2022-2023

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Position Description for Oldenborg Language Residents

Oldenborg is currently accepting applications for the 2023-2024 academic year! Please note the following important dates by language:

  • We are actively reviewing applications for Chinese, Japanese, and Russian! We encourage you to submit yours as soon as possible.  
  • For German, French, and Spanish (both Spain and Latin America) we will begin reviewing applications January 16, 2023

Application review for all languages will continue until the positions are filled.

Apply here:
https://www.pomona.edu/administration/oldenborg-center/opportunities/prospective-language-residents

Ararat

Սիրելի Հայրենակիցներ եւ Ընկերներ—

(Dear Fellow Armenians & Friends)

Armenian Circle is pleased to welcome one of our dear alumni Peter Boyajian (AB ’18) and his brother Michael Boyajian this week, who will be speaking about their journey climbing Armenia’s iconic summit this past summer. Please join us this one-of-a-kind presentation, titled “Climbing Mount Ararat as an average-level hiker.”

The meeting is this Thursday (11/03) at 6:30pm in Pick Hall, Room 218.

 

 

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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. 

 

 

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Access as Convenience? Tracing Russophone vocabularies of disability access from the late Soviet period to the 2010s

Date: Wednesday, November 9
Time: 12:30
Location: Classics 110 (1010 E 59th St)

We are committed to making this event as accessible as possible. Please email michelefriedner@uchicago.edu with any access requests by Nov. 1.

This is a hybrid event. You may register to attend in-person or via Zoom here: https://ceeres.ticketleap.com/access-as-convenience-/

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the The Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC) is pleased to invite scholars from all disciplines in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies to submit proposals for individual papers and panels at its annual meeting to be held from Thursday, April 20 through Saturday, April 22. 

Please Visit https://kflc.as.uky.edu/ <https://kflc.as.uky.edu/> to learn more about the conference, create an account, and upload your abstract(s) by 11:59pm on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

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Please join Ari Folman on Friday evening, Nov 4, for a screening and discussions of his award-winning film Waltz with Bashir.

The event will take place at 7 p.m. at the Logan Center for the Arts, 915 East 60th Street. Free parking is available after 4 p.m. in the lot across from the Logan Center at 60th and Drexel. The events are free and open to the public and are sponsored by the Film Studies Center and the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, with funding from the Shulamit Ran and Abraham Lotan Visiting Distinguished Artists Fund. For information, contact Nancy Pardee at npardee@uchicago.edu. For accessibility accommodations, contact the Logan Center at 773.702.ARTS (2787) or logancenter@uchicago.edu.

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Please join Ari Folman on Thursday evening, November 3, for a screening and discussions of his latest film, Where Is Anne Frank?

The event will take place at 7 p.m.at the Logan Center for the Arts, 915 East 60th Street. Free parking is available after 4 p.m. in the lot across from the Logan Center at 60th and Drexel. The event is free and open to the public and are sponsored by the Film Studies Center and the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, with funding from the Shulamit Ran and Abraham Lotan Visiting Distinguished Artists Fund. For information, contact Nancy Pardee at npardee@uchicago.edu. For accessibility accommodations, contact the Logan Center at 773.702.ARTS (2787) or logancenter@uchicago.edu.

 

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Research and Language Learning - Kazakh 

Speaker: Dr. Kristoffer Rees

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Central Time

The Language Workshop at Indiana University, the Slavic Reference Service, and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) are hosting an online discussion series -  Research and Language Learning. 

 

We are inviting established scholars to discuss the role language proficiency plays in research, with examples from their own scholarly work. The initiative will be launch with the Turkic languages of  Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkish, Uyghur, and Uzbek. We welcome language learners of all academic backgrounds to participate in these discussions. 

Through this series, students and established scholars will discuss the role of language proficiency in conducting research, with examples from their own scholarly work. These talks are open to the public, and those interested in participating may register below. We will announce dates for talks on Uyghur and Uzbek languages in the Spring semester.

• Research and Language Learning – Kazakh - https://forms.gle/2pV2Qu6eX4yfShxm7

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