (15169-2) students. 1he $10.00 registration fee is waived for when you register for Spring Quarter students. Students may attend the banquet by paying courses and pay the special program fee before the $15.00 fee. For reservations call the Ramada March 15. Prerequisite is second-year Russian. For University Hotel: (614) 267-7461. For further infor­ more information contact: mation contact: Department of Slavic and East European Middle Fa.st Studies Center Languages and Literatures 322 Oxley Hall Dieter Cunz Hallof Languages 1712 Neil Ave. 1841 Milikin Road · ··- · · ______H ------· ---- ·'fhe"OJUo State Universny--·------·- --·------™ Ohio StateU-niVemfy 43210-1215 Columbus, OH 43210 Columbus, Oh (614) 292-9660 (614) 292�73 8 OSEEN March 1994

May 21-28, "Education: New Concepts and Schools." Inter­ July 1994, "Totalitarianism and Personality." Call for national professional symposiwn sponsored by the Russian­ Papers. Sponsored by URAL-GULAG Research Center, held American Center for International Education. Held in St. aboard ship on cruise from Moscow to Perm. Contact: Andrey Petersburg. Cost $1,890. Contact: Russian-American Center for B. Suslov; URAL-GULAG Research Center, fl. 31; Pushkin SL InternationalEducation; 1433 B N. Van Dom St; Alexandria, VA 44; Perm, 614600; Russian Republic; Fax (3422) 34-83-74. 22304; (703) 671-0577. August 16-19, "Everyday Life in Russia: The Formation of June 3-4, 52nd Annual Meeting ofthe Polish Institutes of Arts Soviet Subjectivity." Call for Papers. To be held in SL and Sciences of America. Call for Papers. To be held at The Petersburg, Russia. sponsored by the University of Economics American University, WashingtOO, D.C. Deadline forproposals and Finance. Deadline for proposals is January 15, 1994. Send is February 28, 1984. Send proposals to: Dr. T.V. Gnxnada; abstract in Russian-to: Fax 7(812) ll0-4732. Polish Institute; 208 East 30th SL; New York, NY 10016. September 7th Congress of the International Association for June 20-26, "Russian Politics and Political Parties." Inter­ Southeast European Studies (AIESEE). Held in Athens or national professional symposiwn sponsored by the Russian­ Rhodes, Greece. Contact: U.S . National Committee , AIESEE; American Center for International Education. Held in St. Department of Slavic Languages; Dey Hall; University of North Petersburg. Cost $1,890. Contact: Russian-American Center for Carolina; Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3165. International Education; 1433 B N. Van Dom St; Alexandria, VA 22304; (703) 671-0577. 19'5

July 4-11, "Strong Democracy." International professional August 6-11 International Congress for Soviet ad East symposium sponsored by the Russian-American Center for Inter­ European Studies. Sponsored by the International Council for national Education. Held in St Petersburg. Cost $1,890. Central andEast European Studies,hosted by thePolish Academy Contact: Russian-American Center for International Education; of Sciences, held in Warsaw, Poland Contact: VICCEES World 1433 B N. Van Dorn SL; Alexandria, VA Congress Secretariat; Institute of Philosophy and Sociology; 22304; (703) 671-0577. Polish Academy of Sciences; ul. Nowy Swiat 72; 00-330 Warszawa, Poland.

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