Thursday, November 20th

Time: 9-12 (Library opens at 8:30)

Location: Van Pelt Library - 3420 Walnut St - University of Pennsylvania

Session 2: "Online Sources for Research in Literary Studies."

Michael Biggins (University of Washington) & Liladhar Pendse (UCLA)

All of the sources below can be accessed through Central and Eastern European Studies, Eurasian and Slavic Studies Resources at UCLA portal that is powered by Libguides(tm) platform.

A few weeks ago, I was reading Voltaire’s Candide (in translation) and I came across the following lines in Chapter 18:

Cacambo translated the King’s witticisms for Candide, to whom they seemed witty even in translation. Of all the things that astonished Candide, this was by no means the least astonishing.

Sociology at the Crossroads, Yerevan, June 11-14, 2009

Welcome to the 39th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology

http://www.iisoc.org/iis2009



The 39th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology
will take place, as announced, at Yerevan State University, Yerevan,
Armenia, Thursday afternoon, June 11 - Sunday, June 14, 2009. The
theme of the Congress is:

"Sociology at the Crossroads"

Afghan Society after the Taliban: The View from the Hills
Central Asia Initiative Panel Presentation: Leading anthropologists discuss contemporary Afghanistan.





Monday, November 17, 2008
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Downstairs Lounge
Los Angeles, CA 90095

The James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowships support the use of special collections materials by visiting scholars and UCLA graduate students. Special collections materials are located in the Arts, Biomedical, Music, and Research libraries and the University Archives.

Russia in Britain, 1880-1940: Reception, Translation and the Modernist Cultural Agenda



25-26 June 2009




A two-day conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies, University of London




Keynote Speakers: Olga Kaznina (Gorky Institute of World Literature and Art, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), Laura Marcus (University of Edinburgh), Laurence Senelick (Tufts University)

The Alliance for Permanent Access has just completed its annual conference (Budapest, 4 November) : this year the theme was the economics of archiving scientific data.

The Alliance’s international membership includes strategic partners from the research community, libraries, publishers, and digital preservation organisations. Participants called upon the Alliance to act as an umbrella organisation to secure sustainable funding for permanent access in Europe.

I can’t be the only bibliophile to love the smells of books and of libraries. Leather, a hint of dust or mustiness, ink, even pipe tobacco. Mmmm.