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NEWS FROM THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN INSTITUTE

David L. Ransel, Director Philip Hart, Editor Vol. 28, No. 4 December 2004

Beslan, Chechnya, and Terror in : A Panel Discussion by Neil Gipson On September 1, 2004, terrorists seized a school full of children and parents in the southern Russian of Beslan, near the breakaway of Chechnya. Who were the terrorists? What sparked the attack? And what were its roots and consequences? On October 26th, the Russian and East European Institute arranged a panel discussion to address the origins and aftermath of the tragedy. The panel members brought multiple perspectives to bear on the events at Beslan. Professor David Ransel, Director of the Russian Features and East European Institute, introduced the panel and moderated the discussion. Julie Fairbanks, a PhD candidate in the Department of Beslan 1 Anthropology who specializes in the , set the historical and social Faculty Profile: Dodona Kiziria 3 context of the hos- Voices from the 4 tage-taking. Profes- Alumni Profile: David Marks 5 sor Nazif Shahrani Language Opportunities 6 of the Department Outside The Classroom of Anthropology European Security and 7 discussed the role of Ukraine Conference in the Chechen conflict. Professor Henry Hale of the News Department of Politi- cal Science laid out SWSEEL 2005 8 some of the political IU Polish Studies Center and 9 consequences of the Director Honored in Warsaw attacks and addressed SWSEEL 2004 Highlights 10 the reaction of the Dobro Slovo Inductions 11 Russian government. Student News 13 Ms. Fairbanks Alumni News 13 highlighted the ori- gins of the Chechen Faculty News 14 Beslan is located in the Russian republic of North Ossetia wars and also their International Studies Summer 16 in the northern Caucasus near Chechnya recent spillover into Institute the neighboring of and North Ossetia. Originally, Russia subjugated the peoples of the in the mid-1800s

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INSTITUTE STAFF Beslan David L. Ransel, Director continued from previous page Denise Gardiner, Assistant Director/Outreach Coordinator as part of its imperial drive to the south, meeting fierceresistance for many Lisa Giullian, Advisor/Assistant years. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Chechen Director for Student Services political leaders renewed their drive for independence, but the Yeltsin ad- Jessica Hamilton, Admin. Secretary ministration in Moscow refused to sanction their secession. Two wars fol- GRADUATE ASSISTANTS lowed, with a lull from 1996-99, and today the fighting continues as rebels Philip Hart, Publications Editor demand a complete Russian withdrawal from Chechen territory. The Stephanie Hockman, World Wide region outside of Chechnya proper is being drawn into the conflict partly Web Administrator as a result of Stalin’s 1944 wholesale deportation of , Ingush, Jonathan Hudgens, Library Asst. Balkars, and other peoples. On the pretext of disloyalty during WWII, the Karen Kowal, Slavica Asst. Alice Tobin, Outreach Asst. entire population of the region was shipped to the Kazakh steppe. Their political were dissolved and the lands repopulated by other eth- CONTACT INFORMATION nic groups. The original inhabitants were ultimately granted permission Russian and East European Institute Ballantine Hall 565 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-6615 Phone: (812) 855-7309 Fax: (812) 855-6411 Email: [email protected] www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/ IU Awards for REEI Alumni 1994 Irene Meister College Distinguished Alumni 1998 Stephen Cohen College Distinguished Alumni (L-R) Shahrani, Fairbanks, Ransel, and Hale discuss the 1999 James F. Collins Beslan Tragedy and Terror in Russia Honorary Doctorate 2004 Richard Miles to return in 1957, but resulting land and property disputes were never fully Distinguished Alumni Service resolved. As a result, tensions remain, and conflict between Ingush and REEI Awards North erupted in violence in 1992. Many observers speculate that the attack in Beslan—situated in North Ossetia not far from the In- DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI gush border—may have been an attempt to extend the war in Chechnya 1988 Alexander Rabinowitch to the wider region. 1988 Charles Gati 1995 Gale Stokes Ultimately the war’s origins have been conflated with the international 2000 Helena Goscilo war on terror and Islamic fundamentalism. The Russian government 2002 Howard I. Aronson frames the war in Chechnya as an “anti-terror” operation, and it quickly 2002 William Hopkins blamed the Beslan tragedy on Islamic extremists. As a result, accord- DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ing to Professor Shahrani, the question on the minds of many is: “How 1988 Theofanis Stavrou could in the name of Islam kill over three hundred children in 1988 Robert F. Byrnes a school?” 1989 Karen Niggle One possible answer is that such acts simply cannot be justified by refer- 1996 Robert W. Campbell ence to the Koran or Islamic scholars. “Nobody,” argues Shahrani, “is doing 1997 Charles Jelavich 1997 Janet Rabinowitch this for Islam. They are doing it for the cause of liberty, for what they perceive 2000 William B. Edgerton continued on page 12 2 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 3

INSTITUTE STAFF David L. Ransel, Director Faculty Profile: Dodona Kiziria Denise Gardiner, Assistant by Lyndsay Miles Director/Outreach Coordinator Lisa Giullian, Advisor/Assistant Professor Dodona Kiziria culture, language and politics into a textbook for teaching the Director for Student Services Jessica Hamilton, Admin. Secretary has been a member of Indiana also figure highly in her aca- language both in the classroom University’s Slavic Languages and to students working inde- GRADUATE ASSISTANTS and Literatures faculty since pendently. Her study material Philip Hart, Publications Editor 1979, as well as being an af- is used by students of Georgian Stephanie Hockman, World Wide filiate faculty member of REEI. in many worldwide. Web Administrator Originally from Tbilisi, Republic Not only is Professor Kiziria Jonathan Hudgens, Library Asst. of Georgia, Kiziria completed the IU’s local authority on Georgian Karen Kowal, Slavica Asst. Alice Tobin, Outreach Asst. bulk of her formal education in language, culture and politics, the Soviet Union. Her credentials she also plays an important and CONTACT INFORMATION include a degree in Indian lan- active role in her native coun- Russian and East European Institute guages and literatures from the try. She is known in Georgia as Ballantine Hall 565 Institute of Oriental Languages both a poet and a political com- Indiana University at Moscow State University, mentator. She writes articles Bloomington, IN 47405-6615 Phone: (812) 855-7309 as well as a graduate degree in Dodona Kiziria has been a faculty member on current events, primarily in Fax: (812) 855-6411 film history and theory from the in the Department of Slavic Languages Georgian, and is regularly invited Email: [email protected] Institute of Cinematography in and Literatures since 1979 for roundtable discussions in the www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/ Moscow. Kiziria explains that demic pursuits and have become Georgian section of of IU Awards for REEI Alumni her interest in cinema, which de- a serious part of her research and America. In May of 2004, she was veloped during the 1960s, largely teaching. Over the years she has one of four to be hon- 1994 Irene Meister stemmed from its position as “the often worked one-on-one with IU ored with dual citizenship by the College Distinguished Alumni most subversive art form in the ’s new president, Mikhail 1998 Stephen Cohen students interested in the study of College Distinguished Alumni Soviet Union,” and therefore one her native country. Saakashvili, for her contribution 1999 James F. Collins of the few acceptable means of In 1986 Professor Howard to the development of democracy Honorary Doctorate dissidence. When she relocated Aronson of the University of in Georgia. 2004 Richard Miles to the United States in 1971, and Chicago, a prominent scholar and While she acknowledges that Distinguished Alumni Service later to Indiana University, there pioneer of Georgian studies in interest in Georgian studies has REEI Awards were very few academic oppor- the United States, organized the been limited in the United States, tunities in film studies, especially first summer she strongly encourages further DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI studies in Soviet cinema. Profes- workshop in the United States. academic research on the country 1988 Alexander Rabinowitch sor Kiziria completed IU’s PhD for its “untapped treasures” in a 1988 Charles Gati Professor Kiziria taught Georgian 1995 Gale Stokes program in Slavic languages and in the Workshop for two years. In variety of fields, including folk 2000 Helena Goscilo literatures in 1979 after presenting 1988, Georgian was added to the music, history, ethnography, and 2002 Howard I. Aronson her dissertation, “The Influence of program of the Summer Workshop literature. To further encourage 2002 William Hopkins Cinema on Literature.” She also in Slavic, East European and Cen- pursuits in this area, Kiziria teach- DISTINGUISHED SERVICE developed courses in Soviet and tral Asian Languages (SWSEEL) es Georgian language on an inde- 1988 Theofanis Stavrou East European Cinema that she at IU. In addition, with Professor pendent study basis to interested 1988 Robert F. Byrnes has been teaching for over fifteen Aronson she co-authored the students during the academic year. 1989 Karen Niggle years. textbook Georgian Language and This year she is working with five 1996 Robert W. Campbell While Professor Kiziria con- students (including myself) whose 1997 Charles Jelavich Culture: A Continuing Course. 1997 Janet Rabinowitch tinues to teach East European and She is currently working on a skill levels vary from elementary 2000 William B. Edgerton Soviet Film as well as courses in methodology for teaching Geor- to advanced. Russian literature and Georgian gian, which she hopes to develop continued on page 11 4 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 5

Voices from the Caucasus by Julie Fairbanks

The two flags that fly atop the montov, as well as in the writings ties to speak and study Adyghe, White House, as the government of European travelers who made which was designated a state lan- building of the Republic of Ady- their way to the region in the nine- guage following the creation of the geia is called, offer a striking sym- teenth century. These accounts republic. Some of the discourse bol of the republic’s status. One give an idea of Adyg society as it explores historical events not is the flag of the Russian Federa- was at the time, when Adygs were previously taught in schools but tion, the second that of this new at war with the Russian Empire for now open to examination in both entity, Adygeia, formed in 1991, control of the territory. scholarly and popular domains. as the Soviet Union was break- Present-day Adygs still discuss Other aspects of this discourse ing apart. Previously an focus not on the public arena, autonomous ’ within where artists perform and laws , Adygeia is are passed, but on the everyday located on the western edge life of the community. The of the Caucasus mountain norms of which nineteenth- range in southern Russia, century travelers wrote, I was a half day’s trip from the told, no longer govern society . I arrived in the if they ever did. The Adyghe republic’s capital, Maikop, language did not enjoy prestige in October 2002 to begin under the Soviet Union, par- fourteen months of Adyghe ticularly in the mid-twentieth language study and disser- century and, as a result, many tation research, supported Adygs do not speak it. While by the SSRC and IREX. The White House of the Republic of Adygeia in acknowledging that political While Maikop was my home the Russia gains have not hampered, and for the year, I also made brief these nineteenth-century descrip- have even produced, “cultural” trips to Kabardino-Balkaria and tions; indeed, the image of that successes, some Adygs argue that Karachaevo-Cherkessia, as well society, recreated in the republic’s these gains have not brought about as to Piatigorsk, Moscow and St. ethnographic museum and in ver- sufficient changes in the areas of Petersburg. bal portraits painted by people life they consider most important My year was spent listening with whom I interacted, seemed to the vitality of their community. – to issues taken up in the press, to hover in the background during Another line of argumentation to demonstrations and concerts, to my time in Adygeia. These char- questions the extent to which presentations made at conferences acterizations of an earlier time fig- some of these so-called successes and congresses, but most of all to ure into a complex discourse about should be maintained. the conversations taking place contemporary Adyg society. Thus, the conversation is one around me. The ones to which Some of this discourse praises about fundamental values and I paid the closest attention were the achievements of Adyg artists; about the characteristics that those that addressed the meaning a notable example is Adygeia’s define who Adygs are. Holding of being Adyg. Indigenous to the dance ensemble, Nal’mes, which divergent perspectives in tension, Caucasus, Adygs, as they call represented the Russian Federa- the discourse reclaims a past themselves, or, , as tion in an international festival in largely unnamed during the Soviet they are known to others, appear France in 2003. Some of the dis- in the works of Pushkin and Ler- cussion celebrates new opportuni- continued on page 11 4 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 5

Alumni Profile: David Marks by Alex Dunlop

This summer, David Marks graduate study in 1976 after his recalls fondly having witnessed (MA Russian Literature 1979; military service, fully intending to Western and Russian leaders REEI Certificate 1981) did some- earn a PhD in Russian literature. sign the Two-Plus-Four Treaty on thing few adults with steady jobs After three years in Bloomington Germany (known more formally would do. He spent his four-week he received a fellowship to study as the Treaty on the Final Settle- vacation studying Russian at IU’s in Berlin, and his stay in Ger- ment with Respect to Germany) Summer Workshop in Slavic, East many led to a dramatic shift in in Moscow in September 1990, European and Central Asian Lan- his career choice. The diplomatic which removed the last vestiges of guages (SWSEEL). Marks’s Allied occupation and fixed decision was as much one of the international borders of a practicality as it was his love reunited Germany. of studying languages. He is But there was more excite- a Foreign Service Officer ment ahead for Marks. Less (FSO) with the US Depart- than a year later he watched ment of State, and SWSEEL the collapse of Soviet Com- was his segue from eight munism. The American years of working on Japa- Embassy in Moscow is lo- nese issues and three years cated directly across from in Washington to his current the Russian “White House,” assignment in our embassy where Russian president in Moscow. Having served Boris Yeltsin, the Russian in Moscow in the past and Supreme Soviet, and the studied Russian extensively, Marks received an MA in Russian Literature in people of Moscow organized he is not new to the language 1979 and an REEI Certificate in 1981 at IU their resistance to the August or the country. intricacies of Berlin fascinated 1991 coup attempt. It was an David Marks came upon the Marks and convinced him that exhilarating moment for every- almost by acci- his future should be in the foreign one. dent. After the first draft lottery in service rather than the academy. What is the role of the American Embassy staff during such dramat- 1969, he realized his number was He returned to Bloomington, com- ic times of upheaval? According so low he would almost surely be pleted a graduate certificate with to Marks, two things are crucial: drafted and sent to Vietnam. Hav- the Russian and East European In- first, FSOs need to make sure that ing learned that those who enlist stitute (REEI) and took the foreign the latest and best information voluntarily have greater control service exam. He passed the exam over their military assignments, he about what is happening is sent to and joined the foreign service in the State Department as quickly signed up for the army after leav- 1983. ing the University of Wisconsin in as possible. Second, they should After serving in Taipei, Bonn, immediately take steps to ensure 1972. The move paid off. His first and Tokyo, he finally obtained a assignment after boot camp was the safety of American citizens coveted assignment in Moscow. living in the country during the to study Russian at the Defense His post in Moscow proved very crisis. At the time, no one knew for Language Institute in Monterey, rewarding. “I arrived in the So- sure where the crisis might lead. California. viet Union in 1990 and left from Marks came to Bloomington for Russia in 1992,” he says. He continued on page 8 6 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 7

Language Opportunities Outside the Classroom by Philip Hart Every Friday afternoon IU Rus- contemporary topics. A regular tive speaker, as it mixes beginning sian-language students, instruc- visitor to Russian Table, REEI and advanced students, as well as tors, and native speakers descend MA student Christopher Collins native speakers, …in an environ- on Bear’s Place, a popular ment that is casual and fun, restaurant located just south taking much of the classroom of campus. The group gathers pressure out of the equation.” for Russian Table, an informal Russian Table is not the meeting that offers an excellent only opportunity for students opportunity to practice Russian- to converse in Russian outside language skills in a relaxed en- of a classroom setting. Rus- vironment. Speakers of all lev- sian Tea is held every Tuesday els of proficiency attend, from at 4:00 in Ballantine Hall 004. those with only rudimentary Students enjoy tea, coffee, skills to the conversationally and snacks while Russian- fluent. Guests often order food Students and faculty hone their conversational language instructors conduct and drink during the meeting, Russian skills at Russian Table informal language sessions. and the casual atmosphere invites comments, “Russian Table is a discussions on a wide variety of great opportunity for the non-na- continued on page 12

Schedule of Language Opportunities Czech Club, Thursdays from 4-5:30 pm in Contact: Joan Chamberlin [email protected] Ballantine Hall 144. Contact: Jeff Holdeman [email protected] Romanian Conversation Group, Wednesdays from 5:30-7 pm in the International Cen- Estonian Coffee Hour, Tuesdays at 4:30 pm at ter on Ave. Contact: Florin Beschea Bazaar Cafe on 6th St. Contact: Piibi-kai Kivik [email protected] [email protected] Russian Tea, Tuesdays from 4-5 pm in Bal- Finnish Coffee Hour, Fridays from 3-4 pm at The lantine Hall 004. Contact: Jeff Holdeman Bakery, Jordan Ave. and 3rd St. Contact: [email protected] Anna Pajunen [email protected] Russian Table, Fridays from 4:30-6 pm at Bear’s Hungarian Coffee Hour, Thursdays at 4:30 pm at Place, Jordan Ave. and 3rd St. Contact: Jeff Runcible Spoon, 412 E 6th St. Contact: Laszlo Holdeman [email protected] Bengi [email protected] Serbian/Croatian Coffee Hour, Thursdays from Latvian Coffee Hour, Thursdays at 6 pm at Ba- 6-7 pm in Ballantine Hall 221. Contact: Vlatka zaar Cafe on 6th St. Contact: Sarah Fogleman Stimac [email protected] [email protected] Uzbek Coffee Hour, Thursdays 4-5 pm Polish Coffee Hour, Thursdays from 4:30-6 pm in in Ballantine Hall 004. Contact: Malik the Polish Studies Center, 1217 E. Atwater St. Hodjaev [email protected] 6 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 7

"European Security and Ukraine" Conference by David Albright

The requirements for European expansion that they have already Volodymyr Dubovyk, director security were debated at a confer- approved or are in the process of of the Center for International ence on “European Security and negotiating. Studies at Odessa National Uni- Ukraine” in Odessa, Ukraine, on Consideration of the admis- versity. September 24-27, 2004. This sion of countries like Ukraine Non-Ukrainian participants conference took place under the to either NATO or the European were Janusz Bugajski, director of sponsorship of the Center for the Union, these analysts argued, the Eastern Project at the Study of Global Change, the Rus- should come only after a lengthy Center for Strategic and Interna- sian and East European Institute, period in which these countries tional Studies in Washington, DC; and the West European Joachim Krause, direc- Studies Center at Indi- tor of the Institute for ana University, and the Security Policy at the Center for International University of Kiel in Studies and the Depart- Germany, and former ment of International Re- Deputy Director of the lations of the Institute of German Council on Social Sciences at Odessa Foreign Relations in National University. Berlin; Jeffrey Simon, For analysts from senior analyst at the Ukraine, there were two Institute for National essential requirements for Strategic Studies, U.S. European security. First, National War College; NATO and the European International scholars discuss security Richard Whitman, di- Union should be expanded to in- threats at the conference rector of the European Program clude all the Balkans and Ukraine. demonstrate a will to meet the at the Royal Institute of Interna- Second, increased attention should criteria that NATO and the Euro- tional Affairs in London; Gareth be given to problems such as drug pean Union have set forth for ad- Winrow, professor of international trafficking and potential sources of mission. In this connection, they relations in the Department of Islamic terrorism and ethnic con- maintained that Ukraine had not International Relations at Bilgi flict in the Black Sea region. thus far evidenced a real commit- University in Istanbul, Analysts from Western and ment to become part of Europe by and Ryszard Zieba, professor of Central Europe and the United undertaking the necessary reforms international relations at the Insti- States agreed that the prime to do so. They also suggested that tute of International Relations of threats to European security now the presidential election scheduled Warsaw University in Poland. come from the south and particu- for the end of October might well The Ukrainian participants in- larly areas such as the Black Sea wind up being a major turning cluded Olexander Dergachev, se- periphery, and they concurred that point for the country. nior fellow at the Institute of Polit- the security questions that these ar- The conference was organized ical and Ethnonational Studies of eas pose had to be addressed with by David Albright, senior fellow at the National Academy of Science vigor. But as for NATO and the the Center for the Study of Global in Kyiv; Sergei Glebov, assistant European Union, they argued that Change and visiting scholar at the professor of international relations these institutions should focus for Russian and East European Insti- the present on consolidating the tute, Indiana University, and by continued on page 9 8 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 9

David Marks Laurence Richter’s class in Rus- the foreign service. continued from page 5 sian phonetics. It proves to be What advice does Marks have very useful when speaking with for students aspiring to join the Only days before the coup began, , because, like English, foreign service? The same advice Marks had met with the only mili- spoken Russian does not sound he would give anyone: get in the tary member of the Politburo. This the way it looks on paper. Marks habit of reading a good newspaper official gave no indication whatso- states that his Russian language everyday and do not skip the sto- ever of the historic events about background has served him well ries that miss the front page. FSOs to take place. During the chaos, throughout his career, and his need to be able to speak clearly Marks was asked to coordinate the participation in SWSEEL this about how apparently minor many reports delivered to the em- summer helped him reestablish political or economic develop- bassy and try to clarify and explain his proficiency. ments can impact larger ongoing what was happening to those back Students studying the languag- conflicts and tensions between in Washington. es of the former Soviet Union states or ethnic groups. He adds, During these experiences, and Eastern Europe often wonder “Keep studying languages. They Marks utilized the language train- if their language skills will give do come in handy.” ing he received at IU, and consid- them an advantage in entering the ers it the most beneficial aspect of foreign service. Unfortunately Alex Dunlop received his dual his IU education. In particular, not—all applicants are screened MA/MPA from REEI and SPEA he remembers fondly the gram- on their performance on the writ- in 2004. He currently works for mar classes taught by Professor ten and oral sections of the foreign The Services Group, an economic Galina McLaws. He recommends service exam. But languages do consulting firm located in Arling- that every student of Russian take prove valuable once you are in ton, VA Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages at Indiana University June 17 - August 12, 2005 RUSSIAN - 1st through 6th year - 4- and 8-week courses available EAST EUROPEAN and BALTIC - 1st year Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, and Romanian - 1st and 2nd year Estonian - The following languages are ACLS-funded and TUITION-FREE for graduate students specializing in any field related to these languages: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Estonian, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, and Romanian CENTRAL ASIAN and GEORGIAN - 1st and 2nd year Azeri, Georgian, Kazakh, Tajik, Turkmen, Uyghur, and Uzbek - 1st year Pashto FLAS and SSRC Fellowships are available Application Deadline for Fellowships April 1, 2005 IN-STATE TUITION for all Languages More information is available at: http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel/ Or write to: Director, SWSEEL, BH 502, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 Tel. (812) 855-2608 · FAX (812) 855-2107 · e-mail: [email protected] 8 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 9

IU Polish Studies Center and Director Honored in Warsaw

The Indiana University Polish nearly three decades of existence. with Warsaw University and Ja- Studies Center and its director, Since its establishment in 1976, giellonian University in Krakow Professor Bill Johnston, received the center has played host to some have allowed more than sixty IU the Polish Foreign Minister Award of the most important figures in graduate students and faculty to on Wednesday, October 6, for Polish politics and culture, in- travel to Poland and more than six- outstanding contributions to the cluding Solidarity trade union ty Polish scholars to come to IU. promotion of Poland abroad. “We provide a steady diet of Johnston accepted the award programs about Poland and from Polish Foreign Minister things Polish,” Johnson said. Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz in “We also serve as hosts for a ceremony at the Royal Palace Polish students and professors in Warsaw. The award, which from universities in Warsaw has been presented each year and Krakow, with which we since 1970, honors people and have exchange agreements.” institutions that significantly IU-Bloomington Interim enhance the promotion of Chancellor Kenneth Gros Poland in the world. Louis maintains that by pro- Owen Johnson, the Polish viding students, faculty, and Center’s acting director while members of the community Johnston is on sabbatical with the opportunity to learn leave, said the award was rich- IU Polish Studies Director Bill Johnston (left) about Poland and its culture, ly deserved. “But the award accepts the Polish Foreign Minister Award from the center is a truly valuable only tells part of the story. For Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz asset to IU. He states that more than a quarter century, leader Lech Walesa and Czeslaw the award is also special the center, like other area studies Milosz, a world-renowned writer. with regards to IU’s diversity of centers at IU, has been opening up Both men are Nobel Prize winners, international programs. “The the rest of the world to IU students Walesa for peace and Milosz for award underlines IU’s ties with so and faculty as well as to the people literature. many different countries, and its of the state of Indiana.” The center regularly sponsors relationship with Poland predates Johnson said the award pro- conferences, concerts, and theatri- the collapse of the Iron Curtain by vides recognition of all the work cal performances. Exchange pro- many years.” the center has accomplished in grams established by the center

Ukraine Conference chair of the Department of Inter- lations at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv continued from page 7 national Relations and Director National University; and Grigoriy of the Institute of Social Sciences Perepelitsa, deputy director and at Odessa National University; and International Relations at head of the Military Studies De- Viktor Glebov, head of the School Odessa National University; Igor partment of the National Institute of International Relations of the Mingazutdinov, deputy head of of Strategic Studies in Kyiv. Institute of Social Sciences and the Department of International International Relations at Odessa Relations and Foreign Policy at David Albright is Senior Fellow at National University; Igor Koval, the Institute of International Re- the IU Center for Global Change 10 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 11

SWSEEL 2004 Highlights by Lisa Giullian

We had an exciting summer full fellowship funding from the ries and fellowships. filled with films, cooking, lectures, museum. We intend to continue Overall fellowship support re- a Russian play and choir perfor- working with the museum and IU’s mained at a very high level. Of the mance, and the annual Silk Road Borns Jewish Studies Program to 152 students in Slavic department concert! Lectures covered a broad expand Yiddish offerings in 2005. languages (Russian, Georgian, and range of topics, from the Rus- East European), 50 had FLAS fel- sian elections to contemporary lowships from IU or from other education and culture in Uzbeki- Title VI centers nationwide; eight stan. Students of Russian put had SSRC awards; five students on a play about famous Soviet received awards from the CIC; one figures, who share a communal student had an individual East Eu- apartment. It’s difficult to imag- ropean Language Fellowship from ine Stalin, Brezhnev and Anna ACLS; and one student was a pro- Akhmatova all sharing an apart- fessional from the U.S. State Depart- ment together! Everyone was ment (read about him in the alumni rolling with laughter! Students profile on page 5 of this issue). enjoyed the Silk Road Concert, Stuart MacKenzie, a gradu- a highlight of the summer. Art- ate student in the Department of ists from China, the Caucasus, Tajik cooking demonstration Slavic Languages and Literatures Central Asia, , Turkey, Af- The 2004 workshop was suc- took 2nd year Serbian/Croatian at ghanistan, Mongolia and the Arab cessful in generating other external SWSEEL in 2004. He comments world gave a stunning musical grant support. The East European on SWSEEL, “As a PhD student performance. program was awarded $27,200 from and Associate Instructor in IU’s The 54th annual Summer Work- the American Councils for Learned Slavic Studies department, I am shop in Slavic, East European, and Societies for first-year Central Asian Languages (SW- Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, SEEL) saw upward enrollment Polish, Romanian, and Slo- trends continue. Total enrollment vene. ACLS support pays went from 163 in 2003 to 223 in the instructor’s salary and 2004, an increase of nearly 40%. ensures that IU will offer The largest increases were in Rus- the language tuition-free sian, from 77 to 107 students, Cen- to graduate students in tral Asian, from 49 to 59 students, East European studies. The and in the addition of two new Workshop has already re- courses to SWSEEL: second-year ceived notification that Russian Level 2 students with Serbian and Croatian and beginning ACLS will support first- instructor Lina Khawaldah Yiddish. year Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, in the unusual position of hav- The new Yiddish course was Czech, Latvian, Polish, Romanian, ing been both a SWSEEL student taught by special agreement be- Macedonian and first- and second- and a SWSEEL instructor. I can tween Indiana University and the year Estonian. The 2004 Russian honestly say that the program U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. and Georgian programs were is a wonderful experience from The nine students in the course were awarded $34,200 from the Social competitively selected and received Science Research Council for sala- continued on page 12 10 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 11

Dobro Slovo National Slavic Honor Society Inductions On April 20, 2004, the Indiana and Psychology), Beth Ehrsam REEI), Stephanie J. Hockman University Zeta Zeta chapter of (undergraduate, Communication (MA/MPA student, REEI/SPEA), Dobro Slovo National Slavic Hon- and Culture), Seth Clark Ever- Blake Randell Hulet (undergrad- or Society held its new member itt (undergraduate, Slavics and uate, Slavics and Psychology), induction ceremony. The John Alexander Ippoliti IU chapter, which was re- (undergraduate, Slavics and instituted in spring 2003 Classical Studies), Andriana after nearly three decades Ivanovic (undergraduate, Po- of inactivity, inducted litical Science), Aleksandra twenty-one new members Jovanovic (undergraduate, at the ceremony. Dobro Slavics and Criminal Justice), Slovo serves as a means Stuart MacKenzie (PhD to recognize academic candidate, Slavics and Phi- excellence in the study losophy), Miriam Shrager of Slavic languages, lit- (PhD candidate, Slavics), Mi- erature, history, and cul- chael Smith (undergraduate, ture. The new members Larry Richter (middle) and Jeffrey Holdeman (right) Slavics), Michelle Stevens, congratulate Dobro Slovo inductee Stephanie Hockman for 2004 are: Matthew and Amy M. Zerebnick Adler (undergraduate, Criminal Communication and Culture), (undergraduate, Slavics and Justice), Nik Borjan (undergradu- Sarah Burns Gilchrist (under- French). Melinda J. Fountain ate, Business), Bo-ra Chung (MA graduate Slavics and Comparative was inducted into the honorary student, Slavics), Kathyrn Noelle Literature), Aaron Hale-Dorrell category. Congratulations to the Davis (undergraduate), Catherine (undergraduate, Slavics and His- new members of Dobro Slovo! Drew (undergraduate, Slavics tory), Philip Hart (MA student,

Voices history, and the glories of a more Faculty Profile: Dodona continued from page 4 distant past all figure into the de- Kiziria bate. In a context in which current continued from page 3 period, but also recalls the role of conditions are changing and the the Soviet government in develop- historical record is being reevalu- Kiziria plans on retiring from ing a and foster- ated, the content of Adygs’ dis- her position at Indiana Univer- ing Adyghe-language media. It course, with its juxtapositions and sity in the next couple of years. mourns changes in family struc- internal tensions, warrants careful However, she expects to contin- tures and interpersonal relations consideration. It speaks both to ue her work in Georgian politics, while questioning the restrictions the influence of the wider society culture and education for many such structures place on individu- and to the role of nostalgia in shap- years to come. als. It argues for the significance ing communities’ senses of who of Adyghe at the same time as it they are in the post-Soviet milieu. Lyndsay Miles is an MA student encourages proficiency in Russian in REEI. and other languages. Julie Fairbanks is a PhD student The possibilities of the present, in the Department of Anthropol- the setbacks and gains of recent ogy. 12 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 13

Beslan while some were meant to address dependent civil society—a move continued from page 2 terrorism directly, most are de- couched in the language of sup- signed to “address broader issues porting an “organized and united as their liberty.” Instead of a con- of state decay” at the expense of civil society”—because its very flict between Islam and the West, regional power and democracy. independence threatens the state. the war in Chechnya should be For example, one potentially According to Hale, these reforms understood as a struggle for com- positive development occurred are designed less to prevent terror- munity self-governance. Ac- when President Putin replaced ism than to strengthen centralized cording to Shahrani, the problem his envoy to the North Cauca- political control over the country. is fundamentally a political one, sus region with Dmitry Kozak, The future of the region remains resulting from conflict between whose reputation as a tough but unclear. The attack on the school the state and its constituent parts democratically-minded ally of the focused international attention and exacerbated by the increasing president may promote stability once again on the conflict, but it centralization of power. in the region. On the other hand, did not apparently open any new This centralization process may President Putin has also moved to political or military avenues to have accelerated in the wake of end the direct election of regional resolution. In Beslan the victims the Beslan tragedy, as the gov- governors and also to gain greater are buried; in Moscow the poli- ernment initiated reforms that control over the loyalty of a par- ticking continues. Meanwhile, in it claimed would prevent such liament already dominated by the Chechnya, the war grinds on. terrorism in the future. Profes- party he endorses. Additionally, sor Hale examined five of these President Putin’s administration Neil Gipson is an MA/MPA major reforms and concluded that has begun to crack down on in- student in REEI and SPEA.

Language Opportunities Opportunities for extra practice This schedule can be viewed continued from page 6 are available for a variety of lan- on page 6 of this newsletter and guages other than Russian. Czech, online on the "Calendar of Events" Students are presented with oppor- Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Lat- page of the REEI website. tunities to hear and speak Russian vian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian/ using culturally relevant media, Croatian, and Uzbek coffee hours Philip Hart is an MA student in such as Russian films, songs, and are held once a week at various REEI stories. locations on and near campus.

SWSEEL 2004 of Russian in SWSEEL 2002, I returning to the program and tell- continued from page 10 found it very fulfilling to devote ing us their success stories. Also, myself to teaching intelligent, I found that my fellow instructors both perspectives. As a student, highly-motivated students in a were very committed to pedagogi- I have enjoyed the luxury of long-established and extremely cal excellence, which is reflected concentrating on one subject and well-run summer program. It was in the annual pedagogy workshop feeling my own skill develop. genuinely gratifying to see the rate organized by the program.” My SWSEEL instructors have at which students’ language skills been extraordinarily influential in improve under the near-immersion Lisa Giullian is a Student Advisor my approach to language acqui- conditions that SWSEEL affords and Assistant Director for Student sition and in developing my own them, and I have been delighted to Services for REEI. teaching skills. As an Instructor see students from past workshops 12 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 13

______Students News Janel Anderson (REEI) is awards given for level 4 non- Siobhan Reardon (Slavics) working for Senator Ted Stevens heritage learners in the ACTR received one of five third-place of Alaska as a staff assistant fo- National Russian Essay Contest awards given for level 4 non- cusing on federal health issues and conducted in the spring. heritage learners in the ACTR social security. National Russian Essay Contest Stephanie Hockman (REEI/ conducted in the spring. Jane Charney (Journalism) re- SPEA) participated in the “Terror- ceived the first-place award given ism and War on Terrorism Student Ben Thorne (History) present- for level 2 heritage learners in the Forum” at Indiana University on ed his paper “Multiculturalism and ACTR National Russian Essay November 12. She spoke on an Holocaust Studies: The Roma as Contest conducted in the spring. “International Perspectives” pan- Case Study” at an international el about her first-hand experience conference titled “The Challeng- Christopher Collins (REEI) with terrorism last summer while es of Multiculturalism in Central was elected treasurer of the IU Bal- interning at the U.S. Embassy in And Eastern Europe,” held in Iasi, tic and Finnish Studies Association. Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and dis- Romania, from October 28-30 at cussed the ways that America’s Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. Sarah Fogleman (REEI) was War on Terror affects its interac- elected vice president of the IU tions with the government of Uz- Amy Zerebnick (Slavics/ Baltic and Finnish Studies As- bekistan. She also co-moderated French) received one of five third- sociation. a panel on the “Public Discourse place awards given for level 4 on Terrorism.” non-heritage learners in the ACTR Neil Gipson (REEI/SPEA) National Russian Essay Contest received one of two first-place conducted in the spring.

______Alumni News Rebecca Bartlett (MA REEI/ of the DTRA Task Force, where Brian Randall (SPEA MPA MLS SLIS 2004) is working as he administered nonproliferation 2002) has accepted a position a cataloger at the National Czech programs. In October, he was re- as a Foreign Service Officer for and Slovak Museum and Library assigned to the Pentagon as the the U.S. Department of State. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Senior Presidential Translator He will begin his assignment on and Chief of the Washington- January 10, 2005. Location to be Craig Bell (MA REEI 1993), Moscow Direct Communications announced. a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Link (the Hotline--the President’s Army, spent the last three years 24/7 crisis communications link Jeanne Wilson (PhD Po- as the Nuclear Branch Chief with Moscow since 1963). litical Science 1983) published in the On-Site Directorate of Strategic Partners: Russian- the Defense Threat Reduction Michael Katula (REEI MA Chinese Relations in the Post- Agency (DTRA) at Fort Bel- 1998) has accepted a position as Soviet Era (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. voir, Virginia, where he was a Foreign Service Officer for the Sharpe, 2004). She is professor responsible for monitoring the U.S. Department of State, in War- of political science at Wheaton closing of Russian plutonium saw, Poland. He has been working College in Massachusetts and production reactors. From April as a Foreign Service Officer at the research associate at the Davis through July 2004 he worked in U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. Center for Russian and Eurasian as the deputy commander Studies, Harvard University. 14 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 15

______Faculty News Christopher P. Atwood Maria Bucur (History) re- Roy Gardner (Economics and (CEUS) delivered the paper cently received a contract for West European Studies) served as “Symbiosis and Conflict in Post- an edited volume on Gender an expert at the Economics Edu- Imperial Mongol-Turk Relations” and War in Twentieth Century cation and Research Consortium in Ulaanbaatar on September 28, Eastern Europe, co-edited with (EERC)-CIS conference on re- 2004, at a major conference on Nancy M. Wingfield (Indiana search in transition economics Turkish-Mongolian Relations University Press). She also re- in Kyiv, July 9-11. He will also through history. At the Annual cently published “Fascism and serve in this capacity at the next Conference of the Central Eur- Modernism in Twentieth Century EERC-CIS conference in Mos- asian Studies Society held in Romania,” Angelica Fenner and cow, December 17-19. In addition, Bloomington on October 15-16, Eric D. Weitz, eds., Fascism and in his role as Academic Director he served as chair and discussant Neofascism: Critical Writings on of EERC-Kyiv, he participated in for the Mongolia Society panel the Radical Right in Europe (New the International Advisory Board of “Education in Mongolia,” ad- York: Palgrave, 2004). annual meeting in Kyiv, October dressed the question of “Is Mon- 16-17. golia Part of Central Eurasia?,” Aurelian Craiutu (Political and was discussant for the panel Science) spoke on the upcoming Halina Goldberg (Musicol- “Art, Death, and Money.” On Romanian elections at the Ken- ogy) organized jointly with col- October 21, he spoke on the nedy School of Government, leagues from other departments a “Many Faces of Genghis Khan” Harvard University (Kokkalis visit by Dr. Gottfried H. Wagner, in the history lecture series at the Program) on November 17. He the great grandson of the com- University of Southern Illinois at also attended a roundtable on Ro- poser Richard Wagner and the Carbondale. On October 27 he manian elections sponsored by the great-great grandson of the com- kicked off Harvard University’s Woodrow Wilson Center for Inter- poser and piano virtuoso Franz Inner Asian and Altaic Studies national Scholars in Washington, Liszt, on October 26-27. Wagner Committee luncheon series by DC, on November 19. presented two lectures: one on the speaking on “The Secret History role of Richard Wagner’s music in of the : The View From Andrew Durkin (Slavics) pre- the Third Reich and the other con- the Veritable Records.” sented a paper at the recent NEH- trasting the composers Kurt Weill supported symposium “Chekhov and Bertold Brecht. The visit was Malcolm Brown (Musicol- the Immigrant: Translating a Cul- sponsored by the School of Mu- ogy) and his colleague George tural Icon” at Colby College, Wa- sic Lecture Fund in collaboration Buelow were honored on their terville, ME, October 8-9, held to with Germanic Studies, Institute 75th birthdays at the “Celebra- mark the centenary of Chekhov’s of German Studies, Jewish Stud- tion of Scholarship” on October death. The paper was titled “Hunt- ies, and the Office of International 16. Three scholars presented on ers off the Beaten Track: The Programs. Russian music: Richard Taruskin Dismantling of Pastoral Myth in (UC-Berkeley) presented a paper Chekhov and Crane.” He also Henry Hale (Political Science) entitled “Evrei i zhidy,” Laurel gave a talk titled “Chekhov’s recently presented a paper titled Fay (Russian music specialist) Cherry Orchard: A Century Later” “Cause Without a Rebel: Kazakh- spoke on Shostakovich’s Dia- for Theater Circle before the open- stan’s Unionist Nationalism and logue with His Conscience,” and ing of IU Theatre’s production of Patterns of Secessionism in the Simon Morrison (Princeton) dis- “The Cherry Orchard.” cussed “Prokofiev’s Emigration.” continued on next page 14 Russian and East European Institute REEIfication, December 2004 15

Faculty News Dov-Ber Kerler (Germanic Csaba Pleh (CEUS), the Visit- continued from previous page Studies) participated in a panel ing Hungarian Chair, announces discussion on the future of Yid- the annual symposium sponsored Former USSR” at the Central Eur- dish language at the Institute for by the György Ránki Hungarian asian Studies Society annual meet- Jewish Research on November Chair and the Hungarian Stud- ing in Bloomington on October 16. 18 to celebrate the publication ies Program of the Indiana Uni- He also served as a discussant on of Words of Fire by Dovid Katz versity Department of Central the panel “Inclusion or Exclu- (Basic Books, 2004). Eurasian Studies on April 2-3, sion: Ethnic Minorities and the 2005. Information regarding the State” at the meeting. He spoke Vince Liotta (Music) recently time, place, and presenters will be about his forthcoming article returned from a residency in Ro- featured in the February issue of “Making and Breaking Ethnofed- mania, where he staged the opera the newsletter. eral States: Why the USSR Broke “Madama Butterfly” for the Opera Apart While the Russian Federa- Magiara Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Nazif Shahrani (CEUS) re- tion Survives” at a discussion or- This was the first time an Ameri- cently published an article titled ganized by IU’s Department of can was invited to stage an opera “’s Presidential Elec- Political Science on October 28. in Transylvania. tions: Spreading Democracy or a Sham?” on Middle East Report Mark T. Hooker (REEI) deliv- S a r a h Online. This article can be ac- ered a slide show of the Russian Phillips (An- cessed at http://www.merip.org/ illustrations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s thropology) mero/mero100804.html. The Hobbit at the Art History participated in Brown-Bag lecture on October an international Marci Shore (History) signed 27 in Bloomington. The presen- workshop titled a contract with Yale University tation demonstrated the myriad “Understand- Press for her manuscript “Caviar challenges facing translators try- ing the Trans- and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s ing to bring Tolkien to the Russian formation of Life and Death in Marxism, 1918- reading public by pointing out the U k r a i n e : 1968.” The manuscript also won confusion arising from the Russian A s s e s s i n g the Fraenkel Prize in Contempo- translation of “feet” as “nogi.” What Has rary History for 2004. In Novem- Been Learned, ber she presented two papers at the Bill Johnston (TESOL/ Devising a University of London: “A Funeral Applied Linguistics) published R e s e a r c h for Futurism: Or, How the Polish Phillips at the two new translations, both by Agenda” at University of Ottowa Avant-Garde Came to Marxism in Witold Gombrowicz: Bacacay the Univer- the 1920s” and “When God Died: (Archipelago Books) and Polish sity of Ottowa on October 15- Žižek on Modernity and Revolu- Memories (Yale University Press). 16. Eighteen scholars from the tion in Eastern Europe.” He also published shorter pieces disciplines of Political Science, in the New England Review and History, Anthropology, Sociol- Jeffrey Veidlinger (History) the Georgia Review. In addition, ogy, and Economics discussed published “From Boston to Mis- Slavica Publishers recently bought the past and future of Ukrainian sissippi on the Warsaw Yiddish out The Other in Polish Theater Studies in their respective fields, Stage” in Kathleen Cioffi and Bill and Drama, which Johnston co- and interdisciplinary approaches Johnston eds., The Other in Pol- edited with Kathleen Cioffi, as were highlighted. ish Theatre and Drama (Indiana vol. 14 of Indiana Slavic Studies. Slavic Studies, Volume 14, 2003). Russian and East European Institute Non-Profit Organization Ballantine Hall 565 U.S. Postage PAID Indiana University Bloomington IN

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