Thursday, December 20, 2012

Specialized Workshop on Scholarly and Literary Translation (June 10-15, 2013)


The Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia is open to all scholars with research interests in the Russian, East European and Eurasian region for eight weeks during the summer months from June 10 until August 2. The SRL provides scholars access to the resources of the University of Illinois Slavic collection within a flexible time frame where scholars have the opportunity to seek advice and research support from the librarians of the Slavic Reference Service (SRS).  Graduate students and junior scholars will also have opportunity to attend a specialized workshop on Scholarly and Literary Translation from June 10-15, 2013.
For more information and to apply, please see the SRL website at:
For graduate students, the SRL provides an opportunity to conduct research prior to going abroad and extra experience to refine research skills.  Students will also have the opportunity of seeking guidance from specialized librarians skilled in navigating resources pertaining to and originating from Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. 
The SRS is an extensive service that provides access to a wide range of materials that center on and come from: Russia, the Former Soviet Union, Czech and Slovak Republics, Former Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. The International & Area Studies Library, where the Slavic reference collections are housed, contains work stations for readers, a collection of basic reference works, and current issues of over 1,000 periodicals and 110 newspapers in Western and area languages. 
The Slavic Reference Service provides access to several unique resources pertaining to the Russian, East European and Eurasian region.  Currently, there are plans at the University of Illinois’ to become the first library in the Western Hemisphere to gain access to the Russian State Library’s Electronic Dissertations Database, which contains the full text of nearly 1 million dissertations in a wide variety of fields.  
In addition, the SRS provides access to
  • the only copy of the famous 594-volume Turkestanskii Sbornik  of materials on Central Asia prior to 1917 available outside Uzbekistan;
  • recent direct acquisitions from Central Asia which include the complete national bibliography of Kazakhstan (2002-2010) and the complete digitized national bibliography of Uzbekistan (1917-2009), both of which are not held by any other U.S. library;
  • perhaps the most complete collection of Russian Imperial provincial newspapers (gubernskie vedomosti) in North America; and
  • extensive print, digital, and microform holdings relating to Eastern Europe, including rare materials acquired via Keith Hitchins and other noted scholars.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Sloven Journal for Linguistics and Literary Studies (web archive)

All the volumes of the journal "Slavistična revija, Slovene journal for linguistics and literary studies" since 1948 are freely available through the journal's web archive http://www.srl.si/.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Summer Lab | Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center | University of Illinois

Summer Lab | Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center | University of Illinois: "The Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia is open to all REEE scholars for eight weeks during the summer months from June 10 until August 2. The SRL provides scholars:

  • access to the resources of the University of Illinois Slavic collection and
  • an opportunity to seek advice from the librarians of the Slavic Reference Service (SRS).

During the first four weeks of the Lab, the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center also organizes conferences, noontime speakers, and social events for Lab associates.

For graduate students, it provides an opportunity to conduct research prior to going abroad for dissertation research or as they are working on their dissertation."

'via Blog this'

Want to learn Romanian? - University of Oxford

Want to learn Romanian? - University of Oxford: "The Romanian language will be taught at Oxford University for the first time, as a lectorship in Romanian has been set up in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics.

The post has been funded by the Romanian Ministry of Education and was launched in Oxford this week by the Romanian ambassador to the UK, Dr Ion Jinga."

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

2012-2013 Dissertation Fellowships in East European Studies

The American Council of Learned Societies announces Dissertation Fellowships in East European Studies Competition Year 2012-2013 - Research fellowships for use in Eastern Europe - Writing fellowships for writing the dissertation in the United States after research is complete Applications will be accepted for work related to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo/a, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Applicants must be pursuing a Ph.D. degree at a U.S. university. All requirements for the PhD except the dissertation (ABD) must be completed by June 2013. All topics, periods, and approaches in the humanities and social sciences are welcome. Application deadline: November 15, 2012 Further information is available at http://www.acls.org/programs/eesp. ACLS has secured funding (for one year only) for this competition, which in the past has been supported by the Title VIII Program of the U.S. Department of State. American Council of Learned Societies, 633 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6795, www.acls.org

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Balkanistica's site has a new URL

Balkanistica has a new redesigned website. Check it out here.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Official google.org Blog: The Endangered Languages Project: Supporting language preservation through technology and collaboration

Official google.org Blog: The Endangered Languages Project: Supporting language preservation through technology and collaboration: " Endangered Languages Project, a website for people to find and share the most up-to-date and comprehensive information about endangered languages. Documenting the 3,000+ languages that are on the verge of extinction (about half of all languages in the world) is an important step in preserving cultural diversity, honoring the knowledge of our elders and empowering our youth. Technology can strengthen these efforts by helping people create high-quality recordings of their elders (often the last speakers of a language), connecting diaspora communities through social media and facilitating language learning."

Friday, March 30, 2012

EHESS : Actualités - Espace impérial. Le Sud-Est européen entre Empires et Nations

If anyone happens to be in Paris... here is something interesting to do:

EHESS : Actualités - Espace impérial. Le Sud-Est européen entre Empires et Nations:


Amphithéâtre François Furet  -  105, bd. Raspail  -  75006 Paris
L'Empire comme objet d'étude historique n'a désormais plus besoin de justifications. Tout un courant récent de la recherche a été consacré par la somme signée par Jane Burbank et Frederick Cooper, « Empires in World History ». Au-delà des diverses téléologies des historiographies nationales, qui n'y voyaient qu'oppression et domination, les empires s'avèrent en réalité acteurs et facteurs de l'histoire globale. Loin de disparaître dans un futur prévisible, ils se métamorphosent et se perpétuent sous des formes nouvelles, s'auto-présentant comme vecteurs de civilisation et de progrès, sans jamais cesser d'influer décisivement, pour le mieux ou pour le pire, sur l'histoire. Si l'historien ne saurait se leurrer devant idéologies et propagande, il ne saurait surtout ignorer ces géants qui ont transformé et transformeront encore les destins des hommes et des sociétés.
Or, à y regarder de plus près, le Sud-Est européen, espace multiple et varié est d'abord un espace impérial. Informés par le renouvellement de l'intérêt historiographique pour les empires, byzantinistes et ottomanistes réunis reliront leur objet d'intérêt commun en accordant une attention particulière à trois thèmes.
1. Le rôle du Sud-Est européen dans le phénomène général impérial.
2. La territorialisation de l'empire.
3. La spécificité de l'avatar médiéval – au sens du « long Moyen Âge » recadré par Jacques le Goff – de l'empire.
Deux autres thèmes sous-jacents complètent l'ambition d'une compréhension globale du phénomène impérial Sud-Est européen.
4. La rivalité impériale.
5. Le phénomène ethnique / national qui embrouille d'habitude les approches classiques de l'espace « balkanique » intéresse également la problématique impériale.
Rendre l'empire Sud-Est européen un objet de recherche en lui-même suppose une délimitation critique à la fois du discours légitimant des anciennes historiographies « impérialistes » ainsi que de leur pendant, la démarche dépréciative des historiographies nationalistes. Il va sans dire qu'un si vaste programme de recherche ne saurait être approché que par sondages. Il est cependant temps qu'un champ de recherche qui semblait épuisé par une sur-exploitation continuelle se montre à nouveau fertile grâce à un outillage scientifique innovant, à une procédure de décantage plus affinée et surtout à un travail commun.

Voir programme ci-joint.
Date
  • du mardi 2 avril 2013 à 09h30 au  mercredi 4 avril 2012 à 17h
Contacts
  • Paolo ODORICO (paolo.odorico@ehess.fr)
    CRH-CEBNHSEE
    190-198 avenue de France,
    75244 Paris Cedex 13
    bureau 553
    Tél. : 33 (0)1 49 54 23 35
  • Dan Ioan MURESAN (dan.muresan@ehess.fr)
    CRH-CEBNHSEE
    190-198 avenue de France,
    75244 Paris Cedex 13
    bureau 554
    Tél. : 33 (0)1 49 54 23 35

Friday, January 6, 2012

2012 Critical Languages Institute at Arizona State University


Arizona State University is pleased to announce that its CRITICAL LANGUAGES INSTITUTE is now accepting applications for the 2012 session.

CLI courses combine intensive language instruction in the U.S. with (optional) overseas immersion programs in 10 languages. Courses are tuition free for all participants and range from elementary to advanced mastery.  Graduate and undergraduate funding is available for both U.S. and overseas study.

COURSE STRUCTURE:

MOST COURSES are offered in a 7+4 hybrid format:  7-weeks of instruction at ASU (June 4 – July 20; 8 credits) plus an optional 4-weeks of instruction overseas (July 23 – August 17; 3 credits). The two halves of the program share a single 11-week curriculum. Wherever possible, students study with the same instructors in both locations. The following courses are offered in this format:

-          Albanian (Tirana; Levels 1, 2, 5)
-          Armenian (Yerevan; Levels 1, 2, 5)
-          Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (Sarajevo; Levels 1, 2)
-          Farsi (Dushanbe, Levels 1, 2, 3)
-          Hebrew (Tel Aviv, Level 1)
-          Macedonian (Ohrid; Levels 1, 3)
-          Polish (Poznan; Level 1)
-          Russian (Kazan; Levels 1, 2)*
-          Tajik (Dushanbe; Levels 1, 2, 3)
-          Uzbek (Samarkand; Levels 1, 2, 3)
*  Russian course dates are May 29 – July 20 (10 credits)

TATAR and ADVANCED RUSSIAN courses are offered in an 8-week program in Kazan, Russia (June 25 – August 17; 8 credits):
-          Russian (Levels 3, 4 only)
-          Tatar (Levels 1, 2)

STUDENT SUPPORT:
Graduate support is available for Arizona and overseas courses through the Department of State’s Title VIII program.
Undergraduate support is available for Arizona and overseas classes through the Melikian Scholars Award program, the Project GO ROTC training program, and ASU Tatar language travel grants.
All CLI participants may apply for overseas study support through ASU’s International Distinguished Engagement Award program.

DEADLINE:
Application deadline: March 2, 2012.

CONTACT:
For more information, see: http://cli.asu.edu or email cli@asu.edu.