Pecob: news about central eastern Europe and the Balkan countries

Pecob: news about central eastern Europe and the Balkan countries: "Portal on Central Eastern and Balkan Europe"

The Portal aims to provide experts, scholars and interested users with scientific content on the region. This content covers Politics, Economics, Society, Culture, History, Agricultural and the Media coming from or focusing on the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine.

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:

http://www.reeec.illinois.edu/srl/

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.

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/.

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."

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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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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

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