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<span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The 2017 Medieval Slavic Summer Institute </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> We are now accepting applications!</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Application Deadline: February 24, 2017 </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-weight:normal">The Hilandar Research Library (HRL), the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (RCMSS), and the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (SEELC) at The Ohio State University
hosts a four-week intensive Summer Institute for qualified graduate students in Columbus, Ohio, every other year. The Medieval Slavic Summer Institute (MSSI) offers lectures in two areas: Practical Slavic Paleograhy and Readings in Church Slavonic. </span><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal">Manuscript
material on microform from the Hilandar Research Library’s extensive holdings forms a large part of the lectures and exercises. There is also a program of lectures on related topics, and other activities.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-weight:normal">Applicants must be graduate students with a BA degree and with a reading knowledge of Cyrillic and of at least one Slavic language. Preference will be given to applicants with reading knowledge of
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;font-weight:normal">The HRL is the largest repository of medieval Slavic Cyrillic texts on microform in the world, and includes holdings from over 100 monastic, private, museum, and library collections of twenty-three
countries. There are over 6,000 Cyrillic manuscripts on microform in the HRL, as well as over 1,000 Cyrillic early pre-1800 printed books on microform. The holdings range from the eleventh to twentieth centuries, with a particularly strong collection of manuscripts
from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. About half of the manuscripts are East Slavic, with much of the remainder South Slavic in provenience. Learn more about the HRL<span style="color:#1F497D"> at
<a href="https://library.osu.edu/find/collections/hilandar-research-library/">https://library.osu.edu/find/collections/hilandar-research-library/</a>.
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