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Digitized Manuscript: Codex Alexandrinus, v.4, British Library

December 19, 2012 / / Comments Off on Digitized Manuscript: Codex Alexandrinus, v.4, British Library

 

A scanned color version of Royal MS 1 D VIII, volume 4 – the New Testament – of Codex Alexandrinus, a 5th-century Greek Bible in four volumes, is available in the “Digitised Manuscripts” section of the British Library’s website.

The various owners’ inscriptions described on the webpage detail the fascinating journey of this codex from Constantinople to England through the hands of Athanasius III, Patriarch of Alexandria, to James I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland.


Information Source: Paleografia Greca. The blog of Pyle. Entry: Monday, December 17, 2012.

Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 32 (December 2012)

December 17, 2012 / / Comments Off on Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 32 (December 2012)

 

The most recent issue of Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage, the biannual newsletter of the Hilandar Research Library (HRL) and the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (RCMSS), is now available. Individuals and institutions on the mailing list in the Western Hemisphere have reported receipt of CMH 32 in the mail this week. Colleagues further abroad should be receiving the newsletter in the next couple of weeks.

Note: If you would like to receive a copy of CMH, please send your mailing address to hilandar@osu.edu. If you have missed receiving issues of the HRL/RCMSS newsletter, please send us your current address.

Image of the front page of issue 32 of the newsletter Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage

CMH vol. 32 (Dec. 2012)

Volume 32 (December 2012) includes an account by the HRL curator, Predrag Matejic, of his fall trip to Bulgaria and Serbia, as well as a summary of the research visit of Tatiana G. Popova (Severodvinsk, Russia), who spent several months at OSU this summer examining HRL resources on The Ladder of Divine Ascent of John Sinaites. Also featured is an article on the Scete Paterikon by William R. Veder.

Additional information about the 6th International Hilandar Conference (July 19-21, 2013) is also included in this issue of CMH, namely, that Mirjana Živojinović will present the keynote address at the conference.

The four-page article “MSSI Alumni Update: Where Are They Now?” provides a fitting segue to the forthcoming Medieval Slavic Summer Institute (MSSI), which is scheduled for summer 2013 (June 24-July 19). Selected participants from MSSI 1999 (Bojan Belić, Živojin Jakovljević, Georgi Parpulov, Stella Rock, and Vessela Valiavitcharska), MSSI 2001 (Natasha Ermolaev, Ariann Stern-Gottschalk, and Monica White), MSSI 2003 (Wojciech Beltkiewicz and Inés García de la Puente), and MSSI 2006 (Alexander Angelov and Yulia Mikhailova) describe what they are currently doing. NB: Lauren Ressue, MSSI 2008, is featured on page 8 of CMH 32 as this year’s RCMSS Graduate Associate. We welcome updates from any other past participants of the MSSI for future issues of CMH !

The contributors to the endowment funds that benefit the HRL/RCMSS are listed, as are the generous donors of books and materials (CMH 32: 11). And the perennial features, “Director’s Desk” and “News Notes,” describe the highlights of activities and events as well as visitors to the HRL/RCMSS since June 2012.


Abstracts to present at the Sixth International Hilandar Conference must be submitted by February 1, 2013.

Application deadline for the next MSSI is February 22, 2013.

 

Between Sessions at ASEEES 2012: the Sounds

December 10, 2012 / / Comments Off on Between Sessions at ASEEES 2012: the Sounds

 

The 44th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies was held in New Orleans, November 15-18, 2012. During the breaks from the scholarly panels and meetings, participants were close enough to historic French Quarter to stroll around and take in the sights and whatever sounds were around.

 

Royal St., New Orleans, Louisiana

 

 

“The Royal Js”

 

Listen to The Royal Js

on Royal Street

 

 

 

 

 

Listen to the bluegrass music

 

 

Recent Acquisitions to the HRL, December 2012

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Photo of the cover of the book shows image of an ornate gold and purple mosaic of a saint

“Saints and Sainthood in Central and Eastern Europe” (Sofia, 2012)

 

Ангушева-Тиханова, Аделина, Маргарет Димитрова, Росина Костова, и Росен Р. Малчев, состав. In Stolis Repromissionis: Светци и святост в централна и източна Европа. София: Импресарско издателска къща “РОД,” 2012.

 

 

photo of the book coverDitommaso, Lorenzo, and Christfried Böttrich, eds., with the assistance of Marina Swoboda. The Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition: Continuity and Diversity. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 140. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011.

 

 

Garipzanov, Ildar H., ed. Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery: Early History Writing in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe (c. 1070-1200). Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 26. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2011.

 

 

 

Петков, Петко Д. Ръкопис 2/23 от сбирката на Рилския манастир: Сборник с жития от края на XV век. Библиотека отець Неофитъ Рыльскый том 3. София: Херон Прес, 2011.

Photo of the book cover

Rila Ms. 2/23, Miscellany of Saints’ Lives from the 15th Century

 

 

 

 

“Description of the Slavic Manuscripts in the Church, Historical and Archival Institute – Sofia,” vol. 1

Христова, Боряна, Елисавета Мусакова, Елена Узунова. Опис на славянските ръкописи в Църковно-Историческия и Aрхивен Институт – София, т. I: Библейски книги.София: Борина, 2009.

 

Midwest Slavic Conference 2013 Call for Papers

November 17, 2012 / / Comments Off on Midwest Slavic Conference 2013 Call for Papers

 

2013 Midwest Slavic Conference
April 5 – April 7, 2013
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

The Midwest Slavic Association and The Ohio State University Center for Slavic and East European Studies (CSEES) are proud to announce the 2013 Midwest Slavic Conference, to be held at OSU April 5 – April 7, 2013.

Image of the states belonging to the Midwest Slavic Association with the name of the organization overlaid.

Conference organizers invite proposals for panels or individual papers addressing all disciplines related to Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. The conference will open with a keynote address by Brian Porter-Szücs (University of Michigan) and a reception on April 5th, followed by two days of panels. Saturday, April 6th will feature a luncheon lecture by Irene Delic (OSU).

If you would like to participate, please send a one-paragraph abstract (in PDF format) and brief C.V. to csees@osu.edu by January 16, 2013. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to submit presentations. Limited funding will be available to subsidize student lodging.

Application Deadline: January 16
Notification of Acceptance: February 4
Panels Announced: March 4
C.V. and Paper Submission Deadline: March 22

The Midwest Slavic Association would also like to announce Between Shots, a series of focused panels within the Midwest Slavic Conference dedicated to film and visual culture in this region. It highlights film and animation,photography & multimedia art, graphic narrative and graphic design. Each year Between Shots also offers a screening of a film from Central/Southeastern Europe, with a corresponding panel discussion. Selected panels will be sponsored by the OSU Polish Studies Initiative and other cooperating cultural foundations, therefore limited support for travel and lodging may be available to participants in these
sessions. Anyone interested in participating in the Between Shots series should include that information in the email with his/her abstract and C.V.

For more information on the 2013 Midwest Slavic Conference or any of the events taking place April 5th through April 7th, please contact Jordan Peters at csees@osu.edu.

The Center for Slavic and East European Studies
The Ohio State University
1712 Neil Ave. 303 Oxley Hall
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 292-8770
Fax: (614) 292-4273
Email: csees@osu.edu

 

Source: CSEES listserv and website

Between Sessions at ASEEES 2012: the Place

November 17, 2012 / / Comments Off on Between Sessions at ASEEES 2012: the Place

 

At this year’s Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) conference in New Orleans there were many things to do and many places to eat outside of the panel presentations and organizational meetings. The convention was held in the Marriott Hotel on Canal Street between Chartres (pronounced locally as “CHARters”) and the block-long Dorsiere Street, which is one block lake side of Decatur (locally pronounced “DeCAYter”) Street. The major complaint about the Marriott was that it charged $15 a day for wireless internet access in the individual hotel rooms, so most of the participants gathered in the lobby near the bar to access the free (although sporadic and weak) wi-fi.

Housed right on the edge of New Orleans’ famed French Quarter – Canal Street was the boundary between the French and the American sectors of town – ASEEES participants were in easy walking distance of a number of excellent restaurants: SoBou on Chartres, Olivier’s in the 200-block of Decatur* – where the ESSA held its dinner to honor Donald Ostrowski, and the Gumbo Shop on Saint Peter Street right next to St. Louis Cathedral. Couchon, a southern Cajun restaurant in the nearby Warehouse District, was also recommended. Café Du Monde, open 24 hours a day (except December 25th) on Decatur Street across from the Pontalba Apartment building on Jackson Square, offers beignets and cafe au lait for early morning breakfast and as a late night snack.

*Editor’s note: Olivier’s restaurant closed down in January 2015.

On a sunny day like today, one could buy lunch, such as a crawfish omelet with grits and French bread, from Cafe Beignet on Royal Street, sit on the steps of the Louisiana Supreme Court Building and listen to any one of several street bands, trios, and duos that were performing, and still get back to the conference in time for the afternoon panels.

 

Between Sessions at ASEEES 2012: the People

November 16, 2012 / / Comments Off on Between Sessions at ASEEES 2012: the People

 

At this year’s Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) conference in New Orleans there were many people to talk to outside of the panel presentations and organizational meetings.

Image of the front cover of Dinissa Duvanova's bookFormer Graduate Research Associate of the RCMSS/HRL Dinissa Duvanova (Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Buffalo) has a book, Building Business in Post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia: Collective Goods, Selective Incentives, and Predatory States, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press (December 2012).

A number of alumni from the RCMSS/HRL Medieval Slavic Summer Institute (MSSI) were in attendance: Natasha Ermolaev (MSSI 2001) manages the digital Blue Mountain Project at Princeton University; Ariann Stern-Gottschalk (MSSI 2001) is in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University; Inés García de la Puente (MSSI 2003) teaches at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland); Yulia Mikhailova (MSSI 2006) is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of New Mexico; Quinn Carey Dombrowski (MSSI 2006) will soon be working at the University of California, Berkeley; and Andrew Dombrowski (MSSI 2006) is finishing up his dissertation in the Slavic Department of the University of Chicago.

Image of the front cover of the book The Russian's WorldAlumni of the OSU Slavic Department on hand at ASEEES included Todd Armstrong (Chair, Russian Department) and Raquel Greene (Associate Professor of Russian), who both teach Russian literature at Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa);  Eloise Boyle, co-author with Genevra Gerhart of The Russian’s World: Life and Language (Slavica Publishers, 4th ed., 2012); Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University (New York); David Patton, President of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), and Vice President of the American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS); and Frederick H. White, Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Utah Valley University (Orem, Utah).

OSU History Department alumni present at the conference included Aaron B. Retish (Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan) and Matthew P. Romaniello (Associate Professor, University of Hawai’i at Manoa).

 

Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) Annual Meeting 2012

November 14, 2012 / / Comments Off on Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) Annual Meeting 2012

 

The Early Slavic Studies Association, “a scholarly, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering closer worldwide communication among scholars interested in pre-eighteenth century Slavic studies” and “promoting the dissemination of scholarly information on early Slavic studies through the organization of meetings and conferences and through the Association’s newsletter,” held its annual meeting at the ASEEES conference in New Orleans today. Michael A. Pesenson (University of Texas at Austin), representing the ESSA Book Prize committee in the absence of the committee’s other two members, George Majeska (Emeritus, University of Maryland) and Julia Verkholantseva (University of Pennsylvania), announced the winners of this year’s ESSA Book Prize.

The Book Prize Committee found it difficult to choose only one winner and one honorable mention, so they awarded two first-place prizes and two honorable mentions.

First place honors went to:

David B. Miller, Saint Sergius of Radonezh, His Trinity Monastery, and the Formation of the Russian Identity (Northern Illinois University Press, 2010)

Image of the book cover for David Miller's "St. Sergius of Radonezh, His Trinity Monastery and the Formation of the Russian Identity." The Cover shows the onion domes of the monastery against a blue sky.

and Jan Klápště, The Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 (Brill, 2011)

Image of the front cover of "Czech Lands in Medieval Transformation": spring green cover with title and author in white letters in the upper third of the cover, and an image of possibly a manuscript painting of a man entering a monastery in the lower two-thirds of the front cover. The subtitles are in white letters, written horizontally to the left and to the right of the centered title, author and image.

ESSA 1st Place 2012

 

The honorable mentions are:

Isaiah Gruber, Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles (Northern Illinois University Press, 2012)

Image of the front cover of Isaiah Gruber's book

ESSA Honorable Mention 2012

 

and Michael Ostling, Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, Past & Present Book Series (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Image of the front cover of Michael Ostling's book

ESSA Honorable Mention 2012

 

 

Organizational Meetings at ASEEES 2012

November 14, 2012 / / Comments Off on Organizational Meetings at ASEEES 2012

 

Many academic organizations find it convenient to meet at their annual national conferences. Among the association meetings included on the schedule for this year’s Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies convention (ASEEES) in New Orleans are:

American Association for Ukrainian Studies and Shevchenko Scientific Society (meeting together)

Association for Croatian Studies

Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC) (see also its Facebook page)

Bulgarian Studies Association

Czechoslovak Studies Association

Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA)

Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association

North American Association for Belarussian Studies

North American Society for Serbian Studies

Society for Albanian Studies (no website)

Society for Romanian Studies

Society for Slovene Studies (SSS)

Slovak Studies Association

Southeast European Studies Association

Slavic and East European Folklore Association

 

 

Polata Knigopisnaia featured on OSU Knowledge Bank’s homepage

November 14, 2012 / / Comments Off on Polata Knigopisnaia featured on OSU Knowledge Bank’s homepage

 

The Knowledge Bank (KB), “a collaborative service of the Ohio State University Libraries and the Office of the Chief Information Officer,” serves as a digital repository for the preservation of digital materials and worldwide access to resources from the OSU community. Each month the Knowledge Bank administrators select a different KB collection to feature on their homepage. From today through the end of December 2012 the collection featured is Polata Knigopisnaia: An informational bulletin devoted to the study of early Slavic books, texts and literatures. Thanks to Brian Stamper from the Scholarly Resources Integration Department of the OSUL Collections, Technical Services, and Scholarly Communication Division (CTSCC) for coordinating this effort!

 

Screen shot of the Knowledge Bank homepage with the image of the cover of Polata knigopisnaia featured in the right-hand column of the page

 

 Image Source: Screen shot of Knowledge Bank homepage from Brian Stamper.

 

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