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Contents Message from the President...... 3 Letter from the Editor...... 3 State of the Field...... 7 Member News...... 9 Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Grammar But Were Afraid to Ask...... 10 Belarusica...... 12 Russian at Work...... 13 Czech Corner...... 14 Recent Publications...... 14 Cross Cultural Communications...... 15 Graduate Student Forum...... 16 Psychology of Language Learning...... 17 Summer Programs...... 18 Professional Opportunities...... 24

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AATSEEL NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL STAFF AATSEEL POINTS OF CONTACT Editor: BETTY LOU LEAVER President: Assistant Editor: ANNA JACOBSON CARYL EMERSON Contributing Editors: VALERY BELYANIN Princeton University NANCY CONDEE [email protected] President-Elect: ELENA DENISOVA-SCHMIDT NANCY CONDEE ALINA ISRAELI University of Pittsburgh ALLA NEDASHKIVSKA [email protected] MILA SASKOVA-PIERCE Past President: RACHEL STAUFFER SIBELAN FORRESTER MOLLY THOMASY Swarthmore College [email protected] NINA WIEDA Vice-Presidents: CURT WOOLHISER JULIE BUCKLER NL Coordinates: Harvard University [email protected] Editor: [email protected] JULIE A. CASSIDAY Assistant Editor: [email protected] Williams College Layout/Advertising: [email protected] [email protected] LYNNE DEBENEDETTE AATSEEL Office: Brown University PATRICIA ZODY [email protected] Executive Director, AATSEEL KEITH LANGSTON P. O. Box 569 University of Georgia Beloit, WI 53512-0569 USA [email protected] Phone: 608-361-9697 JANE SHUFFELTON Fax: 608-363-7129 Brighton HS, Rochester, NY (retired) [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] BORIS WOLFSON Amherst College Layout/Advertising: CDL Services [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 Beloit College materials. [email protected] Conference Manager: (6) Full specifications are available at the AATSEEL web site. DIANNA MURPHY University of Wisconsin-Madison [email protected] AATSEEL Web site AATSEEL Web Master: For current online information about DAVID GALLOWAY AATSEEL and its activities, visit AATSEEL Hobart and William Smith Colleges on the web: [email protected] http://www.aatseel.org

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while for more people. Here, trying to Message from the get bigger can coexist with capitalizing Letter from the Editor AATSEEL President on our cozy size. The Annual Conven- Dear Readers, tion in Philadelphia this coming Decem- If all goes well, this issue will be Three years ago NewsNet, the ber will have a number of innovations the last electronic-only newsletter. I AAASS equivalent of the AATSEEL tailored to smallish gatherings: 8:00 remember when we went all-electronic, Newsletter, featured a column by “coffees” with senior scholars; partici- there was a lot of enthusiasm for mov- Ronald Suny and Dmitry Gorenburg patory master classes on literary history ing ahead with technology. (We had a titled “Where are We Going? What Is or theory; workshops intended not for technology in teaching column, too, at To Be Done?” (August 2006, v. 46.4). the presentation of finished papers but that time.) Time have changed, how- Among the confusions, challenges, and for the discussion of some passionate, ever, and technology is now a routine suggestions for the field raised in that small-scale, scholarly pursuit-in-prog- part of our lives. The column has gone excellent essay were some problems we ress. In this age of intimate interactive by the wayside; such information is recognize as routine for social scien- access to everything, we should not no longer novel. As for the newslet- tists: global versus regional approaches be tethered to the monologue-lecture ter itself, however, some people never to our subject matter; Eurasia versus droned out in a big hall — except, per- made the conversion from paper to Russocentrism versus Eastern Europe haps, at celebratory bonding moments. electrons. Over time, we have found that as political and geographical entities. Finally, the future of the field. A many previously avid readers have also There was also discussion of problems financial nightmare such as this nation dropped by the wayside. Libraries, too, that are also routine for us: the upgrad- has been through the past half-year is often prefer paper formats still. So, the ing of websites; the internationalization sobering. Familiar paradigms, and with Executive Committee at the 2008 An- of professional journals to include not them our sense of the possible, can nual Meeting decided to return to paper only reviews of non-English works but change massively overnight. Perhaps this fall. Surprisingly, or maybe not so, essays in languages other than English; some of you saw the “Washington we are going in a direction that is the op- the diversification of conference formats Diarist” column by Leon Wieseltier in posite of the current trend in publishing, so that the “scholarly panel + discus- March 18, 2009 issue of The New Re- and the ease of finding a printer-mailer sant” is not the only way to share one’s public entitled: “The Tolstoy Bailout.” combination has become a relic from personality or work. AAASS warmed Wieseltier takes to task all those nervous the past. I would like to ask any read- to the idea of a “theme” for the entire funding agencies and well-wishers who ers who know of any inexpensive and conference, and to special forums on insisted that the humanities are “imprac- reliable printers who also do bulk mail individual prize-winning books (in this tical” —and thus people who love them distribution to let me know. I will be case, Yuri Slezkine’s The Jewish Cen- will have to make them “relevant.” He searching for a replacement for Crouse tury), both of which were well received. has some wonderful lines: “The crisis in Printing, which formerly printed and Re-reading that column in 2009, I began which we find ourselves was the work distributed the newsletter but no longer to think of Where We (AATSEEL) Are of practical men. The securitization of does our sort of thing. Any place in the Now. mortgages was not conceived by a head country is okay because most printers First, geopolitical crises of nomen- in the clouds. No poet cost anybody now use digital files. And this is what I clature have less impact on us. Not their house. . . . The creativity of bank- will be working on this summer. no impact, of course, but less. As an ers is a luxury we can no longer afford. I hope you will all have an enjoy- organization specializing in the creative . . . Regression analysis will not get us able summer break--if you are taking humanities and their many languages, through the long night.” And the advice one. If not, I wish you a productive we are comfortable with the idea that at the end to humanists: stay put, hang summer! legitimate worlds are created and dis- in, believe in our worth, for (as Tolstoy solved constantly in the imagination insists) even our present unhappiness is Betty L. Leaver — and that these worlds not only exist a deepening experience. as autonomous realities, but that most Caryl Emerson people live more of the time inside them than outside them. Second: we are still small — too small. Efforts have been Call For Papers AATSEEL 2009 Conference made to increase membership and turn the slippage around, especially among Abstracts are due April 15 for more slack senior professors and the pre- professoriat (graduate students). Anna information, visit AATSEEL on the web: Berman is especially to be thanked for http://www.aatseel.org her initiative here. But we must make our annual getting-together more worth-

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pages), as well as study questions, in and popular culture, as well as language AATSEEL mid September. and literature. The focus of this initia- Master Classes tive is on language itself, especially The AATSEEL Executive Council as manifested in literature and other (2009 Philadelphia) will continue Master Classes at the cultural narratives, rather than on areas AATSEEL announces two innova- following conference in January 2011, of geographic or national origin. tive Master Classes, led by renowned when Prof. Boris Gasparov (Columbia) Despite increasing public interest in scholars who will provide AATSEEL leads a seminar on semiotics and its world literature and growing enrollment members with an intensive introduction applications in the present day. The Ex- in foreign language classes nationwide, and overview of the seminar leader’s ecutive Council welcomes suggestions publishing opportunities for scholars in area of expertise. for future topics and leaders. Sugges- these fields have declined. This gener- The two 2009 Master Classes tions or questions should be directed to ous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon are led by Caryl Emerson (Princeton; Julie Cassiday at Julie.A.Cassiday@ Foundation will allow each of the five AATSEEL president) and William williams.edu. presses to publish up to four titles per Mills Todd (Harvard). Prof. Emerson’s year for the next five years. seminar will focus on contemporary This collaborative endeavor will approaches to cultural theorist M.M. offer authors a shared space for pub- Bakhtin and how they can be usefully Five University lishing innovative scholarship that will deployed to read a work of literature; influence the way literature and other Prof. Todd will lead participants through Presses awarded language-based arts are researched and his pioneering work on the 19th-c. Rus- $1.16m Mellon grant taught. Each press will maintain its own sian novel. separate editorial profile and acquisi- University Presses receive collab- tions procedures, while centralizing Master Class 1: orative grant from the Andrew W. Mel- copyediting, production, and an aggres- lon Foundation to support the Modern sive marketing program. The grant will Topic: “Tools for Teaching the Language Initiative be administered by Fordham University post-Boom Bakhtin — as Philosopher, Fordham University Press, Univer- Press, which organized the cooperative Carnivalist, Post-Modernist, Formalist, sity of California Press (FlashPoints effort and presented the proposal to the and ‘Dialogic Classic’ ” series), University of Pennsylvania Foundation. Press, University of Virginia Press, and “There are fewer and fewer oppor- Prof. Caryl Emerson (A. Watson University of Washington Press have tunities for scholars to find publishing Armour III University Professor, Slavic been awarded a collaborative publish- outlets in the United States for work on Languages and Literatures; Professor, ing grant of $1.16 million from the An- non-English texts. With the support of Comparative Literature; Chair, Slavic drew W. Mellon Foundation to publish the Modern Language Initiative, authors Department at Princeton University) scholarly books on the literatures of the will have new opportunities to publish non-Anglophone world. The Modern in this growing and vital field,” says Master Class II: Language Initiative (MLI) will support Rosemary G. Feal, Executive Director the publication of 20 titles by each press of the Modern Language Association. Topic: “Approaching the Nine- over the next five years. “We applaud the Mellon Foundation teenth-Century Novel as Art Form, “Inasmuch as academic presses are for its vision in funding this consortium Enterprise, and Institution” the lifeblood of scholarly discourse, of academic presses,” said Joseph M. this grant is a wonderful assurance that McShane, S.J., president of Fordham Prof. William Mills Todd III (Har- non-Anglophone literatures will receive University. “It is an acknowledgment of vard College Professor; Harry Tuchman the attention they are due,” said Stephen the primacy of intellectual community, Levin Professor of Literature; Professor Freedman, Ph.D., senior vice president/ and of the need for a diversity of voices of Comparative Literature at Harvard chief academic officer and professor in scholarly conversation. We look University) of natural science at Fordham Univer- forward to the broadening effect such sity. “The grant is a wise investment diversity will bring to Fordham and its Master Classes are limited to 15 in global scholarship, and comes at a sister institutions.” participants, who must be current mem- time when scholars in the United States For more information, please see bers of AATSEEL and preregistered are increasingly finding their research www.washington.edu/uwpress. for the 2009 conference. Master-class subjects abroad.” registration begins on August 1, 2009. The grant will assist the presses in Participants will receive a list of rec- identifying, publishing, and dissemi- ommended readings (not to exceed 30 nating first books by scholars in fields such as rhetoric, film, performing arts,

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sor Thaddeus Gromada, and its Deputy and Democracy”–New York Division, InterCom: Executive Director, Mrs. Jane Kedron, as well as the papers of Felix Gross Customized E-Digest as well as the selfless work of its Board which afford an opportunity to follow of Directors and entire staff. the development of federalist movement for Language One sign of this is undoubtedly the in exile. Teachers Institute’s ongoing cooperation since The Institute also holds the papers 2000 with the Polish National Archives of the leaders of Polish political parties Is your e-mail account filled with in Warsaw. An especially critical aspect active in exile, including the collections information that might or might not be was the transfer to PIASA of the stan- of Karol Popiel and Konrad Sieniewicz. relevant and useful if only you ever had dard databases for archival entry, which There also is an ever growing collection time to follow up on it? Try InterCom, enabled PIASA to enter into Poland’s of materials of the Polish democratic a weekly e-mail digest for language scientific information system, thereby opposition, among them of Komitet teachers that you customize so that making information about the Insti- Obrony Robotników (KOR- Workers you receive only the content that you tute’s archives available on the NDAP Defense Committee). are interested in. For instance, you can website. The agreement also provides The second group of archival ma- sign up to receive only information for annual internships to the Institute terials, mainly of an artistic-literary about high school Spanish and French by Polish archivists who help make character, are the artistic works, materi- assessment or elementary Japanese invaluable historical sources more ac- als documenting professional and social and German curriculum creation. Each cessible for scholars. activity, personal and family documents, week, you receive an e-mail contain- The gigantic work performed by the as well as the correspondence of many ing just these types of information, first of the „Visiting Research Archi- outstanding representatives of the Pol- in summary form. All information in vists” – Stanisław Flis from the National ish émigré community in the US. Es- InterCom is researched and reviewed Archive in Gdańsk - resulted in the pecially deserving mention here are the by a human being before being sent publication in 2004 of the “Guide to the documents of Jan Lechon (1938-1956) to subscribers. Therefore, it is highly Archival Collections of the Polish In- Kazimierz Wierzyński (1953-1959), qualified and pertinent. InterCom is a stitute of Arts and Sciences of America writer and journalist Bohdan Pawłowicz free service for second language teach- in New York” [in Polish]. The work of (1931-1967), Andrzej Bobkowski, ers provided by the Center for Applied successive representatives of the Pol- Wacław Solski, the legacy of the long- Second Language Studies, one of the ish National Archives - from Olsztyn, serving editor of the Polish language National Foreign Language Resource Częstochowa, Płock and Warsaw - made daily “Nowy Świat” Piotr Yolles, as Centers. Go to http://casls.uoregon. use of additional archival data bases – well as the papers of Polish scholars: edu/intercom.php to search for articles SEZAM (Evidence System of Archival Oskar Halecki, Ludwik Krzyżanowski, from our archives and to subscribe. If Resources) and IZA (Inventories of Wacław Lednicki. Recently the papers you have any questions about InterCom, Archival Units) to record information of Jadwiga Irena Daniec were added to direct them to the InterCom Editor at about additional valuable PIASA col- PIASA’s archives. Rounding out this [email protected]. lections. Since October 2008, under a group are documents of researchers fellowship granted by the Kościuszko who studied the Polish community in Foundation, this work is being contin- Latin America – Edmund Urbański and Treasures of Polish ued by Anna Cieśla, a graduate of the Juan Wyskoty-Zakrzewski, as well as History Department of the Jagiellonian of researchers of the fate of the Polish Culture in Manhattan University in Kraków currently on the community in the United States – Frank staff of the Polish National Archives in Renkiewicz and Frank B. Roman (Wit- Archives of The Polish Institute Warsaw. kowski). It is worth noting also that of Arts and Sciences in New York PIASA’s archives cover a wide the Institute has digitized documents range of subjects. First should be of the so-called Potocki Archives of New York’s Polish Institute of Arts mentioned the archives of a political Lancut, whose originals completed the and Sciences of America, Inc. (PIASA), character, such as the documents of the collection of the Archive of Ancient which was founded in 1942 by a group Legation of Poland in Rio de Janeiro Documents (Archiwum Akt Dawnych) of Polish scholars associated with the for the years 1918-1945 (1957), of the in Warsaw. Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Embassy of Poland in Washington Among the documents recently Krakow, continues to serve as a scientif- for the years 1918-1945, or the docu- acquired by PIASA, the Wacław Hilary ic and cultural bridge between America ments and recordings of Radio Free Bniński Collection deserves special and Poland. As it did at its inception, Europe. There is great interest in the attention. Bniński was a member of the the Institute has continued to attract documents of the Association of Polish Home Army, a participant in the Warsaw outstanding scholars, scientists, writers, Federalists–Chicago Division, the Pol- Uprising, activist in the anti-communist artists, and professionals thanks to the ish Freedom Movement “Independence Union “Freedom and Independence” energetic efforts of its President, Profes- 5 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 52, Issue 2 April 2009

[Zrzeszenie “Wolnosć i Niezawisłość”], The Institute’s wealth of historical results now by googling CCPCR to Radio Free Europe journalist and Voice sources and its special congenial atmo- reach the website. of America radio correspondent, as well sphere, and perhaps also the magic of as co-organizer and member of the Ex- Manhattan, where the Institute is located Fall 2008 Data on Other Slavic ecutive Committee of the North Ameri- (208 East 30th Street, New York, NY & EE Languages; Summer can Study Center for Polish Affairs. 10016), draws new researchers each Programs His correspondence, memoirs, publica- year from the United States, Canada, In 2008, CCPCR began reporting tions, press clippings, recordings and and also Poland. fall semester enrollment levels in other photographs throw a light on Waclaw Information about PIASA’s archi- Slavic and East European languages Bninski’s exceptional political activism val holdings is available on-line at and initiated a list of summer offerings and form a valuable source of informa- http://www.piasa.org/archives. in those languages on college campuses tion about the functioning of the Union html in the US. These two new categories are “Freedom and Independence” as well beginning to demonstrate the diversity as the North American Study Center for of offerings across the country, and are Polish Affairs [Polnocno-Amerykańskie easily available on the CCPCR website Studium Spraw Polskich]. The docu- CCPCR Website to students who seek programs offered ments of “STUDIUM” - which func- in the US, as well as to faculty members tioned initially (1974-1975) as an arm Results: Fall 2008 who wish to have an overview of avail- of the Polish American Congress and able programs. then from 1976 as an independent or- Enrollments, Summer ganization uniting Polish-Americans 2009 Programs Input From Your College or Pre- dedicated to freeing Poland from Soviet College Program domination - will undoubtedly serve as Increases invaluable historical sources for many Please check the CCPCR Website! researching the influence of the Polish- There may be cause for some If your college or university program is American community on the process of guarded optimism in regard to student not yet listed or updated, a direct e-mail democratization in Poland. interest in the study of Russian. Re- link to send your information to CCPCR Another exceptionally valuable sponses to date from both pre-college ([email protected]) is posted on accession to the PIASA archives are and college-level Russian programs the website next to the fall enrollment the papers of Roman Michałowski, a indicate a trend of increasing enroll- and summer program links. Just check notable Polish military officer, diplomat ments in the fall 2008 semester over the site to see what information is re- and lecturer. This adjutant of Marshall previous years. Of the 52 college-level quested and posted before e-mailing Piłsudski and chief of staff of the Vol- programs that responded thus far (by your data. For pre-college programs, unteer Division in 1920, military attaché the end of February), 26 reported gains an easy to fill in electronic report form in London 1923-1928, and subsequently over their previous enrollment levels, link is located on the CCPCR website in Bucharest 1929-1932, First Secretary and a number of those gains were sig- home page. nificant. First-year Russian at American of the Polish Embassy in Tokyo until Why Participate? 1939, became a Colonel of the Ameri- University, for example, increased from can Army on the Western Front during 28 to 55, the U. of Chicago went from CCPCR has been gathering enroll- World War II and worked closely with 55 to 63, the U. of Oklahoma from 37 ment data for the past 25 years, follow- the American Office of Strategic Ser- to 48, Portland State from 44 to 57, and ing trends and providing program and vices (OSS). Having been honored with St. Olaf from 27 to 42. Not all programs contact information for teachers and numerous Polish and foreign orders, increased, of course, but many more students across the country. Your input Roman Michałowski was for many held steady and most others decreased is important so that the CCPCR website years after WWII a lecturer at New York only slightly. At the pre-college level, can continue to be a source of informa- University, as well as Vice President of responses thus far from 77 teachers tion for program defense and serve as a the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences across the country reflect a similar pat- positive influence on funding for state in New York. The documents received tern, further supported on the CCPCR and government initiatives to assist by PIASA in 2008 reflect above all website by the newly-created category, programs and teachers, as well as to Michalowski’s diplomatic, military and New Programs (initiated in 2007 and support the production of new textbooks academic career. His manuscripts and 2008). CCPCR will present a more and teaching materials. typescripts, on the other hand, reflect his complete overview and statistics at the John Schillinger exceptionally deep interest in Poland’s end of the spring 2009 semester, when American University international position, especially in the most data will have been gathered, but Website: http://www.american.edu/ context of its being a neighbor of the interested readers can view these initial research/CCPCR/ USSR.

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Editor: Nancy Condee State of the Field University of Pittsburgh

students are capable of engaging with Another area of concern is the Russian Film Studies cultural texts – songs, films, paintings, dearth of proper training for film crit- Today: Common novels, performances – they learn to un- ics and historians in Russia and the derstand a different culture and engage former CIS. The Cinema University, as Blessings, Common intellectually with it. Indeed, the same VGIK now calls itself, has its courses Woes? is true for historians who have intro- focused on Russia: young critics do duced visual sources increasingly into not engage with scholarship in foreign (Two Comments from the UK) their syllabi, and we can see a growing languages. Critics in the former CIS are In the pieces offered below, two leading number of historians engage in research isolated, especially in Central Asia. The UK scholars of Russian cinema, Birgit on cinema. This has also had the effect Confederation of Filmmakers’ Unions Beumers and Julian Graffy, comment of broadening and widening cinema (and its administrator, Daria Borisova, on the state-of-the-field on their side studies, moving it out of the niche of in particular) has established a young of the Atlantic. Their views provide film theories and placing it into a larger critics’ jury and a film school for critics opinions and information on the field’s context. and filmmakers, both of which should key markers: its monograph series, In terms of publications, we are be promoted; ideally critics should be English-language journals on Russian looking at the bright side: publishers are given the opportunity for exchange. cinema, fluctuating enrolments, uneven increasingly keen to publish on film. In As I write, Bristol University has subtitled films, and research lacunae. the UK alone, there is IB Tauris with its notified its staff that all DVDs of films, Are we “separated by a common lan- Kino series, edited by Richard Taylor; which have no British Board of Film guage” or do they struggle with the there is Intellect Books with some 30 Classification (BBFC) certificate, have same challenges that Russian-cinema journal titles in visual arts and cinema, been removed from the library shelves specialists face here in the US? Their as well as a book publishing arm with (including Aelita, The Cranes are Fly- assessments provide a snapshot of the titles in media and performing arts; ing, The Commissar and other Russian profession today. and Wallflower press with the series of classics) as it would be illegal to loan Director’s Cuts, 24 Frames and others. these to students. And here I write about Routledge have a strong list of publica- the future of film studies…. Tell me: The State of Russian tions on the media – even if these books what shall I teach next year? are terrifically expensive, they are of film studies today high standard and quality. Birgit Beumers, Where do we go from here? – A Russian Film Studies Bristol University (UK) major issue remains the training of film Today The state of the arts in general, and critics. Sight and Sound recently carried a feature on the ‘death of the profes- Julian Graffy, arts faculties in particular, is sooner or University College London (UK) later going to feel the effect of the credit sion’: we need to enable students in all crunch as we still call it in the UK, or the subject areas – history, film, modern lan- The study of Russian film has never recession as some bolder Europeans call guages – to be able to write film reviews been more popular in the Slavonic De- is. So say our university managers. For and engage in a challenging way with partments of British universities. In the time being, let us look at what we the films they watch. I would also very my own department, at the School of have rather than indulge in the study of much like to see an exchange in teaching Slavonic and East European Studies in chernukha – the bleak future that might film programmes between US and UK University College London, we current- not be that bleak at all. universities, with scholars and teachers ly teach four courses to undergraduates Film studies has been an established from a range of departments looking at and a further four to MA students, with discipline for many years, but has made one and the same film from a variety of about half a dozen students currently its way into language departments in angles: what does the historian, the film engaged in PhD research. Altogether the last decade as we teach less and less scholar, the Russian scholar get out of a around a hundred students are study- literature and find students engage more Sokurov film, for example. Suggestion ing Russian film at UCL at any one with cultural studies, of which film is for the next AATSEEL conference: three time. Film is used widely in a range of extremely popular with students (yes, panels on a single film, respectively other courses on culture, history and for the reason that they’d rather watch from the pre-Revolutionary, the So- society. We also have a thriving Rus- a film than read War and Peace, Lev viet, and the post-Soviet era, with three sian Cinema Research Group. All of Nikolaevich, forgive me…). Does it scholars from history, film, and Russian this is a cause for optimism about the matter? My answer is no. As long as the studies delivering papers. continuing importance of Russian film 7 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 52, Issue 2 April 2009 in understanding Russian experience of in good subtitled editions, but their list myself still have to rely on videos I the last century, and it has been made is limited to films from particular stu- made in the late 1980s from British tele- possible by technological innovation – dios, and it has so far been unusual for vision for subtitled versions of such key by the vastly increased accessibility in them to release a film which appeared works as The Asthenic Syndrome and recent years of the primary materials, before 1950. My Friend Ivan Lapshin. These films are the films themselves. Of course most of the films men- not best shown in this way, interrupted Yet paradoxically it is the state of tioned in my list are available on Rus- as they often are by advertisements for those primary materials that currently sian DVDs, but these editions are of pasta sauce and lavatory paper… offers one of the main challenges for extremely variable quality – Russian If the first issue is to make the films students and teachers of Russian film, companies, thus far, have shown almost themselves available in acceptable edi- a challenge not faced by teachers of no interest in their silent film heritage, tions, then the other key challenge is to literature. Almost alone among great or (with the exception of Krupnyi plan, get more good writing about Russian European film-making nations, Rus- whose recent editions of the early films film into print. As my colleague Dr sia has not proved very attractive to of Andrei Konchalovskii, for example, Birgit Beumers writes in her companion the most prestigious producers of high show just what can be done in this essay, huge strides have recently been quality subtitled DVDs in Britain or the area) in re-mastering the films they do made in this area. Both in Britain and USA. Leading DVD publishers, notably release. Thus the versions of older films the USA several serious monographs Criterion and Image in the USA, and we can get hold of are far too often of and collections of articles about Rus- Artificial Eye in Britain have, in recent very poor visual quality and presented sian film have appeared over the last years, issued good quality versions of in the wrong aspect ratio. Films of the few years. Dr Beumers herself is the most of the films of Sergei Eizenshtein; Stalin period that were ‘re-edited’ in author of the first history of Russian some works by Pudovkin, Dovzhenko the 1960s continue to be released only film for many decades, which has just and Vertov; a handful of key works of in these sanitised versions, skewing the been published, and another such his- the Thaw period; all of Tarkovskii and historical record. Russian companies tory is imminent. There are also now Paradzhanov; Sokurov’s documentaries have not, so far, ventured to issue films two English language journals about and his most recent feature films; and, with audio-commentaries – one has only Russian film, the online KinoKultura looking at the work of the last twenty to think of the brilliance of Yuri Tsiv- (which concentrates on contemporary years, a random selection of Russian ian’s commentaries on the versions of releases) and the print journal Studies films that have achieved either festival The Man with the Movie Camera and in Russian & Soviet Cinema, journals prizes or box office success, films as dif- Strike issued in Britain and the USA to which the indefatigable Dr Beumers ferent as Zviagintsev’s The Return and see what an opportunity is being missed modestly does not mention since in both Bekmambetov’s Nightwatch and Day- here. And to cap it all, when Russian cases she is the editor. (A not entirely watch. But a list of the important films companies do issue interesting older frivolous suggestion for the further that are not commercially available in films they are notoriously difficult to amelioration of the state of Russian film subtitled versions would include Kule- get hold of – Russian internet companies studies would be to find more people shov’s The Extraordinary Adventures of (apart from Ruscico, which has a Euro- with the knowledge, drive and enthusi- Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks; pean and North American presence) are asm of Dr Beumers). many of the key works of Pudovkin, not allowed to send them abroad and All of these developments are very Dovzhenko and Vertov; Kozintsev and Western internet companies concentrate welcome, and they encourage teachers Trauberg’s Maxim trilogy; the musicals on contemporary films. to broaden the range of films they in- of Aleksandrov (in this case even the So the first challenge that faces us clude on their courses. But it is often the subtitled video versions are no longer in is to do everything we can to encourage case that when my students are studying print; though they are widely agreed to companies, in the USA, in Britain, in a recent film they can read about it in be of lamentable quality, without them Russia itself, to conclude that it would KinoKultura and nowhere else. When we would not have been able to teach be commercially viable to sink more they are studying older films, particu- the Stalinist musical at all); the musi- money into the restoration and release larly of the period from 1964 to the fall cals of Aleksandrov’s rival Ivan Pyr´ev of more of the great Russian cinematic of the Soviet Union, there is sometimes (none of which have ever been released heritage. The Ruscico Academy series, nothing for them to read in English at in subtitled versions, making it hard to curated by Nikolai Izvolov, which is all. Once again, comparison with our show students that he is just as worthy apparently about to issue its first DVDs colleagues teaching Russian literature of their interest as is Aleksandrov); any of classic Russian films in the next few shows that their students can consider of the films of Aleksei German; almost months, is an exciting development. a far broader range of critical sources all the key films of Kira Muratova … But to teach our undergraduate when forming their own readings of the list could be endlessly extended. The students (and any other students without the books they study. So we need more enterprising Ruscico company, in Rus- a good knowledge of Russian), we need studies of individual films and directors; sia, does issue a large number of films subtitled versions of films on DVD – I Continued on page 9 8 April 2009 Vol. 52, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER

an influential mentor to generations of sought to help his colleagues in the Member News graduate students at Michigan. He was Department (and later in the Residential the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellow- College) and his students. I consider Editor: Molly Thomasy ship in 1972. myself especially fortunate to have been (University of Wisconsin-Madison) He led the Department as its chair both his student and his colleague. from 1961 to 1971, the decade in which Sometime later this year, I hope The AATSEEL Newsletter likes to keep it rose to prominence among gradu- and expect that the Slavic Department its members informed about important ate departments of Slavic Languages and the Residential College will hold a events and professional milestones! If and Literatures in this country, in no gathering to honor John’s memory and you or an AATSEEL member you know small measure as a result of his wise share our stories about him.” has recently defended a dissertation, leadership. From 1977 to 1985 he was As Herb’s words emphasize, John been hired, received a promotion or Director of the Residential College and was held in the highest esteem by many retired, please send the member’s name, helped build that experimental liberal generations of students, and by all those accomplishment and affiliation to: arts college into the excellent four-year who worked with him and under his Molly Thomasy, [email protected] undergraduate college within the Uni- leadership. His loss is deeply felt by all versity that it is today. Before retiring who were privileged to know him. In Memoriam: from regular teaching, he led our Slavic Thanks to Professors Michael Professor John Mersereau, Jr. Department again from 1986 to 1989. Makin and Herbert Eagle for granting It is with deepest regret that the As a Professor Emeritus he taught permission to publish this obituary. Department of Slavic Languages and from time to time in the 1990s and he Literatures of the University of Michi- continued his research and writing up The AATSEEL Newsletter would gan announces the death of John until the present. My last conversation like to recognize the following mem- Mersereau, Jr, a beloved colleague and with him was, in part, about his latest bers for their recent professional mile- former Chair of the Department. book manuscript on 19th century Rus- stones: Below are the words of the cur- sian literature. Viktoria V. Ivleva defended her rent Chair, Professor Herb Eagle, who John was a delightful and charm- PhD dissertation devoted to fashion and announced the sad news to the Depart- ing person with many interests beyond clothing in eighteenth century Russian ment: academia. He grew up in a rural area in literature at the University of Wiscon- “I write with a heavy heart to tell the Santa Cruz mountains of California sin-Madison in January 2009. you that our dear friend and former and never lost his love of nature. He was Jane F. Hacking, Associate Profes- leader, John Mersereau, Jr. has passed a farmer and he and his wife Nanine sor of Russian and Co-Chair of the De- away. (“Bimi”) bred and raced horses, another partment of Languages and Literature at When last we all saw him, at our subject of our last conversation. the University of Utah has been elected Departmental party in the fall, he was While Director of the Residential to a three-year term on the Association his usual cheerful, witty and engaging College, John learned to fly planes and of Departments of Foreign Languages self. He lived his life to the fullest to the not only bought his own small plane, Executive Committee. very end. He was not only an eminent but built a runway for it on his farm. Mara Sukholutskaya, Associate scholar, among the most prominent He enjoyed gourmet cooking and with Professor of English and Languages at experts on Lermontov and on Russian friends opened the first authentic French East Central University in Ada, Okla- Romanticism and the author of five restaurant in Ann Arbor in 1965. homa, has been selected for the 2009 books and many articles, but also an Most of all, he was an outgoing, Global Ada Distinguished International inspiring undergraduate teacher and warm and generous person who always Citizen of the Year Award.

State of the Field Continued through a particular prism, of which Continued from page 8 can engage. In both cases there have Professor Nancy Condee’s imminent been real improvements in recent years, more studies of periods which have so The Imperial Trace is an excellent and these challenges are in a sense the far been neglected – the Second World example. result of the continuing success of our War and Late Stalinism; the Brezhnev There are other causes for concern, studies. But I am writing this piece in years, which emphatically did not just ably articulated here by Dr Beumers. I the city of Charles Dickens, so perhaps produce cinematic also-rans; and the myself have concentrated on two issues it will not be considered churlish of me 1990s, already described in Russia as – the availability of the primary sources to end with the famous words “Please, The Cinema Which We Lost; and more and the availability of good quality criti- sir, I want some more.” themed studies, looking at Russian film cism with which scholars and students

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Alina Israeli (American University) Everything You Always Wanted 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. If you haven’t already done this topic: В + nominative There are also some nouns that trigger Acc2: кандидат в plural, аs in “идти в солдаты.” I’ve always been fascinated президенты, прием в пионеры, посвящение в принцы, путь by this one. в супермены, дорога в вожди. Of course these nouns do A. This is indeed a fascinating topic, except I would not not exhaust the list; as long as there is a meaning of moving call it nominative plural, but rather Accusative2. We already towards that job, rank or position, Acc2 is used. have Genitive2, Prepositional2, so there can be yet one more This same case is used in naming games: играть в case. The big advantage in choosing this term is that it allows казаки–разбойники, в дочки–матери, в кошки–мышки, в us to preserve the traditional syntactic definitions where the дурачки, в куклы, в Акулины. grammatical subject is always in nominative case and nomi- Last names that allow this formation should necessarily native case never follows a preposition. belong to a famous person. Such people must be in a class This usage is very common and this type of construction by themselves. Yet, other people are trying to emulate them, can be formed with any noun designating a person, most to become another Napoleon or Einstein: commonly names of professions, including personal names. I Почти в Цезари меня записал! (archive.velozona.ru/ will discuss the latter subject below. The construction means boards/enviro/1999/23607.html) ‘joining the ranks of N, becoming one of the Ns’; it typically Кандидаты в Эйнштейны встретились на Сахалине means not actually being an N, but rather motion, physical (primamedia.ru/news/show/goto.php?p=&sec=18&r=9&go or mental, towards the state or position of N, or being good to=next&id=15094) enough to become an N������: в до���чер��и г�одит����ь�с�я�,������ в отц�ы�� г�о��- Мы все глядим в Наполеоны. (Пушкин. «Евгений диться. If it means ‘being one of the Ns’, it implies the road Онегин») to get there: определить в профессионалы, произвести в В Лужковы метит? (kirulya.livejournal. генералы, сдать в солдаты, записаться в студенты, взять в com/2008/08/25/) помощники, попасть в диссиденты, завербовать в шпионы, Операция «Преемник», или 30 претендентов в Пу- постричься в монахи. тины – эксклюзив «Нового Региона». (www.nrnn.ru/ Mayakovsky in his poem “Кем быть?” enumerated a nn/103980.html/discussion/) number of potential professions: Я бы в лётчики пошёл, Кто в Наполеоны подавался, кто в Ельцины, кто-то пусть меня научат. Я б в шофёры пошёл, пусть меня прокурором становился, а кто-то Цезарем. Только вот научат. As the result the line Я бы в Npl пошел became президентом Бушем никто становиться не хочет. Может proverbial and can be found with many nouns describing личность не та? (http://subscribe.ru/archive/rest.funny. humans. sarkazm/200404/02084331.html) In addition to unidirectional verbs of motion — идти, What is also interesting is that some nouns take differ- пойти, уйти, выйти, лезть, пролезть — a number of verbs ent forms which are predictable from the point of view of that indicate the movement toward or joining the ranks can the paradigm. For гражданин we find both в гражданины govern professions and titles: метить в звёзды, стремиться and в граждане, for крестьянин — в крестьянины and в в лидеры. The motion can be implied: из лягушек в принцы, крестьяне, and similarly for some nationalities have dual из Золушки — в принцессы. The phrase идти в гости also formation, for example в татары and в татарины: originally belonged here, even though intuitively it is no lon- Если у спецслужбы возникнут сомнения в лояльности ger perceived as a free syntactic formation and is reinterpreted кандидата в гражданины, его пригласят на собеседование, for гости to mean ‘hosts’: пришли из гостей. чтобы уточнить некоторые детали… (http://www.dw3d.de/ В 1874 г., когда председательство в училищных dw/article/0,2144,2019791,00.html) советах перешло к предводителям дворянства, Гнедину Правительства не препятствуют получению предложили баллотироваться в предводители, но он постоянными жителями статуса граждан, скорее отклонил это предложение, так как был принципиальным наоборот, пропагандируют переход постоянных жителей противником сословной службы, и остался попечителем в граждане, считая, что натурализация будет полезной школы в своем селе. Далее, с введением в уезде судебной для национальной экономики. (http://www.antropotok. реформы, Г. в течение одиннадцати лет был избираем archipelag.ru/text/a036.htm) в участковые мировые судьи. (http://www.biografija.ru/ Из программистов — в крестьяне (http://shcoder. show_bio.aspx?ID=25792) ru/2008/12/29/koshastiy/)

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Вим уже Хома в крестьянины произвел, а Абрикош- ку — в графини. (http://www.hamster.ru/forum/viewtopic.p hp?p=22811&sid=b796f7f83662a58297669c7e7a177a47) Order online: Из его объяснений следовало, что колокол в credit card качестве символа праздника не имеет ничего общего с христианством, а символизирует набат, в который ударил check or PO в XVII веке Козьма Минин, записанный некоторыми Tel. 607-277-3981 участниками форума не только в татарины, но и чуть ли не в террористы. (http://www.rusk.ru/st.php?idar=14411) [email protected] В татары стали записывать Суворова, Кутузова, адмирала Ушакова, Пушкина, Гоголя и даже… Ельцина. www.LexiconBridge.Com (http://www.businesspress.ru/newspaper/article_mId_40_ aId_127531.html) The common proverb Из грязи в князи is another ex- ample of such a formation along with в князья: прыгнул из хохлов в князья (http://www.rvb.ru/ pushkin/02comm/0558.htm) There are linguists who do not treat the usage under dis- cussion as Accusative case. Yet, we clearly see Accusative case whenever both singular and plural are possible: Вы еще не знаете о том, что однажды я переквалифицировался в рабочего на обыкновенной стройке. (fsnews.ru/page-id-150.html) Семью на данную заработную плату было не прокормить, в связи с чем папа поменял специальность и из работника культуры переквалифицировался в рабочие. (http://www.superjob.ru/contests/6693/) Additionally, we find the perfectly systemic opposition Acc. vs. Prep. for motion vs. location, just like the counter- part of идти в гости is были в гостях. В мужьях in the final A Major New Title on DVD-ROM example below does not mean that he was one of a number of her husbands, as if he were included in that group (one of the claims some opponents of Acc2 make is that it is inclusive, Advanced Russian: i.e. идти в солдаты means to be included in the army; we have the same situation with the Prepositional below, yet no From Reading to Speaking one calls for a special case): S. Paperno, S. Lubensky, I. Odintsova Наконец, застрявши у нас в уезде, он служил в лакеях, лесниках, псарях, церковных сторожах, женился на гулящей вдове-кухарке и окончательно погряз в ♦ Video recordings of professional readings of twelve холуйскую жизнь… (Чехов. Страх) short stories by contemporary Russian authors. И хотя новоявленная Эмма Бовари стала американкой, ♦ A Russian TV film based on one of the stories. переселившись из душной французской провинции в ♦ A concert performance by the author of one of the sto- пригород Нью-Йорка, а в мужьях у нее не зануда Бовари, ries. а великолепный Ричард Гир, Лайн все сделал как надо. ♦ Over thirty video excerpts from interviews with some (http://www.itogi.ru/archive/2002/30/99240.html) of the authors (or their television appearances). ♦ Fifty scenes from Russian films that are thematically © 2009 by Alina Israeli related to the featured stories. ♦ Video and audio recordings of songs and poems related to the stories. Annotated photographs of the authors. ♦ Complete transcripts of all video and audio recordings. AATSEEL Web site ♦ One-click glosses, linguistic, and cultural comments for For current online information about AATSEEL all texts. Every word is glossed. and its activities, visit AATSEEL on the web: ♦ Creative assignments for all videos and photographs. http://www.aatseel.org See our Web site for details.

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study of a broad range of issues relating to cultural diversity and minorities policies in the expanded EU. Coursework will BelarusICA include intensive Belarusian language instruction (beginning Editor: Curt Woolhiser and intermediate levels and individual advanced-level tuto- rials) and lectures in English and Belarusian on Belarusian (Harvard University) history, literature, contemporary politics and society. The program will also include a regional studies component, with The Belarusica column editor is looking for contributions to lectures and events focusing on the history, culture and current this column. Contributions from North American colleagues status of the Belarusian minority in Poland, as well as of the are especially appreciated. (Contributions should be no more Podlasie region’s other ethnic groups, including Poles, Jews, than 1-2 pages in length.), deadline 6-8 weeks in advance Tatars, Lithuanians, and Russian Old Believers. Faculty will of the issue month. For more information, contact Dr. Curt include instructors from Białystok University and the Be- Woolhiser, [email protected]. larusian Lyceum in Hajnówka, as well as Hrodna University Southwestern College International in Belarus. Additional guest lectures on Belarusian history, politics and culture will be given by visiting researchers from Summer School of Belarusian Studies, Europe and North America. Students will have a choice of Hajnówka, Poland dormitory accommodations at the Belarusian Lyceum, or homestays with Belarusian-speaking families in Hajnówka. The Center for Belarusian Studies at Southwestern Col- Coursework will be supplemented by a rich and diverse lege (Winfield, KS) invites undergraduate and graduate stu- cultural program, including visits to Belarusian minority dents to participate in its first International Summer School cultural organizations and media outlets, meetings with Be- of Belarusian Studies from July 6 to August 7, 2009. The larusian writers and artists, films, concerts, theatrical perfor- program, to be co-sponsored by the Poland-based Belarusian mances, and excursions to important sites related to Belaru- Historical Society, will be held at the Belarusian Lyceum in sian and Orthodox culture and other attractions of the Podlasie the town of Hajnówka in the Podlasie region of northeastern region: the city of Białystok, the recently restored Orthodox Poland, an area of great natural beauty and home to Poland’s monastery in Supraśl, the Białowieża (Belaveža) National ethnic Belarusian minority — an ideal setting for the study Park (the largest and ecologically most diverse remnant of the of Belarusian language, history and culture, as well as for the primeval forests of the Northern European plain), the historic town of Bielsk Podlaski, the Holy Mountain of Grabarka (the Slavic & East European most important Eastern Orthodox pilgrimage site in Poland), Summer and the Borderland Foundation in Sejny, a unique institu- Language tion dedicated to preserving the rich multicultural heritage Institute of the borderland region and promoting dialogue and new SUniversityL Iof Pittsburgh • 2009 forms of cooperation between its many ethnic groups and cultures. In mid-July students will also have the opportunity ADVANCED MASTERY to attend Basovišča, the annual festival of Belarusian rock BOSNIAN· CROATIAN· SERBIAN music organized by the Belarusian Students’ Association in the town of Gródek (Haradok) east of Bialystok. At the end 6 weeks — (June 22 - July 31, 2009) of the program, from August 8-19th, students will have the 2 weeks at each site — Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb option of traveling to Belarus on a tour including Hrodna,  This ACLS-funded course enables advanced speakers and heritage speak- ers of BCS to develop professional language competence by conducting guid- Navahrudak, Slonim, Niasviž, Mir, Minsk, Połack, Viciebsk, ed academic or professional research abroad Mahiloŭ, Pinsk and Brest.  Applicants will be interviewed by phone in the target language The program cost, including tuition, room, board, cultural program and excursions is $2,900 (the cost of the optional Belarus tour at the end of the program will be announced as details become available). For further information and ap- APPLICATIONS: plication materials, please contact the program director: Dr.  Application & fellowship deadline March 20. For Curt Woolhiser, Harvard University, Department of Slavic more information please write or call: Languages and Literatures, Barker Center 327, 12 Quincy St., Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Cambridge MA 02138-3804; e-mail: [email protected]. 1417 CL, University of Pittsburgh edu; tel. (617) 495-3528. Please note that the due date for all Pittsburgh, PA 15260 applications is May 15, 2009. (412)624-5906/Fax (412)624-9714 e-mail: [email protected]

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Russian at Work: Editor: Rachel Stauffer Interviews with Professionals (University of Virginia) who use russian on the job A Good-Bye I have a double Bachelor’s in Span- since I have time to wander and many ish w/ an emphasis in Business (a co- of my colleagues are locals, I might After two years of writing the “Russian major at my university) and Russian and learn about a hidden gem, a restaurant or At Work” column and having the oppor- minors in Russian and East European craftsperson, for instance, that I would tunity to interact with people from all Studies and Latin American Studies. never have found on my own. sorts of professions, I, regrettably, will I have a Master’s in Slavic Languages no longer be able to write this column and Literature, and a 2nd Masters in 6. What is the best part of your job? regularly due to my own professional Russian and E. European Studies. I also Moving every 2-3 years. obligations. This column needs and have a J.D. deserves an enthusiastic volunteer to 7. What is the most challenging part take it over. Please take advantage of 3. When was your first trip to a Rus- of your job? the unique opportunity to compose the sian speaking country? What were column regularly by contacting Betty your initial impressions? Moving every 2-3 years! Leaver at [email protected]. If you have My first trip to Russia was in 1993. 8. What advice would you give to questions about what the position en- I loved it - absolutely loved it. I was in someone interested in working in the tails, please do not hesitate to contact St. Pete with FSU on a language trip Foreign Service or for the U.S. State me, Rachel Stauffer, at staufferr@ May and June. We stayed in a dorm and Department? What about for those virginia.edu. I met my first Russian friends. students who may be interested in majoring in Russian or in studying 4. Describe your present job and loca- abroad somewhere in the region? Shelbie Legg is currently stationed tion. as a Foreign Service Officer in Sarajevo. I would definitely encourage ap- She is married to a Russian and has two In general, I am what is called a plying to the State Department at any young daughters. She holds an under- Foreign Service Officer (diplomat for stage in their career, no matter what graduate degree from Florida State Uni- short) and I work for the United States their background is. This type of public versity and several graduate degrees. Department of State. We rotate positions service is not just for young college Prior to joining the State Department every 2-3 years and we are assigned ac- graduates. I, for instance, changed ca- she worked as a Water Enforcement cording to service needs. Currently, I am reers midstream at 30 after practicing Attorney for the State of Florida. She in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina as an environmental attorney in Florida. has studied abroad at Charles Univer- where I serve as the Staff Assistant to While the DOS does have age limits (we sity in Prague twice, in St. Petersburg, the Ambassador. My last job was as a have mandatory retirement at 65 and and in Omsk at the Faculty of Law at Consular Officer in Tashkent, Uzbeki- an officer must be able to serve at least Omsk State University. She is originally stan. I was slated in a Russian-speaking 10 years), many people in my class of from Quincy, Florida, just outside of position. officers were over 40, and a few were Tallahassee. Special thanks to Lisa 5. Have your initial impressions of well into their 50’s. There is an entrance Wakamiya at Florida State for suggest- Russia and the NIS changed as a exam, which consists of a written por- ing an interview with Ms. Legg for the result of your profession? tion and if one passes that, there is an “Russian At Work” column. oral exam. I also would suggest reading Absolutely. It is completely differ- about the Foreign Service on-line at 1. When did you begin studying Rus- ent when one visits a foreign country as careers.state.gov. There are a few books sian? What other languages do you a visitor or tourist than when one works available through major booksellers on speak or have you studied? in a place day in and day out. There the test and Foreign Service life. It is I began studying Russian in 1992 are pros and cons to both. For instance, important to know a little about the job when I entered Florida State Univer- I have been in Sarajevo for 4 months because you do have to choose from the sity. I have studied Russian, Spanish, and I have yet to complete a tour of the very beginning what type of Foreign Portuguese, Czech, Classical Hebrew city’s museums and religious sites. As a Service Officer you want to be (Politi- and Bosnian tourist, I would have hit them in 3 days. cal, Economic, Consular, Management, It is kind of like living in your home etc) and it is extremely difficult to 2. Describe your educational back- town… you never quite seem to get to change your “cone,” or section, once ground. the “tourist” spots. On the other hand, you have entered the Foreign Service.

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I also should mention that the USDOS and with the visa clients. As I said, my also has positions for Foreign Service position was a Russian-language desig- Specialists. These are people who have nated position, which meant that upon Czech Corner specific areas of knowledge, like medi- my arrival to Tashkent, the State De- cine or security/ investigations and IT. partment expected me to be proficient Editor: Mila Saskova-Pierce The process for becoming a Foreign in Russian at a level in which I could (University of Nebraska) Service Specialist is quite different communicate effectively and efficiently than for an FSO, but you can also find on all levels. Editor's Note: This corner is for teach- information on these careers at the same ers of the Czech language, and I would web address. 10. What do you think is the most like to invite them to share their news, As for students interested in Slavic common misconception that Ameri- views, and experience related to the languages, I think there are great op- cans have about the NIS and Russia? teaching of various kinds of courses portunities, but you have to be mindful What misconceptions do people of dealing with Czech culture, language, that getting a job in your field will be those countries have about us? and literature. Contributions do not have to be limited to the United States; a challenge. On the other hand, if you I am sorry to say that unfortu- are creative, you can always find a they can and should include issues of nately, the Cold War is alive and well Czech language and culture instruction way to use your language skills. For in American movies and books. I find it instance, as an environmental attorney throughout the whole world. Contri- completely ridiculous how many aver- butions to the Czech Corner may be for the State of Florida, my daily job age Americans still view Russians with clearly did not entail any use of the sent to the column editor at msaskova- suspicion and fear. [email protected]. Russian language; however, I joined the I think many people in Russia, international section of the Florida Bar and all over the world, really, still see The Czech Corner column was not where I was able to work on exchanges Americans in a very naïve manner. ready at the time that this newsletter between the Moscow Bar and a few Young people believe what they see went to press. We expect it to return translation projects. The same holds on TV. While we may not be spies and next issue. Please consider sending a for study abroad. I hate to use the old crooks and Mafiosi to them, they have contribution to the Czech Corner col- refrain “where there’s a will, there’s a a tendency to think we all live in New umn editor. way,” but it is true. I just met a young York or Miami, drive fancy cars and American high school student who bleed money. However, it only takes somehow learned about a small inter- a few conversations to change these national high school in Mostar, Bosnia perceptions and this is an important Recent and Herzegovina, and he is now the first part of my job - of every diplomat’s job. Publications American to participate in their pro- This is why we are encouraged to go gram, which draws students from places out to regions and talk to people about The Recent Publications column in- like Italy and Eritrea! I, myself, created America and share both our problems my own study abroad program to Omsk cludes books published in 2008-2009. and our successes. For me, I particu- Authors and publishers are invited to State University, where I studied at the larly enjoy working with high school Faculty of Law during law school. You submit information about their new and college students. My next project publications. have to be motivated and willing to do will be celebrating Earth Day with a the leg work. school in Mostar! Culture 9. Describe how you use Russian in For more information about the Foreign Service or employment with Encyclopedia Britannica. 2009. Bri- your everyday life - both profession- http:// tannica Guide to Russia. Running ally and personally. the Department of State, visit careers.state.gov. For specific ques- Press. Well, this is an easy question for tions directed to Ms. Legg, e-mail her Oisteanu, Andrei, Mirela Adascalitei, me. I am married to a Russian and we at [email protected] Moshe Idel. 2009. Inventing the Jew: speak Russian in the home with our 2 Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian daughters. As a Foreign Service Officer and Other Central-East European in Bosnia and Herzegovina I don’t use Cultures. Lincoln, NE: University of Russian professionally very much, but AATSEEL Web site Nebraska Press. the skills I learned during my training For current online information Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan. 2009. obviously translate to any Slavic lan- about AATSEEL and its activities, The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Mak- guage. Of course, I run into a Russian visit AATSEEL on the web: ing of the Ukrainian Jew. New Haven, speaker now and then and have a good CT: Yale University Press. time chatting. In Uzbekistan, however, http://www.aatseel.org I used Russian everyday with my staff Continued on page 27 14 April 2009 Vol. 52, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER

Editor: Elena Denisova-Schmidt Cross-Cultural Communications University of St. Gallen, 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])

Who is the Why did this happen? companies do not allow social activities For Sergey: outside of work between employees американский друг and suppliers, especially if one person ‘American friend’? A trip abroad (for vacation or for is paying for things for the other. It can business) is still uncommon for finan- be seen as a conflict of interest and can An American engineer, John, who cial (not everyone can afford it) or even be illegal in the United States. has been involved in a long-term project procedural (passport, invitation, medi- But Sergey does not know that, and dealing with some suppliers in Russia, cal insurance, visa, etc.) reasons. Until therefore he is disappointed with his gets a new position in his company and recently, it has been something unusual американский друг ‘American friend’ starts working on a new assignment in and special. Russians prepare for such and concludes now that ALL Americans one of their Western European offices, a journey beforehand. In addition, Rus- are unreliable and bad friends. namely in Paris. Russian companies are sians have a special relationship with not a part of his job duties anymore. France, and the French way of life: Within a few weeks, he receives email fashion, cinema, language and literature Consequences for the future coop- and messages on his answering machine and particularly Paris itself. In Russia eration between Sergey’s and John’s from one of his former Russian col- it is said: Увидеть Париж и умереть companies: leagues. The Russian engineer, Sergey, (‘Visit Paris and die’). The Russian company doesn’t is planning to go on a business trip to In Russia, professional relation- supply their products in time and the Paris and would like to visit John’s new ships are very often closely associated American company should always be house. with private relationships – or, it is prepared with a Plan B. The Russian John does not even reply to his better to say, professional relationships company should pay compensation or emails and telephone calls. He does not are successful when the private relation- arrange delivery by plane instead of by want to invite any former business asso- ships are good as well. If colleagues are ship, which raises the cost, but Sergey ciates to his house. He does not see any working together for a long period of doesn’t care. Having been a produc- point in socializing with a person whose time, they often spend their weekends tion director in a large corporation for contacts will not benefit him anymore. and vacations together. They might many decades, he has learned how to His successor, Mike, who coordinates invite each other to their homes and avoid taking responsibility and hide collaboration with Russian companies they always have time for one another. the real reason behind these ‘technical now, tells him that Sergey wants to find A colleague can become very often and problems’. out his address and his private phone quickly a friend. The lesson learnt: Personal relation- number in Paris, and wants to meet his ships are an absolute must when doing американский друг ‘American friend’ For John: businesses in Russia! very much. However, Sergey comes to Paris. For the American it means that The meeting did not take place, and socializing, which took place during Sergey is very disappointed. He could the close cooperation in Russia (the Don’t Forget… imagine that he has done something common dinners, long discussions, Renew Your 2009 ‘wrong’ and it is a particularity of ‘US- boating, visiting Russian saunas), was American mentality’. But he couldn’t just a part of business, and now he does Membership! understand it and does not want to not want to do it voluntarily. He is not responsible for Russian companies Use the form on back accept it. This adversely affects his co- inside page operation with John’s successor, Mike. anymore. He didn’t always enjoy some All the jobs that used to be completed of the particularities of Russian festive or within a few days– e.g. working out meals: the abundant food and beverages, visit www.aatseel.org the numerous toasts, the necessity of and approving procedures, making We can’t support you if amendments to internal specifications, drinking up to the bottom, the inevitable answering emails – now take months or drinking competitions, and so on almost you don’t support us! do not happen at all. every day. Additionally, many American 15 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 52, Issue 2 April 2009

Editor: Nina Wieda Graduate Student Forum Northwestern University

The AATSEEL and the editors of the AATSEEL Newsletter would like to thank 6. Endeavor to make your enthusiasm our colleagues who serve as advisors to the Graduate Student Forum. They for your subject contagious while include Marina Balina (Illinois Wesleyan University); Margaret Beissinger maintaining rigor. (Princeton University); Thomas Beyer (Middlebury College); Robert Channon 7. Always tell students when you don’t (Purdue University); Halina Filipowicz (University of Wisconsin at Madison); know the answer to one of their Sibelan Forrester (Swarthmore College); and Robin Feuer Miller (Brandeis questions—don’t fudge it—and let University). Look for their responses to new questions in future issues of the them know that you will find out the AATSEEL Newsletter. answer for them by the next class Please send your questions to Nina Wieda ([email protected]. meeting. edu). 8. Make sure that at least 70% of the texts you choose for your syllabus Question: and belief. I worked outward from those are themselves of high literary merit After years of TA-ing, I finally have interests—both broadening and fine- and intrinsically interesting. That will an opportunity to design and teach my tuning them. Of course I assigned far make students more willing to read a own literature course. I am excited to too many texts. few works that may be of theoretical make this course unique and memo- or historical interest but that do not rable, yet anxious not to go overboard With these thoughts in mind, here stand up strongly on their own in a without the intuitive feel that comes are a few caveats and general sugges- full-bodied way. tions: with years of teaching. What is your 9. If possible, assign the students fre- advice for someone designing his or her 1. Don’t hesitate to keep the reading quent writing assignments—some first independent course and willing to un-graded, but which you comment take risks? What are the common mis- list shorter than you think it “should” be. on in detail. Try to find a way for takes to watch out for? them to share some of what they have 2. Create a bibliography for further read- Answer: written with the class—even if the ing. presentation is just a few minutes. This is an excellent question, and 3. Always give your students a syllabus, With frequent writing assignments, the questioner herself suggests a wise a schedule and a bibliography by the one begins to see that students will answer: in designing one’s first lit- first day of class. It is fine to modify often have a particular area or theme erature course, the goal should be to be things later as you go. of interest that manifests itself in a va- innovative without going overboard, riety of ways throughout the semester. memorable while at the same time solid. 4. Allow time in your syllabus for you This developing interest can become If you have real latitude in designing and your students to reconnoiter. for them an important building block your first independent course, I suggest 5. Do not be afraid to abandon chronol- for later papers, later studies, just as starting with a literary problem, genre ogy, but at the same time work to such a preoccupation has probably or period that has particularly engaged offer your students an over-view of nourished most of us. you throughout your graduate-student the genre or period on which you are Robin Feuer Miller, Professor of Rus- career. Think about it in a serious, per- focusing. For example, in my Tolstoy sonal, yet intellectual way. Why has this sian and Comparative Literature course, I begin with War and Peace Edytha Macy Gross, Professor of particular question engaged you? What and then return to the beginning of are its broader ramifications? How does Humanities Tolstoy’s literary career to more or Brandeis University thinking about it perhaps suggest a dif- less follow it chronologically. But ferent way to organize a reading list? by then students have already spent (Don’t be afraid to put old wine in new five and a half to six weeks of a bottles—the result of doing so may lead thirteen week semester on War and AATSEEL Web site you and your students in a genuine new Peace (while they are still full of For current online information direction.) Work out from there. For beginning-of-the-semester energy) so example, the first independent course about AATSEEL and its activities, they consider themselves to be expert visit AATSEEL on the web: I offered—decades ago—was entitled: readers of Tolstoy. That makes them “The Confession: Rhetoric and Moral- especially attentive to following his http://www.aatseel.org ity.” I was interested in narrative theory, development as an artist and thinker. Dostoevsky, and the clash between art

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Editor: Valery Belyanin PSYCHOLOGY OF (Moscow State University & LANGUAGE LEARNING Kaluga State University)

This column is intended to promote a dialogue for teachers of Slavic languages sonal growth” with equal impact. The regarding the psychological aspect of language learning. important thing is to address the phe- Submissions for future editions of this column should be sent electronically to nomena. On a more “pragmatic” level Valery Belyanin ([email protected]) we could offer them some “tools” for combining their needs and achieving Stress and Success in highly individual, but handling it suc- their goals while overseas. The “tool- cessfully can make a world of difference box” might include language games for Study Abroad in student “success” when abroad. two Americans (we all too often forget Another way to look at the stress the importance of fun and play), and Nathan Longan, Ph.D., students experience while overseas is [email protected] hints for making positive social contact. in the context of Abraham Maslow’s The games can be as simple as “Ask the Resident Director hierarchy of needs. In Maslow’s terms, cashiers …” “What time is it; where is CIEE Study Center many students, when they study abroad, the milk; do you have yellow socks” St. Petersburg, Russia plummet precipitously from the giddy or any other simple question. Cashiers Living and studying in a foreign heights of the self actualization they being a captive audience in Russia, they land is stressful, and how students cope enjoyed in the safe havens of their home are good targets for practicing talking to with that stress plays a role in their universities, engrossed in the “life of unknown people. The person who gets success while overseas. How big a role the mind.” The drop is often straight an answer without having to repeat the is far from clear, but after ten years in through the “esteem” needs to the “be- question wins a point. If the task is done Russia with a major provider of study longing” needs (some even get mired in with an American friend and, within the abroad opportunities for U.S. college the “safety” needs, but those are special, limits of American competitiveness, no students, I am convinced students could and very unhappy, cases). Students very pressure, the game can satisfy the need gain much from more training in coping often satisfy these needs of belonging to belong and the need to move towards with stress before heading overseas. by befriending one another, coping with higher, linguistic or culture, goals. Much of the stress follows a pat- the stress of the unknown by concentrat- Predeparture exercises might also tern frequently described as the “cycle ing on the known. This is clearly part include whole sets of scenarios for inter- of cultural adjustment.” The cycle of the reason, ironic as it is, why the cultural communication. One excellent usually includes a happy first stage, an American friends our students make internet resource is Dr. Bruce LaBrack’s unhappy second, a third, more or less while abroad are often their closest and “On-line Cultural Training Resource balanced, stage, and culminates with among the most valuable “gains” from for Study Abroad” at University of the a fourth, and sometimes fifth, stage. their stay abroad, whether they admit it Pacific (http://www3.uop.edu/sis/ The semester abroad that most of our to researchers or not. culture/). The country-specific stories students go on is just enough time to get Making and having friends is good, in Professor LaBrack’s site could easily many of them past the euphoric “I-can’t- and befriending people with whom you be replaced with, for instance, Russia- believe-I-go-to-school-in-a-UNESCO- have something in common is perfectly specific examples. This year the Council world-heritage-site” stage and right natural. Nevertheless, this dynamic on International Educational Exchange into the “what-a-dump-this-country- clearly has implications for language has introduced an online orientation that is:-how-dare-they-get-mad-at-me-for- learning since “time on task” (if the task contains country-specific information. not-having-the-exact-change” stage. is talking with native speakers) is given While the exact content of each CIEE These stages are often called, concisely short shrift when you need to fulfill the program online orientation is left to the and alliteratively, the “honeymoon” deep psychological thirst for belonging resident staff, it is my firm conviction and “hostility” stages. Depending on that comes from being a stranger in a that all these “orientations” should con- the person, the first can give way to the strange land. tain some discussion of what is likely to second quickly, and the second stage What can we do? Perhaps a first happen to students on a psychological can linger for days, weeks and even step would be to include more “psy- level. months. A quick Internet search will chology” in pre-departure materials. With a little more attention to bring up lengths from “depending on Before they leave home, we owe it to dealing with the emotional realities of the individual” to “three to six months.” our students to reflect with them on studying overseas, I think there is great Our experience is that the length (and, some of the psychological challenges potential to broaden and deepen student for that matter, “depth”) of the second they will face overseas. The challenges stage of the adjustment cycle is indeed might be called “emotional” or “per- Continued on page 18

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studies on special three-week study SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAMS abroad programs. These programs will run from August 3-August 21, 2009. Students earn an additional two credits The AATSEEL Newsletter regularly announces information about summer and for these classes, tuition-free. winter language programs in Slavic and East European languages. We also an- The study abroad programs are nounce programs in Russian and East European cultural studies. As of the time open to eligible students who did not of publication this fall, however, we had little specific information about any participate in the courses at ASU. forthcoming programs. For more information and to apply Program directors are encouraged to use these pages not only for display ads, to the CLI, please visit our website: which do attract reader attention, but also for more detailed program descriptions http://melikian.asu.edu/summersessions which are carried in this column as a service item, in other words, free of charge. .php or contact us at [email protected]. We can also add hypertexted URLs so that readers can have all the information Azbukum - Centre for Serbian possible as well as access to your website. Language and Culture If you are a program director wishing to share information about your program(s), Azbukum - Centre for Serbian Lan- please e-mail your information to one of the editors by the deadline for the vari- guage and Culture (Novi Sad and Bel- ous issues, typically six weeks in advance of the issue’s publication date. These garde, Serbia) offers various short and deadlines can be found on the back cover of any issue of the newsletter or at the long-lasting Serbian immersion pro- AATSEEL website: http://www.aatseel.org. gram: courses, ethno camps, Orthodox Our strong preference is for information to be submitted electronically. However, Christmas sessions. Join the Azbukum we do continue, even in this era, to take copy submitted in paper form. The ad- winter or summer programs from Janu- dress for mailing information to the AATSEEL Newsletter is contained at the ary to August 2009. Or simply choose masthead on page 2. the time and get individually tailored Summer program information is carried in every issue, beginning in October course. Azbukum language programs of the academic year leading up to the deadline for enrollment in the program, are created for all levels. typically through the April issue of the newsletter. Winter program information Visit us at www.azbukum.org.rs or is carried in the October and December issues. write to [email protected] Arizona State University • Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (elemen- Beloit College In 2009, the Arizona State Univer- tary and intermediate) The Center for Language Studies at Beloit College offers summer intensive sity Critical Languages Institute (CLI) • Macedonian (elementary and inter- language courses in Arabic, Chinese, will offer eight-week, eight-credit in- mediate) tensive language courses in: Japanese, and RUSSIAN (1st through • Polish (elementary) 4th-year). Eight- and four-week ses- • Albanian (elementary, intermediate, • Russian (elementary, intermediate, sions available from June 13 through and advanced) and advanced) August 7. Advantages: personalized instruction, small classes, superb teach- • Armenian (elementary and intermedi- • Tajik-Persian (elementary and inter- ers, twelve semester hours of credit, lan- ate) mediate) guage tables, extracurricular activities, • Tatar (elementary and intermediate) a pleasant summer in Wisconsin, and Psychology of Language easy access to Madison, Milwaukee, Learning Continued • Uzbek (elementary) and Chicago. Rolling admissions from January 1, 2009. CLS tuition grant Continued from page 17 This year the CLI will be held June 8 - July 31, 2009 on the Tempe campus ($1,883 (8-week); $483 (4-week)) avail- success and growth, cultural, personal of Arizona State University. able to all qualified applicants through and linguistic, during study abroad. Classes meet Monday through April 17, 2009. Please contact us at the Notes: Friday from 8:30am to 12:30 pm and Center for Language Studies, Beloit H. Maslow, A Theory of Human cultural sessions are held in the after- College, 700 College Street, Beloit WI Motivation, Psychological Review noons. 53511; Phone, 608-363-2277; E-mail, 50(4) (1943):370-96.) (This is where All classes are tuition-free. The [email protected]; Web site, http://www. Maslow first describes his theory. A only cost for the course is a $500 non- summerlanguages.com. bibliography of Maslow’s works can be refundable registration processing fee. found at www.maslow.org/sub/m_bib. After the course in Tempe, students htm) can continue their language and culture

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CARLA University of Minnesota: Testimonials from past participants: More information about this in- Institute Becoming aware and excited about stitute is available on the CARLA Topic: Language and Culture in new aspects of teaching are an important website at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/ Sync: Teaching the Pragmatics of a part of our continual development as in- institutes/2009/pragmatics.pdf Second Language structors. The professional quality of the Information about registration: Date: July 27-31, 2009 workshop, the ideas and experiences of http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/ A truly daunting challenge for sec- other participants will definitely result register.html. ond language learners is to adjust their in benefits for my students. language use so that it is appropriate for Pragmatics positively encourages Cosmopolitan Educational different socio-cultural contexts. How, successful communication, and success- Center, Novosibirsk, Russia for example, are learners supposed to ad- ful communication means getting what We have been running these pro- dress strangers, close friends, or people we want. Isn’t that what teachers need grams for fourteen years already. For of higher social status in that culture? to motivate and encourage students and the past years volunteer teachers from While acquiring discourse practices can to raise all student’s achievements? We Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, take learners many years, research has need this kind of training! China, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, shown that the process can be facilitated Presenters: Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hong through explicit instruction. Noriko Ishihara, PhD, Hosei Uni- Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Ma- This institute provides practical versity, Japan laysia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, insights for teachers on how to enhance Andrew D. Cohen, PhD, University Spain, the United States of America, as the learning of pragmatics. Participants of Minnesota (guest speaker) well as university students and school will have hands-on opportunities to children from the USA, Great Britain, Readings include: develop activities and materials for the Germany, Greece, Sweden and Switzer- Ishihara, N., & Cohen, A. D. (in classroom. land have participated in our summer press). Teaching and learning pragmat- This institute is designed for K-16 and winter language camp programs. ics: Where language and culture meet. ESL and foreign language teachers, ma- The major benefits to join our pro- Pearson Education (latest manuscript to terial developers, curriculum coordina- gram are as follows: be shared with all participants) tors, teacher educators, administrators, 1) We organise an exciting cultural, and researchers. social and excursion program for inter- national participants of the camp, which

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19 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 52, Issue 2 April 2009 is a very enriching experience. You will 5) International participants have an Dubravushka School be involved in interaction with the Rus- opportunity to attend Russian languages Getting potential Russian language sian children, youth and adults all the classes every day. Russian classes are students to Russia helps get students to time. This is the kind of experience you taught by well-educated native speak- begin the Russian language and/or to will never get if you go as a tourist. ers trained to teach foreigners. Students continue with it. A prestigious 19 year The camp lives a full cultural and are placed in a group according to their old college preparatory boarding school social life. In addition to language and level of Russian. No previous knowl- located outside Moscow has a summer culture studies we also offer sports, edge of Russian is required. camp program where English is taught intellectual games, quizzes, entertain- We will also be happy to arrange to high school aged Russians. Because ing activities, shows, performances, courses on the Russian culture, history, the school is anxious to expose these presentations, parties, discos, etc. music, etc., if required. students to native English speakers, it 2) You will gain a first-hand experi- 6) We are dedicated to providing offers a program which includes begin- ence of the Russian culture and life style a student with the most excellent su- ning and intermediate Russian lessons and particularly the Siberian one. They pervision possible. All the students are at what is in effect a subsidized rate to say if you want to know what real Rus- supervised and each group has a group native English speaking high school sia is like you should go to Siberia. leader who is normally responsible for aged students. (185 Eros/wk in 2008) 3) This is a not-for-profit program. 10 students and stays with the group This may be the only program where Participation fee covers expenses on 24 hours a day. Everyone can expect the American students are socializing accommodation and ALL meals, and a warm, supportive and friendly atmo- and living mainly with Russian children. tuition fee for students as well. If you sphere along with professional service. The fee includes room and board, Rus- come to Russia (Siberia) on your own Our goal is that a student has the most sian lessons, inclusion in all the camp or through a travel agency you will enjoyable and worthwhile experience activities and airport pick up and drop spend much more money compared to possible during the stay with us. We are off. Watervaliet, NY Russian language what you would pay to participate in determined to ensure that everyone ben- HS teacher Steve Leggiero had 5 of his our programme. Participating in our efits fully from the interaction with other students in the program in 2008. Thru program you won’t need much pocket students and the staff. The Head of Stud- local fund raising including obtaining money, you may only need some spend- ies, Psychologist, the Social Program funds from service clubs, Steve was ing money to buy souvenirs and gifts to Coordinator and the Program Director able to reduce costs for his students. take back home. are constantly monitoring the program For additional information, see www. All the local services (airport pick- to assure that everyone is enjoying the dubravushka.ru or contact Bill Grant, up, local transportation, excursions) stay and taking advantage of the many volunteer US Agent, at 941-351-1596 are provided by our school without any activities offered by the school. Parents or [email protected] additional payment. are allowed to the program. 4) You don’t have to be a profes- 7) You will meet people from other Indiana University sional teacher in order to volunteer for countries who are going to participate in Indiana University’s fifty-ninth the program. The most important aspect this program and this is a unique experi- Summer Workshop in Slavic, East is your willingness to participate and ence. Many of our former foreign par- European, and Central Asian Lan- share your knowledge and culture, as ticipants keep in touch with each other guages will be held June 19-August well as your enthusiasm and good will. after the program and even visit each 14th, and will offer intensive first Teaching at the camp is not like an aca- other in all the different countries. through sixth-year Russian, and cul- demic teaching routine, it’s more like 8) We also offer excursion pack- tural and extracurricular programs. In fun where emphasis is made on com- ages which include trips to Moscow, St. addition to the eight-week program, munication. Our school will provide you Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, four-week (one semester) Russian with the daily topical schedule for the Lake Baikal, the Altai Mountains, courses will be offered starting on June classes and will be happy to assist with TransSiberian Railroad, ‘Welcome to 119th. First-year Russian course lasts lesson planning and teaching materials. Siberia’ program. All the details and nine weeks and starts June 15th. Fel- University students are eligible to apply tour descriptions are available at re- lowships (graduate and undergraduate) as volunteer teachers. You will gain quest. for eight-week courses are available. valuable practical experience, proven 9) We provide all our foreign par- The workshop will also offer intro- ability and contacts that you can use to ticipants with an invitation to obtain a ductory courses in Bosnian/Croatian/ get a future job. Teaching at the camp Russian visa and arrange their registra- Serbian, Czech, Georgian, Hungarian, can also be considered as an INTERN- tion on arrival. Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, and SHIP with all necessary paperwork For further details please email cos- Ukrainian, as well as first-and second- and an on-site internship supervision [email protected] or cosmoschool2@ year Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Pashto, Tajik, provided. mail.ru Turkmen, Uyghur and Uzbek. This year, pending funding, we also plan to 20 April 2009 Vol. 52, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER offer introductory Albanian, Kyrgyz, ties of Leiden University. The Summer (beginning, intermediate and advanced), Mongolian and Slovene and third-year School offers a number of courses on Czech (beginning), Ukrainian (begin- Azerbaijani, Uyghur and Uzbek. FLAS a wide range of subjects in the field of ning), June 8-July 17. University of fellowships available for all languages languages and linguistics. This year, Pittsburgh announces its summer im- except Pashto. Courses in Bosnian/ the Summer School will consist of mersion programs in Russian, Slovak, Croatian/Serbian, Macedonian, and Ser- seven programmes, including courses Czech, Bulgarian, Polish, Bosnian/ bian are ACLS funded and tuition free for beginners as well as for advanced Croatian/Serbian, Ukrainian, and Hun- to graduate students in East and Central students, taught by internationally re- garian. The Russian Summer Language European fields. Fellowship application nowned specialists: Program is an eight-week, 8-credit in- deadline for all languages: March 20, Indo-European Programme Ger- tensive language program (June 8-July 2009. Thereafter, rolling admissions. manic Programme Iranian Pro- 31, 2009) in beginning, intermediate, For more information, contact: Director, gramme Indological Programme Se- advanced, and fourth-year intensive 502 Ballantine Hall, Indiana U, Bloom- mitic Programme Russian Pro- Russian, plus special classes for Russian ington, IN 47405, tel.:812-855-2608, gramme Demotic Papyrology Heritage Speakers. Beginning Bulgar- fax: 812-855-2107, email: swseel@in- For more information and registra- ian, Hungarian, Czech, and Ukrainian; diana.edu, website: http://www.indiana. tion, visit: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/ Beginning and Intermediate Polish, edu/~iuslavic/swseel/ summerschool/ Croatian, Slovak, and Serbian; as well as Advanced Slovak and Bosnian/ Leiden University University of Pittsburgh Croatian/Serbian are six-week intensive The Netherlands Programs in the U.S. programs (June 8-July 17), carrying Leiden Summer School in Lan- University of Pittsburgh, Sum- six credits. All of the summer language guages and Linguistics: 27 July - 7 mer Language Institute, Pittsburgh, programs consist of five hours per day August 2009 PA. Russian (beginning, intermediate, of instruction with native speakers and We are happy to announce the advanced, and fourth-year intensive), are proficiency based. Scholarships are fourth edition of the Leiden Summer June 8-July 31, 2009. Bosnian/Croa- available (scholarship deadline: March School in Languages and Linguistics tian/Serbian (beginning, intermediate, 21, 2009). Graduate students will be which will be held from 27 July - 7 and advanced), Bulgarian (begin- considered for FLAS fellowships which August 2009 at the Faculty of Humani- ning), Hungarian (beginning), Polish cover tuition and provide a stipend. (beginning and intermediate), Slovak For more information, contact: Sum- mer Language Institute, Department of

Slavic & East European Summer Language Institute SUniversityLI of Pittsburgh • 2009 So, what are you doing next

SIX-WEEK INTENSIVEUUCOURSESMMIN EAST MEMUROPEAN EEEIGHTRR-WEEK INTENSIVE RUSSIAN LANGUAGES (June 8 - July 17, 2009) PROGRAM (June 8 - July 31, 2009) Advanced: BCS [Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian] and Slovak Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, and Fourth- Beginning and Intermediate: BCS, Bulgarian, Polish and Slovak Year Russian (including special placement/classes for Heritage speakers of Beginning: Czech, Hungarian and Ukrainian Russian ACLS-Funded Program for Super Advanced/Heritage Speakers of Bosnian/Croatian/ • Pittsburgh/Moscow 5+5 week program & 5+5 program for Russian Serbian: 6 weeks (2 weeks at each site) Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb (6/22-7/31) Heritage Speakers also available Fellowship deadline March 20. Generous scholarships available through CREES-FLAS & SLI. ACLS funding provides for full tuition waivers for graduate students in Intermediate BCS. For more information please write or call: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 1417 CL, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (412)624-5906/Fax (412)624-9714/e-mail: [email protected] Visit our web page at: http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/sli/

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Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1417 Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1417 Department of Slavic Languages and Cathedral of Learning, University of Cathedral of Learning, University of Literatures, 1417 Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; tel.: Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; tel.: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 412-624-5906; e-mail: slavic@pitt. 412-624-5906; e-mail: slavic@pitt. PA 15260; tel.: 412-624-5906; e-mail: edu; web site: http://sli.slavic.pitt.edu. edu; web site: http://sli.slavic.pitt.edu. [email protected]; web site: http://sli. Please also see our ads on pages 10, 21, Please also see our ads on pages 12, 19, slavic.pitt.edu. Please also see our ads 24, and 25. 21, and 22. on pages 12, 19, 21, and 22. University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Programs in Russia: Programs in East Europe: Programs in Bulgaria: In Summer of 2009, the Univer- In Summer of 2009 the Univer- In Summer of 2009 the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh will offer a special sity of Pittsburgh will offer a special sity of Pittsburgh will offer a special opportunity to combine five weeks of opportunity for heritage speakers to opportunity to combine six weeks of intensive language study in Pittsburgh achieve Advanced Mastery (Profes- intensive beginning-level Bulgarian lan- (June 8-July 10, 2009) with five weeks sional Competence) in Bosnian/Serbian/ guage study in Pittsburgh (June 8-July of intensive Russian study at Moscow Croatian languages. This ACLS-funded 17, 2009) with four weeks of intensive State University in Russia (July 13-Au- which provides for significant tuition intermediate-level study in Sofia, gust 14). In the “5+5” program, which waivers for graduate students, includes Bulgaria (July 20-August 14). In the is part of the Russian Summer Institute, two weeks each in Belgrade, Serbia; Bulgaria program, students will receive beginning through fourth-year students Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina; and instruction and take part in a program of and heritage students will receive in- Zagreb, Coratia. Students will learn cultural excursions in Sofia and in other struction and take part in a program of to write, translate, read and interpret Bulgarian cities. Students will earn ten cultural excursions in Moscow and in in BCS; express themselves in jour- college credits for participation in the other Russian cities. Students will earn nalistic, scholarly and literary styles; Pitt and Bulgaria programs, and four ten college credits. Scholarships are and work with academic experts in the credits for Bulgaria only. Students must available. Program strictly limited to 32 region. Dates: June 20-July 31, 2009. be at the intermediate level to participate students. The deadline for applications Scholarships are available. The dead- in the Bulgaria program without com- is March 21, 2009. Contact: Summer line for applications is March 21, 2009. pleting the 6-week course in Pittsburgh. Language Institute, Department of Contact: Summer Language Institute, Scholarships are available. The deadline

Slavic & East European Summer Language Institute SUniversityLI of Pittsburgh • 2009 6+46+4 :: PIPITTSBURGHTTSBURGH -- POLANPOLANDD,, BULGARIABULGARIA OROR SLOSLOVAKIAVAKIA 6 weeks - Pittsburgh — (June 8 - July 17, 2009) 4 weeks - Krakow, Sofia or Modra — (July 20 - August 14, 2009) Intensive Courses on the Beginning and Intermediate Levels  Generous scholarships available for graduate students through CREES; these programs are FLAS eligible for graduate students

 Application and fellowship deadline March 20. For information write or call: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 1417 CL, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (412)624-5906 / Fax (412)624-9714 / e-mail: [email protected] Visit our web page at: http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/sli/

22 April 2009 Vol. 52, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER for applications is March 21, 2009. weeks in Pittsburgh at the University history, culture and current status of the Contact: Summer Language Institute, of Pittsburgh’s Summer East European Belarusian minority in Poland, as well Department of Slavic Languages and Language Institute, followed by four as of the Podlasie region’s other ethnic Literatures, 1417 Cathedral of Learning, weeks of instruction in Slovakia through groups, including Poles, Jews, Tatars, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Comenius University. (Students dem- Lithuanians, and Russian Old Believers. PA 15260; tel.: 412-624-5906; e-mail: onstrating adequate academic prepara- Faculty will include instructors from [email protected]; web site: http://sli. tion can choose to join only the course Białystok University and the Belarusian slavic.pitt.edu. Please also see our ads in Slovakia.) The program includes a Lyceum in Hajnówka, as well as Hro- on pages 12, 19, 21, and 22. tour of Slovakia, including possible dna University in Belarus. Additional visits to Trencin, Zilina, Martin, the guest lectures on Belarusian history, University of Pittsburgh High Tatras, Banska Bystrica, and politics and culture will be given by Programs in Poland: Bratislava. Together with the Pittsburgh visiting researchers from Europe and University of Pittsburgh an- segment, the courses carry ten college North America. Students will have a nounces its “6+4” program of Polish credits and will be held June 8-July 17, choice of dormitory accommodations language in Pittsburgh and in Poland. 2009 in Pittsburgh, and July 20-August at the Belarusian Lyceum, or homestays Students will study beginning or in- 14 in Slovakia. Scholarships are avail- with Belarusian-speaking families in termediate intensive Polish for six able. The deadline for applications is Hajnówka. weeks in Pittsburgh at the University March 21, 2009. Contact: Summer Coursework will be supplemented of Pittsburgh’s Summer East European Language Institute, Department of by a rich and diverse cultural program, Language Institute, followed by four Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1417 including visits to Belarusian minority weeks of instruction in Poland. (Stu- Cathedral of Learning, University of cultural organizations and media outlets, dents demonstrating adequate academic Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; tel.: meetings with Belarusian writers and preparation can choose to join only the 412-624-5906; e-mail: slavic@pitt. artists, films, concerts, theatrical per- course in Poland.) Based in Krakow, edu; web site: http://sli.slavic.pitt.edu. formances, and excursions to important and taught by instructors trained at the Please also see our ads on pages 12, 19, sites related to Belarusian and Orthodox Jagiellonian University, the program 21, and 22. culture and other attractions of the Pod- includes weekend excursions in and lasie region: the city of Białystok, the around Krakow, and a 3-day trip to Southwestern College recently restored Orthodox monastery in Warsaw. Informational meetings, gath- Hajnówka, Poland Supraśl, the Białowieża (Belaveža) Na- erings, excursions, and trips together The Center for Belarusian Studies tional Park (the largest and ecologically with students in Poland are an integral at Southwestern College (Winfield, most diverse remnant of the primeval part of this study program, making KS) invites undergraduate and graduate forests of the Northern European plain), it unique among American study-in- students to participate in its first Inter- the historic town of Bielsk Podlaski, the Poland programs. Together with the national Summer School of Belarusian Holy Mountain of Grabarka (the most Pittsburgh segment, the courses carry Studies from July 6 to August 7, 2009. important Eastern Orthodox pilgrim- ten college credits and will be held June The program, to be co-sponsored by age site in Poland), and the Borderland 8-July 17, 2009 in Pittsburgh, and July the Poland-based Belarusian Historical Foundation in Sejny, a unique institu- 20-August 14 in Poland. Scholarships Society, will be held at the Belarusian tion dedicated to preserving the rich are available. The deadline for applica- Lyceum in the town of Hajnówka in the multicultural heritage of the borderland tions is March 21, 2009. Contact: Sum- Podlasie region of northeastern Poland, region and promoting dialogue and new mer Language Institute, Department of an area of great natural beauty and home forms of cooperation between its many Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1417 to Poland’s ethnic Belarusian minority ethnic groups and cultures. In mid-July Cathedral of Learning, University of — an ideal setting for the study of Belar- students will also have the opportunity Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; tel.: usian language, history and culture, as to attend Basovišča, the annual festival 412-624-5906; e-mail: slavic@pitt. well as for the study of a broad range of of Belarusian rock music organized by edu; web site: http://sli.slavic.pitt.edu. issues relating to cultural diversity and the Belarusian Students’ Association in Please also see our ads on pages 12, 19, minorities policies in the expanded EU. the town of Gródek (Haradok) east of 21, and 22. Coursework will include intensive Be- Bialystok. At the end of the program, larusian language instruction (beginning from August 8-19th, students will have University of Pittsburgh and intermediate levels and individual the option of traveling to Belarus on a Programs in Slovakia: advanced-level tutorials) and lectures in tour including Hrodna, Navahrudak, University of Pittsburgh announc- English and Belarusian on Belarusian Slonim, Niasviž, Mir, Minsk, Połack, es its “6+4’ program of Slovak language history, literature, contemporary poli- Viciebsk, Mahiloŭ, Pinsk and Brest. in Pittsburgh and in Slovakia. Students tics and society. The program will also The program cost, including tu- will students will study beginning or include a regional studies component, ition, room, board, cultural program intermediate intensive Slovak for six with lectures and events focusing on the and excursions is $2,900 (the cost of 23 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 52, Issue 2 April 2009 the optional Belarus tour at the end edu. UCLA Russian program: www. of the program will be announced as humnet.ucla.edu/russian. Professional details become available). For further For more information about the information and application materials, Romanian course, please contact Geor- Opportunities please contact the program director: giana Galanteanu at farnoaga@humnet. Dr. Curt Woolhiser, Harvard Univer- ucla.edu. sity, Department of Slavic Languages For more information about the Call for Papers and Literatures, Barker Center 327, 12 other courses, please contact Ksenia April 15, 2009 Quincy St. , Cambridge MA 02138- Kurnakova at [email protected]. AATSEEL 2009 Conference 3804; e-mail: [email protected]. edu. Abstracts are due April 15 for more edu; tel. (617) 495-3528. Please note UCLA Slavic Dept.: www.humnet. information, visit AATSEEL on the that the due date for all applications is ucla.edu/humnet/slavic/. web: http://www.aatseel.org May 15, 2009. University of Wisconsin- UCLA Department of Slavic Milwaukee Conferences & Languages and Literatures The University of Wisconsin- Workshops Summer 2009 Milwaukee announces its 2009 annual June 13-14, 2009 Russian 10, Intensive Elementary Rus- Summer Study in Poland program at the Polish Institute’s 67th Annual Meet- sian, Session A, 8 weeks (12 units) Catholic University of Lublin. ing The five-week Polish language The 67th Annual Meeting of the Russian 20, Intensive Intermediate course (July 4-August 10) includes Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences Russian, Session A, 8 weeks (12 100 hours of instruction at beginning, of America (PIASA) will be held on units) intermediate, or advanced levels, plus June 13-14, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Russian 90BW, Russian Civilization lectures on Polish culture and sightsee- Jersey City Hotel 2 Exchange Place , 20 century, Session A, 6 weeks (5 ing. Cost estimate: $2,670.00, including Jersey City , over looking the New York units) tuition, room and board, and 5 UWM Harbor with a stunning sky line view of credits, plus round trip air transporta- lower Manhattan. The Hotel is adjacent Russian 4, Intermediate Russian for tion Chicago-Warsaw-Chicago. The to PATH train station to Manhattan, 15 High School Students, Session A, 6 program is open to students and the minutes from Newark Liberty Inter- weeks (5 units) general public. national airport with an easy access to Romanian 103, Intensive Elementary Also being offered this year are the New Jersey Turnpike. This two day Romanian/Moldovan, Session A, 6 two, three, and four-week courses as multi-disciplinary conference on Pol- weeks (12 units) well as two, three, four and five-week ish , East Central European and Polish intensive and highly intensive courses American studies is being organized in Session A - 6-weeks: June 22 July of Polish language. A new course on 31 (R90BW, R6, Rom 103) cooperation with the Polish Cultural Polish culture (3 credits) is also offered Foundation, Clark, N.J.. According to 8-week: June 22 August 14 (R10, during the first three weeks of the pro- R20) Dr. Thaddeus V. Gromada, chairman of gram and can be taken together with the the Annual Meeting a Program Commit- Any of the Intensive Language Polish language course for the total of courses satisfy a 1 year foreign language tee is hard at work preparing the confer- six credits (July 6-27). ence whose main theme will be “1989: requirement. For information and application Russian 90BW satisfies UCLA’s Annus Mirabilis; 20th Anniversary of materials contact Poland’s Independence”. The Program GE Writing II requirement. Professor Michael J. Mikoś For fee breakdown please go to Committee includes Dr. Jakub Grygiel, Department of Foreign Languages and Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Patrice www.registrar.ucla.edu then select Linguistics summer 2009 and the class you are Dabrowski, Harvard University; Dr. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Paul W. Knoll, University of Southern interested in; click on the words “fee Milwaukee, WI 53201 chart” located right above the course California; Dr. Charles S. Kraszewski, (414) 229-4948 or 4151 Kings College PA; Dr. Neal Pease, ID number. fax (414) 229-2741 For information on UCLA summer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; e-mail: [email protected] Dr. Kathleen Cioffi, Princeton Univer- registration and housing, please go to: www.lrc.uwm.edu/tour/ http://www.summer.ucla.edu/. sity Press; Dr. Donald E. Pienkos, Uni- For more information about the versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Dr. Russian language courses, please con- Susanne S. Lotarski, Polish American tact Anna Kudyma at akudyma@ucla. Congress DC and Dr. James S. Pula, Purdue University. Sessions dealing with the natural sciences and the his- 24 April 2009 Vol. 52, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER tory of science are being organized and Design; New architectures for web- Middlebury College is pleased to by Dr. Anne Hermanowski-Vosatka, based social networks; Semantic Web, announce the Kathryn Davis Fellow- Merck Research Laboratories; Dr. Ontologies (creation , merging, linking ships for Peace: Investing in the Study Hanna Kelker, New York University and reconciliation); Web Services Se- of Critical Languages. These 100 fel- School of Medicine and Dr. Zbigniew curity; Quality of Service, Scalability lowships are made possible by a gener- Darzynkiewicz, New York Medical Col- and Performance; Self-Organizing Net- ous gift from Kathryn Davis to address lege. Scholars, scientists and graduate works and Networked Systems; Data today’s critical need for increased lan- students are requested to send in their management in mobile peer-to-peer guage proficiency in the United States. proposals for individual papers or pref- networks; Data stream processing in For the third year in a row, the Kath- erably for full sessions to Dr. Gromada, mobile/sensor networks; Indexing and ryn Davis Fellowships are being offered by e mail [email protected] query processing for moving objects; to cover the full cost of one summer by March 31, 2009. Members of the User interfaces and usability issues of language study at the Middlebury local arrangements committee include form mobile applications; Mobile social Language Schools—from the beginner Frederick Czulada, President of the Pol- networks; Peer-to-peer social networks; to the graduate level—in six languages, ish Cultural Foundation It is expected Sensor networks and social sensing; So- including Russian. The fellowship cov- that more than one hundred scholars and cial search; Social networking inspired ers the full comprehensive fee (tuition, scientists from all regions of the U.S. collaborative computing; Information room, and board), plus a stipend to will make their presentation at panels/ propagation on social networks; Re- assist in defraying program-related sessions in various disciplines includ- source and knowledge discovery using expenses. ing history, political science, literature, social networks; Measurement studies For more information, please visit economics, music, history of science, of actual social networks; Simulation http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ etc. Participation in the conference models for social networks ls/fellowships_scholarships/kwd.htm. is not limited to members of PIASA. You may also contact us directly Persons interested in the academic and Important Dates: at: cultural issues dealing with Poland and Submission Date: Feb. 23, 2009 Middlebury College Language Polonia are also invited. All persons Notification of acceptance: Two Schools, Middlebury College Sunder- attending the conference are required months from submission. land Language Center, 356 College to register and pay a registration fee. Camera-ready : One month from Street Middlebury, VT 05753 Information regarding registration, ho- notification. 802.443.5510 tel group rates at Hyatt Regency $169. Registration : Two months from [email protected] per room, banquet reservations for the notification. February 15 Annually evening of June 13, etc. will be found on The Michael and Emily Lapinski PIASA’s website www.piasa.org or can Notes: Scholarship Endowment be requested by writing to PIASA 208 If you are interested in organizing The Department of Slavic Lan- E. 30th St. New York, N.Y. 10016 any workshop or special session, please guages and Literature at the University July 28-31, 2009 send us email to [email protected] with the of Wisconsin-Madison is pleased to an- First International Conference on title of the session nounce the endowment of undergradu- ‘Networked Digital Technologies’ All the reviewings are online. ate scholarships and graduate fellow- (NDT2009) Please visit http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/ ships for students of Polish language, http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/Default. Default.aspx then select link be a re- literature, and culture at UW-Madison. aspx viewer. More details are listed there. The gift by Leona Lapinski Leute was Location: VSB-Technical Univer- $1.25 million. sity, Ostrava, Czech Republic. Submission: The Michael and Emily Lapinski Date: July 28 to July 31, 2009. Submission instructions are listed Scholarship Endowment will pay partial Topics: at http://arg.vsb.cz/ndt2009/Default. or full tuition for undergraduate and Information and Data Management; aspx graduate students of Polish language, Data and Network mining; Intelligent literature, and culture at UW-Madison. agent-based systems, cognitive and re- Grants & Fellowships Tuition may be used to pay for study active distributed AI systems; Internet Kathryn Davis Fellowships for abroad in Poland through UW-Madi- Modeling; User Interfaces, Visualiza- Peace: son. tion and modeling; XML-based lan- Investing in the Study of Critical The annual deadline for applica- guages; Security and Access Control; Languages tions is February 15. Application forms Trust models for social networks; In- Full Scholarships Available for and instructions for applicants are formation Content Security; Mobile, Ad Intensive Russian Language Study at online at: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/ Hoc and Sensor Network Management; the Middlebury Summer Language slavic/Lapinski-Info.htm. For additional Web Services Architecture, Modeling Schools information, please contact Professor 25 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER Vol. 52, Issue 2 April 2009

Halina Filipowicz, Chair of the Lapinski eleven months, at a stipend of $4,000 Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbeki- Scholarships and Fellowships Commit- per month. Visit the Library of Congress stan. tee: [email protected] Web site for complete fellowship pro- Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in a The Committee hopes to fund one gram information and application proce- policy-relevant field and have sufficient or two graduate students with a full dures Location: USA Deadline: Aug. 15 language-ability to carry out proposed fellowship (one if out of state, two if in each year. Website: http://www.loc.gov/ research. Scholars must conduct re- state) and to give partial or full scholar- loc/kluge/kluge-fellowships.html search for at least four months in the ships to several undergraduates on an Various closing dates field. Funded by the U.S. Department annual basis. Title VIII Research Scholar Pro- of State, Program for the Study of August 15 Annually gram: Provides full support for three Eastern Europe and the Independent Kluge Center Fellowships for to nine-month research trips to Russia, States of the Former Soviet Union (Title Library of Congress Central Asia, the Southern Caucasus, VIII). Application deadlines: October 1 Library of Congress Invites Appli- Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. (Spring Program); January 15 (Summer, cations for Kluge Center Fellowships. Fellowships include round-trip Fall and Academic Year Programs.) The Library of Congress (http://www. international travel, housing, living sti- Title VIII Southeast Europe loc.gov/) invites qualified scholars to pends, visas, insurance, affiliation fees, Research and Language Study Pro- conduct research in the John W. Kluge archive access, research advising, and grams: Provides full support for three to Center using the Library of Congress logistical support in the field. nine months of research and/or language collections and resources for a period Open to graduate students, post- study in Southeast Europe. Fellow- of up to eleven months. doctoral scholars, and faculty. Funded ships include round-trip international The Kluge Center is located in the by the U.S. Department of State, Pro- travel, housing, living stipends, visas, Jefferson Building of the Library of gram for the Study of Eastern Europe insurance, tuition, and affiliation fees. Congress and provides attractive work and the Independent States of the Funded by the U.S. Department of and discussion space for scholars. Resi- Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). Ap- State, Program for the Study of East- dents have easy access to the library’s plication deadlines: October 1 (Spring ern Europe and the Independent States specialized staff and to the intellectual Program); January 15 (Summer, Fall (Title VIII). Open to graduate students, community of Washington. The Kluge and Academic Year Programs). post-doctoral scholars, and faculty. Ap- Center especially encourages human- Title VIII Combined Research plication deadline: October 1 (Spring istic and social science research that and Language Training Program: Program); January 15 (Summer, Fall makes use of the library’s large and Provides full support for research and and Academic Year Programs). varied collections. Interdisciplinary, approximately ten hours per week of ad- Title VIII Southeast Europe cross-cultural, or multi-lingual research vanced language instruction for three to Summer Language Program: Offers is particularly welcome. nine months in Russia, Central Asia, the international airfare, tuition, insurance, Among the collections available to Southern Caucasus, Ukraine, Belarus, and living stipends to graduate students researchers are the world’s largest law and Moldova. for up to three months of intensive library and outstanding multi-lingual Fellowships include round-trip in- language study at major universities collections of books and periodicals. ternational travel, housing, tuition, liv- throughout Southeast Europe and the Special collections of manuscripts, ing stipends, visas, insurance, affiliation Baltic states. maps, music, films, recorded sound, fees, archive access, research advising, Open to students at the MA and prints, and photographs are also avail- and logistical support in the field. Ph.D. level, as well as faculty and post- able. Scholars who have received a Open to graduate students, post- doctoral scholars. Funded by the U.S. terminal advanced degree within the doctoral scholars, and faculty. Funded Department of State, Program for the past seven years in the humanities, so- by the U.S. Department of State, Pro- Study of Eastern Europe and the Inde- cial sciences, or in a professional field gram for the Study of Eastern Europe pendent States (Title VIII). Application such as architecture or law are eligible and the Independent States of the deadline: January 15. to apply. Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). Ap- Summer Russian Language Exceptions may be made for indi- plication deadlines: October 1 (Spring viduals without continuous academic Teachers Program: Provides full Program); January 15 (Summer, Fall support for teachers of Russian at the careers. Applicants may be U.S. citizens and Academic Year Programs.) or foreign nationals. For applicants university, high school, and secondary whose native language is not English, Title VIII Special Initiatives school level to study Russian literature, there must be evidence that the applicant Fellowship: Provides grants of up to language, culture, and second language is fluent in English. $35,000 for field research on policy- pedagogy at Moscow State University Up to twelve Kluge Fellowships relevant topics in Armenia, Azerbaijan, for six weeks. Graduate students with a will be awarded annually. Fellowships Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, commitment to the teaching profession are tenable for periods from six to are also encouraged to apply. 26 April 2009 Vol. 52, Issue 2 AATSEEL NEWSLETTER

Awards provide round-trip interna- manities focuses on the former Soviet and Training on Eastern Europe and the tional airfare from Washington, DC to Union (excluding the Baltic States), Independent States of the former Soviet Moscow, Russia; living stipends; full and who demonstrate a particular need Union (Title VIII) of the U.S. Depart- tuition; housing with Russian host fami- to utilize the library, archival, and other ment of State and the George F. Kennan lies; pre-departure orientation; weekly specialized resources of the Washing- Fund. Continuation of the Short-Term cultural excursions; insurance; and ton, D.C. area. Policy-relevant research Grant Program in 2006-2007 is contin- visas. Funded by the U.S. Department is preferred. Academic participants must gent on future funding. of Education. Application deadline: either possess a doctoral degree or be The Woodrow Wilson Center can March 1. doctoral candidates who have nearly only provide grants to those non-U.S. Scholarships for language study completed their dissertations. For non- citizens who hold a J-1 Visa. Non-U.S. on American Councils programs academics, an equivalent degree of citizens who are located in the United overseas: Graduate students participat- professional achievement is expected. States at the time the Short-Term Grant ing in the American Councils Russian Short-Term Grants provide a sti- is awarded must leave the United States Language and Area Studies program pend of $100 per day. The Kennan in order to be issued a J-1 Visa before or the Eurasian Regional Language Institute cannot provide office space for they can receive their award. J-1 Visas program are eligible for full or partial Short-Term scholars. Travel and accom- cannot be issued to individuals while scholarships from the U.S. Department modation expenses are not directly cov- they are in the U.S. on a different visa. of State, Program for the Study of East- ered by this grant. There is no official For more information, or to ap- ern Europe and the Independent States application form for Short-Term Grants. ply for a Short-Term Grant, please of the former Soviet Union (Title VIII). The applicant is requested to submit a visit www.wilsoncenter.org/kennan, or Undergraduates who intend a career in concise description (700-800 words) of contact: teaching are eligible for full or partial his or her research project, a curriculum Fellowships and Grants, Kennan scholarships from the U.S. Department vitae, a statement on preferred dates of Institute, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, of Education for their participation in residence in Washington, D.C., and two 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Wash- the Russian Language and Area Stud- letters of recommendation specifically ington, D.C. 20004-3027, Telephone: ies Program or the Eurasian Regional in support of the research to be con- (202) 691-4100, Fax: (202) 691-4247, Language program. ducted at the Institute. All applicants Email: [email protected] The American Councils Russian must note their country of citizenship or Language and Area Studies Program permanent residency in their materials. provides intensive Russian language Letters of recommendation, with sig- Recent Publications instruction in Moscow, St. Petersburg natures, should be sent either by fax or Continued and Vladimir, Russia. post, all other application materials may The Eurasian Regional Language be submitted via e-mail or in hard copy. Continued from page 14 Any materials submitted in hard copy program offers instruction in virtu- Romaniello, Matthew and Tricia Sparks. should be in clear dark type, printed on ally any of the languages of the former 2009. Tobacco in Russian History and Soviet Union at leading institutions one side only, and without staples. Grant recipients are required to Culture: The Seventeenth Century throughout the region. to the Present. London, UK: Rout- Fellowship information and appli- be in residence in Washington, D.C., for the duration of their grant. Four ledge. cations are included in regular applica- Veidlinger, Jeffrey. 2009. Jewish Public tion materials for both programs. Ap- rounds of competitive selection for Short-Term Grants are held each year. Culture in the Late Russian Empire. plication deadlines: October 15 (spring Jewish Public Culture in the Late semester programs); March 1 (summer Closing dates are December 1, March 1, June 1, and September 1. Appli- Russian Empire. Bloomington, IN: programs); April 1 (fall semester and Indiana University Press. academic year programs). cants are notified of the competition Vinitsky, Ilya. 2009. Ghostly Paradox- For more information, contact: Out- results roughly seven weeks after the es: Modern Spiritualism and Russian bound Programs, American Councils closing date. U.S. citizens, permanent for International Education: ACTR/ residents, and non-Americans are eli- Culture in the Age of Realism. Ottawa: ACCELS, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, gible for Short-Term Grants, although University of Toronto Press. NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036; funding for non-American applicants Zhivov, Victor. 2009. Language and (202) 833-7522, outbound@american- is limited. Approximately one in three Culture in Eighteenth Century Russia. councils.org. American applicants and one in six Academic Studies Press. non-American applicants are awarded Kennan Institute Short-Term Short-Term Grants in each of the four Grants: The Kennan Institute offers competition rounds. Short-Term Grants to scholars whose The Short-Term Grant Program is research in the social sciences or hu- supported by the Program for Research

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