Russian Native Speaker Participants Needed: An Online 1-hour Research Study

Zhiyi Wu, a PhD candidate in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland, is currently looking for native Russian speakers to participate in their dissertation project on speech perception across languages, which Dr. Kira Gor advises.

Study Details:

• Participants must be between 18 and 45 years old, comfortable communicating in English, and have access to a computer and the internet, as well as a quiet environment
• One 60-minute Zoom session at your convenience
• involves various listening tasks and short surveys
• $10 compensation
• To participate, please click here to book a date and time.

They are also recruiting English and Japanese native speakers. See the attached recruitment flyers for the three languages.

Feel free to email zhiyiw1@umd.edu if you have any questions!

CFP: The XVIII Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society (Nagoya, Japan)

Deadline: August 20, 2021

CALL FOR PAPERS

The XVIII Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society will be hosted by Nagoya University of Foreign Studies. Sessions will be held on its new satellite campus located at the center of Nagoya City, from March 4th to 8th, 2022. The official languages will be Russian, Japanese, and English.
For more details: https://www.ids2022n.jp/

Proposals for papers on one of the Symposium themes will be accepted until August 20, 2021. Please send your proposal using our online submission system:
https://www.ids2022n.jp/application/
Symposium participants will be limited to about 150 speakers.  
Please note that membership in IDS is required before registration. Further information regarding membership: https://dostoevsky.org/membership/

SYMPOSIUM THEME: 150 YEARS OF DEMONS
The Symposium will celebrate the 150 years since the completion of Demons, with a focus on new and multidisciplinary approaches to the novel. Sessions will include: 
Demons in Its Time and 150 Years Later
Dostoevsky and the Imagination of “Catastrophe”
Dostoevsky and Music / Cinema
Reception of Dostoevsky in Asia and His Impact on Asian Culture and Literature
Any Other Topics Relevant to Dostoevsky Studies Today

Contacts:
Mitsuyoshi Numano
The Organizing Committee for XVIII Symposium of the International Dostoevsky Society in Nagoya
Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
E-mail: ids2022n-office_gg@nufs.ac.jp
Homepage: https://www.ids2022n.jp/