The Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Institute of Media, Social Sciences, and Humanities (IMSSH) at South Ural State University pays a great deal of attention to scientific training and education of students. From their first year of training, students complete research: they learn how to prepare presentations and publications, and participate in conferences. The quarantine and pandemic did not halt this process—it simply moved to an online format. This, of course, required students to master new skills related to scientific communication online.
This semester, student philologists joined scientific conversations multiple times on various internet platforms. The conferences, which students of the Department of Russian Language and Literature are invited to, are held over a wide and impressive geographic area: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don.
In the beginning of October, philologists in their second and fourth year of study took part in the International Student Conference on Russian Literature held in Moscow Pedagogical State University. The conference on the The Science of Philology in the 21st Century. Viewpoint of the Young was dedicated to the 140th birthday anniversary of Aleksandr Blok. Student philologists—Irina Isakova, Olga Kachanova, Polina Zadorozhnaia, Kristina Kim, Polina Pavlova, and Valeria Kobylina—participated in several categories: Olympiad, artistic creation (a cycle of poems written by the participants, review, and translation), and artistic performance, and were awarded the second- and third-place certificates.
In November, students participated in two important scientific events.
On November 19th–20th, the 15th Film. Speech. Culture. All-Russian Conference was held at St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television. The main goal of the conference was to attract the attention of young researchers to language, speech, and the culture of speech. The conference included four sections: Culture of Speech of Modern Society; Speech Strategies in Film Text; Literature and Film: from Artistic Text to Screen Adaptation; and Film—Speech—Creativity.
Fourth-year students Valeria Kobylina and Anastasia Kungurtseva took part in the conference remotely and prepared articles for publication in the conference proceedings; Matvey Sholokhov delivered a presentation entitled “The Interaction of Cinema and Literature as a Form of Evolution of Works of Art (based on materials from Arthur Clarke’s short story The Sentinel and the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey).
"My report was dedicated to the development of smaller art forms into larger ones. So, I considered a short story by Arthur Clarke, which formed the basis of the Stanley Kubrick full-length film script. And the film script started a cycle of novels by Clarke. We discussed with our fellow philologists and art historians the issues of interpretation, and most importantly: the relationship between film and literature. After all, I talked about the evolution in the interaction of art forms, but this is not always the case. Very often a secondary product becomes only a "shadow" of the primary one," said Matvey Sholokhov.
The 2nd International Online Student Conference on the Russian Language in the Context of an Open Dialogue of Languages and Cultures took place on November 26th-27th. The event was organized by Southern Federal University, Russia; L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan; and Francisk Skorina Gomel State University, Belarus. The conference was attended by 64 students from 14 countries. The young researchers spoke about various aspects of the use of Russian as a means of intercultural communication. The students of the Department of Russian Language and Literature of the IMSSH took part in this scientific event for the second time. This year, our university was represented by third-year philologists Sara Avoyan and Anastasia Arzamastseva. Sara presented her report on the "Problems of Learning Russian by Bilingual Children (a Study of Russian and Armenian Languages)", and Anastasia offered a presentation on the "Expressive Syntax as an Element of the Language Game in Advertising Texts".
We congratulate our students on their respectable representation of our university in international conferences and wish them new scientific discoveries and victories!