National Resource Center Highlight:

The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
at UNC - Chapel Hill

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. (www.unc.edu/depts/slavic/index.htm)

Like our rapidly changing region, the CSEEES is itself in the midst of significant changes. The Center 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. (international.unc.edu/)

The CSEEES 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 competence. Additionally, Dr. Olich will be collaborating with 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 her at jmolich@email.unc.edu. If you would like to receive Connections, the CSEEES quarterly newsletter, or subscribe to the Center’s listserv, contact Caleb Baker, Department Manager at Caleb_Baker@email.unc.edu

The information listed below is provided by Dr. Olich and highlights the many resources and services available to educators wishing to teach about Eurasia and Eastern Europe.

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Reference Materials and Services

Internet Resources by Country: 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

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. www.cdi.org/russia/johnson

Wikiproject Russian History:
This WikiProject aims to add, improve and monitor articles concerning Russian History in all periods. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia:wikiProject_Russian_History

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 with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. H-Net is committed to pioneering the use of new communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of academic ideas and scholarly resources. H-Net's e-mail lists function as electronic networks, linking professors, teachers, and students in an egalitarian exchange of ideas and materials. Here are some that relate to our region of the world and may be of interest to high school and community college educators:

H-Russia encourages scholarly discussion of Russian and Soviet history and makes available diverse bibliographical, research and teaching aids. www.h-net.org/~russia/

H-Holocaust exists so scholars of the Holocaust can communicate with each other using this innovative and exciting new technology. Coverage of the list will include the Holocaust itself, and closely related topics like anti-semitism, and Jewish history in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as closely related themes in the history of WWII, Germany, and international diplomacy. www.h-net.org/~holoweb/

H-Nationalism is an open forum for all those with an interest in nationalism wherever and whenever it exists. www.h-net.org/~national/

H-Energy provides a forum for scholars interested in energy history. The field, to this point, might include: the political economy of oil, the history of technology, and energy and the environment. www.h-net.org/~energy/

H-World serves as a network of communication among practitioners of world history. The list gives emphasis to research, to teaching, and to the connections between research and teaching. 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, e.g. U.S., European, African, South American, and Asian studies, to name a few. Discussion topics include the history, analysis, and theory of genocide, all genocides. www.h-net.org/~genocide/

Paper Currency & Banknotes in the André Savine Collection (UNC Digital Collection):
www.lib.unc.edu/savine/numismatics/about.html


Children's Books

Center for Russian and East European Studies Recommended Children's Books:
www.umich.edu/~iinet/crees/pdf/Book%20recommendations%20for%20Web%20site.pdf

Children's Book Features:
Demi. The Firebird. New York: Henry Holt, 1994.

Langton, Jane.  Salt: A Russian Folktale. (New York: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 1992).

"Hungary," pp. 56-57 in The Usborne Internet-Linked Children's World Cookbook.  (New York: Scholastic, 2000).

NOTE: (The January issue of Global Updates highlighted books with stories from "around the world". To see the list of books, please visit: www.unc.edu/world/Global_Updates_2007/Jan_Feb/Jan_07.htm )


Curriculum Materials

The Magical World of Russian Fairy Tales:
edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=590

Negotiating Radical Change: Understanding and Extending the Lessons of the Polish Round Table Talks: www.umich.edu/~iinet/PolishRoundTable/negotiatingradicalchange/index.html

Celebrating St. Petersburg Curriculum Units: www.umich.edu/~iinet/crees/outreach/CelebStPWorkshop.htm

Culture

Database of Russian Architectural Photographs:
The William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection documents the history of Russian architecture, primarily but not exclusively ecclesiastical, 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. depts.washington.edu/ceir/brumfield/

Russian Art Gallery, Cary, North Carolina:
www.russianartcary.com/

UNC Area Studies Global Music Show:
www.unc.edu/areastudies/globalmusic

Film:
Documentary, “Back to Bosnia ” by director Sabina Vajraca

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