The UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCLA is pleased to announce a Workshop on 20th and 21st Century Russian Literature and Culture, to be held on Friday, April 28 from 9 AM to 6 PM on the UCLA campus, 1648 Hershey Hall. This is the first of what we hope will be a biennial series of workshops focusing on this time period. Workshop presentations will consist of brief (15-minute) presentations on works in progress followed by an equal period of discussion and debate. We welcome your participation!
Contact: Ronald Vroon
Chair, Slavic Languages & Literatures
PROGRAM
Friday Morning Session
Introductory Remarks (R. Vroon)
Session I (9:00 - 12:00): Chair: Alexander Zholkovsky
Sally Pratt (USC): Khlebnikov, an Icon Not Made By Human Hands, and a Poem Not Spoken by Human Tongues Susanna Lim (UCLA): East Asia and Russian Symbolism (Ivanov, Bely, Blok) Tom Seifrid (USC): Bulgakov, the Mystery Genre, and Urban Space in Soviet Culture of the 1920s and 1930s Nora Ryan (UCLA): Architects and the Avant-Garde: Communal Housing Designs of the 1920s Alexander Dolinin (U. of Wisconsin): The Problem of Opaque Allusions in Pasternak's Early Poetry John Narins (UCLA): Literary Design and Extraliterary Conduct (the Case of N.M. Oleinikov)
Lunch: 12-1
Session II: 1:00 - 3:30 Chair : Alexander Dolinin
Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov (UCLA): Vasilii Grossman's Life and Fate: From Notes of a Military Correspondant to Epic Novel Natal'ia Tikhonova UCLA): The social, psychological and philosophical space in von Sternberg's screen version of Crime and Punishment John Bowlt (USC): Pavel Filonov and the Concept of 'Universal Flowering'
Stanislav Shvabrin (UCLA): 'Et j'en sais d'immortels qui sont de purs sanglots...' (Alfred de Musset in Vladimir Nabokov's Eulogy of Vladislav Khodasevich)
Lazar Fleishman (Stanford): Above the Barriers: Leonid Pasternak and the Arguments on Jewish Art in early 20th century.
3:30-4:00 Break
Session III: 4:00:- 6:00 Chair: Ronald Vroon
Alexander Zholkovsky (USC): Issues in Russian Infinitive Poetry with Special Reference to Anna Akhmatova's 'Prosypat'sia na rassvete'
David MacFadyen (UCLA): The Problems of Defining Cultural Prominence in Second-World Modernity: On-Line Music Lada Panova (Russian Language Institute, Moscow): Egypt in Russian Silver Age Literature Henryk Baran (SUNY Albany): Problems in the History of the Protocols of Zion.
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The College Board and ACTR announce a Professional Development Seminar for Teachers of Russian in 2006
The College Board and the American Council of Teachers of Russian are pleased to announce the 2006 Professional Development Seminar for Teachers of Russian, to be held at Bryn Mawr College the week of July 17, 2006.
The seminar is of particular importance for American teachers of Russian who are planning to introduce the AP® Russian Language and Culture course in their schools as soon as it becomes available.
Participants will learn about the goals and practices of the Advanced Placement Program® with special emphasis on the new Russian Web-based curriculum and teacher authoring tools especially designed for the AP Russian Language and Culture course. Teachers will also be become familiar with the design and approach to language assessment represented by the forthcoming standards-based AP Russian Language and Culture Exam, which is administered at the end of the AP course. Upon successful completion of the seminar, participants will receive a certificate in recognition of their training and one graduate unit (4 hours) of academic credit from Bryn Mawr College.
The seminar is led by a group of peer-mentors, current teachers of Russian who have piloted the advanced Russian course in their classrooms, as well as specialists from the College Board, ACTR, and the Bryn Mawr Department of Russian.
The 2006 Summer Seminar in Russian is supported by the College Board and ACTR. Full or partial fellowships are available to qualified U.S. teachers to attend the 2006 seminar. Participants may also request support from their school districts or principals for assistance in covering the costs of the seminar.
The workshop coincides with the annual Bryn Mawr Russian Language Institute, an annual summer immersion language program that provides additional opportunities for using Russian outside of the seminar sessions.
The Professional Development Seminar is open to high school teachers interested in starting an Advanced Placement Russian Program.
For more information and application form contact:
Camelot Marshall (marshall@americancouncils.org)
Application Deadline: June 3, 2006
Space is limited.
Camelot Marshall, Ph. D.
Research Specialist, Second Language Acquisition
Curriculum Development and Multimedia
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 833-7522
(202) 833-7523 (fax)
