NRC Highlight: The Center for
Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES)
Jacqueline Olich, Associate Director at CSEEES
Need classroom materials about Bosnia? Looking for maps of the former Soviet Union? Searching for a speaker on twentieth-century East European history? Have a student interested in Lake Baikal? Want to learn more about the democratization of post-communist Europe or Kazakhstan and energy politics? Curious about the politics of Czech rock music? Drawn to Russian fairy tales?
The UNC-CH Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) promotes understanding of East European and Eurasian countries through a variety of projects and activities: teacher training, public outreach, course development, instruction in area and language studies, conferences and workshops, and faculty and student exchanges. CSEEES draws upon a broad base of support, with more than 20 core faculty and another 20 associated faculty members who regularly teach courses and engage in research focused on Eastern Europe, Russia, or Eurasia. CSEEES cooperates with World View and other programs aimed at increasing the quality of international education curricula.
The Center recently moved into the new UNC Global Education Center, a remarkable state-of-the-art facility that inspires students, alumni, faculty, North Carolina citizens, and international guests to think globally. You can visit the website at http://international.unc.edu/.
The CSEEES also recently hired Dr. Jacqueline Olich as Associate Director to communicate and collaborate with North Carolina educators. This summer she will oversee the revamping of the CSEEES website as part of a broader initiative to help strengthen K-12 and community college outreach. Additionally, Dr. Olich will be collaborating with the CSEEES Director, Dr. Robert Jenkins, to develop curriculum materials on the Cold War and ethnic conflict, war, and international intervention in the former Yugoslavia.
Open to sharing your own classroom resources with other educators or interested in serving on the CSEEES Educator Advisory Board? Contact Dr. Olich at jmolich@email.unc.edu. If you would like to receive Connections, the CSEEES quarterly newsletter, or subscribe to the Center’s listserv, contact our Department Manager at Caleb_Baker@email.unc.edu.
Below are some resources made available to you by the CSEEES to help you internationalize your classrooms and colleges.
Resources
Internet Resources by Country
This internet resource provides information about 27 countries and some general information about the region. From Albania to Yugoslavia, they provide news sources, country studies, and links to other sites such as the CIA factbook and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/slavic/resources/countries.htm
Slavic Reference Service
The University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign offers a wonderful free service: staff trained to answer your reference questions, locate research materials, loan and order materials, and suggest helpful reference materials in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and technology fields. Contact the Reference Service year-round directly at srscite@cliff.library.uiuc.edu.
H-Net
Consider subscribing to H-Net lists in your teaching and research fields. An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks to advance teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. H-Net pioneers the use of new communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of ideas and scholarly resources. H-Net's e-mail lists function as electronic networks that link professors, teachers and students. Here are some that relate to our region of the world and may be of interest to community college educators:
H-Russia encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history and offers diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids.
(http://www.h-net.org/~russia/)
H-Holocaust allows scholars of the Holocaust to communicate using this innovative and exciting new technology. Coverage of the list includes the Holocaust and closely related topics like anti-semitism, Jewish history in the 1930s and 1940s, and closely related themes in the history of WWII, Germany, and international diplomacy.
(http://www.h-net.org/~holoweb/)
H-Nationalism is a forum for conversation open to all those with an interest in nationalism.
(http://www.h-net.org/~national/)
H-Energy provides a forum for scholars interested in energy history. It includes the political economy of oil, the history of technology, and energy and the environment.
(http://www.h-net.org/~energy/)
H-World serves as a network of communication among practitioners of world history. The list gives emphasis to research and teaching, and to the connections between the two.
(http://www.h-net.org/~world/)
H-Genocide is a discussion network for professional scholars, survivors of genocide, authors, historians and other interested people working in genocide studies and related fields. Discussion topics include the history, analysis, and theory of genocide.
(http://www.h-net.org/~genocide/)
UNC Area Studies Global Music
In collaboration with WXYC 89.3 FM, UNC's student-run radio station, the Area Studies Centers have launched a new monthly radio program. The program focuses on a particular world region each month, integrating both music from this part of the world and relevant expertise of guest scholars from UNC Chapel Hill. Each broadcast is a live "lesson" interspersing music with dialogue. Under the "Schedule and Audio" tab, you can listen to CSEEES's 2006 show entitled "The Politics of Czech Rock 'n Roll, 1968-2006."
www.unc.edu/areastudies/globalmusic
Johnson’s Russia List
Covering topics ranging from assassinations to space exploration, Johnson’s Russia List is an exhaustive news digest on Russian-related topics. JRL is a timely and valuable resource funded by the Center for Defense Information (now the World Security Institute) and the Carnegie Corporation. For more information, please visit the JRL homepage at: www.cdi.org/russia/johnson.
Russian History WikiProject
This WikiProject aims to add, improve and monitor articles concerning Russian History in all periods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:wikiProject_Russian_History
Database of Russian Architectural Photographs
The William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection documents the history of Russian architecture through color and black-and-white photographs made over the last thirty-three years. With multiple images of both exteriors and interiors, they provide a unique opportunity for the study of historic buildings in Russia that are difficult to visit. In some cases, the collection provides a record of a building's restoration.
http://depts.washington.edu/ceir/brumfield/
International Conference
“Gender, War, and Politics,” UNC-Chapel Hill
Date: May 17-19, 2007.
The registration deadline is April 30.
Please visit the conference website for more information: http://www.unc.edu/~hare/GWPhome.html
This edition of World View's College Updates was written in collaboration with Associate Director Jacqueline Olich of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES).
