Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Slavic Chocolate Party (September 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63761 63761-15865496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Chocolate is the international language, especially in the Slavic world! Come learn about the Slavic language and regional studies programs offered at U-M and enjoy chocolate and music from Central and Eastern Europe!

All students--from every school, college, and unit--are welcome to meet instructors and other students interested in the Slavic world.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:06:45 -0400 2019-09-05T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-05T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Slavic Languages & Literatures Reception / Open House Slavic Chocolate Welcome 2019
Russian Speaking Group (September 27, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-09-27T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Critical Language Scholarship (October 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67727 67727-16924416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Join us to learn more about best application practices and methods to apply for the Critical Language Scholarship. All students studying relevant languages are welcome to participate.

Languages Offered:
Arabic
Azerbaijani
Bangla
Chinese
Hindi
Indonesian
Japanese
Korean
Persian
Portuguese
Punjabi
Russian
Swahili
Turkish
Urdu

When: Thursday, October 3th, 2018 4pm
Where: 3308 Modern Languages Building

https://clscholarship.org/

Webinar CLS Information Session for Students:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2pyXe7Y2vM

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Presentation Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:28:59 -0400 2019-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation CLS logo
Russian Speaking Group (October 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Russian Speaking Group (October 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Russian Speaking Group (October 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Russian Speaking Group (November 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Slavic FLAS Information Session (November 6, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67113 67113-16803013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. FLAS Fellowships are administered by the University of Michigan International Institute and its area studies centers and are awarded competitively through annual fellowship competitions.

There are three different types of FLAS Fellowships: Graduate Academic Year FLAS, Undergraduate Academic Year FLAS, and Summer FLAS. Each type of award has slightly different sets of rules and application procedures. Join us to learn about best application practices and understandings.

Eligible Slavic languages include:

Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian

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Other Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:02:49 -0400 2019-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Other flas
Russian Speaking Group (November 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Russian Speaking Group (November 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-11-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Publics, Humanities, and Public Humanities (November 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67562 67562-16892251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Re-translating Manners: Russification of the Eighteenth-Century French Courtesy Books

Maria Neklyudova is Professor and Chair of the Department of Cultural Studies and Social Communication, School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA):

Books on good manners and proper etiquette easily travel through time and space and during the last decades managed to adapt to digital reality much better than other types of writing. Although the origins of this phenomenon can be traced to the Renaissance (and beyond), the real flourishing of courtesy treatises started in the 18th century, partially due to the spread of French language and manners throughout European courts. Their sheer number is staggering, yet we still know very little not only about their audience but also about their authors or compilers. With some notable exceptions, such as Baldassare Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano and Baltasar Gracián’s Oráculo, even less attention is paid to their translations. But if we take much less famous treatises, the fact is that most of them were translated at least into one – and more often into several – European languages. For example, many books of Abbé de Bellegarde, a prolific distributor of advice, were rendered into English, German, Portuguese, Polish and Russian. When we compare these translations with the originals (the “originality” of the originals is another problem to be dealt with), it becomes obvious that not all advice was “translatable” either because of political implications or because of linguistic difficulties (the absence of relevant vocabulary in the target language). This paper is part of a research project that attempts to trace the network of translations of the 17th and the 18th century’s courtesy books. It will focus on English and Russian translations of Jacques de Callières’ and Abbé de Bellegarde’s treatises.


National Peculiarity of Boredom: English spleen, French l’ennui, Russian khandra.

Natalia Mazur is Professor of History of Art and Provost, European University at St. Petersburg:

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many European philosophers, theologians, physicians and writers agreed that boredom was the main malady of their time. However, the nature and the causes of boredom were explained differently in different countries. The English considered spleen, or the “English malady,” a serious disease often leading to suicide: people afflicted by spleen looked for medical help. The French saw the roots of l’ennui in human psychology or in the structure of the society: one could escape l’ennui through religion or revolution. The protagonists of the best Russian novels – from Pushkin's Eugene Onegin to Goncharov's Ilya Oblomov – were looking for a remedy against boredom. What has happened to boredom in the last two centuries, what do we call it today, and how can the history of emotions help us escape it?

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:44:12 -0500 2019-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Slavic Symposium: Publics, Humanities, and Public Humanities
Public Humanities in Russia: What Do Graduate Students Do after They Graduate? (November 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67585 67585-16898654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

In Russia, like everywhere, graduate students are not free from anxiety about their future career. Did I make the right choice by investing years into studying an obscure subject that few people are interested in? Am I really good at it? Will I get an academic job? And what else can you do with a Ph. D. in the humanities today? And if I get an academic job, will it pay enough for me to survive – and if not, how can I complement my income using my skills and knowledge?

Two distinguished scholars from top Russian graduate schools will tell us about exciting careers and opportunities that their graduate students have created for themselves. They include creating archive collections, developing web-based education projects, starting theater and ballet companies, advising city administration and many other endeavors. This event is specifically addressed to graduate students in the humanities who are thinking about expanding their professional horizon beyond academia

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:08:49 -0400 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Slavic Symposium: Publics, Humanities, & Public Humanities
Russian Speaking Group (November 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-11-22T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Russian Speaking Group (December 6, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Fabricating the Network Case in Russia (March 13, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73547 73547-18258850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Solidarity action with Russian anti-fascists.

As part of a broader crackdown preceding the 2018 Russian presidential election and the FIFA World Cup, the Russian Security Service (FSB) kidnapped six people in Penza and two in Petersburg. FSB agents tortured the arrestees into signing confessions. This became the "Network Case." On the basis of these "confessions," the Russian courts drew up convictions of years--or decades--in prison. But they were not expecting widespread public outcry in Russia or unceasing international attention. By applying pressure from abroad, online, and in letters to prisoners, we can do our part to keep these political prisoners in the spotlight, and out of the shadows!

There will be a short informational slide-show. Come hear the compelling stories of the activists caught in these cases; the cruel, absurd, and, sometimes, comical nature of the charges; and the creative resistance and solidarity strategies that activists developed in an increasingly repressive climate. Talk led by Ania Aizman (U-M Slavic).

There will be materials for making art and writing short letters of support of the political prisoners, as well as information about direct donations to the Russian prisoners' advocacy group. And good food!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:15:35 -0500 2020-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Fabricating the Network Case in Russia