• Dr John Bates
  Dr Bates gave papers at the following conferences:
  1. 'Stalinism in Post-Stalinist Literature - A Comparative Perspective: Simonov’s The Living and the Dead (1959) and Putrament's The Men of Little Faith (1967)', 'Stalin in his Time and Ours', Cork, 9-11 May 2003.
  2. 'Stalinism as a System - A Comparative Polish-Soviet Perspective: The Novels of Konstantin Simonov and Jerzy Putrament, 1959-1969', 'Stalin's Cultural Legacy', Bristol, 15-16 March 2003
  3. 'Polish Political Broadcasts as an Issue of Media Transformation', CILT, London, 30 January 2003

• Dr Jan Čulik
  
  1. Jan Čulik now has a regular column in the Czech daily newspaper Lidové noviny (www.lidovky.cz).
  2. On 01 November, 2003 he chaired a discussion at the Edinburgh Filmhouse with the Czech film director F A Brabec about his film Kytice (A Garland of Flowers).
  3. To mark the anniversary of the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia on 17 November 2003, the leading Prague publishing house Libri (www.libri.cz) will bring out, in coproduction with the Britske listy Civic Association, Jak Česi bojuji (How Czechs fight), the fourth volume of selections from the Czech-language cultural and political internet journal Britske listy, edited from Glasgow by Jan Čulik, http://www.libri.cz/kniha.php?kniha=285. The volume comprises 705 pages. Some 200 pages are taken by Jan Čulik´s essays on contemporary Czech politics, media, cinema and literature.
  4. From 25 to 26 April, 2003, Dr Čulík participated in a seminar dealing with "The State of Czech Journalism at the Beginning of the 21st Century" held at Gymansium Príbram, Czech Republic.
  5. In March 2003, Dr Čulík taught Czech Literature and Czech/British media at Ostrava University, as part of the Slavonic Studies Department´s regular Socrates academic exchange scheme. He also gave a six hour media seminar at the Social Science Faculty, Charles University, Prague, and has been invited, as of next session, to conduct lectures in Czech Literature at the Department of Czech Literature of Masaryk University in Brno.
  6. From 28 February to 01 March, 2003, Dr Čulík took part in an EU workshop Governance, Enlargement and the Media, organised by the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. The meeting took place in Florence, Italy.
  7. On Tuesday 26 November, 2002, Dr Čulík appeared as one of the two interviewees for a one-hour debate in the final "Studio Netopyr" programme on Czech Television; this was the last programme to end its ten-year run.
  8. 0n 1st November, 2002, Dr Čulík gave a lecture on contemporary Czech cinema at Edinburgh University.
  9. As of 1st October, 2002, Dr Čulík was invited to be again a regular contributor as a commentator on Czech Radio 6 (formerly Radio Free Europe).
  10. From July to August 2002, Dr Čulík was invited to participate in the Summer Film School at Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic.
  11. In June 2002, Dr Čulík was invited to be a member of the jury at the Art Film Festival of Trencianske Teplice, Slovakia (the most significant film festival in Slovakia).

• A Double Prize for Slavonic Studies

  Josef Fronek's Large Czech-English Dictionary, published by Leda, Prague 2000, received another prize at the 2001 Dictionary of the Year Competition organised annually by the Union of Czech and Slovak Translators and Interpreters. In addition to the Special Award by the Linguistic Jury announced in April 2001, it also received the Main Prize awarded annually on the basis of votes of dictionary users during the year since publication.

  This dictionary, which was prepared in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Glasgow, was selected for this prestigious award out of 48 dictionaries, lexicons and encyclopaedias submitted. The judges acknowledged it as:
  "a publishing venture of impressive magnitude which had filled a gap in modern Czech English Studies - an outstanding painstakingly crafted work offering a comprehensive description of the current state of living Czech and English..."
  and:
  "The meticulousness with which the individual lexical entries are contextualised makes this dictionary a useful translation tool for Czechs and - thanks to the closeness of the two languages - also for Slovak users."

  The official presentation of both prizes took place in September at a ceremony in Prague to which Dr Fronek was invited as the Guest of Honour. Further details are available from Dr Josef Fronek.

• Honorary Awards
  On 3 December 2001 an Honorary Professorship was conferred by Moscow State University on Emeritus Professor Peter Henry (1975-1991) on the occasion of his 75th birthday. In February 2002 he also received an Honorary Doctorate from Donetsk National University (Ukraine).

  Professor Henry was the first person to hold the Chair of Slavonic Languages and Literatures (renamed Slavonic Studies in August 2000). During his Headship and thereafter the Department was strengthened and enlarged, in particular in the fields of Czech and Polish. A beginners' course in Russian was set up, as well as a small language laboratory for the use of all modern language departments. He is now an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow of the Department.

  One of the reasons for these awards was the publication of Vsevolod Garshin at the Turn of the Century. An International Symposium in Three Volumes (Northgate Press, Oxford, 2000), which Peter Henry compiled, edited and published. It contains contributions from scholars in fourteen countries, including two Honorary Research Fellows of the Department of Slavonic Studies, Mr Martin Dewhirst and Mr Neil Parsons. A joint publication (Northgate Press and Donetsk National University), it was published in association with the Department of Slavonic Studies.

  Donetsk University dedicated the latest issue of their literary journal (Donetskii literaturovedcheskii sbornik) to him, to which Dr Andrei Rogatchevski contributed an article. An article by Ms Jaroslava Lapáčková, a research student in the Department, will appear in the next issue of the Donetsk literary journal.

• Establishment of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures: 01 October 2000
  On 01 October 2000 the Department of Slavonic Studies, together with all Modern Language departments, became part of the newly-established School of Modern Languages and Cultures.

• Change of nomenclature of the Department: 01 August 2000
  On 01 August 2000 the Department changed its name from the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literatures to the Department of Slavonic Studies.

• Establishment of the School of Slavonic, Central and European Studies: 01 October 1999
  On 01 October 1999 the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literatures (now Slavonic Studies), together with the Department of Central and East European Studies, became part of the newly-established School of Slavonic, Central and East European Studies.

EVENTS

• NEW!! Mr Adam Czerniawski
  NOT LOST IN TRANSLATION A translator's reflections with illustrations from Polish poetry (in English) by Adam Czerniawski (poet, writer, scholar and leading translator of Polish poets such as Kochanowski, Norwid, Staff, Szymborska, Rózewicz, and others) on Tuesday, 16 November 2004 at 5.00 pm, in Room T217, Adam Smith Building, Bute Gardens. ALL WELCOME!!!!

• NEW!! Mr Petr A Bílek
  Petr A Bílek (Charles University, Prague): Going East: The Reception of Western Literary Theory in the Post Communist Countries of Central Europe.

  Petr A Bílek, Head of the Department of Czech Literature at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic will talk about his experience in translating and interpreting western literary theory in Central Europe, where only one approved literary critical method was permitted and used for many decades. He will use the Czech cultural context as a case study.

  His lecture will be based on his experience with the writing and with the critical reception of his recent study Hledání jazyka interpretace (k modernímu prozaickému textu) (In Search of the Language of Interpretation: Towards Modern Prose-Fiction Text. Brno: Host, 2003, 360 pages).

  The lecture will take place on Monday 8th November 2004 at 5 pm, Room 311, Level 3, Hetherington Building.

• NEW!! Mr Evgenii Tsymbal
  The Russian award-winning film director Evgenii Tsymbal, who has worked with Andrei Tarkovskii and Nikita Mikhalkov, will show his documentary Ordinary Bolshevism (2000, 78 minutes, in Russian with English subtitles) and will take part in a Question-and-Answer session on Thursday 04 November 2004 at 4.00 pm in Lecture Theatre C, Level 5, Boyd Orr Building. All welcome.

• Dr P d'A Semple
  Dr P d'A Semple will give a lecture entitled Scots in St Petersburg, Then and Now - A Personal Perspective. Dedicated to the Memory of Sir James Wylie, Bt, MD, A Scottish-Russian Patriot at 6.00 pm on Monday 08 March 2004 in Room 310, Level 3, Hetherington Building. Everyone is welcome to attend.

• Mr Evgenii Tsymbal
  The Russian award-winning film director Evgenii Tsymbal, who has worked with Andrei Tarkovskii and Nikita Mikhalkov, will show his most recent documentary DZIGA VERTOV AND HIS BROTHERS (Russian with English subtitles) and will take part in a Question-and-Answer session on Friday 05 December 2003 at 3.00 pm in Lecture Theatre A, Level 4, Boyd Orr Building. All welcome.

• Dr Jan Čulík
  Dr Čulík was invited to take part in Governance, Media and Enlargement Workshop, organised by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Villa La Fonte, Florence, from 28 February to 01 March 2003. As of February 2003, Dr Čulík was asked to become a regular commentator for the opinion pages of the Prague daily newspaper Lidové noviny.

• THE VISIT OF MARTIN ŠTOLL IN GLASGOW
  Czech Television documentary film maker, publisher and lecturer at the Prague Film Academy, was in Glasgow from Saturday 30th November until Monday 9th December 2002. He gave a number of talks at the University at the Department of Slavonic Studies and one at the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT):
  1. East European documentary film making - one hour lecture, for staff and students in the Department and the public, on Wednesday 4th December 2002 at 4 pm, Hetherington Building, Level 1, Rm 133.
  2. The Second Life of Lidice - a unique documentary, comparing the classical work of Humphrey Jennings with the reality of life in the village, destroyed by the Nazis. One hour screening on Tuesday 3rd December 2002 at 3 pm, Hetherington Building, Level 3, Room 311.
  3. My grandfather Ladislav Štoll, the Czech Zhdanov - "I had a communist hardliner in my family" - a talk for people with interest in Czech matters. Martin will bring Ladislav Štoll´s own copy of Skvorecky´s the Cowards, with his handwritten notes why the book is subversive, which Ladislav Štoll suppressed in 1958. Thursday 5th December 2002 at 1 pm, Hetherington Building, Rm (317), Level 3.
  4. Martin also gave a lecture - with video clips - to Slavonic Studies 1A students on Totalitarianism and Documentary Film Making on Thursday 5th December 2002 at 2 pm, Lecture Theatre A, Level 4, Boyd Orr Building.
  5. On Friday 6th December, Martin gave a talk on the School of Czech Documentary Film Making at the Contemporary Czech Cinema class at 3 pm, Lecture Theatre A, Level 4, Boyd Orr Building.
  6. On Sunday 8th December, at 6 pm, Martin gave a longer talk with video clips about totalitarianism and documentary film making at the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). (90 minutes)

• Monday 04 November 2002: Dr Josef Fronek (University of Glasgow)
• Monday 11 November 2002: Mrs Natalia Samoilova (University of Glasgow)
• Wednesday 13 November 2002: Mr Vladimir Shinkarev will give a Guest Lecture entitled Постсоветское неофициальное искусство at 4.00 pm in Room 133, Level 1, Hetherington Building. All welcome to attend.
• Monday 20 November 2002: Professor Irina Belobrovtseva , Guest Lecture entitled Русский дендизм: Случай А. Ветлугина at 4.00 pm in Room 133, Level 1, Hetherington Building. All welcome to attend.
• Monday 25 November 2002: Mr Michal Křistek (University College London)
• Wednesday 27 November 2002: Professor Irina Belobrovtseva , Guest Lecture entitled Пушкин как поэт гармонии и Тютчев как поэт хаоса at 11.00 am in Room 123, Level 1, Hetherington Building. All welcome to attend.
• Monday 02 December 2002: Professor Emeritus Mike Kirkwood (University of Glasgow)
• Monday 09 December 2002: Mr Martin Dewhirst (University of Glasgow)
• Monday 03 February 2003: Dr Susan Layton (University of Glasgow)
• Monday 10 February 2003: Professor Bob Russell (University of Sheffield)
• Monday 10 March 2003: Dr Chris Whyte (University of Glasgow)

For further details please refer to our Departmental Research Seminars Programme, which began on Monday, 21 October 2002, at 5.00 pm in Room 310, Level 3, Hetherington Building.

Glasgow University Slavonic Society
Information and future events
For further information on any of the above please contact Louise A Boyle.