Summer School at UW-Ukrainian Language

The Intensive Summer Language Program at the University of Washington
offers a nine-week course in Beginning Ukrainian from June 20 - August 19, 2011.
 It is open to non-UW students registering through the UW Summer Quarter.
Credits: 15
Tuition / Fees: $8,402 (non-res undergraduates); $8,222 (non-resident graduate)
Classes: Daily 1:10-4:30 PM

For more information visit our website:
http://depts.washington.edu/slavweb/academics/summer-language-intensives

Contact: _slavicll@uw.edu_ (mailto:slavicll@uw.edu)  ; 206-543-6848
Source:
Maria G. Rewakowicz, Ph.D.
Visiting Lecturer,
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Washington
(mailto:mrewakow@uw.edu)

NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship at University of Virginia Library

Over the past two years, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library has hosted an Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. Today we're pleased to announce the launch of "Spatial Humanities," a community-driven resource for place-based digital scholarship:
http://spatial.scholarslab.org
This site responds to needs identified in conversation with our 21 Institute faculty members and 56 participants (humanities scholars, software developers, and map & GIS librarians). It includes:
* an evolving, crowd sourced catalog of research resources, projects, and organizations;
* a set of framing essays on the spatial turn across the disciplines by Dr. Jo Guldi of the Harvard Society of Fellows;
* GIS-related feeds from Q&A sites and other forms of social media;
* and a peer-reviewed, occasional publication for step-by-step tutorials in spatial tools and methods.
Please help us keep this resource current by contributing to it! You can:
* use Zotero to freely upload research citations, projects, and links to groups;
* contribute your own tutorials and help sheets in Step By Step format for peer review and formal publication;
* ask related questions and offer help on DH Answers or the GIS Stack Exchange;
* and post your commentary on the essays we have shared.
Learn more about our NEH Institute:
http://spatial.scholarslab.org/about
and about how you can contribute to the "Spatial Humanities" site:
http://spatial.scholarhslab.org/contribute
With thanks to the NEH, the staff of the Scholars? Lab, our Institute advisory board and faculty, and the scores of Institute participants and fellows who helped to define the project,
Source:
Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D
Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library
Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute
Vice President, Association for Computers & the Humanities
http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab
http://uvasci.org/
http://ach.org/

In Memoriam: Актер и режиссер Михаил Козаков

23 апреля 2011

Россия потеряла еще одного великого актера — Михаила Козакова

МОСКВА, 23 апр — РИА Новости. Актер и режиссер Михаил Козаков, которого многие запомнят как просто великого человека без уточнения профессии, настолько многогранен был его талант, скончался в пятницу в Тель-Авиве на 77-м году жизни после долгой и тяжелой болезни. Читать дальше

MOSFILM ONLINE CINEMA IS OPEN! (Free Online Movies)

Popular Soviet and Russian films for free viewing.


Site's Self-description:

Golden collection of Mosfilm Studios comprises unique works of Soviet and Russian cinematography which are reflections of the times when they were created. Now the good news is that to anyone in any part of the world the best of Soviet and Russian films are available for free online viewing in the showing rooms of our online cinema.

Every day in the two showing rooms of our round-the-clock cinema we offer free online presentation of the pictures from Mosfilm Cinema Concern archive. Every week the playbill of the showing rooms is changed. Free movies online from the famous Mosfilm Studios in good quality, watching favourite old Soviet comedies at convenient time is simple.

We offer for viewing and downloading a wide range of films from one of the best studios of the Russian cinematography.

Free viewing online at any time any picture from Mosfilm cinema website catalogue which interests you.

For just USD 2.30 you can download a movie you fancy.

Happy Easter! Happy Pesach! Wesołych Świąt Wielkanocnych! Wesołego Alleluja! Szczęśliwej Wielkanocy!

Dear Readers,


Now the time has come to inform you that I will be leaving my current position at UCLA Library and I will be moving to New Jersey after 21 years in Los Angeles. I have accepted a curatorial position at Princeton University Library. My area of responsibilities will be Eastern Europe and Eurasia as well as Slavic Studies.

I will be not posting for the next two weeks as I prepare to move to the colder East Coast. I am very grateful to my supervisors at UCLA and UCLA Library Administration for always providing me with various opportunities to excel. Thank you!


I am looking forward to joining Princeton University soon. Please send me your good thoughts and wishes..Happy Holidays to you!

“Constructing the «Soviet»? Political Consciousness, Every day Practices, New Identities” Conference Proceedings Online

2011: "Constructing the «Soviet»? Political Consciousness, Every day Practices, New Identities" Conference Proceedings are published by European University at St. Petersburg. This publication can be downloaded in its PDF format here.

Source: Gleb J. Albert

BGHS, Bielefeld University, Germany

Трансформации русской классики or Transformations of Russian Classics

Трансформации русской классики or Tranformations of Russian Classics is a quite an exciting project. Its goals can be translated as follows, "The project aims to create an electronic database, which houses the library the most important texts on the subject, reference materials, media monitoring and reviews of recent scientific publications on this issue, as well as the work of project participants and other researchers dedicated to the analysis of the main directions of transformation of Russian classics in domestic and foreign Russian philology.


The project provides access to (whether open-access or not can be debated) various Russian language publications of encyclopedic nature. These publications can be downloaded as PDF files. These are as follows:
История русской литературы - т. 4 (1983)
Большая Энциклопедия под ред. С.Н. Южакова
Энциклопедический словарь Гранат - Русская литература
Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона - Русская литература

I am not so sure about what type of intellectual property rights related license is being used by the moderators at this site or blog. This particular site is moderator by a well-known Russian Philolog Professor Esaulov.

IntraText Digital Library and Polish, Romanian, Slovak, and Slovene Religious and Literary Texts through the Creative Commons License Online

IntraText is a Full-text Digital Library that offers books and corpora as lexical hypertexts under the stipulations of the Creative Commons License. The Library remains committed to accuracy, accessibility and touch-oriented cognitive ergonomics. What motivated me to use this library is its ever-growing collection of Polish, Slovak and Slovenian Literary Texts.

I especially enjoyed the section on Romanian Literature. The site-map makes this library much easier to navigate.

The site's self-description is below as found here: "

1. It is a full-text online library managed by experts, that publishes works with scientific accuracy
   
2. It includes books, periodicals, complete works, and archives.
   
3. It cooperates with outstanding religious and research institutes and organisations.
   
4. It offers high editorial quality through a user-friendly interface with browsing and search functions
   
5. It adopts scientific criteria and garantees the respect of the contents, which is as reliable as in a printed edition.
   
6. It adopts specific solutions to facilitate access and provide a barrier-free environment
   
7. It is compliant with the strictest international standards. It gained high ratings for easy accessibility, as well as many other awards.
   
8. It publishes religious, philosophical, literary, and scientific texts in more than 40 languages
   It is updated on a regular basis. Special attention is given to Endangered and Minority Languages.
   
9. It provides customizable sections where it is possible to publish texts and complete works at low cost
   
   It processes texts converting them into XML according to international standards, such as the TEI. It publishes for free within research activities.
   
10. It offers highly accessible editorial products, both on the Internet and on CDs
    
11. It is based on the IntraText lexical hypertext, where text and concordances are linked together. Other formats are also available.
    
12. It offers scientific consulting and high-profile designing in the implementation of editorial works E.g.: works written by the founders of religious institutes, text collections, archives, etc. It adopts XML conversion for archiving and future use.
    
13. It presents a global solution to implement and maintain large XML-based digital libraries
    
14. It offers organizational, editorial and technical solutions for a reliable and cost-effective service, from digitalization to online access."--
    http://www.intratext.com/info/InfoEdENG.htm
    

    
     

Open Access to Digitized Rare Books from Swiss Libraries’ Collections

The e-rara.ch platform makes digitized rare books from Swiss libraries available to the public, free of charge. The present focus is on 16th century Swiss prints. Material on other subjects can be found under the heading Further collections. Detailed information about the project is available on the page About e-rara.ch.

The page Latest additions show the present status of the project. Here all digitized titles are shown in the order of their online publication.

You can subscribe to the list of new acquisitions as a RSS Feed.

The site can be accessed at http://www.e-rara.ch/

In Memoriam: For Belarus Metro Terrorist Attack Victims

I never would have thought that the ter-akt can happen in peace-loving Belarus. I have lived and learned from Belorussian friends about peace, humility and forgiveness during some of the most interesting years of my life in Minsk. I personally condemn the attack on the peaceful citizens of Belarus. May God bless their families.

Взрыв в минском метро

11.04.2011 21:23

11 апреля в 17.56 на станции метро «Октябрьская» произошел взрыв

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Call for Proposals from AATSEEL

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) will be held in Seattle, Washington, Jan. 5-8, 2012. The first deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to Apr. 30, 2011. The second and final deadline for submission of proposals is July 1, 2011. For information about this meeting and details about submission procedures, please see the Call for Papers at: http://www.aatseel.org/cfp_main
The Program Committee invites scholars in our area to submit panel or individual proposals that can be posted on the AATSEEL website. Last year, we added an option to submit fully-formed panel proposals with a single-paragraph description. Descriptions of individual papers for such panels do not need to be submitted until after the panel is accepted. At that point, they will be due Sept. 30, 2011. The Program Committee will find appropriate panel placements for all accepted individual proposals. We also encourage proposals for other sessions, such as roundtables, forums, poster presentations, and
workshops.
To submit a proposal, you must be an AATSEEL member in good standing for 2011-12, or request a waiver of membership from the Chair of the Program Committee (burry.7@osu.edu). For information on AATSEEL membership, details on conference participation, and guidelines for preparing proposals, please follow the links from AATSEEL's homepage:
Proposals must be submitted at: http://www.aatseel.org/cfp_menu Please contact Dianna Murphy (diannamurphy@wisc.edu) or Alexander Burry (burry.7@osu.edu) if you experience any difficulties or have questions about the online submission system.

Please share this information with other colleagues in the field who may not be AATSEEL members.
Source:
Alexander Burry
Chair, AATSEEL Program Committee
--------------
Alexander Burry
Associate Professor, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
400 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus OH 43210
Email: burry.7@osu.edu

Slovenian Digital Library/ Digitalna knjižnica Slovenije

Digitalna knjižnica Slovenije has the following mission statement as extracted from its site:
Building, development and management of digital collections, following user needs, existing legislation and standards, in co-operation with various strategic partners from the fields of culture, science, education and economy;

Provision of open and free access to digital content, including the development of tools to use it;

Promoting the digital library as infrastructure to education and research http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifprocess, lifelong learning of the population, and a feature of democracy with unprecedented access to digital information fohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifr all users, regardless of who they are and of location they wish to access the information from.

Long-term preservation of the national cultural heritage in digital form by http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifmaintaining and developing a trusted digital repository / digital archive;

Provision of information resources, information and services for the needs of the development of the information society and to foster the socio-economic development of Slovenia.


It has a subject classification online and it is also named the thematic browser of the Slovenian Digital Library.

The site provides full-text access to several historical Slovenian periodicals such as Pavliha, and newspapers like Amtsblatt zur Laibacher Zeitung

Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) project Second Phase Completed

The University of Michigan Library is pleased to announce the release of 4,180 texts from the second phase of its Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) project.  The Text Creation Partnership produced these texts in collaboration with ProQuest, and they are available immediately to EEBO-TCP Phase II partners.

The entire EEBO-TCP archive is now available at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/where anyone may search, browse, and explore the corpus.  Access to the full text of EEBO-TCP digital editions is restricted to partner institutions for a limited period -about 10 years from their initial release - as per TCP's agreement with ProQuest.  However, all TCP-created titles will eventually enter the public domain, and will be freely available to scholars, researchers, and readers everywhere, in keeping with the University of Michigan Library's commitment to the creation of open access cultural heritage
archives.

The TCP is still accepting new library partners for EEBO-TCP Phase II. Partners jointly fund the creation of new texts, and so have a direct impact on the success of the project. The production of new texts is ongoing, and semi-annual updates will be made to the corpus over the course of the project.

In its first phase, EEBO-TCP produced 25,355 texts, and its second phase aims to create transcriptions of each unique text remaining in ProQuest's EEBO database, adding 44,000 more books to the EEBO-TCP
archive.  The creation of accurately keyed, searchable, standards-compliant digital editions from scanned images of centuries-old books is a boon to students and scholars.  These early printed books cannot be accurately captured by optical character recognition (OCR) software, and therefore require individual keying and encoding.

Since 1999, the TCP, consisting of staff at the University of Michigan and the University of Oxford, has collaborated with scholars, commercial publishers, and university libraries to produce scholar-ready (that is, TEI-compliant, SGML/XML enhanced) text editions of works from digital image collections, including EEBO, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) from Gale, and Evans Early American Imprint from Readex.

More than 125 libraries participate in the TCP, as does the Joint Information Systems (JISC), which represents many British libraries and educational institutions.

To learn more about the Text Creation Partnership, visit www.lib.umich.edu/tcp.  Questions, comments, and inquiries may be directed to Ari Friedlander, Outreach Coordinator, at tcp-info@umich.edu.

One Year Visiting Lecturer or Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian

The Department of Russian at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA invites applications for a one-year, non renewable full time position as Visiting Lecturer or Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian. Start date: July 1, 2011.
Qualifications:

PhD by the time of appointment preferred, ABD considered.

Native or near native fluency in English and Russian.

We expect scholarly commitment, relevant experience in, and a strong dedication to teaching Russian language and culture at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum.

Expertise in Russian literature, preferably 19th or 20th century Russian novel is required. 

The ideal candidate should exhibit a willingness to participate creatively in the many functions of the department, such as the Russian Club, the Russian film series, and the Russian table. Teaching load is five courses per year.
For full consideration, applicants should submit an electronic cover letter, CV, and three letters of recommendation by April 15, 2011 through https://jobs.dickinson.edu.

Source:
Alyssa DeBlasio
Assistant Professor of Russian
Dickinson College
PO Box 1773
Carlisle, PA 17013
(717) 245-1766

Digital Library of Polish and Poland-Related News Pamphlets from 16th thorugh 18th centuries.

Site Self-description: "The digital library of Polish ephemeral prints from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries contains all of the surviving prints described in scientific publications. The list was compiled on the basis of Konrad's Zawadzki's work: “Gazety ulotne polskie i Polski dotyczące od XVI-XVIII wieku” which comprises about 2,500 bilbiographical entries.

The database allows searches according to multiple criteria, including those normally used in bibliographical descriptions (mostly borrowed from K. Zawadzki), as well as those less typical: thematic, genre-related and others. Prints relating to the same facts are hyperlinked, especially those that are most likely or certainly translations from other texts available in the library. In addition, some of the prints are described from historical, linguistic and media history perspectives.

The repository is located on the server of the Institute of Journalism of the University of Warsaw. Any comments related to its functioning should be sent to: cbdu@redakcjapdf.pl."


The site can be accessed here.


The earliest pamphletes are from 1501. I was able to search by the place of publication/provenance. I found only one pamphlet(?) from Moscow entitled, "Reliacija o połtawskiey bitwie" but it was not available for access online. However, I was able to access other documents without any problem on line. The reader would need Djvu plug-in

Mapping Petersburg Project of Professor Olga Matich of UC Berkeley

Mapping Petersburg is an interesting online project that was created under the directorship of Professor Olga Matich of UC Berkeley. The project's self http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifdescription is as follows, http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif"Current projects: http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifPetersburg/Petersburg: Novel and City 1900 - 1921 (to appear in 2010) and related website titled Mapping Petersburg (http://petersburg.berkeley.edu/index.html) which maps the material, political, and artistic culture of the city at the beginning of the 20th century. This is a collaborative project with a group of current and former Berkeley graduate students in Russian literature and Russian history. Also: clouds in the visual arts and literature; negative emotions in Russian literature."


The project is quite interesting as it maps various events such as the funeral of the Alexander Blok and its itinerary. The Postcards from Petersburg: the city through tourist's eye show various monuments on the map

The project has certain similarities with the project entitled, "Hypermedia Berlin at UCLA".

Ottoman Periodicals Online Project

Beyazıt State Library (İstanbul) and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies started an important project to digitalize the holdings of the library.

"As is well known, the Hakkı Tarık Us Collection is one of the best private collections of books and periodicals. After Mr. Hakkı Tarık Us (1889-1956) passed away, an independent library was founded within the Sibyan Mektebi of the Beyazıt comlex to keep the collection, which was managed by a newly founded vakıf. For many years, this library was visited by numerous researchers and readers. Yet, in order to ease its administration, in 2003, it was decided that the library should be transferred to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and, consequently, began to be kept in the Beyazıt State Library. During its preservation at this library, the Center for Documentation and Area-Transcultural Studies of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies proposed a joint project with the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, for the preservation and utilization of the Hakkı Tarık Us Collection. With the signing ceremony on August 25, 2003, the "Project for Preservation and Digitization of Periodicals in the Hakkı Tarık Us Collection" was started. After an interruption between 2007 and 2009, the project was continued within the framework of the "Research and Educational Project of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies" at the same university, before being completed as a whole in March 2010."

 

You can download available titles and issues either page by page or as a group. The project is still ongoing and you might not happy to see that your beloved journal/newspaper is not digitized yet. But do not worry they are adding new journals and newspapers. So do not forget to visit the portal frequently.

Web portal - http://www.tufs.ac.jp/common/fs/asw/tur/htu/

Source:

Mesut Uyar, Ph.D.

Turkish Military Academy

http://kho-akademik.academia.edu/MesutUyar

JOURNAL/CFP- Deadline Extended: Central Asian Mountain Societies in Transition

CFP: Mountain Research & Development theme issue: "Central Asian Mountain Societies in Transition" - DEADLINE EXTENDED

Mountain societies in Central Asia have experienced systemic economic, political and environmental changes and have demonstrated varying degrees of resilience and capacities to transition.  Because of these changes, Central Asian mountain societies--including the Altai, Tien Shan, Alai, Pamir, Hindu Kush, Karakorum, and western Himalayas—face exacerbated and, in some cases, unique development challenges as well as accentuated and unique opportunities.
Mountain Research and Development (MRD), in collaboration with University of Central Asia's Mountain Societies Research Centre, is seeking articles that contribute to an understanding of systems and practices most relevant to Central Asian mountain societies in transition. Two types of articles are sought:  1) analyses of how social, economic, and environmental systems function and have changed in mountain societies in Central Asia; and 2) validated experience of development interventions or practice-oriented research that analyze approaches and means of adapting to or coping with change.  Papers are especially welcome that address systems and practices unique to or prominent in Central Asian mountain societies as compared to other mountain societies or as compared to non-mountain societies in Central Asia.
Please submit abstracts by 30 April 2011 to guest editor Chad Dear, Coordinator, Mountain Societies Research Centre, University of Central Asia, chad.dear@ucentralasia.org.  Abstracts should include a problem statement, research question(s), methods, results, and, if applicable,
policy recommendations.  Please also include authors' current affiliation, and a list of the authors' three most recent publications.
The deadline for submission of full papers is 30 September 2011. Authors should indicate whether they are submitting to the "Mountain Research" or "Mountain Development" section of the journal.  Guidelines for authors are available at http:/www.mrd-journal.org/submission_GAuthors.asp.  The expected publication date for this special issue is August 2012.  For more information on the journal see: http://www.mrd-journal.org
Source:
Chad Dear, PhD
Research Coordinator
University of Central Asia
138-138A Toktogul Street
720001 Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Tel: +996-312-910-822
www.ucentralasia.org

The Work Report of the Document Center of the Parliament Library in 2010-2011 (1389) Published

http://www.ical.ir/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1440:the-work-report-of-the-document-center-of-the-parliament-library-in-2010-2011-1389&catid=1:news&Itemid=226


Self-description:Parliament Library with a history of one hundred years old is one of the fundamental institutions of Iran contemporary civilization. With the establishment of Constitution in Iran (1906), some of the intellectual Parliament representatives suggested to dedicate a building to a library in order to gather essential sources of knowledge for the Parliament members. It was the first Asian Parliamentary Library.

Nostalgie: Retro and Post-Modern? синий платочек!!!

For last few days, I have been quite nostalgic about something that we understand as "Russia". What is Russia? Is it a physical entity? or is it an Idea?. For some idiotic reason (that I do not know of, I have been hearing a particular melody in my own head. Of course, the melody is from bygone Soviet era. I finally after long internal dialogue realized that the melody is called "Sinnii Platochek" or "Blue scarf/handkerchief?". I found six different versions of the song that was "krutilsa" v moei golove so kakim to nostalgicheskim otzyvom...ko bylomu, ushedsheumu...





















So which version, you as my readers think is the best? Any ideas? I prefer the black and white version.