Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Scholarly Publications: Recent submissions
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Študent naj bo na ameriškem kolidžu
(Založba Aristej, 2007)The essay in the form of a diary describes for Slovene readers the process of deciding on a college in the United States. The essay presents the family dynamics as well as social and economic tensions of the decision. -
U Gorskome kotaru kao na Strawberry Hillu
(Hrvatska matica iseljenika, 2012-07)Students of Croatian working under the supervision of their instructor, Marta Pirnat-Greenberg, interviewed and wrote an article on the Croatian-American photographer Don Wolf, a native of Strawberry Hill, Kansas City, ... -
Marijanin Strawberry Hill
(Hrvatska matica iseljenika, 2012-06)KU students of Croatian, under the supervision of their instructor, Marta Pirnat-Greenberg, interview artist Marijana Grisnik, a painter in the Croatian naive style living in Strawberry Hill, Kansas City. This is the first ... -
Implicit Discount Rates and the Purchase of Untried, Energy-Saving Durable Goods
(1983-09)Many consumers appear to rationally calculate the net worth of a household investment, but a substantial minority may lack the skills or alertness to perceive an investment opportunity and initiate analysis. Intentions to ... -
The Foreign Policy of Józef Piłsudski and Józef Beck, 1926-1939: Misconceptions and Interpretations
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“The American Model”: English Only or Engagement with a Multi-Polar World?
(Inštitut za narodnostna vprašanja, 2011)The paper discusses language policy in the US and the lack of it. Traditional neglect and erosion of foreign language study competes against new global realities, which paradoxically—in the context of global English—require ... -
Восток всегда славился длинными носами и фиговым деревом.
(2011-12-20)Abstract: A political cartoon satirizing Turkey’s unwillingness to cooperate with Germany, their allies. In Russian, ‘fig’ has a double meaning: fig tree and rude hand gesture with sexual overtones. In this cartoon Turkey ... -
Balkanizem v srednji Evropi? Realni in nerealni naklon v odvisnikih v prekmurščini
(Berzsenyi Dániel Tanárképző Főiskola Szláv Filológiai Intézete, 2011)The paper treats the opposition between realis and irrealis marking in the Prekmurje Slovene complementizers ka ≠ da, comparing them with a parallel opposition in the languages of the Balkan Sprachbund (Albanian, Bulgarian, ... -
The Faces of Haiti: Resolute in Reform, Resistance and Recovery
(2011-10-25)This report describes the activities and findings of the University of Kansas Haitian Research Initiative team that travelled to Haiti in July 2011. The purpose of the visit was to assess the current research and educational ... -
Land Tax
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Glasoslovni opis treh prekmurskih govorov in komentar k zgodovinskemu glasoslovju in oblikoglasju prekmurskega narečja
(Slavistično društvo Slovenije (Ljubljana), 1993-10)The paper revises and summarizes the author’s 1990 UCLA dissertation, based on fieldwork and archival work conducted under the auspices of a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship for 1988-89, in the Prekmurje region of ... -
Strikes, Housework, and the Moral Obligation to Resist
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A Report on Library-Museum collaboration at the University of Kansas: The Spencer Museum of Art and KU Libraries
(2011-06-24)This report stems from the author's semester as Keeler Family Intra-University Professor at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas during the Fall 2010 semester. The report provides some background information ... -
Traditionelles Bauen und Wohnen der Salar in Nordwest-China
(Dietrich-Reimer-Verlag, 2007)This report concerns research on the architectural history of Salar households conducted between 2004 and 2006. The Salars are an Oghuz-Turkic people who in the 13th century migrated with Gengis Khan's troops from the ... -
Characteristics of the Technical Terminology in Vodnik’s German-Slovene Dictionary (1804–1806)
(ZRC SAZU and Hall Center for the Humanities, 2011-01-01)SLV: Vodnikov rokopisni nemško-slovenski slovar Slowenisches Wörterbuch – Slovensek Besednjak (1804–1806) vsebuje tudi strokovno izrazje. V prispevku bom predstavila tipološke lastnosti slovenskega »posvetnega« strokovnega ... -
Poslovilna beseda
(ZRC SAZU and Hall Center for the Humanities, 2011-01-01)The essay describes the founding and first period of operation of the journal Slovenski jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies as the founding editors hand the journal to a new editorial team. -
Problema comunicării ştiinţifice: de ce este necesar accesul liber (Open Access)? O perspectivă transatlantică
(Vatra. Serie nouă (Târgu Mureş), 2011)This article was written to raise awareness among researchers in the Open Access movement and share KU’s experience as a leader in Open Access policy. First published in September 2010 in the national daily paper Delo ...