Training

Languages for the 21st Century: free conference packages available!

James A Perkins — 2010-07-09T13:02:54Z

'Languages for the 21st century: training, impact and influence' is a key conference designed to showcase new training provision, techniques, technologies, methodologies and research in language teaching.The conference is being held at the University of Sheffield, from September 1st-2nd 2010.

New Kazakh Language Course open to CEELBAS students

James A Perkins — 2010-06-11T13:41:43Z

As part of the British Council ENSPIRE project to promote the strategic partnership between the University of Birmingham and the Kazakh-British Technical University, a new beginners-level Kazakh language course will be launched at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, in Semester 1 of academic year 2010/11. This course is open to all Masters and Doctoral students from across the CEELBAS network. Further details are available here.

MPhil/PhD UCL Impact Scholarship: Call for Applicants

James A Perkins — 2010-04-12T10:39:32Z

Applications are inivited for a three-year MPhil/PhD UCL Impact Scholarship to conduct research on Russian legal cases in foreign courts under the supervision of Professor Alena Ledeneva at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, starting in September 2010.

New Coverage of CEELBAS Expertise in Russian-Language Press

James A Perkins — 2010-03-01T09:32:05Z

Following a new strategic partnership between CEELBAS and The Russian Media House publishing company, the first in a projected series of articles covering the expertise of CEELBAS partners appeared in the UK Russian-language journal ‘New Style’ in January 2010 (issue 79). In this article Dr Maria Rubins of UCL School of Slavonic Studies presented her research on Russian Émigré Prose, discussing the various cultural-linguistic complexities faced by bilingual Russian émigré writers past and present, and their difficulties gaining recognition and acceptance whilst working within a foreign literary milieu. With particular reference to Russian émigré publications in interwar France, Dr Rubins described her work as an editor and publisher of these rare and often long out-of-print texts, highlighting the orthographic and technical challenges of such work. The original article (in Russian) is available here.

Language teaching at UCL SSEES and the Common European Framework of Reference - Project Report

James A Perkins — 2009-12-22T16:06:59Z

Following the completion of a CEELBAS Network Project run by Marta Jenkala and Christopher Moseley to investigate how the teaching and testing of East European and Slavonic languages at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) maps onto the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), a summary of the project and a report on its findings and conclusions is available here. Further project details can be found in the Research section of the website. A presentation of the findings of the project, to which participants from across the CEELBAS Network will be invited, is being planned for Spring 2010 and will be publicised here.

New 'Polish for Foreigners' online language course launched

James A Perkins — 2009-12-11T16:08:14Z

Following completion of a pioneering CEELBAS-funded language project to create materials to develop the language skills of heritage speakers of Polish, the ‘Polish for Foreigners’ online language course is now available at www.polishforforeigners.org.

Russian Archives Training Scheme: March-April 2010

unknown — 2009-10-22T15:31:07Z

Following several successful UK workshops and trips to Russia, the Russian Archives Training scheme is organising a one week trip to Moscow for research students based in the UK and overseas, in order to introduce them to working in the principal historical, literary and cultural archives used by scholars of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. The scheme is funded by CEELBAS and CRCEES, after a highly successful four-year pilot funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s ‘Collaborative Research Training Provision for Doctoral Students’ scheme.

Report on Postgraduate Ethics workshop

unknown — 2009-10-08T09:40:54Z

The postgraduate ethics workshop took place at SSEES on 23 September 2009. Its main aim was to bring together academics and postgraduate research students within REES to exchange ideas and experiences relating to ethical issues. This workshop was divided into three sessions, designed to address three key themes: ethics and statistical data; ethical issues arising during fieldwork and ethical issues in an era of institutional paranoia.

Current CEELBAS-funded projects

unknown — 2009-05-28T09:52:41Z

The Centre is organising, across its Network, regular thematic and/or (inter-)disciplinary workshops including participation by international scholars and non-area specialists to take forward the research agenda. Please see CEELBAS network projects for further information.

CEELBAS forthcoming events

unknown — 2008-10-27T15:37:56Z

Please see details of forthcoming CEELBAS events

Current CEELBAS-funded projects

unknown — 2007-09-05T14:24:37Z