Monthly Archives: April 2010

Conference and Call for Papers: The Teaching Russian Conference, University of Victoria, July 22-23; Deadline for Proposals: May 20

Published on April 26, 2010 by No comments

The Teaching Russian Conference is a small, friendly conference targeted at sharing innovative ideas for the Russian language, literature and culture classroom.  It is hosted annually at the scenic University of Victoria (Canada).  Please join us July 22-23 2010.  Teachers of Russian at the university and secondary levels are invited to submit proposals.

The TEACHING RUSSIAN CONFERENCE

July 22-23, 2010

(Thursday – Friday)

University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia

CALL FOR PAPERS

Due to the success of last year’s conference, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria invites proposals for individual papers, panels and round-table discussions on the theme of “Teaching Russian”.

Topics of special interest include, but are not limited to: innovative curriculum development and pedagogical techniques in teaching Russian language, literature and/or culture; dealing effectively with heritage-speaker communities; implementing travel/study abroad programs; teaching Russian at the secondary level; choosing appropriate teaching tools at the introductory/intermediate/advanced level (textbooks and computer-assisted language learning); innovative language technologies; growing and maintaining healthy Russian programs.

Website: http://russconf.uvic.ca (All forms for submitting proposals are available on the website)

Deadline for proposals:  20 May 2010. Notification of the Program Committee’s decisions will be sent out by June 1, 2010.

For all questions, please contact Megan Swift (maswift@uvic.ca) (250.721.7504)

Abstract specifications:

To apply for participation in the conference, please fill out the respective forms (CV and individual paper proposal form; roundtable proposal form and/or panel proposal form), which are available on our website: http://russconf.uvic.ca.   Abstracts should not exceed 400 words. Please use MS Word for Windows and Times New Roman or MS Word for Apple and TimesCE or pure Unicode text. Make sure to use the Library of Congress transliteration system to render words in a Cyrillic alphabet. Your abstract should present a research question and outline your plan for investigating this scholarly problem. Each abstract will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Abstracts sent by attachment may be emailed to Megan Swift (maswift@uvic.ca).  If electronic submission is not possible, send hard copies of your proposal to:

Megan Swift, Assistant Professor
Department of Germanic and Russian Studies
University of Victoria
PO Box 3045 STN CSC, Victoria BC.
V8W 3P4 Canada.

Tel. 250.721.7504
Fax 250.721.7319

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Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES), University of Bologna; Deadline: May 17

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Two-year Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe (MIREES)–University of Bologna

This programme was launched some years ago by the University of Bologna, Italy together with the Vytautas Magnus University at Kaunas, Corvinus University of Budapest and St Petersburg State University, who awards a joint diploma. The University of Ljubljana is an associate partner that offers additional mobility for students.

The programme is taught entirely in English (120 ECTS) and MIREES students will spend the first year in Forlì (one of the five campuses of the University of Bologna), while in the second year a minimum of 5 months will be spent at Partner Universities (including Ljubljana) and, in particular cases, at other MIREES Associated Universities in the Balkans. A mobility grant is offered to all enrolled students.

More detailed information on the teaching plan and the Faculty, together with the application form, can be found at our web site:http://www.mirees.unibo.it/.

The programme is especially recommended for prospective PhD students. Our best alumni are currently attending doctorate programmes at the Universities of Oxford, Kent, the New School in New York and other prestigious international academic institutions. Moreover, the programme is designed to forge analysts, area experts, consultants and mediators, to meet the needs of research institutes, the European Commission, international agencies, voluntary organizations and NGO’s, public administration, managers, corporations and banks located in East-Central Europe and the Balkans or promoting investments in these regions. Most of our alumni have found employment precisely in these fields.

The MIREES programme offers specialized, in-depth knowledge of the post-socialist countries in transition, the new EU member states, and the new East-European neighbour countries to students with a BA in Economics, Politics, International Relations, History, Languages (and Slavic languages in particular), agricultural studies and cultural studies generally.

The programme aims at developing language skills. MIREES offers courses in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian, and Slovak (Hungarian and Lithuanian are also available in the 2nd year), as well as Italian for foreigners as an additional option. The curriculum stresses on interdisciplinary studies in the economics of transition; politics and international relations; history and cultural studies focused on Central, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The international dimension of the programme is enhanced through student mobility, by an international faculty composed of prominent scholars of international repute, and a genuinely international student body. (In the previous cycles we enrolled students from 21 countries including the US, Mexico, Russia, Georgia, Estonia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, Germany, United Kingdom, Turkey, Albania, Poland, Armenia, Norway, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, Slovak Republic, Finland and, of course, Italy.)

Should you need further information, please feel free to contact the Tutor of the course at facscpol-fo.tutormirees@unibo.itor the Faculty Student Office (info.spfo@unibo.it, phone +39.0543.374100).

Deadline for applications: May 17, 2010

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“The Kurds and the Armenian Genocide: Rethinking the Link Between Culpability and Ethnicity,” Dr. Janet Klein (University of Akron), April 29

Published on April 26, 2010 by No comments

The Armenian Students Association invites you to a lecture in commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide:

“The Kurds and the Armenian Genocide: Rethinking the Link
Between Culpability and Ethnicity”

By Dr. Janet Klein
Assistant Professor of History at the University of Akron

Thursday April 29th 6 PM
Harper 130 (1116 E. 59th Street)

A light meal will be available, discussion to follow.

For more information contact:
Christopher Sheklian
sheklian@uchicago.edu

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Slavic Colloquium: “Evgenii Cherviakov and The Poetics of Early Soviet Cinema,” Petr Bagrov, April 27

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Slavic Colloquium: “Evgenii Cherviakov and The Poetics of Early Soviet Cinema”

Petr Bagrov

Time: Tuesday, April 27 4:30pm
Location: Cobb 310 (5811 S. Ellis Ave)

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QUALIA Conference, University of Chicago, April 30 to May 1, 2010

Published on April 19, 2010 by No comments

*Qualia: Anthropological Explorations in the Experience of Quality*
Anthropology Department, University of Chicago, April 30 & May 1, 2010
Organizers: Nicholas Harkness & Lily Hope Chumley

Nancy D. Munn’s pioneering ethnography, _The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society_, was a seminal contribution to the anthropology of qualities and their cultural valuation. Drawing on Charles S. Peirce’s concept of the “qualisign,” Munn showed how the structured experience of valuable qualities in the Gawan lived world figured as signs in rituals of exchange, processes of value transformation, and the production and expansion of “intersubjective spacetime.” This conference builds on Munn’s ethnographic and analytical insights to explore recent areas of interest in the anthropology of qualitative experience, such as the senses, materiality, language, embodiment, aesthetics, and affect.

We broaden the theoretical field by introducing Peirce’s more general term, “qualia” (sing. “quale”), which refers to what people understand to be the experiences of qualities of things and events in their world. Using this concept, the papers in this conference link Munn’s pioneering work to more recent anthropological research by investigating the orientation to and valorization of qualia in differently scaled, diverse, and sometimes geographically dispersed social formations. Papers in the conference address topics as diverse as synaesthesia, language and transnational communication, pulse-taking, stage performance, diamonds, and mobility to understand how qualia figure in the production and maintenance of contemporary social relations — such as intimacies and hierarchies, communities and publics.

Schedule and further details at: lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/semiotics/qualia/ For more information, contact Nicholas Harkness (hark@uchicago.edu)

In Brief:

Key Note Lecture, Nancy D. Munn, Friday, April 30, 3:00 pm, Stuart 105

Conference Sessions Saturday, May 1, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm  Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall

Faculty Presentations: Yarimar Bonilla (U Virginia), Judith Farquhar, Susan Gal, Joseph Hankins (UCSD), Daniel Miller (University College London)
Alaina Lemon (University of Michigan), Michael Silverstein

Graduate Student Presentations: Filipe Calvao, Lily Hope Chumley, Nicholas Harkness, Shunuke Nozawa, Laurence Ralph, Jonathan Rosa, Eitan Wilf

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Music|Race|Empire Conference at the Franke Institute, April 21

Published on April 19, 2010 by No comments

Music | Race | Empire

The symposium will afford an opportunity to flesh out the overarching theme of music in the racial and imperial imagination. The organizers seek to widen the perspective of world cultural studies and to advance a new, critical focus on music’s centrality in the transnational production of race.

Time: Wednesday, April 21 2:00 to 5:30pm
Location: Franke Institute for the Humanities (in the Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th Street)

Those needing assistance should contact Jessica Sparks (jessicas@uchicago.edu)

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Poetry Reading: Matvei Yankelevich and Barry Schwabsky at Myopic Books, April 25

Published on April 19, 2010 by No comments

Writer/poet Matvei Yankelevich will be in Chicago on April 25 to read from his new book, “Boris by the Sea,” and from a new (unpublished) long poem.

Time: Sunday, April 25 7:00pm
Location: Myopic Books (1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue)

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/matvei.yankelevich#!/event.php?eid=110347525668979&ref=mf

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CALPER Summer Workshops 2010 (Language Instruction), Penn State July 12-17

Published on April 19, 2010 by No comments
Dear Colleagues,
campus housing for our summer workshops is open now. All relevant information, including the Penn State campus housing reservation form, has been posted at the workshop site online
We hope that you will be able to participate in our exciting workshop week!
Best regards,
Gabriela Appel
2010 Summer Workshops

July 12 – 14 – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
9:00am – noon
WS1: Language Focused Tasks for Communicative and Content-based Classrooms
Presenter: Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania
WS2: Making the Most of a Corpus
Presenter: Mike McCarthy, University of Nottingham and CALPER
WS3: Meeting the Challenges of Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language Learners
Presenter: Karen Johnson, Penn State
1:30pm-4:30pm
WS4: Developing Content-based Thematic Units to Enhance Curricula
Presenter: Heather Hendry, University of Pittsburgh
WS5: Tracking Language Development with Learner Corpora
Presenter: Xiaofei Lu, Penn State
July 15 – 17 – Thursday, Friday, Saturday
9:00am – noon
WS6: Language and Culture
Presenter: Jim Lantolf, Penn State
WS7: Assessment for Learning in the L2 Classroom
Presenter: Matt Poehner, Penn State
WS8: Grammar Meaning a Grammar of Meanings: Teaching Concepts in the Foreign Language Classroom
Presenter: Eduardo Negueruela, University of Miami
1:30pm – 4:30pm
WS9: Discourse Analysis and L2 Teaching
Presenter: Susan Strauss, Penn State
WS10: Using E-Portfolios in Language Teaching
Presenters: Meredith Doran and Glenn Johnson, Penn State
One registration fee for the whole week:
EARLY BIRD extended until June 1, 2010 = $150
Regular after June 1, 2010 = $200
All relevant information is on our workshop site online.
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Arizona State University Critical Language Institute: Tuition-free Summer Programs, Deadline: May 15

Published on April 19, 2010 by One comment

***UPDATE***
The Arizona State University Critical Languages Institute is pleased to
announce scholarships for its summer intensive courses and study-abroad
programs in MACEDONIAN, POLISH, ALBANIAN, ARMENIAN. Additional funding
is available for students at the intermediate level and above.
***UPDATE***

The Arizona State University Critical Languages Institute is accepting
applications on a rolling-admissions basis for the following programs:

8-WEEK 8-CREDIT INTENSIVE PROGRAMS AT ASU: June 1 — July 23:
Albanian (100, 200, and Advanced Mastery levels)
Armenian (100 & 200 levels)
Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian (100 & 200 levels)
Modern Hebrew (100 level)
Macedonian (100 & 200 levels)
Persian (200 level)
Polish (100 level)
Uzbek (100, 200, & 300 levels)
Yiddish (100 level)

3-WEEK 2-CREDIT STUDY-ABROAD PROGRAMS: July 26 — August 13:
Tirana — Albanian
Yerevan — Armenian
Sarajevo — Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
Ohrid — Macedonian

TUITION FREE: For all participants

FULL & PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS: Available for Albanian, Armenian,
Macedonian

DEADLINE: Rolling admissions until May 15.

DETAILS: http://cli.asu.edu

CONTACT:  cli@asu.edu

PROGRAM UPDATES: http://www.facebook.com/asucli

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Travel Grants and Fellowships for UofC Students Interested in Language Study/Research in France, Deadline: April 30

Published on April 19, 2010 by No comments

The France Chicago Center is now accepting applications for travel grants and fellowships for University of Chicago students who seek to conduct research or pursue intensive language study in France.  The application deadline is April 30, 2010.

François Furet Travel Grants:  Five (5) $1500 awards
Eligibility: University of Chicago undergraduate, graduate, or professional school students
Purpose: To defray travel expenses associated with undertaking a short-term research project or conducting intensive advanced language study in France

Summer Research fellowship Fellowship: One (1) $4000 award
Eligibility: Graduate Students in the Divisions of the Social Sciences or the Humanities, Students in the Harris School, and the Divinity School
Purpose: To support dissertation and pre-dissertation research in France for a period of 2-3 months

Sciences Po Exchange Fellowship::  One (1) $13,000 award
Eligibility: Advanced U of C graduate and professional school students in disciplines represented by the host university
Purpose: To support doctoral research at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) for a period of 6 to 9 months. Exchange fellows also have the opportunity to propose a course, taught in English, to be given at Sciences Po during fellowship tenure. If accepted, a teaching salary will be added to the stipend.

Applications and application guidelines are available online at http://fcc.uchicago.edu/fellowships.

Questions should be directed to Dan Bertsche at fcc@uchicago.edu or 773-702-3662.

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