Slavic Studies Librarianship

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:41:00 +0000

К чествованию 190-летия со дня рождения Ф.М. Достоевского

Комиссия по литературе иинтеллектуальной культуре Франции

Кафедра романских языков иперевода Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета экономики и финансов

Коллоквиум по русско-французским исследованиям

Французская идея Достоевского/ L’Invention française de Dostoïevski

в Москательном переулке, д. 4 (метро «Сенная») - Гуманитарный факультет СПбГУЭФ

11 ноября 2011 года 10.00-16.30

Приглашаются все заинтересованные лица, при себе иметь удостоверение личности, чтобы зарегистрироваться на вахте

Кафедра романских языков и перевода Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета экономики и финансов в партнерстве с Кафедрой истории зарубежных литератур Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета, Кафедрой зарубежной литературы Российского государственного университета им. А.И. Герцена и Институтом русской литературы РАН (Пушкинский Дом) проводят

11 ноября

Коллоквиум по русско-французским исследованиям

Французская идея Достоевского/ L’Invention française de Dostoïevski

10.00. Открытие коллоквиума. Вступительное слово инициатора проекта С.Л. Фокина.

1-е заседание

10.10.- 10.40. Д.В. Токарев, д.ф.н., ведущий научный сотрудник Института русской литературы РАН (Пушкинский дом), проф. СПбГУЭФ.

"А на эту картину я люблю смотреть": визуальное восприятие и нарративная репрезентация картины Г. Гольбейна-младшего "Мертвый Христос" у Достоевского.

10.40.-11.10. Ариас-Вихиль М. А., к.ф.н., ст.н.с. Института мировой литературы им. А.М. Горького РАН, преподаватель кафедры истории зарубежной литературы филологического факультета МГУ им. М.В. Ломоносова.

Достоевский как судьба "русской идеи" (по материалам переписки Р.Роллана и М. Горького, 1916-1936).

11.10.-11.40. Власов С.В. к.ф.н. зав. каф. французского языка Филологического факультета СПбГУ.

Некоторые наблюдения над переводом Анри Монго "Братьев Карамазовых" Ф. М. Достоевского.

11.40.– 12.10. Лукьянец И.В., д.ф.н. профессор кафедры истории зарубежных литератур СПбГУ.

Зрелище смертной казни у Ж.Руссо и у Ф.М. Достоевского (от воображаемого к реальности).

12.10. – 12.20. Дискуссия.

12.20. – 13.00. Обед в «Столовой» на улице Садовой.

2-заседание

13.00. -13.30. Двинятин Ф. Н. , к.ф.н. доцент Филологического факультета СПбГУ, доцент Факультета свободных искусств и наук.

Ряд комментариев к теме «Достоевский и Франция».

13.30– 14.00. Волчек О.Е., старший преподаватель Факультета свободных искусств и наук СПбГУ.

Французский язык в повести Ф.М. Достоевского «Село Степанчиково и его обитатели».

14.00– 14.30. Степанова М.А., аспирантка кафедры зарубежной литературы РГПУ им. А.И. Герцена.

Крушение идеи в «Преступлении и наказании» Достоевского и «Ученике» П. Бурже.

14.30.-14.45. Кофе пауза

14.45. -15. 10. Алташина В. Д., д.ф.н., профессор кафедры зарубежной литературы РГПУ им. А.И. Герцена

Паскаль и Достоевский: избирательное сродство.

15. 10. -15.40. Носов С.А., петербургский писатель и драматург.

Поцелуй Раскольникова, или Подарок из Франции.

15.40 – 16.05. Фокин С.Л. , зав. кафедрой романских языков и перевода СПбГУЭФ, профессор Факультета свободных искусств и наук СПбГУ.

Достоевский и Бодлер: соответствия и совпадения.

16.05. – 16.15. Дискуссия и кофе-пауза.

16.15.-16. 45. Презентация книги С.Л. Фокина «Пассажи: Этюды о Бодлере».

Ожидается участие переводчика В.Е. Лапицкого, философа В.В. Савчука, филолога Д.В. Токарева, поэта-переводчика М. Д. Яснова

Закрытие коллоквиума

Source: Professor Serguie Oushakine, Princeton University

Iabloko Party Election Materials in languages of Russia

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:30:00 +0000

I am not fond of discussing political issues on this blog for several reasons. First, these discussions sound like of those pundits who always are talking in round table on CNN or other channels and getting paid for talking, consoling, predicting and analyzing various situations before these happen. Of course, here I am not endorsing any particular view or not endorsing any Russian political party. I found the following news very interesting.

I just came across a news on the Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty's site about the Russian Political Party entitled Iabloko providing materials in different languages of Russia. It is interesting to see that there are two languages that I know something about- Azerbaijani and Armenian and these are both included in the list of languages that Iabloko provides materials in.

Please see below: Source: Iabloko's Official Website

Can someone point out to me what are the official languages of the Russian Federation? And isn't it obvious that Russia always demanded changes or is it appropriate to state that the Russians are demanding changes? The slogan is almost catchy but where does it leads to is the question?

"Платформа на языках России
Россия требует перемен
Россия үзгәрешләр таләп итә!
Рәсәй үҙгәрештәр талап итә!
Россиялы кулэ воштӥськонъёс!
Россиялъе хIажат буго хиса-баси
Россиясь веши полавтомат!
Россе хувцамаш 1еш!
Россияс т1едожо хийцамаш хилитар!
Уæрæсе домы ивддзинæдтæ
России ондоо болохо ёhотой!
Россий вашталтышым ышташ пеҥгыдын йодеш!
Арассыыйа уларыйыыны туруорсар!
Россием зэхъуэкIыныгъэхэр къегъэув!
Rusiya dəyişiklik tələb edir!
Ռուսաստանը պահանջում է փոփոխություններ

Happy Eid al-Adha-Qurban Bayram Mubarak Olsun

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:46:00 +0000

I do not consider myself to be religious but I respect my readers and their religious views. This congratulatory note is written on November 6, 2011 when the Qurban Bayram starts in Turkic World. The world of Central Asia that I have fallen in love with.

Qurban Bayram Mubarak Olsun!

إِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ كَانَ أُمَّةً قَانِتًا لِلّهِ حَنِيفًا وَلَمْ يَكُ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ
شَاكِرًا لِّأَنْعُمِهِ اجْتَبَاهُ وَهَدَاهُ إِلَى صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ
Qur'an 16:120-121

Hebrews 11:17-19

New International Version (NIV)

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, ¹⁸ even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”^[a] ¹⁹ Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.

ם 24:3 Hebrew OT: Westminster Leningrad Codexמִֽי־יַעֲלֶ֥ה בְהַר־יְהוָ֑ה וּמִי־יָ֝קוּם בִּמְקֹ֥ום קָדְשֹֽׁו׃
תהילים 24:3 Hebrew OT: WLC (Consonants Only)מי־יעלה בהר־יהוה ומי־יקום במקום קדשו׃
תהילים 24:3 Paleo-Hebrew OT: WLC (Font Required)מי־יעלה בהר־יהוה ומי־יקום במקום קדשו׃
תהילים 24:3 Hebrew Bible

UNESCO launched Global Open Access Portal

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:47:00 +0000

UNESCO launched Global Open Access Portal

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) [http://www.unesco.org/ci/goap], aiming at presenting a top level view of Open Access to scientific information, was launched at a special side event organized during the36th session of the UNESCO General Conference, on Tuesday 1 November 2011, at Paris Headquarters.

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world.

For countries that have been more successful in implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early stages of Open Access development, the portal identifies key players, potential barriers and opportunities.

The portal has country reports from over 148 countries with weblinks to over 2000 initiatives/projects in Member States. The portal is supported by an existing Community of Practice (CoP) on Open Access on the WSIS Knowledge Communities Platform that has over 1400 members.

The GOAP is a knowledge portal that has the following features:

Country-wise distilled knowledge on the status of Open Access
Key organizations engaged in OA in Member States
Thematic focus areas of OA
Important publications on OA coming from different regions of the world
Critical assessment of major barriers to OA in each country
Potential of OA in UNESCO Member States
Funding and deposit mandates
Links to OA initiatives in the world

The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP), launched together with the revamped Open Training Platform (OTP) and the first UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform, provides the information for policy-makers to learn about the global OA environment and to view their country’s status, and understand where and why Open Access has been most successful.

Development of the Global Open Access Portal has been made possible with support received from the Governments of Columbia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States. This GOAP will be a work in progress, and shall be further improved with the support received from the community of OA practitioners.

Open Access is at the heart of UNESCO’s mandate to provide universal access to information and knowledge, and the UNESCO Open Access programme shall continue to facilitate policy dialogue in Member States, share knowledge and best practices in the field of Open Access, and build and share local capacities through North-South and South-South co-operation to build knowledge societies for sustainable development.

Source: UNESCO

A LibGuide dedicated to Mikhail Bulgakov is created.

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:46:00 +0000

At Princeton University Library, for our faculty members and students, I have created a prototype of library guide on LibGuides platform for Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. The guide can be accessed here.

"Report to Congress on U.S.-India Security Cooperation"

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:44:00 +0000

Pentagon released yesterday an interesting report. The title of this report is "Report to Congress on U.S.-India Security Cooperation". The text of this report is available in PDF format and it can be accessed here.

"LITERATURE AND EMPIRE IN RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION." Panels at the ASEEES in Washington, DC, November 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:00:00 +0000

"LITERATURE AND EMPIRE IN RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION."

The panels will take place at the ASEEES Conference in Washington D.C. in /BLUE ROOM PRE-FUNCTION/.

PANEL 4:03:*Peripheral Identities *(Friday 11/18, 8-9:45 a.m.)
Chair: Anne Lounsbery, New York University
1.Catherine O'Neil, United States Naval Academy
"Alexander Chavchavadze and Alexander Griboedov: the Dilemmas of Georgian Nationalism in the Russian Empire."
2.Harsha Ram, University of California (Berkeley)
"Imagined Community: The Georgian Intelligentsia between Nation and Empire."
3.Kathryn Schild, Tulane University
"Pushkin in the Periphery: The 1937 Jubilee as a Survival Strategy for Soviet Azerbaijani Writers"
Discussants: Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan
Olga Maiorova, University of Michigan

PANEL 5:03: *Lyric Geographies *(Friday, 11/18, 10-11:45 a.m.)
Chair: Edyta Bojanowska, Rutgers University
1.Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University
"Tracking Modernism with the Tools of Empire: The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Russian Lyric Imagination"
2.Katharine Holt, Columbia University
"Nikolai Tikhonov and Central Asia: Imperial Poetics of the Serapion 'SovietKipling'"
3.Sanna Turoma, University of Helsinki, Finland
/"Imperiia/ Re/constructed: Imaginary Geographies in the 1960s Soviet Poetry and Prose"
Discussant: Irina Shevelenko, University of Wisconsin

PANEL 6:03: *Imperial Modernities *(Friday, 11/18, 2-3:45 p.m.)
Chair: Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers University
1.Anne Dwyer, Pomona College
"How to Be Traveler? Viktor Shklovsky's Imperial Self-Fashioning after /A Sentimental Journey/"
2.Tatiana Filimonova, Northwestern University
"Boris Pilniak's Eurasian Empire"
3.Jeffrey Brooks, The John Hopkins University
"At Home and Away from Home: Soviet Fiction and Empire in the 1920s and 30s"
Discussant: Harsha Ram, University of California (Berkeley)

PANEL 9:03: *Colonial Models *(Saturday, 11/19, 10-11:45 a.m.)
Chair: Kathryn Schild, Tulane University
1.Anna Aydinyan, Yale University
"Griboedov's Project of the Russian Transcaucasian Company and the Western European Debates on Colonial Management"
2.Edyta Bojanowska, Rutgers University
"Chekhov's /The Duel/, or How to Colonize Responsibly"
3.Edith W. Clowes, University of Kansas
"Pelevin's Satires of Economic Colonialism in the Global Marketplace"
Discussant: Vitaly Chernetsky, Miami University

Source:
Edyta Bojanowska
Assistant Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
Dept. of Germanic, Russian, and East European Languages and Literatures
Rutgers University, 195 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, ph: (732)932-7201, fax: (732) 932-1111
http://german.rutgers.edu/faculty/profiles/bojanowska.htm

Russian Art Related Web-Sites

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:41:00 +0000

Russian Avant-Garde Art
Entsiklopediia Futurizma: Project Self-Description: "
About the project

FUTURISM.RU has arisen in 2002 as the independent, non-profit project of group of art critics and curators infatuated by Russian and international avant-guard art. The project purpose was a creation of the virtual encyclopaedia of Russian, Italian and others Futurisms. At the first stage there have been created the pages devoted to leading representatives of Russian literary and art futurism, as David Burljuk, Natalia Goncharova, Elena Guro, Vasily Kamensky, Alexey Kruchenykh, Mikhail Larionov, Mikhail Le-Dantju, Mikhail Matyushin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Olga Rozanova and Velemir Khlebnikov. The basic manifestos of Russian futurism have been published: The Slap in the face to public taste (1912), The Corf of judges (1913), The Word as such (1913), The Pipe of Martians (1916), The Declaration of abstruse language (1921).

FBI Records: The Vault

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:26:00 +0000

FBI Records: The Vault
The Site Self-description is as follows, "The Vault is our new electronic reading room, containing more than 3,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office.
Included here are many new files that have been released to the public but never added to this website; dozens of records previously posted on our site but removed as requests diminished; files from our previous electronic reading room, and new, previously unreleased files.
The Vault can be searched here.

Job Posting: University of Pittsburgh, Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:28:00 +0000

University of Pittsburgh, Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at theUniversity of Pittsburgh invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position with a specialization in nineteenth-century Russian literature to begin in August 2010, pending budgetary approval. Ph.D. is required at the time of appointment. Native or near-native (or ACTFL superior-level) proficiency in English and Russian required. In addition to undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in Russian literature, the position may require teaching Russian language at all levels (including content-based advanced courses) and general-education literature and culture courses in English (both large lecture-based courses and smaller discussion-oriented ones). Expertise in a second Slavic language and literature is desirable. Applicants must demonstrate a strong interest and experience in teaching and promise of significant scholarly achievement. Candidates should arrange to submit a letter of application, CV, three confidential letters of recommendation (which should address both scholarship and teaching), representative student teaching evaluations, representative syllabi, and samples of scholarly writing (the length of one or two journal articles) by surface mail to:

Russian Literature Search Committee

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

1417 Cathedral of Learning

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Questions may be directed to Ms. Christine Metil, Department Administrator (metil@pitt.edu, 1-412-624-5906).

Review of applications will begin on October 15 and continue until the position is filled. Preliminary interviews will be held in Boston during the AAASS conference (November 12-15) and Philadelphia during the AATSEEL conference (December 27-30).

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:11:00 +0000

The Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program brings emerging leaders in key professional fields from Eurasia to the United States for one to two years of graduate study at institutions across the United States.

For full information, see: http://www.irex.org/project/edmund-s-muskie-graduate-fellowship-program

The 2012 Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship application is due on November 2.

For application information, see: http://www.irex.org/application/edmund-s-muskie-graduate-fellowship-pr ogram-application

Source:
Amy Bernath Program Coordinator Education Programs Division
IREX
2121 K St. NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20037
Phone: (202) 628-8188 ext. 154 Fax: (202) 628-8189

CFP: «Японское культурное влияние и молодежные солидарности на постсоветском пространстве»

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:43:00 +0000

CFP: «Японское культурное влияние и молодежные солидарности на постсоветском пространстве»

Дата проведения семинара: 5-6 декабря 2011 года. Место проведения семинара: Центр молодежных исследований, НИУ ВШЭ – Санкт-Петербург. Семинар проводится при поддержке Фонда Академического Развития НИУ ВШЭ в Санкт-Петербурге.

Центр молодежных исследований НИУ ВШЭ в Санкт-Петербурге при участии коллег из Гарвардского Университета проводит семинар, на котором планируется обсудить исследовательские проблемы, теорию и методологию изучения японского культурного влияния, прежде всего аниме-культур, на молодежные практики и солидарности в постсоветских странах.

Цель данного междисциплинарного семинара — создание международной сети исследователей, работающих по данной тематике; обсуждение актуальной теории и методологии изучения популяризации японской музыки, театра, кино, спорта, аниме, литературы и т.п. в молодежной среде на постсоветском пространстве.

К участию приглашаются как начинающие, так и опытные исследователи, работающие по данной проблематике. Рабочие языки – русский и английский. Если Вы не можете участвовать в семинаре, но заинтересованы в сотрудничестве, будем рады включить Вас в сеть исследователей, интересующихся вышеобозначенной темой, и в дальнейшем информировать о наших активностях, в том числе и о планируемых новых семинарах, конференциях и прооектах.

У организаторов семинара в отдельных случаях есть возможность частичного покрытия расходов на проживание и проезд участников семинара. Заявки на участие в семинаре направлять по адресу: youth.hse.spb@gmail.com

до 13 ноября 2011 года. В заявке нужно указать: Ф.И.О., звание, место работы, должность, контактные e-mail и телефоны, мотивацию участия в семинаре, необходимость в финансовой поддержке, а также приложить 1 страничку тезисов выступления.

Source: Professor Serguei Oushakine

ARCHITECTURE AND MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES Journal from Moscow

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:08:00 +0000

ARCHITECTURE AND MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC SCIENTIFIC - EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGICAL AND EDUCATIONAL-METHODICAL ASPECTS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AND DESIGNING WITH THE USAGE OF VIDEO AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES is published by MARKHI (The Moscow Architectural Institute), Moscow, Russian Federation. The ISSN Number for this journal is 1998-4839.

This open access journal can be retrieved here.

The journal archive is up to year 2007.

The Gender Library (Open-Access) of the Center of the Gender Studies of the European Humanities University.

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:19:00 +0000

Gendernaia Biblioteka: Proekt Tsentra gendernykh issledovanii Evropeiskogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta.

http://library.gender-ehu.org/hms/unilister.php?show=articles&reset=1&expand=813,

English synopsis: This portal is entitled The Gender Library (here gender is used as an adjective). This project-site is maintained by the Center of Gender Studies of the European University of Humanities in Russian Federation. It is based on OPEN-ACCESS model and this virtual library allows its users to access and download several articles of relevance on gender studies.

The main landing page of the project can be accessed here: http://library.gender-ehu.org/hms/home.php?expand=29,

Site's Self-Description as it appears on its landing page: Добро пожаловать в общедоступную Гендерную Библиотеку! Здесь собраны тексты по "гендерным исследованиям." За последнее полтора десятилетия на русском языке был опубликован значительный корпус текстов по гендерным исследованиям, под которыми понимается как самостоятельная область, так и отдельные направления в традиционных дисциплинах. Многие из этих текстов, однако, появились в малотиражных, специальных или труднодоступных изданиях, поэтому основной целью Библиотеки является сбор и популяризация работ, связанных с проблематикой пола. Все материалы получены создателями библиотеки из открытых источников. Мы стремимся получить согласие на размещение текстов у всех авторов или правообладателей, но готовы убрать из открытого доступа материалы в случае получения обоснованных требований законных правообладателей. Мы надеемся, что пользователи сайта будут уважительно относиться к авторским правам на размещенные материалы.

Some web-sites for Russian Silver-Age Literature

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:30:00 +0000

There are several web based resources that I found useful when I started to read more about the Russian Silver Age Literature. These websites provided me with basic information and interesting reading suggestions that I believe my readers would also find interesting. Of course, I am not responsible for the contents on these suggested websites. Please make up your own mind about the utility of information that is contained within them. These websites are enumerated below.

Литературные течения: Сербряный Век.

The Silver Age of Russian Culture

Поэты «Серебряного века»

Andrei Belyi Library Guide at Princeton

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:21:00 +0000

Dear Readers,

I would really like to get your feedback on a library guide that I have just created. The guide is dedicated to works of Russian author Andrei Belyi.Thank you so much in advance.

Karmazinskie Stipendii Announcement

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:49:00 +0000

http://www.hrc.ane.ru/tenders/

Центр Гуманитарных Исследований РАНХ и ГС и Фонд Михаила Прохорова объявляют конкурс на соискание Карамзинских стипендий:

Конкурс продлится до 31 октября Карамзинские стипендии предоставляются для проведения исследований в рамках коллективных научных проектов, реализуемых в Центре гуманитарных исследований (ЦГИ). Стипендии предназначены для молодых исследователей – кандидатов наук (или PhD), готовящих к публикации книгу, или аспирантов, завершающих работу над кандидатской диссертацией.

Темы исследовательских проектов ЦГИ 2012 года:

Русский язык как глобальный ресурс и новые технологии.

Научно-техническая интеллигенция в историко-культурной перспективе: формирование среды, мировоззрения и трудовой этики.

Опыт урегулирования межнациональных конфликтов после мировых войн (Кавказ).

Становление Российского государства раннего Нового времени: налоговое измерение.

Стипендия включаетежемесячную выплату в размере до 60 000 рублей, в зависимости от квалификации исследователя, характера и объема выполняемой работы, а также места постоянного проживания; компенсацию дорожных расходов (одна поездка в Москву от места проживания и обратно); компенсацию расходов на копирование материалов в библиотеках и архивах (по согласованию с руководителем проекта) и др.

Стипендия предоставляется на 6 месяцев с 1 января 2012 года с правом однократного продления при условии успешной работы над проектом. Подробнее об условиях участия в конкурсе, требованиях к кандидатам, необходимых документах и процедуре их рассмотрения можно узнать на сайте ЦГИ.
Source: Professor Oushakine. Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

Soviet Era Posters at Princeton University

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:23:00 +0000

This morning, when I was doing a survey of our Russian collections, I discovered that at Princeton University Library, we do have an excellent collection of early Children's books from Russia (part of Cotsen Children's Library. Besides this collection, I discovered that we have an excellent collection of Soviet era posters. Some of these posters are digitized and can be accessed here.

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:56:00 +0000

Re-Defining Byzantium: Art and Thought in the Byzantine World

Although not directly related to Slavic Studies, I want to bring to the attention of my readers an important conference at Princeton University on Byzantine Art. The program of this two day conference can be found here.

I was lucky to hear papers of several specialists including an innovative paper of Dr. Jelena Trkulja of Princeton University that was entitled, "Experiencing Faith: Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture Revisited".

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:22:00 +0000

Call for Papers- The Silk Road: Interwoven History

ACANSRS (Association for Central Asian Civilizations & Silk Road Studies) invites scholars/researchers of Central Asia to submit your recent research papers for our annual publication 2012, tentatively tiled "The Silk Road: Interwoven History". The topics of the prospective articles could be in the fields of religion, art, archaeology, anthropology, musicology, philology, and history of the regions involved with the Silk Road trade. Please send us a brief summary of your possible article for the contribution by e-mail before the submission of the full article.

Tentative title of the multi-author publication 2012: The Silk Road: Interwoven History

1) Length: about 5000-9000 words (15 30 book pages) double spaced/typed including footnotes and bibliography (1-2 pages).

2) Submission deadline: Dec 30, 2011 (both in pdf and Word doc files by e-mail attachment to editor@acansrs.org in addition to two hard copies sent to us)

3) Diacritic fonts and foreign languages such as Chinese can be included to a limited extent (Please consult the editor).

Please go to ACANSRS website (Our Publication/Style Sheet) for more details here.
Mariko Walter, Ph.D Director Association for Central Asian Civilizations & Silk Road Studies Third Floor, College House, 1430 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Source: Posted by: Mariko Walter

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:15:00 +0000

WHAT WAS THE SOVIET UNION? LOOKING BACK AT THE BREZHNEV YEARS

Wesleyan University October 20-21, 2011.
The conference administrator is Gloria Gdovin (; fax no. 860 685 3002).
Thursday October 20. Public lecture by Stephen Kotkin, 8.00-9.30 pm in Public Affairs Center 001
Friday October 21. POLITICS Friday October 20, 9.00-10.30 Chair Peter Rutland (Wesleyan) Martin Dimitrov (Dartmouth) “Tracking public opinion under authoritarianism: The case of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin.” Mark Kramer (Harvard) “Soviet national security affairs and policymaking during the Brezhnev era.” Eric McGlinchey (George Mason) “Central Asia under Brezhnev.” Nikolai Mitrokhin (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, Bremen) “The KPSS Central Committee Apparatus, 1970-85: functions in the Soviet political system and the staff.” Discussant: Valerie Sperling (Clark) POLITICAL ECONOMY Friday October 20, 11.00-12.30 Chair James McGuire (Wesleyan) Cindy Buckley (SSRC) “Population and health under Brezhnev: A harbinger of things to come?” Linda Cooke (Brown) “The Soviet social contract revisited: Critiques, re-considerations, consequences for post-communism.” Vladimir Kontorovich (Haverford) “What was the Soviet economy?” Joachim Zweynert (Hamburg) “The Soviet economy of the Brezhnev years through the lens of contemporary Soviet economists.” Vitaly Naishul “The Brezhnev administrative market and its follow-ups.” Discussant Peter Rutland (Wesleyan) SOCIETY Friday, October 20, 1.30-3.00 Chair Phil Pomper (Wesleyan) Kate Brown (U of Maryland, Baltimore) “‘We had everything’: socialism in one (closed) city.” Lauren Mccarthy (U Mass Amherst) “Law and informal practices in the Soviet Union.” Serguei Oushakine (Princeton) “Against the Cult of Things": Crimes of Late Soviet Consumption.” Doug Rogers (Yale) “Nostalgia for Stagnation? Post-Soviet Villagers Recall Rural Socialism.” Discussant Ethan Pollock (Brown) CULTURE Friday October 20, 3.30-5.00: Chair Paul Bushkovitch (Yale) Yitzhak Brudny (Hebrew University) “Russian nationalism.” Christine Evans (U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) “Television and political authority under Brezhnev.” Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock (Wesleyan) “The meaning of life and the problem of indifference: The spiritual crisis of late Soviet Communism”” Sergei Zhuk (Ball State) “Detente, mass culture from the West, ‘disco mafia’ and Russification of Soviet Ukraine during the Brezhnev era.” Discussant Justine Buck Quijada (Wesleyan) Source: Dr. Serguei Oushakine http://d-princetonian.livejournal.com/251348.html#cutid1

Lev Kuleshov Guide at Princeton

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:26:00 +0000

I have created a guide on Лев Влади́мирович Кулешо́в (1899—1970) — советский кинорежиссёр, теоретик кино. Народный артист РСФСР. This guide can be accessed here.

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:32:00 +0000

I have created a library guide that provides access to various primary resources on Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Russia and Central Asia. This guide is work in progress, and I would love your feedback. Some of the contents of this guide is proxy protected. The guide can be accessed here.

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:30:00 +0000

In Memoriam: Steve Jobs Obituary
His achievements and obituary can be accessed here.

Daniil Kharms Library Guide Created at Princeton!

noreply@blogger.com (Liladhar Pendse) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:45:00 +0000

I have created a concise guide that would help our students who are researching Daniil Kharms.