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”