Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Polish Placement and Proficiency Exam (August 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61809 61809-15188673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Students of any level of Polish language are invited to take the proficiency/placement exam. This is a written exam and any additional oral exams will be scheduled after completion if the written exam.

This can be used to place out of the LSA language requirement and or place students into the appropriate level of Polish language courses.

Sign up here for a seat in the exam: https://goo.gl/forms/NayLj8eTRiQBoTkI3

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Other Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:02:07 -0500 2019-08-30T14:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Other Modern Languages Building
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
Franz Kafka in Central European Cultures of Memory (September 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63005 63005-15534805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

The presentation reconstructs the main strains of the reception of Franz Kafka within the historiography of literature in Central Europe and traces them to Central European cultures of memory. The lecture deals both with forgetting and functionalizing Franz Kafka in the memory of literature, as it occurred in Czech and German historiography of literature, as well as the obscuring and the focusing on details concerning his biography, networks, readings and text production during their way from the “storage” to the “functional memory”, as practiced within the paradigm of national historiography of literature. The lecture also focuses particularly on the invention of Franz Kafka as a “Czech” and/or Central European author in the Czechoslovakia of the 1960s and the transnational reinvention of Franz Kafka within the Central European context after 1989.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:54:16 -0400 2019-09-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion kafka
What Does Europe Want Now?: Panel and Reading from MQR's Fall 2019 Special Issue (October 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65908 65908-16670230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Quarterly Review

The Michigan Quarterly Review and the Center for European Studies are hosting a reading from the special Fall 2019 issue of MQR entitled "What Does Europe Want Now?" guest edited by Benjamin Paloff and focused on the 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The event will include readings from the issue by contributors Jeremiah Chamberlin, Eirill Falck, and Stiliana Milkova. The reading will be followed by a panel featuring Benjamin Paloff, Andreas Gailus, and Nataša Kovačević. The evening will be hosted by poet and translator Khaled Mattawa, the journal's editor-in-chief.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:15 -0400 2019-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Quarterly Review Lecture / Discussion Copyright Joanna Concejo
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
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