Uzbek

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages -- Language Tester

ACTFL is seeking language professionals to serve as freelance language testers. If you speak one of the below languages, have an interest in language assessments, and have a few hours of telephone availability during week days, we invite you to apply.

Apply Here: https://www.actfl.org/assessment-research-and-development/tester-rater-certifications/ilr-opi-candidate-application-2021

Nov 10, 11:30 am

Study, Research, and Custom Programs Abroad (SRAS) Information Session

Study, Research, and Custom Programs Abroad (SRAS) founder and director Renee Stillings Huhs will be present on campus to discuss study and research opportunities in Armenia, Georgia, Poland, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan:

WHEN: November 10th from 11:30-12:30

WHERE: Foster 103

Lunch and refreshments will be served.

The American Councils Title VIII Research Scholar and Title VIII Combined Research & Language Training Programs

The American Councils Title VIII Research Scholar and Title VIII Combined Research & Language Training Programs application deadline is approaching on October 1, 2022.

University of Iowa Translation Program -- Translation Faculty Fellows in Residence

https://jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/74568?fbclid=IwAR1TVZz8DIFqEPkQ-nVlV4RUJwLYT_Ehekd5h3thyP5Qdx7wCn4tOY5cJmc]

The University of Iowa Translation Program is pleased to announce the
Translation Faculty Fellows in Residence program.

Hamid Ismailov
Gaia, Queen of Ants (Syracuse University Press, 2020)

From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of civilizations and mythologies as he follows the lives of three expatriates living in England. Domrul is a young Turk with vague and painful memories of ethnic strife in the Uzbekistan of his childhood. His Irish girlfriend Emer struggles with her own adolescent trauma from growing up in war-torn Bosnia. Domrul is the caretaker for Gaia, the eighty-year-old, powerful wife of a Soviet party boss with a mysterious past. All three are connected to Kuyuk, a traditional Central Asian bard.

One of Ismailov's few novels written in Uzbek, Gaia, Queen of Ants offers a rare portrait of a complex and little-known part of the world. A plot centered on political corruption and ethnic conflict is punctuated with Sufi philosophy and religious gullibility. As Ismailov's characters grapple with questions of faith, power, sex, and family, Gaia, Queen of Ants presents a moving tale of universal themes set against a Central Asian backdrop in the twenty-first century.

Apr 8, 4:00 pm

Reading and Conversation With Hamid Ismailov

Reading and conversation with Uzbek journalist, novelist and poet Hamid Ismailov. Moderated by Leah Feldman, with interlocutors Hoda El Shakry and Vu Tran.

Friday April 8, 2022 at 4pm
Attend in person at:
Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Or register to attend online at:
https://uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PoyjYpx3TrO5PQXe7X7Wmg

This event is free and open to the public

Critical Languages Institute’s (CLI) Summer Intensive Language Programs

Arizona State University is offering Critical Languages Institute’s (CLI) summer intensive language programs. ASU's application for 2022 is now open and they are offering courses in 14 less-commonly-taught languages: Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Uzbek. High-quality and low-cost language training is crucial to preparing the next generation of scholars and practitioners.

Umida Khikmatillaeva
Turkish to Uzbek Bridge Project (2013)

Turkish to Uzbek Bridge Project

This website and the accompanying course was designed by Umida Khikmatillaeva to help learners of Uzbek with any background in Turkish quickly transition their existing knowledge of Turkish grammar and vocabulary to the Uzbek context.

Access Here: Turkish to Uzbek Bridge Project — Umida Khikmatillaeva

Eric Schluessel
An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources (2018)

An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources

A textbook designed by GWU professor Eric Schluessel for those learning to reading Chagatay, the premodern literary Turkic language of Central Asia, closely related to Uzbek and Uighur. This creative commons textbook includes grammar explanations, reading exercises, paleographic notes, and a useful Chagatay-English glossary.

Access Here: An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources — Eric Schluessel

Seth Knights
Composite Uzbek-English Dictionary (2021)

Composite Uzbek-English Dictionary

This composite dictionary, designed by Seth Knights, combines a number of popular Uzbek-English dictionaries in one place, currently allowing users to search both Indiana's Uzbek-English Dictionary and Hervé Guérin's Uzbek-English Glossary. It also allows users to search in Cyrillic and offers suggested Cyrillic spellings for Uzbek searches in Latin.

Access Here: Composite Uzbek-English Dictionary (www.uzbek-dictionary.org)

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