<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">FYI: Colleagues, I draw your attention to the sentence below:</span></div><div apple-content-edited="true">**The very contrast between the two existing “national” schools: a)</div>teaching about Russia in the United States and b) teaching about Russia in<br>Russia itself - will guarantee high-powered debates that will stimulate<br>further research and discussion.** The workshop takes place in Ukraine...<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Ben Rifkin <<a href="mailto:brifkin@TEMPLE.EDU">brifkin@TEMPLE.EDU</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 13, 2009 1:48:08 PM MDT (CA)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:SEELANGS@bama.ua.edu">SEELANGS@bama.ua.edu</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[SEELANGS] Workshop in Crimea: July 17-29</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list" <<a href="mailto:SEELANGS@bama.ua.edu">SEELANGS@bama.ua.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>Temple University, the Carnegie Corporation, and The Russkii Mir Foundation<br>are pleased to sponsor a workshop in Crimea from July 17-29, 2009:<br><br>Teaching Russian Culture in the Global Context<br><br>This pioneering workshiop will take place on July 17-29 in Crimea, Ukraine<br>(changes in time and location may occur and will be announced). The duration<br>of the program is twelve days.<br><br>The faculty of the program will include leading historians, linguists, and<br>specialists in Russian culture from Russia and the United States.<br><br>The participants of the program are junior faculty from Russia, America, and<br>other post-Soviet states. At the program, aside from lectures, seminars, and<br>roundtables, there will be time and space for exchange and interaction<br>between American, Russian, and other scholars-teachers.<br><br>This program is entirely novel and original. Until now, different groups of<br>specialists: historians of Russia, specialists in linguistics, and experts<br>in culture and literature - worked and taught separately from one another.<br>And, despite long-standing contacts, numerous exchange programs, and various<br>“summer institutes,” there have been no comparative workshops of the kind<br>proposed here. The main goals of the program are:<br><br>• Discuss in comparative perspective how to teach Russian language,<br>culture, and history in Russian and non-Russian (especially American i.e.<br>quintessentially “Western”) environments.<br><br>• Discuss and develop comprehensive educational strategies that would<br>focus on teaching Russian language, culture, and history.<br><br>The program/workshop will fill this gap between several different<br>disciplines and professional groups dealing with Russian history, culture,<br>and language. A range of issues from linguistics, translation, and cultural<br>communication, to history and social science will be discussed not for their<br>own sake, but in connection to the challenges that Russian and American<br>professors face in their respective countries when they try to increase and<br>broaden the interests of 21st century students in Russia’s cultural<br>heritage. The very contrast between the two existing “national” schools: a)<br>teaching about Russia in the United States and b) teaching about Russia in<br>Russia itself - will guarantee high-powered debates that will stimulate<br>further research and discussion.<br><br>The workshop will help the next generation of American professors of Russian<br>history and language to be better informed of the issues, values, and ideas<br>that inform and inspire the teaching of Russian culture at Russian<br>universities. <br><br>Applications for admission to the program will be accepted until May 1,<br>2009. Applicants will be informed of the admissions decision by the end of<br>May. <br><br>Those admitted for participation in the program will be provided room and<br>board in Crimea for the duration of the workshop and will be reimbursed for<br>their transportation expenses in full or up to a certain maximum after the<br>workshop is over. (Transportation reimbursement level will be specified in<br>notification of admission.)<br><br>To apply: Go to <br><br><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=MR3t0Sus0fLXzG_2bdH6SeTQ_3d_3d">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=MR3t0Sus0fLXzG_2bdH6SeTQ_3d_3d</a><br><br>For more information or questions, contact:<br><br>Benjamin Rifkin, Professor of Russian, Temple University brifkin@temple.edu<br>Vladislav Zubok, Professor of History, Temple University zubok@temple.edu<br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription<br> options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:<br> http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>