Slavic studies explained
Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist researching Slavistics. Increasingly, historians, social scientists, and other humanists who study Slavic cultures and societies have been included in this rubric.
In the United States, Slavic studies is dominated by Russian studies. Ewa Thompson, a professor of Slavic studies at Rice University, described the situation of non-Russian Slavic studies as "invisible and mute".[1]
History
Slavistics emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, simultaneously with Romantic nationalism among various Slavic nations, and ideological attempts to establish a common sense of Slavic community, exemplified by the Pan-Slavist movement. Among the first scholars to use the term was Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829).
The history of Slavic studies can be divided into three periods. Until 1876 the early Slavists concentrated on documentation and printing of monuments of Slavic languages, among them the first texts written in national languages. At this time the majority of Slavic languages received their first modern dictionaries, grammars, and compendia. The second period, ending with World War I, featured the rapid development of Slavic philology and linguistics, most notably outside of Slavic countries themselves, in the circles formed around August Schleicher (1821–1868) and around August Leskien (1840–1916) at the University of Leipzig. At this time, Slavonic scholars focused on dialectology.
After World War II, centers of Slavic studies were created at various universities around the world, with much greater expansion into other humanities and social science disciplines. This development was partly due to political concerns in Western Europe and the North America arising from the Cold War. Slavic studies flourished in the years from World War II into the 1990s, though university enrollments in Slavic languages have declined since then.
Subfields
Following the traditional division of Slavs into three subgroups (eastern, southern, western), Slavic studies are divided into three distinct subfields:
- East Slavic studies, encompassing the study of East Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
- Belarusian studies, or Belarusistics (Latin: Belarusistica);[2]
- Russian studies, or Russistics (Latin: Russistica|links=no);
- Rusyn studies, or Rusynistics (Latin: Rusinistica|links=no);[3]
- Ukrainian studies, or Ukrainistics (Latin: Ucrainistica|links=no);
- South Slavic studies, encompassing the study of South Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
- Bosniac studies, or Bosniacistics (Latin: Bosniacistica|links=no);
- Bulgarian studies, or Bulgaristics (Latin: Bulgaristica|links=no);
- Croatian studies, or Croatistics (Latin: Croatistica|links=no);
- Macedonian studies, or Macedonistics (Latin: Macedonistica|links=no);
- Montenegrin studies, or Montenegristics (Latin: Montenegristica|links=no);
- Serbian studies, or Serbistics (Latin: Serbistica|links=no);
- Slovene Studies, or Slovenistics (Latin: Slovenistica|links=no);
- Yugoslav studies, or Yugoslavistics (Latin: Iugoslavistica|links=no);
- West Slavic studies, encompassing the study of West Slavic peoples and their linguistic, literary, and other cultural and historical heritages.
- Czech studies, or Bohemistics (Latin: Bohemistica|links=no);
- Kashubian studies, or Kashubistics (Latin: Kashubistica|links=no);
- Polish studies, or Polonistics (Latin: Polonistica|links=no);
- Slovak studies, or Slovakistics (Latin: Slovacistica|links=no);
- Sorbian studies, or Sorbistics (Latin: Sorbistica|links=no).
Slavic countries and areas of interest
- By country:
- Belarus: language, literature, culture, history
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: language, literature, culture, history
- Bulgaria: language, literature, culture, history
- Croatia: language, literature, culture, history
- Czech Republic: language, literature, culture, history
- Poland: languages/dialects (Polish, Kashubian, Silesian), literature (Polish, Kashubian), culture, history
- Russia: language, literature, culture, history
- Serbia: language, literature, culture, history (national and ethnic)
- Slovakia: language, literature, culture, history
- Slovenia: language, literature, culture, history
- Ukraine: language, literature, culture, history
- Other languages: Serbo-Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian, Kashubian, Polabian, Rusyn, Old Church Slavonic
Notable people
- Historical
- Contemporary
Journals and book series
See main article: List of journals about Slavic studies.
Conferences
Institutes and schools
- Academic
- Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
- Institute of Slavonic Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- University
- Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Institute of Slavonic Philology, Uniwersytet Śląski, Poland
- Institute of Slavonic Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland
- Institute of Slavic Philology, University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland
- Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland
- Institute of Slavic Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
- Institute of Slavic Studies, Lviv University, Ukraine
- Department of Slavonic Philology, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Slavic philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Department of Slavistics, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
- Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Chengchi University, Taiwan
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, United States
- Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Harvard University, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, United States
- Slavic Department, Barnard College, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Princeton, United States
- Department of Slavic Studies, Brown University, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University, United States
- Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Washington, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Virginia, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, United States
- Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, University of Arizona, United States
- Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
- Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke University, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages, Georgetown University, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, United States
- Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Toronto, Canada
- Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, Canada
- Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Department of Slavic Studies(Le département d’études slaves), Universite Paris 8, France
- Institute for Slavistics, University of Vienna, Austria
- Institute for Slavistics, University of Graz, Austria
- Department of Slavic Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria
- Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies, University of Delhi, India
- Department of Slavic Studies, Comenius University, Slovakia
- Department of Russian Language and Literature & Slavic Studies, University of Athens, Greece
- Department of Slavistics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Olomouc, Czechia
- Department of Slavonic Studies, Masaryk University, Czechia
- Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Ostrava, Czechia
- Department of Slavic Studies, Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski", Bulgaria
- Department of Slavic Studies, Sofia University, Bulgaria
- Institute of Slavic Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Studies, Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Kiel, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Mainz, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Studies, Greifswald University, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Studies, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
- Institute of Slavistics, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Institute of Slavistics, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Institute for Slavic Studies, Humboldt University, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ankara, Turkey
- Institute of Slavic Studies, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
- Department of Russian and Slavic Philology(Departamentul de Filologie Rusă şi Slavă), Romania
- Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Pécs, Hungary
- Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
- Institute of Slavic Philology, University of Szeged, Hungary
- Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, Ohio State University, United States
- Slavic Department, University of Chicago, United States
- Núcleo de Estudos em Eslavística, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Núcleo de Estudos Eslavos, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Brazil
- Others
Organisations
See also
Sources
External links
Library guides
Notes and References
- Thompson . Ewa M. . Slavic but not Russian: Invisible and Mute . Porównania . 16 . 9–18 . 10.14746/p.2015.16.10857 . February 25, 2020 .
- Web site: Gordey (2011): Morphonology in Belarusian lingvistics: The formation period, p. 142. . 2021-08-26 . 2021-08-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210826145846/https://rep.vsu.by/bitstream/123456789/5085/1/t11pub142.pdf . dead .
- https://in.booksc.eu/dl/28512819/f25622 Kassianova (2002), p. 1001
