Working seminar (core group, Bergen)

Spring 2008 seminars

May 16: working seminar with guests (Alexei Yurchak and Michael Gorham): presentation and discussion of work in progress by Tine Roesen, Martin Paulsen, Jardar Østbø and Ingunn Lunde.

April 8: working seminar: reports on work in progress; presentation and discussion of article/chapter drafts and the like. -- download report

Autumn 2007 seminar

September 6: working seminar with the core group, Dirk Uffelmann and Elena Markasova. Presentation and discussion of larger Landslide projects (monographs, dissertation, etc). -- download report

Spring 2007 seminars

May 10: working seminar/planning meeting: reports on work in progress; presentation and discussion of Moscow papers (conference, IRJa 24-27 May 2007), a.o. -- download report

March 6: working seminar: reports on work in progress; comparisons/presentations on the 1920s and 1990s (Brita on poetry, Martin on literary criticism, Tine on utopia/antiutopia, Ingunn on linguistic literature); evaluation of the posttot conference, plans for the autumn 2007. -- download report

Autumn 2006 seminars

December 14: working seminar: reports on work in progress, update on the upcoming post-tot conference, discussion of Martin Paulsen's paper on the role of models for our understanding of the concept of standard language, mini seminar on Aleksei Slapovsky's text Zakodirovannyi (1993). -- download report

November 8: working seminar: reports on work in progress; MA presentations (Ekaterina Mikhaylova and Anniken Langøigjelten), paper presentations (Ingunn Lunde and Tine Roesen), presentation of work in progress (Brita L. Bryn) -- download report

August 30: working seminar/planning meeting: individual work plans; discussion of landslide plans; presentation of MA project (Malin O. Dahlberg) -- download report

Spring 2006 seminars

May 3: working seminar: reports on work in progress; non-standard varieties of Russian (presentations and discussions of prostorechie, mat, sleng, vorovskoi zhargon, molodezhnyi zhargon and their role in today's Russian language culture; presentation of MA project (Hjørdis Kaland) -- download report

March 21: working seminar: reports on work in progress; discussion of Brita Bryn's and Martin Paulsen’s paper drafts for the BASEES conference (Cambridge, 1-3 April 2006); book presentations -- download report

February 7: working seminar: reports on work in progress; discussion of Vinokur: Kul'tura iazyka (1929); discussion of Martin Paulsen’s idea for a paper on standardology -- download report

Autumn 2005 seminars

September 5: post-conference meeting; plans for next workshops, planning meeting for working seminars Autumn 2005/Spring 2006 -- download report

November 14: working seminar: reports on work in progress; discussion of articles for the Landslide conference volume; presentation and discussion of Annika B. Myhr’s MA thesis. -- download report

December 12: working seminar: reports on work in progress; presentation and discussion of Karen Gammelgaard’s book Spoken Czech in Literature (1997); presentation and discussion of the Oslo project text/history; plans for the spring 2006 term. -- download report

Spring 2005 seminars

February 3: Planning meeting

March 3: Book presentations: Annika B. Myhr:Людмила Зубова: Современная русская поэзия в контексте истории языка. М., Новое литературное обозрение 2000; Julia Oborina: Гасан Гусейнов: Д.С.П. Советские идеологемe в русском дискурсе 1990-х, M., Три Квадрата 2004.

March 31: Book presentations: Brita Lotsberg Bryn: Н.А. Купина: Тоталитарный язык: словарь и речевые реакции, Екатаринбург 1995; Ingunn Lunde: Michael Gorham: Speaking in Soviet Tongues:Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia, DeKalb Ill. 2003.

April 18: Project presentations/work in progress: Annika B. Myhr and Julia Oborina

May 9: Paper: Ingunn Lunde: Литературно-языковые стратегии прозы рубежа XX-XXI вв в контексте споров о состоянии современного русского языка

June 2: Project presentation — Brita Lotsberg Bryn: Iurii Buida