CREEES Professional Resources Forum
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
“New Area Studies” is a new journal with lots of fresh approaches to area studies. NAS is a peer-reviewed, open-source journal housed at the University of East Anglia. Articles in NAS connect the local, regional, and global in their innovative investigations of space, place, and community.
Check out volume 1, number 1 here: https://newareastudies.com/
The Summer Language Institute (www.sli.pitt.edu) at the University of Pittsburgh is proud to announce that we are accepting applications for summer 2021. At this time, we are planning to hold 2021 programming on-campus in Pittsburgh, but we are also excited to accommodate prospective students who elect to participate online, synchronously.
Arabic (Beginning and Intermediate)
Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, and 4th-year)
Bulgarian (Beginning)
Czech (Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced)
Hungarian (Beginning)
Polish (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, and 4th-year)
Russian (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, and 4th-year)
Slovak (Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced)
Turkish (Beginning)
Ukrainian (Beginning)
For specific on program offerings, dates, and links to our applications, visit: www.sli.pitt.edu
Continue reading “SLI Summer 2021 Intensive Language Programs (University of Pittsburgh)”There will be three full days of translation workshops, and day four will be devoted to professional and networking sessions and includes discussion panels with editors and publishers and a practical talk on how to write a reader’s report. A highlight will be a presentation of Comma Press’s translation book list and business model, together with a translation competition offer. The winning entrant(s) will be offered a publication opportunity with Comma.
Directors Amanda Hopkinson & Ros Schwartz plus stellar line-up of tutors.
11 languages: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.
Keynote talk by George Szirtes, a translation competition run by Comma Press and panel sessions with publishers and editors.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/translation-studies/bristol-translates
online courses being offered by a new nonprofit initiative, Borderlines Open School for Advanced Cross-Cultural Studies. These courses are open to anyone with interest in the topic, including the general public, undergraduate/graduate students, and teachers and professors.
Below are just a few of the online courses offered in Winter/Spring 2021 that may be of particular interest to members of SEELANGS. Most courses are seminar-style, and are capped at 20 students.
Science Fiction with Deep Philosophical Issues (from Eastern Europe and Russia)
Instructor: Sibelan Forrester
Sundays 3–5pm ET, January 10–31, 2021
https://borderlinesopenschool.org/courses/p/sf
Poetry Translation Masterclass: Theory, Problems, Practice
Instructor: Rebecca Ruth Gould
Fridays 5–7pm ET, January 15–February 5, 2021
https://borderlinesopenschool.org/courses/p/translation
Continue reading “Courses at Borderlines Open School for Advanced Cross-Cultural Studies”Second Language Research & Practice (SLRP), an open refereed journal of the AAUSC addressing postsecondary language education from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. Its first annual volume was published last week – check it out: http://www.slrpjournal.org/
Continue reading “Resource: Second Language Research & Practice Journal”The new issue of Language Learning & Technology (Volume 24, Number 3) is now available at https://www.lltjournal.org
Please visit the LL&T website and be sure to sign up to receive your free subscription if you have not already done so.
Also, we welcome your contributions for future issues. If you have questions about this process or wish to submit a manuscript, please check our guidelines for submission at https://www.lltjournal.org/submission-guidelines/.
“The Russian Hour” is a weekly free event for learners of Russian as a foreign language at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UT-Austin. Hosted by Dr. Marina Alexandrova and the Texas Slavic Club, “The Russian Hour” in designed to help improve students’ listening and speaking skills while discussing various relevant topics, including politics, culture, history, health, art, education, and business with native speakers of Russian. For inquiries, email therussianhour@gmail.com.
To view the schedule and get the meeting link, visit: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/events/the-russian-hour.php
Despite all the indications to the contrary, many of the most important Russian archives are open and worth investigating.
The goal of The Bridge is to illuminate archival sources and disseminate information about collections that are available (in-person and online) for use by students and young experts in the field. Research based on original source material is of paramount importance to moving the field of Russian Studies forward. Some highlights of this project include how to access critical archives such as RGANI, GARF, and the Foreign Ministry archives; tips on how to access archival material in regional archives that may be off-limits in Moscow; and how to access a variety of archival material online from the comfort of your own home or office.
Continue reading “Resource: The Bridge: Connecting Past and Present Through Archival Research on Russia (Middlebury Institute of International Relations)”Info Sessions for IR/Global Studies
Join SRAS for a series of information sessions aimed at students in IR/Global Studies and a range of related fields – security, terrorism, diplomacy, peace, business, and more. In the general sessions we discuss “Building the International Resume” and look at the non-traditional locations offered by SRAS. In thei Special Topic Info Session series, the hosts of the programs abroad will do a short talk on a relevant topic, followed by an opportunity for Q&A and discussion with SRAS alumni. Check it out!
Начинаем! Getting Started with Russian
When: 4 meetings + asynchronous work
Cost: $99
What: Looking to “sample” Russian and determine whether it is the language for you? This is a no stress, no test way for you to familiarize yourself with a language that may look intimidating on the surface, but is so rewarding to learn. Our colleagues in Kyiv (morning/early afternoon/Saturday) and Irkutsk (evenings) are ready to introduce the Russian language and convince you that you can and should do it – whether taking a course at your home institution, online, or abroad!