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Inaugural Session of Share Language, Culture, Life (Crossroads Eurasia)

Event Date: October 25, 2020

Join a conversation with your Russian peers

Please join us for the inaugural session of Share Language, Culture, Life – a new series of moderated online conversations through which you can learn what your Russian peers think on current cultural topics.  

In our first session, we will talk about Russian social media influencers – who they are, how they relate to their audiences, and how they are similar or different to those popular in the West. We will hear the perspective from students in Russia about how they and their friends relate to influencers and compare experiences between the West and Russia.

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Resource: Practice your Russian with Film Hour/Book Club

Film Hour 

Join Evgenia Wilkins at the University of Texas at Austin for an hour-long Zoom session every other week to watch and discuss clips from contemporary Russian films, commercials, and shorts. Practice your listening and speaking skills, get ideas about the films to watch later, and learn Russian set phrases. All levels are welcome! 

Book Club: Russian Short Stories 

Every other week we will meet for 1 hour over zoom to discuss Russian short stories of the XX century in Russian. Read the story ahead of time and bring one question for the discussion to the meeting. You could also sit in on any of the meetings. We will clarify the language, talk about the characters and the plot. Readers of all levels are welcome!

See the events page for meeting details/reading lists

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Resource: Language Learning and Pedagogy Podcasts

  1. “Ракета” (https://russianrocket.libsyn.com): podcast for students in the Novice High – Intermediate Mid range of proficiency with short weekly recordings of native speakers talking about themselves, their families, hobbies etc.
    The transcripts of the recordings are available here: https://bit.ly/2VvrRvP
  2. Foreign Language Pedagogy Podcast (https://teachrussian.libsyn.com): interviews with colleagues around the world where we discuss various issues and topics related to teaching Russian and foreign languages in general. 
    Recently, podcast host Izolda Savenkova and her guests discussed new trends in teaching bilingual kids, teaching the language of mass media, positive lessons from teaching during the pandemic, games in language classroom and many other topics. 
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Resource: The Corpus of Russian Translations Website

The website presents samples of original texts alongside their Russian translations. The comparison helps one not only to see the translator’s method and principles, but also to get an idea of how Russian readers understood and interpreted European political treatises throughout the “long” eighteenth century.

The website also provides a context for the key political concepts that entered the Russian language at the time. When the different contexts of a certain concept are put in chronological order, it will be possible to see how political terms changed their meaning, in other words, how the language and the semantics of Russian political culture evolved.

The database will provide scholars with a basis for further research in the history of language and political thought in Russia and will allow researchers and lovers of history to expand their understanding of the political discourse of eighteenth-century Russia.

https://krp.dhi-moskau.org/en/about

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Free Virtual Russian Pronunciation Master Class

Kimberly DiMattia will be offering a free virtual Master Class in Russian Pronunciation this fall based on her textbook Unlocking Russian Pronunciation (which can be found at: https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/unlocking-russian-pronunciation-supplementary-multimedia-mini-course-phonetics-based-famous). The course is open to students at all levels of Russian as well as to instructors who would like to observe Dr. DiMattia’s method in action and apply it to their own teaching!

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Resource: Online Library Initiative

The Working Group for Solidarity in REEES, an ASEEES affiliate group, announces their new Online Library initiative. Their goal is to support research during this period of physical distancing, when many libraries are closed and inter-library loans are often not possible, by making resources available to fellow scholars in need.
To that end, they are launching a mailing list dedicated to sharing resources. If you are looking for a book or article that is not available at your library, or if you are able to share some of your resources with those who need them, please consider joining the list. You will be able to send and receive emails about requests for sources, as well as receive occasional updates on initiatives that we are carrying out in collaboration with other institutions, such as the Slavic Reference Service at UIUC.


To sign up for the mailing list, please email: wg-online-library+subscribe@googlegroups.com


On their website, you can also find a list of existing online libraries and archives that can help you continue your research during the pandemic.

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Resource: Integrated Performance Assessments (National Foreign Language Resource Center)

Integrated Performance Assessments is a seven-episode podcast produced by the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and hosted by Nicole Naditz (2015 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year). Interviewees include leading language educators speaking on the following topics: 

  1. Intro to Performance Assessments (Paul Sandrock)
  2. Performance Assessments: Presentational mode (Lynn Fulton)
  3. Performance Assessments: Interpersonal mode, pt. 1 (Iman Hashem)
  4. Performance Assessments: Interpersonal mode, pt. 2 (Ying Jin)
  5. Performance Assessments: Interpretive mode (Margaret Malone)
  6. Integrated Performance Assessments: Theoretical Considerations (Francis Troyan)
  7. Putting Integrated Performance Assessments Into Practice (Lisa Shepard)

Check them out at https://soundcloud.com/nflrc/sets/integrated-performance

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Translation and Interpreting Studies Program (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Deadline: August 2020

 Translation and Interpreting Studies program (UWM TIS).

Due to stringent and immediate budget cuts imposed by our administration, the Russian to English track is “likely to be suspended for the foreseeable future” (read: cancelled) unless more students enroll in the 3-credit-hour Introductory Russian to English Translation Workshop *this fall*. I have been informed that our admin is aware of the value of TIS, of Russian expertise, etc.; still, something must go in order for the department to comply with system-wide financial measures, so this Russian translation seminar is on the chopping block unless enrollment increases enough to make the course profitable. 

If you or someone you know might be interested in Russian to English translation, please reach out to Anne Fisher at fisherao AT uwm DOT edu so she can expedite your UWM application and free 2-hour online qualifying exam.

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Online Language/Translation Courses and Workshops from SRAS

Deadline: (varies) August 15 – September 25, 2020

Full courses  

·         Perspectives on US-Russia Relations (3 US Credits)
2020 has provided us with many opportunities to look at the world from varying perspectives, to consider the rise of globalism and its effects, and to evaluate the relationships between countries. In this course, we examine the US-Russia relationship in depth. Students will also virtually tour St. Petersburg and Moscow. 

·         Central Asian Studies (3 US Credits)
This 10-week course provides an overview of the political, socio-economic as well as the historical and religious dimensions of the Central Asian countries of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Lectures will be combined with virtual workshops in crafts, cooking, and yurt building as well as virtual tours of Bishkek, Almaty, and Bukhara. 

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