Job: Summer Language Institute (Pittsburgh, PA)

The Summer Language Institute (SLI) at the University of Pittsburgh is accepting applications for language instructors for summer 2019 (and for consideration for subsequent summers) in the following languages:

Bulgarian | Hungarian | Russian | Slovak | Turkish

The 2019 program dates for instructors are June 1-July 12 (Bulgarian, Hungarian, Slovak) and June 1-July 26 (Russian, Turkish).

SLI is seeking energetic teachers who can thrive in an intensive program and who have experience in proficiency-based instructional approaches. Applicants should also be enthusiastic about engaging with students in cultural programming involving music, films, cooking, etc. which comprises a part of the SLI educational experience.

Interested applicants should send a CV, representative student evaluations (if available), and a representative syllabus to:

Kathleen Manukyan, Managing Director, SLI

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

University of Pittsburgh

manukyan1@pitt.edu

412-624-5711

January 9, 2019January 10, 2019

Study Abroad: Alternative Spring Break Programs (Russia)

Application Deadline December 1, 2019

(www.serendipity-russia.com/edex.html).

VLADIMIR (first week in March): Help several community organizations, including the Youth Health and Education Center, Karl Liebnicht Orphanage, Russian Orthodox Church, Handicapped Children’s Association “Light”, Vladimir Regional Veterans’ Home and others, while interacting with Russian university students and experiencing the delight and wonder of provincial Russia.

MUROM (second week in March): Help university students at the Murom Institute (an affiliate of Vladimir State University) to improve their English language skills; prepare audio and video materials for their English language program. During the Soviet period Murom was a closed city. Today it remains isolated from traditional tourist routes. Foreign language faculty and students are eager for contact with native English speakers.

January 9, 2019May 30, 2019

Study Abroad: Intensive Russian Program (Russia)

Deadline to Apply: Accepted All Year

(www.serendipity-russia.com/studyrussian.html)

Approximate program fee: one-to-one instruction group instruction (2-5+ people, 15-35% discount)

Four weeks $3,651 $2,994 – 2,254

Six weeks $5,009 $4,133 – 3,044

Eight weeks $6,367 $5,272 – 3,834

Longer and shorter programs, from one week to a year, are also possible. Continue reading “Study Abroad: Intensive Russian Program (Russia)”

January 9, 2019January 10, 2019

Study Abroad: Vanderbilt University’s Maymester (Russia)

Deadline January 27, 2019

(https://www.vanderbilt.edu/summer/maysession/russ-2210.pdf)

The program includes community service, lectures on topics being explored by student-participants (politics, economics, sociology, culture, history, art, etc.), Russian language lessons, interaction with Russian university students, excursions to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and provincial towns, home stays, and opportunities for reflection.

“…any expectations I could possibly have had were surpassed. …I participated in a culture without being a tourist…and spent [time] outside of my carefully constructed comfort zone. The experience was nothing short of changing my worldview.” (Vanderbilt University student)

January 9, 2019January 10, 2019

Job: American English Program Teaching Positions (Moscow)

Deadline March 1, 2019

(www.serendipity-russia.com/teach.html)

The American English Program has been helping Vladimir residents to learn English since 1992 and currently has more than 600 students each semester who are taught by 10 American and 4 Russian teachers.

PROGRAM BENEFITS: monthly stipend, room and board with a Russian family, three hours per week of one-to-one Russian lessons with experienced instructors, thoroughteacher orientation and ongoing teaching support from 2 full-time teacher supervisors, textbooks customized specifically for our program, a pleasant and well-equipped teaching environment, full Russian visa application support, complete on-site administrative support from an excellent Russian staff, and much more.

TEACHER OBLIGATIONS: Plan and teach four (possibly 5) 1½ hour classes that meet twice a week, hold office hours, present a brief “Saturday lecture” on any aspect of American culture, airfare to and from Moscow, visa fee, obtain TESOL certification.

Gain an enormous amount of real-world experience that can translate into opportunities that would otherwise not be available. Some teachers stay for more than one year. For many, the experience is life-changing.

January 8, 2019January 14, 2019

Study Abroad: Russian Language/Math (Moscow)

Deadline: April 15, 2019

HSE International Summer University https://www.hse.ru/international/summer in Moscow, REU in math https://math.hse.ru/en/reu and Russian language intensive course https://www.hse.ru/en/rfl/intensive are accepting applications. The Summer U. or REU can be combined with courses of Russian language on various levels, starting from beginners. All courses are taught in English. More courses in various fields, including Russian studies are available via the Summer University website https://www.hse.ru/international/summer

Summer is a great time in Moscow, when there is a lot of sun, weather is rather cool and it will not interfere with the regular studies. Participants can choose to stay up to two months or just two weeks, according to their interest, schedule and travel plans. Students from all over the globe live in HSE affordable and safe dorms and enjoy various activities together.

Continue reading “Study Abroad: Russian Language/Math (Moscow)”

January 8, 2019January 11, 2019

Language Training: Intensive Language Programs | Summer 2019 (Russia, Kazakhstan)

Deadline: February 15, 2019

American Councils Study Abroad is accepting applications for Summer 2019 programs! We are excited to offer the following programs for the Summer 2019 term:

Intensive language programs:

Advanced Russian Language & Area Studies Program (RLASP)

RLASP offers participants the unique opportunity to study Russian language and area studies in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir or Almaty, Kazakhstan while pursuing volunteer opportunities, internships, and cultural interests in an overseas immersion setting. (Language prerequisite: two semesters of Russian) Continue reading “Language Training: Intensive Language Programs | Summer 2019 (Russia, Kazakhstan)”

January 8, 2019January 14, 2019

Study Abroad: Russian Language Summer School (Yerevan, Armenia)

Application deadline: April 20, 2019

7 July 2019 – 27 July or 17 August 2019 | Yerevan, Armenia

https://armacad.info/aspirantum-armenian-school-of-languages-and-cultures–2018-12-10–russian-language-summer-school-2019-yerevan-armenia

ASPIRANTUM Armenian School of Languages and Cultures in Yerevan organizes International Russian Language Summer School in Yerevan, Armenia to take place from July 07 to August 17 (6 weeks) or July 07 to July 27 (3 weeks), 2019.

This 42 or 21 days summer school offers participants to master skills in written and oral modern Russian, reading and interpreting Russian texts from different periods as well as rapidly deepening their knowledge in colloquial Russian.

During the summer school several cultural trips will be offered, which will transform your stay in Armenia into an unforgettable, academically oriented endeavour.

On the first day (July 07, Sunday) the program will be launched in Garni, built by king Tiridates I in the first century AD as a temple to the god Mithra/Mihr. In the evening the group will travel to Yerevan for an opening dinner.

Classes will start on July 8th and will include lectures, seminars and presentations.

This Russian Language Summer School is designed for students, at least 18 years-old, who not only want to make well-grounded progress in their knowledge of the Russian language, but also to deepen their knowledge of Russian Studies and Armenia.

The 6 weeks summer schools offers an intensive Russian language course spanning 120 hours, divided into 30 days of instruction and focusing on grammar, reading, speaking, and writing.

The 3 weeks summer schools offers an intensive Russian language course spanning 60 hours, divided into 15 days of instruction and focusing on grammar, reading, speaking, and writing.

Our courses are open to anyone with upper elementary (knowledge of alphabet, some reading and knowledge of basic grammar concepts) or intermediate knowledge of the Russian language. The lectures are organized with the academic interests of the participants in mind to ensure that BA, MA, PhD students as well as post-docs and professors who work in Russian Studies and relevant fields can benefit from it.

Lectures will be held in Russian and/or English.

Our teachers of Russian is a native speaker who has several years’ experience in teaching Russian as a foreign language.

For more details please visit: https://armacad.info/aspirantum-armenian-school-of-languages-and-cultures–2018-12-10–russian-language-summer-school-2019-yerevan-armenia

January 8, 2019January 14, 2019

CFP: Przekładaniec Journal of Translation Studies (Krakow)

Deadline: January 30, 2019

Poetry Translation East-West by Zakhar Ishov and Michał Mrugalski

Poetry translation is perpetually enveloped in a paradox: on the one hand, “poetry is what gets lost in translation” (Frost 1995, Croce 1926, Jakobson 1959); on the other, practiced since antiquity, poetry translation has been universally a major moving force behind cultural transfer (Highet 1957, Steiner 1975: 251, Venclova 1979).

In this special themed issue of Przekładaniec we will consider the cultural history, theory and practice of poetry translation in the Slavic context, especially the transfer between Slavic literatures and languages and Western ones. This space is fraught with tensions and contrasts, but sometimes also with parallels and overlaps from grammatical to prosodic ones, from cultural to political, etc. etc. The dichotomy of translatability-untranslatability implies a continuous “accretion of meaning in the process of translational transformations” (Lotman 1990: 3). Each poetic “rewriting” (Lefevre 1992) of texts presupposes an equivalent rewriting of theories as well (Flotow 2000; Munday 2007; Venuti 2013). Therefore, we invite proposals that deal not only with Western-Slavic practices of poetry translation, but also Slavic translation theories. Continue reading “CFP: Przekładaniec Journal of Translation Studies (Krakow)”

January 8, 2019January 14, 2019

CFP: Wisconsin Slavic Conference

Deadline: January 21, 2019

Wisconsin Slavic Conference | March 29-30, 2019

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Abstracts for 20-minute presentations on any aspect of Slavic literatures, cultures (including film, music, and the visual arts), linguistics, and history are invited for the annual Wisconsin Slavic Conference (formerly AATSEEL-Wisconsin). Comparative topics and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome and encouraged! The conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Friday and Saturday, March 29th and 30th, 2019.

A recent conference program for reference is available here. Continue reading “CFP: Wisconsin Slavic Conference”